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![]() ![]() Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. The money will come from somewhere I am entitled God will provide. “When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”Īn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Everything previously moving with the grain is now against- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. ![]() Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. “There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. ![]()
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The book dear martin6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Another friend urged me to read that YA novel he found the writing superior to The Hate U Give (2017) and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t garnering equal attention. I decided not to blog about The Truth of Right Now (2017) by Kara Lee Corthron when I read it last fall. ![]() But in the end, I decided something needed to be said because I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in publishing: novels by Black authors about police violence against Black boys where White girls take center stage. Few people thanked me for pointing out the issues I had with All American Boys (though many were quick to praise Jason Reynolds for his “gracious” response), and I didn’t want to become known for “targeting” or “picking on” Black authors when so few of us manage to get published. ![]() When a friend asked me last fall to address the problems she found in Dear Martin, I hedged. ![]()
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Robert howard conan6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() World War I and the Russian Civil War led to parallel accusations of Jewish Bolshevism and Jewish capitalism. Many Jewish immigrants in the United States would have experienced violence against Jews such as the Kishinev massacre (1903), Lwów pogrom (1918) and Kyev Pogroms (1919) in the Russian empire.Īntisemitism prejudice and attendant discrimination had many forms and facets in the United States in the early 20th century: Christian anti-Judaism had persisted since antiquity in Western culture, but now merged with scientific racism, anti-immigrant Nativism, and ethnic stereotypes. ![]() ![]() They had every reason to: antisemitic violence around the world has never ceased, and the cinematic stirring of prejudices was feared to trigger pogroms. The New Testament story has long been a focal point for Christian antisemitism, and Jewish newspapers and the Anti-Defamation League protested the film and its portrayal. DeMille’s Biblical trilogy, which began with The Ten Commandments (1923) and finished with The Sign of the Cross (1932), and tells the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, including his betrayal by Judas-and, in DeMille’s version, the high priest Caiaphas. The King of Kings (1927) was a silent epic, the second part of Cecil B. Warner lacked fire of course, but I don’t know who else could have done even as good as he did. And William Boyd, that fellow is the most human actor in the world. I thought it was powerful, though I think Joseph Schildrkraut ran away with the picture as Judas. ![]()
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The wife upstairs a novel reviews6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() With a setting in Alabama, you’d expect at least one of them to have a drippy southern drawl, but there really isn’t a twang to be heard. If I have one quibble, it would be that the female voices are fairly similar and indistinct from one another. The audiobook has a multiple narrator format, which I always enjoy. No complaints there, just a management of expectations. Fortunately she meets Eddie Rochester (wink) and the sparks fly although he recently lost his rich entrepreneurial wife to mysterious circumstances.ĭespite the publisher’s description, I found the atmosphere to be more Bravo TV than gothic. Her means and looks are simple, though she aspires to live a life of more glitz, glamour, and gold. Our main character Jane (natch) is a dog walker in a gated Alabama McMansion community. The action never drags and almost moves so quickly that it flies fairly close to insta-love territory. ![]() ![]() The Wife Upstairs is the exact opposite of whatever a slow-burn novel is. Consider her classic the spark that lights the fuse of this 2021 thriller, and then just sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Why forget it? Because these are not Bronte’s characters, and this is not her story. ![]() Here’s something you should know about The Wife Upstairs and then quickly forget. ![]()
