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![]() ![]() ![]() Sir William’s wife, Lady Jane, was even more notorious. ![]() Sir William (youngest child of a local doctor from a small town in the west of Ireland) had at least three children out of wedlock, and had his reputation badly shaken in a legal dispute arising from a patient’s claim of rape against him – he invited notoriety by refusing to testify under oath on the matter. His father was a respectable man, Sir William Wilde, editor of the Dublin Journal of Medicine and a noted surgeon, as well as a famous philanthropist. ![]() Oscar Wilde: famous, succesful, wealthy, popular, well-fed, the darling of London society, the quintessential Englishman, dazzling his admirers with sparkling, if superficial, wit, tossing off ingenious epigrams, scribbling down ‘hilarious’ plays about the charming foibles of the aristocracy, not a care in the world.Ī different Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, was born just down the street from Dublin’s largest railway station. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes sheds light on their potential relationship, from wild passion to absolute control.ĭevoted fans of the Sherlock Holmes canon and newcomers alike will find unbound levels of secrecy, suspense, pain, and reward. As longtime fans have often identified, Holmes and Watson share an undeniable chemistry. It's finally here Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes hits e-book stores and (if you pre-ordered, aha) your e-readers today, and I'm so excited for you to finally read it (or read it again in its new form, whichever). But behind the locked sitting room door at 221B Baker Street, his biographer and intimate companion, ex-army doctor John Watson, holds the reins.Įlinor Gray is re-imagining the best-loved, essential classics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through an erotic lens of domination and submission. Mistyzeo Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan DoyleĬonsulting detective Sherlock Holmes is a veritable whirlwind of intellect and perception, tearing through the fog of intrigue and criminal activity with tremendous force. ![]() ![]() Stories and dreams occurring in this land of fiction symbolize the healing power of the imaginary. ![]() The journey to, and on, the sea waters that cover a large portion of Kahani depicts an entirely different dimension of reality. Haroun, the child protagonist, travels from the world of apparent everyday reality (represented by planet Earth) to a Moon world called Kahani. In the former, the author introduces different worlds that are nevertheless interconnected, each with a reality of its own. This is true also for Rushdie ’s two works for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1991) and Luka and the Fire of Life (2010). Protagonists who find themselves immersed in bodies of water, be it in Midnight’s Children (1981) or The Satanic Verses (1988), are not the same people when they come out of them (if they do). ![]() As in works by other Indian writers, water as a symbol plays a crucial role in several novels by Salman Rushdie, the imagery being rooted in the Hindu worldview. ![]() ![]() One of the marvels of Rankine’s writing is that it so consistently embodies the ways in which the harm done by language turns to flesh, enduring at an almost cellular level, even while she forgoes the sonic fretwork that typically makes poetic language real. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.”Ĭitizen does much of its work in the body of the readers who stand in for her. As she notes, “a friend once told you there exists the medical term-John Henryism-for people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. To be black, Citizen insists, is to be audibly, palpably, invisible, and the book is in large part a struggle to make that feeling tangible. That small, momentary shift makes the stakes of her approach unmistakable. ![]() ![]() It imagines-assumes-an all-white audience and, in the process, erases Rankine, who will resume the role or “you” one sentence later. More than 40 pages in, for just that one sentence, “you” means someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Politics and politicians play walk - on parts, and the injustices they perpetrate are merely one more failing of the human condition that is Mistry's real interest. Its concern is with the lives and aspirations of the powerless human beings who populate its pages. Every atrocity known to have been committed during the Emergency - from slum demolitions to forced sterilisation - occurs to Mistry's characters, so that they become a template for a stark and unsparing portrait of that time in India.