The last world christoph ransmayr5/13/2023 ![]() No, she brushed me with her gaze and altered her course by a hair’s breadth, just enough that we didn’t touch each other. These are not orthodox travel descriptions, as his poetic encounter with a whale in the Dominican Caribbean shows: ![]() Written much later in 2012, Atlas of an Anxious Man consists of 70 episodes in which the author remembers the places he has journeyed across several decades. "This remarkable second novel … carries the conviction of an ominous dream," said the The New York Times. ![]() Austrian Ransmayr's first novel, The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (1984), based on an Austro-Hungarian expedition team's journey to the North Pole, was followed by his surreal, critically-acclaimed 1988 novel, The Last World, which drew on Ovid's Metamorphoses as it shifted between time and place. ![]()
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Charles beauregard anno dracula5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, their former love, Charles is about to die and each appears to try to change his mind and to say goodbye. In this story, we discover three young female vampires, Genevieve, Kate and Penelope, who gathered for a funeral. But it’s true that now I’m pretty curious to see what the first two parts present. Of course, I know that the synopsis is not everything but I can tell you that starting with the third volume is really not a problem. I wondered for a moment if it would not be a problem to start with a third book but the summary let me think it would not be the case. Review: I did not really know about the series although it’s true that I had the opportunity to see the covers as well as the name of the author on some blogs. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail… Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda – his sixth wife. ![]() Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson5/13/2023 ![]() "A wonderful and necessary purchase for public and school libraries alike."- VOYA " is a wonderful role model for coming of age in a thoughtful way, and the book offers to teach us all about holding on to hope."- Children's Literature Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girl’s heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface. Who is he?ĭuring a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new light-her brother Sean’s deafness, her mother’s fear, the class bully’s anger, her best friend’s faith and her own desire for “the thing with feathers.” And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he’s not white. ![]() Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more “holy.” There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. There are so many other things to think about. ![]() “Hope is the thing with feathers” starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. A beautiful and moving novel from a three-time Newbery Honor-winning author ![]() Health care reform jonathan gruber5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, we wanted to hash out what role Gruber had in crafting the Affordable Care Act and whether Obama accurately recounted his involvement. The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run." I get well briefed before I come out here. A reporter asked Obama about Gruber’s remarks. Obama, however, downplayed Gruber’s involvement while speaking at the G20 summit in Australia. Why is that of interest? Because Gruber played a role in helping to write and pass the health care law. Even overseas, President Barack Obama couldn’t escape questions about a domestic controversy surrounding the health care law.įootage emerged last week of Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist, claiming more than a year ago that the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" were key to passing the Affordable Care Act. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our research shows that 2022 was a year of change for the private markets. #LGBTQ #DEI #SustainableInclusiveGrowth #McKPride #LifeatMcKinsey REDI.LGBTI excited to share with you our Global Private Markets Review 2023, “Private markets turn down the volume.” We were roughly 10 GLAM out members in the summer of 2019 in Iberia and now we are up to 50, we joined REDI and we became a platinum sponsor of I have never felt more comfortable being myself than at McKinsey and this has brought out the best of me.” It’s now been almost four years since I joined McKinsey and there has been a relentless progress in diversity sponsored by every single colleague at the Firm. I distinctly remember having a diversity training on week 1 at the Firm by a GLAM ally, which created a safe space for me to be myself with my colleagues. □ “My path at McKinsey has been strongly influenced by the GLAM community, specially by my GLAM & Allies friends and colleagues. We will gather students and McKinsey colleagues such as Blanca in a virtual session to learn about consulting, share about life at McKinsey and about being a LGBTQ+ professional □ □ Join our informal networking event to learn more about McKinsey’s LGBTQ+ community known as GLAM on May 11th. ![]() Woman hating andrea dworkin5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In school, her nonconformist tendencies put her at odds with teachers in sixth grade, for instance, she refused to sing “Silent Night” at Christmas and was dropped from the choir. As a child, she often stayed with relatives because her father, a schoolteacher and postal employee, worked long hours, and her mother had heart trouble. Often at her side when she marched against pornography, he is her only immediate survivor.