![]() This is one of those novels that transcends genre, that is thoroughly enjoyable to read but also impossible to stop thinking about. Charis’ story certainly has some over-the-top qualities to it (and even a little bit of humor), but it never veers into melodrama, and while her disregard for danger leaves her friends throwing up their hands in despair, the author has her face very real and complex situations, without any glib solutions. In some ways she reminds me of Amelia Peabody, another favorite heroine of mine, but minus the tongue-in-cheek humor and over-the-top adventure. ![]() Despite sounding like a modern heroine, she feels totally authentic, as do all the characters. Charis is one of those characters that I can’t help loving and rooting for, and her journey during the declining years of the Roman empire is both vivid, uplifting, and sad. I can’t explain exactly why it is a favorite sure, it has the bold and brave girl-who-disguises-herself-as-a-boy in order to do what she loves, but it’s so much more than that. ![]() It’s been almost ten years since I read this book for the first time, and it still has a powerful hold on me. *Do NOT read the synopsis on the back of the book/goodreads-gives away the entire story. ![]()
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Dogs of war adrian tchaikovsky7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Jimmy, working up there, suddenly finds himself stuck with a copy of Honey in his head and that is when a host (pun fully intended) of trouble starts - for everyone, even back on Earth. Simultaneously, humanity has made it to Mars. Some fears never die and some people (especially those in front of the cameras) are very good at igniting and reinforcing them. ![]() Honey, Rex's bear friend, is still alive (and not the only one left from the original team) and still fighting the good fight for freedom rights while getting one PhD after the other. Now, several decades later, Rex has died a natural death and even become a saint to other dog-bioforms while the Earth is deteriorating to such a degree that humanity wants/needs to terraform Mars. ![]() I loved the first book with Rex and his fight for freedom from his collar. Some authors have a „voice“ that just speaks to me, draws me in and makes me come back for more. ![]() One good hustle by billie livingston7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The Chick at the Back of the Church was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She is married to American actor Tim Kelleher, and lives in Vancouver. She has received fellowships from The Banff Centre, MacDowell Colony, Escape to Create (Seaside, FL), Ucross Foundation and Omi International Arts Center. ![]() In addition to publications in journals and magazines around the world, Livingston's poetry has appeared in textbooks and on public transit through the TransLink "Poetry in Transit" program. Livingston's One Good Hustle, a novel about a young woman's fear that she is genetically doomed to become a con artist, was long-listed for the 2012 Giller Prize and selected by The Globe and Mail, January Magazine, and Toronto's Now Magazine as one of the year's best books. Her 2nd novel, Cease to Blush, was published in 2006 and subsequently chosen as one of the year's best books by The Globe and Mail, January Magazine, and The Tyee. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Going Down Swinging (2000), was followed by The Chick at the Back of the Church (2001), a poetry book that was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia. ![]() Livingston was born in Hamilton, Ontario. ![]() Daredevil bendis omnibus 17/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Low effort posts may include: Memes or image macros of content that do not use Daredevil. Any posts unrelated to Daredevil or Daredevil's side characters will be removed. Do not submit content that displays a link or watermark of a piracy website. No Piracyĭo not ask for pirated material. 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Be sure to check out our comprehensive Reading Guide!īe civil to one another and treat everybody with respect. A subreddit for discussion of the Marvel character Daredevil. ![]() Herman hesse's siddhartha7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The young Siddhartha’s quest is prompted by nagging restlessness, typical of almost all Hesse’s characters, and driven by his thirst for understanding. Siddhartha follows its eponymous central character (the name plays on the birth name of the Buddha) not only on an “inward” journey, but one through space and time. The heart of Siddartha is in the portrayal of an intensely personal “restlessness of the soul”, and in the exploration of difficult questions of meaning, purpose, truth and enlightenment. Its continued appeal does not really lie in the drama, romance and spectacle that have allowed other literary texts – Les Miserables, say, or Cabaret – to make the transition. And appropriately, like many of Hesse’s works, Siddhartha has received a particularly international reception.īut despite its popularity it’s an unlikely source of material for a musical. It was adapted from a work written in German by an author who was born with (inherited) Estonian citizenship, grew up in Germany and became a Swiss citizen. It’s an Italian-language production, set in ancient India. The show is based on the classic novel Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.