![]() ![]() Charles Manson, 1969's poster boy of darkness, doesn't make the cut. Chappaquiddick, the moon landing and Woodstock all have cameos in this, Hilderbrand's 23rd novel. She presents another breezy yet gritty novel with Summer of '69, the story of a family of long-time Nantucket vacationers who weather some tough times and ultimately find redemption, solace, even a measure of happiness. Many of her books are quite literally littoral, in that they are set at the shore. Toes in the sand, sun in the sky, not a thought in our heads - that's a beach read.Įlin Hilderbrand has been named " The Queen of Beach Reads," and she wears the mantle lightly, with justifiable pride. Readers won't find themselves having to go back over particularly dense passages in order to keep up. ![]() But it takes more than sand to make a beach read: It needs a certain weightlessness, an ephemeral quality, with no heavy lifting required. How?Ī faint tang of snobbery hangs about the term "beach read," as if, given the choice, we'd all prefer to sprawl out on a blanket in the Hamptons with War and Peace, say, or Infinite Jest (those might be properly termed littoral reads). ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Summer of '69 Author Elin Hilderbrand ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Miss Kawasemi?" Orito kneels on a stale and sticky futon. He explains that the choice to work with historical fiction was deliberate - a departure from the experimental fiction he wrote earlier in his career. ![]() The novel, Mitchell's fifth, is a departure from his earlier, more experimental works such as Cloud Atlas and Number9Dream. But when he arrives on the island, de Zoet falls in love with a Japanese midwife who has been disfigured in a terrible accident. Mitchell, who has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize, writes about a young clerk named Jacob de Zoet who travels to Dejima from Batavia to work for several years as a bookkeeper, after which he plans to return to Europe and marry his wealthy fiancee. Much more so, in fact, because there wouldn't have been any smuggled-out footage for YouTube or anything like that." ![]() " a little bit like North Korea is closed off to the world now. " goods materials but also ideas and knowledge on what was happening in the rest of the world," Mitchell tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novelĭavid Mitchell's latest novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is set in the year 1799, on an island called Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor.Īt the time, Dejima was the Japanese Empire's only trading post where Europeans could trade with Japan, a concept Mitchell says he found absolutely fascinating. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was more than content to sink back into the warm-bath quality of this book and this, I think, was due to the characters. Strangely, though I would generally describe myself as the finicky type of reader that requires consistency and depth in my stories, this didn’t bother me. In fact, a common issue taken with Virginia Woolf’s writing is the way in which plot is perhaps passed over in favour of examining the minutiae, holding a microscope to a human emotion or, as in the central section in this book, the manner in which a house decays. This was not due to any gripping plot twists, not to witty repartee or romantic involvements that I just had to find the end to. ![]() I read this book like I eat chocolate, always intending to indulge in just a little bit, then finding myself inexorably unwilling to stop. ![]() ![]() Klein has repeatedly dodged the question of authorship, and he could not be reached for comment. The data led Foster to conclude: "Joe Klein wrote this book, or else it's an almost impossibly clever hoax by someone who wanted his work to be taken for Joe Klein's." His computer runs did cross-correlations of the novel's text with hundreds of thousands of words from other writings by Klein and more than a dozen others who have been mentioned as possible authors of "Primary Colors," a novel about the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. The identification of Klein, to be published in the issue of New York Magazine going on sale Monday, was developed by Donald Foster, the Vassar College professor of English who recently set the authoritative Modern Language Association on its ear by identifying a previously obscure elegy as the work of William Shakespeare.įoster used the same "attributional-study" techniques to identify Klein. 1 fiction best-seller "Primary Colors" is Newsweek writer Joe Klein. The anonymity of Anonymous suffered a blow yesterday with disclosure of a computer analysis that indicated the author of the No. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL12355649W Pages 42 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613228820 Luna Loves Library Day by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Fiona Lumbers Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw The Library by Sarah Stewart, illustrated by David Small Busy People Librarian by Lucy M. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:58:41 Boxid IA178901 Boxid_2 CH114601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really hope to be able to do some of my own translation some day. ![]() There are so many different ways to translate the Greek but I loved Anne Carson’s simple style. One of Sappho’s more famous poems is: someone will remember us / I say / even in another time. I think this is so beautiful and it is so incredible how Sappho wrote this over 2000 years ago. May you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend.It contains detailed notes and shows the original Greek next to the translation which I thought was great because I hope to be able to translate Greek myself one day. ![]() I think this translation is the one I liked most it felt so complete, despite the poems being fragments. There’s a lack of evidence but it’s widely suggested that Sappho liked women romantically – the terms lesbian and sapphic come from her. ![]() If you read my April Wrap Up, you’ll see I’ve already read two other translations and I couldn’t resist getting another one! I also picked this up as part of my Pride Month TBR and it definitely didn’t disappoint. If Not, Winter is a collection of poems and fragments written by Sappho and translated by Anne Carson. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho’s verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text – allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written. From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. ![]() ![]() Her feistiness, her facial expressions her connection to Colton/Casey was as if they could read each other's thoughts. ![]() Casey was Colton 101% and Olivia brought Rylee to live just as described in the books. Anyone can simulate sex (FSOG) but to have that connection between 2 characters and convey it on screen-SWEET JESUS they pulled it off. THIS movie, the actors Casey and Olivia, brought the heat and passion on like no other I've ever seen!!! HOLY CANNOLIS!!!! It wasn't sexual, it was SENSUAL. All I can say is that THIS should be on the big screen in theaters. I went to the premiere and was so excited and still a bit scared. I just KNEW she wouldn't let her beloved series just become another statistic. I put my trust in Kristy Bromberg, the author, when she gave it her stamp of approval. So imagine how I felt seeing them take my #1 favorite series and turn it into a movie. Loved the actors and they had some chemistry and managed to pull it off. ![]() So many discrepancies, will the actors live up to the hype, will they really bring it? I can honestly say I was worried after watching Fifty Shades. ![]() It's really hard to see your favorite books become a movie. ![]() ![]() Just when he’d plucked up the courage to ask about having kids, Mike floated the idea of an open relationship and the memory of the hard words that followed colours the odd-couple predicament that occupies the novel’s first third, with Mitsuko just as uneasy as Benson. Having to host Mitsuko alone in a one-bed flat, never previously having met her, adds strain to Benson’s already rocky relationship with Mike. ![]() ![]() When Mike learns that his long-estranged father is dying in Osaka, he decides to fly out – just as his mother, Mitsuko, turns up out of the blue in Texas. Again set in Houston, it follows Benson, a black daycare worker, and Mike, a Japanese-born cook, who have been together for four years. If Lot could resort to shock to get out of a tight spot (the above story takes place in just six pages), Washington’s first novel, Memorial, is a more grownup proposition. He told me this was what happened to fags.” ![]() In front of the casket, Javi snatches Nicolás’s hand: “He made me touch Rick’s face. Then comes an abrupt section break: Rick has been shot dead and we’re at the wake. The narrator’s sense of illicit excitement at being among the big boys is heightened by a sexually charged moment as he and Rick count the takings. In one story, Nicolás nags his older brother, Javi, to let him sell drugs with him and his dealer friend, Rick. B ryan Washington’s award-winning debut, Lot, was a high-impact story collection partly told by Nicolás, a young gay black Latino in multiracial Houston. ![]() ![]() With a new introduction reflecting on the ongoing importance of the book, and a companion workbook for personal and group recovery, The Wounded Heart continues to offer an urgently needed word of grace in a world ravaged by sexual abuse.ĭr. ![]() The Wounded Heart has sold over 400,000 copies and has been the first book family, friends, counselors, pastors, and victims have turned to in search of Christian answers to the calamity of sexual abuse. Ultimately Dan offers the bold assurance to sexual abuse victims that even they can find their way to joy and hope in the comforting embrace of a good God. ![]() His work continues to help victims and those who love them to honestly acknowledge their abuse, understand the unique challenge of repentance for victims of abuse, and learn to love boldly in defiance of their trauma. Thirty years ago, with great courage and vision, Dan Allender brought Christians to the table to acknowledge, understand, and help victims heal from their experience of the evil of sexual abuse. ![]() For those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and those who love and care for them, The Wounded Heart offers a tender, compassionate window into the psychological effects of abuse and the theological foundations for healing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With insight and compassion drawn from a life full of change, the bestselling monk succeeds at encouraging all of us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you. ![]() Haemin Sunim's simple messages - which he first wrote when he responded to requests for advice on social media - speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life and remind us of the strength and joy that come from slowing down.Hugely popular in Korea, Haemin Sunim is a Zen meditation teacher whose teachings transcend religion, borders and ages. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Scopri The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World di Sunim, Haemin, Kim, Chi-Young: spedizione gratuita per i clienti Prime e per ordini a partire da 29 spediti da Amazon. The Times Top 10 BestsellerTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. Some favourite quotes from The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: When you’re hurt Don’t struggle to heal your wounds. ![]() |