īut A Fine Balance is not, at heart, a political novel. ![]() Like his first (the highly regarded Such a Long Journey), A Fine Balance - Mistry's second novel - is set in Indira Gandhi 's India, and more specifically during the Emergency, when the world's largest democracy spent 22 months as the world's largest banana republic. It is an astonishing work of suffering, death and degradation in contemporary India which nonetheless manages to leave grounds for hope amongst the many reasons for despair. If Rohinton Mistry weren't Canadian - and a Canadian who has won every literary prize his adoptive country has to offer - I would have called this a great Indian novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() That said this is a romance story versus a mystery so it was still a fun read. So that did take a little bit of fun out of the story. Temptation and Surrender Low Price Ed (Cynster) Mass Market Paperback Decemby Stephanie Laurens (Author) 516 ratings Book 15 of 15: Cynster See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.65 49 Used from 2.94 6 New from 14.65 3 Collectible from 16. It was easy to tell who the villains would be and guess what actions they would take. I do have to mention that a lot of the story was predictable though. Watching the two fall in love was wonderful. ![]() I love when the male character's don't automatically assume all women are weak and empty headed. When it says that Jonas was emphatically against Emily running the inn it made him sound very chauvinistic but in the book itself it was nice to see that although his initial gut reaction was to say no he did admit his own sister would have been able to run the inn so he did give Emily a chance. The book blurb was a little misleading though. One of the best parts was watching the transformation Emily makes with the village inn. ![]() I enjoyed both Emily and Jonas' characters and we also got to see a little of Lucifer Cynster. I've enjoyed most of the Cynster books from Laurens and this was another nice addition to the series. Surrender Emily herself hadnt expected her current circumstances, but she has her reasons and doesnt plan to share them, even with someone as seductive as Jonas. Not a favorite but still a nice addition to the Cynster series A lady as tempting as Emily belongs in a ballroom, or a bedroom - preferably his. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the pieces about making art and the process of making things up were the most fun for me. After reading some of the included book reviews, there were quite a few titles I might want to look into eventually. Even when I knew nothing about the subject/person being talked about, Gaiman manages to make a connection. What makes this collection work, I guess, is that despite some of the pieces being deeply personal, they are never private. Some of them I had read before, either online or as part of the Neil Gaiman Humble Bundle. It’s a hodge-podge of essays, interviews, book introductions, speeches, and the like. ![]() The View from the Cheap Seats ( ToC) is a collection of the selected non-fiction of Neil Gaiman. First Lines: The View from the Cheap Seats ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However she was a greater reader so you might want to start it little later. I read one them to her when she was seven, but she started reading them on her own at 8. ![]() Kids will learn lots of new vocabulary words, which Snicket cleverly explains in context, and be exposed to many literary references that may sail over their heads but are a big part of the fun (especially for older readers). There's more menace than violence, but there are scenes where a baby is threatened with being dropped from a tower and a boy is struck across the face. Periodic gusts of wicked humor from narrator Snicket, allow readers to start breathing again. The bleak, gothic atmosphere of The Bad Beginning keeps readers holding their breath, as will the damsel-on-train-tracks adventure. It follows the perilous fate of the three Baudelaire orphans, who are sent to live with the evil Count Olaf, a distant cousin, after their parents die. Parents need to know that The Bad Beginning is the first book the exciting 13-volume series titled A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler). The orphans are often in danger in such scenes as a baby being threatened with being dropped from a tower and a boy being struck across the face.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Due to the death of their parents, the orphans must live with a vicious relative. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Admiral Lenton: Admiral in charge of the covert at Dover. Now Captain in the Aerial Corps and companion to Temeraire. Served aboard HMS "Belize", HMS "Orient", and others prior to receiving his post on the "Reliant". * Captain William Laurence: Former captain of HMS "Reliant" while in the Royal Navy. If you have not finished reading Empire of Ivory, proceed with caution. Note: This page contains key plot points from the novel. Title=Temeraire: the official website of Naomi Novik The novels are works of both fantasy and alternate history: they are "a reimagining of the epic events of the Napoleonic Wars with an air force - an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators". "Temeraire" is a series of novels by Naomi Novik, comprising " His Majesty's Dragon" (released as "Temeraire" in the United Kingdom), " Throne of Jade", " Black Powder War" and " Empire of Ivory". ![]() |