7/8/2023 0 Comments Belonging nora krug sparknotes![]() ![]() Yet she knew little about her own family's involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn't dare to as a child. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. ![]() This "ingenious reckoning with the past" ( The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany. * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal ![]() * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Good Vibrations by Mike Love![]() To each recording, I have assigned a grade that reflects my personal opinion of that track’s quality. ![]() Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and David Marks in the studio, probably in 1962 for their first album sessions. While I am partial to the Cash Box Top 100, for this article I have used the Billboard Hot 100 as it was more generous in its rankings to the group’s B-sides than Cash Box. I have also noted each track’s peak position on Billboard’s Hot 100 survey. It consists of songs recorded by the Beach Boys to which Lobe made a contribution, usually as the lyricist. Here is what I am going to say about perennial bad-boy Mike Love’s as a creative member of Beach Boy: read the following list. I can say that in the decades-long love-hate relationship that Mike Love shares with Brian Wilson, I have consistently come in on Wilson’s side in several articles in Goldmine magazine. I have tried to recall anything nasty that I had said about Love in print and came up a blank. In fact, many of his contributions to the group’s artistic and financial success are often overlooked if not intentionally denigrated by critics and historians swayed by his rep. ![]() ![]() Because of this, he has been unfairly castigated for his role in the Beach Boys. MIKE LOVE OF THE BEACH BOYS has a reputation that has dogged him around for almost fifty-and it’s generally as one of the most unpleasant people in the world of rock & roll music. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Wayétu moore![]() ![]() “Moore uses an accomplished, penetrating style―with clever swerves into fantasy―to build effective critiques of tribal misogyny, colonial abuse, and racism.” ―Publishers Weekly As with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, this work will appeal to lovers of African, African American, and literary fiction.” ―Library Journal, starred review “The dialog is fluid and poetic, allowing readers to imagine the events, sights, smells, feelings, and sensations. ![]() “Moore’s insightful, emotional descriptions graft these stories right onto readers’ hearts. “Fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be intrigued by this debut novel, a reimagining of Liberia’s infancy in the 19th century.” ―Harper’s Bazaar Moore effortlessly weaves the threads of indigenous West African tribes, American and Caribbean slavery, and British colonialism together to tell the creation story of a new nation, complete with unforgettable characters and a dynamic voice.” ―Marie Claire “This compelling debut novel by Wayétu Moore blends historical fiction with magical realism in an exhilarating tale of the formation of Liberia. Like her remarkable protagonist Gbessa, the author has tapped into her own backstory–and emerged with literary superpowers.” ―TIME Moore makes deft use of magical realism, and her plot and its details are compelling. ![]() “Reading Wayétu Moore’s debut novel, She Would Be King, feels a lot like watching a superb athlete’s performance. Named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. ![]() ![]() The ebook has a spanking new cover that is as gorguese as this book is reported to be. Reforming Lord Ragsdale by Carla Kelly Traditional Reg Rom lovers on Good Reads suggest Kelly is where its at for a warm hearted tickle of your funny bone. ![]() The Mad Miss Mathley by Michelle Martin A Good Reads recommended funny and light traditional Regency. An Unmarried Lady by Anna Wilman Even non Reg Rom readers are giving this romp the thumbs up.ĥ. Friendship and Folly: The Merriweather Chronicles Book 1 by Meredith Allady Comedy of manners promising spanky dialogue and funny scenes.Ĥ. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain Compared to Lauren Willig, this one is about a Darcy like hero about to get served up some justice…Regency style.ģ. Vandagriff Compared with Heyer and Austen, this traditional Regency is receiving high marks from reviewers as a funny romp. ![]() ![]() Likely, my voracious reading pals, you have already devoured the books off the top fifty funny Reg Roms and are craving more!Īt least, I know I have and am itching for some comedy coupled with my Regency romance…Haven’t read these yet, but they are part of a list I am compiling for myself to read–so give me a shout if you get through one before you see a review (guest reviews anyone?)ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() “But I do not want to be here any longer.” ![]() “I know ’tis not possible,” she said in a voice strained with tears. She was staring toward her father’s lands with a look of such longing that a lump formed in his throat. He lowered himself to the ground next to her, but her attention was focused on a faraway point. The grass was taller here in a small meadow where there was less slate and rock to prevent grass and flowers from growing. She was perched on a flat rock in the midst of the flowers. He forced himself to remain calm as he came to stand beside her. Even a fool could see that she was miserable. ![]() A cold fist of dread clenched his throat and squeezed relentlessly. His first reaction was to shout, “Nay!” It took all his restraint not to shout the denial. