Review the mirror and the light6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() We are still deep in Cromwell’s point of view without being limited to it every so often, the narration draws back to add an aside about England’s mythic, irrational past. In many ways, The Mirror & The Light is merely a continuation - at somewhat greater length - of the techniques that made those books successful. Rare is the author of Tudor historical fiction who is neither influenced by nor responding to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. In the intervening years, the daring choice of protagonist, unusual descriptive prose style, and deep-dive point-of-view manipulation that made Mantel’s take on Henry VIII’s advisor fresh have all been absorbed into the mainstream. ![]() MORE THAN A DECADE has passed since the first volume of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy appeared and catapulted the veteran author to literary superstardom. ![]()
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Kings of the wyld by nicholas eames6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's a thousand miles to Castia, we've got an airship full of gas, half a tub of deep heat, it's dark and we're wearing cuirasses. ![]() With an after touch of sensation that leaves you considering it even after you've finished. It's like finding a brand of whisky that you've never even heard of before, sampling it and finding something that has the exact amount of sweetness and complexity, countered by a smokey and warm taste. Never heard of either the author or the narrator before, but this was just magnificent. But I did finish it in a couple of days, it was more or less impossible to put down. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? When there is humour, he makes you honestly think that the character finds whatever is going on amusing. He manages to differentiate voices very well, he adds feeling and emotion at the right times. I was a bit sceptical due to the accent, but it worked really well. Have you listened to any of Jeff Harding’s other performances? How does this one compare? You feel for the characters in it, you care. It's quite funny, even though it can at times be dark. It shares many themes, though this book is better. I could definetly compare this to Abercrombie's "The first law" series. What other book might you compare Kings of the Wyld to, and why? ![]() If you could sum up Kings of the Wyld in three words, what would they be? ![]() Indecent by paula vogel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Indecent had its world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in October 2015 as a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, from November 13 to December 10, 2015. The play was commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre and American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and received the 2015 Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. The play was nominated for three Tony Awards and won Best Direction of a Play for Rebecca Taichman and Lighting Design in a Play for Christopher Akerlind. It had an Off-Broadway run in 2016, followed by a Broadway run in 2017 at the Cort Theatre. It recounts the controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, which was produced on Broadway in 1923, and for which the producer and cast were arrested and convicted on the grounds of obscenity. The controversy surrounding the play God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch ![]() Poster for the Yale Repertory Theatre production ![]() Thrall by Julie Mannino6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Kn!fe play with minor blood and be aware Roth has a k!nk (receiving) along with minor cutt!ng and kn!fe play. Grief, depression, thoughts of self, domestic b0ndage, Kalen is homoromantic asexual (apothisexual), and Rhys is a biromantic loved ones, This has a HEA between three males, but the road to get there is rough. ![]() While this is dark romance and good for fans of Captive Prince, there is a HEA, a smexy cat boy with red hair and cute red ears, some sweetness, and perhaps a few familiar faces from other novels. They're fairies, but they're certainly not skipping through a glen filled with sunshine and rainbows. While this is dark romance and good for fans of Captive Prince, there is a HEA, a smexy cat boy This book contains dark content for mature readers. This book contains dark content for mature readers. ![]() Common sense paine6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”Ĭenturies before the existence of the internet, Common Sense managed to go viral, selling an estimated 500,000 copies. “We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth,” Paine wrote. ![]() But its author also made an equally eloquent argument that Americans had a unique opportunity to change the course of history by creating a new sort of government in which people were free and had the power to rule themselves. Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine and first published in Philadelphia in January 1776, was in part a scathing polemic against the injustice of rule by a king. Even after armed hostilities broke out between the American colonists and British forces in 1775, many prominent colonists seemed reluctant to consider the idea of actually breaking away from Britain, and instead insisted that they were still its loyal subjects, even as they resisted what they saw as its tyrannical laws and unfair taxation.īut a single 47-page pamphlet-the 18th-century equivalent of a paperback book-did a lot to quickly change that, and shift American sentiment toward independence. ![]() |