5/13/2023 0 Comments Das Parfüm by Patrick Süskind![]() ![]() I remember the bitter, smoky smell of the pits (so environmentally destructive, but whatever) that my neighbors dug in which they burned wood slowly for months to make a small supply of coal. I remember the green, earthy smell of the rice paddies where I grew up. I remember sleeping with the window open, as the night air was filled with the scents of the flowering trees that grew outside my grandparents' house. ![]() White, waxen, and filled with the most beautiful, deep, richly floral scent that even as a 5-year old I could feel was seductive without ever knowing the meaning or the existence of the word. ![]() They were huge, each petal as wide as a fingernail. Those jasmines would put the pitiful little star jasmines to shame. I remember as a child, growing up in Vietnam, visiting my elderly neighbor's house and having him give me a cup of black tea infused with jasmine. I have never been a visual person, my memories are composed of layers of scent. The fact that this book had blood and murder was just a bonus.įor me, perfumes and scents are a visceral thing. I was predisposed to love this book no matter what. ![]()
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![]() She became increasingly obsessed by Jimmy and he, in turn, robbed her of her reputation and her last shreds of judgment. But the depth of the burgeoning sexual relationship between Donahue and the Duchess took its toll on the Duke, who began to drink heavily to wile away the lonely hours while his wife and her consort spent time together. Jimmy, the Duke and the Duchess became inseparable - and Jimmy always paid. The Duchess was 54 - 19 years his senior - but the sexual attraction between them was instant. Jimmy's sexual exploits - until he met the Duchess - were strictly homosexual, at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal. His Fifth Avenue apartment became the backdrop for a series of infamous parties. He would shower friends with expensive gifts and flowers, seize bills in clubs and restaurants and lavishly tip waiters. People loved his wit, charm and generosity. He was loved and, within the confines of AmericaAs upper class, he was notorious. ![]() He could fly a plane, speak several languages, play the piano, tell marvellous jokes. ![]() Jimmy Donahue was 35 when he met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ![]() This book is the remarkable story of their extraordinary friendship. In 1950, James Paul Donahue inherited a $15 million Woolworth's fortune and on the same day met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres![]() ![]() For Lenoir, who wants to keep her safe, for her friends Suki and Rollo, if they live, for Markes, who has secrets of his own, and for the new friends she will make on this journey. Naif will need all her courage to survive. Instead, she faces a revolt - and Naif is caught in the middle. ![]() The fierce pirate captain saves those who face terrible fates on Ixion, but that doesn't guarantee their gratitude. What links the two worlds?įirst she must convince Ruzalia to help her. But she does know that she must return home, behind the sealed walls of Grave, to find out why the Ripers have been seen there talking to the councillors. She doesn't know if her friends on the island survived the battle between the Ripers and the rebels. Retra - now called Naif - has escaped from Ixion, the island of ever-night. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Luna allende novel![]() Make it up for me.” And so she does, giving Rolf Carlé and the reader twenty-three vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. “Tell me a story you have never told anyone before. Lying in bed with Eva Luna, he asks her to tell him a story. We begin with Rolf Carlé, the European refugee, journalist and lover who figured so largely in her last book. Her most ambitious novel to date, Eva Luna was described by the Washington Post as a “cascade of stories tumbles out before the reader, stories vivid, passionate and human.” Now in The Stories of Eva Luna, she again presents us with a treasure trove of such stories, showing us once more why Eva Luna (and her much-celebrated creator) has now such a large and devoted readership. ![]() ![]() In 1988 Isabel Allende published Eva Luna, a novel that recounted the adventurous life of a poor young Latin American woman who finds friendship, love and some measure of worldly success through her powers as a storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Sorry to be all mysterious as to the nature of the tragedy – I don’t want to spoil the ending, in case someone is half way through and wondering where it’s all going.) ![]() ![]() I think that is possibly a good thing in a literary sense, in that I was shocked out of my readerly complacency – I thought I was reading merely a satirically humorous tale for the longest time – but I felt it (the final tragic occurrence and its aftermath) ultimately rather artistically troubling, as none of the responses of the characters to the contrived situation felt genuinely satisfactory. ![]() And the ending was not what I’d expected. I found it rather uneven, with moments of sheer brilliance interspersed with numerous rather shaky bits. So, has anyone else read this first novel by E.M. I felt that the author lost his way towards the end, and I couldn’t abide any of the characters by the final chapter, least of all the main male protagonist, young Italiophile Philip. If judged by the appeal of plot and characters alone, this would get about a 4 or so. My relatively high rating of 6 is mainly for the quality of some of the writing. This edition: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1995. