![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis. Her poetry pamphlet Sexy Fruit was a Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Selection. She studied English Literature and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin. Intimate, warm, startlingly vivid and gentle, this is at once a delicate reflection on a moment of gigantic change in body and mind and a powerful, often painful confrontation of the politics of a country so deeply unsure about its women.Īlice Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1993, and raised in Co. ![]() Set against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland, in Milk Alice draws for us her own map of motherhood, a crucial reflection spanning nine months of pregnancy and the first nine months of her child's life. How does this country treat its mothers? What does it mean to be forever tethered? Forever in love? For the first time, she considered the experiences of her mother, her grandmother, and the generations of women who came before them. With her body struggling to recover, darker intrusions ran through the days and nights of new motherhood. And soon Alice's world began to expand and contract in ways she could never have imagined. Into this warm cocoon, this big, empty house, would arrive a little baby. Alice Kinsella was in her mid-twenties when she became pregnant with her first child, newly engaged and about to embark on a life in an unfamiliar town on the west coast of Ireland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hmmm, yeah, not great when you consider the geo-political implications of training an army with a recent history of civil war. After all, we don't want a repeat of the charismatic guy who fronted the Kony 2012 campaign which called for foreign powers to go in, take over, control and train a foreign army. I worry about the cult of personality the internet has given us where someone claims to have all the solutions, however they very rarely do once you scratch beneath the surface. I say cautious as I am wary of 'men of destiny' who give bitesized TED-talk style solutions or quick answers and soundbites puff pieces rather real-world suggestions and workable solutions. He seemed like an intriguing fellow and so when I heard he'd written a book I bought it and approached it with cautious optimism. I first came across Dutch journalist Rutger Bregman through a much shared social media video where he talked at Davos about tax avoidance and how no-one was talking about this elephant in the room. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Shakespeare may have gotten the story wrong, but we all still know how it ends. ![]() And when rumors start swirling about Juliet's instability, her neediness, and her threats of suicide, Rose starts to fear not only for Rob's heart, but also for his life. This is not how the story was supposed to go. Rose is devastated over losing Rob to Juliet. From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years comes an intensely romantic modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told-narrated by. Juliet, who is gorgeous, vindictive, and a little bit wild.and who has set her sights on Rob. Juliet, who used to be Rose's best friend. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her-and when he finally does, it's perfect. ![]() Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. What's in a name, Shakespeare? I'll tell you: everything. THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED ROSALINE-NOW A HULU MOVIEįrom the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer and In Five Years comes an intensely romantic modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told-narrated by the girl Romeo was supposed to love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shakespeare's Richard II, meanwhile, could have provided an epigraph to Sacks's book - the King at one point complains: "This music mads me. And when it affects the brain, it affects the whole person, as Plato knew, seeking to ban some types of music from his Republic for the health of the citizenry. ![]() But mostly Musicophilia is about the more mysterious, and currently inexplicable, ways in which music affects the brain, for good or ill. It reports on fascinating new findings from anatomy - a musician's brain is easily distinguishable on a scan from those of others and the passage from ear to brain is not a one-way conduit but works both ways, the brain being able to tune the ears, as it were. Sacks's deeply warm and sympathetic study is about pathologies of musical response and what they might teach us about the "normal" faculty of music. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is another bonus of this book - it's amazing how many people found it by accident and since then their interest has built a little subculture around it. Especially when you get over the humanistic bullshit sentiments and instead get into all the animated youtube shorts that little community around this little book of body horror already has created. Yes, you might get nightmares if you're very sensitive. It has pictures! Which are very important.Īlso it's at times disturbing visually and philosophically. But it's two hours packed with so many ideas and visions, that omg, you will need a reread (I did!). This is a must read if you're into futurism, post humanism, evolutionism and a bit of good old lovecraftianesque terror from stars.įirst of all it's. No, he didn't give me his book, at least not literally. Kosemen, for the cool and crazy stuff he created. Always look at the bright side of life! ![]() ![]() ![]() The Divided - A Science Fiction Romance short story, which is included in the Take Me To Your Reader: An Otherworld Anthology.Īmy A. Now, Kricket faces the most difficult choice of her life: whether to wage a battle for survival, or a fight for love. Kyon Ensin knows the powerful depths of Kricket’s gifts-gifts he’ll control when he takes her for his tribe and leads the forces that will claim Ethar and destroy his enemies, starting with Trey Allairis. As danger draws close, he must protect her until she can wield the powers she cannot use on Earth…and he soon realizes that counting a galaxy of stars would be easier than losing this extraordinary girl. ![]() ![]() That day comes when she meets a young Etharian soldier named Trey Allairis, who has been charged with coming to Earth to find Kricket and transport her to her true home. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she now eagerly anticipates the day she’ll stop running and finally find her place in the world. She was too busy hiding in plain sight, eluding Chicago’s foster care system. ![]() Kricket Hollowell never wished upon stars. Winner of four 2014 UtopYA Awards, including Best Book of the Year and Best Sci-Fi Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() When I saw Samantha outside, I whispered to her about the puzzling behavior. ![]() I looked in the corner but saw no one, and I looked back at her wide-eyed, finally realizing what her diagnosis entailed. ![]() But much to my confusion, she was talking to something in the corner of the room. At first, I thought she was speaking to me I happily asked what she had said since she had been silent since her arrival. While measuring her, I started to notice some very strange behavior from her. This would be difficult because of her wide girth and small shoulders. The next morning after breakfast, I measured Fanny for her clothes. I did not understand what was wrong with her, but it was apparent that she was unable to comprehend what was happening. I was crying on the inside for Aunt Fanny. “Now don’t you move from here or you will get more of this,” Mamma said as she waved the swatter in Fanny’s face.Įveryone went back to bed, and Samantha and I piled the plywood in the middle of the room. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was finished in July 1940 at the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel in New York City and published in October. In Cuba, he lived in the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where he worked on the manuscript. Background Įrnest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls in Havana, Cuba Key West, Florida and Sun Valley, Idaho, in 1939. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. In 1940, the year the book was published, the United States had not yet entered the Second World War, which had begun on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. It assumes the reader knows that the war was between the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which many foreigners went to Spain to help and which was supported by the Communist Soviet Union, and the Nationalist faction, which was supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), whose general lines were well known at the time. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. ![]() ![]() ![]() I preferred this to The Skeleton Key although it was harder to read, the page numbers did correspond with those of my Oxford Press copy of FW. The author channels the text like a spiritual medium from cover to cover demonstrating a passionate mastery of the text that is bewildering. ![]() In his quest to demonstrate some of the primary currents that flow through Joyce's most inaccessible masterpiece (which I am still crawling though page by page), Bishop touches on such themes as: the body of the dreamer as both a geography (Ireland and Europe in the 30s) and a dreamography with fascinating illustrations), the ideas Joyce gleaned from Vico's The New Science and the Egyptian Book(s) of the Dead, and the use of vision and hearing in FW. Incredibly erudite, Bishop's reading of Finnegans Wake is itself quite an undertaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you love books then this group is for you. We give you the best books pricing 99 cents from amazon. 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Officially 15k Members Strong & Climbing!!īuilding and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and le Officially 15k Members Strong & Climbing!!īuilding and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and learning as equals.įounded in January 2015, this groups was initially designed as a way for me to support indie authors by reading their work and featuring them on my website. ![]() |