![]() ![]() ![]() SW - I have just finished On the Future by Martin Rees. you have NOTHING to fear / from the poet / but the TRUTH). (When you should see / a man / walking down a crowded street / talking aloud / to himself, / don't run / in the opposite direction / but run towards him, / for he is a POET. The Beat Generation poet Ted Joans was often by the bookshop (it was where I got his mail every day) and recited his poetry to me: if you should see / a man / walking down a crowded street / talking aloud / to himself / don't run / in the opposite direction / but run towards him / for he is a POET! / you have NOTHING to fear / from the poet / but the TRUTH. SW - As a child I remember following my father around the bookshop, waving a big bunch of keys, dodging sleeping tumbleweeds, singing "Rise and Shine", and the ringing of the bells of Notre-Dame, right outside our window. NT - Do you have any memories or anecdotes from your early years living in the bookshop as a child? NT - What three words would you use to define the library? ![]()
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![]() ![]() But with a body count that’s rising by the day, werewolves and humans are in equal danger. And though he’d resolved to keep things professional, Cooper’s friction with Park soon erupts.into a physical need that can’t be contained or controlled. When more people vanish, pressure to solve the case skyrockets. As they investigate a series of mysterious deaths unlike anything they’ve seen, every bone in Cooper’s body is suspicious of his new partner-even when Park proves himself as competent as he is utterly captivating. But as far as Cooper’s concerned, it’s failing. ![]() ![]() Park is an agent of The Trust, a werewolf oversight organization working to ease escalating tensions with the BSI. A new case comes with a new partner: ruggedly sexy werewolf Oliver Park. Hunting for big bad wolves was never part of agent Cooper Dayton’s plan, but a werewolf attack lands him in the carefully guarded Bureau of Special Investigations. An ex-FBI agent is partnered with the enemy in this suspenseful first installment of Charlie Adhara’s Big Bad Wolf series ![]() ![]() ![]() Shown here is the famous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, featuring a cocky-looking Whitman in an open-necked shirt, his hand resting provocatively on his hip, appears as a frontispiece, within an embossed frame, followed by ten double-columned pages of bewildering prose, conjuring a future for American democracy under the sign of a virile democracy. 10, the “I” is absent, a typographical error corrected in subsequent printings. Lilly (who purchased it from Goodspeed’s bookstore in Boston) and a pasted-in label from booksellers Fowler, Wells & Co., Phrenological Publishers (“Professional Examinations available to visitors day and evening”), who offered Whitman's book for sale. ![]() The Lilly copy features the bookplates of previous owners Albert Thorndike and J.K. ![]() Shown here are the frontispiece and title page of the priceless first edition of Leaves of Grass, in a presumed first state of binding, second state of copyright page (Myerson, p. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() – Wait a minute, oops, actually, YES, expect it : girls drama, bullying, social groups, assignments – Just keep in mind that every single event can lead to some messed-up and bloody situation. ![]() Hey, we’re talking about an assassin‘s school, so obviously, don’t expect regular high school drama. ➋ Sarcastic humor and irreverent ton everywhere. ![]() What do you do? Do you follow them, even if it maybe means losing yourself even more? FUCK YEAH. Here comes a bunch of crazy teenagers who ask you to follow them. Tell me, fellows readers, what are you ready to do to survive? What happens when the only hope life can give you is to eat expired chili and to fight with an old homeless over your fucking shoes? When the only choice offered to you is to attend an assassin school or to wait for a painful death to come? At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a double-digit body count. 1: Reagan Youth by Lee Loughridge, Rick Remender, Wesley Craig ![]() ![]() ![]() With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. ![]() ![]() What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() Modern scholars believe the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on oral legends, but the epics are often attributed to a storyteller named Homer. As the Trojans slept, Greek soldiers emerged from their hiding place inside the wooden horse, opened the city gates, and began to burn the sleeping city. ![]() After a great victory celebration of their defeat of the Greek army, the people of Troy slept for the night. The joyous Trojans opened the city gates and pulled in the giant statue. The Greek navy pretended to sail away, but they only sailed out to a hidden location. The Greeks left a huge wooden horse as a peace offering to the Trojans. The war began after a Trojan prince named Paris kidnapped Helen.