5/9/2023 0 Comments The marlow murders book 2![]() ![]() The Marlow Murder Club is a new detective series of books featuring Judith Potts, a 77 year old lady who lives alone in a faded mansion on the banks of the Thames, and who likes to swim naked in the river at the bottom of her garden. Of course, for us it’s fun to see places around town mentioned…. MyMarlow got hold of a preview copy a couple of days ago, and its a really enjoyable read! An engaging murder mystery with lots of humour, and entertaining characters. Amazon is there of course, but also sellers that support local bookshops! ![]() However here are selected links to buy the book here. In current lockdown of course that is not possible, and Marlow Bookshop is closed even for click and collect. It was been picked by the Booksellers Association as their Fiction Book of the Month for January 2021, which would have meant featuring prominently in independent bookshops countrywide, with a special focus in Marlow Bookshop as you you might expect. On the same day, Robert has a new book out “The Marlow Murder Club”, set as you might expect in Marlow! This is the first in a new series of books featuring his latest detective, 77 year old Oxford-educated Judith Potts. Marlow resident Robert Thorogood is the creator of BBC’s hit show Death in Paradise, with season 10 starting today. ![]()
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5/8/2023 0 Comments The reckoning alma katsu![]() ![]() He used his mysterious, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too late that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote Maine town in the early 1800s and the man she thought she would be with forever. ![]() Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. In this "rich, satisfying, and gorgeously written sequel" ( Chapters) to her acclaimed debut novel, The Taker, Alma Katsu pairs a mysteriously alluring young woman with an ER doctor from rural Maine on a harrowing, passion-fueled chase that transcends the boundaries of time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With all my heart, it is what I should have requested myself if you had not prevented me. ![]() It is true, I was, and shall be obliged to you if you will permit me to go on in the same vein not that I would by any means deprive myself of your company, for my thoughts always flow more easily in conversation with a friend, than when I am alone: but my request is, that you would suffer me to impart my reflexions to you. But I am afraid I interrupt your thoughts: for you seemed very intent on something. Can there be a pleasanter time of the day, or a more delightful season of the year? That purple sky, those wild but sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon the trees and flowers, the gentle influence of the rising sun, these and a thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret transports its faculties too being at this time fresh and lively, are fit for those meditations, which the solitude of a garden and tranquillity of the morning naturally dispose us to. It happened well, to let you see what innocent and agreeable pleasures you lose every morning. It is indeed something unusual but my thoughts were so taken up with a subject I was discoursing of last night, that finding I could not sleep, I resolved to rise and take a turn in the garden. Good morrow, Hylas: I did not expect to find you abroad so early. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments 1776 the book![]() ![]() Studies classes at Penn State University back in the day, and I found that some of my students were quite put off to see future signers of the Declaration of Independence talking so frankly about sex, drunkenness, and bathroom functions but anyone who has read 18th-century American writers, including Benjamin Franklin, knows that Stone and Edwards are being true to the often earthy realities of American life in that time. I showed the film version of 1776 in a couple of U.S. Stone and Edwards create a colonial Philadelphia populated with characters who are quarrelsome, bawdy, and fun-loving - in short, they are about as far as one can get from the dignified monumental statuary that one sees throughout the area around the Independence National Historical Park in contemporary Philadelphia. But Stone's dialogue is just as trenchant when one is reading the book for the musical the authors effectively dramatize the Second Continental Congress's 1776 deliberations upon the subject of an American Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. ![]() Reading the play, one must “re-play” the music in one’s own mind. Watching the play on stage – as, for example, when it was staged at historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., in 2012 – or seeing the Peter Hunt film from 1972 means that one gets to enjoy Edwards’s evocative music. 1776, the Peter Stone/Sherman Edwards musical play from 1969, is quite different when you read it rather than viewing it. ![]() ![]() We get to explore the motivations behind Koldo’s, Ines’ and Geneva’s actions in depth too, as well as get some chapters from their POVs. Just like in The Princess Will Save You, the female characters are in the spotlight here. Facing unspeakable betrayals, enemies hidden in the shadows, and insurmountable odds, their only hope is the power of true love… Arrayed against them are all the players in the game of thrones for control over the continent of The Sand and Sky. To stay together forever, Princess Amarande and her stableboy love, Luca, must part: Amarande to reclaim her kingdom from usurpers, and Luca to raise a rebellion and find his destiny. The breathtaking sequel to The Princess Will Save You in the Kingdoms of Sand and Sky duology - a brilliantly-executed YA fantasy homage to The Princess Bride The Queen will Betray You by Sarah Henning mirrors the first book in the duology as Amarande has to escape the castle and journey to Torrence, though this time it’s to fight by Luca’s side. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.ĭrawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both White and Black Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of the war, three great empires - the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman - had collapsed. ![]() It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan 2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern world. ![]() It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but color. He is also co-editor of The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of black society at the turn of the century from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. Richard Wright : Critical Perspectives Past and Present / Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates is one of the most respected black literary scholars and has co-edited a series of critical perspectives on authors such as Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man became a groundbreaking document of Afro-American culture the first first-person novel ever written by a black, it became an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. ![]() ![]() First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard and double consciousness that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped-and unexpected new ones are forged-in moments of crisis. Even sunny days have a menace to them in Rumaan Alams novel Leave the World Behind, though the family at the center of the story doesn’t realize it. Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Requesting interpretations of these excerpts from Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple-and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? But in this rural area-with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service-it’s hard to know what to believe. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. are an older couple-it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshapedand unexpected new ones are forgedin moments of crisis. ![]() Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. ![]() ![]() ![]() She handles the subject of repentance and grace so, so much better than other well-known Christian authors does. The ways that Chris and Rebecca mess up might have some more ardent readers of this genre raising their eyebrows, but I loved it because it was relatable and real. Surprisingly, thanks to the author's deft and talented hand, none of this comes across as heavy-handed or "preachy," which has largely been my experience in faith-based fiction. Astfalk manages to tackle big topics like propriety, communication, theology, sex, love, family relations, marriage, and the nature of sin, all within the context of this deceptively light book. What begins as a simple love story transpires into a complex tapestry about the human experience. Chris and Rebecca are well-rounded characters who have flaws but work past those flaws in order to love each other. This book has almost everything I'm looking for in a romance. Astfalk's online presence, both on her blog/website and through conversations in our online writing group, so I finally bit the bullet and started in on her debut novel. I don't usually read straight romance or inspirational fiction. ![]() Stay With Me stayed in my to-be-read pile for quite a while before I finally got around to reading it. This in no way detracts from the honesty of my review. Disclaimer: I am acquainted with this author via social media, through mutual membership in a large online writing group. ![]() |