![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ībbottsmith, Jane. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This explains Joyce’s scathing critique in his work of all forms of saturated communities and his attempt to visualize alternative, non-essentialist communitarian forms. As Edna O’Brien explains in her biography of Joyce, he left Ireland “so he said, for fear he might succumb to the national disease which was provincialness, wind-and-piss philosophising, crookedness, vacuity and a verbal spouting that reserved sentiment for God and for the dead” (17). Joyce’s preference for exile and cosmopolitanism-both in his life and in his works-responds to his desire to safeguard artistic independence. The artist’s loneliness and apartness was, therefore, a prerequisite for creativity. ![]() He feared an artist could lose his integrity “while being involved with a community’s enterprise” (Deane 35). James Joyce believed that insular notions of Irish identity threatened the writer’s freedom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air.Īt sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know ), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. ![]() Reading Challenges: 2022 Audiobook Challenge Genres: Fiction / Friendship, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Waterstones - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first sees the fringing continents being drawn into the island Pacific and the second sees the island Pacific being flung to the periphery of these lands. His analysis harnesses two forces: centripetal and centrifugal. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective. Matt Matsuda’s splendid history shatters the basin and, with it, the rim. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. ![]() ![]() ![]() After reading a positive write-up in a library review journal, I immediately purchased Ghost Summer for the library in which I work. The Lake is the introductory story in novel and non-fiction writer Tananarive Due’s first collection of short stories. ![]() The tales below are a sampling of five feminist short stories that do indeed leave us with a “rising sense of dread” because sometimes, the horror is too personal. ![]() The horror delves into reality, where much can be hidden beneath the facade of such vanities as a life of wealth, the perfect marriage, or an idyllic community. When you combine horror with the feminist short story, you enter a whole new realm that’s even more terrifying than any Pinhead from Hellraiser or Damien from the Omen. Joyce Carol Oates once so perfectly wrote, “One criterion for horror fiction is that we are compelled to read it swiftly, with a rising sense of dread, and so total a suspension of ordinary skepticism, we inhabit the material without question and virtually as its protagonist: we can see no way out except to go forward.” This quote perfectly encapsulates why so many love the horror genre it transports its reader to another world where one can observe, and be an entirely new entity, whether person, monster, witch, or troll. Spotlight on Five Feminist-Minded Short Stories with Elements of Horror & Sci-Fi ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki ![]() ![]() Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. ![]() Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. Hailed by the New Yorker as “effervescent,” Cohen’s recent book explores a globe-trotting set of interwar American reporters who raised the alarm about the rise of fascism and rewrote the rules of journalism along the way. Join acclaimed historians Deborah Cohen and Adam Tooze in a conversation about Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016 Novella, published in Asimov's SF, January 2007. Laundry novelette, published on Tor.com, 2008. Novella, exclusive to my "Wireless" collection, July 2009. Jonathan Strahan.Īnother Laundry novelette, published on Tor.com, December 2009. Short story (set in the same universe as "Saturn's Children") forthcoming in the anthology "Engineering Infinity", ed. In some cases (where I'm not too embarrassed by work I published twenty or more years ago) there may also be links to the stories in question. What follows is, inasmuch as I can construct one, a bibliography of my short fiction sales. There are a number of works of fiction online on my website: notably the full text of my first short story collection, TOAST, the novel Accelerando, a trunk novel, Scratch Monkey, and my collaboration with Cory Doctorow, The Rapture of the Nerds. If you're looking for an overview of my books, you want to read the FAQ. ![]() ![]() ![]() My current reality feels chaotic and confusing to have a narrator take my hand and tell me that linden root and yarrow will cure a racing heart, that witches turn silver dull with their touch, is an undiluted pleasure. "Storytelling is in Hoffman’s bones, and the skill with which she dispenses information and compresses time, so that a year passes in a sentence, so that a tragedy witnessed becomes the propeller for a hundred-page subplot, is (forgive me) bewitching. Magic Lessons is a celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling. ![]() And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. ![]() ![]() Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The strength of this book is detailed, almost lyrical writing that lets you visualize the scene just as it may have been. ![]() Gerald Durrel's book is account of his family's 5-year stay in Greek island of Corfu. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate. Capturing the joyous chaos of growing up in an unconventional household, My Family and Other Animals will transport you to a place you won’t want to leave. ![]() Uproarious tales of the island’s animals and Durrell’s fond reflections on his family bring this delightful memoir to life. Soon, toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies-as well as scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, praying mantises, octopuses, pigeons, and gulls-became a common sight in the Durrell villa. When the Durrells could no longer endure the gray English climate, they did what any sensible family would do: sold their house and relocated to the sun-soaked island of Corfu.Īs they settled into their new home, hilarious mishaps ensued as a ten-year-old Gerald Durrell pursued his interest in natural history and explored the island’s fauna. The inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu, a Masterpiece production on public television: A naturalist’s account of his childhood on the exotic Greek island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Trieste, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow, their brief coincidences of existence telling of a darker future. Kafka falls in love Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever. ![]() |