Īccording to the Odyssey, the Trojan War ended when the Greeks pretended to give up their quest for Helen. The Trojan War was fought over Helen, who according to legend was the beautiful daughter of Zeus and the wife of the king of the Greek polis of Sparta. The two oldest surviving examples of Greek literature are the Iliadand the Odyssey, epic poems that describe the Trojan War, a conflict between the Greeks and the city of Troy that the epics say was fought almost 1200 years before the Common Era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of “Malice” is told from Kaga’s perspective, as he struggles to solve one of the most difficult cases of his career. Both men used to teach at the same middle school before embarking on new careers as a detective and children’s book author, respectively. Kaga is familiar with Nonoguchi, a former colleague, although they have not seen each other for years. He documents his experiences from that day onward in meticulous detail, including the public spectacle surrounding Hidaka’s death and the police investigation, spearheaded by Detective Kyochiro Kaga. It is Nonoguchi himself who begins to tell the story, starting with the afternoon of April 16 - the last time he saw his friend alive. Hidaka’s young wife, Rie, and best friend and fellow author Osamu Nonoguchi make the grisly discovery. ![]() The incident in question is the death of famous mystery writer Kunihiko Hidaka, who is found brutally murdered inside his locked home the night before he was due to move from Japan to Vancouver. So begins Keigo Higashino’s novel “Malice.” From a seemingly straightforward opening line, “Malice” turns into a suspenseful, eerie tale full of deception that would make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie proud. ![]() “The incident took place on April 16, 1996, a Tuesday.” “Malice” by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books, 288 pages, in stores) ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved all the characters (not counting the badies of course) they all brought something to the story and supported Kit, except for one character and really he was just fighting it, once your in Kit’s orbit you can’t help but love her. I could very easily see being friends with her. I love the banter she has with her dad, the closeness she has with her best friend Luce and the playfulness she has with the guys. While Kit may have gone through a lot in her life she still looks for the positive and tries not to let things overwhelm her. She eats like a trucker, is an adrenaline junkie and very protective of those she cares about. Kit is hands down one of my favorite characters now, I love her, she’s strong, smart, brave, sassy, and foul-mouthed. Goodreadsīig shout out to my Facebook groups, I have been eyeing the Kit Davenport series for a while and after coming across it as a recommendation a bunch of times I decide to give it a try and I’m so glad I did, I love this book! I’m Kit Davenport and this is only the beginning. Teaming up with unlikely allies may be my only chance at survival or my biggest mistake. Peril lurks on every corner as I try to uncover my past and origin. Now, I don’t know who to trust or where to go. And trust me, these abilities are coveted–and dangerous. I slapped on a secret identity and became an internationally renowned thief, known as The Fox. ![]() ![]() So, I did what any privileged, adopted boarding school girl would do. I want vengeance so badly that I can almost taste it. ![]() ![]() Auden’s essay, ‘The Guilty Vicarage’ (1948). ![]() But hopefully it rang a few bells and sounded vaguely familiar, as in fact my title is alluding to W. You may even be wondering what on earth is Kate on about. You may still be puzzling over the title for this post. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK I ADVISE NOT READING BEYOND THIS POINT, AS I DO GO INTO SPOILER DETAILS. Of course Miss Marple, our elderly spinster amateur sleuth is at the centre of it all, in more ways than one. Other suspects begin to creep out of the woodwork as the police investigation unfolds including a mysterious newcomer to the village who visited Protheroe the night before, as well as am embezzler desperate to keep their crime a secret. But it soon seems like they could not have done it and did in fact confess to protect each other. ![]() Initially two obvious suspects emerge, the Colonel’s wife, Anne, and her lover, local artist Lawrence Redding, and they even go as far as confessing to the crime. ![]() There is indeed a murder at the vicarage in St Mary Mead of Colonel Protheroe the unpopular local squire who lives at the Old Hall. I think the plot of this book is quite familiar to readers, with the title summing it up in a matter of words. Later this month JJ, Moira and Brad will be discussing this novel at JJ’s blog The Invisible Event, so I thought I best to get it re-read beforehand. ![]() ![]() Gideon Cahill was an alchemist, but in the course of his efforts to find a cure for the Black Plague, he discovered a solution that would enhance the human body – intelligence, physique, artistic capabilities, ingenuity… When all the ingredients are combined, the Master Serum is formed, with the ability to transform any human being into something far beyond human. In Korea, Dan and Amy theorize that they may be searching for the Philosopher’s Stone. Over the course of the books so far, it has become clear that the clues they’re searching for are ingredients to an unknown compound. And thus we come to my least favourite book in the entire series. Plot Description: At the behest of a mysterious contact who claims to have known their grandmother, Amy and Dan Cahill travel to Russia to unravel a series of clues connected to the Lucian stronghold there, and also solve the mystery of whether Anastasia Romanova did really survive the assassination of the Tsar’s family. ![]() |