6/29/2023 0 Comments Dating Cupid by Eve Langlais![]() ![]() Honey, I got that ointment you asked me to buy for that nasty rash under your balls. With a fake, plastered smile and her body stiff with fury, she walked in shaking her paper bag from the pharmacy. White-hot rage filled her at the incontrovertible evidence of Kyle’s devious nature. And following on the heels of that thought was, dirty cheating bastard. She didn’t recognize the blonde bouncing up and down on her boyfriend’s groin, not that it mattered, although she did note how petite the yodeling cowgirl was- the bitch. ![]() ![]() Roxanne reached the bedroom, the door gaping open as usual, and peered in. Her cloudy mind and general malaise were the reason she’d come home early on a Tuesday afternoon in the first place. ![]() Common sense tried to hammer through her denial but hit a brick wall in the form of the cold medicine she’d imbibed. She just couldn’t be heard over the pants and groans she followed to the bedroom. She didn’t do on purpose to move silently. Her head fuzzy from a cold, she clutched her paper bag from the pharmacy to her chest as she slid lazy feet along the hallway to the bedroom. The feminine moaning proved quite distinct from the moment Roxanne opened the door to the condo, a space she shared with her boyfriend, Kyle. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments The sense of style pinker![]() ![]() You have a hard time perfecting the art of writing if you don’t know what a subordinate clause is. You can’t perfect the art of photography if you don’t know what an f-stop is. But it’s helpful in evaluating writing advice, just as in any specialized pastime. There are many accomplished writers who probably could not identify a relative clause if they banged into it in the middle of the night. You emphasize that knowledge of grammar is important. That allows writers to distinguish the bogus rules from the helpful ones. ![]() ![]() And we have a body of scholarship that traces the history of these controversies. We have laboratory studies on what makes sentences hard to understand. And we know so much more about language than we did in the 20th century. In “The Elements of Style,” Strunk and White prohibit the verb “to contact” and the verb “to finalize.” In their day, that sounded like slang, jargon, pretentious business-speak. The style manuals from the second half of the 20th century are literally obsolete, and we have to reflect the fact that language changes. Steven Pinker’s new book, “ The Sense of Style,” offers “The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.” He spoke from Boston. ![]() ![]() He loses first his professorship and then his car, his phone, his house, even his typewriter, and is forced to move into a Jews' House (the last step before the camps), put his cat to death (Jews may not own pets), and suffer countless other indignities.ĭespite the danger his diaries would pose if discovered, Klemperer sees it as his duty to record events. This symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant, grumbling Klemperer, struggling to complete his work on eighteenth-century France while documenting the ever- tightening Nazi grip. ![]() All offer their thoughts and theories on the progress of the war: Will England hold out? Who listens to Goebbels? How much longer will it last? ![]() What makes this book so remarkable, aside from its literary distinction, is Klemperer's preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans: Berger the greengrocer, who was given Klemperer's house ("anti-Hitlerist, but of course pleased at the good exchange"), the fishmonger, the baker, the much-visited dentist. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years.Ī Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933. ![]() The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Stone blind review![]() ![]() ![]() A few moments later, the lame-footed god ejaculates on her thigh anyway, proving that even goddesses have a way to go in making their words count. ‘I’m moving because you’re sitting so close that your hip was touching mine and I didn’t like it,’ Athene explains to Hephaestus. ![]() In Stone Blind, her retelling of the Medusa myth, women emerge from the other side of #MeToo and reveal the gods and heroes for the dolts and sexual predators they always were. While the comparison isn’t quite right – their prose styles could hardly be more different – Haynes is certainly alert to what rankles most deeply in modern society, and the ways in which these issues may shape attitudes to antiquity. Natalie Haynes has been compared with Mary Renault, the historical novelist who scandalised readers in the 1950s with her unflinching portrayal of homosexual relationships in ancient Greece. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dancing in the wings![]() ![]() ![]() She holds the distinction of having choreographed the Academy Awards for five consecutive years. ![]() In 1988 she went behind the scenes to choreograph the new American Musical "Carrie with the Royal Shakespeare Company" and has continued to devote herself to that discipline. Allen received another Tony Award nomination in 1986 for her role as Bob Fosse's "Sweet Charity".