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![]() In this third full length novel, Wodehouse returns to warmly familiar characters and I do love the way the novels and stories feature recurring characters and call backs to other events. You can tell the difference easily: the characters in Wodehouse, whilst entitled, privileges and self-obsessed, possess a charm and wit that Members of Her Majesty’s Parliament often fail to exhibit. ![]() Nope, definitely reviewing The Code of the Woosters. Hang on, am I reviewing a Wodehouse, or describing our current clutch of MPs? ![]() Entitled toffs with silly names basking in their own privilege whilst holed up in stately architecture. ![]()
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![]() Who is her boss, the mysterious Mr Rasmussen - whose face bears a startling resemblance to one of the portraits in Police News - and why he so interested in the abandoned premises above the Cornhill jeweller's shop? Worse, mysterious Mr Haversham from West End Central is starting to take an interest in his affairs. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi ('the red hair and the tight jumper weren't a false card: she really was a looker and no mistake'), but their relationship turns out to be a source of increasing bafflement. ![]() An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy ('It's the slump'), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King's Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. ![]() Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. ![]()
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Love and friendship jane austen summary6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Lord Courtlandis a friend of Robert Ferrars whom Robert advises to build a cottage.John and Fanny Dashwood are the new master and mistress of Norland Park after the death of his father Henry Dashwood.Upon his death, his son from his first marriage inherited the property, which left his second wife and their three daughters with only £10,000 to live on. Henry Dashwood is the former master of Norland Park.Gibson used to live on East Kingham Farm.Jennings thinks might be getting married. Fanny is Colonel Brandon's cousin, whom Mrs.Elliott and Lady Elliottare friends of Robert Ferrars who live in a cottage.She died of consumption after giving her daughter up to Colonel Brandon to raise. She was forced to marry his elder brother instead, however, and when she had an affair that resulted in the birth of her daughter Eliza Williams, he divorced her. Eliza Brandon was the cousin and childhood sweetheart of Colonel Brandon.Davies is a clergyman who Anne Steele hopes to ensnare. After her death, her brother invited their nephew Henry Dashwood and his family to live with him at Norland Park. Aunt Dashwood was the sister of Uncle Dashwood. ![]()
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Tao te ching by lao tzu6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In English, the title is commonly rendered Tao Te Ching / ˌ t aʊ t iː ˈ tʃ ɪ ŋ/, following Wade–Giles romanisation, or Dao De Jing / ˌ d aʊ d ɛ ˈ dʒ ɪ ŋ/, following pinyin. ![]() It is one of the most translated texts in world literature. Its influence has spread widely within the globe's artistic and academic spheres. Many artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. It also strongly influenced other schools of Chinese philosophy and religion, including Legalism, Confucianism, and Chinese Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. The Tao Te Ching, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written-or at least compiled-later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi. The Tao Te Ching ( UK: / ˌ t aʊ t iː ˈ tʃ ɪ ŋ/, US: / ˌ d aʊ d ɛ ˈ dʒ ɪ ŋ/ simplified Chinese: 道德经 traditional Chinese: 道德經 pinyin: Dàodé Jīng ( listen)) is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. ![]()
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Searching for sylvie lee jean kwok6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() She stayed in Amsterdam for more than 8 years, and when Ma and Pa had another daughter, Sylvie returned to NY, yet she felt she was called home to be a babysitter for her younger sister, Amy.Ĭommunication barriers and lack of understanding add to the tension of this story and is often the case with immigrant families. ![]() The feeling of rejection had a huge impact on Sylvie and her other relationships. Once Sylvie was born they sent her to the Netherlands to be cared for by Ma’s mother, as they thought it would be a better life for her. They were very poor and worked many jobs to stay afloat. ![]() Ma’s relationships with her daughters are complicated she immigrated to NYC when she and Pa were young and she was pregnant. When Amy hears that Sylvie has mysteriously disappeared, she has to pull it together to be strong, and travel overseas to find out what happened to her beloved big sister. ![]() Younger sister, Amy, is shy and insecure. Having grown up with her grandmother in the Netherlands, she felt compelled to return there when Grandma became ill. Smart, pretty and accomplished, Sylvie is the golden child in the family. A perfect combination of literary fiction and suspense, in Searching for Sylvie Lee, Jean Kwok lets us inside the minds of Chinese immigrant sisters Sylvie, Amy and their Ma. ![]()
