7/8/2023 0 Comments Neapolitan quartet![]() ![]() ![]() “It was a real, very real, object, and yet there was nothing more variable in my mind. “I’d like to take a small example that I found in my notes of long ago: the aquamarine on my mother’s finger,” she notes here. In this excerpt from “Aquamarine,” an Oprah Daily exclusive, she reflects on her mother’s ornate ring, a talisman from her childhood. ![]() Reinvention, she discovers, is the name of her game. (Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, including My Brilliant Friend, have sold 4 million copies in North America and over 8 million globally.) With In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing (Europa)-four sparkling pieces based on a series of lectures-she brings out her toolbox, dissecting the creative process, her grand themes, and indelible characters while paying homage to authors and books that have shaped her. Craft essays are all the rage, but one author soars above a crowded field.Įlena Ferrante, the doyenne of Italian literature, is renowned for her bestselling Neapolitan quartet and The Lost Daughter, adapted by Maggie Gyllenhaal into an acclaimed film starring Olivia Colman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Wren basically shuts down, puts all of her big plans for college on hold, and runs off to her father's house in rural Maine to decompress, recharge, and figure out what to do with herself now that she's been touched so closely by death. I loved it, and will be looking forward to more from Amy McNamara for sure.įirst and foremost, LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP is about a young girl, Wren, whose life has been turned on its head following the car accident that killed her high school boyfriend but left her alive to come to grips with the aftermath. ![]() It's a quiet, intense, emotional book about grieving and the changes death makes in the lives of the people who lived, and it's a sweet love story about the things that can bring a grieving person back from their inconsolable sadness. This book is all of those things: the writing is lovely, the tone is kind of dark, and there's lots of deep feels going on. LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP, Amy McNamara`s debut, is one of those books whose title is basically perfect. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Crash & Burn by Abigail Roux![]() ![]() Her debut single, "Yasashii Kibou" ( やさしい希望, lit. Hayami is known for her singing mainly through her work performing anime and character theme songs, such as Kaede Takagaki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls franchise. She has been hosting her own radio show Hayami Saori no Free Style since 2011 which won Best Comfort Radio in general category at 3rd Aniradi Awards in 2017. She placed #2 in 2015 Newtype x Machi Asobi Anime Awards for Best Voice Actress while her character Yukino Yukinoshita won Best Female Character Award. Since then, she has been active in voicing many other characters in anime-related media and other voice acting works. ![]() In 2007, she made her anime debut and landed her first major role as Momoka Kawakabe, the main heroine in Touka Gettan. Her voice acting debut was in the Indian Summer drama CD. Her career began when she passed an audition for I'm Enterprise in 2006, at the end of her second year in training school. In 2004, she attended junior class of Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyūjo, a voice acting training school. Hayami became interested in voice acting while attending elementary school. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Novel by as byatt![]() Byatt spent a symbolic 11 years teaching (the same length of time as her son had lived), then began full-time writing in 1983. In the same week she accepted, a drunk driver killed her son as he walked home from school. Byatt took a teaching job in 1972 so as to help pay for the education of her only son. It was during Byatt's time at university that she began work on her first two novels, subsequently published by Chatto & Windus as Shadow of a Sun (1964 reprinted in 1991 with its originally intended title, The Shadow of the Sun) and The Game (1967). Īfter attending the University of Cambridge, she married in 1959 and moved to Durham. Her books have been widely translated, into more than thirty languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ə t/ BY-ət), is an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Dame Antonia Susan Duffy DBE HonFBA ( née Drabble born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. ![]() ![]() 'A thoroughly charming academic fairy tale, complete with footnotes and a low-key grumpy romance' Guardian 'Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light ![]() Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bamblebyīut as Emily gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones - the most elusive of all faeries - she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all - her own heart. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular WitchesĮnter the world of the hidden folk - and discover the most whimsical, enchanting and heart-warming tale you'll read this year, featuring the intrepid Emily Wilde.