![]() ![]() ![]() So when she is forced to decline her dream university spot and go to Taiwan to improve herself, she’s discouraged and upset. Her passion is to dance, but her parents hope for her to take a career in medicine. I went into this with low expectations but came out feeling a really strong connection to Ever and her journey. Romantic contemporary is far from my usual genre to read, but Loveboat, Taipei really stood out to me. Ever is eager to rock the boat and make it her mission to have the best summer ever. Here is where Ever discovers the educational program is also known for its love boat reputation, where summer-long flings are the norm, and the nightlife is second nature to its student. ![]() But what her parents don’t know is that the program is also their worst nightmare. In her parents’ last effort to prepare her for a future in medicine, they send Ever to an educational program in Taiwan, hoping it would distract her from spending her last summer dancing. This in no way affected my opinion of the book.* *I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in return for an honest review. ![]()
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![]() This week I read Oswald’s poetry book Dart, which was published in 2002 and won the T. I find Alice Oswald’s poetry helps to rekindle my fellowship with nature when that relationship feels somewhat neglected, and to remind me of where my roots lie: the general network of the natural world. Her poetry resonates with me by evoking what can only be described as a mutual feeling of being human, and of course part and parcel of being human is recognising where we fit into this ecosystem we’re a part of. She’s influenced by ecology, gardening, studies in classics, and a love of music. ![]() ![]() I’ve been a fan of Alice Oswald for quite a long time. Maybe it’s the fresh air, getting moving, watching the debris of the riverbed being pushed along by the current, or a combination of the lot - it stills my mind so nicely. ![]() I love wrapping up warm, trudging down through the muddy fields to the steadily trickling stream near my house, and spending a while with the water. During the last year of lockdowns, one of the only things that has kept me grounded is… the ground! The real earth, stepping outside. ![]() ![]() ![]() It comes from “panem et circenses”, the Latin for “bread and games”, the cry of the Roman populace for food and entertainment. “Panem” is the name of the capital city in Hunger Games. The inspiration seems to have been the gladiators’ fights in ancient Rome. I enjoyed the antiutopian setting of a ruthlessly upturned United States in which, the capital demands a tribute from each of the local district to fight to the death in a yearly slaughter. ![]() If you are looking for a gripping read, Hunger Games is an easy fix. I finished it the next evening, and naturally started thinking of excuses to start reading the next ones. I started reading when waiting for a relatively unpleasant medical appointment – and it really does take an absorbing book to take your mind off things in such a situation. I was intrigued enough that when a kindle edition came up on special offer, I decided to give it a go. I saw all the movies, and then a few years later I came across Roxane Gay’s article about the Hunger Games. In fact I had little intention of reading the books at all. ![]() ![]() Hunger Games is one of those few instances where I did not insist on reading the book before I saw the film. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spelling has been modernized, and the poems are arranged in order of publication, essential to an understanding of the progress of Milton's career in relation to the political and religious upheavals of his time. As well as all the English and Italian verse, the volume includes most of the Latin and Greek verse in parallel translation. Read more The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. It includes Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as well as major prose works such as Areopagitica and. Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable, and this edition covers the full range of his poetic and political output. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a generous selection from the major prose writings - to give the essence of his work and thinking. This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. Num Pages: 1008 pages, frontispiece engraving. Editor(s): Orgel, Stephen Goldberg, Jonathan. Modernized spelling, extensive notes, and a helpful introduction make the text immediately accessible to the modern reader. Previously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton's poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose works. ![]() Description for The Major Works Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Edward rewards us with some answers involving Grier’s parentage. Humor, heartbreak, and kickassery unfold as we discover new things about Grier, make new friends and shed old ones. ![]() I am kind of hoping something develops there and that others get what they deserve. Linus and his Wraith do their best to protect her and show support. Danger aside, Grier hasn’t had an easy life, and I felt for her. This was an intense installment that put our heroine through the wringer. A testy roommate, vampires and break-ins soon have Grier in a great deal of danger. ![]() Grier is excited about seeing the college campus and gaining insight into Linus’s life. He is a professor at an Atlanta college and has a contact there who may shed light on the issues concerning her house wards and Amelie. Linus, who lives in the guest house is helping Grier with her necromancy skills. The creep claims it’s for her protection. A master vampire sends his goons to grab Grier. Something is attacking the wards around Woolworth House and it’s affecting Amelie who’s living there under house arrest. Boaz isn’t returning her calls, but seems to appear when there is trouble, claiming his sister called. A road trip soon leads to trouble, heartbreak, and new beginnings.