![]() I found the book fascinating and truly difficult to put down. She succeeds in some areas, like politics, more than others, like romance. Rather, Bell is described as a human with flaws who wants to be a Person, to be someone of consequence. While her story is amazing, Wallach doesn’t present her as Wonder Woman. Ultimately, their efforts led to a newly formed country of Iraq with an Arab, Faisal I, on the throne. ![]() She worked with her friend, Lawrence of Arabia, to further the Arab voice in the region. She even earned their respect.ĭuring and after the Great War, she was a champion of self-government by Arab people. She dined with sheiks and caliphs who normally would not discourse with a woman. Here’s my review of Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell.Īfter teaching herself Arabic, she braved the deserts of pre-World War I Mesopotamia and Arabia with a few servants and her guns. In a day when women were expected to be “politely educated,” married, and subservient, Bell was single, Oxford-educated, a mountain climber, and a desert explorer. If you use my link, I will receive a small commission at no extra charge. ![]() ![]() ![]() T he following post may contain affiliate links. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach ![]()
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I f you were perusing the library shelves and came across this book, the title “Spillover” may leave you a little uncertain in terms of its topic, without reading the subtitle and having some understanding of the processes described in the book, the emergence, evolution and ecology of ‘new’ diseases, human diseases. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scout, Jem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham.Įnduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novel illuminates the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humour, unwavering honesty and a tender, nostalgic beauty. Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. ‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ To Kill a Mockigbird The graphic novel is a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It's enough that this well-cast British import cleverly elevates and deconstructs genre tropes without ever belittling them, but it goes beyond even that, candidly addressing the weight of expectation behind a first sexual experience and the misconceptions that women especially often have about theirs. ![]() ![]() ![]() I remember first reading it not long after it started – I think I even still had a livejournal account at that point!įor those that aren’t familiar, here’s the summary of Captive Prince, the first book in the series: Pacat to that list of amazing authors, and I am so glad that the Captive Princeseries has turned into such a success story. You have no idea just how happy I am that it has taken off as a genre of its own, with amazing authors getting well-deserved recognition. M/M romance didn’t really take off until closer to 2005, and even then, it was fairly slow and definitely niche to start with. I wanted actual romance novels, just with a hero and a hero instead of a hero and a heroine. Frequently dealing with social issues, the AIDS epidemic, and other gay-specific issues, it just wasn’t what I was looking for. Gay fiction was “literature”, and definitely not romantic. The thing is, if you were looking for any kind of m/m romance in the late 90s/early 2000s, that was basically your only option. ![]() ![]() Like most of my friends, I started with fanfiction, and then found the absolute wealth of stories people post online. I’ve been reading online fiction since it was a thing, and I don’t mean ebooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Killer is Kellerman - and Delaware - at their finest. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life. Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. The circumstances indicate that his expertise may be needed: Selenas body has been left on display in the marsh, and the killer has called and left her. ![]() The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking extremes. After 35 riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date. ![]() ![]() ![]() … Her politics, to the extent she gave them much thought, closely adhered to the agendas of the benefits and political fund-raisers to which she aspired. Her application was pushed over the finish line with a substantial check. Unrealistic: Mom walks out and leaves potential cash-fountain daughter with rich dad in Manhattan (perhaps an extremely poor understanding of New York family law?) After Dalton, Lulu ends up at Devon University, in “Havenport, Connecticut” (Yale?). “Keep up the good work, and welcome back to school!” ![]() Really great.” He began shaking hands, much to the bewilderment of the protesters, who didn’t know what to do other than shake back. “Divest now! Divest now!” Their homemade signs thrust up and down like pistons. “Hey, Milton! Divest from Israel now! Stop the murder!” cried one. The protesters spotted Milton and instantly became animated. How to be a popular university president: I’m hoping that there are no similarities with a recently finished novel: Campusland.Ĭolleges don’t make fools, they only develop them. Our ground school at MIT starts today (videos from last year linked from course web site). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unpopular Front: Jews, Radicals and Americans in the Jacobite World View, Royal Stuart Society (Huntingdon, England), 1988.Ĭrime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England, Routledge (New York, NY), 1989. ![]() Invasion: From the Armada to Hitler, 1588–1945, Routledge ( New York, NY), 1987. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, visiting professor.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Cheltenham Prize for Literature, 1985, for The Jacobite Army in England, 1745: The Final Campaign fellow, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2000–01 associate fellow, Royal Literary Fund, 2001–02. ![]() University of London, Ph.D.ĪDDRESSES: Agent-c/o Author Mail, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, 4th Fl., New York, NY 10003.ĬAREER: Writer, historian, and biographer. PERSONAL: Education: Oxford University, B.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "There are few finer examples of short-story writing in our language than these," declared Arthur Conan Doyle of author E. Raffles, who debuted in 1898, offered Victorian readers a new kind of hero: a morally ambiguous character who anticipated the hardboiled detectives of 20th-century crime fiction. In these sparklingly humorous stories - narrated by Bunny Manders, Raffles' nervous but admiring accomplice - the gentleman thief matches wits with professional criminals, crafty diamond merchants, and other worthy adversaries, including irksome Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard. Raffles' position as a champion cricket player and prominent member of society provides the perfect cover for his daring burglaries. Raffles, a dashing man-about-town by day and a cat burglar by night. "Why should I work when I could steal?" demands A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Texts from art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer dissect the many compelling elements that populate each scene, from hybrid creatures of man and beast to Bosch's pictorial use of proverbs and idioms. To this day, the painter par excellence of hell and its demons continues to puzzle and enthrall scholars, artists, designers, and musicians alike.īased on the best-selling XXL edition, which saw TASCHEN commission new and exclusive photography of details and recently restored works, this large-scale monograph presents Bosch's complete oeuvre. 1450-1516) secured his place as a pillar of art history. A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine drawings to his name, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]() |