In drawing upon numerous primary and secondary resources, Saint Bede creates not only an important and often accurate historical document, but also advances his own views on politics and religion, which was more supportive of the Roman church leaders than the Anglo-Saxons. The history focuses chiefly on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity from the introduction of Christianity to the Anglo-Saxon’s by Augustine of Canterbury in 597 AD until the time of the book’s completion in approximately 731 AD. The work, which begins as a general history of England from the time of Julius Caesar’s invasion in 55 BC, details the rise of Christianity in England and becomes a detailed study of the different Christian churches and leaders of England. The “Ecclesiastical History of the English People” is considered one of the most important documents of Anglo-Saxon history and was written by Saint Bede, or Bede the Venerable, an English Benedictine monk and well-known scholar who was born around 672 AD.
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Set in rural France, the story is of the two girls trying to make the best of their situation living with their Maman who is heavily pregnant and unable to cope with day to day life, due partly to her condition, but mainly due to her overwhelming grief. When I first picked up The Night Rainbow and realised that the story was narrated by a five year old child, I was initially sceptical as I am not always fond of this style of writing, however, I quickly fell in love with the main character, Pea, and her younger sister, Margot who are trying to 'find their mother's happiness' after she has lost both a baby and a husband in quick succession. Lynne Garcia, Ab-Fab Professors, Plymouth 7/8/2023 0 Comments Antifa by Mark BrayWhether that's a legitimate cause, van Spronsen's words suggest a premeditated attack in service of a political goal - to federal authorities, that makes him a domestic terrorist. "Detention camps are an abomination," van Spronsen wrote. He sent versions of it to other close friends and family members - "those burdened by the wreckage of my actions." He wrote that he was "a joyful revolutionary," motivated by love, by a desire to be "useful." The Dutch-born immigrant, musician and father of two was a lifelong activist and early member of the armed antifascist group in the Seattle area. Members of the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club hold a memorial service for van Spronsen a year after his death. The Murano Glass Slipper is a standalone novel that can be read on its own or alongside the other book in the series, The Rose and the Mask. Now all she has to do is break his heart.Ī reimagining of Cinderella set in 18th Century Venice, perfect for fans of fairy tale romance. He’ll lose everything if he tells her the truth – but she seems to have some secrets of her own.ĭancing with Domenico is like a dream, and Chiara realises that he could be the person she’s been searching for. One thing he does know: he’s falling for the beautiful stranger he keeps running into at Venice’s masked balls. Actually, with all these secret identities to maintain, he’s not quite sure who he is. That’s where Leandra comes in – although a seasoned con artist makes an unconventional fairy godmother.Ĭharming Domenico isn’t quite a prince. With her world about to collapse, though, she needs something a bit more practical, like money. When Chiara’s father died, he left her a pair of glass slippers and a promise: that life would one day lead her back to love. 7/8/2023 0 Comments The alloy of lawHer sister was a Seeker, and her skaa mother was insane. She still hears his voice in her head, however this is revealed to be Ruin, speaking through her ever-present earring. She has an older brother named Reen, but he deserted her. She knows that she is special because she can use what she calls "Luck" but is later understood to be Allomancy, to help her survive and aid her thieving crew. She is later praised as the "Ascendant Warrior" in The Alloy of Law, though at that point she is more myth than fact.Īt the beginning of the first book, Vin is a very untrusting girl growing up in Luthadel in the Central Dominance. She was recruited to help overthrow the Lord Ruler by Kelsier, and played a pivotal role in the Lord Ruler's defeat, the subsequent Skaa government, and the consolidation of the Second Final Empire. Vin is the main protagonist of the Mistborn trilogy. You don't have to play by their rules-and that makes you even more powerful.