5/24/2023 0 Comments The cairo trilogyIn it we follow 17-year-old Kamal as he deals with crises of faith and unrequited love in 1920’s Egypt. Palace of Desire is the second novel of Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. As Egypt struggles towards independence, so to do the younger members of the al-Jawad family struggle for greater personal freedom against oppression from tradition and religion. Considered to be his masterpiece, the trilogy follows the lives of members of the conservative al-Jawad family from the First World War to the Second. Palace Walk is the first novel of Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. To see my reviews for each of these novels, see the links below: The Cairo Trilogy – Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street – is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz the only person to have won the Prize for literature for work primarily in Arabic.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Diana the true storyWhat some people may not know, however, is that Princess Diana got her early revenge by cooperating with the 1992 tell-all book Diana: Her True Story. The Crown depicts her as an isolated young woman struggling with bulimia, who’s also freely mocked by numerous members of the royal family for her lack of intellectual curiosity and adaptability. Diana, however, suffered additional behind-the-scenes turmoil. (He’s also bad at fishing.) This personality switch accelerates during his ill-fated romance and marriage to Diana Spencer, who captivated the world with her wispy bangs and glamorous “people’s princess” aura while Charles was often relegated to the sidelines - which drove them both to numerous years of well-publicized adultery. The new season of The Crown, to put it delicately, is giving Prince Charles the worst press of his life since Tampongate: Despite being previously portrayed as a bumbling, soft-spoken lad who wants to marry Camilla Parker Bowles in season three, he’s now a bumbling, short-tempered asshole who still wants to marry Camilla Parker Bowles in season four. Photo: Tim Graham/Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. 5/24/2023 0 Comments A curse so dark and lonely book 4With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer. " Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi Picoult 5/24/2023 0 Comments Chasing vermeer by blue balliett''I don't really associate it with the color anymore,'' she said in a voice, slow and elegant, that is paired with an easy, down-to-earth manner.Īlthough by the time she was 8 she knew that she was a writer, Ms. Balliett, a tall, thin woman with long brown hair and bright hazel eyes that tend toward blue. ''I was named after the color of the sky,'' said Ms. It just seems tailor-made for an art-mystery book that is now available in 11 languages, thank you very much. Balliett says, the name has been hers for all her 49 years and came from her mother. So surely Blue Balliett is a pen name with a delicious story, a mystery maybe? No, Ms. If that wasn't heady enough, Warner Brothers just acquired the movie rights for the book, which was published by Scholastic. Newsweek called it ''The Da Vinci Code for Tweens.'' Balliett as a new writer off to a flying start. The Times also gave it one of many similarly superlative-studded reviews (''suspenseful, exciting, charming'') and Publishers Weekly recently picked Ms. Blue Balliett's first novel, ''Chasing Vermeer,'' a mystery about two South Side sixth graders searching for a stolen painting by the Dutch artist, sprinted onto the New York Times best-seller list soon after its May debut. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ac the secret crusadeAll artworks are the property of Ubisoft. Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries. 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Also in the Assassin’s Creed series Renaissance BrotherhoodĪssassin’s Creed The Secret Crusade OLIVER BOWDEN 5/24/2023 0 Comments 1408 by stephen kingIn Wolves of the Calla, the main character, Roland, and his group battle against the Wolves. If it wasn’t enough that the Stephen King universe links intrinsically back to itself on the regular, King also constantly references other literary worlds. There’s an endless amount of connections, just waiting to draw you into the complexities of the universe. With many of King’s novels being made into films and on screen adaptations, the web is woven even deeper. Bridgton, Maine, is the real-life setting for Dark Tower and many other stories and novels, another theme that plays throughout King’s work. “I have written enough novels and short stories to fill a solar system of the imagination, but Roland’s story is my Jupiter - a planet that dwarfs all the others,” King says in the afterword to Wizard and Glass, the fourth instalment in the series. The Dark Tower series seems to be the universal connection that many of the stories weave back to. We’re not talking just one or two novels here, either. The novels are all set in the same universe, which gives them layers and layers to peel back. “I guess it’s sort of like Stephen King World, the malevolent version of Disney World, where everything fits together.” “All of the books kind of relate to other ones,” said King from a 2013 interview. And that thread’s…between all the novels. You won’t get far into reading Stephen King’s novels without realizing there’s a common thread. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Traci sorell we are still hereSorell and Lessac present children with another fabulous book - We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), Native urban relocation (from reservations), self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), Native civil rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), religious freedom, economic development (including casino development), Native language revival efforts, cultural persistence, and nationhood. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here! A 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Book 5/23/2023 0 Comments King richard william shakespeareRichard knows even a king cannot command these two enemies to be friends, so ritual combat seems the way to sort things out: Mowbray, in response, calls Bolingbroke “a slanderous coward and a villain”. Henry Bolingbroke – Richard’s cousin and the future Henry IV – calls Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk, The play begins with an argument in front of Richard. Macbeth by William Shakespeare: a timeless exploration of violence and treachery The Hollow Crown Trailer (Focus Features) A brief comment by the new king, Henry IV, leads to Richard being murdered in his cell. By the end of the play, he is not king anymore he is dead. When Richard II begins, Richard is in full king mode: throne, crown, sceptre. The “Henriad” shows the monarchy in a state of turmoil. These plays were recently presented as the BBC series The Hollow Crown (2012-2016). It is the first part of the “Henriad”, a sequence of eight historical plays that span the “Wars of the Roses”: Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3, and Richard III. Shakespeare wrote Richard II around 1595. It is also a play that saw Shakespeare risking some serious trouble with the God-appointed monarch of his time, Elizabeth I. Shakespeare’s Richard II is a play that asks us, among other things, what it means to have power, what it means to take power, and what we’re left with when power is gone. What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God? What he calls an out-of-body experience transformed his worldview. Against all logic he was physically unscathed emotionally, however, he would never be the same. But in his final year he was in a car accident. Although Ruiz's grandfather and mother both practiced Toltec healing and teaching, Ruiz rejected the tradition and went to medical school. The Toltecs, Ruiz explains, were artists and spiritual seekers who thrived in Mexico hundreds of years ago, before they were forced to hide their ancestral wisdom from European conquerors. These days Ruiz lectures nonstop and has a newer book, The Mastery of Love, based on the same Toltec wisdom as the first. The Four Agreements, published in 1997 by tiny Amber-Allen Publishing, has sold more than 1.5 million copies. Oprah read the book that night, bought 500 more copies for her friends and colleagues, and then suggested to 10 million or so people that they consider giving it as a holiday gift. So wowed was DeGeneres by The Four Agreements that she recommended it to Oprah on the air. He claimed his book, based on wisdom he'd learned from his elders in Mexico, could change lives-and it did, including, in rather short order, his own. Two years ago, Ellen Degeneres picked up a slim volume by an unknown writer named don Miguel Ruiz. (1) Be fabulously successful actress Ellen DeGeneres, (2) Stumble upon a book that changes your life, (3) Tell the whole world about it, (4) Sit down with author don Miguel Ruiz and chat about love, freedom, and doing your best no matter what. |