![]() ![]() Too long eclipsed by Lawrence's fame, Gertrude Bell emerges in this first major biography as a woman whose accomplishments rank as crucial to world history (especially in light of the continuing geopolitical importance of the Middle East) and whose life was a grand adventure. ![]() In this incident-packed biography, Janet Wallach reveals a woman whose achievements and independent spirit were especially remarkable for her times, and who brought the same passion and intensity to her explorations as she did to her rich romantic life. After the war she participated in both the Paris and Cairo conferences, played a major role in creating the modern Middle East, and was generally considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. When World War I erupted, and the British needed the loyalty of the Arab leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and connections that helped provided the brain for T. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books based on her experiences but became instrumental to the British foreign office. ![]() Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His visual impressions of the colors and scents and foods are worth the read. He obsesses over the frequency of people hitting the lower classes, which is alarming. As the translator and editor Francis Steegmuller states in her introduction he was sensualist and frequenter of prostitutes, male and female. He goes of looking for splendor and fantasy and finds it precisely because he is seeing it through his own lens. He sexualizes the men and the women and the children and even the street animals like that of a horny young artist. A collection of letters, journal notes, and sections from the memoirs of his travel partner Maxime Du Camp is very, very Flaubert, and very, very little Egypt. Thus far, these accounts of his journey from France to Egypt in the fall of 1849 has proved a fascinating and aesthetically beautiful read. I love "Madame Bovary" and was worried this would repel me. And he dreamed Of desert and distance, sunlight like murder, lust and new colors whose Names exploded the spectrum like dynamite, of cancer. Gray stones of the gray city sluiced by gray rain. Continuing researching regarding early travels down the Nile for my Ralph Waldo Emerson project, I've been reading "Flaubert in Egypt." This book, with its fancy Orientalist cover, has been on my shelf for years. Flaubert in Egypt Robert Penn Warren a poem Augissue for Dorothea Tanning Winterlong, off La Manche, wind leaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hill, by the way, is married to novelist Lawrence Hill, who worked as a reporter at the Free Press in the early 1980s. “In The Republic of Love, Winnipeg is not just a setting, it’s a character.” “Many readers across Canada have been introduced to through the writing of Carol Shields,” Amanda Hill, Project Bookmark’s Hamilton-based executive director, said in a news release. The event is the brainchild of the nationally run Project Bookmark, which puts text from stories and poems in the exact physical locations where literary scenes take place. Thursday at the Gas Station Arts Centre in Osborne Village. ![]() This article was published (3510 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.Ī plaque bearing a passage from the late Carol Shields’ 1992 novel, The Republic of Love, will be unveiled at a ceremony at 11 a.m. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mattie and Robo must rush to hunt down the kidnapper before they're too late in Hunting Hour, the third installment in critically acclaimed author Margaret Mizushima's exhilarating mystery series.įantastic K9 Series for any Dog or Horse Lover! But when Robo does catch her scent, it leads them to information that challenges everything they thought they knew about the case. Grasping at straws, Mattie and Robo follow a phoned-in tip into the dense forest, where they hope to find a trace of the girl's scent and to rescue her alive. ![]() It seems that someone has snatched all trace of the Walker girl from their midst, including her scent. Knowing that each hour a child remains missing lessens the probability of finding her alive, Mattie and Robo lead the hunt while Cole and community volunteers join in to search everywhere, but to no avail. ![]() But that's only the start of trouble in Timber Creek because soon another girl goes missing - and this time it's one of Cole's daughters. When she and her K-9 partner, Robo, get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead on Smoker's Hill behind the high school, and Mattie must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() *Buddy read with Sophie Beware of the Reader and Raven Dreamy Addictions* ![]() Together, they will find a way to save her world-even if it means losing each other. ![]() And once the ancient power inside him awakens, the yokai she loves will be changed forever.Īs the earthly gods gather to wage war against the heavens, Emi and Shiro must gamble everything to turn the tide against their immortal, all-powerful foes. Soon-too soon-she will have to break the curse that binds his magic and memories. But with a traitorous deity poised to destroy her world, and the yokai standing as humanity's only defense, the lies of her upbringing have toppled to reveal a far more terrifying reality.