Īnd if any production lives up to the “international” billing of Edinburgh’s festival, this one surely does. This year’s Edinburgh fringe has seen the UK premiere of Siddhartha: The Musical. ![]() ![]() ![]() He rescues her, covers her nakedness, and takes her home, although she fights him every step of the way. Ever since his mother suddenly returned to their Jamaican home to die four years ago, Thulani, 16, has withdrawn from the brother and sister-in-law who have raised him and who want to "man him up." Thulani spends long hours on the roof of their brownstone alone with his beloved doves, and school is to him "simply the sitting place." One day he hears a scream and looks over the parapet to see a young woman being raped in the alley below. ![]() With simplicity and a masterful control of pacing, Williams-Garcia builds a story that aches with the longing of two young lovers in a dance of tentative approach and defensive retreat, and eventual trust and healing.īoth Thulani and his girlfriend Ysa have an isolating spiritual wound. This book, with a strong lyrical voice, fulfills the promise the author showed in her widely acclaimed earlier novel, Like Sisters on the Homefront. In a love story that glows like the many-colored silk skirt that is its symbolic centerpiece, Rita Williams-Garcia takes her place as a major young-adult novelist. ![]() ![]() Granted, it was announced as a paperback, so I should've paid more attention to the media release. The corner of the front page was bent and I was surprised to find the book was paperback and not hardback. Saga Compendium One contains an amazing story, but it arrived in terrible condition. When news hit that the compendium had been released early, I was excited at the thought of being able to re-read my favourite series in one ultimate binge read. I am such a big fan of Saga, I have an Alana and Marko action figure set and all nine paperback editions and the three hardback deluxe collections at home. ![]() When it was announced that the first half of the series was going to be coming out as a single compendium, I knew I had to have it. The end of issue 54 devastated me and the extra-long wait for issue 55 is killing me. I have re-read it about three to four times. ![]() ![]() Saga is my favourite graphic novel series. It was originally due to be released in October 2019 but instead dropped into stores early on 21 August 2019. Saga Compendium One contains the first 54 issues of the Eisner award-winning and New York Times bestselling graphic novel series. Saga is narrated by Hazel who tells the story of her life in a series of flashbacks, starting from the moment of her birth. ![]() Saga tells the story of Hazel, a young child born into war, to a pair of star-crossed lovers. Vaughan told Entertainment Weekly that the first 54 issues of Saga was going to be released in a single, massive paperback compendium. ![]() Good and bad faeries7/6/2023 ![]() She was anxious in an oversized dress: an exquisite metaphor because she didn’t fit in. ![]() As the character in the horror film says as the awful realisation unfolds: what kind of family is this exactly? Her paranoia, like Diana’s, was justified. There was Duchess Difficult and Tiaragate, and competing royal tears, and it all came from the palace: leaks about leaks, then. That’s the racist playbook, although misogyny, xenophobia and snobbery were handmaidens. She is no less, nor more, annoying than any other Californian actress.īut the palace and its acolytes in the media treated her appallingly, and then demonised her to excuse themselves. British people don’t talk like that unless they work in hotel marketing. ![]() “What is your preference?” she asked the late Queen, wondering who should get into the car first. ![]() We applaud materialism in other royal bodies and our objections to Meghan were initially stylistic. Watching Harry watch Meghan – on Netflix, of course – be wound into a dress by a battalion of stylists, I thought: no one is exploiting the comic potential here.īut no one is perfect either. I liked her until I saw her taste for couture, absurd in anyone who claims to love justice. ![]() Loving frank author7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() She later worked as a librarian in Port Huron, Michigan. Borthwick earned her BA and MA at the University of Michigan in 18. She had two sisters: Jessie Octavia Borthwick Pitkin (1864–1901) and Elizabeth Vilitta Borthwick (1866–1946). She was born as Mary Bouton Borthwick in Boone, Iowa to Marcus Smith Borthwick (1828–1900) and Almira A. Both had left their spouses and children in order to live together and were the subject of relentless public censure. ![]() Wright built his famous settlement called Taliesin in Wisconsin for her, in part, to shield her from aggressive reporters and the negative public sentiment surrounding their non-married status. She and Wright were instrumental in bringing the ideas and writings of Swedish feminist Ellen Key to American audiences. ![]() Mary Bouton " Mamah" Borthwick (J– August 15, 1914) was an American translator who had a romantic relationship with architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which ended when she was murdered. ![]() John berger book7/6/2023 ![]() Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text. John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. "In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience." -Susan Sontag ![]() First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant-no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. ![]() He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man-one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. ![]() |