![]() In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. ![]() He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. ![]()
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![]() We then immediately flashback to his childhood, 1949 in Texas. Throughout the next few chapters, Smith flashes back and forth between the story of his childhood and school years in the segregated South with his iconic race at the ‘68 Olympics. Despite a sharp pain in his thighs and a whirlwind of thoughts, Smith leaps at the sound of the starter pistol. The book opens with a race, specifically the 200 meter sprint finals. ![]() The graphic memoir, co-written with Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile gives an account of Smith’s life leading to the Olympics, his choice to make the political statement, and the aftermath. Stand!: Raising my Fist for Justice, Smith tells his story behind that moment. ![]() ![]() Tommie Smith is the subject of one of the most iconic images from the Civil Rights Era, of two black men holding gloved fists high in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Post-3War" – set in "Tech City" after World War III, with Billie educating Spike, the Robo sapiens."Easter Island" – set in the 18th century, a time when Easter Island's inhabitants destroyed many of the moai statues (and the last tree) on their island."Planet Blue" – set in a futuristic past, where humanity's destruction of its own homeworld, Orbus, seems to be fixed when they come across and terraform another viable planet.Īndrew Milner, a literary critic and author of Science Fiction and Climate Change, notes that this book is an early example of ' doomer' climate fiction. Ursula Le Guin, while criticizing exposition and sentimentality, thought the novel a worthwhile and cautionary tale. The novel aims mainly to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes. Particularly those of a Robo sapien AI named Spike and her reluctant human companion, Billie. The novel is self-referential as characters make intertextual references, and cyclical as certain characters’ story arcs repeat. It is a post apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopic love story concerned with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence and technology. The Stone Gods is a 2007 novel by Jeanette Winterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() # 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. ![]() The ending was a classic Jennifer Armentrout cliffhanger, making me beg for more and also to wish for a good ending because the way the situation was left? It will torture at me until next year! And seeing, reading about all of them together made me remember why I still love these books so much. The rest of the story felt a little slow to be but no less endearing and a trip to nostalgia, making me remember back in 2013 when Lux came to my hands and I had first read of Kat's and Daemon's story. It's amazing also that she has very supportive friends and Luc who loves her to the point of obsession (a healthy dose of it but he truly does). She grows a lot and she tries to handle the powers she discovers that she has. While I don't want to give away the plot I had to admire Evie. Evie and Luc had to deal with lots of conspiracies, the chilling realization that Daedalus was bonkers crazy, and also the past that shaped both of them, for better.or worse. No matter what the third book in the Origin series was filled with emotion, a slow-building plot, and friendships developing over the pages. ![]() Maybe because it was a trip down to memory lane with the cameos and the characters I didn't expect to see? Or maybe it was because of the difficult week that left me so drained that I couldn't even finish this before its time. ![]() I am not sure how to put in words this book. I received an e-ARC from the author and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.īut even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. ![]() For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?įor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. ![]() ![]() ![]() During my time as an undergraduate student, the necessary words of Black feminist scholars and critical thinkers, such as hooks, seemed frustratingly absent. As I read hooks’ engaging analysis of media and consumer culture, I thought to myself “I never knew that academic writing could be like this!”.Īmongst the extensive list of hooks’ books are, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992), Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies (1996), and Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994). ![]() I found such excitement in reading a distinctly Black feminist voice that is rarely found in university curricula. I will always remember when I first came across the writings of hooks. It may have represented their entry into Black feminist media and cultural critique, or the starting point of their understanding of the intersections of sexism and racism. ![]() For some, the work of bell hooks needs no introduction. ![]() ![]() Everything seems to have worked out improbably well until Finn, who really does need the money, is offered an even bigger purse for killing someone else considerably more savvy and dangerous. The only bright spots are that Veronica, the accounting-student nanny Steven just laid off without warning Finn in advance, comes upon the scene ready and eager to help and that Steven owns a sod farm where the conspirators can bury the body without telling him. Of course Finn has no intention of going through with this harebrained scheme, but a series of unlikely miscues ends with Harris Mickler dead in her garage with every indication that she’s murdered him. What stuns Finn is the way Patricia communicates her hatred for her husband: She offers Finn $50,000 to kill him. He’s a blackmailer and serial rapist who’s beaten his wife repeatedly. ![]() So she’s not entirely surprised when Patricia Mickler, overhearing her chatting with her agent in the local Panera about her latest work in progress, indicates that her own husband is even worse. ![]() Struggling romantic suspense novelist Finlay Donovan doesn’t think much of her ex-husband, Steven, who’s been nickel-and-diming her ever since she dumped him over his affair with Theresa Hall, the realtor who’s since become his fiancee. A suburban Virginia divorcée struggles with that classic dilemma: What should she do when she’s offered a fat paycheck to kill a complete stranger? ![]() ![]() ![]() In this episode, I review this book, discuss what I liked and disliked about the book, and any lessons I received in this book. But what they do have is an undeniable mutual attraction. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. Ils ne peuvent pourtant pas nier leur attraction mutuelle, aussi immdiate que brlante. Et pour cause, le beau pilote n'a de temps que pour les aventures sans lendemain. This book was the fifth top selling printed book in 2022 with over 1.5 million copies sold, according to NPD book scan. When Tate Collins finds airline pilot Miles Archer passed out in front of her apartment door, it is definitely not love at first sight. Quand Tate Collins rencontre Miles Archer, elle sait que ce n'est pas le coup de foudre. Hoover is the top selling romance author, and she sold six out of ten of the top selling books in 2022. They hook-up multiple times, but will this sex lead to Miles falling in love again? You'll have to read the book to find out, but this one of my favorite Colleen Hoover books. From Colleen Hoover, the 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. ![]() A hot headed pilot, Miles, doesn't want love. ![]() ![]() This is one of the unreadable Lovecraft stories, in my opinion. ![]() I got about a third of the way through the walls of text Lovecraft threw up at me, and I simply didn't have the heart to go on. Instead you see a writer working and reworking ideas and themes (including characters and character names) until the truly classic stories evolve. ![]() Also, seeing the Cthulhu Mythos as an intentionally consistent and coherent whole was probably not foremost in Lovecraft's mind either. A lot of this has been tacked on by later reviewers and analyzers, August Derleth being probably the worst offender. At the same time I think way too much is made of Lovecraft's conception of his dream-cycle works as a connected whole at all. One thing you can see in this collection is a working out of themes and ideas that he used again and again in his dream-cycle stories. Writers like Dunsany and Eddison and Machen did this sort of thing much better than Lovecraft. ![]() I admittedly am not a big fan of Lovecraft's "prose poem" dream-cycle stuff, preferring his horror and scifi stuff (yes, The Whisperer in Darkness is a scifi story, not a horror story). Even so, Kadath itself meanders all over the place and parts of it vary greatly in quality. Of the "stories" in this book I would only call The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Boccaccio probably conceived of The Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. The book : Very nice 17th century Italian edition of The Decameron subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy"), - a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). Ĭontent : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining, name of a previous owner on first endpaper). Second Amsterdam edition (the first appeared in 1665).īinding : Very good full vellum binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, scuffed and soiled - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. ![]() Publisher : Amsterdam, no publisher (Elzevier), 1679. Parte Prima + Parte Seconda, Prefacione + Poemio : J. Si come lo, diedero alle stampe gli SSri Giunti l ` Anno 1527. Title : Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Cittadino Fiorentino. ![]() |