5/22/2023 0 Comments The cross sigrid undset![]() ![]() Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of -historical novels.- This new translation by Tina Nunnally-the first English version since Charles Archer's translation in the 1920s-captures Undset's strengths as a stylist. ![]() ![]() Undset's own life-her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith-profoundly influenced her writing. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Sophie lark anastasia book![]() ![]() While her power grows in secret, boosted by forbidden contact with Damien, Anastasia makes a mistake with terrible consequences.įate grants her a single chance to set it right… but saving what she lost may cost everything she loves. Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.ĭamien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Īnastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin. Anastasia, a beautiful and magical enemies-to-lovers dark fantasy romance from bestselling author Sophie Lark is available now!Īnastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift. ![]() When it comes to revenge and love, the two may not be as far apart. That’s what makes them precious while we have them.” Black is the second novel in the Colors of Crime series of fictional novels by Sophie Lark. “The most beautiful things are fragile and can’t last. ![]() ![]() But for Beard, while the classics have always been a dialogue with the dead, “the dead do not include only those who went to their graves two thousand years ago.” Rather, “the study of the Classics is the study of what happens in the gap between antiquity and ourselves.” It’s the back-and-forth sparring between betweeded Oxford dons, it’s Picasso and Shakespeare, it’s Ben-Hur and Gladiator-it’s anything that engages in or, as the wonderful title suggests, confronts that gilded and gargantuan Greco-Roman world. Offering up 30 years of pointed insights and inquisitions, Cambridge classics professor Beard (The Fires of Vesuvius) returns with a collection of primarily reprinted reviews of her classicist peers’ work that somehow manages to touch on nearly every notable person, place, and event associated with the Ancient world. ![]() ![]() Sister Souljah’s work is more than proven, so I highly recommend pre-ordering Life After Death now. She’ll also be dealing with the death of a family member and the ever-changing life of her younger sister.Ī quote from the publisher, Simon & Schuster reads: “With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne.” The sequel, Life After Death, will chronicle Winter’s life after a prison bid. The novel touches on uncomfortable themes such as drugs, sex, prostitution, violence, greed, and the cycle of poverty. It spawned a number of other works from other authors that were set in urban environments. The Coldest Winter Ever had an overwhelmingly positive reception, and remains a classic work of literature til this day. ![]() The Coldest Winter Ever (the first book) | Buy on Amazon US | Buy on Amazon UK Read Online Life After Death (The Coldest Winter Ever, 2) PDF by Sister Souljah is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading or downloading. Life After Death is the official sequel and will release in April 2021. ![]() And now, 21 years later a sequel has been announced. The book followed the troubled life of a drug kingpin’s daughter, named Winter Santiaga. ![]() True to Souljah's insistence on consequences, the sequel begins with a hard shock: Winter is dead, stuck in a. Twenty years ago, American author, Sister Souljah, released one of the most impactful books in black culture ever. Finally, 22 years later, Winter is back in 'Life After Death,' out this week. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Two past midnight stephen king![]() ![]() What Should I Read Next? - Here is a list of the majority of King's books ranked by Barnes and Noble.Any abusive, trolling, derogatory or threatening comments are strictly prohibited. Hate Speech - You may disagree in your opinions but it must be done so civilly.Spoilers - There is a guide for how to hide sensitive information below.Piracy - No links to download copied or stolen books, movies or other Stephen King IP.Any user who shares a link in the comments that leads to a store for said t-shirt will also be banned. T-shirt spam and bots are a constant issue so any t-shirt post where OP includes a link to a store will be deleted and the user will be banned. ![]()
