![]() ![]() ![]() While Sylveste is the central figure of the novel, not least because everyone else is searching for him for some reason or other, he is not the only leading character. But Sylveste is destined to not lose sight of his quest. But the storm’s aftermath leaves him as a prisoner of a new regime, incarcerated in a cell, recounting his story and beliefs for some kind of corrupt biography being compiled by the new dictator’s daughter. Sylveste believes that he is close to discovering the reasons for the Amarantin’s end and this drives him as an obsession. Archaeologist Dan Sylveste is investigating the enigmatic remains of an extinct alien species, the Amarantin, on the recently colonised, politically unstable planet of Resurgam. The opening pages are set on a dig as a storm approaches. Revelation Space has a beginning that works magic instantly. Once knowledge is gained, though, it cannot be unlearned – man’s curiosity could cost it dear. ![]() Reynolds’ first novel, Revelation Space, also marks the beginning of an original series, in which mankind is placed uneasily in an expanding universe, one that it is slowly starting to explore and comprehend, that contains remnants and clues to elusive alien species. Having enjoyed Alastair Reynold’s Blue Remembered Earth last year, it was just a matter of time before I returned to the beginning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Flowers in the Attic inspired the band name for Amanda Palmer’s band the Dresden Dolls, while Gillian Flynn has said that the mother and grandmother characters begat her addiction to “wicked women”: “It felt so new and stunning to me – these witches who seemed quite real.” There have been two film adaptations and a stage play, as well as sequels, prequels and retellings penned by both Andrews and Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter who took on Andews’ mantle after her death. ![]() Andrews’ gothic tale of incest, poisoning and dark family secrets has sold more than 40m copies. That “deranged swill” proved irresistible. I could have stopped you if I’d really wanted to.” Somehow, the incestuous teenagers acquire a romantic tinge: can Chris and Cathy escape, and will they make it as a couple despite everything that’s against them? They end up trapped in the attic for more than three years, where poisoned doughnuts kill off one of them, and where the overheated drama somehow leads Chris to rape his sister – but it’s fine, says Cathy, “you didn’t rape me. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a reader she will not touch a book unless she knows it has a happy ending, which makes her write the endings that your heart craves! This addiction, made her want to craft stories to suit her voracious need for steamy, sexy romance. Book 1, The Air He Breathes can be read ahead for maximum enjoyment.īorn in England, Serena Akeroyd is a true romance bookaholic. It is the second book of the Five Points Mob Collection. We reap nightmares on those who harm them.īook ONE of the Filthy Feckers’ series is a standalone without cliffhanger, but there are elements that will be explored in the following book. They say I ’m filthy rich, but what they don ’t know is that I ’m just plain filthy, and Inessa? She ’s about to learn what it means to be married to a filthy fecker. Someone has touched my property, and for a Five Points ’ man, that means someone is going to pay. But women aren ’t the only ones with zero say in their lives… That reason is why I don ’t want to be married. ![]() ![]() Born for one reason-to be tied to a powerful man, to bear the next generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() A paleontologist who has spent so many years looking at dried-up fossils, she's almost become one herself. But first she needs to believe in herself, in her abilities, and in her friends at the club. ![]() Shirley has a secret dream: a wellness spa that nurtures body and soul. Though her yoga-slender body belie her years, decades of dating losers and the strain of being broke make her feel her age. Now she's got a tricky problem to bring to the club's table: how can they catch her perfect son-in-law cheating on her only daughter Laura? Shirley, the healer. A determinedly cheerful widow and connoisseur of control-top pantyhose, she's struggling with creative block and an empty, lonely house. ![]() Now as the Hot Flash Club, where the topics of motherhood, sex, and men are discussed with double servings of chocolate cake, they vow to help each other. But in a moment of delicious serendipity, they meet and realize they share more than raging hormones and lost dreams. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets-all feeling over the hill and out of the race. From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty "coming of age" novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. ![]() ![]() Its catalog covers 13 books she created from 1978 to 1984, all but one as an illustrator with another writer. The Library phoned her that September and learned that she would be using her maiden name thereafter. ![]() ![]() īrett's earliest book in the Library of Congress online catalog was published by Atheneum Books in 1978 under her married name: Woodland Crossings, with 43 pages of text by Stephen Krensky and drawings by Jan Brett Bowler. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists." She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and now travels extensively to research architecture and costume for her books. She decided to be an illustrator as a child and recalls, "I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. She has adapted or retold traditional stories such as the Gingerbread Man and Goldilocks and has illustrated classics such as " The Owl and the Pussycat".īrett was born and still lives in Massachusetts. Her titles include The Mitten, The Hat, and Gingerbread Baby. Her colorful, detailed depictions of a wide variety of animals and human cultures range from Scandinavia to Africa. ![]() ![]() Jan Brett (born December 1, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems, at times, in attempting to develop Marxist ideas of reproduction and gender through the lens of the body, Federici becomes tunnel-visioned, failing to appreciate women as workers in the traditional sense. ![]() Federici’s method is centred on embodiment, as she attempts to locate the source of women’s oppression under capitalism in the body and reproductive servitude. In Caliban and the Witch, Federici moves from the peasant revolts of the late Medieval period to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy to develop the historical groundings of social reproduction theory. Moreover, it is timely to revisit the question of witch-hunts, a phenomenon which has historically (and to a lesser extent, in modern times) cost the lives of many innocent women. ![]() Social reproduction theory, which explains how the replenishment of labour each day is essential to capitalism, helps us tie together these issues. The fact that more work has been piled into the home, and that this has been disproportionately shouldered by women, has shone a spotlight on pre-existing inequalities. The call to ‘stay at home’ during the pandemic has raised vital questions about care, work, the home and capitalism. Alexandra Day reviews Silvia Federici’s seminal work, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.įirst published in 2004, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a work well worth revisiting in 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. ![]()
![]() It’s convincing Al.Ĭontains comic misunderstandings, misuse of art materials, and unexpected poignancy. Not just convincing his colleagues, friends and family that their relationship is more than skin deep. Is it physical? Oh, yes, it’s deliciously physical, and so much more-which makes Larry’s next task so daunting. Least of all Larry's class-conscious family, who would like nothing better than to split up this mismatched pair. Unfortunately, no one else seems to see the sensitive soul beneath Al’s imposing, scarred, undeniably sexy exterior. Larry's intrigued to find there's more to Al Fletcher than meets the eye he possesses a natural artistic talent that shines through untutored technique. ![]() And, the next morning, he can’t rest until he offers an apology to the man who turned out to be more gentle than giant. ![]() Moments later he finds himself disarmed-literally and figuratively. in love.Ĭambridge art professor Larry Morton takes one, alcohol-glazed look at the huge, tattooed man looming in a dark alley, and assumes he’s done for. The bigger they come, the harder they fall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”-the fastest liner then in service-and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. ![]() On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The present study reviews The Window by Fahimeh Rahimi as an example of popular fiction which is deeply influenced by the Victorian literature. Postmodern thinkers see popular culture as a means of resistance against the status quo. Postmodernism is another attitude which embraces popular culture. The other approach which is based on consensus is inspired by Antonio Gramsci: people are not only made by culture hut also make culture. Frankfurt School thinkers also reject popular culture because it is produced by culture industry and imposed on the working class by the capitalist system. One movement, led by Mathew Arnold, rejects popular culture because it is the culture of working class and will lead to chaos if it is not controlled by the elite. There are many attitudes towards popular culture. ![]() |