![]() A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.Jane Lynne Daniels, Careful What You Kiss For This book possessed and obsessed me, 'nuff said! ![]() She brings polite society to life - and throws it on its rear! An exploration of the human condition, highly sensual and full of intrigue!
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![]() Lewis makes the point that all of them can, and often do, intertwine. He used translations from ancient Greek, because he knew that language had a large range of words to define what love can mean. ![]() Based on a set of radio talks he’d done two years earlier, the book presents and then explores the notion that humans are able to feel different kinds of love, depending on the situations and relationships involved. ![]() The phrase The Four Loves came from the title of a 1960 book penned by C.S. They vary in degree of intimacy and intensity, but all are meant to encourage and edify. One Christian writer found four words in particular, from ancient Greek, that capture the essence of several types of love we are capable of showing. ![]() Scripture provides many examples of how we can express devotion to each other. ![]() ![]() Are we - we the secure, the insured, the housed, the college-educated, the lucky - s omehow responsible for all this suffering?”ĭesmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City was published in 2016 and focused on eight families in an impoverished area of Milwaukee.īesides the Pulitzer, the book received an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and a National Book Critics Circle award. ![]() To understand the causes of poverty, we must hold a mirror up to ourselves. “But they cannot answer the most fundamental question, which is: Why all this poverty in this land of abundance? I’ve learned that that question requires a different approach. “Books about poverty, including Evicted, tend to be books about the poor, tend to bear witness,” Desmond said in a statement issued on Wednesday by Crown. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() August’s life is much more militaristic and constrictive than previously seen which is sad, but it’s interesting to see more of how the FTF is run. ![]() It is interesting to see Kate struggle with caring about others and letting them into her life and being aware that they are more than just her team.Īugust has also changed a lot since the events at the end of This Savage Song, with Leo’s voice in his head, he has stopped asking questions about whether he has a soul, and now leads a team that flushes out the sinners from the refugees coming from South Verity, as well as destroying as many Malchai and Corsai as possible. ![]() Kate has also realised that although she doesn’t want to make connections she is tired of being on her own and has surrounded herself with a team of hackers known as The Wardens who alert her to these attacks. Although these monster attacks are not being portrayed as such. Kate has moved to Prosperity, a town richer than Verity, but slowly being corrupted by monsters, but these aren’t the monsters that she is used to the Corsai, Malchai and Sunai. The review for This Savage Song can be found here. You should read that novel before going any further with this review. Our Dark Duet continues the stories of Kate Harker and August Flynn, six months after the events of This Savage Song. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the author admirably attempts to explicate musical theory, his depth of analysis can sometimes be a challenge for novice readers. The book's 16 chapters coil around one another, alternating between music and extramusical subjects (sociological, psychological, or cultural aspects of music) to form a double helix structure. Gasser suggests that musical taste isn't just a fleeting predilection but intrinsic to the music itself. ![]() In a sprawling tome, he explores how the ingredients of music-sound, melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre-shape our musical tastes. Why did my Pandora radio station jump from "This Must Be the Place" by the Talking Heads to "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem? Gasser, musicologist and the chief architect of Pandora's Music Genome Project, knows why, and why you'll like it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the 1999 Pocket Books (US) paperback edition of “Resident Evil: City Of The Dead” that I read. Needless to say, this review may contain some SPOILERS. So, let’s take a look at “Resident Evil: City Of The Dead”. Although it is possible to read most of this novel as a stand-alone book, a few of the extra scenes ( not found in the game) will make a lot more sense if you’ve read Perry’s previous two books first. So, I’ve been meaning to re-read this novel for a long time.īut I should probably point out that, addition to being a novelisation of the original “Resident Evil 2” videogame, this novel is also a sequel to Perry’s “ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy” and “ Resident Evil: Caliban Cove“. But, the original “Resident Evil 2” holds a special place in my heart for so many reasons ( amongst other things, magazine articles about it were my first introduction to the zombie genre). I can’t remember if I played the PC port of the original “ Resident Evil 2” videogame before or after first reading this book during my early-mid teens. Perry’s 1999 novel “Resident Evil: City Of The Dead”. Well, for the next novel in this month’s horror marathon, I thought that I’d take a look at a zombie novel that I’ve been meaning to re-read for ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Penn joins forces with Caitlin Masters, a beautiful young newspaper publisher, on a quest that will lead from the bayous of the South to the highest reaches of the U.S. Under a blaze of national media attention, Penn reopens the case, only to find local records destroyed, the FBI file sealed, and the town closing ranks against him. ![]() But what drives him to act is the revelation that this haunting mystery is inextricably bound up in his own past. After twenty years away, Penn is stunned to find his own family trapped in a web of intrigue and danger.ĭetermined to save his father from a ruthless blackmailer, Penn stumbles over a link to the town's darkest secret: the thirty-year-old unsolved murder of a black Korean War veteran. Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions seethe beneath its elegant façade. But now, in the aftermath of his wife's death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four-year-old daughter, Annie, and returns to his hometown in search of healing. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to death row, and watched seven of them die. ![]() ![]() Using a wealth of unexplored archive evidence the author vividly conjures up the neighbourhoods of the Elizabethan London where Shakespeare lived and worked during his glittering career. ![]() ![]() In this absorbing historical detective story, the acclaimed broadcaster and historian Michael Wood takes a fresh approach to Shakespeare's life, brilliantly recreating the turbulent times through which the poet lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas.ĭrawing on an extensive range of sources, Michael Wood takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time - a period of tremendous upheaval that straddled the medieval and modern worlds. Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of this, it was widely expected that Brooklyn would elect its first black member of Congress. ![]() The new district was part of a court-mandated reapportionment plan that was considerably redrawn to highlight Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was elected to Congress in 1968 from New York’s 12th Congressional District. She became increasingly involved with local Democratic politics in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and was recruited to run as a candidate for the state assembly, where she served from 1964 to 1968. (National Archives Identifier 7452354 )Ĭhisholm’s path eventually leading to her Presidential campaign began in Brooklyn, New York. Shirley Chisholm shortly after her election to Congress in 1968. This was not the first time that a glass ceiling had been shattered in the political arena-long before 2008 there was a remarkable African American woman who attempted to buck the system and run a grassroots campaign for the Presidency. Either candidate’s election would have disrupted the historical succession of white male Presidents. For the first time, a woman and an African American man were the front-runners of a major political party for this nation’s highest office. The 2008 Democratic Presidential run was a watershed moment in American politics. ![]() Hancock in Research Services at the National Archives and Records Administration. Today’s blog post was written by Michael J. ![]() |