![]() Swirling around this powerful love story is a kaleidoscopic array of characters we enter the worlds and minds of the enslaved, the enslavers, the female kings and male wives in Kosongo territory in the ancestral homeland. Their passion for each other, the dignity they bestow on each other, the small world they create and protect together, forms the core of the book. But there is, at the center of The Prophets, amid the grief and horror, a refuge: the relationship between Isaiah and Samuel, two young men enslaved on the Mississippi plantation known as Empty. This is a devastating book, an evocation of and reckoning with the deep stain of slavery. In The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr., nimbly navigates this delicate interplay between the epic and the microscopic, between historical crises and interpersonal ones. A surprising gesture, a subtle moment of duplicity, an unlikely flash of kindness, conjured so vividly that it haunts me long after I finish reading. ![]() ![]() Books that explore the deepest questions about life and love and death and history and identity-and that animate these questions by way of infinitesimal human interactions. I crave books that are simultaneously attentive to the big things and the little things. ![]()
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![]() His treatment by his family, Meg, and others who hurt him do not prevent him from doing what is right, what is honorable. As Meg spends her days with him and sees his goodness and strength, she cannot reconcile what she believes against what she is learning.Ĭlayton is truly a wonderful hero as he goes about his daily life in a town that is united in its hatred against him. ![]() ![]() There is not one bit of the coward in him. He is a man of quiet dignity, filled with honor and strength. ![]() She plans to watch him carve and sculpt day by day until he admits his cowardice and begs for her forgiveness.īut Clayton is not a coward – that much is obvious from the somewhat astonishing opening volleys in this story. She does so out of revenge – he had refused to fight in the war and has been branded a coward by his brother, his town, his South. Set in Texas after the Civil War, war widow Meg Warner commissions Clayton Holland to sculpt a war memorial. There are simply two wounded people brought together in sorrow, transformed by the healing power of love. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. ![]() The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to attend an Oxford seminar, this book will take you there. The rest of the story alternates between the truly awful dinner party of the present and flashbacks through Peri’s past to show the events that led to that photo and this evening. That photo unleashes a flood of memories and emotions in her. Taken during her student days at Oxford, it captures a fleeting moment with her two best friends and their charismatic professor. What happens next is a shocking thrill ride that ends with a chase scene and a physical struggle.ĭuring the altercation, Peri’s purse is upended, and a Polaroid photo flutters to the ground. When the story opens, it’s Istanbul, 2016, and our heroine Peri - 35 years old, upper-middle class - is stuck in nightmarish traffic with her daughter, on the way to an uppercrust dinner party she does not want to attend. ![]() It’s a mashup of domestic noir and coming-of-age story set in Istanbul in the 1980s and 2016 and at Oxford University in the early aughts. She brings all of that, plus deep compassion, to this novel. Her works have been translated into 55 languages, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Politico named her one of the twelve people ‘who will give you a much needed lift of the heart.’ Author Elif Shafak is a literary force: an award-winning author whose books are as readable as they are sharp and insightful. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the real opportunity here was to really get under Heydrich's skin and find out what made him tick. And then there was a very good account of the process of the Wannsee Conference that was done for the telly (with Kenneth Branagh playing Heydrich this time) this show prompted me to visit Haus am Wannsee on my last visit to Berlin, which was a very moving experience for me. Operation Daybreak and Anthropoid are essentially the same movie, although Anthropoid's casting of Cillian Murphy was a mistake because he is so distractingly good looking (I'd shag him and I'm not even gay!) that you are sitting there thinking "This really hot guy is supposed to be on an undercover mission? Maybe in a Bond movie!" So we already know enough about the daring mission and the reprisals. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this movie didn't really know what it wanted to be: a study of the motivations that made Reinhard Heydrich the monster he was? an account of the plotting and execution of his assassination? or his role in masterminding the Final Solution? It's a shame because the latter two things have already been well covered in movies and TV plays. I was looking forward to this movie, having already seen both Anthropoid and (a long time ago) Operation Daybreak and with the knowledge that a contemporary of mine from my old university college had co-written the script. ![]() ![]() In the play’s brilliantly woven plot, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff employ fictitious selves to escape burdensome social obligations. And for that, I'd say it's meatier than trivial." Earnest premiered in London on Valentine’s Day, 1895, and has since earned its place on myriad stages as well as the number-three spot on Goodreads' list of Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time. “Though Wilde labelled it 'a trivial comedy for serious people,' 'Earnest' is a pretty irreverent satire," Landenberger notes, "a poke in the fleshy gut of pretentious high society. 