The sisters james joyce7/4/2023 ![]() This sense of paralysis permeates “The Sisters,” James Joyce’s story of a troubled priest and his troubling relationship with an unnamed narrator. ![]() What stays silenced, what stays suggested or suspected but not known, discolors all the faithful, even those who do not, like the abused, inhabit a place of paralysis. ![]() Still more startling is the silence that so many victims kept, especially as such quiet moves us to wonder how many more remain stifled by confusion and the maddening pressure to keep up appearances. Graphic stories, given by so many victims of Catholic priests and made explicit in (for instance) the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, leave the listener transfixed in terror over how one person could be so broad- in persona Christi and unspeakably perverted-at once. ![]()
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Herodotus the history david grene7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. ![]() Neverwhere series7/4/2023 ![]() London Below is a place that belongs to various baronies and duchies and is littered with people, streets, trains and other things that have just been forgotten. Neverwhere is the original alternate London story. The alternate London trope in fantasy is a favourite (a post on this someday) and noone does it better than Neil Gaiman. When Richard is left with very little choice to go to this London Below, he is left with one option. There is a London with rat speakers, angels, vicious assasins and train stations that never existed. After saving the life of an injured young woman named Door, Richard is suddenly confronted with the fact that the London he knew is not the only London. Richard Mayhew’s life takes an unexpected turn after a small act of kindness. ![]() And I dragged reading this book out for an entire week. This book, is shockingly, the only Neil Gaiman book I have never read. Good evening and apologies for my absence! I have been work busy, a bit exhausted and had an impromptu weekend away which was well needed. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.’ ![]() Locust Girl by Merlinda Bobis7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() No pillow or shade for me but I did not complain. Or a shade for their eyes when the desert sun soared too high as if to abandon the horizon forever. But I knew they were around, their arms a warm pillow for their sons and daughters on cold nights. She would have been (425), a creature forever hidden like all the other mothers whom I hardly saw. I was his only daughter and I did not have a mother. I was the daughter of number 425 living in tent 425, where there was no 425b or c or d. I was in my blue dress, also rationed like the number and letter inscribed just beneath my right ear: 425a in blue ink. I’d just had dinner when the stars went out. The sun and wind rippled the blue cloth and we thought, water! And drank up the thought. Our halfway homes between heaven and earth, the blue box said, so we should be grateful. ![]() Our tents were also blue like water and rationed. We were warned on the box, a tiny blue square that kept us hoping, kept us on the line. All must know darkness and light must be rationed equally. ![]() When the sky was taught a lesson: no one should shine or outshine anyone. ![]() Until You by Penelope Douglas7/4/2023 ![]() This is a fantastic series you won’t want to miss out on. Would I recommend reading Bully first? Yes. Could you read this without first reading Bully? Yes. Now, reading this book, it made me love him even more. Even when I thought he was just a straight up asshole, I still loved him. But to know the full reasons, how he felt, it made more sense. We already knew why Jared was the way he was to an extent. It was so nice to see inside of his head.īooks are always better from the male point of view. I loved watching Tate and Jared become friends again, and continue to move forward. Seeing Jared grow and evolve as a person was a wonderful thing. Just know that Jared goes through some big changes and revelations. If you haven’t, check it out (or my review of Bully). ![]() He dealt with things the only way he knew how. Then one summer, he went to stay with his father. ![]() Tate was Jared’s best friend for a long time. You still got the ‘Bully’ story, but there was a lot of new scenes and new information. ![]() It didn’t feel like Bully from another perspective. Sometimes, I have issues with 1.5 books that are essentially the first book from a different p.o.v. ![]() Gods & Monsters by Shelby Mahurin7/4/2023 ![]() I think readers who are fan of the story just for the story/world/characters sake wont mind another journey book though. ![]() how it should have been: the last 1/3 of ‘blood & honey’ plus the first 1/3 and last 1/3 of ‘gods & monsters.’ it would have been a great conclusion like that! adding another book made the last two feel stretched out too thin and suffer content-wise. ![]() i honestly dont know why this series wasnt kept as a duology. I cant technically say this is also a filler because its the last book, but it definitely has that feel for the bulk of it. ![]() but i was optimistic that this conclusion would pull the story back together again. the first book was amazing, a real high point, followed by a somewhat surprising (disappointing for many readers) filler of a sequel. ![]() Sincerely carter by whitney g7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve been there for one another through first kisses, first times, and we’ve been each other’s constant when good relationships turned. É o epílogo inédito para Sincerely, Carter, e a maneira mais fácil que eu poderia ter certeza de tantos leitores quanto possível tê-lo desde que eu normalmente posto coisas como esta. Whitney did a great job going back and fourth between the past and present, and having a friendship develop. Arizona Turner has been my best friend since fourth grade, even when we hated each other. Sinceramente Arizona + Arizona + Whitney + Sinceramente. Did he make the right choice by just saying their best friends? ![]() One EPIC night turns into debatable feelings, poor decisions, and questionable background that turning back to being just best friends-but that might not be possible again.Īrizona is off studying abroad, and Carter's heart is aching. Mental checklist's for Arizona for her men and sleeping with anything that has two legs Carter has the two them convinced their only best friends. Sincerely, Carter This is a work of fiction. Two friends who have to do everything together, and even as young adults, in college are still attached to the hip. I loved Arizona's voice ( Jennifer O'Donnell), she was awesome, and easy to listen to.Īrizona and Carter have been best friends since 4th, 5th, 4th, I think it was 4th. First thing is first, I love Whitney G's work, and I think i would've LOVED this story but the male narrator playing Carter (Joseph Discher) didn't do it for me. ![]() Champagne by Don Kladstrup7/4/2023 ![]() Closer to home, the war threatened to destroy some of France’s most productive vineyards, which previous wars had destroyed many times over since the days of the Roman conquest and Attila. Petersburg alone, “exclusively for the czar,” to selling nothing in Russia after the Revolution, nearly bankrupting the house of Roederer. ![]() That four-year conflict proves central to the authors’ account of how bubbly survived the odds to become a drink known around the world-and to become an ever-rarer commodity in parts of it, as when Cristal went from selling 600,000 bottles a year at the beginning of WWI in St. But there’s much more to it than that, as the wine-loving Kladstrups ( Wine & War, 2001) document in this sometimes fizzy portrait of the bubbly.įaux naïveté may be at play when, by way of opening, the Kladstrups let drop the hint that they were shocked to learn that the Great War was horrific that certainly isn’t news to the people of France’s much-fought-over Champagne region. ![]() ![]() Champagne is champagne because it comes from Champagne. ![]() Chasing Seth by J.R. Loveless7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Kasey is the Sheriff of Senaka and he really can’t believe that the old vet sold his practice to a ‘white man’ I mean come on what would a ‘white man’ know about animals except how to hurt, hunt and kill them. He has come to Senaka for the peace it brings him little knowing that his life is about to change again. Seth has only now started having a semblance of balance after a traumatic event over two years ago. Review: Another touching angst filled book by J.R. Chasing Seth down and keeping him safe from his past has just become Kasey’s most important job. ![]() ![]() Then an accident puts Kasey in the uncomfortable position of eating crow-and helplessly desiring Seth-despite the danger of Kasey’s life as a werewolf and Seth’s stressful secrets. No white man could love animals the way the mostly Cheyenne population expects, and Kasey makes Seth’s first days in Senaka more than unpleasant. Kasey Whitedove takes one look at Seth and assumes the worst. ![]() He’s always been a target for trouble and pain, and Seth has had more than his share of both. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (30 th September 2011)īlurb: Veterinarian Seth Davies comes to Senaka, Wyoming, looking for peace and anonymity, trying to escape his past. ![]() Frédéric by Leo Lionni7/4/2023 ![]() These articles-written by educators, economists, and futurists-refer to the job market my kids will enter as a “post-work” world and suggest that simply knowing things and being skilled at something will not be enough to make individuals competitive in emerging job markets. Turns out, neither guess was completely correct. ![]() I wasn’t sure whether it meant that jobs in the arts would be on the rise (hard to imagine), or employers would be hiring more workers with creative skills (not as hard to imagine). (A few examples can be found at The New York Times, on Medium, and at The Atlantic.) What does this mean? I initially wondered, admittedly leery about reading another article that would make me feel like I’m shorting my kids. Predictions that creativity will be the next generation’s most valuable skill keep popping up. Though published in 1967, the Caldecott Honor recipient remains a favorite in our family not only because of its visual appeal, but also because of its emphasis on the value of creative work and community interdependence. Inspiration Leo Lionni’s Frederick & Creativity in a Post-Work WorldįebruI’ve read Frederick by Leo Lionni to my kids almost as many times as I’ve read Goodnight Darth Vader and James Kochalka’s Glorkian Warrior books. ![]() |