![]() “The core of Lucretius’ poem is a profound, therapeutic meditation on the fear of death, and that fear dominated my entire childhood,” Mr. ![]() ![]() The book spoke to him for a reason that’s straight out of a Woody Allen movie or a Bruce Jay Friedman novel: because of his own overbearing Jewish mother. Greenblatt read “On the Nature of Things” that golden summer. He plucked it from a Yale Co-op bargain bin for 10 cents, partly because he liked its sexy cover, a pair of disembodied legs floating above the Earth in an apparent act of “celestial coition.” Greenblatt came upon a prose translation of Lucretius’ 2,000-year-old poem “On the Nature of Things” (“De Rerum Natura”). In the mid-1960s, when he was a student at Yale and searching for summer reading, Mr. The literary critic, theorist and Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” is partly about an obsessive book collector, and it begins, appropriately enough, with a book purchase of the author’s own. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Swept Away: The greatest flood in the history of Oregon sweeps away houses, barns, and animals in the Willamette Valley.The Christmas Oak: Luke sets out to bring home a Christmas tree-but she finds something else.She suspects Frankie, a woman who reminds her of Luke. ![]() ![]() The Art of Pretending: Tess finds out that someone is stealing her money.A Rooster’s Job: The Hamiltons hoped to build a home in the idyllic Willamette Valley with mild winters, but now they’re snowed in and their rooster isn’t doing such a great job either.On one of her secret inspections, she makes a surprising discovery. Grasping at Straws: No one knows that Tess Swenson, madam of a brothel, also owns a livery stable and a number of other businesses.The Blue Hour: When her mother dies, twelve-year-old Lucinda Hamilton decides to start a new life-as a boy.Six short stories that give us glimpses into the lives of Luke, Nora, and the other characters from 'Backwards to Oregon'. ![]() ![]() An elf who sparks a violent, forbidden desire in Lysander. ![]() A stubborn, prideful, fool of an elf who doesn’t know when to quit. There’s nothing left to live for, until an elf assassin almost kills him. If the queen doesn’t kill him for his failures, her enemies will. Trapped in a life he despises, Lysander knows his time is running out. A warrior, a killer, and something else…, something Eroan finds himself inexplicably drawn to. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled and alluring prince. Now, captured and forced into the queen’s harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. ![]() He would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Humans have vanished under the rubble of their world and if the queen has her way, elves will be next.Įroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: kill the queen. The Dragon Queen’s reign is one of darkness and death. ![]() Silk and Steel by Ariana Nash (Silk and Steel #1) ![]() ![]() The English collection would be bigger, but it would not contain more dissimilar material. ![]() Twelve hundred years separate the first writers through whom the myths have come down to us from the last, and there are stories as unlike each other as "Cinderella" and "King Lear." To bring them all together in one volume is really somewhat comparable to doing the same for the stories of English literature from Chaucer to the ballads, through Shakespeare and Marlowe and Swift and Defoe and Dryden and Pope and so on, ending with, say, Tennyson and Browning, or even, to make the comparison truer, Kipling and Galsworthy. ![]() If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights.Ī book on Mythology must draw from widely different sources. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul says that this is our reasonable service (Romans 12:1). Yes, we give our bodies as living sacrifices so to be found holy and acceptable. Here’s a synopsis of Lewis’s thoughts published in 1960 based on a radio series he did with the BBC a few years prior to the book’s release.įirst, Lewis addresses our relationship to God as Need-love. Lewis’s book The Four Loves is a helpful guide. How can we best know more about love in its various forms, especially with the hope of being pointed rightly toward the love of God and of neighbor? C.S. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ![]() I Corinthians 13:1-3 says, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ![]() So let’s look at the four types of love found in the Bible. As we know, Scripture tells us that love is the highest attribute. We may not consciously distinguish one use of love from another, in part because our speech is becoming more and more informal and reduced every year, but it’s important to be intentional about the differences. We love everything from foods to cars, from movies to retailers, from people to God himself. Today, the word “love” is overused and undervalued at the same time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her struggles are wrenchingly genuine and often even life-threatening (both against horrors released through the portals and the unrelenting clamor and chaos lurking in her own brain chemistry), and readers will likely literally sigh with relief when Hanna finally captures a bit of good to balance her world." Bulletin "This fast-paced (almost manic) page-turner about defeating evil and finding love respects its richly drawn characters too much for easy didacticism. ![]() Hanna is a refreshingly unbalanced protagonist-unafraid of gore or her own sexual power while also being terrified of any loss and unable to handle simple high-school power negotiations. S&S Australia Telesales "The resulting novel is wonderfully baffling, and as lush, warm, and conflicted as Hanna herself. Anyone who can pull off such an entertaining novel where the main character has bipolar disorder is a very clever writer. It reminded me of Uglies the way it deals indirectly with some big issues, for Uglies, self image etc, with this BV it is mental illness. ![]() "I loved Bleeding Violet - I did not want to put it down (I may have been sneaking peeks when on phone hold and at red lights etc). ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you so much to Beaming Books for sending me a review copy of Bella’s Recipe For Success. This commission is used to maintain this site and to continue bringing content to you. Affiliate links allow me to receive a small commission for recommendations at no cost to you. (Please note: Some links provided are affiliate links. My baking skills are not great, but I will take a lesson from Bella and practice.īella’s Recipe for Success is available next week (July 13, 2021), but you can preorder your copy wherever books are sold, including Bookshop and Amazon. Plus, there’s a recipe for polvorones con dulche de leche that I can’t wait to try. With Spanish vocabulary peppered throughout, Bella’s Recipe for Success would be a fantastic addition to classroom libraries. The illustrations by Geraldine Rodríguez are so fun! The way she captures the facial expressions of each character brings so much emotion and personality to every single page. ![]() Though she struggles, Bella learns that being good at something takes hard work, perseverance, and patience. She tries baking polvorones with her abuela, but her first attempt goes all wrong. Her sister is a talented gymnast and her brother is a talented musician, but Bella is struggling to find her hidden talent. ![]() Bella’s Recipe for Success follows a young Latinx girl named Bella who is trying to figure out what she’s good at. ![]() ![]() ![]() Distilled further, cider can be made into applejack or apple brandy. There are a number of ciders, from the sweet, unfermented drink we commonly know now, to several types (and strengths) of “hard,” or alcoholic, cider, which can be as strong as wine. Cider was America’s drink from Colonial days until well into mid-19th century, when it fell victim to several factors, including the migration to cities and the rise in popularity of beer.īut cider is experiencing a revival, from large commercial producers to small orchards and cider mills that make unique blends, to people who are experimenting with small batches made in their homes. It can be frozen or fermented, guzzled fresh or used in cooking, pasteurized (or not), made from almost any apple variety (usually a blend), in almost any condition (dings and dents welcome). (Russell Steven Powell)ĪPPLE CIDER is as varied and versatile as the fruit from which it is pressed. Crabapple-sized Wickson apples ready for pressing at Poverty Lane Orchards in Lebanon, New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shares these anecdotes through lyrical, brooding, vastly introspective language. The author’s bipolar condition disrupted many of her formative relationships with new men she introduced to Isaiah, only to have them fade into obscurity. She discusses her precarious affair with a writing professor, visits with her psychotherapist, who tempered her manic depression with a stay at a psychiatric facility (the “madhouse”), her prideful work as a distinguished Indian writer, and the abuses of her callous, cynical mother and “drunk savant” father. The author chronicles her teenage marriage to Vito, the loss of her son Isadore in court upon the birth of second son Isaiah, and how they each “ruined each other, and then my mother died.” Mailhot fearlessly addresses intimately personal issues with a scorching honesty derived from psychological pain and true epiphany. ![]() She was raised on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia, and her innocent youth was spent within the orbit of a doting grandmother. ![]() Reflections on the turbulent life of a Native American writer.Ī glowing introduction from Sherman Alexie dubs Mailhot, the Saturday editor for the Rumpus, the “biological child of a broken healer and a lonely artist,” and her debut memoir undeniably embodies those attributes. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his debut novel, Like Trees, Walking, Howard explores a 1981 episode of deadly racial violence that occurred in Mobile, Alabama. Ravi Howard is an Emmy-award-winning writer and producer who once created sports programming for NFL Films. Like Trees, Walking, Amistad ( New York, NY), 2007.Ĭontributor to anthologies, including Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing.Ĭontributor to periodicals, including Callaloo and Massachusetts Review. Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, University of Virginia, 2001 Sports Emmy, for Inside the NFL, Home Box Office (HBO). Guest on radio programs, including All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR). National Football League (NFL) Films, writer and producer, 2001-05. Writer, novelist, commentator, and television producer. Education: Howard University, B.A., 1996 University of Virginia, M.F.A., 2001. 1975 in Montgomery, AL married, wife's name Laura (a pediatrician). ![]() |