![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth came upon Lúthien, daughter of Thingol and Melian, at a time of evening under moonrise, as she danced upon the unfading grass in the glades beside Esgalduin. ― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Soccer in Sun and Shadow King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say.” The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. In Milan, the ghosts of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. ![]() At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil’s 1950 World Cup defeat. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.Īt Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. ![]()
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![]() Once He got a hold of her, there was no letting go and Erica never looked back.With a new found faith and hope, Erica set out to restore her marriage and face the uphill battle of winning back her unbelieving husband, not just for her marriage, but for her family and most importantly, for the kingdom of God. After a series of events that could have only been the Lord moving, Erica found herself making the decision to live and follow Jesus. With seemingly nowhere to turn, taking her own life seemed like the perfect solution.Little did Erica know that there was a loving God that had an entirely different plan for her life. With no family, friends, money or job, Erica quickly fell into depression and hopelessness. A stay at home wife and mom since getting married, she was suddenly left alone to care for two small children in a town David had moved the family to since being promoted. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the verge of celebrating her five year wedding anniversary to David, Erica was devastated when David walked away instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the great joys in reading the Wool books was the way Howey reveals his world to us. I read the book without even looking at the back cover blurb, and I believe that approaching this book in complete ignorance, as a tabula-rasa, will give you the best experience. What is Wool / Omnibus about? I would like to say that what follows is a spoiler-free review, but as any review, you will still get some idea of the book’s plot from me before the story unfolds by the author. ![]() In fact, now that Simon & Schuster have bought the dead-tree publication rights in the US, stopped selling the independently-published hardback and paperback editions, making my copy something of a collector’s item. With hardly any PR from his side, the Wool series became incredibly popular, and it is among the top Kindle bestsellers this year. The author, Hugh Howey, continued to publish Wool 2-5, and then compiled all five books into one volume, which he published independently. The five books grew from a short story, Wool, published electronically. If you want one captivating book (or rather pentalogy) to read by the end of the year, then this is it. I finished reading Wool / Omnibus a few days ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only regular film and book reviews with The Spectator were keeping him afloat. Although an earlier novel Stamboul Train (1932) had been a success, others (there were seven up to that point) had sold less well, and each new book added to a debt that was accruing to his publisher. ![]() He was in his early thirties, and worked as a freelance writer to support his wife and two small children. He always researched his fictional worlds carefully. This bleak aspect appealed to Graham Greene, who made a number of trips here in 1936 to capture the atmosphere of Brighton and take notes for a book he had in mind. But in the 1930s, beyond the glitzy tourist façade of the Palace Pier with its Royal Pavilion and amusements, lay tracts of shonky housing, dreary shopping precincts, industrial areas, and a racecourse that crawled with small time crooks. ![]() Brighton was and still is a popular seaside resort in East Sussex on the south coast of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They enrolled her in ballet classes and supported her passion for the art. Michaela’s new parents recognized her talent for ballet. Soon after the discovery of the magazine, an American family adopted Michaela, and she became the eighth of their eleven children, nine of whom were adopted. Once Michaela saw this she found hope and determination to one day become just like that ballerina. On its cover was a photograph of a beautiful ballerina en pointe. One day Michaela found a magazine blowing in the wind. There she was taunted and abused by the women who cared for the children. This caused her uncle to abandon her at an orphanage. In Michaela’s native land vitiligo was considered a curse of the devil. Michaela had vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose its color. Rebels killed her father, and shortly after her mother died of fever and starvation. Michaela DePrince was born in war-torn Sierra Leone during the country’s decade-long civil war. ![]() ![]() ![]() not gonna lie, i wasn’t really attached to any of the characters after reading the first book but this second one really turned that around. so i’ll talk about the main characters.