ĭworkin was born in Camden, N.J., to immigrant Jewish parents with progressive politics. Stoltenberg shared Dworkin’s feminist fervor and helped found the group Men Against Pornography. ![]() The two met in 1974 at a benefit for the War Resisters League and soon began living together. Her relationship with Stoltenberg was a subject of intense fascination for many who knew of Dworkin’s work. ![]() They were together for 30 years, the last seven as a married couple. Despite the violence she endured in her first marriage and her subsequent identification as a lesbian, her longtime companion was writer John Stoltenberg, who has described himself as an openly gay man. ![]() Roberto bolano 2666 review5/12/2023 ![]() Which makes sense, since he was dying while he wrote it. ![]() Whether one distracts oneself focused on the ludicrously esoteric (the part about the critics), or by living through one's child (The Part about Amalfitano), or by allowing oneself to be carried up on the chaos of events (The Part about Fate), or by hovering close to the edge of death itself and living within its shadow (The Part about the Crimes), or by ccupying oneself with the act of narration (The Part about Archimboldi), I think Bolaño wrote a book about the ways people put off death. For me, it was mostly a story about death and the humorous, tragic, poignant or obsessive strategies we use to put it off. I'm not going to bother with a synopsis, because other reviewers have done this, but it moves from quirky, cosy satire to grim documentary realism to modern historical fiction. Although the meta-narrative voice stays true, its five parts each offer a very different narrative style. There are truly great things about this book. What you make of that excess of detail then determines whether you are a literary reader or not. Someone, I don't know who it was, said that the difference between a piece of genre fiction and a literary novel is that, in literary novels, the author gives you far more detail than you need as a reader. ![]() ![]() It would be 127 years before the next recorded encounter between European and Māori. ![]() The Māori response to this visit is less well-known, except for fragments of stories recorded in the 19th century. After he left in early January 1643, Tasman’s New Zealand became a ragged line on the world map. Tasman named the place we now call Golden Bay ‘Moordenaers’ (Murderers’) Bay. His only encounter with Māori ended badly, with four of his crew killed and Māori fired upon in retaliation. Abel Tasman was the first of the European explorers known to have reached New Zealand, in December 1642. First contactsīy the time the first Europeans arrived, Māori had settled the land, every corner of which came within the interest and influence of a tribal (iwi) or sub-tribal (hapū) grouping. This broad survey of New Zealand’s ‘long 19th century’ begins with the arrival of James Cook in 1769 and concludes in 1914, when New Zealand answered the call to arms for ‘King and Country’. ![]() In the period between the first European landings and the First World War, New Zealand was transformed from an exclusively Māori world into one in which Pākehā dominated numerically, politically, socially and economically. ![]() Mansfield park book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Contemporary reviews were generally good, praising the novelâs morality. Mansfield Park is unusual in that despite it being a great public success, with the first edition selling out in six months and a second edition selling out two years later, it wasnât publicly reviewed until 1821, seven years after it was first published. Their arrival begins a series of romantic engagements that strains the entire familyâs relationships. ![]() When her uncle leaves to manage business in Antigua, Henry and Mary Crawford, siblings from the region, come to live at Mansfield Park as well. The only family member she feels a connection to is the younger Edmund, who is preparing for life in the clergy. ![]() Her female cousins, Maria and Julia, are fashionable and vapid, and her elder male cousin, Tom, is a drunk. The Bertrams treat her cruelly at first, and Fanny has trouble fitting in. Standard Ebooksġ60,781 words (9 hours 45 minutes) with a reading ease of 66.27 (average difficulty)Īt the age of 10, Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, is sent to live with her wealthy uncleâs family, the Bertrams, at the country estate of Mansfield Park. Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() Original mary poppins book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We do not guess at the roots that made our fruit. We write more than we know we are writing. ![]() “I thought to myself, ‘Some day, in spite of her, I shall commit the ‘disrespectful vulgarity of putting Aunt Sass in a book.’ And then it occurred to me that this had already been done, though unconsciously and without intent. Travers said that the character is based on her aunt, whom she calls “Aunt Sass.” PL Travers first wrote about Mary Poppins in a short story in 1926 and then later expanded the character into a full novel. Pamela Lyndon Travers, or PL Travers, is a pen name for the author Helen Goff. However, Mary Poppins is not up for disobedience and snaps the children right in line.ĭespite her strict rules, the kids still bond with Mary Poppins because they have so much fun with her in such different ways than they are accustomed.Ībout the Author PL Travers | What book is Mary Poppins based on? She swoops in one day after the Banks’ previous Nanny leaves and proceeds to take the four Banks children on magical journeys. ![]() Mary Poppins is a Nanny with magical powers who comes to the rescue of the Banks family (the main Mary Poppins characters), who live in London. Mary Poppins is the first children’s book in a series written by author PL Travers. ![]() |