![]() I liked that one even better, to the point that I wanted to buy an extra two copies so I could turn the pages into a collection of framed art prints for my walls. Description Specifications How Far You Have Come is an exquisitely illustrated collection of poetry and essays from bestselling artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols. Highly recommend, and while you’re at it, pick up All Along You Were Blooming too. ![]() Here are a couple of stanzas that stood out to me as I read:Īnd will not give in to its alluring tongue. ![]() She follows the journey from Georgia to California, capturing each state along the way with beautiful art and powerful words. As a native Californian, I especially loved reading the California section, but I also found myself dog-earing pages all throughout the book so I could revisit my favorite poems later on. In How Far You Have Come, Morgan Harper Nichols shares a combination of her signature art style and poetry, along with stories from different parts of her life. It is a volume of place-based poetry interspersed with reflective narrative sections, and the whole book is filled with Morgan’s beautiful illustrations. ![]() I first read her All Along You Were Blooming, then picked up a copy of How Far You Have Come after I loved the other so much. Morgan has become one of my favorite poetic authors this year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. ![]() Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942. ![]() Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What renewed my interest in the series was, believe it or not, my manic compulsion to… you get the idea. Because of my manic compulsion to buy everything I see that even remotely piques my interest, I bought this book several years ago and it has languished in my TBR ever since. Like most of the things I read, for one reason or another I put off reading this one entirely too long. The Warded Man, published as The Painted Man in the UK, is one of the best epic fantasy books that I have read in a long time. Together, they will stand against the night. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms, but those days are gone. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards-symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. ![]() As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise-demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. ![]() ![]() We’ve planned this for some time, but it’s been only days that we knew the time was right. ![]() “It’s all happening so fast,” she complained softly.ĭuncan leaned forward. “I will miss you, Cyn, you and Raphael more than anyone else.” “Duh,” she said, rolling her eyes in his direction.ĭuncan laughed as she turned towards him. It still took her breath away sometimes.Ĭyn controlled an involuntary jerk of surprise at the sound of Duncan’s voice over her left shoulder. Raphael looked up briefly, and his eyes flashed silver. She could only make them out because of the multicolored glow of the jet’s cockpit coming through the windshield. Raphael was down near the nose of the aircraft, deep in conversation with Juro. She hunched deeper into her coat and peered through the dim light. It made the frigid hangar marginally bearable. ![]() Cyn shivered slightly and moved closer to the wave of heat coming from the Learjet’s engines. ![]() ![]() Of course, once Hong Kong is conquered by the Imperial Japanese Army in December of 1941, romance of any sort takes on quite different trappings. All these went through her mind, but she didn’t say a word. “Why is anyone with anyone?”ĭesire, proximity, habit, chance. Of course, romance can manifest itself in many ways, and in demonstration of this point, take, for example, the following dialogue from the novel and between two lovers: It is within this setting that the story’s complex characters navigate romances, intrigues, and the general trials and tribulations of life. ![]() Lee effectively recreates pre- and post- WWII Hong Kong, a city teeming with drama of every sort and serving as a nexus between East and West. Set in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong and alternating between the years 952, the reader is provided prose of the highest caliber with which Ms. In reducing history to mere facts and figures, much is lost, and the novel is capable of preventing such a reduction. Experiencing history through the narrative of fictional characters personalizes history and brings it to the level of the individual. While they all have their particular advantages and strengths, I find the written word most powerful, especially when put forth in the form of fiction. ![]() There are numerous means by which history can be recorded: oral history, paintings, poems, monuments, and, of course, the written word. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why we need a more educated populous to have great leaders that understand the history and the change to be made He talks about his participation in the black lives matter movement and the impactful arguments he's made Why he chooses to tell the truth about racial injustice that has been distorted for many years He explains the racist history of sundown towns and how that has been changing in recent times How his life in college studying sociology and interacting with diverse race students changed his entire life to be that of telling truthful history The passion caused by anger towards the lies told to history students by people who knew the truth but chose to avoid the controversy behind it He explains the history class about reconstruction that opened his eyes into the non-truth in written history books which led to writing his book ' Lies My Teacher Told Me' Listen to his thoughts on Black Lives Matter, sundown towns, civil rights, social justice and taking down the symbols of the confederacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() it’s all covered, within the whole range of the alphabet. about table manners, and kitchen practices about food preparation and laundry days about social functions and bodily functions. Like Lou Rawls, you would have to get fully dressed before going to bed, if you didn't want to suffer frostbite in the night.įlanders is enchanting as a tour guide, revealing all the minutiae one longs to know. ![]() Despite the charm inherent in having a little visit with Dickens and Eliot, with Emily and Charlotte, with Browning and Tennyson, there is no charm at all in suffering from chilblains in cold and drafty houses. This is the sort of delightful trivia you will find in this very engaging book - a cultural dalliance within a very rustic era. Your smalls, by the way, would have been white if you were a real lady, because only women of loose morals would have worn colourful underclothes. of (mostly) middle class Victorians, this book will satisfy every curiosity, right down to the smalls. and drawing rooms, and washrooms, and kitchens. If you’re in the mood to spend a little time in the bedrooms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two other books in the planned trilogy, Prodigy and Champion, were published in 2013. ![]() Lu has said that she was inspired by the movie Les Miserables and sought to recreate the conflict between Valjean and Javert in a teenage version. ![]() Lu's debut novel, Legend, was published Novemas the first of a young adult science fiction trilogy. ![]() Lu currently lives in the Arts District of Los Angeles with her husband, their son (born 2019) and three dogs. She attended the University of Southern California, where she studied political science and biology, and interned as an artist at Disney Interactive Studios. She grew up between Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Houston, learning English by writing stories. In 1989, she and her family moved to the United States in Texas when she was five years old, during the Tiananmen Square Protest. Lu was born in 1984 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, and later moved to Beijing. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Marie Lu (born 11 July 1984 birthname: Xiwei Lu, Chinese: 陸希未) is a Chinese-American young adult author. ![]() ![]() Gracefully interspersing her history lesson with personal anecdotes, Vowell offers reflections that are both amusing (colonial history lesson via The Brady Bunch Vowell underscores that the seemingly minute differences between the Plymouth Puritans and the Massachusetts Puritans were as meaningful as the current Sunni/Shia Muslim rift. Were separatists, Winthrop's followers remained loyal to England, spurred on by Puritan Reverend John Cotton's proclamation that they were God's chosen people. While the Puritans who had earlier sailed to Plymouth on the Mayflower Foremost among these men was John Winthrop, who would become governor of Massachusetts. ![]() In a style less colloquial than her previous books, Vowell traces the 1630 journey of several key English colonists and members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ![]() ) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which our country's present predicaments are inextricably tied to its past. ![]() Essayist and public radio regular Vowell ( Assassination Vacation ![]() |