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Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s very clearly a comic book fan, rather than a blow-in, and he obviously knows his geeky trivia and nerdy minutiea, but he’s also careful to explain everything as he goes along. However, it’s always fascinating, even if it is grimly so.īefore we dig too deeply into the book itself, it’s worth noting that Brad Meltzer is a really good comic writer, from a technical standpoint. It’s controversial – as any similar reimagining would be – and, to be frank, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. ![]() ![]() Written by best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer, Identity Crisis is an attempt to explore the rather fundamental changes that occurred in superhero comics during the nineties, often as a direct response to The Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen, giving us a more cynical depiction of the concepts and characters that we take for granted. I’ve argued that Marvel went through a similar period of introspection from House of M through to Siege, but DC seemed to engage with the concept on a more direct level. Identity Crisis is the first in the trilogy of stories that built off the original Crisis on Infinite Earths to offer a fairly significant reevaluation of the modern DC universe, examining where the characters and the fictional landscape was as compared to where it had been decades before. This January, I’m going to take a look at some of DC’s biggest “events.” This week I’ll be taking a look at Brad Meltzer’s impact on the DC universe. ![]()
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The incredible pilgrimage of harold fry6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopefully we have all had time to read and digest the book, which I for one found a very satisfying read! Anybody who has not read the book as yet is welcome to join in at a later date. ![]() " It is assumed that you have read the book before reading posts in this thread, as the discussion might give away crucial points, and the continuous use of spoiler tags might hinder fluent reading of posts. Welcome to the July Reading Circle discussion. ![]()
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The savage detectives6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In meetings we will discuss the themes of the book along with Bolaño’s signature prose style, and the novel’s sprawling structure. No previous knowledge of Latin American literature is assumed, and there will be no required reading apart from the novel itself. This is the much-loved novel that cemented the Chilean author’s reputation as one of Latin America’s most ambitious and admired novelists when it was first published in to great acclaim in 1998. Their antic quest is at turns darkly funny and tragic, as the pair and their coterie of artists and slackers do their best to survive the glories and misadventures of the 20th century.Ī novel that Roberto Bolaño described as a love letter to his own generation, The Savage Detectives is a sweeping tableau of art, sex and politics, a kooky road trip that takes the reader from the deserts of Mexico to Europe, South America, the Middle East, Africa and beyond. It takes a huge cast of characters, some real, some fictional, to relate the exploits of Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, two shaggy-haired troubadours in search of a writer in the Sonora desert who might just be the mother of all literature. Meeting Dates: 3/3, 3/24, 4/14, 5/5/, 5/26, 6/9Ī soaring tale of literary adventure, Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives is packed with pimps, poets, detectives and dealers. To join the waitlist, please email Allison Escoto at. This reading group has reached its capacity. ![]()
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Speaker for the dead6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Pipo depended on him-too much, probably-yet though Rooter clowned and played like the irresponsible youngling that he was, he also watched, probed, tested. He was always there whenever Pipo visited their clearing, and did his best to answer the questions Pipo was forbidden by law to come right out and ask. Rooter was at once the most difficult and the most helpful of the pequeninos. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening. In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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Neuromancer goodreads6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Since then, Gibson has remained in Vancouver, and written over a dozen additional novels and a handful of short stories. He published a series of short stories before being commissioned to write a novel-a work that would turn into Neuromancer, a surprise smash hit. He received a degree in English at the University of British Columbia and began to try his hand at writing. He spent the sixties as a self-proclaimed hippie, before marrying a woman from Vancouver and moving there with her. ![]() He moved to Canada to dodge the draft for the Vietnam War. Neuromancer (Sprawl, 1)by William Gibson Anas review really liked it The first time i pick up this book i gave up after about 4 chapters, i was not expecting it to be such a hard read, i just could not get pass the gibberish in this book, specially since english is nope my first language. Gibson’s mother died when he was eighteen, and he left school without graduating. Dick Award.He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. However, he didn’t put the same kind of obsessive focus into school, and so his mother sent him to boarding school in southern Arizona. William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Gibson was a bookish child, obsessed with science fiction. He spent the first few years of his life moving around Virginia because of his father’s job as a manager of a construction company, but when Gibson was six his father died, and his mother moved them to Wytheville, Virginia, where she and Gibson’s father were born and raised. William Gibson was born in a vacation town on the coast of South Carolina. ![]() |