Īllen's choreography career soared in 1980 with the international hit TV series "Fame". She next appeared in "Raisin", then in the 1979 production West Side Story", for which she won a prestigious Drama Desk Award, as well as, her first Tony Award nomination. Actor, director, dancer/choreographer and singer, Debbie Allen's career has touched nearly every facet of the entertainment industry.Īllen's Broadway career as a dancer, singer and actor began in the chorus of "Purlie". ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments George orwell 1949![]() ![]() Here are Nineteen Eighty-Four citations for 14 popular citation styles including Turabian style, the American Medical Association (AMA) style, the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style, IEEE, and more. Nineteen Eighty-Four, London, UK: Penguin Classics. First published 1949 by Secker and Warburg (London). ![]() (London: Secker and Warburg, 1949 London: Penguin Classics, 2021). George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Classics ed. Here are Nineteen Eighty-Four citations for five popular citation styles: MLA, APA, Chicago (notes-bibliography), Chicago (author-date), and Harvard style. If you are looking for additional help, try the EasyBib citation generator. Nineteen Eighty-Four is cited in 14 different citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, APA, ACS, and many others. Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for a reprint of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell using the examples below. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The god game by danny tobey![]() More intriguing is the mysterious AI administrating it, one that believes it’s God. ![]() Game, a video game that is ostensibly run by underground hackers. In Tobey’s scenario, once promising high schooler Charlie and his hacker friends (collectively known as the Vindicators) enter the G.O.D. It’s in this grey area that Tobey is interested in playing. Danny Tobey’s THE GOD GAME reminded me of this almost immediately, although video games and the social web have become far more complex in the three decades since those books. ![]() Written as they were for a younger audience, my 1985 counterpart couldn’t help but project myself into the roles of the people in the books. Many years ago, I read Australian author Gillian Rubinstein’s Space Demons trilogy, a series where the game drew you in and took hold in the real world. ![]() From War Games to Black Mirror, film and TV has been rife with this kind of cautionary tale. ![]() It seems that there can’t be a new technology without a corresponding thriller catastrophising the possibilities of the game. The ‘most dangerous video game’ trope has been around as long as the medium. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Samuel pepys the unequalled self![]() ![]() So I thought I would write up a quick review on it. This book came up on my recommendation list, and I was like, wow, wait a second, I’ve already read this. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. ![]() ![]() In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.Īgainst the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The inheritance trilogy review![]() And Arya has an important role as a mysterious, magic-wielding elf - though she spends most of the book as a love interest/damsel in distress who's imprisoned, tortured, poisoned, and beaten before getting rescued (twice) and is unconscious for much of the story. Female stereotypes abound: They're homemakers, healers, dead mothers, a fortune-telling witch, or an unhappy wife who "wants the usual: a good home, happy children." That said, the dragon Saphira is female. ![]() ![]() Two positive characters, one in a supporting and one in a minor role, have skin "the color of oiled ebony." An elf with "midnight black hair" and "angled eyes" is described by Eragon as having an "exotic look." All other characters are described with Euro-centric features (pale complexions, blond hair, etc.). ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments A Hundred Kisses by Jean M. Grant![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know where it came from! The duet title could be ‘The Scandalous O’Sullivan Sisters’ – then obviously I had to create the lives and those ‘scandal’ for the two sisters - Imogen and Ciara. My editor had asked for a duet of two linked stories, and I had a moment of inspiration. “Some years ago my husband and I visited the National Stud and I always wanted to set a story involving the beautiful horses bred there. “My parents were born in Ireland,” she said. Kate always wanted to set a novel in Ireland. ![]() ![]() “But people seem to be buying the book so I hope it works!” “My own original title was Claimed By The Corsican - the hero, Raoul is from Corsica, but the Harlequin editors didn’t like that – so they created A Proposal To Secure His Vengeance. “I didn’t come up with the title,” Kate said. Kate is sharing the inside scoop on her contemporary romance, and between the pages of this sensual story you’ll find revenge, a Mediterranean hero, reunited lovers, an Ireland setting, and first loves.Ī Proposal To Secure His Vengeance was published in February 2018 by Harlequin Presents. Today we are opening the book pages of A Proposal To Secure His Vengeance by multi-talented author, Kate Walker. ![]() |