4 to 13.ĭirected by Rock River Players founder and co-artistic director Annie Landenberger, Wilde’s greatest hit is the second large-cast comedy classic offered by the players since the pandemic, following last year’s sold-out "The Front Page." ![]() ![]() WILLIAMSVILLE - Rock River Players is bringing Oscar Wilde’s spunky satire, "The Importance of Being Earnest," to the Williamsville Hall, Dover Road, Williamsville, Nov. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noah and Cooper never knew what happened to each other. For three years, they were inseparable…until one day when Noah and his parents disappeared in the middle of the night. M/M and the M/M/M…Īt ten years old, Noah Jameson and Cooper Bradshaw collided mid-air when they dove for the same football. Melinda: I encourage y’all to check out Broken Pieces by Riley Hart. Totally amazing, this is definitely a MUST READ! The best book I have read in months and one of my favorite books EVER! I’m pretty new to the M/M romance genre and I can’t believe how the author pulled off this menage. ![]() Victoria: I have to recommend Broken Pieces by Riley Hart. Jennifer: Crossroads by Riley Hart…GFY x2…awesome sexy stories. ![]() Beautiful story, nothing like it from any other m/m books I’ve read. Many of the books in her repertoire have us hooked!Īna: Broken Pieces by Riley Hart is so good that I wish I hadn’t already read it so I could read it again for the first time. WE LOVE THIS M/M author BIG time, and a new book is releasing in this series tomorrow!! □ I LOVED book #1!!Īnd it’s not just this series that rocked our worlds. MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() ![]() ![]() In each of the five issues (somewhat confusingly numbered #0 to 4), Busiek and Ross touch upon the many different corners of the burgeoning Marvel Universe. ![]() Marvels follows the path of young New York photographer Phil Sheldon, who bears witness to the birth of superheroes with the Human Torch and follows their rise through the 1960s. When Marvels debuted in 1994, combining the ultra-realistic art of Alex Ross and storytelling skills of Kurt Busiek, fans were struck with that same feeling of what it must have been like living among superpowered humans, monsters, and villains, all larger than life. When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched Marvel Comics into the stratosphere with characters like the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the Hulk in the early 1960s, fans were drawn to the fact that these new superheroes were written as real folks, with real problems, living in the real world. ![]() ![]() You can now stream Brokeback Mountain on Peacock. Brokeback Mountain has received almost universal acclaim and won three Academy Awards, including the ones for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is an adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx and stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams. The movie is available for buying and renting on most of the major online video stores including Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, and more.īrokeback Mountain (2005): A truly unique take on the genre, Ang Lee's acclaimed 2005 movie explores a complicated romance between two cowboys. ![]() Far and Away stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidmanin the lead roles and also features Cyril Cusack in his final performance before his death in 1993. Far And Away (1992): Set in the 1890s, this epic romantic drama follows two Irish immigrants who come to America to make their fortunes. ![]() ![]() With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be. In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life-from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. But is willpower prewired, or can it be taught? With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The. The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, predicting higher SAT scores, better social and cognitive functioning, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth. In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life - from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.Ī child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. ![]() ![]() Lisa Taddeo became a literary star for her nonfiction bestseller Three Women, which was acclaimed for its radical candour in discussing sex. Their meeting will trigger the final catastrophic act of Joan’s depravity and the revelation of the childhood horrors that set her on this path. ![]() But she has really come west to track down Alice, a woman with a mysterious connection to her past. Thus, she’s soon involved with two men who live in the compound the young and beautiful River and the senile, lascivious Leonard, each of whom will decisively affect her future. Joan is defined by the trauma of her past, which has left her, she tells us, “depraved”. A s Animal begins, its narrator, Joan, has driven cross-country to Los Angeles, where she’s rented a ramshackle three-storey house in a compound in Topanga Canyon. ![]() |