![]() Several chapters drop off at cliffhanger moments-will the illicit relationship be discovered?-only to skip ahead weeks or months with little resolution. Occasionally the moral lines become a little too tidy and character motivations a little too noble. And as the household cook warns her, “ seen too many masters and servants crossing the boundaries… It never ends well for the servant.”īenedict paints a chiaroscuro picture of 1860s Pittsburgh, with the opulence of fine gowns and banquets alternating with the black soot of poverty. Andrew Carnegie may have come from a modest immigrant background like her own, but he is quickly becoming one of the most ruthless industrialists in history. ![]() And as the dashing son of the household, Andrew Carnegie, begins to take an interest in her, Clara must decide whether she is willing to risk her position – and her family’s safety-for a chance at something more. Mistaken for another Irish girl of the same name, she is offered a coveted position as a lady’s maid in the home of the Carnegies-an up-and-coming family soon to be among the wealthiest in America.īut as Clara adapts to her new duties, she must maintain her false identity as a Protestant with experience serving in the elegant homes of Dublin. Clara Kelley finds her way from an impoverished village in Galway to the bustling streets of Pittsburgh, determined to secure a position in America and send money home to her struggling family. ![]()
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![]() She retains a tone and attitude that either resonates with you or not. Her sentences do not get better or different with time, neither do her themes. Either you are taken with her from the start or you decide that she’s not for you and move on. So there, let’s say it in a no-nonsense way: Didion is not an acquired taste. ![]() I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because they seemed to sum up, in a no-nonsense way, all I have to tell you. You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions – with the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than stating – but there’s no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writer’s sensibility on the reader’s most private space. In many ways, writing is the art of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying “listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.” It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this: One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. ![]() Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. ![]() ![]() Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered. The book, We Contain Multitudes ISBN# 9780316524650 in Hardcover by Sarah Henstra may be ordered in bulk quantities. This rare and special novel celebrates love and life with engaging characters and stunning language, making it perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, Nina LaCour, and David Levithan. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life Hardcover Illustrated, Augby Ed Yong (Author) 3,481 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.06 46 Used from 7.98 31 New from 19. But with homophobia, bullying, and devastating family secrets, Jonathan and Kurl struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto their relationship.and each other. He dresses as Walt, talks like Walt, and writes like Walt. Jo is a 15-year-old, openly gay Walt Whitman fan. ![]() ![]() With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. We Contain Multitudes follows Kurl and Jo, as they write letters to each other, after being paired in a penpal assignment. Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teens boys, told through the letters they write to one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Its 3,600-some pages, at once weirdly self-deprecating and breathtakingly egoistic, began to appear in English, at the rate of a volume a year, in 2012, culminating this fall with the translation of Book Six. Brutally candid in its banality and sordidness, forsaking conventional strategies of narration and characterization for a heady rush of words on the page, this great disruption of contemporary fiction has sought nothing less than to break the form of the novel. I know all this, as do Knausgaard’s readers around the world, because he has written about it in My Struggle, the massive autobiographical novel that has been the most unlikely international literary sensation of the past decade. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul Binding, a literary critic who penned a book about Andersen, said the long-lasting appeal of his stories go beyond their authenticity. There’s also evidence that Andersen placed his characters in desperate and hopeless situations to reflect his own personal traumas, which included being raised in poverty, losing his father, and having to briefly work in a factory at age 11 to support his mother. Andersen even admitted of The Ugly Duckling, “This story is, of course, a reflection of my own life.” Much like the ugly duckling, Andersen only later in life became the “swan”-a cultured, world-renowned writer with friends in high places. As a boy, he was teased for his appearance and high-pitched voice, which often made him feel isolated, and he later wrote a story about a boy named Hans who gets made fun of as a child. Some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are autobiographical.Īccording to scholars, the tale of The Ugly Duckling reflects Andersen’s own feelings of alienation. Here are seven surprising facts about Andersen’s life and legacy that you won't find in the children's section of a bookstore. However, few people know much about the man behind these famous fairy tales-a man who endured many hardships and, by some accounts, transformed his pain into art. Famed Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is recognized around the world for his beloved books, including The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, and many others. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the war Tutuola had to take a job as a messenger, and it gave him time, between errands, to write down stories he had heard. ![]() He served as a coppersmith in the West African Air Corps of the British military in World War II. He later tried his hand at farming, without success, then pursued the blacksmith trade. On the way he meets with a series of adventures, in the process gaining a wife and wisdom.