![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniels has also managed to gain the trust of the prince of Bavaria, a frustrated second son intent on eliminating his brother, the duke, and restoring the Wittelsbach monarchy, only now with him as king. After many months Malone’s protégé, Luke Daniels, has managed to infiltrate a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany. But a question remains: did he succeed?Įnter Cotton Malone. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document could challenge the global might of the United States. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not afraid to be anyone" because of the phone sex work. The actress "learned how to flirt" and "to ask for what I wanted." She shared, "I'm not afraid to say anything to anyone. "I took what I learned about secrets, shame, and pleasure, and applied it to the real world around me," she said. She said she learned a lot on the job that would benefit her acting career. Sidibe worked at the phone sex business for three years, until she started work on Precious. "According to what I had already seen at this company, the average talker was a plus-size black woman," Sidibe shared, "That's right, white dudes! You might think you're talking to Megan Fox, but you're actually talking to.well. She also had to pretend to be white on the phone, because, she wrote, "The average caller is a white male" who wanted to talk to a white woman. Sidibe learned quickly that the job was really about keeping the callers on the line long enough to ring up the bill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He prefers diversity, freedom, the "endless delight" of sensual impressions, and occasional "outlawry." But by the time he travels to Washington with his father in 1850, he is already becoming curious about larger issues. This is the one constant throughout his life.Īs a young boy, Henry is attracted to the same things that attract most children. He is interested in almost everything around him, and this interest helps him to distinguish, to select, between mundane and worthwhile pursuits. ![]() Because of his unusual intellectual curiosity, Henry is more attracted than most to "highest forces," the ultimate levels of knowledge. "Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius selection between them is the highest science their mass is the highest educator," Adams says. In discussing his "Dynamic Theory of History" (Chapter XXXIII), Adams suggests that mankind began to evolve beyond the apes because of a capacity to respond to the "attractive forces" that one may over-simply call knowledge. What sets Henry apart is his intellectual curiosity. As impressive as all that is, however, it is not the reason that we know about him today. The grandson of one President of the United States and great-grandson of another, Henry inherits a respected family name, automatic contacts with some of the most powerful people in the country, and financial security. The narrator is quick to point out that few people born in 1838 find themselves in more favorable circumstances than Henry Adams. ![]() ![]() "A different country, a different culture, and characters who create something far more fishy than sushi, make for a very unusual reading experience. ![]() "The story's unpredictability is what makes it so suspenseful and successful." - Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest The tropes of traditional, Western horror are completely ignored in this Japanese novel, and yet it evokes a sense of dread which is nothing less than genuinely disturbing."- HorrorReader ![]() Not even a single drop of blood decorates these pages. ![]() "Asa Nonami's NOW YOU'RE ONE OF US does for marriage what "Jaws" did for a day at the beach, and males and females alike will surly get a chill out of it.". "This pulpy family psychodrama is hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu." - Time Asia ![]() ![]() I think often what I found most rewarding was not just, you know, going out for a walk, but time when I was actually in the landscape either immersing myself physically, by swimming in the sea, through the winter, or doing something like building the drystone walls. This time in the wee house on the island was where I had the space to figure out what was going on with myself, how I’d ended up with an alcohol problem and in rehab and all that but also what helped me out of that was getting to know the island, the people and the culture and the coastline and the birds and the changes of the sea. ![]() It’s set mainly during the time I lived on the small island of Papay and that’s also when I was writing the book. If the book is quite visceral, it’s because it was written at the same time as I was going through it, often from daily diaries that I keep. Rather than it being a philosophy I set out with, it was more something that I came to see the truth of through my own experiences. The phrase ‘the nature cure’ springs to mind-is that something you believe in? ![]() ![]() Your bestselling first book, The Outrun, follows your story of recovery from alcoholism in Orkney, it’s a blend of memoir and nature writing: a very visceral sort of nature writing. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a character who was in the first book and wasn't a particularly pleasant character in that one so I wondered how this would be. … ( more)Īnother great entry in this sci fi romance series by Laurann Dohner. Reader Advisory: The big cyborg using his "research" on his new captive during a smoking-hot bondage scene. These two redheads have just met their matches. He's winning her heart and she's determined to win his right back. Dawn is intent on melting Iron's icy resolve to never fall in love with a human. But with that handsome face, a body to die for, a wickedly talented tongue and those magical hands, the guy just doesn't fight fair. If Iron thinks he can tame her, he's about to learn that "meek" is not in Dawn's vocabulary. ![]() ![]() Iron is one big bastard with long, fiery red hair, intense, dark blue eyes and a stubborn streak as thick as his dense muscles. ![]() Then she's kidnapped and blackmailed into agreeing to be a cyborg's personal sex slave. She's got a temper and a mouth to match her red hair and has never backed away from a challenge. Being a female mechanic on a space station for eight years has taught Dawn a lot of tough life lessons that have hardened her heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() My big complaint is that I thought the book was too short. It was super interesting piecing the puzzle together, and more than a few times I caught myself gasping from revelations. I was really intrigued by the mystery of this book, especially that the core was from the past. Kat learns along her journey how to find her backbone that she thought had disappeared, and when it’s time to simply leave the past alone. While trying to make the right decisions along the way, Kat still finds herself fearful of her ex, and also has trouble fitting in with her family once again. Before Kat can figure out what to do with her discovery, the word is leaked out. ![]() While at an estate sale, Kat finds an old movie reel inside the item she purchased – showing the murder of a famous 1920’s actor by another high-profile actor. Escaping from an abusive boyfriend, she ends up back at home thanks to her friend Bridget convincing her she needed to get away, and quickly finds herself knee deep in a mystery – from the past. ![]() Kat Shergill is trying to rebuild her life. ![]() I received a copy of The Silent Treatment by Melanie Surani in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() He tries to reassert his love in trying to win her back, speaking softly, lovingly, and increasingly with desperation. ![]() ![]() We’re taught that this means “keep this in mind because it will become important later on,” and yet in these films the objects never return in a significant way.īut after an incident where Philip puts his hands around her neck, just as Ambrose allegedly did, we become heavily aware of just how much the film was aligned to his view. This may be an unintentional allusion to the abundant visual misdirections of others du Maurier adaptations like Don’t Look Now, where the camera constantly pauses on certain details-an accessory, a portrait, etc. ![]() This kind of evil is one that Romantic plots rarely leave unpunished, usually with death.Ĭonstant lingering shots on the tea she brews also place the suggestions of poisoning early on in the film, long before Philip even suspects this (another popular theme, also in Crimson Peak!). ![]() The blue-beard character, the one who murders their spouses one after another is another familiar Gothic trope (one that Guillermo del Toro similarly plays with in Crimson Peak), as is the hidden spouse, and while they aren’t present in My Cousin Rachel the possibility appears when we’re told Rachel keeps sending money away to a mysterious place out of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he was done, Wyeth hung it over the sofa in his living room. Wyeth recalls that, after sketching the figure, “I put this pink tone on her shoulder-and it almost blew me across the room.”įinishing the painting brought a sense of fatigue and let-down. Against the subdued tone of the brown grass, the pink of her dress feels almost explosive. Her body is turned away from us, so that we get to know her simply through the twist of her torso, the clench of her right fist, the tension of her right arm and the slight disarray of her thick, dark hair. For months Wyeth worked on nothing but the grass then, much more quickly, delineated the buildings at the top of the hill. ![]() In the summer of 1948 a young artist named Andrew Wyeth began a painting of a severely crippled woman, Christina Olson, painfully pulling herself up a seemingly endless sloping hillside with her arms. Editor's Note, January 16, 2009: In the wake of Andrew Wyeth's death at the age of 91, Smithsonian magazine recalls the 2006 major retrospective of Wyeth's work and the ongoing controversy over his artistic legacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Radical and subversive, employing wit, humor, and shock tactics, The Book of Chuang Tzu offers an intriguing look deep into Chinese culture. Full of profundity as well as tricks, knaves, sages, jokers, unbelievably named people, and uptight Confucians, The Book of Chuang Tzu perceives the Tao-the Way of Nature- not as a term to be explained but as a path to walk. A masterpiece of ancient Chinese philosophy, second in influence only to the Tao Te Ching One of the founders of Taoism, Chuang Tzu was firmly opposed to Confucian values of order, control, and hierarchy, believing the perfect state to be one where primal, innate nature rules. ![]() |