7/5/2023 0 Comments Beautiful Ruins by Jess WalterJolted awake from his reveries, "a burst of clarity after a lifetime of sleep", for a few crazy days Pasquale plays a walk-on role in Dee's story, then she's gone again. She takes a room in Pasquale's hotel, and waits for the lover who's promised to meet her here, away from the paparazzi and the studio's publicity man. The actress is Dee Moray, fresh from filming Cleopatra in Rome, and supposedly dying of stomach cancer. Off steps a beautiful American actress, pressing a wide-brimmed hat to her head. A boat appears on the horizon, sails towards him, and moors in the cove. A young hotelier daydreaming about his future toils in the sun trying to turn a rocky outcrop into a beach. Porto Vergogna, an Italian coastal town so small it's little more than a cluster of buildings "huddled like a herd of sleeping goats in a crease in the sheer cliffs".
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7/5/2023 0 Comments The sheltering sky bookSo yes, I was never able to linger while traveling, due to the fact that I always had a pressing need to return to my life, to shore up my business interests, and to keep my social relationships growing. I had three women I was seeing, all interviewing for a more permanent position as my wife. I was still building a living for myself. Whereas a tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another."īefore meeting Port Moresby, I always thought of myself as a traveler, but after one particular late night discussion accompanied by inebriation, interrupted by a frolic in an exotic bordello conveniently located nearby, and then reconvened over tankards of yet more alcoholic concoctions, he managed to convince me that I was merely a tourist. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. "He did not think of himself as a tourist he was a traveler. She is often disturbed by friends “disappearing” from the portal but at the same time is intrigued by their ability to separate themselves from life online. In Part 1 of the novel, the protagonist struggles with her increasing sense of physical and mental dissociation caused by spending so much time on the portal. She lives with her husband in an unspecified city and spends her days keeping track of trends in the portal and debating American conservatives online. After rising to fame in the portal, the protagonist becomes a public speaker and teacher focusing on questions the portal presents to modern global society. The unnamed female protagonist of No One Is Talking About This is an influencer on the portal, the word she uses to describe the online social media, news, and blog sources that she obsessively follows. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Poguemahone by patrick mccabeWe’ve got to be very careful with dementia, what the person knows – I never called him “the person” in my life, but suddenly here I am now objectifying him. And I almost had a moral qualm, because there’s a whole thing about taking people’s stories. It was if his soul was being erased as I watched him day by day. I’m interested in your decision to give Una dementia, which means Dan has to narrate for her.Ī very close relative of mine had it. McCabe spoke to The Globe from his hometown of Clones, Ireland. For an Irish writer, that is as likely to feel like a millstone as a pinnacle, and I mean no disrespect to McCabe, or to Joyce, when I say McCabe’s is the easier read. Poguemahone – in which an Irish transplant, Dan Fogarty, relates his and his dementia-addled sister Una’s ofttimes bleak origin story in London’s working-class Kilburn district in the mid-1970s – keeps drawing favourable comparisons with James Joyce’s Ulysses. But his most audacious experiment to date – a 600-page novel in free verse, shot through with Gaelic, Irish folklore, pop-music references, goblins and spirits – seems to be paying off. He’s enjoyed and endured critical hugs and hidings ever since, largely because he’s never stopped experimenting. You could say Patrick McCabe’s career was launched in earnest in 1992, when his third novel, The Butcher Boy, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and subsequently made into a Neil Jordan-helmed film (as was 1998′s Breakfast on Pluto). 7/4/2023 0 Comments Poems by walter dean myersThis text is so powerful for any student to read to understand African American culture in America. This story screams culture for your students to envelop themselves in, not only with words, but with illustrations. This book can be meant to read in a K-8 setting, being relatable with a history lesson, or even just a wonderful classroom read along. This is a crucial picture book, because not only are the words powerful, but the illustrations by Myers son, Christopher Myers evoke emotion along with the story. This piece of filled with historical names and events tied into our history allowing a reader to explore the importance of each word on the page. This book is a poem, highlighting the sounds, sights and culture of a place with such a deep rich impact on American history. Walter Dean Myers does a fantastic job again, bringing us right into the heart of his background with this poetic tribute to the urban community centered around Harlem. Tock tells him to help himself but climbs into the car alongside Milo. Milo asks the dog, who introduces himself as Tock even though he makes a ticking sound, for help in putting an end to his boredom. Shortly afterward he is stuck in the lethargic land of the Doldrums but encounters an enormous and very shaggy dog with a large clock in the center of his body who barks loudly at anyone he finds wasting time. He stops to ask for directions from the Whether Man, who gives him a response is that there is no such thing as the right way and certainly no wrong roads to anywhere. In addition, there are coins and a map and so he does what any bored little boy would do under such conditions: he gets into his red car, pays the toll and drives through the tollbooth straight into a very strange world quite unlike his own.Īrriving in the Land of Expectations and consulting the map, he heads for the city of Dictionopolis. One day he arrives home to discover a mysterious tollbooth waiting in his room. Young Milo is bored with his life, especially going to school with its useless information. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare william hamletThe result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this fusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies.
