![]() Its rearing golden horse danced to life, sparked by the reflection of the night lanterns. Even from this distance, in the early-morning dark, she could see a black Balladairan standard flapping above the docks. The city where Touraine was born.Īt a sudden gust, Touraine pulled her black military coat tighter about her body and hunched small over the railing of the ship as it approached land. City of rebellious, uncivilized god-worshippers. City of the golden sun and fruits Touraine couldn’t remember tasting. City of marble and sandstone, of olives and clay. ![]() ![]() A sandstorm brewed dark and menacing against the Qazāli horizon as Lieutenant Touraine and the rest of the Balladairan Colonial Brigade sailed into El-Wast, capital city of Qazāl, foremost of Balladaire’s southern colonies.Įl-Wast. ![]()
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![]() Partly a coming-of-age story, the memoir is mostly a rant - justified - against poverty, and especially against the father Queenan learned to despise well before his 10th birthday. “Closing Time” is a tale of survival, full of the requisite twists and turns, but there’s no question that the author will prevail - it’s only a matter of how. ![]() Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, more than two-thirds of the way through this book, Queenan’s eventual escape - from family, class and the City of Brotherly Love to boot - is a foregone conclusion. to make a living by ridiculing people, and it didn’t seem to matter all that much where I got my degree, as you couldn’t major in satire or invective.” Tongue-in-cheek maybe, but Queenan, the author of nine books, is best known today as a humorist and cultural critic, a contributor to publications that include the New York Times, GQ and Rolling Stone.īy the time he matriculates to St. ![]() In “Closing Time,” Joe Queenan’s new memoir, the author was none too pleased with his high school girlfriend when she told him that “she had big plans for her life, and that none of them included me.” She was on her way to study music at Catholic University (out of state, that is), while Joe would be only a few blocks from home, his “dream. ![]() ![]() A memoir of growing up in extremely difficult circumstances in the City of Brotherly Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I actually have a whole section of my review dedicated to this if you need more information. 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With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on he has no great family to back him, no private army. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. ![]() As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. The Mirror and the Light, the stage adaptation for the third book of Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall trilogy, about the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court. If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later he became design director for the Olivetti Corporation of America, and then art director for Fortune magazine. When he moved to America in 1939, Lionni was hired by a Philadelphia advertising agency as art director. It was there that he met the contacts who were to give him a start as a professional graphic designer. Having settled in Milan soon after his marriage in 1931, he started off by writing about European architecture for a local magazine. Lionni's business training gradually receded into the background as his interest in art and design grew. He was born in Holland in 1910 of Dutch parents, and although his education did not include formal art courses (in fact, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa), he spent much of his free time as a child in Amsterdam's museums, teaching himself to draw. Leo Lionni has gained international renown for his paintings, graphic designs, illustrations, and sculpture, as well as for his books for children. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() All mod actions will be taken with these goals in mind. Our guidelines were designed to foster a diverse and welcoming discussion community while avoiding drama, flamewars, and promotional activity. ![]() Say "hi" at our sister subreddits- SpecArt and SF Videos-and join our reader-managed Goodreads group. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! 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They are not active combatants, but they still arm themselves, whether due to expectations that they will have to defend themselves or to reassure themselves. However, in the book, it takes on a distinctly male tone, likely due to cultural reasons: “by 1968, our men had begun slinging guns across their shoulders and carrying axes and machetes” (Okparanta, 2015, p. Strictly speaking, war is not necessarily a male phenomenon or limited only to men. As such, the author depicts the changes in the town as it becomes more warlike and prepared to fight. ![]() ![]() Even there, there is always the expectation of either being attacked by the enemy or being sent off to fight. The author uses the mood of the conflict as Ijeoma experienced it from the backlines, where the war never came. The first aspect of the setup for Ijeoma as a victim of male violence is the war that she had experienced when she was ten years old. ![]() ![]() Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. ![]() ![]() Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. ![]() With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name.Ĭlose to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book ![]() |