![]() ![]() Morris goes on to describe, This dream is as it were a present of an architectural peep-show. In the opening, transitional passage, the Narrator seems to pass through a stereotypical confused dream of public speaking, muteness, and public undress, and then seems to wake “on a strip of wayside waste by an oak copse just outside a country village.” The contrast between the preliminary, vague dream and the clarity and detail of the subsequent extended experience of medieval England suggests to the reader that the account of the rebellion may not be a dream at all, and certainly is not an ordinary dream. ![]() The narrator relates an adventure that, as he puts it, “Befell me after I had fallen asleep” – he does not use the term “dream,” and the description of his journey into the past is linguistically distinct from his earlier use of dream in the preceding pages. Here the account is more explicitly a dream, but carefully written in a way that renders ambiguous the dream-nature of the experience. As in his longer novel News From Nowhere, Morris presents his political message as a dream set in another era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Funny, heartfelt, and magnifi cently unexpected, Michael Thomas Ford's Love & Other Curses is a gritty, glittery triumph that broke my heart, put it back together again, and left me with a new, much needed sway in my sashay." "Michael Thomas Ford has created an intense, complex exploration of family, love, and gender & sexual identity. He'll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands) and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.īut when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.Īs Sam's birthday approaches and he still hasn't quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.Ī mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he's only seen in a dream might have the answers he's been looking for-but time is running out to save the people he cares about. Sam doesn't plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. ![]() The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations-if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. ![]() "I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye." ![]() ![]() ![]() This included cooking, cleaning, bringing her the bedpan, and getting up in the middle of the night to refuel the stove. ![]() When Marie became a bedridden invalid, it was Jane's responsibility to take care of her. By then Marie was partially incapacitated, and the Welfare Department began to furnish mother and daughter with occasional and often unreliable domestic help. The next year, her grandfather moved out of the house. Roberts' grandmother was killed in an automobile accident in 1936. Eventually, Roberts' grandfather, Joseph Burdo, with whom she shared a deep mystical identification, was unable to support two extra people, and the family had to rely upon public assistance. Marie had begun experiencing the early stages of rheumatoid arthritis by 1932 but worked as much as possible. With her only child, the young Marie then returned to her own parents, and the home that the family had rented for a number of years: half of a double dwelling in a poor neighborhood. ![]() Her parents, Delmer Hubbell Roberts and Marie Burdo, divorced when she was two years old. ![]() Roberts was born in Albany, New York and grew up in nearby Saratoga Springs, New York. The Seth Material, The Oversoul Seven Trilogyĭorothy Jane Roberts (– September 5, 1984) was an American author, poet, psychic, and spirit medium, who channeled a personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. ![]() ![]() SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians.īut there s a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. ![]() He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. ![]() Description - Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was his mother who was responsible for bringing his book to public light, pestering the hell out of Walker Percy, who was teaching at Loyola in 1976, to read it until finally that distinguished author relented. He committed suicide in 1969 at the age of thirty-two. ![]() Therein lies the tragedy of this huge and hugely funny book: John Kennedy Toole didn't live to see this now-classic novel published. ![]() The Pulitzer committee thought highly enough of Toole's comic prowess to give his only novel the Prize posthumously. The comedy of A Confederacy of Dunces is writ large in and between its many lines: a grand farce of overeducated white trash, corrupt law enforcement, exotic dancing and the nouveau riche in steamy New Orleans. ![]() ![]() It seems as though she has been attacked. This time, an injured hiker is found in the woods. Suffice to say, the town is not an idyllic wonderland.