![]() ![]() Miss Eames' presence is a mixed blessing to Birdie and Bunce: the opinionated and annoying woman ultimately turns out to be a quick-thinking, life-saving force of nature when Birdie's kidnapped by nefarious necromancer Dr. Their work schedule is humming along nicely when Miss Eames, a bluestocking who is researching the faerie realm, pays to accompany them on their rounds. Bunce reduces them to slime and ash with a strike of a charmed spear. ![]() With good training, steady nerves, and an exquisite singing voice, Birdie lures bogles into the salt circle where Mr. ![]() Bunce, an intelligent and kindly, if somewhat morose, bogler, a sort of supernatural exterminator ridding households and businesses of troublesome bogles that hide in the properties' deep recesses and eat children. Ten-year-old Birdie knows she's quite well off as poor Victorian orphans go. ![]()
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![]() ![]() How do you view this?Ī: The Mughal empire is a critical chapter in India’s long, diverse history. Q: Your book ‘Culture of Encounters’ comes at a time when there is a perceived effort to demonise and rewrite Mughal influence in Indian history. The author also says that she faced backlash from Indian right wing groups against the book, published by Penguin Books India. Truschke, an assistant professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University, says that Hindu nationalism is deeply tied to colonial ideas and rewriting the past is a “dangerous activity”. ![]() New Delhi– Mughal rulers patronised Sanskrit literature in their courts, especially between AD 1560 to 1660, and also took up Persian translations of epics like the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as ambitious projects, says scholar Audrey Truschke in her book ‘Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court’. ![]() ![]() She literally karate kicks one of her would-be patrons in the nose. What makes this a bit easier to read is that Xiang Xiang/Precious Orchid is not passive. The rest of the beginning is Xiang Xiang getting groomed to auction off her innocence, just like in MoaG. I bet they don't make hallmark cards for that. And this forces Xiang Xiang's mother into monkhood, and she basically just donates Xiang Xiang to a brothel. The book literally starts out with Xiang Xiang's father being unfairly tried and murdered by a warlord who was abusing and subsequently killed his own daughter, and then thought, hey I think I'll frame that one guy. There is graphic sexual and physical violence. Today I'm going to be telling you all about PEACH BLOSSOM PAVILION, a sort of MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA-esque story about a woman's rise, fall, and escape from a brothel in China.įirst off, a caveat: this book is NOT for the faint of heart. Obviously you should read diversely year-round but there's always a couple books that slip by me, so I thought I'd try to binge through them. ![]() It's AAPI month and I've been trying to read as many Asian-authored books on my Kindle as possible. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The radetzky march![]() ![]() lícula El Coronel Redl, del director hongarès István Szabó, s'escolta aquesta marxa en els crèdits inicials i finals, clara referència a l'exèrcit austrohongarès, institució a la qual va pertànyer.Durant aquesta última obra, l'audiència aplaudeix al compàs i el director torna per dirigir el públic en lloc de fer-ho a l'orquestra. Actualment, la Marxa Radetzky deu la seva popularitat a què és la peça que clou el Concert d'Any Nou de la Filharmònica de Viena. ![]() Però quan després d'un temps Radetzky va prendre part en la repressió del moviment revolucionari a Àustria, la marxa va arribar a ser considerada com un símbol reaccionari. La marxa va assolir gran popularitat com a expressió del nacionalisme austríac. Va ser composta en honor del mariscal de camp austríac comte Joseph Radetzky, que en una sèrie de victòries, va salvar el poder militar d'Àustria al nord d'Itàlia durant la revolució de 1848-49. La Marxa Radetzky és una composició orquestral de Johann Strauss, escrita l'any 1848. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Fletch's fortune![]() ![]() Naked, her breasts and hips full, her stomach lean, she lay on her back between the coffee table and the divan. “There’s a murdered girl in my living room.” “Sergeant, this is Mister Fletcher, 152 Beacon Street, apartment 6B.” The painting over the desk was a Ford Madox Brown-a country couple wrapped against the wind. On the little desk was a black telephone. There were two red leather wing chairs in the room, a small divan, and a coffee table. The movie adaptation releases this week, so it’s been on my mind.įletch snapped on the light and looked into the den.