6/29/2023 0 Comments The dragon republic series![]() ![]() Rin and her command are the only survivors, and they know a big battle is just around the corner. As the campaign continues, the Republic comes across the powerful shaman Feylen, who’s been sent by Daji to destroy their ships. ![]() Vaisra starts his campaign to unify the provinces first by starving the North and then by sending soldiers to occupy Northern cities. As their assassination plans commence, Daji seals Rin’s power and escapes, while the Warlord’s negotiations force Southern warlords, such as Vaisra, to leave the Empire. ![]() Soon after the Third Poppy War ends, Rin and the Cike are captured by the Dragon Warlord, Yin Vaisra, who instructs Rin to destroy Empress Su Daji and unite the empire under one republic. Kuang brings brilliance to this invigorating and complex military fantasy sequel to The Poppy War. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (In 2006, a documentary called Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema got to this point more quickly than I had, explaining that the source novel was explicitly about a romance between Ruth and Idgie, and that the film had toned it right down to inference, in order to give it more of a family appeal.) ![]() That drunken peck on the cheek while they literally dip their toes in the water? I see. The food fight on a hot, sweaty afternoon, in which they smear fruit across each other’s mouths then collapse onto the floor? Ah. From then on I watched it with open eyes. I was doing an English degree at the time, which is remarkable, given my failure to grasp basic subtext. “What? No! Shut up!” I said, when he pointed it out during a scene in which Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker) go for a platonic picnic, and there’s a pointed close-up of Ruth dipping her fingers into a pot of honey. He informed me that I loved it because it was the gayest film of all time. When I was 19 and at university, I made one of my housemates watch it with me. My mum said she didn’t know how I could watch it so often. To prove my devotion I almost wore out the VHS that I had taped from a late-night Channel 4 screening. ![]() When I was 12, Fried Green Tomatoes was my favourite film. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of history that reads like a novel Penman achieves something greater: a novel that reads like history.” -Willamette Week Penman has absorbed herself so fully into the heart and mind of her protagonist that an undeniably flawed but refreshingly human Richard virtually walks off the pages.” -Booklist Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Amid betrayals, intrigues, infidelities, wars, and illness, Richard’s courage and intelligence will become legend. ![]() Imprisoned in the notorious fortress at Trifels, from which few ever leave alive, Richard, for the first time in his life, experiences pure, visceral fear-while his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, moves heaven and earth to secure his release. Forced to make a dangerous choice, Richard finds himself in enemy territory, where he is captured-in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders-and handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor. But this misfortune is just the beginning. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto the Sicilian shore. Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with the vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion. ![]() ![]() A 2020 film with Dev Patel as the main character includes a diverse cast, and is told in a series of flashbacks. Fields is especially delightful, as is a 1999 BBC special starring Bob Hoskins and a very young Daniel Radcliffe. This book has been adapted for the screen multiple times. It includes some violence against children, drownings at sea, cigar and pipe smoking, and some troubling alcohol abuse. Dickens is also remembered as a writer who was paid by the word for his serialized novels, so this story is long but enthralling. Dickens is beloved for his complex rags-to-riches stories realistic, sympathetic views of class disparities and poverty and unforgettable characters like David. The book was serialized (1849-50) before it was first published in book form in 1850. It tells the story of the hardships, changes, and good fortune that David encounters on his life journey. ![]() Parents need to know that Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield is loosely based on the life of the author. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare and co sylvia beach![]() To start with, its scavenged floorings include marble tiling that founder George Whitman stole decades ago from Montparnasse Cemetery and laid down in an abstract mosaic around the store’s “wishing well” - a hole in which customers toss coins to be harvested by poor writers who may need change for a cheap room in Paris. The bookstore is full of legends and stories about itself. ![]() This lovely bookstore bookstore has been an oasis for generations of writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, William Styron, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers and a myriad number of other “tumbleweed” writers who have lodged here, read here, and written here in this English-language literary oasis. ![]() ![]() Since opening in 1951, this store has been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers, becoming a Left Bank literary institution. Shakespeare and Company is the marvelous English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame. ![]() One year ago, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting perhaps the most famous independent bookstore in the world with my daughter. ![]() ![]() In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works "to make women visible and powerful in the media." Steinem currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer and is a media spokeswoman on issues of equality." Good in good dust jacket. ![]() In 1969, she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation, " which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. She was a columnist for New York magazine and a founder of Ms. From Wikipedia: "Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s. ![]() ![]() Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays are found here, from the humorous expose "I Was a Playboy Bunny" to the moving tribute to her mother, "Ruth's Song". ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments To sail beyond the sunset heinlein![]() Maureen is ostensibly recording the events of the book while held in prison alongside Pixel, the cat from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The book is a memoir of Maureen Johnson Smith Long, mother, lover, and eventual wife of Lazarus Long. Other books in the cycle include Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, The Number of the Beast, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. It is the final part of the " Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or 'World as Myth': the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The chosen will secure a life of power and prestige beyond their wildest dreams.Įach of the six newest recruits has their reasons for accepting the Society’s elusive invitation. A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like The Secret History meets The Umbrella AcademyĮach decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to earn a place in the Alexandrian Society, the foremost secret society in the world.The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok. ![]() The much-acclaimed viral sensation from Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six - now newly revised and edited with additional content. A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most telling, his face had acquired the wizened look of habitual self-indulgence.“I don’t know you, sir,” she said coolly. A Hathaway Wedding by Lisa Kleypas 3.85 5,733 Ratings 362 Reviews published 2009 8 editions An exclusive short story about Win Hathaway and Ke Want to Read Rate it: Book 3 Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas 4.16 43,876 Ratings 2,634 Reviews published 2009 75 editions He was everything she'd sworn to avoid. He was heavier, thick around the middle, and his ginger-colored hair was thinning. ![]() Catherine whirled to face him, her entire body shaking.It surprised her to see the extent to which he had aged, his features blighted by coarse living. But it had been worth the risk to be with the Hathaways, to feel that just for a little while, she had been part of a family.Latimer grabbed her arm with bruising force. She had known this would happen someday, that even though Latimer and the Hathaways moved in different circles, they would inevitably meet. But she was also infuriated, thinking how monstrously unfair it was that this one man should keep ruining her life, over and over. “Stop right there, I say!”Catherine ignored the summons, keeping her head down as she hurried along a hallway toward the servants’ stairwell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin wrote in contemplating the cultural role of speculative fiction and the task of its writer, “is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.” In doing so, she argued, imaginative storytelling can intercept the inertia of oppressive institutions, perilous social mores, and other stagnations of progress that contract our scope of the possible. The article, titled “The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity”, starts with this: ![]() Well, I wrote this week’s Monday musings on Australian dystopian fiction as a lead in to my review of Charlotte Wood’s award-winning The natural way of things, but I wasn’t expecting to get the perfect intro for my review! In the post’s comments, author and publisher Anna Blay pointed us to an article by Maria Popova in an online digest called Brain Pickings. ![]() |