![]() ![]() Joe Biden, stutterer, the toughest kid in school somehow now a US senator, climbing into an abandoned DuPont mansion, claiming it for his own, and pouring money into it until friends think he is mad. Cramer's images are indelible: Shy, thoughtful Gary Hart, who soon will be destroyed by the press, noticing things that others do not (``The Soviet Union is rotting from within,'' he's quoted as saying ``.the Cold War rules do not have to apply''). The author's candidates are tough and clever, driven to a life so complicated by power that ordinary behavior is impossible-as when George Bush, ever eager to please (his intelligence ``a silken windsock.so responsive to the currents''), tries to throw a baseball while wearing a bulletproof vest even as his son, bumped from the presidential box by an aide, throws a tantrum. Irreverent, highly knowledgeable look at the 1988 presidential primaries by Pulitzer-winning journalist Cramer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. When the estate manager and groundskeeper find one of the guests the death is anything but an accident. But, tensions run deep, and everyone has dark secrets. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley An annual getaway in the Scottish Highlands, nine friends gather for a New Year’s weekend. The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is a 2019 mystery novel about a murder in the Scottish Highlands. One of them is a killer.ĭuring the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are of course the retellings but another rich stream in fantasy are the writers who take these elements and give us new stories playing on the riffs but perhaps with unexpected outcomes. As time passes various writers get to play with these elements and create new and impressive stories. The forest that hides its secrets the youngest son always gets the adventures and perhaps most common women do not cross any lines we impose upon you. ![]() Reading fantasy you are often conscious of the various recurring elements that stories use. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last. ![]() On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince-if she can complete three impossible tasks. Price - £16.99 hardcover £6.99 Kindle eBookĪfter years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. I would like to thank Sarah from Titan Books for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review ![]() ![]() While Argent's translation is faithful to Racine's text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine's rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic pentameters, a verse form particularly well suited to the highly charged urgency of Racine's drama and the coiled strength of his verse.Ĭomplementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which clarify obscure references, explicate the occasional gnarled conceit, and offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights.īajazet, Racine's seventh play, first given in 1672, is based on events that had taken place in the Sultan's palace in Istanbul a mere thirty years earlier. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed "heroic" couplets. ![]() ![]() This is the second volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays-only the third time such a project has been undertaken in the three hundred years since Racine's death. ![]() ![]() She began to make her dream of a middle-class life a reality, but at the expense of her writing. Instead, she floundered, unsure of how to begin her writing career. After graduation, she returned to LA idealistic, believing that a degree would automatically grant her success. When, for example, the mother who had abandoned her sent Grande’s sister back to Mexico for “running wild,” Grande brought the young girl to Santa Cruz only to be profoundly disappointed by her sister's bad behavior. But the ghosts of her past continued to haunt her. ![]() ![]() At first, the author felt out of place on the nearly all-white UCSC campus gradually, she found a place among other Hispanic students and in the university’s creative writing program. ![]() By the time Grande left community college for UCSC, her main sources of emotional support were a professor and a boyfriend who had been accepted to another college. Two older siblings had dropped out of college, broken her alcoholic father’s heart, and made him “ up on me.” He had also exiled them from his life to facilitate the return of the second wife he had divorced. When Grande ( The Distance Between Us, 2012, etc.), a former undocumented Mexican immigrant, left Los Angeles in 1996 for the University of California, Santa Cruz, she was both excited and afraid. ![]() An award-winning author’s account of how she became the first person in her family to attend college and live the dream of becoming a writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() How can she date Callahan the ex-con when her family will compare him to the fake standards of Wyatt Dunn? There's also some pretty funny antics with her parents and her gay best friend that I'm not going to get into but they were quite hilarious. Sadly she still has to perpetuate the lie of the fake boyfriend in front of her family and that means doing it in front of Callahan as well. He's everything a girl can dream about (minus the minimum security prison time he served) and Grace soon starts to feel a huge attraction for him. Meanwhile the house next door gets a new inhabitant in the form of the sexy ex-con Callahan O'Shea. ![]() ![]() Wyatt Dunn is perfect, a pediatric surgeon that rescues cats in his spare time, its hard to find anything not to love in this new fake boyfriend. WANT A NOOK Explore Now Get Free eBook Sample Buy As Gift Overview Divorce attorney Harper James can't catch a break. Like the title says, this man is "too good to be true," but her family jumps at the chance to meet him. My One and Only by Kristan Higgins 4.2 (676) eBook (Original) 7.99 Paperback 15.