7/4/2023 0 Comments Myrtle hardcastle mysteriesLiving in the late 19th century England she is expected to be a charming little lady honing her domestic skills. As the local prosecutor, her father’s job demands much of his time. Her mother is deceased having succumbed to a disease. But Myrtle has more obstacles to overcome. Like Nancy Drew, Myrtle Hardcastle is quite the detective. I was hoping that I could find a series featuring a strong female character that my daughter could be inspired by. I was excited to read these books because I grew up reading Nancy Drew. But can she get the local authorities to listen to her? A priceless tiara is stolen and one of the passengers is murdered - with her Aunt Helen’s sewing shears! Our plucky young protagonist must race against time to prove her aunt is innocent. But not before long Myrtle finds herself thrust into another mystery. Perhaps one that Myrtle was dreading because she would be under the watchful eye of her stern Aunt Helen. This second book in the series finds Myrtle Hardcastle and her beloved Miss Judson on a train ride along the English countryside. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her - not even her father, the town prosecutor. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Best translation of lysistrataNo quaking, brave steps taking, careless what's ahead, white shoed,Īll ye who garrisoned Leipsidrion of old. You that below the waist are still alive,įor a man must strip to battle like a man. Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Our lives and persons hazardous by some imbecile mistakes You've squandered, and do nothing in return, save that you make If I say something advantageous to the present situation.įor I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation Ĭontribute nothing of any importance whatever to our needs īut the treasure raised against the Medes It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, Your own mother will not know you when you get back to the town.īut first, my friends and allies, let us lay these garments down,Īnd all ye fellow-citizens, hark to me while I tell but they won't catch me, that know.Ī sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand,Īnd under arms in the public place I'll take my watchful stand, Like very hungry wolves would always most sincere shun.Ī Tyranny, no doubt. Make alliance with the Spartans-people I for one Some more perilous offensive in their heads they now devise.Īnd, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle. (MAGISTRATE retires, LYSISTRATA returns within).Īll men who call your loins your own, awake at last, ariseĪnd strip to stand in readiness. The Five Stages of Falling in Love for iBooks The Five Stages of Falling in Love for Amazon And as new love takes hold, she peels away the guilt and heartache, and discovers there’s more to life than death. More than she’s capable of ever giving again.Īs Liz mourns her dead husband and works her way through the five stages of grief, she finds there’s more of her heart to give than she thought possible. And he doesn’t just want to help her with yard work or cleaning the gutters. She has no time for curious new friends or unwanted help, but Ben gives her both. When Ben Tyler moves in next door, she is drowning in sorrow and pain, her children are acting out, and the house is falling apart. Six months later, she is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and get the kids to school on time. How could she, when he was everything to her? Grady’s prognosis was grim, even from the start, but Liz never gave up hope he would survive. Her husband of eight years, the father of her four children and the love of her life, died from cancer. I am so thrilled about this book and am super excited to be sharing the cover with you today!!Ībout The Five Stages of Falling In Love:Įlizabeth Carlson is living in the pits of hell- also known as grief. Today we have a cover reveal for Rachel Higginson’s The 5 Stages of Falling In Love. |