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At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the other brave boys of their generation, Ellis and Hank are not off fighting Hitler they are 4-F due to color blindness and flat feet, respectively. If only she could have gotten this across to Gruen ( Ape House, 2010, etc.), who is not likely to replicate the success of the best-selling Water for Elephants (2006) with this silly novel. "I pointed out, as gently as I could, what I’d hoped was obvious: that it made no sense whatsoever to throw ourselves into the middle of an ocean crawling with U-boats on a quest to find a monster that probably didn't even exist," explains Maddie Hyde as she embarks on that very journey with her husband and their best friend. Three spoiled brats from Philadelphia go to Scotland to look for the Loch Ness monster in the middle of World War II. ![]()
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Book by lady anne glenconner6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Eldest child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, she was, as a daughter, described as 'the greatest disappointment' by her family as she was unable to inherit. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and extraordinary resilience which define her.Īnne Glenconner has been close to the Royal Family since childhood. The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation. Funny and touching - like looking through a keyhole at a lost world.' 'Discretion and honour emerge as the hallmarks of Glenconner's career as a royal servant, culminating in this book which manages to be both candid and kind' emotion resonates through this delightful memoir' 'Gentle, wise, unpretentious, but above all inspiring' ![]() ![]() It's one of those books that makes you long for bed so you can read more!' 'The gossip is stupendous but it's also tremendously touching. 'The stoical Lady G writes with infectious joy and optimism' ![]() 'A captivating account of a life lived with resilience and grace' 'If your jaw doesn't drop at least three times every chapter, you've not been paying proper attention' ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** ![]()
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What remains by carole radziwill6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Carole Radziwill explores the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention with unflinching honesty. Instead, Carole and Anthony mourned John and Carolyn, as Carole planned her husband's memorial. Buy What Remains: A Memoir Of Fate, Friendship And Love online. The summer of the plane crash, the four friends were meant to be cherishing Anthony's last days. What Remains: A Memoir Of Fate, Friendship And Love by Carole Radziwill. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. A small plane plunges into the ocean, carrying John Kennedy, Anthony's cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole's closest friend. What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. With unflinching honesty and a journalists keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the. ![]() At the age of nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Carole Radziwill worked as an award-winning journalist with ABC News for fifteen years. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a. Carole DiFalco Radziwill grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. What Remains is a haunting memoir about a girl from a working class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill, the nephew of President John F. ![]()
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All rhodes lead6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Sullivan has stated that his conservatism is rooted in his Catholic background and in the ideas of the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott. His newsletter The Weekly Dish was launched in July 2020. From 2016 to 2020, Sullivan was a writer-at-large at New York. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish, in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent subscription-based format. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. comĪndrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. ![]()
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White Trash by Nancy Isenberg6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But she does show that for several centuries now, the white underclass has perplexed elites and other observers. ![]() Trump’s presidential run is not mentioned in Nancy Isenberg’s comprehensive and fascinating new study. Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem. Never mind that numerous analyses have found that Trump’s appeal actually cuts across socioeconomic (if not racial) lines. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. Williamson railed that the “white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Reporting on the Donald Trump phenomena back in May, John Harris wrote in the British newspaper The Guardian that while Trump was indeed frightening, his liberal critics relied on “caricatures of rednecks and white trash.” Meanwhile, writing for the conservative National Review, Kevin B. ![]()
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Untitled by Paula Chase6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Three weeks into the controversy surrounding his intensely homophobic and transphobic Netflix comedy special “The Closer,” Chappelle remains the opposite of canceled. And he lashed out at transgender people whenever he could. In between their short sets, Chappelle lashed out at his critics, bemoaning his alleged cancellation to a crowd of 18,000 fans then mocking the idea of getting canceled. ![]() Jeff Ross opened, the magnificently raunchy Luenell followed, and after the film came a crescendoing series of East Bay musical legends: Goapele, Raphael Saadiq, Too Short and E-40 (plus Lil Jon). The premiere had the atmosphere of a party - an incredible party, if one at which everyone’s cellphone went into a Yondr pouch for the full four-and-a-half hours. ![]()
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Mozart biography6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Inevitably, the financial assistance from Augsburg dried up and in the late 1730s, Leopold broke off his studies and entered the service of Count Johann Baptist Thurn-Valsassina und Taxis as a valet and musician.įor the next two decades Leopold's career resembled that of numerous professional musicians of the period. Leopold, however, had no intention of becoming a priest and once in Salzburg, to study at the University, abandoned his theological studies in favour of logic and jurisprudence. ![]() While he is best remembered today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang, Leopold Mozart was a prolific composer and in his own lifetime enjoyed a reputation as a man of intellect and discernment in his own lifetime.īorn in Augsburg to a respectable family of tradesmen, Leopold sang in the choir of the Church of the Holy Cross as a child and was singled out by the clerics early on for a career in the Church, a sequence of events fairly commonplace for a talented youth in the Eighteenth Century. ![]()
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Barabbas by par lagerkvist6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() A woman after Mass told me that there had also been a movie about Barabbas based on a book that was much better. ![]() Likewise, we are the guilty ones and Jesus, the innocent one, died for us.Īs I was preaching, I brought to mind an old Hallmark special TV drama about Barabbas that fascinated me as a boy. ![]() That included for me Barabbas, I said, because we have something in common with him.īarabbas was guilty and was set free, while Jesus was innocent and condemned to die. My spiritual reading for Lent this year was a book by a Spanish saint who proposed a novel idea: that we should be so involved and engaged as we read the Gospels that we become virtual participants in them.Īs I explained this initiative to my parishioners in my homily for Palm Sunday, one of my applications of this was that, inserted in the narrative, we relate to the other actors in the drama of our salvation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Somewhere near the end, the author made me tear up I was so caught up with Willa and her delicate frailty. I was sent this pdf format of the book and I was surprised at how quickly I could read it but then was required to stop and really think about these characters and what was happening. The dilemma, crisis, and resolution of the main character’s challenge was well done. This is a story which fits with current events in the world and certainly past behaviors of countries and individuals. I became so quickly invested in it that I was caught by surprise by this beauty and the words said and unsaid as it was building. The description of the main relationship is beautiful. With the minor characters, we have described just what we need to know. The author is quite good at describing the main characters with the reader getting to know their thoughts and feelings thoroughly with no wasted dialogue or extra scenes. I loved it for the finesse on the writing with words so simply stated but always carrying great weight and power as well as the main characters who represented the grand ideals of intellect and compassion coming together. I’m going to wing this review as I am still a bit overwhelmed. ![]() This is an ARC graciously provided to me by Ylva Publishing ![]()
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Book mayflower nathaniel philbrick6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Providing explanatory notes for every piece, the editors have vividly re-created the world of seventeenth-century New England for anyone interested in the early history of our nation.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() The selections include William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" (1651), the most comprehensive of all contemporary accounts of settlement in seventeenth-century America Benjamin Church's "Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War 1716," an eye-opening account from Church's field notes from battle and much more. National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the writing of Mayflower, offering a definitive look at a crucial era of America's history. The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower ![]() |