7/8/2023 0 Comments Novel the wife between us![]() ![]() Alternate chapters, told in third-person so as to distinguish them from Vanessa's narrative, focus on Nellie as she prepares to wed Richard. At first Vanessa appears unhinged and delusional, but as the plot unfolds, we begin to suspect all is not as it seems. ![]() But she is unable to, obsessing about the woman who is soon to become her ex's new spouse. Vanessa has failed to live up to his expectations and he has moved on. ![]() The story is primarily narrated by Vanessa, the former wife of Richard, a wealthy entrepreneur with exacting requirements for all aspects of his life, including his marriage. It is a page-turning psychological thriller about the lies we tell one another, including our own selves. The Wife Between Us is an intriguing collaboration between first-time novelist Greer Hendricks and bestselling author, Sarah Pekkanen. The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Ovids metamorphoses![]() ![]() In doing so I hope to be able to demonstrate two things. ![]() His long and famous speech, uttered in Book 15, has provoked many conflicting interpretations. ![]() At the end of the poem, a philosophical commentator, Pythagoras of Samos, delivers a lecture on its principles. A poetic metaphysics runs through the Metamorphoses. New bodies are new configurations of embodiment. Together with an unexpected corporeal figura, an old identity remains. These are hybrids: not quite the same as they were before, but not completely different either. They can never stop reshaping women and men into other animals, plants, stars, or springs. Their truly favourite occupation, however, is the transformation of human beings into non-human, or, at least non-anthropomorphic creatures. Bending people’s will, directing their agency and manufacturing events are, for them, an incessant activity. They love, suffer, get angry, and take revenge. They are over-occupied and worried for all human affairs: they help, advise, punish, and reward. The gods live in a beautiful town, a celestial Rome. Finally, Phaeton, the unwary child of another god, the Sun, almost reduced the universe to ashes. Later, a divine collective decision brought it back into being. The world emerged from a rough, undifferentiated mass, thanks to a god and a “better nature.” Jupiter destroyed it, in anger. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a story of new bodies. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Le petit nicolas rene goscinny![]() ![]() ![]() Thirty years after Goscinny's death, his daughter Anne decided to publish his unreleased stories, creating new books out of ten stories. Thus, they continued to publish the comics in Sud-Ouest and Pilote until 1965. The authors hadn't initially planned to continue the series but the sudden popularity of the comic kept them going. The first Nicholas story, L’œuf de Pâques, was published 29 March 1959 in the journal Sud-Ouest Dimanche. A few years later Goscinny began to write Le Petit Nicholas in short story form, with illustrations by Sempé. The work started out as a comic strip, which initially ran in the Belgian magazine Le Moustique between 19, drawn by Sempé and written by Goscinny. The books depict an idealized version of childhood in 1950s France. Le Petit Nicolas ( Little Nicholas) is a series of French children's books created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé and it was first published on 30 March 1959. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he saw the copper-skinned, ember-eyed newborn, upon whom the darkness of Africa had not completely left its indelible stamp, the master, adequately versed in the Scriptures, promptly named him Zion, which in Hebrew means “sun.” Wantone, as was the custom in those parts. Lacy uttered a benediction in that same language, and thereafter presented the infant to her master, Mr. ![]() Then her eyes rolled back in her head and she expired. For a half-hour after Mary delivered the child, a tempest raged within her as she lay screaming in a strange tongue, which was in part her native Akan. An older Negro servant, named Lacy, also belonging to Wantone’s retinue, attended Mary in her prolonged and exacting labor, during which the slave girl developed an intense fever. ![]() In January 1754, Mary, a young Negro servant to Isaac Wantone, wealthy farmer and patriot of the town of Roxbury, Massachusetts, gave birth in her master’s stables to a male child. ![]() ![]() When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. ![]() ![]() ![]() That, combined with her unusual appearance ( scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Bittersweet mccullough![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was turned into a popular UK television miniseries, with Richard Chamberlain playing Ralph and Rachel Ward as Meggie.