![]() ![]() In the prologue, Bishop Ferrand, an Irish bishop who works in the New World, solicits three cardinals at Rome to pick his candidate for the newly created diocese of New Mexico (which has recently passed into American hands). Cather includes many fictionalized accounts of actual historical figures, including Kit Carson, Manuel Antonio Chaves and Pope Gregory XVI. The narration is in third-person omniscient style. ![]() The narrative has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an oppressive Spanish priest at Acoma Pueblo) or through their recollections. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. ![]() copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in 1927 entered the public domain. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. ![]() Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. ![]()
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![]() King had never tried anything this basic. It couldn’t be called a return to form because Mr. Mercedes” was both shockingly normal and filled with expertly wrought suspense. It goes on to create a trio of improbably matched crime-solvers and a taunting war of nerves between the killer and Bill Hodges, a former cop who becomes his main nemesis. It begins with the title character driving straight into a crowd lined up at a job fair, using his showy car to injure and kill people desperate for work - in case mowing down strangers wasn’t ugly enough. ![]() Mercedes” is such a well-wrought exercise in everyday horror. King, a pretty no-frills fashion.įans of this author’s phantasmagorical side could enjoy it too, since “Mr. ![]() It features a vicious, teasing killer determined to inflict mass violence on crowds of Americans. ![]() ![]() Mercedes,” an atypical King novel published last June. This is the greatest genre-specific accolade available for crime books and thrillers, and Mr. But until April he had never won an Edgar for best novel. Stephen King has won many specialized awards - the Black Quill, the Balrog, the Bram Stoker, just to name a few of the B’s - during his long, incredibly prolific career. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Good night, Carrick.” I turn on the spot and walk as fast as I can to my room. Good night, Andressa.” His voice sounds different-deeper, husky. He steps outside the elevator, hand holding the door. “Thanks for walking with me,” I say, backing away. I slip out the door before it even has a chance to fully open. “This is me.” My voice sounds unnaturally high. It reaches my floor with a ping, like the timer on an oven, and like the chicken, I’m done. What the hell is going on with me? And is this elevator ever going to reach my fucking floor? Instead, I press my thighs together and beg to the gods to get me out of this elevator fast. And I definitely don’t dare to speak, for fear of saying something stupid, so I pretend not to notice that I just touched his arm. I can feel Carrick’s eyes on me, but I don’t dare look at him. Now, all I’ve succeeded in doing is to set off the lick of heat again, and it’s quickly heading south. I wrap my arms around myself, trying to take control of my raging hormones, but I somehow manage to knock my arm with his this time. It’s a soft sound, but I feel like he’s blowing in my ear. ![]() I need to get out of this elevator and soon, but the counter seems to be slowing down to a snail’s pace.Ĭarrick exhales. ![]() I fix my eyes on the digits, watching the numbers climb. ![]() All I can smell is his sexy-as-sin aftershave, and it’s making my head feel dizzy. I take a deep breath, trying to be unaffected, but it doesn’t work. The space in here suddenly feels a hell of a lot smaller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or rather, it seems to conform to her own "sensualistic" view of criticism. ![]() It might be better to see the work as an abstract artistic enterprise, as much as it is an intellectual one. She will refer to dozens, or even hundreds of works in a single clause. There is no bibliography, and the works cited in the text are dealt with briskly, treating the previous 100+ years of photography as a whole corpus which the reader is presumed to be familiar with. Though the text is a work of criticism in a broad sense, it is not academic. BONUS: Did Sontag steal all her best ideas from The Kinks? Scholars remain divided.īeginning in 1973 and finishing in 1977, Susan Sontag set about writing a series of 6 essays on Photography for the New York Review of Books."A Brief Anthology of Quotations" (-208)."America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (-48).Links to the Annotations, Sorted by Essay The Essays: Susan Sontag, as painted in 1994 by Juan Bastos A companion to On Photography by Susan Sontag Annotations by Fritz Swanson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a theologian, he has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, University of Judaism, and dozens of universities and seminaries. As an author, his book The Purpose Driven Life is one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. Rick Warren leads a 30,000-member congregation in California with campuses in major cities around the world. " For more information, visit /.Īs founding pastor of Saddleback Church, Dr. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post and a regular medical contributor on Katie Couric's TV show, "Katie. 1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator and advocate in his field of Functional Medicine. ![]() Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, a six-time No. ![]() He is the Founder and Medical Director of Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa and San Francisco, California, Bellevue, Washington, Reston, Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia and New York, New York.ĭr. Amen is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, television producer and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. The Washington Post called Daniel Amen, MD the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare named him the web's #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sentences are complex and very long, florid and decorative. Thackeray 's style is common for the time. **Vanity Fair** is a very long novel, written in serialization. It distracted me a bit, which is why I gave Performance only 4 stars, while Story got 5. ![]() They didn't match the voices in my head as I imagined the characters. ![]() Some of her characterizations, such as Sir Pitt Crawly, are good, but in general I didn't like them. In pure narration, Sutton's voice is pleasant and appropriate. Sadly, I considered the characterizations the weakest part of the audiobook. Which character – as performed by Georgina Sutton – was your favorite? He tells the story almost as if he is a fond old uncle, slightly detached, amused at the foibles of, but still having affection for, his characters. He is keenly honest about their failings, yet you don't get the feeling that he despises people for their weaknesses. **Vanity Fair** is chocked full of wonderful moments! Tackeray's insight into people and society, his gentle jabs and sarcasm, are wonderful. What was one of the most memorable moments of Vanity Fair? Immersion Reading is turning out to be wonderful for the way I process: visual PLUS auditory! Thackeray's **Vanity Fair** is my favorite novel, and I reread it every couple of years. Would you consider the audio edition of Vanity Fair to be better than the print version? ![]() ![]() He’s belligerent and hedonistic with a healthy scepticism of all forms of authority. ![]() It’s no wonder that a councillor at the time wanted the novel banned, fearing it would damage the reputation of Nottingham forever.īut Seaton is more than just your average drunk. By the end of the evening he’s had a drinking game with a sailor, puked up over a couple of oldies, fell headfirst down the stairs, and ended up in bed with someone else’s wife. The novel opens with Seaton having a skinful down his local, The White Horse, for no other reason than it was Saturday night, “the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year”. Half a century ago, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning became the first Pan paperback to sell a million copies thanks to master gobshite Arthur Seaton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it hits so young like Jude's father, it's even more of a shock. It's such an evil, merciless disease that you can rarely see coming or do anything to stop it. Stories about Alzheimer's disease are so heartbreaking. Jude may have taken an oath, but she’s beginning to think that when it comes to love, some promises might be worth breaking. But Jude’s defenses are crumbling, and if history is destined to repeat itself, she’s speeding toward some serious heartbreak…unless her sisters were wrong? Her sisters will never find out, and Jude can spot those flirty little Vargas tricks a mile away-no way would she fall for them. Jude tells herself it’s strictly bike business with Emilio. Is it Jude’s fault he happens to be cute? And surprisingly sweet? And a Vargas? ![]() Now Jude is the only sister still living at home, and she’s spending the summer helping her ailing father restore his vintage motorcycle-which means hiring a mechanic to help out. She’s seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath-with candles and a contract and everything-to never have anything to do with one. Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A poignant and romantic novel from the author of Bittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer. ![]() ![]() At one point, he takes up with a sometime prostitute with a baby - she eventually leaves. He is a terribly lonely man, but he has an intensity that is almost frightening to people. Basically he lives somewhere until whomever he's living with gets sick of him and throws him out. He is unsuccessful as a minister and eventually takes up painting, supported by his loving brother Theo. ![]() A sensitive man with a spiritual sense of life, Van Gogh seeks from the beginning to express God in some way and to give something to the world. This film is actually based on the Irving Stone novel and while it leaves out parts of Van Gogh's life, it does seem to hit the high points. ![]() ![]() Kirk Douglas is Vincent Van Gogh in "Lust for Life," directed by Vincent Minnelli and also starring Anthony Quinn as Gaugin (Oscar winner for his performance), and James Donal as Van Gogh's brother Theo. ![]() |