ĭespite the looming threat, Emi can't escape her greatest distraction: Shiro, the fox yokai who has so deftly claimed her heart for his own. Once, Emi believed the heavenly gods were righteous and wise, while the earthly yokai spirits were bloodthirsty and evil. ![]() ![]() I didn't get the whys of their relationship, and, honestly, the heat level was fairly low for Lisa Henry book. It felt too soon, like I needed more UST to really ramp up the emotions. Sure, I heard about how these guys liked it each other, but it felt very sudden when they got together. ![]() I didn't get into the head-space of both MCs, which made it harder to see the relationship evolving. I think having only one POV made the romance feel a bit weaker for me. However, I could have used even a wee bit more of that energy with the romance aspect of the story. The dialogue and the cast of character was just so fun. There were scenes where I was shaking with laughter while reading in bed (sorry, hubby). It reminded me a little bit of The Lightning-Struck Heart but dialed down a bit. ![]() Red Heir really shined for me with the comedic moments. ![]() Though it wasn't a full home-run for me, it was charming and utterly delightful. I love Lisa Henry, and I really love her when she writes funny stories, so it's natural that I couldn't wait to try Red Heir. ![]() ![]() I read The Best Laid Wedding Plans last year and loved it (you can see my review here)! It is a very sweet book and I would definitely encourage you all to enter/read her book! See more information on the book further down in this post (below contest rules).Ĭontest Rules: Contest is unfortunately only open to US Residents, sorry to any international readers. Hi All! Exciting news! I have a free digital copy of Lynnette Austin’s recent release, The Best Laid Wedding Plans, available for one lucky winner! Lynnette has a new book coming out next month, Every Bride Has Her Day, and to celebrate, one lucky person will receive a free digital copy of the first book in the Magnolia series via iBooks from Sourcebooks Casablanca. ![]() ![]() Matsuda was responsible for bringing Ono into the nationalist party. ![]() Ono presumes this is because the other family is in a different class, but his daughters are concerned the issue stems from Ono’s background. His youngest daughter, Noriko, was engaged to marry but the other family broke the contract. Now retired, Ono struggles with family matters. It wasn’t an auction for money, but rather for prestige. It once belonged to a famous artist, and he won it at auction. ![]() Ono wonders if he really deserves his house. Even though Ono decides that his actions were wrong, his family doesn’t seem to think so-or they don’t care, as they enjoy the comforts his prestige provides. Ono had had doubts about Kuroda’s loyalty, which he shared with the authorities as a result, Kuroda had been arrested. He visits with other artists, even Kuroda, whom he feels he wronged. Identity is a major theme, and Ono spends much of the novel trying to figure out his own identity and his place in his family and in the post-war world. ![]() Due to his political position-working as a nationalist creator of propaganda for the government during World War II-Ono doubts his status after his daughter’s marriage negotiations suffer. Retired artist Masuji Ono’s career has delivered him prestige, but he questions his status. An Artist of the Floating World (1986), a novel by Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize it also took home the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Longer Letter Later: A Novel in Letters.Įlizabeth and Tara*Starr's junior high school world is one of corny jokes, words like "gazillion," and awkward moments (a New Year's Eve kiss happens at 12:08, and "it was sort of gross because the Chee-to in his mouth ended up in my mouth"), but it's also a world where both girls are dealing with their evolving-and sometimes derailing-families. When Tara*Starr pictures the two of them together as old ladies, Elizabeth is knitting, and she is sewing sequins and beads on everything! Despite their differences, the two seventh-grade girls are inseparable-until Tara*Starr moves away, spurring the warm, winning correspondence that scampers across the pages of Paula Danziger and Ann M. Shy, quiet Elizabeth likes whole-wheat doughnuts, but her best friend, Tara*Starr, likes custard ones with vanilla icing and multicolored sprinkles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They ask if illustrators have to draw every single book (“No, the publisher prints them on big printers”). Stories like “King Monkey” and “Wonder City” were early explorations of drawing characters and developing a storyline.Īlong with writing come the questions of how books are made. When I was their age, I also wrote books (that I still keep today), including worksheets for solving riddles and sorting items. ![]() They may have inherited this knack from me. And they’ll bind them with the help of hole punchers and ribbon or staples and tape. My kids have been writing books for a while now, with stories like “The Sumner Kid Goes to North America Today” and “The Kids and the Blob.” They write on construction paper, yellow-lined notepads, cardboard, you name it. Is your child interested in writing books and stories? Discover the top children’s books about writing that encourage storytelling and imagination. ![]() |