Ĭasey is always getting pulled into trouble. People pay a council to spend time in this town to hide from their pasts. For those who be adventurous and are readin’ this post having not read the previous books, Rockton is an off-the-grid town in the Yukon. This novel continues the adventures of Rockton’s detective, Casey Duncan. I do recommend starting at the beginning. While ye can read books 1 – 3 and get the gist, books 4 – 6 build on each other. I have really been enjoying this series and I didn’t even read the blurb before I requested this one. I love Kelley Armstrong! I discovered her through her young adult book, sea of shadows, and she became me most read author of 2016. Publication Date: TODAY!!! (hardcover/e-book) While I try to post no spoilers, if ye keep reading this log then ye have been forewarned and continue at yer own peril. If ye haven’t read the others, then ye might want to skip this post and go get caught up. So occasionally I will share some novels that I enjoyed that are off the charts (a non sci-fi, fantasy, or young adult novel), as it were. Though this log’s focus is on sci-fi, fantasy, and young adult, this Captain does have broader reading tastes. Ahoy there me mateys! I received an eArc of this thriller through NetGalley in exchange for me honest musings. ![]() ![]() Over the course of the books they gather a gang together and solve crimes, with department store owner Mr Sinclair (think Mr Selfridge) always hovering somewhere in the background. Lily works in the shop by day and is trying to break through onto the stage at night. ![]() Sophie’s father has recently died and she’s having to find her own way in the world. ![]() In the first book in the series, we meet Sophie and Lily – newly employed to work in Sinclair’s department store which is the biggest thing to happen in Edwardian London since, well, a long time. Regular readers will be well aware of my love of detective fiction and middle grade novels and Katherine Woodfine’s Sinclair mysteries are a great meeting of the two. For #Recommendsday this week I wanted to talk about the Sinclair Mysteries – as the final book in the series is out tomorrow (October 5). ![]() ![]() In this groundbreaking yet ebullient romp through the linguistic muck, Bergen answers intriguing questions: How can patients left otherwise speechless after a stroke still shout Goddamn! when they get upset? When did a cock grow to be more than merely a rooster? Why is crap vulgar when poo is just childish? Do slurs make you treat people differently? Why is the first word that Samoan children say not mommy but eat shit? And why do we extend a middle finger to flip someone the bird? Smart as hell and funny as fuck, What the F is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear. ![]() Bergen shows us, it also opens a new window onto how our brains process language and why languages vary around the world and over time. As linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. It can be funny, cathartic, or emotionally arousing. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Not only is swearing colorful, fun, and often powerfully apt, as linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. ![]() And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. ![]() Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. ![]() ![]() Montgomery in 1908, the year she published Anne of Green Gables. ![]() But by the author’s own account, readers have been wrong for more than a century. Today, of course, Montgomery’s name is nearly inseparable from Anne of Green Gables, and many fans think of her and Anne as the same person. She later called the house “the wonder castle of my childhood.” It is now the Anne of Green Gables Museum, owned by George Campbell and managed by Pamela Campbell the two siblings are great-grandchildren of Annie and John Campbell. In the palpable enchantment that lingers over the Park Corner house, originally the home of the novelist’s Aunt Annie and Uncle John Campbell, Montgomery found a haven to give her imagination free rein. Montgomery’s tale of the imaginative orphan Anne Shirley captured the minds of so many people that she and her red-headed heroine quickly became global literary sensations.Īt the Green Gables Museum, visitors can see photos of Montgomery’s nemesis, Aunt Emily, with her husband and children, photographed at their New Moon homestead. ![]() The view from my picnic blanket inspired stories and settings that have enraptured readers worldwide for more than a century. Sunlight glittered on the water a soft breeze played among the reeds and feathery grasses. On a warm, golden day in early August, I sat by the lake in the area of Park Corner on Prince Edward Island, where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the beloved 1908 children’s novel Anne of Green Gables, spent her childhood summers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed it’s a story so full of heart – sorrowful, but warm and funny – it won’t be easy to forget.”Angie Schiavone, The Sydney Morning Herald. “While it is a sequel to the brilliant Saving Francesca, The Piper’s Son works as a stand-alone book. Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award Reviews ![]() Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s LIterary Award Shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award And remembers how he abandoned Tara Finke two years ago, after his uncle’s death.Īnd in a year when everything’s broken, Tom realises that his family and friends need him to help put the pieces back together as much as he needs them. And winds up living with his grieving father again. And starts working at the Union pub with his former friends. Wants to forget parents who leave and friends he used to care about and a string of one-night stands, and favourite uncles being blown to smithereens on their way to work on the other side of the world.īut when his flatmates turn him out of the house, Tom moves in with his single, pregnant aunt, Georgie. ![]() |