5/13/2023 0 Comments Tentacle by Rita IndianaShe is the author of three collections of stories and five novels. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it's a restless, addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela.Ībout the Author: Born and raised in the Dominican Republic and now living in Puerto Rico, Rita Indiana is a driving force in contemporary Caribbean literature and music. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. But first she must become the man she always was - with the help of a sacred anemone. Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santerìa prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean - and humanity - from disaster. Longlisted for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award Winner of the 2017 Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Labyrinth kate mosse seriesSomehow, a link to a horrific past - Alice's own past - has been revealed. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved into the rock, she realizes she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. Eight centuries later, at an archeological dig in the French Pyrenees, a young volunteer named Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby, The Hour, Great Expectations) discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave. Alaïs realizes that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe. Although Alaïs cannot understand the book's strange words and labyrinth symbols, her father instructs her to protect the book no matter what happens to him. In Carcassonne, France, in the year 1209, 17-year-old Alaïs (Jessica Brown Findlay, Downton Abbey, Misfits), is given a mysterious book by her father a book which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Monday, May 5: The Tomorrow People (9:00-10:00pm).In addition to the Labyrinthbroadcast dates this May, The CW also announced the season finale dates for its series, as follows: The fundamental experience in America is different based on your skin color.Early experiences in Coates’s life made him realize the inescapable truths about being black.Here are the 3 biggest lessons I’ve learned from this book: The message he has is simple, “In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body – it is heritage.” He reveals a life of fear that is part of black people’s everyday life because the system that should protect them falls woefully short. We see how policies and culture have given them an unfair horizontal trajectory.Ĭoates wrote this book as a letter to his teenage son. In Between the World and Me, author and award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates pulls back the curtain and allows us to see the black condition in America today. But you can still see racism in every aspect of public life in America. Slavery and discrimination may be illegal. Nobody can really know what it’s like to live life as an African American in the US unless they’ve experienced it. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*: 5/13/2023 0 Comments Summer's Crossing by Julie KagawaWithout Josh Hurley I would have had to rely on the imaginary echo of goofy sass and it's so much more heartening to hear it.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? Josh Hurley brings life to Puck, and sass to Grimalkin. What does Josh Hurley bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? I admire the character's cunning and I love the energy that Josh Hurley brings to Puck in particular. I loved how mixed up he was in his thought process, and yet he was able to create a plan that allowed him space to change his mind about what he ultimately wanted to do. Josh Hurley brings such life to Puck and it was such an answer to a secret wish for The Iron Fey series that it was destined to rate highly. Summer's Crossing ranks fifth or sixth among the numerous audiobooks I've listened to so far. Where does Summer's Crossing rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? 5/13/2023 0 Comments Author of rubyfruit jungleLauderdale High and captivates a gorgeous bourbon-guzzling heiress.īut the world is not tolerant. In no time she mesmerizes the head cheerleader of Ft. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade.Īs she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize for that. Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America – and living happily ever after.īorn a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Rubyfruit Jungle is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this country's most distinctive writers. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Strange Love by Ann AguirreIf he fails to find a nest guardian this time, he’ll lose his chance to have a mate for all time. Zylar of Kith B’alak is a four-time loser in the annual Choosing. Also, a truckload of explicit consent.īeryl Bowman was having a “life of quiet desperation” (student debt, no meaningful relationships, low wage job, a somewhat serious drinking problem) when Zylar showed up, and things just got a lot more interesting from there–because he has his own problems waiting at home. Reader beware: there’s some cursing, an underhanded asshole gets his comeuppance in a very final way, and there’s on page sex. This novel, the first in what is now the Galactic Love trilogy, is an absolute and utter delight. It’s been a minute since I last reviewed any of Ann Aguirre’s books 1, but I remain very much a fan of her work, both writing voice and worldbuilding. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Phantastes by George MacDonald"George MacDonald histórias de poder e beleza." – J.R.R. "Nunca escondi o fato de que o considerava meu mestre na verdade, imagino nunca ter escrito um livro em que não fizesse nenhuma citação dele." – C.S. Tudo escrito com um capricho inocente e um anseio cheio de alma, o coração da jornada de Anodos através do Reino das Fadas revela uma busca espiritual que requer uma entrega de si mesmo. "Escrevo não para crianças", disse George MacDonald, "mas para crianças, sejam elas de cinco, cinquenta ou setenta e cinco anos". Tolkien, considerada uma das obras mais importantes de George MacDonald, é a história do jovem Anodos e suas aventuras no reino das fadas que, em última análise, revelam a condição humana. Como, eu não faço a menor ideia."Ī obra de fantasia clássica que influenciou C.S. "Ouvi dizer que, para os que entram no Reino das Fadas, não há volta. He was more of a martinet than McNamara, more of a bully than Johnson, a more mesmerizing speaker than Kennedy. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur.”Īnyone who doubts that great events pivot on quirks of personality has only to compare Douglas MacArthur with the cast of The Best and the Brightest. His protagonist is a real-live villain-one of the most bizarre and colorful figures in recent American history, the general whom Harry Truman once peevishly referred to as “Mr. This time, Halberstam (who died in a car crash last spring) has a more exciting story to tell than one about mere national security groupthink. The reader who remembers Halberstam’s earlier polemic might expect The Coldest Winter to be a renewed attack on the American establishment, an account of how big ideas like “containment” got us into pointless losing wars almost from the start. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The spanish tragedy playIn Thyestes, Seneca portrayed the evil repercussions of murder. Seneca's tragedies followed three main themes: the inconsistency of fortune ( Troades), stories of crime and the evils of murder ( Thyestes), and plays in which poverty, chastity and simplicity are celebrated ( Hippolytus). Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries stemmed from Roman tragedy, in particular, Seneca's Thyestes. Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s). The term revenge tragedy was first introduced in 1900 by A. The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury. Title page of the Quarto edition of The Spanish Tragedy (1615) In his spare time, he has also been an influential literary impresario, founding McSweeney's magazine and publishing house, and a successful child literacy campaigner. It's all there, all these things at once, so it's up to you – you choose, you pick." In his relatively short career, Eggers has proved that he is indeed strikingly versatile, moving not just from funny to sad and back again, but from the wildest extremes of exhibitionism to total self-effacement, from navel-gazing to globalised humanitarian concern, from memoir to novel to oral history to children's books. I can do it sad, or inspirational, or angry. "I can do it funny, or maudlin, or just straight, uninflected – anything. "I can do it any way you want," Dave Eggers tells a reality TV producer in his debut, the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. |