![]() ![]() ![]() The Blood of Roses (second volume of the " Scotland" trilogy), Paperjacks (New York, NY), 1989. The Pride of Lions (first volume of the " Scotland" trilogy), Paperjacks (New York, NY), 1988. ![]() The Wind and the Sea, Paperjacks (New York, NY), 1986. WRITINGS: ROMANCE NOVELSīound by the Heart, Avon (New York, NY), 1984. E-mail- ĪWARDS, HONORS: Swashbuckler of the Year Award, Romantic Times, 1986, for The Wind and the Sea, and 1988, for The Pride of Lions Golden Quill Award, Affaire de Coeur, 1986, for The Wind and the Sea Career Achievement Award, Romantic Times, 1989, 1998 Best Historical Romance of the Year Award and Storyteller of the Year Award, Romantic Times, 1991, for Through a Dark Mist Best Medieval Romance of the Year Award, Romantic Times, 1994, for In the Shadow of Midnight Francis Award for Best Medieval Romance of the Year, Romance Journal, 1997, for Through a Dark Mist Hughie Award, RBL Romantica, 1998, for The Blood of Roses Favorite Historical Romance Award, Addicted to Romance Books, 1999, for Swept Away. Agent-Signet Publicity, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014. ![]() Hobbies and other interests: Travel, working with stained glass.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Sharon, Ontario, Canada. 1973 husband's name Peter children: Jeffrey. PERSONAL: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada married, c. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He spent much of his life in hospitals, and died before he turned three. Shortly after Delaney’s son Henry turned one, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. ![]() “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. ![]() ![]() “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Evelyn waugh 1938 novel![]() ![]() Vile Bodies – 1930 – this is a novel that satirises the decadent young London society between the two World Wars. ![]() It’s a social satire that employs his famous black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.
6/5/2023 0 Comments The game neil strauss audible![]() ![]() ![]() However, it should be understood that this particular book is a memoir and an expose by a Rolling Stone journalist, not an actual pickup Guide. People are likely to have strong feelings about this book, from disgust to bemusement to desperate interest on the part of the AFCs ("Average Frustrated Chumps") that Strauss talks so much about, after confessing to being one. Won't up your Game, but better than reality TV The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year. And then things really start to get strange - and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year - guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. And Neil Strauss, the best-selling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. They live together in houses known as Projects. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments The buried giant book![]() In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". ![]() His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. ![]() Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments The far field book![]() I took it home, set it on my messy overflow bookshelf, and kept promising myself that I'd read it (along with the 30+ other books on that shelf.) There it sat, untouched until I decided that this year I was going to observe the "Icelandic tradition" circulating on the internet where people read books and eat chocolate on Christmas Eve night. However, at a recent library book sale, I found a slim paperback of The Far Field and delightedly threw it into my $1 bag of books. I discovered Theodore Rothke's poetry in college, and, although I was enchanted by it, I didn't really have the time to sit around, musing about poetry. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder![]() ![]() The film was described as a "ghost story and gothic romance" heavily inspired by other horror films, such as The Haunting, The Innocents and The Shining. ![]() Development was delayed due to scheduling conflicts. In 2006, a spec script written by Del Toro and Robbins was sold to Universal Pictures, with Del Toro set to direct. There, she must decipher the mystery behind the ghostly visions that haunt her new home. The story, set in Edwardian-era England, follows an aspiring author who travels to a remote Gothic mansion in Cumberland, England with her new husband and his sister. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver. Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Cowgirls get the blues book![]() ![]() ![]() That's not to say that his female (or male, for that matter) characters are immune to a deeply-buried hatred of women or a painfully obvious yearning to fetishize the human form as little more than living, breathing, sweating, stinking sex toys.Īnd if that doesn't constitute my own personal pile of toro feces, I don't know what will. He seems to have severe issues in dealing with authority figures, from the political to the personal, and it's probably this, more than any latent misogyny or objectification of women that informs his peculiar brand of feminism. Admittedly, Robbins self-indulgence and complete lack of discipline did get tiresome from time to time, the verve with which he wrote it provides the book with the only excuse it needs.Īs far as what he or the book are attempting to say? I'll be damned if I know. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was a very fun read, despite its many flaws. ![]() In spite of the readily apparent flimsiness that results, what's left feel remarkably authentic. ![]() Show More begin to imagine that Robbins actually believes half of what he writes (and if he does, what the hell does it matter anyway?), but I get a kick out of his willingness to throw everything, including the kitchen sink, onto the page and leave the rest of us to mop up the detritus. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Feed mt anderson review![]() The characters within the novel dwell on technology and cannot live without it because of the feed implanted in their brains. ![]() Anderson is a science fiction book that is prevalent and apparent in present times. Often times, science fiction books seem unrealistic and set in the distant future. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world and a smart, savage satire about the nature of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager in America.” A girl who decides to fight the feed.įollowing in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, M. ![]() ![]() After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. ![]() So says Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his feed, a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. ![]() ![]() publishers decisions do not always make the most sense…Īn Introduction which gives a brief history of the publishing of Persuasion, and the differences in this final novel from Austen’s other worksĪ Chronology of the novel Shapard is known for his annotated edition of Pride and Prejudice – so I cannot compare this book to that edition – though I have found that work quite useful as a reliable reference source – it was first published in hardcover followed by a paperback edition this Persuasion is only in paperback… it is also a smaller format, likely because the novel is so much shorter, but this renders the many illustrations quite small – but I quibble about these few drawbacks …. Shapard – and I have discovered a veritable feast! ![]() Last week I ran into Barnes & Noble to pick up the latest annotated Pride and Prejudice, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks, and since then I have been “gadding about” as Austen would say – so no time to really give it a complete read and review but in another trek yesterday into yet another Barnes & Noble, my husband stumbled upon the just published The Annotated Persuasion, annotated and edited by David M. ![]() |