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Raggle-Taggle by Walter Starkie6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Laces his translation of Don Quijote with the Hiberno-English ‘Bad cess to you!’ Beckett ‘never rated’ him, Knowlson insists.Ģ) Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist whose tragicomedy La vida es sueño furnishes Beckett’s Proust with the adage: ‘Pues es delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido’ (‘For the greatest crime of man is to have been born’).ģ) Francisco de Zurbarán, he of Belacqua’s ‘livid rapture of the Zurbarán Saint-Onan’, represented in the National Gallery in Dublin by a more than usually fluffy and cherub-plagued Immaculate Conception and St Rufina, as reproduced here.Ĥ) I’ve already mentioned, many facts back, the Spanish edition of Beckett’s poems, Obra Poética Completa (Hiperión, 2000), which contains the otherwise uncollected ‘PSS’. Friend of egregious anti-Semite Charles Bewley and enthusiastic fascist. ![]() Sister of Rimbaud translator Enid and author of a memoir, Spanish Raggle Taggle, of his time in Spain. Ten Spanish and Hispanic Connections in Beckett.ġ) Walter Starkie, Beckett’s lecturer in Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “The latter, although there are degrees to which I ‘wind’ my toys.” ![]() He lifted his head and stared at her a moment before resuming his meal. At last, she said, “Do you control the dead, like puppets, or just bring them back and let them go, like a toy you wind up and release?” Here are 500 words (roughly) of shameless self-promotion! The story is my response to the onslaught of zombie apocalypse themes that have been inundating the entertainment industry lately, titled THE LAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD. It’s now at 75,000 words and will probably be on the other side of 80 before it’s done. It started as a novella, something quick I could bash out and throw into the Freebie Room at this year’s RT Convention in New Orleans, but as usual, once I started typing, I couldn’t shut up. ![]() RLS: The next book will be out this summer. RK: What are some of your upcoming projects? ![]()
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![]() ![]() When not writing, she teaches classes on writing inclusive fiction through LitReactor and. Her media criticism and reviews can be found on NPR, io9, and in books about Time Lords. She’s the host of ORIGINality, a podcast about the roots of creative genius. ![]() ![]() Her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines. Tempest Bradford is a science fiction and fantasy writer, writing instructor, media critic, reviewer, and podcaster. Ruby is the science hero we've been waiting for! About the Author This delightful middle grade debut is swarming with humor, spunky protagonists, and major Louis Sachar vibes. Ruby will have to team up her with her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do. Soon things around the neighborhood go missing, and no one's heard from the old lady down the street for a week. And it has promptly burned a hole through her window and disappeared. So when she finds the weirdest insect she’s ever seen in her front yard, she makes sure Gramma isn't looking and captures it for further study.īut then Ruby realizes that the creature isn't just a rare insect. ![]() Won at auction, this contemporary backyard sci-fi adventure with a Black heroine-written by a Black author in her middle grade debut-is pitch-perfect for fans of The Serpent's Secret and Clean Getaway.Įleven-year-old Ruby is a Black girl who loves studying insects, much to the grossed-out dismay of her Gramma and the pride of her parents. Tempest Bradford is an African-American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. ![]()
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The insiders by tijan6/23/2023 ![]() A chill went down my spine.Ī split second. ![]() Coming back from the bathroom, going to my bedroom, their shadow caught the corner of my eye. It was happening to me, not to someone else. This was the nightmare every girl had at some point in her life. I sensed them just as I turned the lights off. ![]() And there is a lot of guarding going on there and some of it is going to drive her crazy.Ī complete outsider in a world of wealth and decadence, Bailey has to find her way within a family that has more secrets than she could have imagined. She has three siblings and has no idea what to do with them and vice versa.ģ. She’s living at her father’s sprawling estate, complete with bodyguards and the best security that money can buy.Ģ. It’s a no-brainer.Īfter this, three things become clear for Bailey:ġ. He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices-go with him and meet her father or survive on her own because those kidnappers are going to try again. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. Then, things happen-a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though he’s been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. She accepts.īut nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal-a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationship, even her home. Reader, I Married Him: Jane Eyre Re-tellings, from Westlake Porter Libraryīrontë Addicts Will Absolutely LOVE These 7 Retellings of ‘Jane Eyre’, from BookstrĪnd then I learned about this very recent release from Amazon Publishing’s Thomas & Mercer imprint: There are many other options out there, easily found through a quick google search. (Maybe top five, even?) I’ve enjoyed a few retellings or variations on the novel, including Wide Sargasso Sea (though it’s terribly sad) and Rebecca (though I despise the heroine). If you know me at all, you know I’m obsessed with the Brontë sisters, particularly Charlotte, and that Jane Eyre is on my top ten list of favorite books of all time. ![]() ![]() It’s barely been a minute since my last “tea and a book” post, but I just read a novel and need to tell you about it. ![]()
