God Save the King by Laura Purcell5/11/2023 Because let’s face it: God Save the King is a book about a miserable family. Of those women, I think the only one I liked at all was the Princess Royal, and I only liked her in the epilogue, where she was revealed to be possibly the only person in the entire story who ends up leading a satisfying life. Queen Charlotte, the Princess Royal, and Princess Sophia. Purcell chose to tell this story with the help of three female narrators. It is, however, a story that rather resembles a telenovela at times. God Save the King covers about a thirty-year period, and moves quite fast, but still manages to capture most of the important bits. Here in the States, history books generally mention George briefly as the tyrannical king we rebelled against, but there’s rather more to him than that. George III and his family are endlessly interesting, if rather tragic. Perhaps what drew me to Laura Purcell’s debut was the subject matter. Even so, I do actually think God Save the King might be a good book. I spent the vast majority of my reading experience rolling my eyes and snarking. For reasons that completely escape me, I rather enjoyed this book.
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Paul hawken regeneration book5/11/2023 Project Regeneration is the world’s largest, most complete listing and network of solutions to the climate crisis. His latest book, Regeneration, Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, was published by Penguin RandomHouse September, 2021, his sequel to Drawdown, He is the founder of both Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration. A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown. He is published in 30 languages and his books are available in over 90 countries. He has written nine books including six national and NYT bestsellers: Growing a Business, The Next Economy, The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, and Regeneration. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Talk of the Nation, Bill Maher, CBS This Morning and others, and his work has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Forbes, and Business Week. Paul Hawken starts ecological businesses, writes about nature and commerce, and consults with heads of state and CEOs on climatic, economic and ecological regeneration. Ella maise marriage for one5/11/2023 Jack Hawthorne was nothing like what I'd imagined for myself. It took him only minutes to talk me into a business deal…erm, I mean marriage, and only days for us to officially tie the knot. Well…I did all those things except the walking away part. You'd think I'd laugh in his face, call him insane-and a few other names-then walk away as quickly as possible. A stranger who had been dumped by her fiancé only weeks before. A complete stranger who had never even heard of him. You'd think a guy who looked like him-a bit cold maybe, but still striking and very unattainable-would only ask the love of his life to marry him, right? You'd think he must be madly in love. The day he lured me into his office-which was also the first day we met-he proposed. Heartless by diana palmer5/10/2023 25 – The Backstreet Boys released their first album in six years, DNA.Sharon Van Etten released her first album in five years, Remind Me Tomorrow.18 – Pedro the Lion released their first album in fifteen years, Phoenix.17 – Christina Perri released her first album in five years, Songs for Carmella: Lullabies & Sing-a-Longs.7 – Andy Grammer performed the national anthem, and Imagine Dragons performed the halftime show during the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship with special guest Lil Wayne. 2 – Daryl Dragon of Captain & Tennille died at the age of 76 due to renal failure, with his ex-wife Toni Tennille at his side.The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2019 in music in the United States. So, I enjoyed the lessons she presented and learning about her own life as well. This is the first work I have read by Maya Angelou. To speak in that manner and to reveal those aspects of yourself takes courage. Many of anecdotes talk about mistakes she made and the lessons that derive from that. Some are humorous like her not realizing cultural differences and walking on what would be the tablecloth at which guests would dine. Some of the stories are difficult - getting pregnant young, becoming a single parent, getting beat up, and more. A gentle, quick reminder of life lessons.Įach essay presents a glimpse into Maya Angelou's life and leaves us with a lesson for our own lives. Each essay is brief and can lend itself to a quick read here and there. The book itself is short and can easily be read in one sitting. Yet, this letter is to her daughter - or really daughters - each and every one of us. Letter to My Daughter is a collection of short essays by Maya Angelou - bits of opinion and advice drawn from and explained using different incidents in her life. Montgomery clift biography book5/10/2023 Here it took me ages to realise that ah, this was published a mere twelve years after Montgomery's death, wasn't it? So all those people would still be alive at the time of publication and be affected by having their names mentioned in specifically sexual or homosexual or otherwise incriminating contexts. I'm so used to people being specifically identified and sourced. What did astonish me though was the curious anonymity given to so many people, so many lovers of both male and female persuasions, partners not just one night stands. And this is a style I've never encountered before - at once effortless and deceptively skilful. I'm used to reading Donald Spoto's meticulously footnoted and referenced biographies. It's such an accomplishment of a book, how it manages to work so much detail and so much intimacy into a perfectly organic narrative without any sense of enforced structure or laboured pace. For the sheer pain and loss of it, of watching this car crash happen for ten years and even for years before then, of yearning for him to make good, for him to be the hero you always sensed in the movies that he wanted to be even if the movie journeys ended in tragedy themselves. I spent half of this book wanting to cry. If you read any biography of Montgomery Clift, read this one. Sea of tranquility book review5/10/2023 “One of finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” - The New York TimesĮdwin St. The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.Book excerpts: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St.The best book quotes from Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St.KRISTA Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel HANNAH Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel CHARLOTTE MAY Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel NANCY ADAIR Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel CATMANDU Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel SUJOYA Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel NILUFER OZMEKIK Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel MAGGIE STIEFVATER Review Sea of Tranquility: A novel Peter carey jack maggs5/10/2023 OL25686036W Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 342 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220324135940 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 524 Scandate 20220318214228 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780571270170 Tts_version 4. Its an act of empathy, and its not only what we do, its a socially useful act my emphasis to imagine oneself to be other than one is. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:39:53 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40407813 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier According to Peter Carey: it is the writers responsibility to imagine what it is to be others. The birds daphne5/10/2023 Well, I can understand why no one wanted to try and evoke thoughts of a film this big by naming his or her film "The Birds", and even why no one made a film before this one that was titled "The Birds", because this film actually came out a couple months before "Surfin' Bird", and it doesn't get any older than that. I can torture you all with this nonsense all night, but in all seriousness, there are so many trite things involving birds that I can't believe this seemingly uncreative title wasn't taken, like, a couple hundred times before and after this film. Seriously, I've heard of California going to the birds, but this is ridiculous. "A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird, b-b-b-bird, bird, bird, bird is the word!" Man, these birds are bad enough, so one can only imagine what chaos would befall society if the bees got in on this killing spree, John Burroughs. Jerome klapka jerome books5/9/2023 His father died in 1873, and although JK stayed on at school for another year, he was very happy to leave and go to work, aged 14, as a clerk at Euston Station. The family had been wealthy and middle class, but the Rev Jerome was not a successful entrepreneur, and had frittered away his wife’s considerable fortune so JK’s childhood was quite Dickensian in its poverty. JK was born in Walsall on May 2nd 1859, the last of the 4 Jerome children. Like his father, he seems to have decided that Clapp was not good name to have. The change of Clapp to Klapka came about when he began his writing career. But JK was born in 1859 and was actually baptised with Clapp as his middle name. In adult life he let it be known that this had been given to him as a homage to General Gyorgi Klapka – a hero of the 1849 Hungarian War of Independence, who moved to England in 1850 and became a friend of the family. JK’s middle name of Klapka is also something of a fudge. JK’s father’s surname was originally Clapp but he decided that this was not a suitable surname for a preacher so the Rev Jerome Clapp became the Rev Jerome C. |