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Meacham jefferson![]() ![]() Additional materials include a time line a family tree a Who's Who in Jefferson's world sections on Jefferson's original writings and correspondence, "inventions," interests, places in Jefferson's world, finding Jefferson in the United States today, additional reading, organizations, and websites notes a bibliography and an index. ![]() This book contains a note from Meacham and over 100 archival illustrations, as well as sections throughout the text about subjects such as the Boston Tea Party, the Library of Congress, and Napoléon Bonaparte. ![]() He had a wide range of interests and hobbies, but his consuming interest was the survival and success of the United States. But he was also a lawyer and an ambassador, an inventor and a scientist. ![]() He was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. This book is a must-read for President's Day! Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. Book Synopsis In this special illustrated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, young readers will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Protector cj cherryh![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually she accumulated enough short fiction to publish The Collected Short Fiction of C J Cherryh (omni 2004), comprising Sunfall (coll 1981) and Visible Light (coll 1986) plus 16 further stories, one – "MasKs (Venice)" – newly written for the collection. Since 1976 – when she won the John W Campbell Award for most promising writer – she has produced more novels than stories, publishing several before her first story, the Hugo-winning "Cassandra" (October 1978 F&SF). Working name of US author Carolyn Janice Cherry (1942- ), who taught for some years (1965-1976) before becoming a full-time writer she is the sister of David A Cherry. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Joe hill locke and key![]() Important Note: Those who order the trade edition from SubPress will be eligible to purchase the trade edition of the next volume, Head Games The Subterranean Press edition of L&K includes not only the full color graphic novel, but the more than 250 page script from which it originated. In the Eisner-nominated Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, collaborators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez unlock the door to a dark world of wonder and suspense, in one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the year. It isn’t long before the youngest of the Locke children discovers the other secret of Keyhouse… a living echo hiding in the well, an echo that calls itself Dodge, and that wants oh so badly to be free… But Keyhouse is a place of secrets and shadows, a repository for a very old collection of keys, with the power to unlock the impossible. ![]() ![]() The remaining members of the Locke family pick up the pieces of their lives, and haul themselves across the country, hoping for a fresh start in the family’s ancestral home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. ![]() On a hot and indolent day in high summer, the killers arrive on the doorstep of a small cottage in northern California before the afternoon is over, two people are dead, and for the survivors, nothing will ever be the same again. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Manga fangirl![]() ![]() The book returns as a manga adapted by Sam Maggs and illustrated by Gabi Nam. ![]() The same themes are discussed: social anxiety, literary fandom, mental illness, sibling relationships, and adapting to college life.įANGIRL was one of the biggest young adult books of 2013, catapulting Rainbow Rowell into a bonafide YA superstar after Eleanor & Park. Although the new medium makes it difficult to incorporate every single word from the book, it's mostly all there, including a few curse words ("f-k," "bitch," "a-hole"), underage drinking and partying, and the early moments of the central romantic relationship. Adapted by Sam Maggs and illustrated by Gabi Nam, the black-and-white manga version is the first of four installments and covers the first quarter of the book. 1: The Manga is a graphic novel adaptation of Rainbow Rowell's bestselling second YA novel, Fangirl, the college-set coming-of-age story about an introverted and socially anxious fanfiction writer. Discussion of drinking and getting drunk.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Edward frenkel math![]() Weil suggested that sentences written in the language of number theory could be translated into the language of geometry, and vice versa. In 1940, while Weil was imprisoned for refusing to serve in the army during World War II, he sent a letter to his sister Simone Weil, a noted philosopher, in which he articulated his vision of a mathematical Rosetta stone. ![]() But French mathematician André Weil had a penetrating insight that the two subjects are in fact closely related. Geometry, on the other hand, studies shapes, such as the sphere or the surface of a donut. As the name suggests, number theory is the study of numbers, such as the familiar natural numbers (1, 2, 3, and so on) and fractions, or more exotic ones, such as the square root of two. At first glance, the two subjects appear to be light-years apart. Today, he is honored at a ceremony held in Oslo.ĭeligne’s most spectacular results are on the interface of two areas of mathematics: number theory and geometry. This year's prize was awarded to Pierre Deligne, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. ![]() ![]() There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but in 2001 the Norwegian government established a million-dollar Abel Prize, which is widely considered as an equivalent of the Nobel for mathematicians. ![]() |