![]() ![]() I knew, though I did not wish to know it, that I had no respect for the people with whom I worked. I knew how to work on a congregation until the last dime was surrendered–it was not very hard to do–and I knew where the money for “the Lord’s work” went. ![]() I knew the other ministers and knew the quality of their lives.Īnd I don’t mean to suggest by this the “Elmer Gantry” sort of hypocrisy concerning sensuality it was a deeper, deadlier, and more subtle hypocrisy than that, and a little honest sensuality, or a lot, would have been like water in an extremely bitter desert. Being in the pulpit was like being in the theatre I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion was worked. ![]()
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![]() My problem lies in the repetitive nature of these descriptions-after a few times around it all sounds the same. Pilcher paints beautiful word images describing the countryside, the garden, the beach, and the kitchen. I was really excited to find an unabridged version here on audible. I read this book decades ago when it was first published in print and I enjoyed it at the time. This spellbinding audiobook will draw listeners into a narrative that spans generations, examines the changing dynamics of a resilient British family, and captures emotional experiences ranging from loss to love. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer.and it lies in her heart. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. ![]() Masterfully narrated by Actress Hayley Atwell, this timeless story will captivate listeners from the very first track.Īt the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. Thirty years after The Shell Seekers swept into the hearts of readers across the globe, Rosamunde Pilcher's unforgettable saga appears for the first time as an unabridged digital audiobook. "A huge warm saga.A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence." (Maeve Binchy for The New York Times Book Review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. ![]() Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is something that Timberlake brings to the page in a palpably cozy way. ![]() With Frog and Toad and Mole and Rat, the friendships of these creatures and how they learn from each other and overcome their differences is almost as enchanting to me as the domestic lives they enjoy, together and apart. I have a deep love for what I'll call the "opposites attract-animal buddy" story, and while comparisons to Arnold Lobel's inimitable Frog and Toad are inevitable here, Skunk and Badger, for me, evokes my all-time favorite opposites attract-animal buddies, Mole and Rat from The Wind in the Willows (you can read my reviews of recent adaptations of this classic here and here). Klassen's illustrations bring this already vivid story to life with a palette that roots it in the natural world. ![]() These are but a few examples of the absolutely unforgettable, image rich, laugh-out-loud gift Timberlake has delivered with her story of Badger, who resides in Aunt Lula's brownstone in North Twist, and Skunk, who has been invited by Aunt Lula to take up residence there as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() But eventually she was happy enough with a draft to send it to her assiduous editor, Francis Wyndham. Reading her letters, it is clear that she had revisited an old idea and that she procrastinated, and probably prevaricated, for some years about the progress of the book. Some stories she had written in the interim were published, and she claimed she was working on the manuscript that would become Wide Sargasso Sea. In 1958, following a BBC dramatisation of the novel, she was rediscovered (most people had thought she was dead). Subject to depression and alcoholism, Rhys stopped writing for almost 20 years after the publication of her fifth book Good Morning, Midnight, in 1939. Her books are full of her sense of otherness, usually from the autobiographical point of view of women who are grudgingly dependent on unreliable men. Later, displaced and alienated, after living the life of a demi-mondaine, she began to write. She went to England at 16 to finish her education. She was, like many children of colonialists, minded and nurtured by black servants. Jean Rhys was born in Dominica of a Welsh father and a Creole mother. It traces the life of Rochester’s wife, Antoinette, from before she became the mad woman in the attic and up to the time of the fire at Thornfield Hall that left Rochester blinded and physically debilitated, able at last to marry Jane. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea writes back to Jane Eyre as a prequel. You don’t need to have read Jane Eyre to love Wide Sargasso Sea, but if you have, you will never think of it in the same way again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Crane has a great gift for story telling but the actual writing needs some serious attention. ![]() ![]() In spit of all of my criticism I am definitely going to read the next installment of this series and I really did like it. ![]() I understand that nearly every author has "something to say" in their work, but it was a little too soap-boxy. The author's agenda comes through in parts of the book at times too. Both characters are totally insecure, but I guess that's better than the female being a total insecure mess all by her poor little ole' self. It was also extremely overboard with the "I Love You's" and reassurances. Like, at times, I couldn't exactly make out that the character was supposed to have said. It also had a highly annoying amount of typographical errors. But I still highly doubt it's ever going to make my feminist side feel all warm and fuzzy. But then, I could see how in the plot that was one of the "changes" that might occur. Actually, it seemed a lot oppressive towards women at times. I think part of the reason I am a little conflicted about it is that it seemed a little oppressive towards women, bordering on misogynistic at times. I keep waffling on that so I gave it 4 because I like to give the benefit of the doubt and I DO feel like the series has some merit. Maybe it's only a 2 or 3 star book for me. It moved kind of slow but I was really excited about it while I was reading. I stayed up entirely too late reading it. