![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly recommend it!" - ***** Reader review "Every book in the series has you on the edge of your seat. History and fiction woven together in a memorising way and creating a real and vivid picture of life in Britain 2000 years ago. Plenty of development of the main characters from the first book, lots of suspense and page turning action." - ***** Reader review "Amazing writing, spellbinding, transporting. "One of the boldest of recent adventures in historical fiction.Scott celebrates the mystic matriarchy of the British tribe with lush lyricism and story-weaving panache." - INDEPENDENT "A cry for freedom cloaked in lyrical and sensitive prose." - OXFORD TIMES "Of the recent historical novels set in Roman times, this is the best one I've read." - MAIL ON SUNDAY "So well written and atmospheric that you are 'there' along with the characters. If you like Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, you will love this second book in THE SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Manda Scott's epic retelling of the story of Britain's great warrior queen. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() He returns to the US with his newfound sense of identity. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. Pham 4.8 (13) Paperback (REV) 22.00 Paperback 22.00 eBook 12. Halfpriced & New Books on Instagram: 'Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odysseya solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnammade by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. After spending time with family and countrymen, however, Pham soon concocts a working definition of home, and what family signifies. Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Once there, he soon realizes that the “Hollywood” ideal of catharsis he had in mind has no place among the reality of a lost childhood: Most of the places he remembers are gone, and his memories can’t initially reconcile with the shift. These issues lead him back to Vietnam in search of his roots and some answers. In particular, he tries to sort out what led his brother Minh, who was born his sister Chi, to commit suicide, and plumbs the source of his family’s violence (specifically on his father’s side). Pham also struggles with family dynamics throughout the narrative. Pham provides many examples in the book that illustrate how his perception and treatment by others reinforce his feelings of conflicted identity. The author presents himself as conflicted over his cultural identity: He feels neither fully American nor fully Vietnamese. In the mid-1990s, he took the cycling trip to Vietnam on which this book is based. ![]() Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 but fled to America with his family in 1977. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not the first, or even the 10th, place to start reading McEwan if you’ve never encountered him before. “Machines Like Me” conjures a love triangle between a floundering Brit named Charlie Friend, a secretive doctoral student named Miranda and a replicant named Adam. We still read him not for comfort, but dread. But McEwan’s characters still tend to be dangerously un-self-aware and headed toward nothing good. ![]() He’s a far more cerebral writer now, as well as a more humanist one. It’s been 40 years since the author made his name ( and his nickname “Ian Macabre”) by rolling grenades about thrill kills, incest and dismemberment into what he regarded as the polite, heat-drowsy garden party of contemporary British fiction. ![]() Ian McEwan’s latest novel asks if the manufacture of synthetic humans would spark enlightenment and ease or fractiousness and pain - but, come on, it’s obviously not going to be pretty, because which part of “Ian McEwan novel” do you not understand? ![]() ![]() Set in the early 1840’s, Dead Man’s Walk follows the adventures of a young Gus and Woodrow, including a deadly forced walk across a desert after they are captured by the Mexican Army. Future posts will address other series in the franchise. In this post, we rate the prequels as well as the original Lonesome Dove. ![]() Well, Chimesfreedom is grading each series on a scale of 1-10, addressing each one in chronological order by the time period covered. Maybe you have not seen any of them and are wondering where to start, or maybe you have seen Lonesome Dove and wondered whether the others are worth your time. ![]() Lonesome Dove’s success spawned several sequels and prequels. Call, played by Tommy Lee Jones, and also featured Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, and Chris Cooper. It followed the adventures of Augustus “Gus” McRae, played by Robert Duvall, and Woodrow F. Lonesome Dove, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry, originally ran on television in 1989. ![]() The original Lonesome Dove is one of the finest miniseries and westerns. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some are ruined, fallen, illegitimate women, or courtesans. Even as she loves to write historical romances, most of her heroines do not fit the lady mold as most of her contemporaries love to portray. ![]() As such, most of her novels in the “Bedwyn Saga”, “Brides and Wives”, “Sullivan”, “Georgian” and her single standing novels are all set in Wales, Georgian England, or in the Regency period. ![]() Mary Balogh first got into Regency romance when she read the works of Heorgette Heyer and was immediately hooked. She got three children with Balogh Sian, Christopher, and Jacqueline that have given her five grandchildren Christo, Cash, Jayden, Shianne, and Matthew. Balogh worked as a high school teacher in Canada for several years and rose through the ranks to become principal before she left to pursue a writing career. She met Robert