![]() ![]() "Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Night They Met" is the first publication from Improbable Press", the new specialist publisher of Holmesian romance and erotica. ![]() This is NOT Mills & Boon territory by any stretch of the imagination.Īll of the stories are readable, not just by Johnlock shippers, but by Sherlock Holmes fans in general.Ītlin Merrick's delightfully twisted sense of humour comes out to play with gorgeous lines like ".I think he clenched his arse cheeks so hard he did his prostate a mischief." What if, not just content with being friends, Holmes and Watson were also a romantic pairing? Atlin Merrick answers this question wonderfully with a number of excellent stories spanning three centuries. This is a collection of stories looking at the world's greatest literary friendship through the eye of romance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks. This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. The Covenant of Water (Oprahs Book Club) 28.15 Cutting for StoneAbraham Verghese. Of Digby’s hands Verghese writes: “The spectacle of these ruined tools of a surgeon’s livelihood fills Rune with sorrow. The Covenant of Water (Oprahs Book Club)Abraham Verghese. ![]() ![]() These passages provide some of the book’s most moving and revelatory moments. When Digby, badly burned in an accidental fire, flees to a remote leprosy sanctuary to recover, he is slowly repaired there by the (marvelously drawn) Swedish village doctor Rune Orqvist. The Covenant of Water,' published Tuesday, is Vergheses first work of fiction since his million-selling Cutting for Stone came out in 2009. Verghese folds in major players, guiding them toward each other: the irresistible Digby Kilgour, a young medical graduate, migrates in 1933 from a nightmare childhood in Glasgow to Madras, India, to gain surgical experience: “The sight of suffering is familiar its language transcends all borders.” Medical crises incite action throughout the novel, allowing Verghese to tap into his deep experience and endearingly humane philosophy. By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer May 2, 2023, 5:16 AM NEW YORK - The long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water, is Oprah Winfreys latest book club pick. ![]() ![]() "A perfect storm of inspiring heroes, surprising twists, and some seriously scary monsters. ![]() But how can he run when he can't even walk well without a cane? To survive, Zane will have to become the Storm Runner. When Zane decides to save his dog no matter the cost, he is thrust into an adventure full of surprising discoveries, dangerous secrets, and an all-out war between the gods, one of whom happens to be his father. Brooks turns into a hawk, a demon attacks them in a cave, and Rosie gives her all while trying to protect Zane. ![]() Together they return to the volcano, where all kinds of crazy happens. A new girl at school, Brooks, informs him that he's destined to release an evil god from the ancient Maya relic he is imprisoned in-unless she can find and remove it first. What Zane doesn't know is that the volcano is a gateway to another world and he is at the center of a powerful prophecy. ![]() ![]() He'd much rather hang out there with his dog, Rosie, than go to middle school, where kids call him Sir Limps a Lot, McGimpster, or Uno-for his one good leg. Cervantes! Zane has always enjoyed exploring the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico, even though hiking it is challenging. A contemporary adventure based on Maya mythology from Rick Riordan Presents and New York Times bestselling author J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There would be no beheadings in her script-nor much to do with the French Revolution at all. “Above all, I have attempted to tell Marie Antoinette’s dramatic story without anticipating its terrible ending.”Ĭoppola wanted to do the same with a film. “The elegiac should have its place as well as the tragic, flowers and music as well as revolution,” Lady Antonia wrote in her author’s note. Of all the books Coppola read about the doomed teen queen, she considered Lady Antonia’s to be “the best one… full of life, not a dry historical drama.” Unlike other portraits, which drew her as an overindulgent harpy who deserved to lose her head, Marie Antoinette: The Journey approached its subject with a radical sense of empathy. ![]() She had optioned the film rights to the esteemed British historian’s best-selling biography, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Near the start of 2001, Sofia Coppola wrote to Lady Antonia Fraser on a piece of personalized, pale-blue stationery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zera is finally free from Varia’s clutches, and her new master is Lucien who’s ready to give her heart back. Lucien’s sister Varia finally made her connection with the Bone tree and she’s building her own Valkerax army to crush her enemies to bring a new era where witches can have a free reign. The story continues where it was left off in the previous installment. There was way too many slow scenes and It really dragged in the middle. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I had high expectations for this book but it turned out to be a let down. ![]() So far, I’ve been a great fan of this series especially the snarky main character Zera. Send Me Their Souls is the final book in the Bring Me Their Hearts Trilogy. * ARC received from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review * Will they be able to stop Varia without sacrificing themselves in the process? But with war raging and an army of valkerax on the loose, she’s never needed immortality more. Reunited with Lucien, Malachite, and Fione, Zera finally has the choice of whether or not to regain her humanity and give up her life as a Heartless. ![]() The finale to the epic Bring Me Their Hearts series reaches its thrilling conclusion, full of intrigue, emotion, and of course romance. ![]() GENRE: Young- Adult, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sybaris and Other Homes (coll 1869 vt Colonel Ingham's Visit to Sybaris 2009) is of some sf interest, specifically for "My Visit to Sybaris: From the Rev Frederic Ingham's Papers" (July 1867 Atlantic Monthly), describing a Utopian colony of Sybarians uncovered on an Island off the coast of Italy (see Lost Race).