Įmily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries she is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopaedia of faerie lore. ![]() ![]() And I have learned a jillion things that will help you survive at that place. ![]() Junie B., Jones! I have been going to school for over one and a half entire years now. Over 65 million copies sold! Hello, school children! Hello! It's me. Jones, in this interactive classroom survival guide! The #1 New York Times bestselling chapter book series has been keeping kids laughing-and reading-for more than twenty-five years. Barbara Park makes reading fun.” -Dav Pilkey, author of the Dog Man series Get ready to go back to school with the world's funniest kid, Junie B. ![]() Download Junie B s Essential Survival Guide to School Junie B Jones Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a prodigy that the giant Fionn MacCumhaill built the Causeway to go the island of Staffa but the geographical evidence says that the Causeway is the result of the volcanic eruptions that happened sixty million years ago. Many individuals own some sections of the cliff top parts as their private property ( Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast Northern Island, United Kingdom, 2009). The national Trust manages the cliffs and foreshore and it is under the supervision of the Environment and Heritage Service of the Department of the Environment of the Northern Ireland. The car park area, visitor facilities and hotel are included in this area. ![]() In 1987 the coast was announced as a national Nature Reserve. In 1986 the World Heritage listed it under Natural Criteria VII and VIII. The coast is named as Giant Causeway which is in county Antrim. The coast of Northern Ireland is the composition of approximately 40,000 huge columns of black basalt and some part of this creates a wide pavement of polygonal blocks going into the sea. Learn More Introduction: General Overview ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest novel is Fellstones from Flame Tree Press, who has also recently published his Brichester Mythos trilogy. ![]() The Village Killings collects his novellas, and Ramsey’s Rambles his film reviews. The two volumes of Phantasmagorical Stories offer a sixty-year retrospective of his short fiction. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer,” and the Washington Post sums up his work as “ one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction.” He has received the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a man who wants to buy the trees off of Cassie's family yard, but the question is with her father approve of the choice. With Cassie is in Mississippi her father is working in Louisianan to bring home money and medicine. This book is about a family who seems loving, down to earth and lives with encouragement. This book holds a few awards such as the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award for Author Honor, First prize, Council on Interracial Books for Children, Outstanding Book of the Year Citation, The New York Times, and the Jane Addams Honors Citation. With this simple story, Mildred Taylor began sharing her family’s stories- the stories told by her parents and grandparents. Logan’s ploy drives the men off and saves the tree, but Cassie wonders if they will every sing again. ![]() The night they arrive home, they lay sticks of dynamite throughout the woods. Logan brings a black detonator box with him. ![]() Stacey, Cassie’s older brother, goes for Mr. The white man who makes the deal tries to swindle her by taking more trees than he pays for. Big Ma (Cassie's grandmother) feels forced by necessity to sell some of the trees. ![]() Logan is away working on railroad construction. They are alive, and she can often hear them sing. They aren't typical of other blacks, and they certainly don't act the way the whites want them to. It's hard for the white people in the area to countenance the confidence this land gives the Logans. Cassie Logan's family is the only black family to own land in their township of Mississippi. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments El Cerrito by Edward Staniford![]() ![]() (Dan Rosenstrauch/Bay Area News Group file photo) 23, 2021, his murder conviction and death penalty sentence were overturned after the California Supreme Court ruled that a Contra Costa County trial court did not properly assess his competency to stand trial. Edward Wycoff is shown in a 2009 photo during his murder trial in the slayings of his sister and brother-in-law in El Cerrito in 2006. The murder conviction of Edward Wycoff, sentenced to death in the grisly stabbings of his sister and brother-in-law at their El Cerrito home 15 years ago, has been overturned by California’s highest court, which ruled that a Contra Costa County trial judge erred by not holding a mental-competency hearing for the man who turned his trial into a bizarre “entertainment show” with antics that included cruelly taunting the victims’ children. ![]() |