5/21/2023 0 Comments Am I Alone Here? by Peter Orner![]() ![]() ![]() Surrounded by illness, he starts to ruminate on dying, which in turn leads to more joined-up thoughts on Chekhov and his treatment of death in his stories - “tiny, but monumental” dramas. He describes sitting in a hospital cafeteria and overhearing gossiping doctors. Orner’s first essay paves the way for what lies ahead. ![]() We can go with this self-deprecatory summation and weigh it against the book’s zippy subtitle “Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.” More useful, though, and far more rewarding, is to forget labels, delve inside, and allow each piece with its fusion of touching reminiscences, incisive close-readings and candid revelations to speak for itself. “Think of this as a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir,” writes Orner in his introduction in an attempt at clear-cut categorization. “Am I Alone Here?” comprises 41 essays which blend personal recollection with literary appreciation. With two novels and two collections of short stories under his belt, Peter Orner delivers a fifth book that manages to topple expectations and resist classification. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan![]() More about Copyright and other Restrictionsįor guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources. ![]() However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete. Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. ![]() Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Maureen Corrigan, a book critic for NPRs Fresh Air and critic in residence at Georgetown University has written an incredible companion to The Great Gatsby. ![]() There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. 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Mixing criticism with memoir, NPR book critic Corrigan (Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading) contends that F. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments On Wings of Thunder by M.D. Grimm![]() ![]() ![]() Living with a tribe who will be massacred, caring for a young lad who will become his mate, and fighting a battle against a mage who can travel from past to future at a whim-Morgorth's life has never been easy but now he must contend with the will of the Mother. Most notable is a much younger version of Aishe. It isn't long before he realizes what time he's found himself in and there are a few familiar faces. As they struggle for the stone, she activates it, and Morgorth is unwillingly plunged into another time and another place. Morgorth is about to claim a stone of power when it is stolen from him by a female mage he hasn't seen in decades. The dark mage Morgorth takes this rule to heart, but there are others who do not. If her writings were undone, it is feared that Creation itself could be undone. The Mother writes the destinies of the creatures on the world of Karishian. For mages, it violates their number one rule: what the Mother has written, let no one unwrite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the characters in the book is a General Stumm who decides to do some reading in order to find out about his political opposition, but is so daunted by the number of volumes in the library that he visits that he decides that it is an impossible task and not worth beginning. Let me take the first of these, books you haven’t read, as a means of illustrating why I make this assertion.īayard, who is actually a professor of literature, takes as his way in to discussion about not reading Musil’s The man without qualities – I confess I’d have to put this down as a +FB (one of the books I’ve read but forgotten). The first section of the book – on books you haven’t read, books you’ve skimmed, books you’ve never heard of and books you’ve forgotten – contains ideas highly relevant to academic work. I contend that these are as relevant to academic reading – and the dreaded ‘literature review’ in particular – as any of the how-to-do it texts, including my own. I want to suggest now that this is actually a book worth reading – not so that you can literally do what the title suggests, although you might feel this is very acceptable after you’ve read it – but rather worth reading for the key points that Bayard makes. I recently mentioned in passing in this blog, in relation to writing book reviews in fact, the book by Pierre Bayard provocatively entitled How to talk about books you haven’t read (2007). ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Hippie paulo coelho book review![]() I had an enormous amount of fun and I travelled the world on a shoestring. There are usually two ways they deal with my fame: they either become very shy and I have to do all the talking, which bores me, or they start name dropping and boasting about how much money they have. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.Ī lot of people feel intimidated by me. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Travel, archery, writing and reading don't cost a lot. I could afford my greatest pleasures even when I wasn't wealthy. It's nice to be able to wear a very good coat in the Geneva winter, but I feel I've always been rich. I don't tend to go back to the past and, although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. My connection with Brazil is so abstract. It's so intimate I can't even share it with my wife. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Raid by Kristen Ashley![]() ![]() It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024,” Trump said in a released statement on Monday. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. ![]() “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. As a result, the National Archives referred the case to the U.S. Federal authorities believe not all documents and materials that are property of the government were returned by the former president and members of his team. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now for the first time ever, they're all together in one volume-including the early short stories, Le Guin's "Earthsea Revisioned" Oxford lecture, and new Earthsea stories, never before printed. Le Guin's Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature-they have received prestigious accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin's vision of her classic saga.Ĭontains the short story, 'The Daughter of Odren', published in print for the first time, and her last story 'Firelight'. ![]() ![]() ![]() His time in France also opened up for him a new world of literature and he subsequently published a major study of Bernanos as well as translations into German of the writings of Claudel, Péguy, and Calderón. His Jesuit scholastic studies at Fourvière-Lyons under the influence of Henri de Lubac led to a lifelong love affair with the Church Fathers and the publication of pioneering studies of Origen, Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor, among others. ![]() His doctoral studies in German philosophy and letters culminated in the publication of a vast three-volume thesis, The Apocalypse of the German Soul, on the idea of the end of the world in modern German literature from Lessing to Ernst Bloch. Any one part of his published works could fairly be said to constitute a respectable life’s work for a lesser man. From the point of view of sheer literary volume, he is almost alone in the sheer monumental proportions of his written corpus. ![]() There are a number of reasons why it could be said, albeit from different perspectives, that the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) occupies a unique place among the great thinkers of the twentieth century. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Goddess of the sea by pc cast![]() ![]() Cast presents the first novel in her Goddess Summoning series. When a dashing knight comes to CC’s rescue, instead of falling for this dream-come-true, she aches for the sea and the darkly sexy merman who’s stolen her heart. Goddess of the Sea (Goddess Summoning, Book 1) New York Times bestselling author P. Cast over Christmas 2009 by accident at the local Tesco's with her Divine trilogy, I have now ordered and read each of her books and can't wait. Fantasy meets Romance in a brilliant blend. Cast to all adults to read who enjoy this style of book. Taking pity on her, the goddess Gaea turns CC into a damsel so that she might seek shelter on land. Would recommend all of the Goddess Summoning books and infact P.C. ![]() But danger lurks in the water, ready to swallow CC whole. She awakens, bewildered, to find herself in a legendary time and place ruled by magic – and in the body of the mythical mermaid Undine. When her plane crashes into the ocean, CC’s life changes forever. But how is she to know the spell actually works? After drinking too much champagne, she recites a divine invocation to revive her humdrum life. Home alone on the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, US Air Force sergeant Christine Canady yearns for something to cure her. Home alone on the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, US Air Force sergeant Christine Canady yearns for something to cure her loneliness. Cast brings us the magical, sensual Goddess Summoning series, which retells ancient myths with a sexy, modern twist – original, enthralling and utterly unputdownable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Groening’s father’s first name was Homer, so it is not hard to see the inspiration there. Being from Portland, Oregon, Groening always imagined that Springfield was next to his hometown, a fact referenced in episode 515, “The Day the Earth Stood Cool”. In fact, the Springfield in his show is named after the fictional Springfield in Oregon, which was the setting of the 1950s US TV comedy series Father Knows Best. Many assumed Springfield to be named after its namesake in the state of Massachusetts or Ohio and Groening has often answered in the affirmative to both. Here are some of the things that inspired Groening what many consider to be the greatest cartoon of all time… Matt Groening has historically been quite cagey about what inspired him to draw the The Simpsons, but recently he has been much more open. What Inspired Matt Groening To Draw The Simpsons? ![]() |