![]() Their relationship is fraught, each feeling the betrayal of the others as keenly as if it happened yesterday. Three sisters – James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna – meet again after seven years of being apart, in the city of New Salem. ![]() Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. ![]() ![]() In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. Opening line: There’s no such thing as witches, but there used to be. It took a little while to get going but then it turned into everything I had hoped and more. So I went into her second novel with a bit of scepticism. Harrow’s debut novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January was good, but not nearly as immersive or emotionally impactful as I had hoped. ![]() I was so worried I wouldn’t like this book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Before she leaves the dugouts, she casts her mother's ashes out in the wind in a makeshift memorial service with the townsfolk. They are soon joined by Lincoln, who tells them that the rest of the town is looking for them, and will be there shortly. They take shelter in the dugouts near an abandoned mine and wait out the storm. Outside of town, however, she finds Miles, lost and injured in the storm, and takes him with her. After discovering three "signs" to leave, she runs away with her dog, HMS Beagle, during a sandstorm. ![]() This anxiety prompts Lucky to seek help from her "Higher Power", a notion she gets from eavesdropping at her town's 12-step meetings. When she discovers Brigette's suitcase and passport lying out, she becomes convinced that Brigitte will abandon her and return to France. Lucky fears that Brigitte is tired of being her guardian and of their life in Hard Pan. ![]() After her mother died two years ago from being electrocuted, her father called upon his first ex-wife, Brigitte, to come to the United States from France to take care of Lucky. The novel features Lucky, a 10-year-old girl who lives in a small town called Hard Pan (population 43) in the California desert with her two friends Lincoln, who is an avid knot tyer and expected by his mother to be the president when he grows up, and Miles, a five-year-old whose favorite book is "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments K anders ericsson books![]() ![]() ![]() I recently spoke with Ericsson about the misconception of 10,000 Hour-Rule, the misguided emphasis on talent, and what it takes to achieve expertise. It was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers, where Gladwell coined the term “10,000 Hour-Rule.” However, Ericsson’s newest book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, co-authored with Robert Pool, shows it might not be so simple. His research suggests that expert performance is the result of years of a particular form of practice, what he calls deliberate practice-highly structured practice that requires intense focus, often tedious repetition, and immediate feedback of your performance.Ĭhances are, you’ve heard of Ericsson’s research. He has studied top musicians, athletes, doctors, and chess players, among others. Anders Ericsson, a psychologist at Florida State University, is known as the world expert on world experts. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Eldest dragon book![]() ![]() ![]() During the same skirmish, Murtagh and the Twins are taken captive by Urgals. Before he dies, Ajihad makes Eragon promise not to let the Varden fall into chaos. They are caught by surprise and Ajihad, leader of the Varden, is killed. The Varden and the dwarves are hunting down the last of the Urgals in the tunnels under Farthen Dûr. Eragon’s injuries have been healed, but he still suffers fits of pain from the wound on his back inflicted upon him by the Shade. The book starts three days after the battle at the end of Eragon. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Eldest? See the end of the recap for links to her Goodreads, Instagram, and Facebook accounts as well as links to the books she’s published. Special thanks to Lindsey Stirling, a new BSR contributor, who wrote this great recap! Visit her website to check out the books she’s written and to keep up with news about her new releases. ![]() If you are wondering what happened in Eldest, then you are in the right place! Read a full summary of Eldest, book #2 in Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle series, right here! This page is full of spoilers, so beware. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments My wicked wicked ways![]() Watching some of his movies again, I've changed my mind about him as an actor. The day before yesterday TCM showed Errol Flynn movies all day long, as well as a documentary about him. ![]() In the end, what more can you say about a man who met his second wife at his first rape trial? As if no one that witty and sophisticated and self-pitying could possibly be a child molester. He is describing his own evil acts, but doing it in such a way that you begin to feel sympathy for him. ![]() It reminded me of Humbert Humbert, the unctuous, self-justifying narrator of Lolita. But as a writer he was remarkably good, in a glib, raconteurish type of way. So, I obviously didn't come away liking him as a person. He was a slave trader in New Guinea, for God sakes! The womanizing was apparently the least wicked thing he did. ![]() I've never read anyone wallow so gloriously in their own evil-and evil is the only word for it. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Sineater by elizabeth massie![]() ![]() Sineaters, a tradition that made it to the states from Scotland and Wales, are outsiders, shunned by the community but necessary to its functioning. One lesson I took away from it was to fill up the car with gas before driving through Virginia and don't make any stops. If there is such a thing as the Hillbilly Anti-Defamation League, I am sure this book is on its radar. ![]() It's really a pretty good coming-of-age story set in a grotesque situation. I guess it's a horror novel, although I wondered if Massie's publisher didn't promote it as a genre book so it would not get lost in mid-list literary fiction. And I also had the not-uncommon prejudice against the genre, or at least against anything written much later than the turn of the 20th century.īut I liked Sineater. ![]() I have always been a pro-horror film voice, but was never attracted to reading horror novels. I picked this up because it was on the Horror Writers' Association list of horror must-reads. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, de Beauvoir argues that in order to achieve true freedom, one must battle against the choices and activities of those who suppress it. De Beauvoir outlines a series of "ways of being" (the adventurer, the passionate person, the lover, the artist, and the intellectual), each of which overcomes the former's deficiencies, and therefore can live up to the responsibilities of freedom. ![]() In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in existentialism carry with them certain ethical responsibilities. From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The tragedy paper book![]() ![]() This book aims to examine this debate, laying out the lines of disagreement and continuing tensions. But this raises the question: Why was the theme of tragedy still accepted and deployed throughout the history of Christianity nevertheless? Is this merely an accident or is there something more substantial at play? Can Christian theology take the tragic seriously? Must Christianity ultimately deny the tragic to be coherent, or might it be able to sustain its negativity? Some like George Steiner, David Bentley Hart, and John Milbank have doubts about such a coherency, but others think differently. This is apparent already in early Christianity amongst leading figures during the patristic age. Book excerpt: From the time of Plato's proposed expulsion of the poets, tragedy has repeatedly proposed a challenge to philosophical and theological certainties. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Delport and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. Delportĭownload or read book On Tragedy and Transcendence written by Khegan M. ![]() Book Synopsis On Tragedy and Transcendence by : Khegan M. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Kate moss and mario sorrenti![]() ![]() ![]() It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box's covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context. Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom. Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in one elegant volume This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moving decade by decade, Nicholson-who admits in the introduction that her survey is far from definitive, and reminds readers that one of the reasons to follow the progress of female characters is that they’re often more interesting than their male counterparts-acquaints readers with names both new and commonplace. Comic book heroines have come a long way and not always by the expected routes, as Nicholson, founder of Bedside Press, traces in this informative and entertaining encyclopedia of female characters in comics. ![]() |