![]() ![]() The first chapter on its own would make a great short story, leaving a mystery for the imagination to sort out at the end, but the book goes on to introduce new elements. ![]() It fits in nicely as a way of conveying information unobtrusively. The husband is a writer and has recorded strange happenings in a journal, which serves to fill in some details of things from the couple's point of view. The house is locked from the inside and investigators are baffled as to what happened to everybody. It starts out with a police investigation because a couple is missing, along with their three cats. A lot of the idea of this story is given away in the title, but it's the fine details that make it a good one. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Particularly when the blood on your hands just won’t wash off…. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe. Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don’t have. Witches don’t have these kinds of leadership problems themselves – in fact, they don’t have leaders. ![]() A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. ‘Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. ![]() BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The audiobook of Wyrd Sisters is narrated by Indira Varma ( Game of Thrones Luther This Way Up). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This week in North Philly Notes, James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness, writes about “the horizontal ethics of care and politics of resistance” as well as the power that can come from the person lying on the bed. 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Allowing him to beat up my ex for being a douche and a cheater may assuage my decimated ego and help heal my broken heart, but it’s not a great idea. However, my brother is an NHL player, and a father and a husband. ![]() ![]() That he’s this fired up on my behalf makes me feel marginally better about the whole thing. “Are you sure you don’t want me to come to Seattle and beat this douche down? I can leave first thing in the morning.” My brother RJ is at his in-laws’ house for the weekend, which is an hour and a half outside the city. I guess that’s what I get for surprising Joey by arriving two days earlier than expected. The one my brother bought for us as a housewarming gift. The icing on this crap cake? Less than an hour ago I walked in on my boyfriend, Joey-now my ex-plowing into someone who wasn’t me on our brand-new living room couch. ![]() But add in one of my suitcases taking a detour to Alaska-or maybe it’s Nunavut who the hell knows?-and the fact that my remaining suitcase now has a broken handle and is missing a wheel, and this day just keeps getting worse. ![]() I can get over the four-hour flight delay from LA to Seattle and sitting beside a man who smelled like old cheese and three-day-old underwear on the plane. As far as bad days go, this is one of the worst I’ve had in a very long time. ![]() ![]() In “Oranges” and “G,” two women revisit past relationships - one with an abusive ex-boyfriend, and one with an obsessive friend of her youth, respectively. Ma’s use of unreality is a terrific refashioning of the Freudian uncanny - in this case, the idea of the estranged familiar - superimposed over tales of immigrants, ex-partners, and adult children. To read them is to enter a world where strangeness is a language with a grammar all its own, and total immersion the only path to fluency. It’s a lovely sentence that captures the elegance and logic of all eight stories. “At night, they crawl into my lap, full of easily disclosed secrets, light as folding chairs.” ![]() The woman’s description of her young children is our first glimpse of the tactful lyricism Ma deploys throughout the book: They float around her property and her thoughts like ghosts. ![]() In the first story, “Los Angeles,” a woman lives with her husband, her kids, and her 100 ex-boyfriends. ![]() Each story adds to recurring themes of immigration and violence that reflect the book’s deepest questions Bliss Montage is an inquiry into origins and dislocation. The characters in Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage navigate a slipstream version of Earth as we know it tales of recreational drugs with superpower side effects or foreign lands with strange rituals of rebirth are tempered by sharp and familiar domestic details. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seizing the opportunity, she adapted it to the stage, and it was that play that opened on Broadway on December 27, 1920, starring Carroll McComas, and winning Gale the Pulitzer. ![]() The work she is best remembered for is her novel Miss Lulu Bett, published in 1920, which became a bestseller. She supported the progressive politics of the La Follette family in her state, and identified herself with the suffragist and feminist movements of her day. Gale wrote journalism and novels based on her native Wisconsin. Zona Gale (1874-1938) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama, in the year 1921. ![]() No? Well, let me tell you something about her. SIERRA MADRE, Calif.-Ever hear of Zona Gale? A lobby card for the silent film version, with Lois Wilson and Clarence Burton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But at 24, he decided to set off on his own: joining the dragoons at the lowest rank, he was stationed in a remote garrison town where he specialized in fighting duels. Only after securing his title and inheritance did he send for the boy, who arrived on French soil late in 1776, listed in the ship’s records as “slave Alexandre.”Īt 16, he moved with his father, now a marquis, to Paris, where he was educated in classical philosophy, equestrianism, and swordsmanship. In 1775, Antoine sailed to France to claim the family inheritance, pawning his black son into slavery to buy passage. The boy’s uncle was a rich, hard-working planter who dealt sugar and slaves out of a little cove on the north coast called Monte Cristo-but his father, Antoine, neither rich nor hard-working, was the eldest son. He was the son of a black slave and a renegade French aristocrat, born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) when the island was the center of the world sugar trade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro’s inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost.Īs the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton: 9780451490865 : Books Instant New York Times bestseller In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her lifeand heartto take back her country in this exhilarating. I’m so excited to be part of the blog tour for this novel Join the Book Club Chat Newsletter As I mentioned in my preview, I so enjoyed Chanel’s previous novel, Next Year in Havana. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez–her family, her people, her country. When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton is a beautiful novel about lovefor country, for romance and for yourself. In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life–and heart–to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Chanel Cleeton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana, When We Left Cuba, The Last Train to Key West, and The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba. ![]() ![]() ![]() It delves into the world that Cook has started to set up, and we see the characters have to deal with issues beyond moving from battlefield to battlefield. Luckily, Cook fixes a lot of his little mistakes and errors from the first book and delivers a worthy second novel for the series. They’re in the process of learning, and unless the book is just that horrid, it has to be taken with some salt. That’s why I give nearly every debut book a little more leniency than I would for a later book that an author has published. ![]() Part of that was due to it being Cook’s first book, and few authors manage to drop a perfect book on their first go around (it’s why I still haven’t finished Elantris even though Sanderson is one of my favorites). While the first book was great it also had its problems. I had heavily enjoyed the first novel and needless to say that my expectations were very high to see how the second book played out. Shadows Linger is the second book in Cook’s amazing first trilogy of his ongoing series titled The Black Company. ![]() ![]() ![]() I began my undergraduate studies in the year after John Boswell’s untimely death, and came across his work towards the end of my doctoral research. We’d love to hear what Boswell’s book means to our readers so please continue the conversation in our comments section. This week on NOTCHES, we examine the Boswell legacy, asking three leading medievalists to evaluate the book’s significance today, more than three decades after its publication. Its impact was also felt outside the academy: a New York Times Book of the Year (1980) and winner of a National Book Award (1981), it attracted (and continues to attract) a wide non-specialist readership. Within academic circles, it provoked considerable debate, being subjected to fierce criticism even as it was adopted as one of the foundation texts of a new discipline. Since its publication in 1980, John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality has dominated conversations about the history of sexuality. ![]() |