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My brilliant friend author6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It was exceptional and I loved that it was Italian. So, I watched My Brilliant Friend (over two days) and as far as a TV series goes, that gets five stars. If it’s good to watch, it’ll be even better to read (usually) and pretty much so far this has been working out for me. ![]() I find though that this avoids that whole ‘it wasn’t as good as the book’ mentality. Anyway, better late than never! As is my way of late, I’ve taken to watching before reading – I know! The horror, breaking the golden reading rule. I’m very late to the party on this one, although I have had a copy of this on my eBook shelf for a few years after reading an article on the series, I think, before the fourth book came out. My Brilliant Friend is a modern masterpiece, the work of one of Italy’s great storytellers. They learn to rely on each other and discover that their destinies are bound up in the intensity of their relationship.Įlena Ferrante’s piercingly honest portrait of two girls’ path into womanhood is also the story of a nation and a meditation on the nature of friendship itself. The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. This exquisitely written quartet creates an unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship never before seen in literature. My Brilliant Friend is the gripping first volume in Elena Ferrante’s widely acclaimed Neapolitan Novels. Translated by Ann Goldstein About the Book: ![]()
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Nation by terry pratchett6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When Mau gets home, however, home has vanished. This involves him being taken to a nearby haunted island and left there to find his own way home. It tells the story of Mau, a South Sea islander who is about to move from boyhood to manhood via a traditional rite of passage. As a genre, the desert island adventure story has more than its fair share of masterpieces, including Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies. Nation takes place on a South Sea island in a skewed version of the 19th century. Pratchett himself has celebrated in brilliantly perverse fashion by producing a non-Discworld book. If there's any justice, the Post Office will issue a set of silver jubilee stamps, the government will declare a national holiday, and giant turtles will parade through our municipal parks. I t's 25 years since Terry Pratchett invented Discworld. ![]()
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Main street sinclair6/22/2023 ![]() It would also trigger a decade of uninterrupted success that would hit its climax in 1930 when Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. That would all change when Main Street hit shelves in 1920 and sold 250,000 copies in its first year-a crazy huge number for the 1920s. Like Carol, Sinclair Lewis was no stranger to disappointment: he had written five novels prior to Main Street and hadn't succeeded with any of them. Well, that's what Carol Kennicott feels like in Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and this book is all about exploring the ways that people try to cope with unsatisfying lives. ![]() Have you ever felt like your life was totally boring? If so, what did you do to try and change things? What if you felt like you couldn't change things because you were stuck living in a boring town with a boring spouse and nasty old ladies telling you to go to church all the time? ![]()
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Locke & key head games 2 joe hill6/22/2023 ![]() However, when the demons attempt to enter the real world, they are transformed into "whispering" iron which young smith Benjamin Locke forges into a variety of magical keys, including the Omega Key, which seals the entrance to the dimension. During the American Revolution, a group of Rebels, hiding beneath the future Keyhouse, discover a portal to another dimension, the plains of Leng, filled with demons who can mesmerize anyone that sees them and possess them through touch. This plot is presented in chronological order. Locke & Key is an American comic book series written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez, and published by IDW Publishing. Original material for the series has been published as a set of limited series. ![]() Cover of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 (February 2008), art by Gabriel Rodriguez ![]()
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Turn of the key book6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() When strange noises begin to wake them all in the night, it seems like the house may indeed be haunted. Left alone with the three little girls, Rowan can’t shake the feeling that there are other forces at work in the house. On her first day, however, Bill Elincourt makes a pass at her, and then both parents leave on a business trip, planning to be gone for at least a week. ![]() So what if the last four nannies left under mysterious circumstances? Rowan knows she’s where she belongs-even when Maddie tries to warn her away, claiming that “the ghosts wouldn’t like it” if she stays. Sandra Elincourt is stylish and smart, and the girls seem sweet enough, though 8-year-old Maddie rings some alarm bells in Rowan’s mind. ![]() Traveling to Heatherbrae House to interview for a nanny position, Rowan Caine finds a gorgeously redone Victorian mansion nestled in the remote Scottish moors. Westaway, 2018, etc.) channels The Turn of the Screw in her latest creepy mystery when a nanny takes a post at a haunted country house. ![]() |