Balogh the Canadian ambulance driver and coroner, whom she married him a few months and went to live with in Kipling, a small prairie town of Saskatchewan. She would immigrate to Canada in 1967 when she got offered a teaching contract after completing her university studies. Mary Balogh was born to painter and sign writer Arthur Jenkins and homemaker Mildred Double in 1944. The “Bedwyn Saga” is set in Regency England and follows the life and times of the Bedwyn siblings. The “Bedwyn Saga” otherwise known as the “Slightly” or “Bedwyn Family” series are a series of historical romances by Mary Balogh the Welsh-Canadian author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their parents clearly couldn't be bothered best they be around books and friendly staff. We always got complaints about how unlibrary-like we were, but my stance was always that we were a safe community space, and where these kids needed to go. ![]() At 3:30 each weekday the place would give up on decorum and become a barely-contained zoo for the next hour and a half. The library I worked at for several years was several blocks down the street from a middle school. Oh, I'm sure absolutely none of you lovely people fall into this description. They loudly proclaim how very much they love their kids, but they don't actually like their kids at all, they pretty much just want a mini-them to bolster their own sense of importance. I'm gonna take the liberty of putting my snotty-young-punk-what-the-hell-does-he-know cap on yet again and make the incredibly non-controversial observation that most parents are incredibly terrible at being parents. ![]() The idea that the "parental choice" argument, eye-rollingly specious as it is, has gained traction among so many surprises me zero percent, rounding up. ![]() ![]() As someone who played at blocks with her father's twenty-two-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who considered herself truly married only when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of flyleaf inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proofreading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading aloud. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Fadiman, Anne (March 2, 2000) Paperback Anne Fadiman 2 Paperback 16 offers from 6.13 Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers Emma Smith 62 Hardcover 21 offers from 11.85 Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books Cathy Rentzenbrink 619 Paperback 22 offers from 5. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. Back to home page See More Details about 'Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fad.' Return to top. Fadiman pays attention to the physical spaces they occupy. Anne Fadiman's collection of charmingly written essays examine the way in which much of her life was (and is still) shaped by books. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader is a delightful and uplifting ode to bibliophiles. ![]() ![]() New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, c1998Įx Libris recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. ![]() Ex libris : confessions of a common reader / Anne Fadiman Book Bib ID ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This brilliant debut collection offers cohesive trauma narratives and essential counter-narratives to addiction stories, and it consistently complicates the stories told by the world about so-called fatherless girls and the bodies of women. But can the speaker voice her trauma and disjunction? Can anyone, or is suffering something that cannot be said, but only hinted at? Ultimately the book argues that the barest hour of suffering can be the source of immense creative power and energy, which is the speaker’s highest form of consolation. The alternative universe the speaker builds in order to survive this complex loss and its aftermath sees her experimenting with her body to try to build connection, giving it away to careless and indifferent lovers as she dreams of consuming them in the search for a coherent self. A book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the finest romance authors of all time. ![]() Read eBook on the web, iPad, iPhone and.Scandal Wears Satin Dressmakers Series Loretta Chase on. Read Scandal Wears Satin by Loretta Chase by Loretta Chase for free with a 30 day free trial. Black hair and glittering black eyes.the noble nose that ought to have been broken a dozen times yet remained stubbornly straight and. Download This Book Here: http:mrkc3l5 Author: by Loretta Chase Title: Scandal Wears Satin The Dressmakers 2 Language. ![]() Oh but how I adore the way Loretta Chase manages to give us deliciously sensible and pragmatic yet beautiful. Scandal wears satin loretta chase pdf Scandal Wears Satin has 3026 ratings and 290 reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeremy Thomas: 'We are a traditional publisher with one major exception-readers decide what we publish.' How does the crowdfunding aspect of your business model work? Warning: this interview is in two languages-publishing and tech. I’ll let Inkshares CEO Jeremy Thomas explain the rest. ![]() If enough people like it, the book gets funded and published. Got a good idea for a book? See if the crowd likes it. steps in, with the California-based startup enabling a crowdfunding relationship between authors and readers. As the publishing world famously learned with Amazon, tech companies can successfully target publishing as low-hanging fruit, an entrée into a larger online market. In fact, with publishing, the opportunity flows both ways. Butcher, baker, or candlestick-maker, there’s some element of your business that involves you adapting to changing technology. First, admit it: no matter what business you’re in, you’re also a tech company. ![]() |