![]() ![]() Marlowe based the plot of his play on The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus (1592), an English translation of a German book (now known as the Faustbuch) about an actual historical figure who gained notoriety in early sixteenth-century Germany by dabbling in the occult. But there is an obvious problem with this approach to Marlowe's work: we simply don't know whether these hostile accounts of his opinions are accurate or, as seems likely, deeply compromised by their writers' own motives and circumstances.ĭoctor Faustus is the most famous of Marlowe's plays, and its hero, who sells his soul to the devil in return for twenty-four years of power and pleasure, is by far the best known of his rebellious protagonists. Critics who have studied Marlowe's work have for the most part been inclined to take on trust the picture of him provided by Kyd, Baines, Beard and others, and to read the plays as statements of the author's own radical beliefs. ![]()
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![]() Maybe reading them all in one sitting was not the best idea and I should’ve taken more breaks to give my unromantic mind a break from them – but I didn’t.Īpart from that the collection was a very enjoyable read – and it even contained some feminist poems that I really liked! Although the romance poems didn’t fit my personal taste “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” was a nice poetry book that I really enjoyed reading. I’m not a particularly romantic person and they were just too cheesy for my taste. However, the happy love poems got a little too much for me after a while. After all my nonfiction and Virginia Woolf reads of the past few months it was great to finally have a nice, quick book that I could simply read and enjoy. ![]() It was also lovely to just sit down with “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” and read away. ![]() Lovelace employs fantastic metaphors and motifs drawing upon the fantasy genre to convey the struggles, characters and conflicts within her poetry. Though the books is fast paced and can easily be read in a few hours, the poems invite you to take breaks during or after the reading to think and reflect about them because of the themes they discuss. The poems of “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” are about trauma, abuse, survival, love, strength and artistry – among other topics. ![]() It was just the right kind of book for me at the time. The poetry collection “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” by Amanda Lovelace was a quick read despite the heavy subjects it discusses. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am not really sure what to say about this story. With enemies at their heels and old mistakes coming back to exact a price, how can Ante and Peter find sanctuary? As Ante and Peter flee, they learn more about themselves and each other, and they discover that the world is a stranger place than either of them imagined. But the Shadows want Peter too, and they’re willing to kill to get him. His existence feels empty and meaningless until he meets beautiful Peter Gehrardi, who can influence others with his thoughts.Īn attraction flares instantly, bringing a semblance of life to Ante’s dead heart. ![]() Now he haunts Las Vegas, stealing blood and money from drunken gamblers and staying on the fringe of the powerful vampire organization known as the Shadows. A century and a half ago, Ante Novak died on a Croatian battlefield – and rose three days later as a vampire. ![]() ![]() ![]() My fingers are crossed that their reading experience was a lot better than me. ![]() Yet regardless of that, fans are going to gravitate towards this series due to the breathtaking cover, synopsis and this novel being the perfect mashup (apparently) of The Cruel Prince and City of Bones. Long drawn out introductions, info dumps, confusing plot lines/holes, lack of structure and messy world-building essentially ruined this all together for me. Little to nothing of the magic system was properly explained (perhaps it will be in upcoming books?). It was overly drawn out and boring, preventing me from being invested in them and their story. I wasn’t able to connect to the characters and the events that surround them due to that and because I also struggled with the pacing. 2-3 POVs would have suffice and the inner monologues were too dreadful and unnecessary. First things first, it was tough to keep track of the characters with the multiple POVs (I believe 4-5). Now obviously by the rating I had given this book, the bad outweighs the good in every single way. Let’s start off with the positives, shall we? I thought the author handled the triggering content with care and sensitivity, I found the royal politics fascinating, and this YA thriller had great LGBTQ representation. An upsetting read that seems to be the norm with fae/YA books I have picked up lately. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing more you want to do than to invite her back and do everything in your power to make her stay. She will have you on your knees begging for another hit. ![]() The drug, creativity, is the most unrelenting mistress. However heavy the burden of creativity is, the personal payoff is huge when you stumble on something that sits just right, or when you have satisfied your creative passions - the relief is orgasmic. Creativity requires massive action, it needs movement, it frivolously requires time and energy in the physical dimension. Note that creativity here was seen as a ‘ Practice.’ Not a theoretical mind exercise or a thought experiment. He associated the act of performance and the practice of creativity as a transcendent experience that connected us with a higher power. Plato believed that the act of creativity - creating something from nothing was a representation of the power of God. ![]() I find myself pondering this question often. ![]() ![]() ![]() He buys a wagon, and they start their journey, much to the reluctance and outrage of the undomesticated Johanna but a relationship soon begins to develop between the two. At first reluctant to take her the 400 miles to the town near San Antonio where her aunt and uncle live, he soon realizes his itinerant life makes him the most plausible person for the job-and he also knows it’s the right thing to do. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a 70-year-old veteran of two wars and, in 1870, when the novel takes place, a professional reader-he travels through Texas giving public readings from newspapers to an audience hungry for events of the world. Tired of being harassed by the cavalry, the Kiowa sell her back to an Indian agent for "fifteen Hudson’s Bay four-stripe blankets and a set of silver dinnerware." Enter Capt. ![]() Instead, her memory extends only as far as her Kiowa family-she speaks no English and by white standards is uncivilized. Johanna Leonberger remembers almost nothing of her first 6 years, when she lived with her parents. In post–Civil War Texas, a 10-year-old girl makes an odyssey back to her aunt and uncle’s home after living with the Kiowa warriors who had killed her parents four years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() The exploded narrative reveals a virtuosity that we rarely encounter, and one cannot help being bowled over by certain bravura passages-to single one out, the series of reports describing murdered young women, which is both magnificent and unbearable. a writer in full pursuit of the Total Novel, one that not only completes his life’s work but redefines it and raises it to new dizzying heights.” -RODRIGO FRESÁN, El País ![]() MASOLIVER RÓDENAS, La Vanguardia “One of those strange, exquisite, and astonishing experiences that literature offers us only once in a very long time. ![]() An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force (though the phrase seems hardly adequate to describe the novel’s narrative velocity, polyphonic range, inventiveness, and bravery) based in part on the still unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, in the Sonora desert near the Texas border.” -FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, The New York Review of Books “Not just the great Spanish-language novel of decade, but one of the cornerstones that define an entire literature.” -J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The theft, for which Peck brings in the none-too-bright fraternal pair Hayk and Hamlet Simonian, goes off without a hitch, and one of the cats is soon ready to be rendered, a process whose unlovely effects Sandford describes in exquisite detail. barred from practicing since he groped one too many unconscious patients, to steal a pair of Amur tigers from the Minnesota Zoo, kill them, and mine their bodies for all manner of nostrums. It’s just as illegal in China as it is in the rest of the world to deal in so-called natural medicines derived from slain wild animals, but it’s much more common to ignore the Chinese laws, as California mobster Zhang Min does when he hires Winston Peck VI, an M.D. Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, pivots from dognapping ( Field of Prey, 2014, etc.) to a catnapping whose victims are really big cats. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while Robert Anderson, a British inventor, developed the first crude electric carriage around this same time, it wasn’t until the second half of the 19th century that French and English inventors built some of the first practical electric cars. In the early part of the century, innovators in Hungary, the Netherlands and the United States - including a blacksmith from Vermont - began toying with the concept of a battery-powered vehicle and created some of the first small-scale electric cars. Instead it was a series of breakthroughs - from the battery to the electric motor - in the 1800s that led to the first electric vehicle on the road. It’s hard to pinpoint the invention of the electric car to one inventor or country. ![]() ![]() Travel back in time with us as we explore the history of the electric car. With this growing interest in electric vehicles, we are taking a look at where this technology has been and where it’s going. Currently more than 3 percent of new vehicle sales, electric vehicles sales could to grow to nearly 7 percent - or 6.6 million per year - worldwide by 2020, according to a report by Navigant Research. ![]() Whether it’s a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or all-electric, the demand for electric drive vehicles will continue to climb as prices drop and consumers look for ways to save money at the pump. Introduced more than 100 years ago, electric cars are seeing a rise in popularity today for many of the same reasons they were first popular. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters could have been far older and the story of Luke, Casey and Bongo would have rang just as true. What’s most remarkable to me about Cinnamon Rain-aside from the writing, which I’ll get to in a minute-is that the characters are in Year 10 (the Aussie equivalent of sophomore year), but it read as very universal. ![]() We follow them separately out of their hometown in their first steps into adulthood. ![]() or U.K., am I right?), painting a rich picture of three lives in transition. Casey’s dream is to escape their town and everyone she knows, while Bongo drinks to avoid his abusive stepfather and the memories of his little brother taken away by social services.Įach character narrates a third of Cinnamon Rain (this seems like a more common narrative style in Australia than in the U.S. Luke plays cricket, hangs out at the beach and pines away for Casey. They live in a rural town in Australia, each hoping to escape their lives. Cinnamon Rain interweaves the stories of three friends: Luke, Casey and Bongo (yes, Bongo-his real name is David). ![]() |