![]() It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ‘Half Co*cked Jack’ Shaftoe London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox…Īnd Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance. It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations. A monumental literary feat that follows the author’s critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition, the Zhuangzi is read by thousands of English-language scholars each year, yet only in the Wade-Giles romanization. Boldly imaginative and inventively worded, the Zhuangzi floats free of its historical period and society, addressing the spiritual nourishment of all people across time. Zhuangzi elucidates this mystical philosophy through humor, parable, and anecdote, deploying non sequitur and even nonsense to illuminate a truth beyond the boundaries of ordinary logic. ![]() ![]() When one ceases to judge events as good or bad, man-made suffering disappears and natural suffering is embraced as part of life. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between good and bad, right and wrong, and follow a course of action not motivated by gain or striving. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person-or group of people-known as Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.E.) in a text by the same name. Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. ![]() ![]() There were so many new characters that I couldn’t keep them all straight and this is my 2nd time reading this book. I really love this series as a whole but this book was my least favorite. ![]() I usually figured it out about five years after the fact.” “But Adam always had a reason for what he did. ![]() “Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.” As other walkers make their presence know to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil… An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River – and innocent people are dying. And nothing from the fae comes without strings attached…īeing a different breed of shapeshifter – a walker – Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. ![]() But the trip – and the pimped-out trailer they’re using – is courtesy of the fae. Nevertheless, a ten-day honeymoon camping on the banks of the Columbia River, alone, just the two of them, should make up for it. ![]() It takes a very unusual woman to call it home – and there’s no one quite like Mercy.Ĭoyote shifter Mercy Thompson knows that life with her mate, the Alpha werewolf Adam, will never be boring, but even their wedding doesn’t go as planned. Welcome to Patricia Brigg’s world, a place where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist). ![]() ![]() ![]() Because we both know the only way he will ever come back to this school is when your machine spits him out." He could be a teacher or a manager or even a lawyer someday. Here are a few text quotes to give you a flavour of this writing by Elizabeth Winthrop: Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future. ![]() It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, these are new stories, not re-tellings. “ The Bloody Chamber is often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist. They range in length from very short stories to novellas, and include:Ĭarter bristled at inaccurate descriptions of this collection, as described in this 2006 article by Helen Simpson in The Guardian, “Femme Fatale: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber”: The Bloody Chamber is a collection of re-envisioned imaginings (not, as often described, retellings) of classic European fairy tales. Her work broke taboos and was often considered provocative. ![]() ![]() Her influences ranged from fairy tales, gothic fantasy, and Shakespeare to surrealism and the cinema of Godard and Fellini. A novelist, short story writer, and journalist, she earned a reputation as one of Britain’s most original writers. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) is perhaps the best-known work by British author Angela Carter (1940 – 1992). ![]() ![]() ![]() The story spans Douglass’s twenty years in slavery, his success in escaping it, and his initial involvement in the abolitionist movement. Born of a slave mother and white father (who was probably his master), Douglass tells a powerful tale of the beatings and mistreatment that he observed and endured. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American SlaveĪn autobiography set mainly in Maryland from 1818 to 1838: published in Massachusetts in 1845.ĭouglass’s story is a firsthand account of the brutal treatment and continual oppression of slavery that takes place in a border state in the first half of the nineteenth century.Įvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Was Writtenįrederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in the cabin of his grandmother, Betsey Bailey, on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, Maryland, sometime around February of 1818. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey, (List Price: $26. You spend a lot of time basically knowing what’s likely around the corner, but still being lured in by how twisty it gets – until you don’t know who to root for, or if you’re supposed to be rooting for anyone, or if the serial killer is the villain. Just memories and remembrances looping around and around in both a slow lead-up to the past and a constant questioning. ![]() This is the kind of book that’s hard to summarize because ultimately very little happens or a lot happens but it’s all hinted-at and spoilers. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories shes come back to the home of a serial killer. How home isn’t always something safe (that last one is something Gailey especially makes haunting amoeba strips from). 344 pages first pub 2022 ISBN/UID: 9781250174727. How families can be a confusion of unkindness and violence and complicity. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey is a newly published horror-thriller flavored with human evil, supernatural horror, haunted houses and gothic scene-building. Sarah Gailey leaned all the way into the truism that haunted house stories are a way to talk about how horrifying domesticity can be. ![]() ![]() They are my favorite narrating duo and their voices complement each other so well. Andi Arndt and Zachary Webber couldn't have been more perfect to narrate Lake and Manning. ![]() This slow burn, coming of age story will captivate you right from the start. Jessica Hawkins captured the excitement, anxiety, confusion, and butterflies of falling in love so perfectly. My older sister saw him next.īook one in the completed Something in the Way series, a USA Today best-selling love saga. Because even though I saw Manning first, that didn't matter. But I'd learn that no matter what you achieve in life, it means nothing if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, his struggle to keep me innocent, and infinitely starry nights - I would wait. I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. Yet, we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn't be broken.no matter how hard we tried. ![]() ![]() I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. ![]() Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. "Jessica Hawkins weaves a tale of forbidden love in epic proportion." (Corinne Michaels, New York Times best-selling author) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In celebration of Bingo Love’s publication with Image, Paste got the two creators together on the phone while Franklin prepared to head out on her first book tour. Along the way, one of Franklin’s most fervent boosters has been writer Gail Simone, herself one of the most prominent women in modern superhero comics, and a trailblazer on books like Deadpool, Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Batgirl, Wonder Woman and, most recently, her creator-owned series Crosswind with artist Cat Staggs, which is headed for television development. Franklin and St-Onge cover a staggering amount of ground, from Hazel and Mari’s teen years in intolerant families, to their eventual marriages to men, to a near future where the two women, now grandparents, discover that there’s no time limit on finding your own happiness in life.īeyond the story on the page, Franklin has worked tirelessly to see Bingo Love through to publication, carving a niche for herself as a queer disabled Black woman in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by straight white able-bodied men. First published as part of a massively successful Kickstarter and released this week-on Valentine’s Day, no less-to wider audiences by publisher Image Comics, Bingo Love is the story of Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray, queer women of color who meet in 1963 but are kept apart by family and society until decades later. Forget Metal and Doomsday Clock and whatever Infinity crossover Marvel is kicking off-writer Tee Franklin and artist Jenn St-Onge’s Bingo Love is a true comics event. ![]() ![]() It’s hard to write about this without sounding like you believe young women must place finding a husband above forging a successful career (I don’t), or you believe more men should be admitted to university at the expense of women to plug the husband gap (I don’t), or that marrying someone with a lower level of education is a terrible thing (I don’t believe that either). How great to have so many clever, educated young women spilling out every year, but there could be negative consequences, as a new book, Date-onomics, points out: there may not be enough educated men to go around. “You would look around tutorials or lectures and there would be one or two token guys.” While there are some degrees, particularly in science and engineering subjects, that are overwhelmingly filled with male students, the general trend in many countries is for more women to go to university than men. “There were a lot of girls at my university,” she says. It was the same, she noticed, on her friends’ courses. T here were, says Cat, perhaps one or two male students on her English degree. ![]() |