![]() ![]() ![]() Much of what he wrote has now been confirmed as an accurate distillation of the times.Over the centureries many have translated his works.George Rawlinson was born on 23rd November 1812 at Chadlington, Oxfordshire. ![]() This attention to detail helps The Histories remain a riveting account of this fascinating trime.Whilst some of what he wrote appears inaccurate to modern day historians Herodortus would state that he reports only what he was told. He expands into many cultural, ethnographical, geographical, historiographical, and areas to form a complete cultural landscape. Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in the 5th century BC in what is now modern-day Bodrum in Turkey (then part of the vast Persian Empire).A contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides he is often called 'The Father of History', initially by no less than Cicero.Herodotus broke from the then tradition to treat history as one of investigation of facts and evidence to present a better whole.The Histories is the only work for which he is known to have produced a record of his inquiry on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars In it he deals with the lives of Croesus, Cyrus, Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius, and Xerxes and the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. ![]()
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![]() Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. ![]() She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. ![]() Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. ![]() Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() The father of the family learned of the death of his wife and children when he saw the searing photograph on Twitter. ![]() But the one consistent thread throughout Addario’s career is that she never puts the camera down - even in the face of extreme danger.Īddario took the photo that became one of the most haunting images of the Russia - Ukraine invasion - a photograph of a mother, her two kids, and a friend who were killed by Russian mortar fire while fleeing a village on the outskirts of Kyiv. She’s had a number of close calls on the job - she has been kidnapped in Libya, abducted in Iraq, and injured in a car accident in Pakistan. As she sees the destruction and the pain through the lens of her camera, her images translate that intense emotion to people across the globe. Over the past 15 years, war photographer Lynsey Addario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crisis on the planet. ![]() ![]() This type of gathering hasn't taken place in over a century, but with a shortage of females among the werewolf population, the males are worried they won't ever find their true mates. Because she is a recently discovered Canis lupus, she must attend a multi-pack gathering designed for the sole purpose of discovering new mated pairs. But she doesn't have time to dwell on it. Drawn to each other by something they don't understand, Jen finds herself frustrated that there are no mating signs. Now that she and her friends are living in Romania with Fane's pack, she is oh-so-conveniently stuck with the object of her affection, the broody furball, Decebel. ![]() She happens to share that little pesky werewolf gene, although it isn't more than just a drop. Jen has just found out that human DNA isn't the only thing that resides in her veins. ![]() Jennifer Adams, best friend to a werewolf and a gypsy healer, is spicy, outspoken, a little crazy, and completely human.or so she thought. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the Jure’lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall…Īnd all of that is true. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind.īut not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza ‘Vintage’ de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. ![]() Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces – talk about a guilt trip. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. What? You haven’t heard of The Winnowing Flame? It’s Jen Williams’s second trilogy, starting with the British Fantasy Society and Subjective Chaos (you know I couldn’t resist the shout out) award-winning The Ninth Rain (about which I have done much flailing this month): To celebrate the launch of final book The Poison Song, here’s 5 reasons you should climb on a bat and join the fight for Sarn! But The Winnowing Flame by Jen Williams isn’t your typical fantasy trilogy. ![]() ![]() What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() She's then known around town as "The Swimmer". ![]() Ellen is so happy to be rescued and so caught up in the moment (and her instant attraction to Roy) that she plants a big one on him and it's caught on camera and put in the local newspaper. Until she almost drowns and is rescued by Roy, a local contractor. Ellen is a lawyer in New York City, engaged to an up and coming politician, and happy as a clam. Got it.Įllen travels to Beacon, Maine to deliver a letter from her late grandmother to a man she knew many years before. And how the town of Beacon needs better blueberry muffins than what the cafe offers. Ellen mentions, quite frequently, how her grandmother made the best blueberry muffins EVER. Yes, blueberries are mentioned throughout the story, but in a way that becomes annoying. But as I finished the book, I have to say the title and the cover really aren't much of a match for the story inside. ![]() So that may have swayed me when I saw the cover of this book. As in eating a bowlful of frozen blueberries on a regular basis and keeping large bags of them in the freezer kind of love. ![]() ![]() And while I did enjoy the novel, I do have a few issues with it.įirst of all, I must admit that I love blueberries. I finally gave in and bought it in paperback. Another book that kept staring at me from the bookcases at work while it was still in hardcover. ![]() ![]() ![]() How the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies - and how to fight back.How to manage the 'monitor' in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration.What you can do to complete the biological stress cycle - and return your body to a state of relaxation.With insights from the latest science, prescriptive advice and helpful worksheets and exercises, Burnout reveals: How can you 'love your body' when everything around you tells you you're inadequate? How do you 'lean in' at work when you're already giving 110 percent and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy and too selfish? Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, the best-selling author of Come as You Are, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of overwhelm and exhaustion and confront the obstacles that stand between women and well-being. The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. ![]() This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently from men - and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions and live a more joyful life. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Burnout by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski, read by Emily Nagoski. ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes her special is her way of phrasing insights into the nature of the genre and into particular stories her scholarly knowledge is not just worn lightly but presented with a flourish. Once obscure, the field has become quite a crowded one, with Sara Maitland’s Gossip from the Forest and Philip Pullman’s Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm published recently, but Warner’s book is a little gem. Her book, From the Beast to the Blonde, was a memorable bestseller, and here she follows it and a lifetime of investigation into story-telling with Once Upon a Time: A Short History of the Fairy Tale. M arina Warner is our doyenne of fairy stories, the British equivalent to America’s Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, only, it must be said, with a better prose style than either. ![]() ![]() During this trip, Kintu, after witnessing a minor transgression, scolds his adopted son Kalema with a slap to the head, which results in Kalema inexplicably dying and being hastily and improperly buried. It’s here we meet Kintu, an unassuming and sexually-pressured Ppookino (governor), who must journey with his entourage to greet the newly installed kabaka (king) of Buganda. The novel begins with the brutal rabble-led murder of Kimu Kintu on January 5th, 2004 – a date that recurs along with hay fever, twins and madness – before the novel shifts to 1850, and pre-colonial Uganda. Rather, Kintu is a novel that thrives on its compassionate investigation of the individual within the boundaries of an epic, within the boundaries of a nation's rapidly changing identity. It is an epic that doesn't ignore character for scope. ![]() There are numerous characters and it does rely, at times, on good memory.īut unlike so many donnish generational novels, Kintu is an entertaining, engrossing, and, crucially, intimate read. Its narration loops from the distant past to the present to the touchable past and back again. It is based around five multi-generational stories that scatter and shock and merge. Kintu, the debut novel by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, is one of these sprawling, epic novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() No term makes me shudder more than a novel described as a "multi-generational epic" (though "timely" is close behind). ![]() |