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in 1929 in western Nigeria, Amos Tutuola achieved only a sixth-grade education due to financial constraints following his father’s death. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ TownĪ novel set in Nigeria in the timeless folkloric past published in English in 1952.ĭrinkard, the protaganist and narrator of the novel, goes in search of his deceased palm-wine tapster in Deads’ Town. ![]() ![]() No telling how many were planned, but only three were announced, only two were ever published, and of those only one was even completed. The proposed All-Star series was meant to give ace #1 creators carte blanche in remaking certain characters EXACTLY as they saw them, outside of any continuity with the mainline DC universe or even other “All-Star” books. The info I found was as bizarre as the series itself.Īll-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder was (intended to be) a 12 issue mini-series made by two of DC’s all-stars, Frank Miller and Jim Lee. The book was just bizarre, for reasons I go into below, so utterly bizarre I went fishing for info online, which I never do. I read that there had been one other “All-Star” book, went to buy it on Friday, and… I already owned it. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely knocked that one out of the park. ![]() I do remember buying All-Star Superman on the strength of a recommend. ![]() The story would make more sense if I had been. I don’t know why I bought it, who recommended it to me, or what I was thinking when I purchased it. I purchased it exactly two weeks ago, but I have no memory of doing so. But I’ll get to all that in a second.įirst, and I swear this is not a joke, I don’t remember buying this book. ![]() So, All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. ![]() ![]() ![]() The neurobiology of Alzheimer disease is complicated. It’s more complex and is associated with a mix of both genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors. Late onset Alzheimer disease, as the name suggests, occurs late, after the age of 65. Early onset Alzheimer disease occurs before the age of 65. It’s also called Familial Alzheimer disease because it’s caused by one of three autosomal dominant genes (if you have a copy of the gene, then you will get the disease). There are two main forms of Alzheimer disease, an early onset type which accounts for about 5% cases, and a late onset type which accounts for the rest. Alzheimer’s exacts a great emotional toll on someone’s family and friends, both in terms of carer stress, and in seeing the person they love gradually slip away as the disease slowly erodes their personality until there’s nothing left. That’s a staggering economic cost, but the human cost is higher. According to the 2018 report by the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 5.7 million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer dementia, costing their economy $277 billion in 2018. It causes a spectrum of memory impairment from forgetting where the car keys are through to forgetting to eat or drink. It’s the most common progressive neurodegenerative disease worldwide and accounts for 60 to 80% of dementia cases. ![]() ![]() In her latest blog post, Dr Caroline Leaf attempted to tackle the complex topic of Alzheimer disease.Īlzheimer disease is an important topic. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s all just very sexy and I am SO invested in these two. These two were made for each other and their romance is tense, sweet and gorgeous – just *chef’s kiss*. Nirrim slowly accepts her sexuality in a beautiful way. It starts with a grudging friendship that quickly turns into Nirrim silently lusting over Sid whilst ignoring her advances and blushing all the time. The romance is SAPPHIC and it is perfect, literally perfect. ![]() She is honestly TOTALLY swoon-worthy, so y’all better swoon. Sid is enigmatic and charming, suave and flirty with a mysterious past, and she cares fiercely for Nirrim. Sid fits perfectly the Bad Boy ™ trope, but she’s a GIRL. ![]() “So you tell me what would make a good, quiet girl get herself in trouble, especially when she had so much to lose. We follow her perspective as she unties a complicated web of deception. Her story is primarily of finding herself and who she is beyond who she has been told to be. Nirrim is loving and stronger than she thinks. Her voice is curious and she is clearly naive. Nirrim is our heroine, though quite untraditional to most we see in YA today. The characters were just one of the many things I ADORED about this book. Marie Rutkoski does not disappoint with The Midnight Lie, the start of a new series that centres around a stunning sapphic romance, sprinkled with magic and adventure. ![]() ![]() Other documentaries she participated in include In Search of Oz and I Married a Munchkin in 1994, along with Oz: The American Fairyland in 1997. In 1985, she appeared in a documentary called The Whimsical World of Oz which was to publicize Disney's Return to Oz. In her mature years, and especially after her husband's death in 1981, she lectured and wrote on her famous grandfather and his works, and was active in Oz fandom. The Manteles had two children, son Craig and daughter Dorothy. ![]() After her marriage she became a grief counsellor for children. She studied nursing, and married physician Kenneth Austin Mantele on 24 December 1945 but tragically her mother Dorothy died that day. This would have been an unusual arrangement given that Ozma's other maternal grandmother also lived at Ozcot at the time. She spent much of her time at Ozcot, with her widowed grandmother Maud Gage Baum cousin Matilda Jewell Gage went so far as to claim that Maud raised Ozma. Her mother chose the name Frances, though Baum wanted her to be called Ozma but as a child she preferred the nickname "Scraps" after the Patchwork Girl. As an infant she was the dedicatee of The Lost Princess of Oz. Frank Baum, the daughter of Baum's youngest son Kenneth Gage Baum and his wife Dorothy Duce Baum. ![]() ![]() Frances Ozma Baum Mantele (JOctober 9, 1999) was the first granddaughter of L. ![]() |