![]() ![]() ![]() Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Readers looking for an affecting tale of overcoming or at least coming to terms with personal tragedy will be more than satisfied. The author describes his year spent in Delhi, India, reflecting on the city's history and culture, including religious practices, industry, the arts, festivals and entertainment, and social customs. Passages touching on the death of Kiwi's father in Iraq and her mother's steady disintegration as a parent prepare the way for the events that fateful night in San Jose that prompted Libby to flee. With refreshingly open-minded curiosity, William Dalrymple explores the seven 'dead' cities of Delhi as well as the eighth city-todays. ![]() Kiwi enrolls herself at the local elementary school, while Libby takes a job waitressing at the Sleepy Iguana. Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhis centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from eunuchs to descendants of great Moguls. They eventually end up at the Sleepy Iguana, a bar in the dusty little town of Sand Flats, where they're immediately taken under the wing of a fellow patron who senses Libby's fragility. ![]() Libby gets into the Mustang she stole earlier that day, and she and Kiwi, her 11-year-old daughter, head south, their only desire to get away from San Jose as fast as possible. Buy a cheap copy of City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi book by William Dalrymple. The opening of Preston's engrossing latest (after The Wind Comes Sweeping) offers a whiff of mystery as Libby Seager hurls a gun over the side of a cliff into the ocean after driving to the coast from San Jose, Calif. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. the premise will attract readers, and the cast of characters is varied and interesting enough to hold them.” ― Kirkus Reviews on Game On “This is a series premise with a lot of potential: The world of high-stakes athletics and its impact on teens hungry to succeed is compelling. ![]() “For readers who can't get enough of series like Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl and Zoey Dean's The A-List.” ― School Library Journal on Game On Readers who need a break from the violence, cruelty, and relentless menu of crises that are so much a part of current teen fiction will find a welcome diversion here.” ― VOYA ![]() “Seles writes what she knows, providing a fascinating look at the behind-the-scenes business aspects that are a huge part of today's sports scenes. “Readers will find themselves pulling for this scrappy teen as she navigates fame and relationships.” ― Kirkus Reviews “An enticing combination of suspense, romance, mystery, fashion, and, of course, sports.” ― Booklist I assured Seles that we hadnt come to bury her, but to honour her to make her the subject of the Tennis Interview in the year that will mark the 10th anniversary of that chilly, sombre day, April 30, 1993, when a lunatic plunged a knife into her back while she sat through a changeover during a match in Hamburg, Germany. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Marcel proust the guermantes way![]() A departure from the intimacy of the sprawling novel’s previous two installments, part three unfolds against a colorful backdrop of Parisian life, moving from literary salon to opulent social gathering to provide a biting and satirical commentary on culture, human foibles, the ways of the world, and the irretrievable loss of time. Continuing the story begun in Swann’s Way and continued in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way follows Proust’s young protagonist as he advances through aristocratic French society in late‑nineteenth‑century Paris. ![]() Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the author’s original text. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C. ![]() This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. ![]() An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust’s monumental seven‑part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() The Latin inscription, taken from an epigram by the 1st century AD poet Martial and the Roman numerals represent the date of his death. Giovanna is shown wearing a richly embroidered dress and, in the background, is a selection of her personal belongings, a hanging coral rosary, and a prayers book. The portrait followed the classical style of the period when the body proportions were idealized, and the faces conveyed character without expression. Giovanna is depicted in a traditional profile pose, which was favored due to its association with ancient coins and medallions. There is also a medallion showing her likeness and her name. ![]() ![]() This panel is a powerful example of the late 1400’s Florentine portraiture. Giovanna has been identified as the subject of this portrait, thanks to her other named portraits, where she has the same hairstyle. Her husband, Lorenzo Tornabuoni, was deeply stricken by grief and commissioned this portrait of his wife to commemorate and honor her memory. She died in childbirth, giving birth to her second child in 1488, and this painting was painted after her death. “Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni” by Domenico Ghirlandaio portrays Giovanna degli Albizzi, a Florentine noblewoman. ![]() “Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni” by Domenico Ghirlandaio ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Helen recorvits![]() ![]() It takes a fire in the town and Dad’s dramatic rescue of a boy trapped on a second-floor porch to cure the post-traumatic stress disorder. Only when Junior accidentally uncovers a box with his father’s war mementos, including a Silver Star, does Dad begin to talk about the death of a close friend in a fiery plane crash. When he comes home early from work one day and finds the boys together in the backyard, his anger escalates into violence. Never mind that Junior has had his vaccine and that the polio is no longer contagious. He vents his anger against one of his son’s friends who has polio by forbidding his son to play with him. Junior’s father is a WWII veteran who is carrying the unresolved burden of a traumatic wartime experience. He’s trying to save money for a bike while enjoying outings with his friends, and hoping that his father will stay in a good mood. Ten-year-old Junior’s summer vacation promises to be as quiet as American suburbia was in 1956. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, I found much more than I bargained for, because the dreadful elements are quite successfully blended with a peculiar brand of tongue-in-cheek humor that I’ve come to suspect might be T. I knew, thanks to my fellow bloggers’ reviews, that What Moves the Dead would take me on a gothic horror journey – and more specifically a retelling of Poe’s The Fall of House of Usher – and I was also made aware that the terror elements would be expressed in some wildly ghastly way, thanks to the cover illustration with its gruesome implications of body horror. Kingfisher’s Nettle and Bone, and here I am with another of her books, one that confirmed my intention of adding as many of them as possible to my TBR, because she is an amazing storyteller indeed. ![]() ![]() It was only a few weeks ago when I reviewed T. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The food of a younger land![]() ![]() When the Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1680, effectively defines a white man for purposes of colonial citizenship. John Biewen: Suzanne mentions this marriage so she can connect it to something that happens decades later. Now, how does John turn out? Does he turn out fairly well economically? He does. And yes, it is about power but it’s specifically about obtaining land, so that he might build wealth. He’s making an alliance as one might have made in Europe, in order…? Power’s always right. What’s John looking to do? What’s his goal here. Now, is this the great love story Disney tells? No. Yeah, don’t get your history from Disney. Suzanne Plihcik: Pocahontas? John Smith marries Pocahontas? Well, it was Pocahontas but it wasn’t John Smith, who was it? John Rolfe. ![]() John Biewen: …with Suzanne Plihcik of the Racial Equity Institute, at that anti-racism workshop. ![]() Suzanne Plihcik: In 1613, a very famous marriage takes place in Virginia. ![]() John Biewen: Before we pick up where we left off in the last episode, post-1776, let’s dip back into Colonial America for just a couple minutes… Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika. “All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. note: You can find Parts 1, 2, and 3 of Seeing White on here, here, and here. ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īltheide, David L. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. On the other hand, the novel’s engagement with constructivism is by no means naïve it equally considers and articulates the ethical limits of applying it to a cruel child. One the one hand, it allows the novel to dissect and challenge the patterns according to which school shooters are commonly constructed in the media without, however, confirming any of them as Kevin’s “true” nature. ![]() The chapter illustrates how constructivism arises as a highly ambivalent practice in the novel. The central argument is that Shriver offers her readers a critical and informed meta-perspective which conceives of childhood as a discursive construct. This chapter examines the ways in which Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) complicates mainstream representations of young high school shooters. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments King of immortal tithe book![]() And protection from the undead comes at a cost, one that Arlo is forced to pay when he is stolen by the Prince of Death.Īrlo finds himself tangled in a web of secrecy, family politics and unbridled magic when he comes face to face with the impending doom. It has been many years since the vampiric disease spread wildly across Darkmourn, making humans a rarity. ![]() Forced by the bitter Queen to partake in the Choosing, he discovers a single person who can resist the deadly grace of his touch. Faenir Evelina is scorned for the murder of his family. Especially if the dangers come in the form of elves from a realm beyond that of the human world.Įlf. To uphold the promise he made to his parents, ensuring the protection of his sister from the world and its dangers. Arlo Grey will do anything to fend off the sickness that longs to destroy him. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The hero with a thousand![]() ![]() In the last two years alone, his name has been mentioned in Snowden and La La Land while his words have appeared on Wonder Woman’s sword, Superman’s cape, and in key moments of 13 Hours. Most famously, George Lucas came to see Campbell as “his Yoda” after The Hero with a Thousand Faces inspired revisions of Star Wars that enhanced the archetypal qualities of its characters, the symbolic depth of its imagery, and the mythic structure of its narrative. Clarke while writing 2001: A Space Odyssey. In addition to deepening entertaining stories into profound narratives, this has helped filmmakers translate inner psychological experience into something a camera can see. We are fortunate today that the Joseph Campbell Foundation has partnered with Studio Institute Global in Los Angeles to bring the depths of this master’s insights into the hands of students and filmmakers within the community.įifty years have followed since Stanley Kubrick gave his book to Arthur C. With his guidance, countless filmmakers have come to see image as symbolic, character as archetypal, and narrative as mythic. Mythology and the Hero’s Journey became pervasive throughout film culture and history as generation after generation turned to Joseph Campbell and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ![]() |