Author innocent traitor5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Ellen and is highly educated, to the standards of a princess. The daughter of Lady Frances Brandon and Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Jane is seen as a burden by her parents, both of whom resent her for being a girl instead of a boy, and is regularly beaten by her mother. It tells of her relationship to the future Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I along with her forced and unwanted marriage. This book tells of Jane's childhood and offers explanation to her conversion to the Protestant faith. This book tells the life of "The Nine Day Queen" through various characters' eyes, from Lady Jane to Queen Mary. Previously known for her non-fiction publications, Innocent Traitor was Weir's first work of fiction she later spoke of its impact on her, saying she "learned so much from the editorial process about the writing and craft of fiction." Summary It is the story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days in 1553. ![]() Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey is a historical novel by Alison Weir, published in 2006. ![]()
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Langston Hughes by Henry Louis Gates Jr.5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() DuBois Professor of Literature, 1988-90 Duke University, Durham, NC, John Spencer Bassett Professor of English and Literature, 1990- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, W. Rockefeller gubernatorial campaign, Charleston, WV, director of student affairs, 1971, director of research, 1972 Time, London Bureau, London, England, staff correspondent, 1973-75 Yale University, New Haven, CT, lecturer, 1976-79, assistant professor, 1979-84, associate professor of English and Afro-American Studies, 1984-85, director of undergraduate Afro-American studies, 1976-79 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, professor of English, comparative literature, and African studies, 1985-88, W. ![]() Agent-Carl Brandt, Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc., 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.ĬAREER: Anglican Mission Hospital, Kilimatinde, Tanzania, general anesthetist, 1970-71 John D. ![]() Hobbies and other interests: Jazz, pocket billiards.ĪDDRESSES: Office-Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138. PERSONAL: Born September 16, 1950, in Keyser, WV son of Henry Louis and Pauline Augusta (Coleman) Gates married Sharon Lynn Adams (a potter), Septemchildren: Maude Augusta Adams, Elizabeth Helen-Claire. ![]() Ryan holiday gawker5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s also developing a new feature film adaptation of Battlestar Galactica, but it’s possible this Gawker movie could be his next project. Due to disappointing box office, however, that now seems unlikely. Ryan Holiday is one of the worlds foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He most recently helmed the Jennifer Lawrence-fronted thriller Red Sparrow, for which he hoped to make sequels. Lawrence is a versatile filmmaker whose resume ranges from I Am Legend to Water for Elephants, and it’ll be interesting to see him stretch his dramatic chops. I’m thrilled to come aboard and to work with this team. It’s an important and meaningful story, and one I’m excited to tell. ![]() “When I read Ryan’s extraordinary book I was totally taken with this story, such an exquisitely contemporary tale, and I immediately had a vision for it as a film. His newest book, Conspiracy, documents how a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire. This is a crazy episode about a crazy book about a crazy set of. Although it’ll be interesting to see what kind of actor could potentially play someone as iconic as Hulk Hogan.īlackrock Productions is producing the film, and Lawrence had this to say about the project in a statement: Author Ryan Holiday discusses his book, Conspiracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. ![]() The trial set a huge precedent involving privacy and the media, and it’s certainly great material for a dramatic film. ![]() Who We Are by Nicola Haken5/21/2023 ![]() I hung onto their every nuance, their every feeling. Never did I expect to meet such heartfelt characters who were for me, so damn real. Hope which I grabbed at like I’ve never done before in a book of this genre. But at the same time, the protagonists’ fight to overcome their problems gave me hope. This story literally knocked me backwards, turned my insides out and left me with a feeling of devastation. The author has gone through a lot of trouble to make the readers able to decipher every meaning. It is so diverse from one county to another, but at the same time, so very charming. Seeing as I’m an Essex gal, I really appreciate certain peculiarities in Brit slang. Goodness me, what a way to pop my Haken cherry! I was literally at a loss for words when I started to read the Northern English lingo perfectly construed and easily understood. Going in blind was the best thing I could have done and only after reading a couple of chapters was when I realised how fitting the title is for such a compelling love story. 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The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. encourage readers to push past well-trod assumptions and have fun doing so.” - Science Magazineįrom renowned physicist and creator of the YouTube series “Science without the Gobbledygook,” a book that takes a no-nonsense approach to life’s biggest questions, and wrestles with what physics really says about the human condition ![]() “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” - The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He begins, not as the reformers did, with the Word, but with the Catholic liturgy. 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At the Reformation a world was lost that could never be recovered. ![]() Hieronymus bosch book taschen5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In his pictorial translation of proverbs, in particular, Bosch was very much an innovator.īosch-whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken-was widely copied and imitated: the number of surviving works by Bosch’s followers exceeds the master’s own production by more than tenfold. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was “skating on ice”-meaning it had gone astray. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch’s day. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. ![]() ![]() Renaissance radical: An earthly delight not to be missed In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]() Animal by lisa taddeo review5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Animal Book Reviewĭisquieting and unsettling from the very first page, Animal opens with a violent and public suicide that causes the book’s protagonist, Joan, to flee across the country from New York to Los Angeles, in search of Alice, a woman she’s never met and the last person alive who can shed light on Joan’s dark past. Not having the patience to wait until June, I sourced myself a proof copy and soon after sat down to meet one of literature’s dark and disturbing characters to date. Announced at the end of last year, and published by Bloomsbury, Animal is described as a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society, and has been lauded by writers and critics alike in the lead up to its publication. ![]() An unputdownable exploration of the love lives of three women living in modern-day America, it swiftly became one of 2019’s most sought-after non-fiction books, and subsequently positioned American author and journalist Taddeo, as something of a literary sensation.Īnd so, like many readers around the world, after finishing Three Women, I eagerly awaited her next book. Like many readers around the world – I read – and loved Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. ![]() The mercy of the tide by keith rosson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Publisher: Meerkat Press ISBN: 9781946154521 Number of pages: 206 Weight: 294 g Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 152 mm MEDIA REVIEWS With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humour, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes new work as well as award-winning favourites. In "Brad Benske and the Hand of Light", an estranged husband seeks his wife's whereabouts through a fortune-teller after she absconds with a cult, and the returning soldier in "Homecoming" navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief. ![]() In "Dunsmuir", a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister's ashes, while "The Lesser Horsemen" illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. ![]() Award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels. ![]() The tale of three brothers by jk rowling5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I never suspected that in so doing, I myself would begin a journey which would lead me to see a multitude of connections between Chaucer, J.K. ![]() I couldn't wait to compare the stories of two bands of brothers who seek to defeat Death. Rowling had been influenced by Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale' 2 I was eager to read her original inspiration. The forum postings on the tale were riveting to read as other fans and I shared what we gleaned from the three brothers and their gifts of the Deathly Hallows. In discussions I found on The Leaky Cauldron, I quickly learned that I was not alone in my admiration for this stunning allegory. As I read, I fell in love with "The Tale of the Three Brothers' and something deep inside me recognized true wisdom in its haunting cadences. ![]() "There were once three brothers¦" How many of us came to that opening phrase in "The Tale of the Three Brothers" in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and smiled with pleasure at this evocative introduction? This beginning creates a sense of journey, a feeling that the listener should settle in to listen to a tale told to amuse as it quietly instructs. A Journey from Harry Potter to The Canterbury Tales ¦ and Back Again ![]() |