![]() ![]() Yet he was a true avant-gardist, and he made a revolution. His place in the curriculum is established, but he is hardly popular as a subject of teaching or scholarship. During his most productive years as a writer, from 1917 to 1925, he worked in a bank. ![]() He was dismissive of grand theories of poetry, or anything else, and he never held a regular academic appointment. ![]() The project to which he committed most of the latter part of his career, the revival of verse drama, was a failure. The poems and plays that Eliot published in his lifetime fill a single volume his prose works are collections of talks and occasional journalism. He claimed to consider Richard III, who died in 1485, the last legitimate English king. ![]() He came to hold political and religious views that were far to the right of most of his contemporaries’, and to believe that Western civilization had been in decline since the thirteenth century, the time of Dante. He was known to friends as a connoisseur of cheese-there are several anecdotes about him in which the punch line is provided by a remark about cheese-and as a collector of umbrellas with custom handles. His manner was so correct that it sometimes seemed a few degrees too correct. Eliot was a morally, intellectually, and sartorially fastidious man. “In ‘The Waste Land,’ I wasn’t even bothering whether I understood what I was saying,” Eliot told an interviewer. ![]()
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![]() I'm not sure how accurate Hawkins's portrayal is - although from following her on Twitter, it seems like she has done her research. I don't usually get super hung up on royalty as someone who doesn't live in Europe so it was interesting to see some more intimate details of that lifestyle. I did really enjoy all the royal drama and general mischief that the characters got themselves into. There were a couple of times it was described, but once or twice I forgot the story was set there. I also really loved the Scottish setting - I just wish we got to see a bit more of it. It takes place during summer AND largely in Scotland so Daisy is focused on vacationing, not homework and school drama. ![]() Setting and timeline-wise, this book hits that perfect sweet spot for dealing with teenagers without dealing with high school. She meets her soon to be brother-in-law and after a few minor scandals, she is assigned to one of his friends, Miles, who is to help show her the ropes of royal life. ![]() When Daisy becomes subject to some unwanted publicity, Ellie and the team of royal smoother-overers decide it is time for the two families to officially meet and brings Daisy over to Scotland. The story follows Daisy, the teenaged sister of Ellie, the woman who is engaged to Prince Alexander of Scotland. ![]() Thanks so much to Penguin Random House Canada for sending me an ARC of this book for an honest review, as always, all opinions are my own. I am here with another book review, Royals by Rachel Hawkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times-unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. ![]() He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. I’ve been an advocate for nonfiction for more than 20 years now. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. WINNER Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell B efore we get to the books, could you explain what the Baillie Gifford Prize is and your own background in nonfiction The Baillie Gifford is the UK’s premier prize for nonfiction. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() While Anna is too busy having out-of her-head experiences. Helen wants to share the new toy (she means baby Kate). So she follows the instincts of all self-respecting adults in tricky situations.īut while her parents are sympathetic, Claire's younger sisters are less so. Right for who exactly? Exhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire can't think of what to do. On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh's husband James tells her he's been having an affair and now's the right time to leave her. 'Failed relationships can be describe as so much wasted makeup. Watermelon, Marian Keyes's very first novel, tells the extremely funny and wonderfully touching tale of a woman who thought she had it all - until the day she discovers that it's all gone. Never before has this title been published as an eBook. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Brookhiser reads Marshall's career in conjunction with his personality, and the modern author sees that the Founder did not picture himself as a creator of the nation. It's not clear what else one would need to call Marshall a Founding Father. Adams nominated him to the Supreme Court before leaving office in 1801. He served as a congressman, an American minister to France during the 1797 XYZ Affair, and then secretary of state in 1800. As a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, he helped push through Virginia's ratification of the Constitution. After all, Marshall fought with the Continental Army during the Revolution. The temptation is to see Marshall primarily as one of the younger Founders, of an age with Hamilton. A 2003 volume on the little discussed Gouverneur Morris, "the rake who wrote the Constitution," soon followed, and then a 2011 look at the much discussed James Madison-and a 2014 book on the even more discussed Abraham Lincoln, whom Brookhiser read as the "Founders' son."Ĭuriously, that title might have been reserved for Brookhiser's latest subject, John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. And the 2002 book on John Adams, extended into a discussion of the whole family of Adamses, America's first dynasty. There's the 1999 book on Alexander Hamilton, for example, demonstrating the pull toward the Federalists that Brookhiser feels. ![]() ![]() You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong. Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. “From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23.5 hours of your day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The queen of both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England the extraordinary life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who is justly regarded as one of the most famous women of the Middle Ages, has been well documented on both sides of the Atlantic. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer. I would highly recommend this book for any entrepreneur at any phase, and this book really fits the “entrepreneurial thinking” philosophy. The book is very gripping, especially getting to know the emotions in various situations, world tour planning, relationship with Bowerman, Pre, Johnson, Strasser, Hayes, Woodell, the details of law suits, managing the persistent situation of “Pay Nissho first”, etc. After completing the book on Elon Musk, started reading this amazing memoir by Phil Knight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This work in the Homage to the Square series was executed almost 20 years into what may be the most sustained exploration of the relational character of color in 20 th-century art. Oil on Masonite - Los Angeles County Museum of Art As in his earlier monochromatic and linear studies, this series explores the potential of static two-dimensional media to invoke dynamic three-dimensional space. ![]() ![]() Albers chose a single, repeated geometric shape, which he insisted was devoid of symbolism, to systematically experiment with the "relativity" of color, how it changes through juxtaposition, placement, and interaction with other colors, generating the illusion of attraction, resistance, weight, and movement. Such sustained attention to a single aspect of painting reflects his conviction that insight is only attained through "continued trying and critical repetition." This early work exemplifies his basic approach to exploring the mutability of human perception and the range of optical and psychological effects that colors alone can produce depending on their position and proximity. Homage to the Square is the signature series of over 1000 related works, which Albers began in 1949 and continued to develop until his death in 1976. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1986, it follows the story of a young woman who leaves her life of near servitude in her mother's hat shop after she has been cursed to look like an old woman, and ends up living with a very powerful and mysterious sorcerer. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. Howl's Moving Castle is the first novel to be written in the series. Along the way, she discovers that there’s far more to Howl–and herself–than first meets the eye.In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl’s castle. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. Rate this book Howls Moving Castle 3 House of Many Ways Diana Wynne Jones 4.06 37,136 ratings3,115 reviews Charmain Baker is in over her head. Diana Wynne Jones’s entrancing, classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. ![]() |