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![]() ![]() You can almost hear Lizza channeling her mother as she narrates. Apparently, Joan Aiken gathered her two children together (Lizza has a brother, John) and read them each chapter of the book as it was written. The audiobook begins with an essay by Lizza Aiken in which she discusses her mother’s life and the process by which she wrote The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. I can think of no better narrator for this book than Lizza Aiken, whose performance is both natural and engrossing. When you read it, you will yearn for the days in which everyone spoke in grammatically correct sentences and children could be expected to know the definitions of words like, “slavering” and “reticule.” In short, Joan Aiken makes the English language sing. In addition to being memorable and appealing, Aiken’s tale is a lovingly crafted pastiche, which pays tribute to several different genres, including ghost stories, Gothic novels, and the works of Charles Dickens (which truly are a genre unto themselves). The protagonists, cousins Sylvia and Bonnie Green, will earn a cherished place in your memory as clever, affectionate heroines who use courage, intelligence and ingenuity in a quest to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. ![]() In The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken presents an exciting story filled with memorable characters, including plucky orphans, cruel villains, terrifying wolves, and a boy who raises chickens. I loved this book as a kid and I love it just as much as an adult. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begin the expected shenanigans: Yvan walks in on Delphine trying to get it on with a doctor she works with at the hospital (she’s a nurse) Yvan walks in on Delphine using her vibrator in the bathtub, making a crack about her new “landing strip” bikini wax Yvan walks naked into a gathering organized by Delphine’s mom (Nicole Calfan), throwing all the old, horny women into a tizzy Yvan doesn’t do the dishes Yvan drinks straight out of the orange juice bottle Yvan is a total loser.įarrugia, who started off with the TV sketch troupe Les Nuls, pitches his humor broadly and rarely catches the viewer off-guard. ![]() (If only these pesky women could stick to their word!) She kicks Yvan out, and the latter - who, after several failed career attempts, is trying to become a sports agent - winds up sleeping on a bunch of friends’ couches, and then one night on a park bench (where he’s nearly raped by a homeless man), until he finally returns home, claiming that he has the right to live in 20% of the house he still legally owns. But when Yvan quickly scores with another woman, Delphine grows madly jealous and asks for a divorce. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Lavinia” is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers. And so she tells us what Virgil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner-that she will be the cause of a bitter war-and that her husband will not live long. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. She doesnt pick up a sword or scheme but she has agency and self-reflection of a sort that LeGuin handles so well. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Lavinia goes from barely being a character in the original poem to a fully realised person, fleshed-out, subtly drawn and not a generic badass Strong Female Character. ![]() Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. ![]() In the Aeneid, Virgil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin’s 2008 speculative/historical novel “Lavinia.” For October’s Center Book Discussion Group, we will read and discuss Ursula K. ![]() ![]() Steadman brings similar qualities of wit, timing and intelligence to this novel. The perfect crime? `Deftly paced, elegantly chilly thriller. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND REESE WITHERSPOON BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK! *** The perfect couple. `A wild, page-turning ride! It's the perfect beach read!' Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) `Worthy of Hitchcock' Sunday Times `Pure Set to be the blockbuster read of the summer, this is an unmissable, fast-paced, jaw-dropping thriller from a debut writer destined for great things. ![]() And in situations like these, it is far better to trust no one, not even those closest to you. No one else need know they trust each other implicitly. ![]() ![]() Erin and Mark decide to keep their discovery a secret. Something that will change their lives forever. But do they? On a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, Mark takes Erin scuba diving. a proper page-turner' New York Times Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough Mark a handsome investment banker with a bright future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. ![]() ![]() Sister Outsider 's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone. It's always great to have an intersectional tome on hand." -Amanda Gorman " Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. ![]() In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. ![]() The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.Īt the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. ![]() ![]() *Is the idea that an apple falling from a tree downward to the Earth is phenomenally linked to the motion of the Moon (which is actually moving away from the Earth ) any less idiotic than the preceding? Both are simply the artificial linking of phenomena, which is thought to be the basis of knowledge (science), but is actually the basis of error. ![]() yeers." Yet today, the vast majority of the same intellectually retarded people (now known as scientists) still believe implicitly in equally bogus Newtonian physics. "* The Principia of Newton was published in 1687 only forty years after "The Discovery" and both asserted the same Biblically based age of the Earth, Newton c. Witches deny their Baptisme when they Covenant with the Devill," therefore "the water refuseth to receive them. ![]() ![]() But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems, wildlife perished, and chronic smog blighted major cities. During the 1950s, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyperindustrial and military giant. ![]() Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the early Cold War years, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The news reached the royal family while they were away in Scotland at Balmoral Castle. The accident killed Diana, Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. Just after midnight on August 31, a Mercedes carrying Diana and Fayed crashed in a tunnel not far from Paris’ Eiffel Tower. The Princess of Wales had finalized her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, but intense media scrutiny still trailed her as she went on vacation the following summer with boyfriend Dodi Fayed. When Blair used that phrase in a speech following Diana’s death, he was searching for words to help a nation grieve a shockingly sudden loss. She was, in the words of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, “the people’s princess.” And in the months before she died, she took her media spotlight and placed it squarely on the dangers of landmines in Angola. She made headlines in 1987 when she intentionally shook hands with an AIDS patient, working to dispel the myth that HIV/AIDS could be spread through touch. She used her celebrity to raise awareness for a number of causes, from leprosy to domestic violence to mental health. Every August, tributes pour in to celebrate her life and legacy – one that valued authenticity over protocol, and humanity over prestige. In the 24 years since her death on August 31, 1997, it’s become clear how well she fulfilled that hope. ![]() |