![]() ![]() “As a student of history and the social sciences, I have been mystified by the events of 1872. This protagonist, a soldier turned migrant worker, believed he was the only one left to carry the ideals of the Gomburza, an acronym for three Filipino priests (Gomes, Burgos, Zamora) who were slain by Spaniards due to being implicated with the mutiny.įeaturing a global cast, the historical novel attempts to properly place the importance of developments in the Philippines during this time in the context of international affairs. Hiraya manawari.” Multi-awarded Filipino historian Arius Lauren Raposas delivers with his latest book “ Revolution: 80 Days” a riveting story of reform and redemption for the sole survivor of the 1872 Cavite Mutiny. TOKYO, JAPAN, Aug/ / - “The revolution will not die today. Filipino hero Jose Rizal dedicated his novel "El Filibusterismo" to Gomburzaįilipino historian Arius Lauren Raposas delivers with his latest book Revolution: 80 Days a riveting story of reform and redemption for the 1872 Cavite Mutiny. ![]()
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![]() I liked this one a lot, despite not being a Millennial, and found Nora totally relatable. It was almost like watching a horror movie, where you KNOW what’s coming and you’re yelling “Don’t go in there, don’t do it!!” I was waiting for the other shoe to drop from about page 60. From the downsizing to doing the work of several people to senior level folks who can’t /won’t do simple admin tasks.Īs Nora works to figure out how she’s gonna keep paying her Bay Area rent, she makes some incredibly bad, ethically-questionable professional decisions. ![]() I worked in PR in SF & LA just as the dot-bomb was happening in the early 2000s and a lot of what Nora was going through was super familiar. It’s a perfect book club read to spur conversation about the role of work and career in our lives, and what that means at 25-35-45. ![]() The truth is, most corporate environments have A LOT in common. Must Love Books dispels the glamorous, romantic notions a lot of people have about working in publishing. ![]() ![]() This Norton Critical Edition also reprints Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Brown’s fragmentary sequel to Wieland. The editor provides explanatory annotation throughout the volume. Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new United States, Brown’s novel has for more than two centuries kept readers debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary politics as the story’s moral chaos unfolds. Violence erupts when the family’s young patriarch believes he hears God’s voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() A family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited first by a set of mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air, followed soon after by an itinerant rustic named Carwin. Wieland, the story of religious delusions and horrific violence on the eve of the American Revolution, is the first gothic novel in America and a cornerstone of the Early American literary canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope you enjoy my postings and reviews and share my blog with friends. There will be no advertising since I'm not interested in making money, just sharing. All discussions will be related to books and reading. Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. ![]() Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). For 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, there are the greats like Georgette Heyer, who wrote clean regencies for the most part, but I’ve heard on good authority that many Regency novels can get quite steamy. ![]() The writing was wonderful, and the research impeccable, but the presentation was a bit more reader-friendly to the modern reader such as myself.Įden, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, started writing Regencies when she couldn’t find any recently published ones that were free from explicit material. It was reminiscent of a Jane Austen novel, but oh-so-much easier to digest. Her Regency romance novel, " Seeking Persephone" (then self-published, and now republished by Covenant Communications), was a delight to read. ![]() Eden’s writing while reading the Whitney Award Finalists a couple years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() The human soul’s struggle to follow its own disordered will instead of aligning it with its loving Creator’s is the universal tale, mirrored a thousand times in good literature. ![]() But Kristin Lavransdatter and Brideshead Revisited share the same themes that all the best stories have in common: sin and grace. Kristin is a mother of many and she lives to become a grandmother. Separated not only by geography and several centuries, Kristin and Julia’s lives are very different. Each woman is raised in a devout Catholic home and yet is caught between her own passions and her love for God. In Brideshead Revisited, British novelist Evelyn Waugh brings another multi-layered female character to life: Lady Julia Flyte, a wealthy heiress living decadently in 20 th century England. She wrestles with the weight of sin, her refusal to reconcile her will with God’s, and the suffering that accompanies her wayward decisions. Set in the fourteenth century, the saga follows the life of Kristin, one of the most complex female characters of 20 th century literature, from womb to tomb. “All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path,” confesses Kristin Lavransdatter, a wealthy Norwegian noblewoman and titular character of Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset’s three-part novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meyer intends to expand The Host into a trilogy, but the second book has yet to be published, so any further films in the series remain a long way off. Not to be deterred, Meyer’s army of female fans surely will deliver a big opening for Open Road, but anything resembling Twilight numbers is a fantasy. ![]() Aimed squarely at the same tweens who contributed so generously to the bank accounts of everyone who became associated with Meyer’s vampire franchise, this one swills in the same sort of thwarted Victorian-style romanticism while indulging a similar moonstruck vibe that can seemingly only be resolved in Meyer’s work by selfless female sacrifice. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list beginning in 2008. It happened consistently on The Twilight Saga, and it happens again on The Host, once-provocative writer-director Andrew Niccol‘s adaptation of Meyer’s 600-plus-page post- Twilight novel that spent 26 weeks at No. There’s something about novelist Stephenie Meyer that induces formerly interesting directors to suddenly make films that are slow, silly and soporific. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2023 British Book Awards Are Celebrated At Star-Studded Ceremony - We Love The #Nibbies. ![]()
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