Ĭol wrote 23 more books, but none came near the success of The Thorn Birds. Described by Germaine Greer as “the best bad book I have ever read”, it was the tale of the doomed love affair between a country girl, Meggie Cleary, and a priest, Ralph de Bricassart, set in “a typical settlement on the very edge of the back of beyond”. Colleen McCullough, who has died aged 77, found international fame as the author of The Thorn Birds, a 600-page romance that became the bestselling Australian novel of all time, with sales of 30m in dozens of languages. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Take my body ka merikan![]() ![]() Instead of just humiliating Mike at his workplace, James decides to hire him for a weekend at a conference he’s attending. ![]() ![]() He wants to finally get his revenge on the guy, but when Mike turns out to be gay, the whole afternoon takes a turn for the surreal. When James Austin meets Mike Miller, his high school crush and tormentor all in one, working at an old, dirty gas station, it feels as if the stars have finally aligned in his favor. It seems that the day couldn’t get any worse for Mike, but James ‘Lovelace’ Austin might just turn out to be his golden ticket out of the job he hates. James is now the proud owner of an amazing silver Jaguar and a self-made millionaire. The last thing he needs is meeting the guy he used to bully at school and seeing him all sorts of polished up. The formerly popular high school quarterback now works at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The story of babar 1933![]() The Betrayed took me on a fantastic trip to Sleepy Hollow and I'd travel with Graham anywhere. "Once again, Heather Graham has outdone herself. Diego heads to Estes Park, determined to solve the bizarre case that threatens Scarlet's life-and to reunite with the woman he never stopped loving. ![]() Then the museum's statues of historic people, including Nathan Kendall, begin to talk to her, and she knows it's time to call her ex-husband. When Scarlet unwittingly takes pictures of people who've been murdered-just like the Kendalls a hundred and fifty years before-the police look at her with suspicion. Diego-who's just been asked to join the Krewe of Hunters, a unit dealing with "unusual" situations. She recently came to Colorado, reeling after her divorce from FBI agent Diego McCullough. Now.historian Scarlet Barlow is working at a small museum attached to a B and B, the same building where that murder occurred. ![]() Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. Can the same killer strike again-a hundred and fifty years later? Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. ![]() ![]() Set two years before the events of Song of Blood & Stone, this action-packed novella answers the question of what happened to Jasminda’s family and sets the stage for the events in Cry of Metal & Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles, book 3) releasing August 2020. And the attraction between a high-spirited girl and a cautious boy comes to a head when they discover that their biggest fight just might be with each other. The two families battle a treacherous sea, greedy sailors, and a powerful mage as they struggle to retrieve and secure the ancient artifact. ![]() But when her brother agrees to transport three passengers to a dangerous destination, Ani’s heart is put on the line for the first time. ![]() Every ship in the sea is seeking the reward for returning her to a ruthless captain who believes she's his property. But with a price on her head, she and her older brother need to make a quick getaway from a deal gone bad. But a violent encounter with a gang of pirates forces the ol-Sarifors to seek refuge on a smuggler's ship, where Roshon meets a girl unlike any he’s encountered before.Īni Summerhawk never met a risk she didn’t take. Their captors claim that the Queen Who Sleeps is behind their abduction-She wants them to reclaim a magical object hidden in a deadly part of the ocean. ![]() ![]() While battling a vicious winter storm, Roshon ol-Sarifor, along with his father and twin brother are kidnapped and thrust on a journey that takes them far from home-leaving his sister Jasminda believing them dead. ![]() ![]() Witness to the Revolution offers an impressive list of actual witnesses to these events and more, including some sharp contextual asides explaining the rise of the antiwar movement and the fallout from its messy end…Especially for younger generations who didn’t live through it, Witness to the Revolution is a valuable and entertaining primer on a moment in American history the likes of which we may never see again.” The bombing of the Army Math Research Center in Madison, Wis. ![]() The first efforts to publish the ‘Pentagon Papers.’ Altamont. “ Excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 19… does a fine job conjuring the sense of a looming apocalypse… It’s surprising to be reminded how many of the decade’s signature events occurred in a single year. ![]() “ Bingham’s big take is brave, brash and bold.” Witness to the Revolution is a New York Times Editors’ Choice! ![]() |