![]() ![]() I really love reading historical fiction set in Latin America and I don't find enough of it! The book is set in a time and a place I haven't read very much about. "The Duel for Consuelo" is a historical fiction novel set in 1700s New Spain, now more commonly known as Mexico. A rich, romantic story illuminating the timeless complexities of family, faith, and love. Forced to choose between protecting her ailing mother and the love of dashing Juan Carlos Castillo, Consuelo’s personal dilemma reflects the conflicts of history as they unfold in 1711 Mexico. The Enlightenment is making slow in-roads, but Consuelo’s world is still under the dark cloud of the Inquisition. ![]() In this second passionate and thrilling story of the Castillo family, the daughter of a secret Jew is caught between love and the burdens of a despised and threatened religion. History, love, and faith combine in a gripping novel set in early 1700’s Mexico. ![]()
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In an instant of sudden clarity I realized he was right, that they were basically the same book – the same fractally complex narrative of broken meandering plots about an endlessly-awaited but never arriving apocalypse the same weird nightmare funhouse mirror held up to the world the same thousand-odd pages followed by hundreds of complicated footnotes the same ambiguously-successful attempt to draw a spark of honest feeling out of the detached amusement that is post-modernism. I was talking to my roommate about Infinite Jest, and he asked me how it compared to Illuminatus. ![]() Warning: Composed entirely of spoilers for Infinite Jest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heart Berries has won numerous awards and has been named Best Book of the Year by NPR, Library Journal, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Pacific Standard, Granta, Mother Jones, Medium, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. We also touch upon cultural appropriation, marginalizing and compartmentalizing voices, and the complexities of being raised by a radical mother. This week’s guest, Terese Mailhot, author of Heart Berries, is the ideal author to wall us through what makes breaking silence both difficult and compelling for writers. ![]() This week’s episode is not only about breaking silence, but also about the ways that silence is often a pile-on due to multiple layers of silencing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Michiko Uchida is simply magical when it comes to Mozart (or any other composer). Wanda Landowska performs Mozart on the piano in an unusual manner. The list of great Mozartians would not be complete without Myra Hess and Charles Horszowski. The Berlin Philharmonic’s box of Barenboim’s late concertos is the least favorite work. Pianists who have played for Mozart include Eschenbach, Schiff, and Gould. If you’re looking for a pianist who can do Mozart’s sonatas justice, then Alfred Brendel is definitely worth checking out. In that time, he has become widely regarded as one of the best interpreters of Mozart’s music, and his recordings of the sonatas are considered to be some of the finest ever made. Alfred Brendel is a world-renowned classical pianist who has been playing Mozart’s sonatas for over 50 years. ![]() So, who plays Mozart sonatas best? While there are many talented pianists out there who have tackled these pieces, one name that seems to come up time and time again is that of Alfred Brendel. As such, pianists who can play them well are highly sought-after and revered in the music community. In the world of competitive classical music, there are few pieces as well-known and as notoriously difficult to play as Mozart’s sonatas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While ITV’s Tom Jones seems to aim for the spry comic cadence of something like The Great, it doesn’t quite get there. 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She’s a vampire, determined to fight her craving for a pint of O negative. ![]() Unlike millions of other women, she isn’t tempted by chocolate or junk food. ![]() ![]() Robin’s New Year’s resolution to change her eating habits is as unusual as she is. I hope you find at least one you’ll enjoy. I put together a list of 15 novels featuring a protagonist who works with books. Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed below or pick another sapphic book with a protagonist who’s a book lover.ġ5 sapphic books with a character who’s a book lover Read up on the rules of the Sapphic Reading Challengeīefore you pick a book for the “character is a book lover” category, read up on the rules of the Sapphic Reading Challenge and download your PDF so you can keep track of the books you read this year. They are writers, librarians, book editors, cover designers, audiobook narrators, bookstore owners/employees, comic book artists, literary agents, translators, book bloggers, reviewers, or avid readers. Most of them work with books for a living. ![]() This week’s Sapphic Reading Challenge features characters who love books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Champions of human rights and social reform, the Durants continue to educate and entertain readers the world over. In 1977, the Durants were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Will and Ariel Durant, after spending over fifty years completing the critically acclaimed series The Story of Civilization, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968. A champion of human rights issues, such as the brotherhood of man and social reform, long before such issues were popular, Durants writing still educates and entertains readers around the world. ![]() ![]() He spent more than fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel). Kelley, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette About the Author Will Durant (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social Review Quotes The Durants masterpiece belongs in any home library and occupies a shelf in many. Book Synopsis A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both of his parents were of entirely English ancestry, all of whom had been in New England since the colonial period. ![]() He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft (1853–1898), a traveling salesman of jewelry and precious metals, and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft (1857–1921), who could trace her ancestry to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in his family home at 194 (later 456) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island (the house was demolished in 1961). The Strange High House in the Mist The Author Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The Call of Cthulhu is a story by the American writer H. ![]() ![]() ![]() But you can’t fake chemistry, not onstage and certainly not off it, and Viper and Halo? They have it in spades.Īs both men try to resist the fire blazing between them, and the band is forced to reinvent themselves, it’ll be a complicated rise back to the top. Too bad Viper’s body isn’t listening to his head-at least not the one on his shoulders. ![]() Viper has already broken rule #1-big mistake. ![]() Interpersonal relationships in the band are discouraged.But there are several reasons this is a bad idea: With a voice to match his stunning good looks, it isn’t long before Viper’s taking notice. Halo is everything they’ve been looking for. Time’s running out and the pressure’s on to find a new singer, but it isn’t until an angel walks through the door that the band’s prayers are answered.Ĭharismatic. Fame chasers.Īfter months of lackluster auditions, Viper, the lead guitarist and resident bad boy of the group, is ready to find solace in the bottom of a bottle. But it all comes to a screeching halt when the lead singer walks out of the studio one day and never comes back.Įar-blistering vocals. Groupies galore.Įvery day is a party for Viper and the guys of TBD, the biggest rock band in the world. ![]() |