5/21/2023 0 Comments Dark Matter by Michelle Paver![]() Dark Matter is essentially a haunted house story that takes place in a fairly original setting, full of wide, dark spaces although centered around a small, lonely cabin. Paver is particularly skilled at painting a locale that is highly atmospheric, dislocating, and eerie. Jack is an interestingly almost-unreliable narrator. she creates her characters quickly yet they retain nuance and realism. Paver does an excellent job at conveying the time and the place. there are some other human characters as well but eh whatever, the most compelling part of the story is that Jack meets AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK! who will teach him that only morons hate dogs. there he will find meaning to his life, camaraderie and fellowship and an intense crush on one of his fellow adventurers, and an atrocious and deadly ghost. ![]() So Jack - a poor, depressed, dog-hating, lower class and very class conscious 28-year-old - finds the perfect solution to his angst and alienation: he will join a small expedition to the abandoned mining outpost of Gruhuken in the Arctic circle. Perfectly executed little ghost story set in the Arctic wastes in the late 1930s, featuring the adventures of AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK and I suppose some humans as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that’s what he did when he had his shot.” Whenever he is in, he is going to try his best to help us succeed. Yeah, he’s an athlete, so he is going to make good plays. “In any position, we expect guys to come in and play well. Shumway took the blame for not coming down with a “great ball” from Mangum on the play before Mangum fumbled at midfield. ![]() That happens, and I will have to see what the reads were and the plays and the routes and evaluate that and get more info on that.” “He threw the ball quite a bit because we were in a hole and trying to put up points. “I will have to look at the numbers,” Sitake said. Mangum threw for a season-high 270 yards and two touchdowns, but attempted 46 passes, also a season-high. “That is at every position, scheme, all that stuff, to see where things broke down.” “There are a lot of things we have to evaluate,” Sitake said when he was asked if coaches considered turning to Wilson earlier in the game after starter Tanner Mangum committed two costly turnovers. ![]() During the drive he completed a 14-yard pass to Matt Bushman, ran for 26 yards, and threw a 20-yard pass to Talon Shumway. Wilson directed a six-play, 77-yard touchdown drive, culminated with an 18-yard scoring strike to fellow freshman Gunner Romney. But after Friday’s 45-20 loss to the 4-1 Aggies at LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU coach Kalani Sitake wasn’t ready to announce a switch at the marquee position, despite seeing freshman Zach Wilson play well against USU’s reserves in the final three minutes of the game. ![]() ![]() When he wrote for pulps in the 1960's, MM was part of a rebellion against the "traditional" fantasy whose godfather was Tolkien. It's fantasy you can lend to your great grandfather. Its values are Victorian, middle-class, and traditional. However, his central point I would agree with completely: Tolkien is fantasy with no "edge" to it. ![]() ![]() So to some degree, MM does "say things" and I think there's a bit of a mischievous desire to offend going on in these essays. In that same book, he savages Robert E Howard for the one-dimensional female characters of Conan, yet MM's own females in the Elric books seem to exist solely to fall madly in love with Elric on first sight, just because he's a badass. Moorcock is possibly my favorite author, and I read that essay in the book where it first appeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() The play opened at the King's Theatre on 29th January 1945 and later transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End. She kept the title but removed the character of Hercule Poirot and changed the identity of the killer. The play was adapted by Agatha Christie from her story, Appointment with Death, which was published in 1938. This chilling play offers a unique take on the classic murder mystery, where Christie explores the realms of the sadistic mind and the devastating effects of long term psychological abuse. Theodore Gerard, find themselves embroiled in a battle to free the children from the sadistic grasp of a tyrannical woman. Sarah King, a young English doctor, and her colleague, the eminent psychologist, Dr. This apparent devotion however is actually a façade for something far more sinister. ![]() ![]() Boynton and her four stepchildren who never leave her side. The book is the sixteenth of thirty-three full-length novels featuring her detective Hercule Poirot. An assorted group of travellers find themselves thrown together on an expedition to the rose red city of Petra. Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club on, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Illumicrate love on the brain![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working together isn’t ideal… especially when he refuses to communicate with her. She’s less thrilled when she find out that she’ll be co-leading it with Levi Ward, a man who hated her during her grad school days. Special thanks to the publicists at Penguin Random House and to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book! Summaryīee Königswasser, a neuroscientist working at NIH, is thrilled when she’s offered a position co-leading a project at NASA. Spoiler: It’s better than her first book! This is one I’ll be getting a physical copy of and recommending to everyone. I’d been counting down the days for its release, so I was ecstatic to get an advanced copy of it. While I haven’t gotten to her three recent novellas yet, I was very excited for her second full-length novel, Love on the Brain. Last year, I loved Ali Hazelwood‘s debut, The Love Hypothesis. ![]() |