The Shards isn’t just Ellis’s strongest novel since the 90s, it’s a full-spectrum triumph, incorporating and subverting everything he’s done before and giving us, if we follow the book’s ingenious, gleefully self-aware conceit, nothing less than the Ellis origin story” Nothing has felt quite as thrilling as Ellis’s year-long, hour-by-hour performance of The Shards … Any lingering uncertainty that its brilliance lay more in the recitation than the writing can be dispensed with. A genuine literary event … Others before Ellis have attempted to retool the serial narrative for the internet age.
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Her former life drowned beneath metric tons of water, she and her only companion, Robert, battle starvation, heatstroke, and the monstrous creatures called Posies that appeared alongside the flood. One year later, Thea-now calling herself Sestra-floats throughout a ravaged, flood soaked world. When a storm of biblical proportions strikes, the wayward sisters are begrudgingly forced together as the rain waters rise, each attempting to survive both the flood and each other. Doris with her regular home and regular husband and regular job, and Thea slinking along the edges of society, solitary and invisible. Sisters, Doris and Thea, exist worlds apart, despite living within a few miles of one another. A Flood of Posies is out now! Grab a copy and enter the giveaway, courtesy of Xpresso Book Tours! Stop in to learn more about the adult science fiction/fantasy novel by Tiffany Meuret. 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Although Don easily disqualifies her as a suitable candidate (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”), he is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. Yet, Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs The Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a 16-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. Read on for why I think this is groundbreaking contemporary literature. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a modern take on the classic screwball romance tackling tough societal issues with compassion and hilarity. Set in the 1890s, its premise is the staple of much children’s literature: a lonely young child, in this case a boy named Kay Harker, has lost his parents and is being brought up by an indifferent guardian and a cruel governess. It was – and is – one of my favourite books, but, while the sheer joy of it is undimmed, I can now see that it stayed in the memory because it is full of deep feelings, and the ultimate resolution of its plot has an emotional satisfaction that I felt as a child but did not then understand.įirst published in 1927, The Midnight Folk is still in print but it is less well known than its sequel, The Box of Delights, which many remember from a successful BBC TV adaptation in the 1980s. So it came as a shock to discover that he was the same John Masefield who wrote The Midnight Folk, which seemed to burst from its pages in a torrent of surprises and delights. That John Masefield, stiff and distant, seemed already to be from a long-dead past. ’ – and wondering what all these strange, beautiful-sounding words meant as I laboured over my ascenders and descenders. I remember copying out his poem ‘Cargoes’ in primary school – ‘Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir. John Masefield was in his last year as Poet Laureate when I was born in 1966. This sizzling audiobook is the perfect companion to every day at the beach or rainy afternoon. They might agree that what happens on the island should stay on the island, but neither one can deny that their attraction is more than just physical. She should know better than to sleep with someone she knows, but she can’t seem to resist him. Mortified and desperate to escape the post-wedding drama, Amalie decides to go on her honeymoon alone, only to find the man who rejected her also heading to the same tiny island for work. Hooking Up Amalie Whitfield is the picture of a blushing bride during. 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Our souls may lose their peace if we are always criticizing trivial actions. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” 9. “… each of them will receive its proper reward. Do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. I praise God for His mercy for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. “ I had many friends to help me to fall but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. “I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.” 5. If we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces-The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. The tales proved very popular with readers and a portion of the critical audience. Wilde’s fairy tales are beautifully written but undeniably melancholic. The Nightingale sacrifices herself in vain, the Rocket explodes with no audience, and the statue of the charitable Happy Prince is discarded. The tales seem to have been modeled after Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales for example, “The Happy Prince” makes an explicit tribute to “ The Little Match Girl.” Andersen’s tales are violent and the characters must suffer a great deal to earn their virtue Wilde may write whimsically in comparison, but the suffering of his characters is often for nothing. This form allowed Wilde to explore themes of importance to him, such as homosexuality, morality, aestheticism, English socioeconomic realities, and more. Wilde was notorious for promoting “art for art’s sake,” but chose to write these tales in the didactic form of the fairy tale. The Happy and Other Tales, a collection of fairy tales that consists of the titular piece, “The Selfish Giant,” “The Devoted Friend,” “The Young King,” “ The Nightingale and the Rose,” “The Fisherman and His Soul,” “The Star-Child,” “The Remarkable Rocket, and “The Birthday of the Infanta,” was written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter thwarted lover artistic genius formidable countrywoman. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Over the Hills and Far Away The Life of Beatrix Potter Matthew Dennisonīeatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. |