![]() He won’t claim it toughened him up, but it perhaps prepared him for his adult life reporting from war zones and, in Cold New World, from the frontline of American poverty. ![]() Corporal punishment at home is the norm, making him conscious, in retrospect, “of the ambient low-grade violence I lived in as a mid-century child”. ![]() While learning to harness the violence of the waves, Bill is constantly getting into racialised fights at and after school. Then 13, Bill was soon spending all his free time in the ocean, where “everything… was disturbingly interlaced with everything else”. To this fully qualified outsider – I live by the ocean without ever having set thigh in it, but I have seen Point Break three times – Barbarian Days gradually assumes the form of a hefty masterpiece.įinnegan learned to surf in southern California but got his big break after his dad’s work took the family to Hawaii in 1966. Having taken a full seven years to complete, the novella-length piece was eventually published in the New Yorker, where it quickly gained classic status among surfers and readers alike – the two are stereotypically if not mutually exclusive. W hen William Finnegan was struggling to write an article about the San Francisco surf scene in the 1980s he found himself “wondering how much of the thing I could hope to convey to outsiders”. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That’s why he has been given the label “fra-gile.”Įlijah decides to prove he is not the “fra-gile” boy people think he is by going on a dangerous journey to find money someone has stolen from one of his older friends. ![]() He is an awkward kid known for throwing up on Frederick Douglass and being scared of snakes. In fact, when someone escapes to the settlement, the residents eagerly ring a bell to signify “you are free!”Įlijah is the first child born into freedom on the settlement and he is also the best at chunking rocks. (Fun fact: Buxton is an actual place in Canada, across the border from Detroit, but the story is fiction.) It is about an 11-year-old boy named Elijah, who lives on the settlement with people who have escaped to freedom. This is one of the Christopher Paul Curtis books I am giving away Friday for my Black History Month triple book giveaway. It also teaches that even people considered “fra-gile” can be courageous. ![]() The book Elijah of Buxton shows life on a runaway slave settlement in the 1800’s with humor, drama and mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Shakespeare’s play assigns a significant amount of agency to Portia, Sinclair’s short story takes liberty in shifting the focus to another female character. In Sinclair’s version, Tubal is refashioned as a private detective who, despite his experience, can hardly believe how cunning Jessica turns out to be, as she tricks him into participating in her own scheme. However, Clive Sinclair’s short story “Shylock Must Die” (2014) adopts a different strategy by foregrounding two other Jewish characters, as Shylock’s daughter Jessica is described from the point of view of the moneylender Tubal. Recent retellings of The Merchant of Venice by British Jewish authors, such as Arnold Wesker’s play The Merchant (1976) or Howard Jacobson’s novel Shylock Is My Name (2016), focus on a complex portrayal of Shylock as the main Jewish character. Shakespeare’s plays have attracted numerous reinterpretations not only on the stage, but also in other genres. British Jewish literature, contemporary British short story, Clive Sinclair, Shylock Must Die, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() It would make a wonderful present for children who’ve lost a loved one, or someone of any age who’s suffered a loss, both recently and long ago. This is the best picture book about complicated grief I’ve ever read, and one of the best books about it on the subject, period. I love the artwork of Oliver Jeffers, with lots of contemplative space and lovely watercolors and slightly elongated depictions of people. And I like the reciprocity of support suggested here: Grandpas help kids, kids help adults. Will kids get it? Oh, I think so, with some talk with adults (which is in a way one of the very things the book is about, reading and talking together with kids), to help them make sense of the unspeakable things we all face from time to time. So this is a metaphor or analogy for the grieving life, and a lovely simple and sweet one. One day she meets a young girl, though, who helps her remove that heart from the bottle. This doesn't make her life easier finally, as one might imagine. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her heart again, the girl grows up solitary, putting her heart in a bottle which she wears tied to a string around her neck. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. ![]() A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if it will mean letting the demon inside him rise and wreak the havoc it was created to make. He won't allow anyone to take her from him. He'll have her, and he'll keep her safe from the threat that looms over her. Knox is used to getting what he wants, and he wants Harper. 