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0.00 View All Available Formats & Editions Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps. ![]() Grace has been making up boyfriends since she was a little girl so when her sister feels guilty for stealing Grace's fiance she makes up another one. ![]() ![]() ![]() and the Scot finds that there is one thing in England he likes far too much. It’s the perfect plan, until Lily declares she’ll only marry for love. Warnick arrives in London with a single goal: get the chit married and see her become someone else’s problem, then return to a normal, quiet life in Scotland. ![]() It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of the most venerable dukedoms in Britain-he wants nothing to do with it, especially when he discovers that the unwanted title comes with a troublesome ward, one who is far too old and far too beautiful to be his problem. ![]() The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin. When an artist offers her pretty promises. But the time they spend together might change things. The two have an awkward relationship now, thanks to an attempt by Nina to have sex with him, only to be rebuffed. until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. In this novella, Nina is a young activist who has been receiving threats to her safety, and her brother’s best friend James is prepared to keep her safe. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn’t hesitate. Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. ![]() ![]() But Mitchell, alongside co-writer Philippa Goslett, expands the scope of Gaiman’s story exponentially, at times for the better, but often for the worse. ![]() Were this a more tightly plotted romance focusing solely on their fish-out-of-water courtship, their chemistry might be enough to fuel a full feature. ![]() Elle Fanning portrays Zan, the alien in question, with a broad, slapstick-y brand of quirk, which largely feels believable. The film stars Alex Sharp as Enn, a young English punk in late ‘70s Croydon who falls for a girl from outer space. This can be said of How to Talk to Girls at Parties, the Neil Gaiman story brought to life by writer/director John Cameron Mitchell that feels as long as its title. But on occasion, a short story can be brought to the screen with too much excess fat, taking a brisk tale and letting it drag for all to see. ![]() ![]() Short stories tend to make better source material for motion picture adaptation than novels simply because their general breadth is closer to the form of cinema than lengthier material. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2023 There will be days when one looks ahead and sees nothing but hopeless gridlock, stretched out forever. 2023 The Joe Goldberg psyche - hopeless romantic who kills in the name of love - will not be new to fans of the series. Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, Nearly three in five - or 57% - of girls reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, up from 36% in 2011 and the highest levels seen in the past decade, the data found. Marissa Greene, Dallas News, In 2022, anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation reports were up, with 34% of Wisconsin students feeling sad and hopeless almost daily, a 10% increase over the past decade, according to the Wisconsin Office of Children's Mental Health. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, Nearly 34% of FWISD students reported feeling sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks, according to a 2019 Youth Risk Behavior report. ![]() Recent Examples on the Web Finding homes for orphans, stoking Quixotic big league fantasies and bringing hope to the otherwise hopeless can be exhausting, both mentally and emotionally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only detail which rescues this from a total loss is that the author has included the part of the Iliou Persis where the murderous Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, murders Priam even though Priam has sought refuge at the altar of Zeus. The role of the gods is almost completely omitted. Instead, the muleteer and the mules, who drive the cart carrying the treasure Priam brings to ransom his son and to carry his body back to the citadel of Troy, are elevated to a place of importance. Briseis, who plays a part in these scenes in the Iliad, and who serves as a reminder for the sequence of actions which brings these two men together in the camp of Achilles, makes no appearance here. ![]() However, many details of the story told so beautifully and movingly in the Iliad are omitted in this retelling while others are invented. While Simon Vance has a great deal of talent as a narrator, this was a poor choice for this novel where a more sympathetic, kindly voice would have been a better fit. The narration is ponderous, heavy and clunky. ![]() This novel fails at every level to capture the drama of Priam's ransom of the body of his son, Hector, from Achilles as told in Homer's Iliad. ![]() |