Ī Fanart Drawing of Vin on top of Kredik Shaw, drawn by Inkthinker on This article contains important plot details. Tools that provide somple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, lots of new groups, and not just more groups but more kinds of groups… We now have communication tools that are flexible enough to match our social capabilities, and we are witnessing the rise of new ways of coordinating action that take advantage of that change” (20). As Shirky writes, “our native talent for group action meets our new tools. For Shirky, the changes result from the freedom to choose networks a user wants to engage in, but is compounded by the power to publish frequently, easily, and cheaply. In many ways continuing Rheingold’s work, Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody examines the impact digital networking has had on social networking. Here Comes Everybody : The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. On a moon that orbits a planet, the land is now divided between humans and wilderness. Though the blurb mentions “Earth,” either it has a new name or that’s a mistake. Anyway, since this is (I think) the beginning of a series, this was the time for me to take the plunge. I’ve seen your books published but always felt that I was behind the curve and would need to go back and start three or four books back of the one being newly released and so never began. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered.īut the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. It’s been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools.Ĭenturies since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again.Ĭenturies since they faded into myth and urban legend. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Bluefish by Pat SchmatzI told her _ being dead is like a long-fingered claw that keeps scratching at my heart. After I finished the book, Connie fixed up a spot in the study room with a pillow. Tears and snot just about came out of my butt, I cried so hard. Connie said to keep reading and keep breaking, like that was easy. "I couldn't eat because the book made me cry so hard, I couldn't even breathe. He became Travis's mom and dad and a couple of brothers thrown in. Travis's dad died in an accident three months later, and then Rosco forgot all about being anyone's dog. "Grandpa always said a good dog needs work, and the night Travis's mom went to the hospital and didn't come back, Rosco found his job. But because I'm subversive' -he turned and wrote the word on the board as he talked- '(look it up if you don't know what it means, and it will be on the vocabulary text next week), I am actually going to try to teach you a passion for the written word.'" (p. 'I'm supposed to teach you how to take the standardized reading tests so you won't be the child left behind. Snatch of Text: "McQueen stepped in front of the room. That his stories were a consistent hit with readers of the time is not surprising, for he created thrilling, vividly realized adventures populated by colorful, larger-than-life characters.Īt the time of Robert’s birth, the Howards lived in Palo Pinto County, on the banks of Dark Valley Creek. However, his stories also appeared in such diverse publications as Action Stories, Argosy, Fight Stories, Oriental Stories, Spicy Adventure, Sport Story, Strange Detective and a number of others. Howard contributed his most celebrated work to the pre-eminent fantasy pulp magazine of the era, Weird Tales. It has helped keep his work in the public eye for six decades since his death, but it has also obscured the astonishing breadth of his imagination, his talent for mastering a variety of genres and his ability to weave his magic in both prose and poetry. While he is widely regarded as the ‘father of Sword and Sorcery’ and the creator of Conan the Barbarian, this reputation has been something of a double-edged sword. The creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, ‘El Borak,’ Sailor Steve Costigan and many other memorable characters, Howard (known as REH to his millions of fans), in a career that spanned barely 12 years, wrote well over a hundred stories for the pulp magazines of his day. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure stories. 7/7/2023 0 Comments The american scene jamesNew York and The Hudson: A Spring Impression (4) James mixes English and American spelling conventions, favoring the English spelling in words like "honour" and "savour" and the American spelling in other words such as "recognize." (3) To facilitate searching, accent marks in foreign words have been removed and the ligatured æ, which James usually employs, has been changed to unligatured ae. Then paragraphs will be ended with two hard returns and HTML tags, (capital P enclosed in angle-brackets). (2) In downloading, if you wish to avoid the insertion of hard returns at the end of every line (which makes searching across line-breaks difficult), download with the HTML option, not the TXT option. Unlike some of the later reprintings, such as the Library of America edition, this etext includes ALL of the original running heads for right-hand pages and in their proper places, e. (1) Page numbers, in parentheses, indicate the start of a new printed page. The American edition, also published in 1907, did not contain the English edition's seventh section of the last chapter. This etext of The American Scene (London, Chapman & Hall, ltd., 1907), was produced by Richard Hathaway, with assistance from Ross Arthur, Ann Bubb, and Sarah Koch it was proofread in its entirety by Leatrice Chan. * Return to "the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites" * |