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The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We eventually get Holmes POV for a couple of chapters and I felt it was honest and quite heartbreaking. The beginning of the novel is a bit slow but Cavallaro is taking her time setting up the extremely complicated relationship between the friends. Because most of the book is from Watson’s POV, we only see his struggles with their relationship. The first two chapters reveals a compassionate Watson who is trying to help Holmes open up but he’s met with mixed signals. ![]() In book two, Holmes has shut down as the result of a sexual assault in book one all the while trying to figure out her feeling for Watson. Last of August is book two in the series with the Last Study in Charlotte being Cavallaro’s debut. With the assistance of Charlotte’s brother and August Moriarty, Holmes and Watson find themselves deep in the art forgery world as they travel all over the European art scene to find the beloved uncle. Everything at the Holmes estate is expectedly weird when Charlotte’s uncle mysteriously goes missing. ![]() Picking up from The Last Study in Charlotte, it’s winter break and Holmes and Watson plan to spend their vacation with Watson’s family in London then Holmes’ family in Sussex. The Last of August (Charlotte Holmes #2) By Brittany Cavallaro Genre: Sherlock Reimagination/Mystery Expected Publication Date: FebruBang Bang Rating: ![]()
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Robert frost the wood6/29/2023 ![]() He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". He had been up the entire night writing the long poem "New Hampshire" from the poetry collection of the same name, and had finally finished when he realized morning had come. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep."įrost wrote the poem in June 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance". ![]() Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. ![]()
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Anne bishop written in red series order6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Meg proves adept at looking after Sam, Simon’s orphaned nephew, so traumatized by his mother’s death that he’s locked in wolf form. Against his wolfish instincts-Meg is human, but doesn’t smell like prey-Simon Wolfgard hires her as Human Liaison, a job that entails running the local delivery office. Naïve but resourceful Meg escaped and now seeks refuge in the Lakeside Courtyard, the business district operated by the Others. She and a number of like young women were slaves of the Controller, whose rich clients pay well for their visions. A cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn sees the future when her skin is cut-for her, the result can be agony or ecstasy. Into the northeastern city of Lakeside, in the middle of winter, staggers Meg Corbyn, freezing, friendless and desperate. On the continent of Thaisia, humans are tolerated for their technical and inventive talents, but they tread very carefully, knowing that if they transgress, they’ll be lunch for shape-shifting wolves, raptors, bears, vampires or worse. For her latest dark fantasy series, Bishop ( Twilight’s Dawn, 2011, etc.) invents an entire Earth-like world, Namid, populated by a fascinating array of supernatural Others-and the humans who are their prey. ![]()
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Order Out of Chaos by Jo Van Steenbergen6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Jo Van Steenbergen identifies the Asian connectedness of the socio-cultural landscapes between the Nile in the southwest to the Bosphorus in the northwest, and the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in the northeast to the Indus in the southeast. ![]() A text that transcends many of today's popular stereotypes of the premodern Islamic past, the volume takes a holistically and theoretically informed approach for understanding, interpreting and teaching premodern Islamic history. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen chapters, this impressive overview explains how different tides in Islamic history washed ashore diverse sets of leadership groups, multiple practices of power and authority, and transformed imperial and dynastic discourses in a theocratic age. A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region's history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. ![]()
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The hunting party book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Two of them that initially I quite warmed to prove to be as ghastly as the others, if not ghastlier. The first thing to recognize is that most of the members of the party are ghastly. There’s a serial killer at large in the region. ![]() ![]() The estate is isolated from the rest of the world by a severe snowstorm. However, early on New Year’s Day one of them goes missing, and the next day the murdered corpse is found by the estate staff. A bunch of old Oxford University friends get together every year for a New Year’s holiday, and this time they’ve come to a remote Scottish estate for the celebrations. ![]()