īack to Back: A Story of Today ( 1878 exp vt How They Lived in Hampton 1888) unexcitedly proposes a modestly utopian system of cooperation between workers and owners, but more tamely in Massachusetts. ![]() Ingham provides something of this function in Hale's best known single work, The Man Without a Country (December 1863 The Atlantic Monthly 1865 chap), later assembled in The Man Without a Country and Other Tales (coll 1868), about an army officer who abjures his native country with a curse, and is doomed, perhaps echoing the Flying Dutchman, never again to see or hear news of his homeland. (1822-1909) US Unitarian preacher, abolitionist, contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and author, who often wrote as by Captain Frederic Ingham, though sometimes Ingham serves as frame narrator for Club Stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On his travels home, Tom meets a onetime preacher, Jim Casy, a talkative man gripped by doubts over religious teachings and the presence of sin. Steinbeck follows this exchange with an interlude describing a turtle crossing the road, which serves as a metaphor for the struggles of the working class. ![]() He hitches a ride with a truck driver, who presses Tom for information until Tom finally reveals that he was just released from McAlester prison, where he served four years for murdering a man during a fight. Tom Joad, a man not yet thirty, approaches a diner dressed in spotless, somewhat formal clothing. No specific characters emerge initially this is a technique that Steinbeck will employ several times in the book, posing descriptions of events in a large social context against descriptions of events more particular to the Joad family. The novel begins with a description of the conditions in Dust Bowl Oklahoma that ruined crops and instigated massive foreclosures on farmland. In taking this social stance, Steinbeck's novel criticizes shortsighted self-interest and chastises corporate and banking elites for profit-maximizing policies that ultimately forced farmers into destitution and even starvation. It is an explicitly political piece of writing, one that champions collective action by the lower classes. John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath tells the specific story of the Joad family, and thus illustrates the hardships and oppression suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroes of Star Wars, especially the Jedi, are shown as merciful and ready to lay down their weapons once a threat has been neutralized. The Original Trilogy as well as many other beloved Star Wars stories are stories of redemption and forgiveness. ![]() But these books are very Star Wars in one respect: their moral message. In many ways, it could be set in any military sci-fi world. It has only obliquely addressed the Force. ![]() But if we know anything about Alexander Freed by now, it's that he doesn't write stories the easy way. To end, as it does, with all the main characters alive and happy, for the most part, without the finale feeling like a disjointed bit of cheap schmaltz, is not an easy thing to do. This book had quite the task set before it: it had to be a satisfying conclusion to a oft-times consciously unsatisfying trilogy of books. If you haven’t read it yet, please skip ahead to the Recommendation & Rating section. The Analysis section discusses plot points of the book. ![]() ![]() Later, it is found that the Japanese Army was researching germs that produce the death stench during World War II in a desperate effort to turn the tide of the war. Germs infecting the rotting body produce a gas - responsible for the terrible smell that surrounds the creatures - that makes the metal construct move. The creatures are eventually revealed to consist of a small metallic, legged structure with the carcass of a dead animal (and later, human) strapped on top. At first they appear merely as smaller fish, but later also as larger sea creatures such as sharks and even a whale. ![]() The plot of Gyo centers around the "death stench", a revolting smell first encountered in connection with creatures appearing to be bizarre fish with scuttling, sharp metal legs. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Civil Disobedience" was included in the Riverside Edition of 1894 (in Miscellanies, the tenth volume), in the Walden and Manuscript Editions of 1906 (in Cape Cod and Miscellanies, the fourth volume), and in the Princeton Edition (in Reform Papers, the third volume) in 1973. ![]() The essay formed part of Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers as edited by British Thoreau biographer Henry S. It was included (as "Civil Disobedience") in Thoreau's A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, published in Boston in 1866 by Ticknor and Fields, and reprinted many times. ![]() Having spent one night in jail in July of 1846 for refusal to pay his poll tax in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau lectured before the Concord Lyceum in January of 1848 on the subject "On the Relation of the Individual to the State." The lecture was published under the title "Resistance to Civil Government" in Elizabeth Peabody's Aesthetic Papers, in May 1849.
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