5/30/2023 0 Comments Give Up the Ghost by Jenn Burke![]() ![]() Made a living by working as a “retrieval specialist”, using his ability to moveīetween the planes to get into places undetected and then to steal – er – ![]() In the years since his not-death, Wes has The otherplane, the shadowy place between the living world and the world beyond,Īnd to effortlessly slip between the two. Immortal and left him with the ability to exist in both the living plane and It worked TOO well, because not only did it bring Wes back, it made him Michael (in a suicide pact gone wrong), but Michael’s sister was a witch whoĬast a spell to bring Wes back to life. Back in 1933, he was shot and killed by his lover ![]() On! Jenn Burke’s Not Dead Yet is a funny, sexy and exciting paranormal romantic mystery with a unique premise I loved it when I read it earlier this year, and loved it just as much in audio – which, given it’s narrated by the ever fabulous Greg Boudreaux – will come as a surprise to exactly no-one. Of course, sometimes I don’t do that because there are some narrators I dislike listening to, but when a favourite book gets paired up with a favourite narrator – Bring. I know some audio listeners who prefer not to listen to books they’ve already read in print, but I’m the opposite – if I enjoy reading something, I’m always up for experiencing it again, and as I don’t have much time for re-reading, audio is the perfect way for me to return to a favourite story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Seven types were not sacred - or rather, the number 7 was sacred, but did not limit the possible types of ambiguity and certainly not the number of ambiguities. technique is ‘in part the metaphysical tradition dug up when rotten’ the sixth occurs when a statement in itself meaningless or contradictory forces the reader to supply interpretations and an account of the seventh, which ‘marks a division in the author's mind’, is accompanied by quotations from Freud and illustrations from Crashaw, Keats, and Hopkins. Empson’s criticism never lost its fine edge, and new modes of ambiguity kept bubbling to the surface. Hopkins) the fifth consists of what Empson calls ‘fortunate confusion’, with examples from Shelley and Swinburne, suggesting the possibility that 19th‐cent. The second occurs ‘when two or more meanings are resolved into one’ (as by ‘Double Grammar’ in Shakespeare) the third consists of two apparently disconnected meanings given simultaneously, as in a pun, or, by extension, in allegory or pastoral, where reference is made to more than one ‘universe of discourse’ the fourth occurs when ‘alternative meanings combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author’ (with examples from Shakespeare, Donne, and G. ![]() The first, or simplest, type of ambiguity he defines as simple metaphor, ‘a word or a grammatical construction effective in several ways at once’. Richards's experiments with practical criticism.Įmpson uses the term ambiguity ‘in an extended sense’, to refer to ‘any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language’. ![]() 1947, 1953 one of the most enjoyable and influential offshoots from I. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann![]() ![]() During that time, Castorp will make friends with the most extraordinary individuals, engage almost daily in deep philosophical discussions on virtually every topic under the sun, fall hopelessly in love, and in that whole process entangle his body, mind and spirit so deeply in this “enchanted” place with its own particular passage of Time that any disentanglement will become out of the question. Little does Castorp suspect that the sanatorium, with its orderly routine and confused sense of time, will start working insidiously on his mind the moment he steps onto its premises and he will end up living there for the next 7 years. ![]() Hans Castorp is a young man on a threshold of a very successful career of an engineer at a prestigious shipping firm in Germany when he enters an international sanatorium Berghof in the picturesque Swiss Alps for three weeks and only to support Joachim Ziemssen, his sick cousin, and keep him company. ![]() Your path, take care, ’twill lead you all astray” “ But mind, the mountain’s magic-mad tonight,Īnd if you choose a will-o’-the-wisp to light ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Michael schmidt gilgamesh![]() ![]() In this illuminating book, Schmidt discusses the special fascination Gilgamesh holds for contemporary poets, arguing that part of its appeal is its captivating otherness. ![]() Its translation, interpretation, and integration are ongoing. The discovery of a pre-Noah flood story was front-page news on both sides of the Atlantic, and the poem's allure only continues to grow as additional cuneiform tablets come to light. The poem had to be reassembled, its languages deciphered. ![]() Fragments of the poem, incised on clay tablets, were scattered across a huge expanse of desert when it was recovered in the nineteenth century. Schmidt describes how the poem is a work in progress even now, an undertaking that has drawn on the talents and obsessions of an unlikely cast of characters, from archaeologists and museum curators to tomb raiders and jihadis. Acclaimed literary historian Michael Schmidt provides a unique meditation on the rediscovery of Gilgamesh and its profound influence on poets today. It is a story of monsters, gods, and cataclysms, and of intimate friendship and love. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ian fleming's goldfinger![]() ![]() Gert Frobe, too, is near-perfect casting as the resourceful Goldfinger, an amoral tycoon who treats gold-cornering as a business like any other. As Pussy Galore, Goldfinger’s pilot for his private plane, she does not take things lying down – she’s a judo expert who throws Bond until the final k.o. Honor Blackman makes a fine, sexy partner for Bond. And his farm is stocked with furniture that moves at the press of a button. ![]() There’s Goldfinger’s automobile – cast in solid gold. Publication date 1982 Publisher New York : Berkley Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks. ![]() There’s a ray-gun that cuts through any metal, and threatens to carve Bond down the middle. Ian Fleming's goldfinger by Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964. But, if backroom boys got star billing, it’s deserved by Ken Adam, who has designed the production with a wealth of enticing invention. The latter plans to plant an atomic bomb in Fort Knox and thus contaminate the US hoard of the yellow stuff so that it can’t be touched, and thus increase tenfold the value of his own gold, earned by hard international smuggling.Ĭonnery repeats his suave portrayal of the punch-packing Bond, who can find his way around the wine-list as easily as he can negotiate a dame. Thereafter the plot gets its teeth into the real business, which is the duel between Bond and Goldfinger. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The witch haven book 2![]() ![]() Within Haxahaven's glittering walls, Frances finds the sisterhood she craves, but the headmistress warns Frances that magic is dangerous. But Frances finds Haxahaven isn't a sanitarium at all: it's a school for witches. Before she can be condemned as a murderess, two cape-wearing nurses arrive to inform her she is deathly ill and ordered to report to Haxahaven Sanitarium. Everything changes when she's attacked and a man ends up dead at her feet-her scissors in his neck, and she can't explain how they got there. In 1911 New York City, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell spends her days as a seamstress, mourning the mysterious death of her brother months prior. ![]() ![]() she has magical powers and is thrust into a battle between witches and wizards. A New York Times Bestseller The Last Magician meets The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy in this "spectacular, singular, and spellbinding" (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue) historical fantasy following a young woman who discovers. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Katherine dunn's geek love![]() ![]() I was particularly curious about “Attic,” the story of a young woman, also named Katherine Dunn, who’s incarcerated after being arrested for attempting to cash a blank check, because I’d read Elizabeth Dalton’s dismissive review of the novel for the New York Times. (This was before “Attic” was reissued, by Vintage/Anchor, in 2017.) “She did, and I can’t find anyone who knows anything about them,” I replied. “Katherine Dunn wrote other books?” a cashier at the information desk in the basement of the Strand asked when I inquired. I’d been unable to find them in used bookstores. I’d read “Geek Love” three times, and thought I’d exhausted Dunn’s body of work, when I realized that she’d written two other novels I knew nothing about-“ Attic,” from 1970, published when she was just twenty-five, and “ Truck,” from 1971. ![]() ![]() Can you explain how you came across the story and what role you’ve played in bringing Dunn’s unpublished work to readers? The story in this week’s issue, “ The Resident Poet,” is a previously unpublished piece by Katherine Dunn, who died in 2016 and was the author of, among other things, the best-selling 1989 novel “ Geek Love,” which follows a family of self-described “freaks” who operate and perform for a travelling circus. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Angels in america part one![]() Kushner’s work was universally regarded as a masterpiece: it won both the Tony and the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1992. The first part of the play was first performed in San Francisco, and the second part was first performed in New York City in 1992. In 1991, Kushner finished by far his most famous play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. For most of the 1980s, Kushner was active in the New York theater world, gaining a reputation for writing provocative, politically-oriented plays that mixed harsh commentary on economic inequality and the AIDS crisis with a fantastic, operatic style. ![]() Afterwards, Kushner attended the Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied theater. He attended Columbia University, where he was politically active, and received a B.A. He was a good student, and active in policy debate in high school. ![]() ![]() Tony Kushner was born to a family of Jewish musicians. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Ship fever andrea barrett summary![]() In these brilliant fictions rich with fact, Barrett explores the thrill and sense of loss that come with scientific progress and the personal passions and impersonal politics that shape all human knowledge. ![]() ![]() The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humansamong them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war. ![]() Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in the history of knowledge.ĭuring the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation - from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Tijan the insiders![]() It’s a no-brainer.Īfter this, three things become clear for Bailey:ġ. ![]() He’s an associate of her father’s, and he gives Bailey two choices-go with him and meet her father or survive on her own because those kidnappers are going to try again. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she’s idolized all her life. Then, things happen-a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. Also in this series: The Damaged, The RevengeĪlso by this author: Fallen Fourth Down, Fallen Crest University, Anti-Stepbrother, Cole, Eye Candy, The Boy I Grew Up With, Bennett Mafia, Teardrop Shot, The Damaged, The Revengeīailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. ![]() |