![]() ![]() Ward, though, doesn’t seem to think it’s a competition. Audiences have grown jaded from years of surprises both earned and forced (ahem, Star Wars), so it’s not terribly surprising that authors are trying to up the ante. ![]() I suppose it’s not enough anymore for a book to have a twist. Please come back and talk about it when you have, there are so, so many wonderful things to say. The Last House on Needless Street is great. To the uninitiated, this is the sum total of my review: I will be discussing some of Catriona Ward’s themes and insights, but mostly for those who have already read it. It is a multilayered, profoundly thoughtful, and wonderfully suspenseful book, one that any review cannot truly do proper justice. However, I would caution anyone who hasn’t read the book to be very careful about spoiling yourself on this one. ![]() What follows is a spoiler-heavy, even spoiler-gleeful review. It is impossible to write a meaningful analysis of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (Viper, 2021) without spoilers, and so I’m not going to try. The Last House on Needless Street is a book that has twists not for their own sake, but because what we think of as twists–unexpected events nonetheless grounded in established character and plot–are a natural extension of the characters and events Ward is tackling. ![]()
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Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative With A Supplement By The Author And Introduction And Additional Chapter By His Son, Richard Henry DanaThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd quote it at you extensively, but I finished it on holiday last week and immediately palmed it off on a friend. Her most recent book is Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth Century Britain (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), The Warrior Queens: Boadecia's Chariot, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and most recently Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies Mary, Queen of Scots (a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009), Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, King Charles II and The Gunpowder Plot (CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger St Louis Literary Award). ![]() ![]() ![]() Relish the incomparable imagination of Christopher Paolini in this thrilling collection of stories based in the world of the Inheritance Cycle. 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It's been a year since Eragon departed Alagaesia in search of the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've never had a book make me cry like a baby. ~~~ Sunshine :-) [Well in this case a :-( would be rather good) I ran to the exit and examined myself to see if I was still alive. My BFF asked me on the ride every so casually, "Are you okay?" I shouted, "NO!" "Are you having fun?" "NO!!!" That ride lasted for two whole minutes! I was terrified! I nearly died! Oh it was awful! When the ride was finally over I was shaking,and I couldn't walk a straight line. This whole time it was spinning! On the ride I was hyperventillating, shaking, and holding on tightly for sweet sweet life. It went higher and higher until I was like 150 feet in the air. If that was bad, a giant claw started swaying the death circle. I was strapped to the side of this death circle and that spun. Well, the name should have prepared me for what I was going to do. Well my BFF said to me, "Come on X-Treme Frisbee with me. ![]() I hate rollar coasters and any death defying rides. ![]() I love the nice rides like the tilt-a-whirl, tea cups, scrambler, mirror maze, and much more. Today I almost died! I told you how I was graduating my school already. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for a history book, this isn’t it. Two thousand years may have passed, but we remain the Romans' heirs. Its citizens were obsessed by celebrity chefs, all-night dancing and exotic pets they fought elections in law courts and were addicted to spin they toppled foreign tyrants in the name of self-defence. Yet alien as it was, the Republic still holds up a mirror to us. Tom Holland brings to life this strange and unsettling civilisation, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. ![]() This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. ![]() Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. ![]() ![]() Each chapter ends with short, mindful insights, inspired by Shanti, a lovely Coton de Tulear. Back-pages were intentionally left blank, to ensure cards can be cut without affecting the text of the book. ![]() If you like, you can cut them out, glue them to cardboard, and cut out each card. These engravings are printed inside the book, on regular pages. You do not need to buy a Mantegna Tarot deck to use this book. The remaining chapters explain how to use the cards, integrating them into your daily life. Each of the first four chapters of this book, analyzes the Mantegna Tarot cards for the corresponding sphere. When the Four Spheres are not in synch, problems arise. When these spheres are in harmony, you live a meaningful life that expresses its full potential for the benefit of all. It explains how to use the Mantegna Tarot to gain more insights about the Four Spheres of life: behavior, emotions, cognition, meaning. It is not an academic treatise about tarots, nor about the mesmerizing history of the Renaissance. Details User-contributed reviews WorldCat User Reviews ( ) Tarot book: Tarot for self-help and transpersonal psychology Tarot book: a Tarot guide to Tarot reading for self-help and transpersonal psychology. ![]() This hands-on book presents actionable ways to use the Mantegna Tarot as a tool of personal growth, to flourish for the benefit of all beings by tapping into the creative sparkles of the Italian Renaissance. Exstatica : self-help essentials Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item. Get access to the wisdom that made the Renaissance possible, using the Mantegna Tarot as compass. Unleash the Transformative Sparkles of the Renaissance Mantegna Tarot" shows you how to turn your life into a masterpiece, for the benefit of all. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, Proctor learns that the next person he’s in charge of ferrying is his father, and it turns out the old man doesn’t go quietly-on the way to the pier, he begins muttering seemingly incomprehensible phrases, telling his son, “The world is not the world,” and “You’re not. The Annex, another island, is “home to the support staff-men and women of lesser biological and social endowments.” Proctor Bennett lives on the main island and works as a “ferryman”-when his fellow residents become older or infirm, he escorts them to a boat that will carry them to the “Nursery Isle,” where they are reborn as teenagers who will then rejoin Prospera. Things aren't what they seem in the supposedly idyllic state of Prospera.Ĭronin’s latest takes place in Prospera, an archipelago state that “exists in splendid isolation, hidden from the world.” The main island is designed to be something of a paradise, “free of all want and distraction,” where residents are urged to pursue art and personal betterment. ![]() |