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De vogels by Tarjei Vesaas7/8/2023 there are several moments where we are able to understand the motivations and the actions of the people around Mattis when he is, shall we say, not all there. The Birds captures the frustrations of unfulfilled time in a spare and humane way, it is both a tender and warm look at those on the fringes of a normal life, but it also presents itself with an overpowering sadness, mainly for the reason of Mattis, who completely took hold of me the whole way through, he made me laugh, and almost made me cry, the reader sees the world that Mattis sees but is able to interpret it with more sophistication. Firing silly questions at Hege all the time does lead them to bicker, but they tolerate each other, even if they don't really live on the same intellectual level. On occasions Mattis wonders around the local farms looking for work, picking crops, or bailing hay, but he finds it difficult to grasp reality and struggles to understand human relations. Mattis is a sweet natured simpleton who burns the days away drifting off into his own world, whilst older sister Hege knits sweaters in their cottage by the lake. Like a gentle ripple across calming waters, or a songbird taking flight in the early morning sunrise, Tarjei Vesaas writes a delicately structured story of two siblings living a serene existence in rural Norway.
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Middlemarch by george eliot7/8/2023 There are so many characters, who all seem to be related by marriage in some way, that I had to make notes as I was reading and would never have kept all the characters straight otherwise. It certainly is a book that you need to concentrate on. The plot is so layered, every sentence filled with so much meaning, that I’m sure there are a lot of things that I’ve missed and will have to pick up on a subsequent reading. And this is a book that really benefits from being read slowly. As it turned out, this was the perfect way for me to read Middlemarch, as it meant I could take my time and give it the attention it deserved. I started reading the book at the end of June alongside other books (something I don’t usually do – I prefer to concentrate on one book at a time) and worked slowly through it, interspersing it with an occasional shorter book. This time round I decided to do things differently. I think part of the problem with my past attempts was that I found the book so long and slow-moving it didn’t hold my attention and I ended up being tempted by other books on my shelf. When I saw that Nymeth was planning a readalong this summer, I thought this might give me the motivation to persevere and actually finish the book. I have had two previous attempts at reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch but both times abandoned the book after a few chapters.
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Then Waugh was for graduate students, an interesting second-generation modernist and stylist for undergraduates, Waugh was more or less a museum piece, a conservative writer of little relevance to the concerns of the sixties and seventies.īut Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, and events in Eastern Europe have changed all that. Years ago I published my first article-in MFS -the consequence of taking within a single year courses in Victorian and Modern literature and noticing the way Waugh deployed Eliot, Conrad, Dickens, and Tennyson in A Handful of Dust. The mispronunciation made clear that it neither started in nor was bounded by academia. The shorter asked the taller, "Evelyn Wug, have you read him?" "No," the other replied "Isn't it Waugh? I've only seen, what is it- A Handful of Dust?" Next to me were two young women students. Sometime late in the eighties after Brideshead appeared on TV and Handful of Dust played the movie houses, I was browsing St.
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Rebeccas solnit7/8/2023 Solnit, the author of 24 books, including the recently released anthology “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility,” spoke as part of Harvard Divinity School’s Climate Justice Week, designed to promote thinking around climate justice and highlight the roles that religion and spirituality play in the conversation. The choice is between the uncertainty of a transition from fossil fuels that results in more manageable changes or to continue on the path we’re on, fostering what are likely to be more sweeping and dangerous disruptions. And those changes are going to keep coming - and worsening - regardless of the path we take. That’s because there is no status quo, as the effects of climate change are multiplying around us, Solnit said. Stories can drive action, but perhaps the most damaging climate change story we can tell is the tall tale that we can simply opt for the stability and safety of the status quo, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit said Wednesday evening at Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Sky in the deep7/7/2023 She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan settling in the valley, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.Įelyn loses her focus and is captured. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Sky in the Deep is mythic in scope and speaks straight to the heart. In her highly-anticipated debut audiobook, Adrienne Young brings to life a lush, vivid world that will enchant listeners everywhere. This book will wage a war with your heart as brutal and as bold as the battles inked in its pages." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times Bestselling author of Caraval "Fearless in its exploration of family, forgiveness, loyalty, and love, Sky in the Deep is fierce, vivid, and violently beautiful.
