![]() ![]() ![]() His father, John, was a local politician and his mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a yeoman farmer. His exact date of birth is unknown, but his birth date is generally inferred to be April 23rd, 1564. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He is most famous for his 37 plays, including the well-known plays Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth, but he first became famous as a poet with his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. ![]() William Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest playwright and poet in the English language. This sonnet argues that true love is immortal, persisting even after the lover and the beloved themselves have succumbed to death. Even time’s cruel march is no match for the powerful nature of this love’s force. The transcendent love that Shakespeare is describing does not wither or decay but persists despite life’s challenges. Love is conceived of as a spiritual and emotional union of kindred souls that remains constant. “Sonnet 116” is a meditation on the enduring nature of love, addressed to the same young man who is the audience for the majority of his sonnets. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Now back on Earth the safety engineers." "I'd rather design a giant tit," the guy in back said. Garcia said, "do you think the scientists at NASA had to use math to design this probe? And to communicate with it?" I imagined the probe, analyzing, computing, while the weight of Jupiter pressed in heavier and heavier. "Poor little probe," the girl next to me said. The probe sent back a stream of data for 57.6 minutes, until the incredible pressure of the Jovian atmosphere crushed it." ![]() ![]() "It looks like a giant tit," some guy said. Garcia said, "in 1995 NASA sent a probe from the Galileo spacecraft down through the atmosphere of Jupiter." The slide projector clunked to a picture of the probe. Garcia's "Why We Should Study Math" inspirational slide show. When I'd fallen asleep, there'd been a slide of a woman making cookies. "Sorry." I shook my head, trying to clear it out. Except what teacher in her right mind would turn out the lights and show slides at 1:30 in the afternoon? The room was almost dark, except for the light from the slide projector. The rest of the class, grinning like monkeys. Garcia, with her sad little worn-out smile. ![]() I opened my eyes, slowly, and there they all were, watching me. ![]() ![]() ![]() My second novel, Exit Management, moves between contemporary London and Dewsbury, and 1940s Budapest, and was a Guardian Fiction Book of the year in 2020. My first novel, Sealed, is a work of eco-horror, which was shortlisted for the Not the Booker Award 2018. This was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign 2017 and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella. ![]() I completed a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex, and researched literary swooning, which inspired my first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking (2015). My academic work focuses on the literary history of swooning and on contemporary fiction, especially in relation to depictions of the environment and the body. My fiction explores, amongst other things, weird landscapes, concentric objects, compulsive fainting, pregnancy, skin, crocuses, environmental contamination. ![]() ![]() ![]() An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. ![]()
![]() Every 150 years, the orbit of Tiamat around a black hole impacts the planetary ecology and closes the window of travel to the other worlds. The “Winters”, who believe in technological progress and trade with the star spanning Hegemony, and the “Summers” who live by folk traditions and eschew the outside worlds in favor of their own simpler ways. The citizens of the planet Tiamat are split into two factions. ![]() The Snow Queen is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Heinlein also dedicated his novel Friday to her. ![]() Her novel Psion was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. She has also been nominated for several other Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as for the John W. The Snow Queen won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1981. Eyes of Amber won the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Vinge has been married twice and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. ![]() In college, she studied Anthropology which she has incorporated into her art. ![]() She has been a writer for most of her life, starting her first stories as a small child. Few personal details are available about her beyond that she has lived most of her life in Madison, Wisconson and suffered a terrible auto accident that prevented her from writing for around five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, his father is about to lose his farm and his mother is losing her mind. He quickly becomes the most successful border guard they've ever had, though he doesn't seem to notice that his neighbour's daughter is helping to smuggle cannabis across the border. His ability to catch illegal immigrants sneaking across the Canada-US border should be mitigated by his desire to connect with people in some way – but in fact it's quite the opposite. Some will adore this tale of outsize patrol guard Brandon Vanderkool, who is a foot taller than everyone else in his small town, dyslexic and possibly autistic too. I appreciate that not all readers will feel the same way. It seemed constantly to speed up until I was gasping for air by the end. ![]() I'm being horribly subjective here, because Jim Lynch is a good writer with a left-field perspective and a humane touch, but I just couldn't bear the breathlessness of the prose in this novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() In it, Karon narrates her process of becoming a Christian after years living adrift, and the relationship between that process and her final return home to the South after three years living in Berkeley, California. ![]() ![]() This remarkable letter is a capsule spiritual autobiography, written almost a decade before Karon began publishing the Mitford stories. Jan Karon’s Christian faith is indivisible from her work as a writer, but this was not always the case. The archive reveals that some readers were offended by Karon’s decision to confront racism in that book, while others were grateful for the move. Critics have noted that Karon’s books do not grapple with race or racism in the South until “Home to Holly Springs” (2012), which is set in Mississippi and features Father Tim Kavanagh discovering he has a Black half-brother. Twenty-three-year-old Jan Karon (then Jan Orth), participating in one of the first civil rights protests in Charlotte, against segregated lunch counters, 1960 (Box 86)Īrtifacts showing Karon’s early-adult political activism present a counterpoint to the pointedly apolitical Mitford novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.Īs psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Bangles cofounder Susanna Hoffs first novel follows a one-hit wonder, 10 years later. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. ![]() And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents-telekinesis and telepathy-who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. The operation takes less than two minutes. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It-publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm disappointed in the book and I agree with the critical reviews here on GoodReads and on Amazon. ![]() I bought into the hype and pre-ordered it. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown's singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn't give the experience more power, it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.īrown shares, "I want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves." Over the past two decades, Brown's extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. ![]() As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances-a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But maybe a madcap escapade will loosen him up…īetween carriage crashes, secret barn dances, robbers, and an inn with only one bed, their initial tension dissolves into a passion that neither expected. Except she’s confined to a carriage with a young, rule-abiding, irritatingly handsome Scottish soldier who wouldn’t know a good time if it landed in his lap. Ready to live life to the fullest, she’s headed to a week-long bacchanal and the journey should be half the fun. ALSO BY EVA LEIGH The Union of the Rakes: My Fake Rake Would I Lie to the Duke Waiting For a Scot Like You The London Underground: From Duke Till Dawn. She makes his head spin and being alone together will surely end in disaster.īeatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man. That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. Escorting a lady on her journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. Eva Leigh concludes her Breakfast Club and 80s movie-inspired Regency series with a merry widow and a stoic major on a bumpy road to love…Īdjusting to life in peacetime isn’t easy for Major Duncan McCameron. ![]() |