23,979 Ratings Part of a small demon lair in North Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life.Unpredictable, elusive and complex, she draws Knox and his inner demon like nothing ever has. Burn (Dark in You, 1) by Suzanne Wright 4.06 avg. ![]() Harper does neither, which unexpectedly amuses him. That changes overnight when she discovers that her psychic mate, or 'anchor', is a guy who's rumoured to be the most powerful demon in existence. He's also used to people fearing and obeying him. By: Suzanne Wright Publisher's Summary Part of a small demon lair in Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life. And when an unknown danger starts closing in on Harper, it seems that Knox is the only one who can keep her safe.Īs Prime of his Las Vegas lair and a successful businessman, Knox Thorne is used to being in control. No one seems to know what breed of demon Knox is, only that he's more dangerous than anything she's ever before encountered. She's not so sure she wants either of those things. The billionaire also wants Harper in his bed. Compelling, full of secrets and armed with raw sexuality, Knox Thorne is determined to claim her as his anchor, creating a psychic bond that will prevent their inner demons from ever turning rogue. Part of a small demon lair in Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century it’s the kind of place where children twirl sparklers across the lawn during cocktail hour. ![]() On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. ![]() ![]() Literally every cent goes back into producing content for the show! Want to support the show? Check out our merch store here!: You can find the video presentation of this show on our YouTube channel, and the audio only version on any of your favorite podcast apps! You can find ZEUS: CONTEMPORARY MYTHOS #6-along with the rest of the series-on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever else you buy your books! ![]() ![]() Get ready for a classic slap-N-tickle! This week, we are joined in the studio by USA Today bestselling romance author Carly Spade! We play a few rounds of BUZZED! Carly tells us about the time she had to convince a kid she was Superwoman at a convention, in STORYTIME! We talk about her Contemporary Mythos series, and she reads an excerpt from her book ZEUS! And she leaves us with a briny excerpt from The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During these excursions, he witnessed widespread poverty and oppression. As a young man he studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and traveled widely throughout South and Central American while on breaks. Although he does not appear directly in the book, the cause he fought for forms the backdrop to much of the story.īorn Ernesto Guevara de la Serna in Rosario, Argentina, Guevara was the eldest of the five children in his middle-class family. Che Guevara (1928-1967) was one of the Revolution's central figures. ![]() Next Year in Havana is partially set during the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959). After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity - and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pamela Dawes A grad student forever at work on her dissertation, Dawes is a champion Veil and he resents Alex’s natural gifts. He is obsessed with magic and the world beyond the The organization charged with overseeing Yale’s magical secret societies.Īlex’s mentor at Lethe, he is smart, sophisticated, and a bit of a snob. Scholarship, and there are most definitely strings attached: in return forĪ ginned-up transcript and a free ride to one of the most prestigiousĬolleges in the world, Alex will have to become a deputy of Lethe House, Unique ability to see ghosts, called Grays. At her hospital bed, she is offered a chance to attend Yale on a full scholarship because of her ![]() ![]() Need a Ninth House refresher before you read Hell Bent? The SetupĪlex “Galaxy” Stern is a high school dropout, a low-level drug dealer, and the sole survivor of a horrific multiple homicide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonie and Simon's chemistry is only so-so although their romance does pick up in the 2nd half of the story. Yes, Swanton is a truly terrible poet, but is it really necessary to prove how awful he is again and again … Moreover, this installment has the added problem of incessant, nonsensical conversations and endless recitals of ridiculous and painfully bad poetry. Much like the first two books, too much attention is paid to descriptions of clothing. Nevertheless, Simon Blair, the criminally handsome Marquess of Linsburne, is proving to be a dangerous distraction and Leonie soon finds herself struggling to resist his considerable charms.ĭespite the excellent potential inherent in this series, none of the stories have lived up to expectations and Vixen in Velvet is just as disappointing. As such, she has little time for flirtation and even less for seduction. Following her sisters' marriages, Leonie Noirot is focused on the continued success of the dress shop they founded together. ![]() |