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Soul music by terry pratchett7/7/2023 The series takes the association of the "Band with Rocks In" with the Beatles even further than the book does, evolving their style from 1950s rock and early 1960s beat music (and mixing-bowl haircuts) in Ankh-Morpork, to acid rock in Scrote, to spiritual hippie rock in Quirm. It also introduces Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell and granddaughter of Death. The series closely follows the plot of the novel, which, like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Disc, in this case Rock and Roll music and stardom, with nearly disastrous consequences. The best episodes of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music! The BEST episodes of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music Every episode of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show.
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The brazen willa nash7/7/2023 Not when she doesn't know if he's out to pilfer her dreams. Without his suits and fancy cars, he's almost human.Įxcept only a fool would let down her guard. Pierce is nearly irresistible by candlelight. Stranded together for days, she's in for the battle of her life. The Brazen Willa Nash Audiobook, The Brazen Willa Nash PDF, The Brazen Willa Nash Epub, The Brazen Willa Nash Read Online, The Brazen Willa Nash VK. No sooner does she arrive than a snowstorm traps her with Pierce. Pushed to the extreme, she drives to his ritzy mountain lodge to force the arrogant You Can Call Me Mr. A brazen billionaire, he seems intent on ruining Kerrigan's life.īut if Pierce Sullivan thinks she'll go down without a fight, he's sorely mistaken. Until his unexpected death put her fate in his grandson's hands. With hard work and hustle as her steadfast companions, who needs romance or adventure? Her empire in Calamity, Montana, isn't going to build itself.įor years, her mentor-and investor-helped make her dreams come true. Kerrigan Hale's personal life is about as exciting as a bucket of tar.
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Rook family expected an angry ghost in church. She likes to mention "adopted" every time, secret tragic backstory, probably Harry Potter with a nicer room! A specialist cleaning service for ghosts had gone quickly, mostly young.įather has a demon inside him (Murzzz), mother and son are clairvoyants, daughter is a Ghostbuster. Richard and Brenda Rook, their son Darryle, their daughter Charity, and their son-in-law Janusz, Darryle's husband, not Charity run a ghost hunting family business. In Coldbay strange things happen, people dying in weird circumstances, pile up cars, freak waves, and Seagulls attack! Nobody comes to church, so the priest decides to call the expert! This story ends with the family knowing that it is not the end". Full of growth, and change, and new chances. This story ends with life –ugly, painful life, full of secrets and loss and regrets, full of questions left unanswered and unreliable memories. Think about a family –spouses, parents, children…a new friend.
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The murder on the links movie7/7/2023 The second Hercule Poirot mystery, and we find that having reacquainted themselves at Styles, Hastings and Poirot have moved in together. Luckily, she doesn’t have anything to do with the murder – does she? The French detective Giraud is determined that he is right and that Poirot is past his best (hmm, wonder how that bit is going to play out) and worse, Hastings has fallen in love with a woman he bumped into on a train. Poirot finds his investigations by a couple of problems. Two masked figures tied up his wife and disappeared him in the night with him – and of them, there is no trace. So ended the message from the French businessman Renaud, imploring Hercule Poirot to rush to France to Hastings in tow, only to arrive too late – Renaud lies dead with a dagger in his back, face down in a shallow grave dug on a golf course.
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This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. In their ensuing bestsellar,The Great Reckoning,published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.InThe Sovereign Individual,Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries - the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street inBlood in the Streetswas borne out by Black Tuesday. Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestsellerThe Great Reckoningbring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century.The Sovereign Individualdetails strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. |