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The grand sophy by georgette heyer6/8/2023 ![]() It was a bit flat, and lacked the fun and humor of the actual book. ![]() I love Heyer books in print, but I will only order unabridged from now on.ĭid the narration match the pace of the story? Would you be willing to try another book from Georgette Heyer? Why or why not? If any casting editor is reading this, crisp upper class British diction AND an excellent sense of humor and fun are a must for any actor cast for a Heyer book. The voice artist's performance is only fair- but to be just, that could be because the all the juiciest, funniest bits were removed from her script. A sparkling Regency romantic comedy by Georgette Heyer, whose books have sold over 30 million copies, The Grand Sophy is a story of love, intrigue, and high spirits. All the smaller story arches, little comments, and delightful flashes of wit that make Heyer romances so wonderful have been omitted, leaving this audiobook a shadow of the real work. Price New from Used from Kindle 'Please retry' 9. ![]() This is my favorite Heyer book, sadly rendered flat and insipid by poor editing. The Grand Sophy (Naxos Modern Classics) Audio CD CD, Septemby Georgette Heyer(Author) 4.6 out of 5 stars6,096 ratings Book 9 of 27: Regency Romances See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. ![]() Would you try another book from Georgette Heyer and/or Clare Wille? ![]()
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Michael morpurgo books war horse6/8/2023 ![]() The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.Ī great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The power of war and the beauty of peace. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processesīefore the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel… ![]() ![]() Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects Hong Kong Golden Dragon Books 2022-2023. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1965, 20-year-old Ellie Hockley, a student at the University of North Carolina, joins SCOPE, a summer project recruiting mostly White, Northern college students to help Black Southerners register to vote in anticipation of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Ann, a stranger, knows too much about Kayla, including that she has a small daughter, that she’s about to move into a new house in an upscale but isolated new development, and that it's a house she had intended to share with her husband, Jackson, who died of an accidental fall at the construction site. ![]() ![]() In 2010, architect Kayla Carter is visited by Ann Smith, a “sixty-five or seventy”-year-old woman in mirrored sunglasses, who comes to her office seemingly intent on scaring her. This is a novel of alternating timelines, each unspooling in or near Round Hill, a small town in North Carolina. Chamberlain’s tale of mid-1960s freedom fighters intersects with contemporary tragedy. ![]()
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The courtesan susan carroll6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() She will also incur the malevolence of the Dark Queen, Catherine de' Medici, whose spies and witch-hunters are legion, and who will summon the black arts to maintain her authority. But her plans are jeopardized by Captain Nicolas R my, a devoted warrior whose love Gabrielle desires-and fears-above all. ![]() ![]() As his mistress, Gabrielle hopes she might one day become the power behind the French throne. The consort of some of Europe's most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined to secure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre. Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court-but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This story of a candymaking competition is told by each contestant in turn. ![]() Wendy Maas’ THE CANDYMAKERS was recommended to me by my youngest a year or so ago. For more about this book, listen to the Book Club for Kids podcast. Gennifer Choldenko’s AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS is the story of a boy whose family moves to the famous prison island, Alcatraz, and the warden’s daughter’s money-making schemes and an unlikely friendship between a girl with a leaning towards autism and the world’s most famous criminal. Nancy Cavanaugh’s THIS JOURNAL BELONGS TO RATCHET is the story of a lonely girl with a gift for auto mechanics, her tree-hugging granola-head father, and how she finds real friends. Maybe you’ll find something for the special readers on your holiday gift list. ![]() Here are ten books for Middle Grade readers (9 to 12) I enjoyed reading this year. ![]()
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Freshwater akwaeke emezi6/7/2023 ![]() I also have a clarity around just a multiplicity of being, I think. On how Emezi feels after writing the novel And with my work, I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone to shift their center, I'm just refusing to shift mine. And that's how colonialism worked in great part - people came in and enforced a reality and said, "Well, if you believe in anything else, if you believe in your indigenous deities, if you believe in these spiritual entities, then you're ignorant and you're backwards, and it's only because you haven't been educated by the West." And you know, there's this everything that is outside the dominant reality becomes something that's pathological. I think part of the thing that's a problem, really, in the world today is this inability to acknowledge multiple realities, and this insistence that there has to be one dominant reality, and everything that falls outside that reality is false and untrue. I think everyone's centered in their own reality, you know. ![]() Fine Art MacArthur 'Genius' Paints Nigerian Childhood Alongside Her American Present ![]() |