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5/29/2023 0 Comments Pond by claire louise bennettPersonal interactions are rare and mostly regrettable. If what we’re being offered is some kind of credo or apologia, it’s one with an unusual emphasis on reading, smoking and lying around. But whatever challenges the book poses to breezy reading are the product of unswerving fidelity to its own raw spirit. Bennett’s unnamed, 40-ish narrator, raised in south-west England but resident in Ireland, holds forth in fevered, looping, breathless prose, and displays a tendency to travel long and far down the blindest of alleys. C laire-Louise Bennett’s second novel, like her first book, Pond, enacts a quest for quiddity – the syntax that embodies a cast of mind, the phrase that nails a sensation, the narrative structure that feels like life as it is lived or anyway processed. Desperate, Lara's search for answers unexpectedly lead to her great-grandmother's journals. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world, but when her fiance disappears on their wedding day every plan she has for the future comes crashing down. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder - a world where women weave illusions, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. The surest way to get a ticket to Le Cirque Secret is to wish for it. Perfect for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. 'Romance, mystery, and a family curse - The Ladies of the Secret Circus has it all' Popsugar From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Kappus rilkeRead the poem as if you had never seen it before, and you will feel in your innermost being how very much it is your own. And now I am giving you this copy because I know that it is important and full of new experience to rediscover a work of one's own in someone else's handwriting. It is the best poem of yours that you have let me read. You see: I have copied out your sonnet, because I found that it is lovely and simple and born in the shape that it moves in with such quiet decorum. Kappus, I can greet you and talk to you (which I do with real pleasure) about this and that in response to your letter, as well as I can. Now I feel somewhat better again (the beginning of spring with its moody, bad-tempered transitions was hard to bear here too) and once again, dear Mr. Please don't hold that against me first it was work, then a number of interruptions, and finally poor health that again and again kept me from answering, because I wanted my answer to come to you out of peaceful and happy days. Kappus, Much time has passed since I received your last letter. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The golden pot eta hoffmannRather, his stories take place in Dresden, or in Sorrento, right here, right now - or some version of right here and right now that you haven’t quite got the eyes to see. Hoffmann doesn’t write stories that take place long ago and far away, or in another forest, or to peasants you’ve comfortably never heard of. I think the reason he resists categorization is that the main feature of his writing is a kind of blurring of what is real and unreal: a satiric, jaunty commingling of dream, fantasy, reality, the occult, bourgeois life, poetry, music, alchemy, automata, nightmare, and weddings. James, with his malevolent ghosts, or Lovecraft, with his obscene geometries. I had some trouble coming up with the way I was going to write about these stories (I read Weird Tales, vol.I, and The Golden Pot, which is a great fantastic novella.) It’s easy to pinpoint, say, M.R. Hoffmann, a 19th-century German author, is really something else. James, but I’m always interested in adding something else. I’ve read most of the 19th- and early 20th-century masters of the genre, from Lovecraft to M.R. I have a weakness for tales of the supernatural, the numinous, the eerie. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Tao Te Ching by Yuhui Liang
5/28/2023 0 Comments Adrian x isolde book 2Now, as politics in the Red Palace grow more underhanded and a deadly blood mist threatens all of Cordova, Isolde must trust in the bond she's formed with Adrian, even as she learns troubling information about his complicated past. With two opposing goddesses playing mortals and vampires like chess pieces against one another, Isolde is uncertain who her allies are in the vampire stronghold of Revekka. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Clair, Scarlett (ISBN: 9781728265711) from Amazon's Book Store. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. Buy Queen of Myth and Monsters (Adrian X Isolde, 2) by St. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king-fierce, savage, merciless-chose her as consort. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her. Except it isn't the court she fears most-it's Adrian. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. But her assassination attempt is thwarted, and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. Book 2 of 2 Adrian X Isolde Print length 384 pages Language English Publisher Bloom Books Publication date DecemDimensions 5.25 x 1.21 x 8.25 inches ISBN-10 1728259673 ISBN-13 978-1728259673 See all details The Amazon Book Review Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Kaguya vol 53,” as well as a darker thread that delves heavily into the past of Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), the unnaturally savvy and bloodthirsty anthropomorphic raccoon, conveying an unexpectedly poignant animal-rights message in the process. The key to Gunn’s earlier movies relied on a mix of abundant visual energy, distinctive characters, cleverly incorporated songs and no small amount of sheer goofiness. As evidence look no further than “Eternals,” another super-team that (while meriting an asterisk due to the pandemic) didn’t fare nearly as well. 3” drives home that point, with a boisterous and often emotional sequel that feels very much like a true conclusion, fueled in no small part by writer-director James Gunn having migrated his talents over to rival DC.īuilding franchises around more obscure heroes always represented the biggest risk in Marvel’s cinematic plans, which made the success of “Guardians” in 2014 and its less-satisfying sequel a minor miracle. In hindsight, the most unlikely hit among Marvel’s parade of them was all about the unlikeliest of families. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Lily and the octopusBy turns hilarious and poignant, an adventure with spins into magic realism and beautifully evoked truths of loss and longing, Lily and the Octopus reminds us how it feels to love fiercely, how difficult it can be to let go, and how the fight for those we love is the greatest fight of all. When Lily’s health is compromised, Ted vows to save her by any means necessary. Ted-a gay, single, struggling writer is stuck: unable to open himself up to intimacy except through the steadfast companionship of Lily, his elderly dachshund. Ultimately it all came together to touch on love, loneliness, grief, and the beautiful companionship and memories we build with our pets during their short lives. Ted’s devotion to his beloved dog is touching and pet lovers especially will feel his fear and loneliness at the prospect of losing Lily to the “octopus” invading her brain. It was all of those things, but I was conflicted while reading about whether it was the right book for me, mostly due to elements of magical realism throughout. I can never resist a book about a dog, and this one promised to be quirky, sweet, and heartbreaking. Please see Disclosures for more information. That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. Seuss, it always keeps us laughing as we encounter the many twists and turns in life.ĭr. He always believed that “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” This indispensable life skill allows us to see what is essential, no matter how big the idea or task. Seuss often used “nonsense” as a means to engage with life’s broad range of situations and as a way to break down monumental ideas into simple, digestible truths. Please contact a gallery for local pricing.ĬLICK HERE for a complete overview of this artwork.ĭr. Local taxes, import duties or shipping & handling are not included. International Purchases: Prices are shown in US Dollars only and do not reflect local exchange rates. Interested in purchasing this artwork? Acquire Artwork |