6/8/2023 0 Comments Wednesday martin untrue![]() ![]() The adult makes it sound grown up and serious, somehow, the territory of those with enough life experience and agency to know better than to do what they are doing. ![]() Martin attends all-female sex parties where married straight women fulfill their fantasies considers contemporary societies where women take many lovers analyses how the invention of the plough suppressed female autonomy and presents fascinating research about why women stray (their motivations are not so different from men’s).įrank and myth busting, Untrue validates the desires of women everywhere, including the ‘silent majority’ in committed relationships who struggle with staying faithful. From New York to Namibia to a conference of sex researchers in Montreal, she takes us on a journey to understand women who refuse monogamy, posing questions about why we became sexually exclusive in the first place. In Untrue, New York Times -bestselling author Wednesday Martin reveals that we are just at the beginning of understanding women’s sexuality properly. Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right? A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Inferno la divina commedia![]() ![]() ![]() Lippmann had moved swiftly and quietly, and when the sale was announced there was a considerable outcry in the British press and Parliament. In 1882 the main part of the manuscript was added to the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings) when the director Friedrich Lippmann bought 85 of Botticelli's drawings. Botticelli had earlier produced drawings, now lost, to be turned into engravings for a printed edition, although only the first nineteen of the hundred cantos were illustrated. The manuscript eventually disappeared and most of it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century, having been detected in the collection of the Duke of Hamilton by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, with a few other pages being found in the Vatican Library. The images are mostly not taken beyond silverpoint drawings, many worked over in ink, but four pages are fully coloured. The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli is a manuscript of the Divine Comedy by Dante, illustrated by 92 full-page pictures by Sandro Botticelli that are considered masterpieces and amongst the best works of the Renaissance painter. Dante and Virgil are each shown 6 times, descending through the 10 chasms of the circle via a ridge. Canto XVIII, part of the 8th circle of Hell. ![]() ![]() Songs of Innocence-the title of the first part, which appeared by itself in 1789- might seem a fairly innocuous title, like the famous Songs and Sonnets which begin the full title of Tottel’s Miscellany (1557 Shakespeare has Falstaff refer to it that way). The title itself has had an enormous effect on ways of thinking about poetry. ![]() The book, beautifully and delicately illustrated by Blake, has been vastly influential, determining, for example, the opening poems in William Butler Yeats’s book The Rose (1893), which contrasts “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” with “The Sad Shepherd:” (The second Song of Innocence is called “The Shepherd.”) The contrast, and the very idea of the song, harkens back to Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience contain William Blake’s best-known and most widely read works, including what is perhaps his most famous poem, The Tyger. Analysis of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experienceīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Febru ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Driven k bromberg series![]() ![]() KB: I am currently working on the follow-up book to The Player, titled, "The Catch," out on June 29, and it continues to center on Scout and Easton. How did this role reversal inform the story and their relationship? ![]() ![]() MW: In "The Player," both Easton and Scout find themselves going through the phase in life where they have become the caretaker of a parent and we see a lot of dedication and vulnerability from both of them. But at the same time, I might not have this career that I love or have my three beautiful children, so hindsight is always 20-20 and often skewed. Of course, now I regret the decision to not attend an Ivy League school and the opportunities and experiences I may have missed. I ended up attending school in California and getting degrees in economics and political science and breaking up with the boy. My parents urged me to go because they knew how incredible the opportunity was for me at the time and for my future, but sometimes there is no reasoning with a teenager who thinks they know everything. We both had a lot of growing up to do and yet the fear of moving across the country (from California to Yale or Princeton) and leaving everything I had known (family, boyfriend, sunny skies) scared me tremendously. I was always the guys' best friend and never the love interest and so the first time I became more than a friend, I fell hard. KB: The decisions we make in our youth aren't always the wisest ones, right? Honestly, it was a case of first-time love. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Aimée & jaguar erica fischer![]() In ‘Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960)’ and ‘Lola (1961),’ she received international recognition. ![]() Her skill as an actress and her face’s photogenic qualities, “fine lines, expressive enjoyment, and an inspiring look,” helped make her early films a success. Acting CareerĪimée made her film debut, at the age of fourteen, in the movie ‘La Maison sous la mer (1946)’. ![]() The much-touted Jacqueline Kennedy analogy is more than just physical. Many people who have never seen her movies are familiar with her striking features. Her films were primarily French, but she also made films in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and some American productions. Anouk Aimée has received several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, an honorary César Award, and a national film award in France. She started her film career when she was 14 years old and has since starred in over 70 films. ![]() Anouk Aimée is a French actress and an icon of stunning beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times-unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament-and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hubįrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeĪ Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022Ī New York Times Notable Book of the Year Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell is tonight, Thursday 17 November, named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments True pretenses rose lerner![]() ![]() The only remnant of Jewish life we could find was the old cemetery, an empty field on the outskirts of town, overgrown with weeds, with a children’s playground at the far end. They were afraid, Sasha explained, that we were descendants of the town’s earlier inhabitants, come to reclaim the empty homes their neighbors had expropriated after the war.Īnd where were the Jews of Vilkomir ? Dead, dead, every man, woman, and child, rounded up and shot by German soldiers on a single summer day in 1941. ![]() In America people sometimes think I’m Irish in Eastern Europe they could tell from a hundred yards away that were Jews, and as a result no one in Ukmerge wanted to talk to us. Then I read this, from Aaron Lansky’s memoir Outwitting History. I wrote thousands of rambling words, and felt dissatisfied with them. ![]() When Rashika asked me to write a blog post about Jewish representation, I really struggled with where to start. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, PLEASE PROCEED TO READ HER INCREDIBLY WELL WRITTEN and THOUGHT OUT POST. A while ago, after reading Lerner’s short in Gambled Away, I invited her to do a guest post about why representation in literature is important to her and being the kind, wonderful soul she was, she agreed to do it. Hi friends! I don’t want to say much because I want this to be Rose’s space to talk but brief background. Tuesday, DecemRose Lerner on Jewish Representation in Media Posted by Rashika ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the background of a young and largely untamed nation, “filled with humor, insight, and captivating historical detail, McCullough’s latest is a wise and warm tribute to family, female empowerment, and her native land” ( People). The results are sometimes happy, sometimes heartbreaking, but always…bittersweet. As the Latimer sisters become immersed in hospital life and the demands of their training, each must make weighty decisions about love, career, and what she values most. Together they decide to enroll in a training program for nurses-a new option for women of their time. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, life holds limited prospects for them. Yet each of these vivacious young women has her own dream for herself: Edda wants to be a doctor, Grace wants to marry, Tufts wants never to marry, and Kitty wishes to be known for something other than her beauty. Colleen McCullough’s new, romantic Australian novel about four unforgettable sisters taking their places in life during the tumultuous years after World War I is “just as epic as her ultra-romantic classic, The Thorn Birds” ( Marie Claire).īecause they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. 19 2014 by Colleen McCullough (Author) 4,676 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 13.94 14 Used from 13.94 Paperback 19.99 5 Used from 14.99 2 New from 19.99 Audio CD 133.21 3 New from 88. ![]() ![]() But what Sookie doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war. Summary: For Sookie Stackhouse, the day-to-day activities of the vampire and Were. Read more death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. Book Review: Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse 9) by Charlaine Harris. Though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible. At first the great Were revelation seems to go well - then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course - her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter. ![]() Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Here are the Harper Connelly novels in series order: Grave Sight: Harper Connelly 1. ![]() A Touch Of Dead (a Sookie Stackhouse short story collection. The new Sookie Stackhouse adventure: a NEW YORK TIMES smash hit! Num Pages: 320 pages. Dead In The Family: Sookie Stackhouse 10. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh wow, where do I start with this sequel? I wasn't even sure I was going to read it when I recently finished Throne of Glass and found it entertaining but a poor excuse for fantasy. and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for. ![]() As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie. Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances-not the Crown Prince Dorian not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. She hides her secret vigilantly she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. ![]() ![]() It puts this entire castle in jeopardy-and the life of your friend."įrom the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. "A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. ![]() |