īlood rites, vampires and an absentee boyfriend are complicating Grier’s life. I’ve been having a blast reading about Grier, her unique home, friends, and training as a necromancer. How to Break an Undead Heart is the third book in the Beginner’s Guide to Necromancy series by Hailey Edwards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The New Release tables at your nearest evil chain bookstore are piled high with Tudor histories, Tudor biographies, and most of all Tudor fiction Netflix and Hulu have countless Tudor offerings, whether you incline toward the bee-sting lips of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers or the wasp-sting wit of David Starkey the general populace is so passingly familiar with those key showboating five figures that hardly any room is left on stage for anybody else (unless it’s the well-meaning Windsors, whenever one of them cavorts with James Bond, or insults an entire nationality, or impregnates his wife).And yet, as historians have pointed out fairly regularly for a fairly long time, the tempestuous Tudors and the spaniel-eyed Stuarts and the hefty Hanoverians and all the rest wouldn’t have had a stage to hog if it hadn’t been built by the Plantagenets, the longest-ruling British dynasty, who held power for more than two centuries in an extravagantly violent age. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England By Dan JonesViking, 2013It seems almost impertinent these days to mention English monarchs who aren’t Tudors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. The difficulty is that which exists in all cases in which there is a mass of feeling to be contended against. But it would be a mistake to suppose that the difficulty of the case must lie in the insufficiency or obscurity of the grounds of reason on which my conviction rests. ![]() The very words necessary to express the task I have undertaken, show how arduous it is. THE object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes-the legal subordination of one sex to the other-is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other. ![]() Jeff McLaughlin The Subjection of Women CHAPTER I. John Stuart Mill – On The Equality of Women ![]() ![]() Since the 1960’s, the study of the rich fantastic literature of the Victorian writers has been Klinger’s consuming passion. Norton in 2008, delivers promises a similar in-depth examination of Bram Stoker’s haunting classic and its historical context. THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA, published by W. Norton in 20, winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work and nominated for every other major award in the mystery genre. He is the editor of the three-volume collection of the short stories and novels, THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES, published by W. ![]() Klinger is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on those twin icons of the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes and Dracula. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After his second one-year contract expired in June 1932, Robinson went to Moscow to obtain a return ticket to the United States. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1986, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union.Īfter his first year he renewed with another contract. He married an African-American professor working there. His repeated attempts to visit outside the USSR finally resulted in an approved trip to Uganda in 1974, where he asked for and was given asylum. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering. After the publicity of his assault, he felt unable to return to the US and accepted Soviet citizenship. Starting with a one-year contract to work in the Soviet Union, Robinson twice renewed his contract. Shortly after his arrival in Stalingrad, Robinson was racially assaulted by two white American workers, both of whom were subsequently arrested, tried and expelled from the Soviet Union with great publicity. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union. Robert Nathaniel Robinson (J– February 23, 1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story is rather gripping and convincingly written. As a personal side-note I shall make a small comment here that Cthulhu is by far not the most powerful of the Old Ones and Cthulhu has considerably more to him than just tentacle monster octopus thing in the sky – even if this story doesn’t directly involve Cthulhu. Lovecraft, father of the ubiquitous Cthulhu Mythos, and several other unconnected but still highly regarded stories. ![]() The story At The Mountains Of Madness is among the longest single stories by the famous H.P. But barren lands and long abandoned caves are not all that this scientist and his ilk discovered… The intention of the expedition was to find – and if discovered excavate – rock and plant specimens from deep within the continental shelf. The basic plot of the story is as follows: The narration comes from a surviving member of a scientific expedition to the Antarctic plateau as an attempt to prevent a foolish return to the areas excavated by their crew and prevent what happened to them occurring to others. I have only recently returned from my sojourn and fully intend to review the story as promised. It seems that Yog-Sothoth and his lesser companions had taken note of my interest in the Mountains. Hello again to my readers! I apologise for being somewhat missing in action recently. ![]() |