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stories are told in clumps of details that do not smooth into predictable story arcs. Exhibits, too are skipped and-ominously-redacted. The chapbook begins with Case 3, then proceeds with Case 8. The text is divided into five “cases,” each further divided into a series of “exhibits.” Such lexical cues bring to mind a legal trial or a police procedural, sparking expectations for facts, foreshadowing, and, eventually, mysteries solved.īut slippage occurs between these expectations and the content that follows. With the exception of the cover-which could easily provoke nightmares of its own-the formal presentation appears familiar and orderly. Twenty-Five Trumbulls Road consists of five chilling stories linked to a single house and its surrounding countryside. ![]() But I assure you, this is the perfect time for literary escape, and reading this winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition has transformed me into a new and enthusiastic fan of speculative literary fiction. So, full disclosure: I was already unsettled when I cracked open Christopher Locke’s new chapbook, 25 Trumbulls Road, and eager to tumble into his fictive universe. We are trapped in a sci-fi thriller in which the known world has been upended by isolation and exponential growth. ![]() As I write, real-life horrors unfold on computer screens, in nursing homes, bank accounts, and tents pitched outside hospital doors. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments From the souls of black folk![]() ![]() ![]() Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008.ī., Du Bois W E, and Brent Hayes Edwards. The Souls of Black Folk Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008.ġ. Here are The souls of black folk citations for 14 popular citation styles including Turabian style, the American Medical Association (AMA) style, the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style, IEEE, and more. The souls of black folk, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ĭu Bois, W. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.ĭu Bois, W. Brent Hayes Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).ĭu Bois, W. Edited by Brent Hayes Edwards, Oxford UP, 2008.ĭu Bois, W. Here are The souls of black folk citations for five popular citation styles: MLA, APA, Chicago (notes-bibliography), Chicago (author-date), and Harvard style. If you are looking for additional help, try the EasyBib citation generator. The souls of black folk is cited in 14 different citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, APA, ACS, and many others. Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for The souls of black folk by W. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Babette's feast short story![]() Juliana Francis Kelly, Abigail Killeen, Jo Mei, Sorab Wadia, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Sturgis Warner and Steven Skybell in “Babette’s Feast.”īabette immerses herself in her refuge but, as we find, doesn’t cease to be French. She learns to keep house simply and cook possibly flavorlessly, out of gratitude to their generosity in sheltering her. ![]() ![]() Years later, the singer, in an attempt to save his friend Babette (Michelle Hurst), a revolutionary in France’s 1848 rebellion, sends her to Berlevaag. Both men, unable to pierce the women’s fervent dedication to abstemiousness and piety, leave town dejected but forever changed. Sisters Martine (Killeen) and Philippa (Juliana Francis Kelly) carry on their father’s good works and worship, undeterred by the attentions of a dashing Swedish officer (Jeorge Bennett Watson) or a passionate French opera singer (Steven Skybell). ![]() For all its liberties and blurred lines – female actors take on male characters and vice versa, and casting is without regard to race or ethnicity – the play hews sharply to her text, as opposed to the perhaps better known 1987 Danish film adaptation. ![]() These external forces provide the yin and yang of this tale of two beguiling but ascetic daughters of a Protestant minister (Sturgis Warner) in the small Norwegian town of Berlevaag, which “looks like a child’s toy town,” as Dinesen wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title unfortunately describes the way this book is plotted. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake. ![]() And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.įollow the catastrophe curve from 11th-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. ![]() But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions.and not to die in the process. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. "History is just one damned thing after another."īehind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Stardust audio book![]() ![]() Gaiman adopts a somewhat more stylized approach to narration and storytelling. When I started re-reading it this time, I actually found myself … not enjoying it at first. Stardust is a Neil Gaiman novel and has many of the hallmarks of such. ![]() So I guess I need to review it now that I’ve recently read it again. Much to my surprise, when I went to read my previous review of this book … there wasn’t one! I have never read this book since I joined Goodreads in May 2008. I chose Stardust for its length and because it has an upbeat ending, which is something my friend expressed more interest in after not really enjoying Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I recorded a bespoke audiobook of Stardust as a Christmas gift for a friend who hasn’t had a lot of time to read and is trying to get back into it with audiobooks. One last book review from 2017! I almost forgot I read this, because I read it into a microphone. ![]() |