6/12/2023 0 Comments Afterglow eileen mylesThis newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved. Myles depicts the raw pathos of loss with keen insight. Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match” (New York Review of Books). Myles also brings Hitler’s art, 14th-century tapestries, and Abu Ghraib into the narrative, and writes in the voice of Bo Jean Harmonica, an alter ego of sorts whose gender is categorized pithily: “I’m a man but there’s a woman in it.” Though there are occasional meandering thematic digressions, these seem a part of the journey. There’s a chapter written as the transcript of a surrealist puppet show, wherein Rosie informs the audience that she has been writing Myles’s material since 1990. The feeling of watching a beloved pet’s decline is rendered bittersweet: “Our present had a pastness to it every day.” There is humor, as the author recalls a fruitless attempt to breed Rosie (“I wondered if I was doing something illegal. Inspired by Rosie’s death, Myles uses a pastiche approach to explore the bodily, cerebral, and esoteric/religious aspects of the grieving process, all of which is portrayed with meditative poignancy. The story of Eileen Myles’ time with a pit bull named Rosie is captured in the decidedly unsentimental Afterglow. Poet and novelist Myles ( Inferno) reflects on 16 years with their pit bull Rosie.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Opposition jennifer armentroutAnd no matter the outcome, the future will never be the same for those left standing. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything to ensure the survival of their friends.and mankind. Also includes Shadows, the prequel novella to the series.ĭaemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal. Armentrout, author of the Covenant series, comes the stunning, hotly-anticipated climax to the New York Times bestselling Lux series. But the lines between good and bad have blurred.ĭaemon will do anything to sa. She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came. Also includes Shadows, the prequel novella to the series. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Undead unwed seriesShe's commonly displayed as a self righteous, pouting, stomping, confidence-starved 14 yr old that says things like "ick", "yuck", "blach", and "gross". She's not just tempermental, she's ridiculously rude, illogical, and whiny. A blonde bombshell heroine but she comes across as a blonde bimbo who is extremely emotional, lacks common sense, and acts more like she's a pre-teen going through puberty and made to share a bedroom with her little brother. I know she is supposed to be a woman in her late 20's/early 30's who ran a hectic office with complicated bosses and colleagues. This book was entertaining with a great plot but is it just me or does Betsy get to be extremely annoying and brainless. I've read the Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse series and I was very eager to start on the Undead series. 6/12/2023 0 Comments The wasteland and other poemsAlfred Prufrock," "Geronition," "Ash-Wednesday," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. In addition to the title poem, this selection includes "The Love Song of J. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry." "In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, T.S. Eventually, though, The Waste Land went on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century. Critics attacked the poem's "kaleidoscopic" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. When The Waste Land was published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. I will show you fear in a handful of dust” Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you Your shadow at morning striding behind you “And I will show you something different from either Librarian Note: Also available as an Alternate Cover Edition. 6/11/2023 0 Comments Last shot a final four mysteryI played basketball growing up and have always been a fan of the college tournament. My son (high-school freshman) picked the book for a class reading assignment/report and suggested I read as well. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. An interesting mystery, especially for basketball fans." Steve overhears someone threaten a star player that he better lose the final game or else. They get to see the process as an insider. For Steve and Susan Carol budding sports journalist and basketball fans it is a dream come true-attending the NCAA's final four as sports writers. "Written by sports writer John Feinstein about a pair of eight graders who win a sports writing contest. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU's star players. Danny and his fellow winner, Brigid-Ann Robinson, are nosing around the Superdome ad overhear what sounds like a threat to throw the championship game. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines-history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore-in her analysis. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. Her Theseus novels are perhaps the most exciting of her Greek fictions, and The Last of the Wine the most moving. All my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. The Bull from the Sea is the story of Theseus, King of Athens, but also Mary Renaults brilliant historical reconstruction of ancient Greek politics. I never learned Latin or Greek I wasn't raised on the classics, even in translation. Her characters live vividly both in their own time, and in ours - Madeline Miller Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. She shows us their strangeness discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault, Used (362 results) You searched for: Author: mary renault, Title: the bull from the sea. This brilliant recreation of the story of the legendary hero Theseus begins with his triumphant return from Crete after slaying the Minotaur. Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. About The Bull from the Sea A brilliant reconstruction of the legend of Theseus, the valiant youth who slew the Minotaur, became king, and brought prosperity to Attica. Praise for The Bull from the Sea: A Virago Modern Classic About the Book In her inventive novels of ancient Greece, Mary Renault performs the alchemical feats of fashioning from the myth of Theseus a convincingly. 6/11/2023 0 Comments James herbert the rats trilogyHas become their prey … The book will be packed securely before shipping. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. Domain: The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Copies of the book produced cheaply in paperback with a vicious-looking. But now for the first time – suddenly, shockingly, horribly – the balance of power had shifted … Lair: The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. When James Herbert published his first novel, The Rats (1974), at the age of 30, it was an immediate bestseller. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. The Rats: It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures - with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood - began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. This 962-page 2000 BCA hardback of 'The Rats', 'Lair' and 'Domain' by James Herbert is in very good condition, with some minor bumps and nicks to the dustjacket. Item: 352425224303 James HERBERT - THE RATS Trilogy - LAIR - DOMAIN - Hardback. 6/11/2023 0 Comments The dawn patrol by don winslowHowever I understood that the traffic into and out of the tiny college town of Carbondale would suck. This is only a four hour drive from my hometown Bloomington Indiana where I would be visiting my father. Last month I had a trip planned to Carbondale Illinois to go watch the total solar eclipse. Jeff also mentioned This novel The Dawn Patrol which he described as a Mystery set in Pacific Beach. I wanted to read that but it is popular and the book has 150 holds at the library. In between insulting basically everyone in San Diego but enemies and friends alike Jeff mentioned Author Don Winslow's new book the Force. But in a convoluted way I owe sports radio local legend and world class curmudgeon Jeff Dothseth. The growth of podcasts, my interest in sports and thus sports radio sorta killed my audio book consumption. I used to rock most Stephen King novels that way, and it used to be the soundtrack of my long walks. I don't listen to alot of audio books anymore. 6/10/2023 0 Comments A Narrow Door by Joanne Harrisbrilliantly atmospheric ' The Times 'Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don't matter readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped' Independent ' gripping psychological thriller. 'A masterpiece of misdirection' Val McDermid 'Delivers an almighty twist. Praise for Joanne Harris's other books set in the St Oswald's world - which all read as standalone thrillers: She'll bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.īut Rebecca is here to make her mark. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. Fierce.' - Bridget Collins, bestselling author of THE BINDING A dark world of emotional complexity and betrayal, where twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' - Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of THE SILENT PATIENT |