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Indecent paula vogel script6/28/2023 ![]() Less convincing, though it just won the Pulitzer prize, is Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, which is based on intensive research into Rust Belt deindustrialization but attenuates its power in the very process of forcing the facts into drama. Rogers’s Oslo, in which the secret negotiations that led to the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian accords are used as the framework for a kind of exploded documentary, credibly filling in blanks in the record to make an already surprising story astonishing. This spring alone, we have on Broadway three new works that set out to tell essentially true stories of the recent past, only one of which is thoroughly successful. (They were set eons before his own day.) Contemporary playwrights interested in history, especially American history, have a harder task, with only two centuries to exploit - and no kings. One of the reasons Shakespeare’s history plays are the greatest examples of their genre is that he took care to write about events no one could possibly remember. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Having lived in India, the UK, and US, she noticed a lack of Indian protagonists in global children’s fiction and one day wrote the opening paragraph to her debut middle grade novel, REA AND THE BLOOD OF THE NECTAR. Payal Doshi has a Master’s in Creative Writing from The New School, NY. Middle Grade Author Payal Doshi joins Queries, Qualms, & Quirks this week to discuss writing Captain Planet fanfic at eight years old, putting revisions on hold to have a baby, removing an entire POV, wanting to tell a story different from the dominant narrative, paying attention to the market, having to do your own marketing, the benefits and challenges of working with a small press, knowing which questions to ask, writing with a young child, paying attention to word count Queries, Qualms, & Quirks asks published authors to share their successful query letter and discuss their journey from first spark to day of publication. ![]()
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Arthur miller death of a salesman play6/28/2023 ![]() A landmark and cornerstone 20th-century drama, Death of a Salesman is crucial in the history of American theater in presenting on stage an archetypal family drama that is simultaneously intimate and representative, social and psychological, realistic and expressionistic. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the play’s only rival in American literature in expressing the tragic side of the American myth of success and the ill-fated American dreamers. Along with Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Miller’s masterpiece forms the defining myth of the American family and the American dream. It can be argued that the Great American Novel-that always elusive imaginative summation of the American experience-became the Great American Drama in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Esther Merle Jackson, “ Death of a Salesman: Tragic Myth in the Modern Theatre” For it articulates, in language which can be appreciated by popular audiences, certain new dimensions of the human dilemma. The influence of this drama, first performed in 1949, continues to grow in World Theatre. ![]() Perhaps the most significant comment on this play is not its literary achievement, as such, but is, rather, the impact which it has had on spectators, both in America and abroad. The chief value of this drama is its attempt to reveal those ultimate meanings which are resident in modern experience. ![]() ![]() Analysis of Arthur Miller’s Death of a SalesmanĪrthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is, perhaps, to this time, the most mature example of a myth of Contemporary life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The USSR embarked on the road of turning all farmers in the country into hired workers totally dependent on the State. The famine claimed the lives of more than one million people in his homeland. The situation was aggravated by the bad harvest in Kazakhstan in the early 1930-s, according to the author. ![]() Those policies led to a catastrophic decline in agricultural production. Owning a horse may be regarded as a crime. The regime under Stalin declared a fight against the class of presumably well-off farmers who were labeled kulaks. This term refers to Soviet policies aimed at disbanding individual farms and turning them into collective farms owned by the State. His childhood coincided with collectivization. ![]() The author recalls his childhood and youth in Soviet Kazakhstan and highlights the entirety of that heartbreaking experience. The final chapter details the journey home that Mukhamet Shayakhmetov undertook after he had been discharged from the army due to his medical condition (the author was severely wounded near Stalingrad). It ends during WWII in which the author participated as a soldier in the Red Army. The account begins with the events in the late 1920-s and early 1930-s during the time of collectivization in the Soviet Union. The book is divided into three parts: Class Enemy, Famine, and War. ![]()
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Coptic in 20 Lessons by Bentley Layton6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() *This example is from, as you might have guessed, Lesson 1 from Layton’s text. More on this aspect of agglutination in a future lesson that’ll appear in the blog. This bound group means “in the beginning” (in-the-beginning, to be more precise). What in the world, you say? You can’t start off this hard with a word like this in the beginning. With this page and subsequent ones, I’d like to chart my process in (re-)(re-)learning the language.Īnd with that in mind, here’s an apt first vocabulary word*: I’ve memorized vocabulary, counted reps in the gym in Coptic, and done translation exercises (oddly enough, often on planes and in airports). Since then, I’ve had stops and starts with the same book. Adrian’s mastery of the language along with a delicate orthography made learning the language a sincere pleasure. Bentley Layton’s Coptic in 20 Lessons: Introduction to Sahidic Coptic with Exercises & Vocabularies served as our textbook. ![]() The papers start off with Adrian’s general introduction to Egypt and Coptic as a (liturgical) language. Talk of a semester-long reading group in Coptic led to us starting in the early part of 2015 while cleaning out some papers, I found my notes from Adrian’s class, the first of which are dated Februand the last of which are dated April 15. My first exposure to the Coptic language transpired while I was living in Istanbul and taking part in a Latin reading group with Adrian Saunders. Coptic Icon of Saint Mark: Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay ![]() |