![]() ![]() Tell us about your current release: My current release is an Inspirational Regency romance, The Elusive Miss Ellison. James Bond and Jason Bourne – and even Mission Impossible – are a great escape! I enjoy food (probably a bit too much!), travel, art, music, gardens and visiting stately homes (which isn’t very often. I love reading Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, and enjoy watching historical dramas, but I also love a good action film, especially one with exotic locations. I’ve worked as an English high school teacher, and together with my husband, pastored a church for ten years. I live with my husband and four children in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, about halfway between Sydney and Canberra. ![]() Tell us a little bit about yourself: I’m an Australian author of Inspirational Regency romance. ![]() Enjoy this interview, and read on to see how you can win an ebook of her latest release, The Elusive Miss Ellison. I was so happy to have the opportunity to host her on my blog. She was the epitome of Australian hospitality, and I completely felt drawn to her welcoming warmth. I met Carolyn when I spoke at the Omega Christian Writers Conference in Sydney, Australia. Welcome to Readers Write to Know! I asked you, my readers, what questions they would ask their favorite authors if given the chance, and the authors visiting my blog answered them! This week, it is my joy to introduce you to Carolyn Miller. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I just cannot over-emphasise how important a book this is. Where Wolf wrote of a beauty culture in 1990, Ariel Levy writes in 2006 about a raunch culture – but essentially these are two sides of the same coin, and much of what Wolf says is still bang on. Culturally, little has changed for the middle class Western women about whom Wolf has written since the publication of this book in 1990, except that the beauty myth she explored and documented has if anything intensified and has been charged with a heavy dose of pornsex. In this, her first book, Naomi Wolf examines the way in which (Western, primarily middle class) women are oppressed and controlled by the imposition of beauty requirements on every aspect of their daily lives. Until our culture tells young girls that they are welcome in any shape – that women are valuable to it with or without the excuse of “beauty” – girls will continue to starve. What about now? No? Now? The larger world never gives girls the message that their bodies are valuable simply because they are inside them. I kept a wetted finger up to the winds of that larger world: Too thin yet? I was asking it. ![]() It is the larger world’s messages, young women know, to which they will have to listen if they are to leave their parents’ protection. I knew my parents wanted me not to starve because they loved me but their love contradicted the message of the larger world, which wanted me to starve in order to love me. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Scarlett O’Hara is southern, old southern, with traditions and inborn instincts of the South,” one reader wrote to the Los Angeles Times. Southerners in particular were less than thrilled. Selznick found his leading lady after a search that the New York Times called “a national emergency over the selection of a Scarlett O’Hara.” Fourteen hundred women auditioned to play the Georgia belle from Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling 1936 book – but when it went to Vivien Leigh, a British actress with only a few screen credits to her name, readers gasped. Various names were attached to the role by the media, including stars Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Paulette Goddard. Selznick’s production of Gone with the Wind. For two and a half years, the press speculated about who would play the iconic role of Scarlett O’Hara in David O. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, I have a weird family, but you knew that already.īefore starting, sample the rum to check the quality. This is the one I saw first, though, and the final line has become a family saying. I’ve seen a dozen versions of this around the internet for well over a decade, so I have no idea of the original source. Paul Richmond: Bad Idea, Evolution, Grumble Monkey and the Department Store Elf, Guards of Folsom series ThomasĪll published during 2013 (for series, at least two books published during 2013). Grumble Monkey and the Department Store Elf-B.G. For one thing, I had to stop SOMEwhere, but also, some favorite covers are for books that are still on my TBR list!) ![]() (Also, don’t assume that if a book is listed but not the story that I didn’t like the story. ![]() I’ve linked to the publisher site where possible (Dreamspinner’s having a sale!), and for series, I’ve linked to either the author’s series page or the first book to get you started. In the case of series, I read at least two books of the series during 2013. Because I’m perpetually behind on my TBR list and I don’t always keep close track of what was published when, these are stories that I read for the first time during 2013, not necessarily ones first published during 2013 (though most of them were). I spent part of my (very, very slow) last day at the dayjob for the year working on a list of favorites for the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() A powerful and unflinching debut that will both shatter and uplift hearts with every read. But when Pacquiao publicly declares his stance against queer people, Bobby's faith-in his hero and in himself-is shaken to the core. Bobby is inspired by champion Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao to take up boxing and challenge his tormentor. ![]() This is an IN-STORE EVENT that will also be broadcasted. A vicious encounter has him scrambling for a new way to survive-by fighting back. Rod Pulido discussing CHASING PACQUIAO with Kat De Los Reyes. But when Bobby is unwillingly outed in a terrible way, he no longer has the luxury of being invisible. It's best to keep his head down, get good grades, and stay out of trouble. Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. Being out and queer would put an unavoidable target on his back, especially in a Filipino community that frowns on homosexuality. Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido (ePUB) eBooks Download 0/5 No votes Description Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido (ePUB) Rod Pulido delivers the ultimate one-two punch: bare-knuckled, bruising honesty wrapped in humor, sincerity, and sweetness. That's Bobby's motto for surviving his notoriously violent high school unscathed. A poignant coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Patron Saints of Nothing and Juliet Takes a Breath. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Experience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of a queer Filipino-American teenager struggling to prove himself in an unforgiving world. ![]() "Rod Pulido delivers the ultimate one-two punch: bare-knuckled, bruising honesty wrapped in humor, sincerity, and sweetness." - Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Martine manages to slip in some stuff about bias, as algorithms reflect their creators, but the bias, nor the the A.I. But it’s totally underdeveloped, and a sideshow only. ![]() – There’s a mysterious algorithm controlling the city and some of the police, and it is supposed to signify the dystopian side of the empire: controlling how people walk, what they see, what they read. But at the same time, it was very, very generic. So let me be upfront: this was an okay book, a nice book, an entertaining book, a Tor book, and I’d even recommend it if you need your contemporary space opera fix. ![]() There’s much to like in this book, especially a “cunningly plotted” story of palace intrigue centered around the new ambassador of a mining station in the capital city of the galaxy spanning Teixcalaanli empire – an empire that loves literature and poetry, and an empire in the midst of a succession crisis. Arkady Martine’s debut novel just won the 2020 Hugo and is shortlisted for the Clarke, so indeed, it has all the hallmarks of what people seem to like: a picture of a sprawling throne on the cover, and a “glossary of persons, places and objects” at the end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heti was named one of "The New Vanguard" by The New York Times book critics, a list of fifteen women writers from around the world who are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century. It was a New York Times Notable Book, a best book of the year in The New Yorker, and was cited by Time as "one of the most talked-about books of the year.” Other books include the novel Ticknor (House of Anansi, 2005) described by Publisher’s Weekly as “deliciously intimate and clue-riddled as a Poe story ” and the short story collection, The Middle Stories (House of Anansi, 2004). Dwight Garner writing in The New York Times called it, “earthy and philosophical and essential.” Her novel, How Should a Person Be? (House of Anansi Press, 2010) was named one of the twelve “New Classics of the 21st century” by Vulture. Her most recent novel is Pure Colour (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which The Atlantic called “unabashedly metaphysical.” Her other books include Motherhood (Henry Holt & Co., 2018), named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Vulture (#1 of 2018), NPR, Chicago Tribune, and others. ![]() Sheila Heti is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His book was published after his return to Norway. As his diary was written to his wife, Nansen must have concealed much of the truth of what he experienced and saw. each page of which was spirited out of those camps to his wife in Oslo. Nansen managed to keep an almost daily diary. and later, at Sachsenhausen, the notorious German Concentration Camp north of Berlin. Compared to some concentration camp inmates, he was an "Aryan", and the son of Fridtjof Nansen, world famous Arctic explorer (and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize), Odd Nansen was somewhat privileged during his internment at prison camps in Grini, near Oslo, at Veidal, north of the Arctic Circle. ![]() Nansen, of course, wasn't Jewish, but he was arrested at his home in Norway, when it became known that he had helped German Jews escape Germany. ![]() and as a worker at the Phllips Electronic Corporation workshop. Koker managed to make a life in what eventually became a transit camp, by becoming "useful', both as a teacher of the children in the camp. Koker's long after his death on the way from Auschwitz to Dachau, near the end of the war, but primarily composed during his interment at Konzentrationslager Herzogenbush, located near a small Dutch village called Vught. composed as diary entries sent surreptitiously to friends in Holland, and altogether different from cousin Odd Nansen's book: From Day To Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps. So different from David Koker's 400 page At The Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bach is genuinely surprised because he had “never seen another barnstormer out in the fields.” Barnstorming is what these two individuals, one from the West and the other from the East, have in common and because of it the two characters strike up of a friendship. Richard Bach, a barnstormer, an itinerant pilot, who flies an old small plane, unexpectedly meets Donald Shimoda, who is also a barnstormer among other things. Barnstormingĭoes the mystical spiritual journey of Bach and Shimoda reflect a blending of Eastern and Western philosophies? This is what this essay will be exploring and analyzing. Bach’s slim book presents a sapid insight into Eastern philosophy for completely Western minds. There is a proverb, a quote, a saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” That is what happens in Illusions when Richard Bach, a renowned author from the West, encounters Donald Shimoda, a self-proclaimed ‘messiah’ from the East, who ends up becoming Bach’s spiritual teacher, and teaches him that everything in the world that we interpret as reality are actually illusions. ![]() Unlike Bach’s earlier offering, Illusions did not receive mass audience admiration, but rather became a cult classic. Richard Bach’s Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, published in 1977, is the memorable follow-up to his extraordinary bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull. ![]() ![]() What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. ![]() BBC R4 Book of the Week 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. ![]() |