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when your stomach has other plans, here goes nothing! If you’re like me, the last thing you want to do is stop at a gas station at night. STALLED – Roger finds that his last meal isn’t agreeing with him. ![]() Others will slap you around from the beginning and send you home crying. Some are a slow burn and catch you off guard. Below are the 13 short horror stories that make up ‘Secret Faces’. If horror shorts are your thing, he is the master. Please excuse my lack of reviewing skills from 3 years ago LOL. In Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke’s latest terrifying collection of short stories, you’ll meet thirteen people who discover the horror of what happens when those secret faces are removed and the true darkness that dwells within us all is unleashed. Sometimes that person is good, sometimes that person is not. Everyone is someone else when the world isn’t looking. “If you are hiding from yourself, don’t expect anyone else to see you.”Įveryone has a secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, he goes forth on his own to cross Chaos and find Earth. Satan also calls for and leads the grand council. Satan tells the other rebels that they can make "a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (I, 255) and adds, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n" (I, 263). In those books, Satan rises off the lake of fire and delivers his heroic speech still challenging God. Most of these writers based their ideas on the picture of Satan in the first two books of Paradise Lost. Writers and critics of the Romantic era advanced the notion that Satan was a Promethean hero, pitting himself against an unjust God. ![]() ![]() However, the progression, or, more precisely, regression, of Satan's character from Book I through Book X gives a much different and much clearer picture of Milton's attitude toward Satan. Probably the most famous quote about Paradise Lost is William Blake's statement that Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it." While Blake may have meant something other than what is generally understood from this quotation (see "Milton's Style" in the Critical Essays), the idea that Satan is the hero, or at least a type of hero, in Paradise Lost is widespread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Maximum suspense, unusual magic-a whole new, thrilling approach to fantasy " From August Staff Picks to Conclude Your Summer It is, as always, up to the reader to decide. This book has gone through some controversy due to its racial and religious content, but in the end I think the author expressed the topics with understanding. There, she is exposed to many different races of magical folk, and her one-sided view of the world begins to change in the charged political atmosphere of the University. ![]() Her aunt is determined to see her Wandfasted, the Gardnerian equivalent of marriage, but Elloren is headstrong enough to convince her aunt to let her attend University first. Raised by her uncle in the countryside, Elloren is both excited and nervous when her aunt decides to whisk her away to the city for her debut into society. Elloren is nearly her exact replica, minus one detail: she has almost no magic, which makes it confusing when certain people begin to suspect she will be the next Black Witch. ![]() ![]() Elloren Gardner is a young woman who comes from an impressive lineage - her grandmother was The Black Witch, a fearsome magic-wielder who waged bloody war to make the Gardnerian people the dominant ruling power in the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a standoff between Will, Dash, and a teenage kid that was part of the militia. Will shoots Dash’s men, but many innocent people die as well. The Ending:ĭash had been training a militia, and takes the undercover Will with them to attack the Georgia state capitol building. ![]() The IPA also poisoned a bunch of airplane meals with botulinum toxin, but Faith discovers it before the meals make it on the planes. She watches the last few children die, and finds Gwen just as she was dying too. The extremist group kills all of the people at the compound but leaves Sara alive as a witness to their message. He and Sara pretend not to know each other. Will is able to infiltrate the terrorist organization (the Invisible Patriot Army) and becomes close with Dash, their leader. She was taken to help the members of the extremist group hurt in the explosion as well as to heal children living in their camp that are dying of measles.Ī CDC expert was also kidnapped–soon, Sara realizes that the group is drugging and torturing her to convince her to help them launch a bio-terrorism attack that could kill thousands. Sara struggles to remain alive while trying to send clues to Will and the GBI. ![]() |