Īddie’s character arc and growth was admiring as fuck. I won’t get into the plot or anything that much since #1 it’s a trigger in itself and #2 there’s a lot to unpack anyway and i’m trying to keep this short and sweet. i grew so attached to them and wanted nothing but the best for them. I’m being dead fucking serious when i say i went through every emotion while reading this book as did the main characters. i read this in less than 24 hours because i was fucking addicted. i was hooked from the very being to the end. Yes i will go ahead and say that this book is 10X better than the first. i was screaming with joy as some scenes and kicking my feet in the air at others. i don’t cry easily when it comes to books but i was fucking sobbing, crying, and felt my heart being ripped out of my chest. ![]() ![]() HOLYFUCKINGHELLWHATTHEACTUALFUCK?!?!? i’m not even fucking playing when i say this book was a roller coaster of emotions. there’s a list of the full TWs in the beginning of the book as well. tread carefully, your mental health matters. there are very graphic scenes that isn’t meant for the faint of heart. Before i get into it, yes this book is more triggering than the first. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hugo Chávez presents Simón Bolívar: The Bolívarian.Saramago calls the Bible "a manual of bad morals.".My mom is reading Badiou's "The Century".Schelling and Absolute Idealism, Part One. ![]() In short, Nussbaum takes a more careful approach to a field she admits is problematic for many of the reasons cited by Dworkin. Nussbaum suggests, moreover, that Dworkin's concept of sexual/social justice needs to be tempered by mercy, and that her abolitionism risks narrowing the already narrow scope of employment options open to poor women. As regards Dworkin's thoroughgoing critique of the objectification of women in pornography, Nussbaum argues that Dworkin fails to provide a sufficiently nuanced account of objectification she doesn't, for instance, take into account legitimate cases of objectification that occur on a daily basis between equals (if I rest my head in my partner's lap, I am objectifying her, but not in the sense that I would objectify a throw pillow). ![]() She reconstructs Dworkin's ethical philosophy as an extreme (if sometimes inconsistent) moral Kantianism, especially as regards the means/end distinction. ![]() Secondly, Nussbaum reads Dworkin as a philosopher rather than a propagandist, which is both fair and refreshing. What makes Nussbaum's engagement with Dworkin so compelling is that, first of all, she takes her seriously where scores of others do not. The best engagement with Dworkin that I have read to date is by Martha Nussbaum in her stellar collection Sex and Social Justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia, Ramsforth will face the hangman’s noose in a week’s time if Veronica cannot find the real killer.īut Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems and unmasking her true identity is only the first of the many secrets Veronica must uncover. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries… Book the Second in the wonderful Veronica Speedwell mystery series by Deanna Raybourn! ![]() ![]() ![]() The obvious parallel is James McBride’s masterpiece, The Color of Water, and in that regard, Matthews’ memoir doesn’t fare too poorly, though it’s far too coarse (and funny) for Oprah’s book club. He makes a number of fascinating points about current racial politics, such as “when you’re white, failure is a tragedy when you’re black, it’s a statistic - ,” but misses others - ”what was it about Jews and their people that superseded their general alliance with the whole of humanity?” The question of Matthews’ race ends anti-climatically in a late ‘ 80’s New York, but the story and Matthews’ telling of it captivates. Matthews’ writing style is the high-energy, drunk-on-words sort that either infuriates or delights, infusing even the most mundane details with humor and grace. ![]() Ace of Spades is his story of coming to terms with himself in an America that claims racism doesn’t exist. Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their. Later, in a liberal college, he opts for black. ![]() Growing up in racist Baltimore he opts for white, even going so far as to burn a cross in a neighbor’s yard after getting beaten up by three black girls. ![]() Born across the racial divide, the son of a black father and a white Jewish mother who abandoned him as a toddler, David Matthews was born with skin pale enough to pass for white. Being both means you’re up against a lot of adversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip Roths new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience. 1 - The Breast (1973) 2 - The Professor of Desire (Sep-1977) 3 - The Dying Animal. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. ![]() What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human. ![]() ![]() |