![]() ![]() ![]() Much of her popular trilogy has aspects of these themes and has become a staple of her writing. More insight into Howard’s world is provided by her magnetism to the old world of antiques and Victorian style. As inspiration and to bridge her real life world into her writing she makes time to not only visit condemned buildings and 18th century cemeteries but takes a camera and does impromptu photo shoots. ![]() Howard not only enjoys her time creating the worlds in her stories, she also enjoys rollerblading, biking, snow skiing and gardening. Born on June 9th in Massachusetts, she now resides in the Texas panhandle with her husband, two children, and two Labrador retrievers. Anita Grace Howard is the author of the compelling Splintered trilogy. ![]()
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![]() The author concludes this significant and insightful book with a demonstration of his theories, tying together a group of narratives ranging from Paradise Lost to the latest Frankenstein films. Milner eschews both cultural populism and literary elitism in favor of a criticism that is more concerned with value than with exclusion. He discusses just how and why cultural studies evolved, and what it has to offer our appraisal of all texts, be they old or new, print or film. He reviews the defining terms and the theoretical traditions in a manner that is sophisticated but accessible. ![]() Amidst continuing debates about the literary canon, Literature, Culture and Society poses a revealing question-if academics find it valuable and stimulating to discuss texts ranging from Genesis to Bladerunner in their leisure time, why do they act as if this is sacrosanct in their formal work? In this well- argued and refreshing discussion of the history and importance of literary criticism, Milner embraces a reality that many in the academy still fear, that cultural studies is alive, and it's here to stay.Īndrew Milner begins with an introduction to the field of cultural studies and its parent disciplines of English literature and sociology. ![]() ![]() “He achieved this by moving the plot along with the dialogue. “Wodehouse’s prose is so lean, so elegant,” said Spencer, who has also read several other Wooster-Jeeves adventures for Recorded Books. ![]() He briefly loses Jeeves’ services and has to hide out in a potting shed to escape a lady friend’s angry father. For Jeeves, he deepens his voice each time to convey the manner of someone instinctively subservient, someone who must keep all irony out of his voice no matter how maddening the situation his master has gotten him into.Īnd there are maddening situations aplenty in “Thank You, Jeeves” as Bertie goes off to spend a weekend at a friend’s country estate, Chuffnell Regis. His Bertie Wooster is the epitome of upper-class-British-daft. Then, as Glossop looks on incredulously, Wooster repeats, “Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.” Jeeves interrupts a mundane chore to call out, “Treasons, stratagems and spoils, sir.” ![]() He turns from Glossop and shouts down the hall to his incomparable valet: “Jeeves, what was it Shakespeare said the man who hadn’t music in himself was fit for?” There is an abrupt pause here as Wooster’s Oxford education deserts him once again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she arrives at the massive Bittner estate, she is overcome by an unshakeable sense of foreboding… Part thriller, part coming-of-age tale, Favorite is an engrossing young adult novel in which nothing - and no one - is as it seems. When his mother makes contact, begging forgiveness on her son’s behalf, Angie agrees to meet with her in hopes of finding answers to the seemingly random attack. Angie narrowly escapes, and Bittner is arrested, but he takes his life in jail before he can offer an explanation for his crime. She can’t be with them all the time, though, and so Angie is alone when she’s snatched from a strip mall parking lot by Scott Bittner. Angie’s dad does the best he can, but his work as a musician keeps him on the road and away from home, where it’s up to Angie’s grandmother to keep an eye on the kids. ![]() ![]() Sure, things look normal on the surface - she goes to school, works her summer job, and argues with her older brother Jason - but she can’t shake the feeling her mother didn’t leave by choice. Theyre on my To Read list) Jump When Ready by David Pandolfe. Five years have passed since Angie Favorite’s mother, Laura, disappeared without a trace, and Angie still hasn’t recovered. David Levithan (There is both a sequel and a prequel, I only just found out about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re only marginalized if we accept that status. Otherwise the world is still chasing the golden demographic of the ‘young male.’ If male writers could better serve that readership, it would explode. Of course publishers will skew toward the most profitable audience. ![]() Though he did trip up with that as he replied:Ĭonsider that reading has become a mostly female pastime and that males are being better served by other media: the web, film, gaming. He never mentioned the authors, just content. Which, to be fair, is not quite what the author was getting at in his answer. “Thank you, Chuck, for standing up for male writers, a desperately marginalized group,” was a seemingly sarcastic follow-up to his answer. Just because you’re seeing more female-led projects in the spotlight does not mean there’s a shortage of books focused on male issues. The past years have given us so many books, from ‘The Color Purple’ to ‘The Joy Luck Club’ to ‘How to Make an American Quilt,’ which depict women in groups and relationship, but almost no books depicting social models for men. That fact that ‘Fight Club’ is being taught seems - to me - to underscore the dearth of novels that explore male issues. ![]() ![]() Power shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and brotherly love. ![]() In 1553, England is torn apart by religious conflict. Will Richard accept his fate and fight? Or will he run? "It combines murder, mystery, and intrigue in a most masterful way." Rita Kroon - Author of "Letters from the Past" As Tudor England erupts following the death of Edward VI, can one young spy protect his queen? International bestselling author Sam Burnell takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with this magnificent new epic, A Queen’s Spy. Can Jack murder his brother to save a woman he’s never met? Finally, they are brought head to head when Richard tries to foil a plot against Elizabeth I. Impulsive and hot-headed, his attempts to gain his brother’s acceptance and approval often end badly. Jack Fitzwarren, Richard’s displaced bastard brother, seeks a place at his brother’s side. Forced to become a Mercenary For Hire, he knows what is right and just rarely pays well. Richard Fitzwarren is an anti-hero with a dubious past, questionable morals and unswerving loyalties. ![]() A plot for control of the throne has gone wrong.Īn impossible goal.A gripping new series set in Tudor England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. ![]() They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. 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The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure James Redfield Published by Warner Books (1969) ISBN 10: 044651862X ISBN 13: 9780446518628 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: MVE Inc (Hickory, NC, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description hardcover. ![]() This book is mere dressed up common ideas, such as negative projection onto others, pegged "insights" that needed to be "discovered" through New Age modern Indiana Jones style. I can appreciate it's "insights", however something so simple doesn't need to be deemed as some sort of spiritual breakthrough book because some guy invented a fanciful story with life energy channels (I'd rather watch Donnie Darko), crystals and auras. With all of this said, of course I'm not going to like the Celestine Prophecy. Perhaps because it rings out "cult" and I immediately go into defense mode. It's the same thing when crazy evangelical christians ask if I've found jesus yet and spits out gibberish that is supposed to be the tongue of god. Anyone wanting to take a picture of my aura while playing a quartz crystal bowl tuned to my heart chakra and chanting a Native American blessing song will immediately make me want to violently attack them. I worked in a metaphysical crystal shop for 5 years and have had so much immersion into the New Age world that I drowned in it. WARNING: This review should not be read by the easily offended. ![]() ![]() 'An engaged and engaging ramble around one reader's mind' The Times And above all, it is for you - the ever hopeful reader.įor fans of Bill Bryson and Stephen Fry, and for bookworms everywhere, this witty, passionate book will make you cherish the world of letters anew. It is a celebration of why we read - its pleasures, its disappointments and its surprises. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is a diary of sorts, charting his reading life over two years. He is first and foremost a reader and he approaches books like the rest of us: hoping to pick up one he can't put down. Nick Hornby, author of the bestsellers About a Boy and Fever Pitch - takes us on a hilarious and perceptive tour through the books he bought, the books he read and his thoughts on literature. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them. This is not a book that sneers at other books. ![]() ![]() The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How did this change come about? I do not know. ![]() One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. ![]() Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. How, as Rousseau himself asks, can one enter into an agreement which limits one’s power without thereby “harming his own interests and neglecting the care he owes to himself?” While Rousseau’s famous opening line condemns the society of his day for its limiting of our natural spontaneity (indeed, its corruption of our natural goodness), he thinks that a good government can be justified in terms of the compromise to which each of us submits so as to gain “civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.” Rousseau even thinks that we mature as human beings in such a social setting, where we are not simply driven by our appetites and desires but become self-governing, self-disciplined beings. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in The Social Contract, propounds a doctrine which already had a long history in the struggle against the older view of the divine right of kings, namely, that government gets its authority over us by a willing consent on our part, not by the authorization of God. ![]() |