![]() ![]() Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, "Good Faeries/Bad Faeries" presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures - traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries - what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.Īs it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light. In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries, " artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. ![]() That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc."" ""Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The few times that Una tries to put up a fight, she loses miserably, and then she spends the rest of her time lamenting how (she thinks) everyone has forgotten about her that she's alone in the world, she's a monster, et cetera, et cetera. The passivity is what really saddened me, though. ![]() I felt sorry for her at times, but mostly I too busy being disappointed over the fact that she was passive and foolish with giving her heart away. While I didn't find Una irritating at any point, I can't exactly say that I ever sympathized with her not exactly. Sassy? Brave? A romantic? Whimsical? Tough? Likable, annoying good, bad? I am going to assume that the Author wanted Una to be a sympathetic character a victim of circumstance, a romantic at heart, girlish and whimsical with her views on true love - but in the end sympathetic. ![]() I feel like the Author couldn't quite decide herself what sort of character she wanted Una to be. Characters: I never was able to determine my opinion of Una. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Her writing sparkles."- LISA KLEYPAS, New York Times bestselling author And the attraction that burns between them makes Ravenna and Courtland wonder if it'll truly only be a marriage of convenience after all. But when a twist of bad luck throws a rebellious heiress into his arms, at the very moment he finds out he's the new Duke, marriage is the only alternative to massive scandal.īoth are quick to deny it, but a wedding might be the only way out for both of them. Scorned and shunned, he swore never to return to the land of his birth. ![]() Lord Courtland Chase, grandson of the Duke of Ashvale, was driven from England at the behest of his cruel stepmother. She's refused dozens of suitors and cried off multiple betrothals, but running away-even if brash and foolhardy-is the only option left to secure her independence. Sometimes, finding love means flouting the rules.īorn to a life of privilege, Lady Ravenna Huntley rues the day that she must marry. And a scandal between them that will have the whole town aflutter. ![]() A shunned duke forced to return to his family estate.A rebellious heiress determined to be independent.USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard whisks you away with a historical romance full of drama, true love, and the perfect happily ever after. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Noted by writers and readers alike for its perspicacious study of personal and national accounts, the book has been acclaimed as “one of the most intriguing alternative histories of the Partition” (Gayatri Manu). “Things will change,” she says, nodding.Īanchal Malhotra’s first book, Remnants of a Separation revisits the 1947 Partition of India through objects carried by people across the newly formed borders. She is about to move her desk to her room when I see her next. But the writer’s world spills over, with eclectic objects arranged around the house, including a tray of small perfume bottles acquired as part of research. It’s a perfectly solitary nook in an apartment that Malhotra shares with her sister. ![]() A square of light falls over it throughout the day and it seems as if the space has been put on snooze until the writing resumes. Her writing desk is a sheesham table pressed against the glass doors that lead to the balcony before us. ![]() It’s just before the city enters spring and the light is gentle as it fills the living room, where we sit down to talk with two cups of coffee. We talk with the faint trickle of traffic floating up, the occasional barking dogs. It’s a battle living on a busy junction in New Delhi, surrounded by the sound of the streets. AANCHAL MALHOTRA writes in the quiet, reading every word aloud to herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I first read this book as a kid and at the time identified with the teenage Mary Katherine, without questioning her as an "unreliable narrator." When I got the audiobook all these years later, I thought it would be fun to revisit a story I had liked. Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more-like some of her other fictions-as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret. But one day a stranger arrives-cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune-and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods-elder, agoraphobic sister Constance wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat-live together in pleasant isolation. Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page.
![]() ![]() The joy is in remembering the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.” This, my dears, it’s a real piece of art! It takes you on a journey around the world not physically but emotionally, it travels through space and bodies and it talks about so many taboo subjects that you can’t even imagine. ![]() It’s the most wonderful book about what it means to be human. All kinds of people in all kinds of scenarios, with different lives and in different environments. Romance aside, this story is about people. One of the best books I’ve read in quite a while! My thoughts after finishing the book: SO GOOD! I didn’t even have time to mark it as currently-reading, this is how lost into the story I’ve been. Wow! This was such a feast for my eyes and mind! ![]() ![]() ![]() One is alternately sympathetic towards this version of Nelly, who toils for her employers, and exasperated with her. ![]() In retelling a literary masterpiece, Case has managed to add to the storyline without diminishing any of the characters Bronte deftly created more than a century ago, leading up to a sweeter ending that is her own. Case plugs gaps and offers clever interpretations as to why Catherine's brother Hindley is the bitter beast that he is, as well as the reasons behind Nelly's differing treatments of him and Heathcliff.Īn English professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massa- chusetts, Case was paid a six-figure sum for this, her first attempt at fiction - after it was brought to publishers' attention by best- selling novelist Tracy Chevalier. ![]() Twists and turns are skilfully woven into the framework of the original novel's plot in this modern reworking. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I do believe that no matter what happens in my life, I am really always going to be that girl who grew up literally without indoor plumbing in rural northern Minnesota, who just dreamed of being a writer but didn’t dream any of this. “Nobody is as surprised as me,” says Strayed. I point out to Strayed that I can’t think of another living writer who has had so much of their own personal life adapted for both the big and small screens. Both Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, at their cores, grapple with a woman struggling with the loss of her mother to cancer. It’s the second adaptation of her life for the screen, following Wild, the 2014 film starring Reese Witherspoon as Strayed. Much of the inspiration for Clare, though not all of it, comes from Strayed’s own life. Hahn stars as Clare, a writer whose personal and professional lives are in shambles when she’s asked to take over a popular advice column. Tiny Beautiful Things has now been adapted into a limited series starring Kathryn Hahn, which will begin airing on Hulu on April 7. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A virtuosic work of scholarship that recovers fragments of the lives of women who were supposed to be forgotten. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments offers a blistering critique of historical archives as the singular or even most authoritative source of credible knowledge - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor * Los Angeles Review of Books * Brilliant. mode is intimate, radical and always alive to the details - Leslie Jamison * New York Times Book Review * A radical, genre-defying examination of the lives of 'ordinary' young Black women. Thrilling to read because it invents a genre as deft and adventurous as the lives it chronicles - Sam Huber * The Nation * Kaleidoscopic.In granting these forgotten women a voice, and conjuring their longing for freedom, Hartman resists the century-long diminution of their lives to social problems.The result is an effect more usually associated with fiction than history, of inspiring a powerful imaginative empathy - not only towards characters in the distant past but towards the strangers all around us, whose humanity we share - Joanna Scutts * New Republic * I was inspired, surprised and deeply moved. ![]() |