Įxcept for the long windows and the area over the desk, the walls were lined with books. This is one of my all-time favorite openings (and boy howdy, I had a hard time deciding when to stop). Sometimes the characters will hook the reader, sometimes the premise, sometimes it’s just knowing the author-but nothing beats a great opening for getting a reader to commit. Head & Shoulders used to tell us that, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” That’s true for wearing dark shirts, and it’s especially true for books. ![]() ![]() Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/Thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This "spy's version of Christmas" was enjoyable and different. In the course of a wild and violent night, the unlikely trio learns lessons of generosity, courage, and selflessness, discovering within themselves the luminous strength of the true Christmas spirit. And so, with the exquisitely honed skills of his profession and the help and good faith of a weary woman and a disillusioned boy, Kagan must take on forces that will stop at nothing. Just a short distance away, Kagan will find an unexpected pair of allies-a mother and her young son, who huddle together after a horrible episode of domestic violence leaves them home alone, with no means of transportation. He must ensure this baby’s survival, even if it will cost him his own life. ![]() His pursuers are his former colleagues-members of the Russian mafia who will stop at nothing to accomplish their mission. Agent Paul Kagan’s bundle is a baby who has the power to change the course of global events. A desperate man, dressed all in black, feverishly seeks refuge for himself and the squirming bundle he holds tightly against his chest. It’s Christmas Eve in Santa Fe, but among the revelers on Canyon Road, a decidedly unholy scene is taking place. ![]() ![]() ![]() He then visits the holiday party of his employer, Mr Fezziwig, who despite modest means embodies the spirit of celebration. ![]() The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to scenes from his earlier life, where he is reminded that he was once a kinder and gentler person.Īt his old school, he reexperiences what it is like to be lonely at the holidays until he is rescued by his sister. The British LibraryĪt home that night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley, who “died seven years ago, this very night.” Now wandering the earth dragging heavy chains forged by his own avarice, Marley warns Scrooge that he will meet the same fate if he does not listen to the three spirits who will visit him during the night. Ebenezer Scrooge visited by Marley’s Ghost, from the 1843 edition of a Christmas Carol. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Molly says, 'Cooking is really fun, I swear. Throughout, you'll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short, technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills. More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation through visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavour, giving you all the tools necessary to make food that tastes great every time. ![]() Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavour with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and, of course, her signature Cae Sal. If you seek out, celebrate and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you've just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness.Ĭook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who's here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, less stressed, more efficient cook. A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook from Molly Baz, featuring fun, flavourful recipes anyone can make. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The list by patricia forde![]() ![]() Her disillusion deepens when her master goes missing and when a young boy, son of her neighbor, is banished for misusing language. ![]() When Letta chooses to shelter a wounded boy, Marlo, shot as a Desecrator by Noa’s security force, the corruption at the heart of things begins to reveal itself to Letta. Noa is obsessed with the potential of the spoken word to influence human conflict and confusion. ![]() She is at the mercy of John Noa, the controlling savior of a number of people who joined his Ark just before a warming planet Earth produced massive, devastating floods in an event remembered as the Melting. Young Letta becomes wordsmith to her community in a future that follows a climate apocalypse.Ī likable protagonist, Letta (white with green eyes and red hair) is the one positive female character in this narrative of resistance and revelation. ![]() ![]() Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the voice of narrative journalism grew more informal and personal, Kramer says. “He paints painfully vivid scenes, interspersed with informational asides addressed directly to the reader.” Taken together, Kramer says, Hersey used these qualities to create a voice that was a simplified version of himself, but one we recognize as a humane guide, “one of us who had gone and had a look at the horror.” A test for an engaging voice “Hersey weaves in, rather than sets aside, his compassionate understanding,” Kramer says. As an example of that voice, Kramer read a short section from John Hersey’s “Hiroshima.” That voice is fine in its place, Kramer says, but when writing narrative journalism, the voice of the story must invite you to read it “with your soul wide open, as you would reading a poem or listening to a friend.” The narrative journalism voice offers vivid detail, has a range of emotions, and shows empathy. ![]() Roy Peter Clark on productive writing in a pandemic yearĪngel Jennings on being in the community and bringing yourself to stories The Power of Narrative: Non-fiction narrative in challenging times ![]() |