![]() In June 2007, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for "services to literature", which "thrilled and humbled" him. ![]() Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically. His fourth novel led to some violent protests from Muslims in several countries. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world. ![]() Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, a novelist and essayist, set much of his early fiction at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. The Satanic Verses (1988), novel of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie led Ruholla Khomeini, the ayatollah of Iran, to demand his execution and then forced him into hiding his other works include Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker prize, and The Moor's Last Sigh (1995). ![]()
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![]() ![]() I mean, it was such a fun historical concept. So when the library is designated part of President Roosevelt’s Packhorse Library Project, Lena is determined to get the job of bringing books to highlanders, believing she’ll finally be free of her mom forever.īut earning the trust of highlanders is harder than she imagined, and her passion for books might not be enough to free her from her chains. Books never expected her to be anything but who she was.Īs she grows up, her beloved library becomes her true home. ![]() Lena Davis is the daughter her mom never wanted.īut she survived. Feel her pain as she struggles not only to barely make ends meet but as she also attempts to connect the pieces of her own life while her mom continues to make selfish decisions. It on: Goodreads | Kindle | Paperback | AudiobookĪge Appropriate For: 10 and up (for some thematic elements)ĭescription: Journey with a horseback librarian into the hidden crevices of Kentucky mountains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of his songs adapted the tunes and phraseology of older folk songs. The album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which comprised mainly traditional folk songs, he made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the following year. ![]() His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as " Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " The Times They Are a-Changin' " (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. ![]() Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. ![]() ![]() Despite harrowing police raids and the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had.ġ980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for "fallen" women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption-a trauma she has never recovered from. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane.ġ971: As a teenager, Dr. This "powerful debut" (Hello! Canada) for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose-inspired by true stories.Ģ017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. ![]() ![]() ![]() She stumbles upon a dead gloamist in the alley, gets caught up in a job tracking down someone’s crappy boyfriend, and Vince starts to reveal an interesting side of himself. However, trouble always seems to find Charlie “Charlatan” Hall. ![]() She wants to work hard, get her sister into college, hold down a relationship with Vince, and call it a day. These powerful people can manipulate their shadows, and Charlie is done playing their dangerous games. She landed a steady bartending job and has turned down every opportunity to lie, cheat, or steal her way through the dark world of gloamists. I only finished the book hours ago, and I can already feel Black’s latest creation haunting my mind in the late hours of the day.Ĭharlie Hall is trying to be on her best behavior. It should come as no surprise that I picked up her newest release, Book of Night, and consumed it in three days. It has stuck with me for years, and I find myself revisiting scenes from the books often. I became a devoted Holly Black fan after reading The Folk of the Air series. ![]() ![]() #71: How to sketch a one-point perspective of a rectangular interior space Some of the Things Frederick shares are concise and practical tips that would most benefit design and architecture students such as: The book is laid out with one Thing per spread with an accompanying drawing on the opposite page. Added to this mix is permanence, history and scale, which has made architecture arguably one of the most intellectualised design disciplines.ġ01 Things I Learned in Architecture Schoolīy Matthew Frederick contains single-page, easily digestible thoughts on aspects of architectural theory and practice as well as design in a more general sense. ![]() Architecture is a discipline that draws together principles typical of many design disciplines – clients, briefs, research, materials, form and function. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although modern romance novels have expanded to include both authors and protagonists of different genders, races, sexualities, and abilities, historically, romance novels separate themselves from other genres by being primarily written by women, for women, and about women.Įarly romance novels featured heterosexual, white female protagonists either defying social conventions or overcoming personal struggles in pursuit of their own happiness. In novels such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, the gothic romances of Ann Radcliffe, and the works of Jane Austen, readers were introduced to a new form of fiction, one that primarily focused on the lives and struggles of female protagonists. The modern romance novel, or mass-market romance novel as we know it today, has its origins in the romantic fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1960s Cash’s popularity began to wane as he battled drug addiction, which would recur throughout his life. ![]()
![]() ![]() The man in the phone booth-it’s a familiar and memorable image from Camus’ philosophical text, one that you might recall: Camus presents the reader with the image of a man in a phone booth. It is likely he would explore and exploit social media as a leading example of the duality of the human condition: on its surface, the pursuit of happiness and meaningful connection underneath, a void without meaning, lurking behind the mirror of self-perception. Like anything else, it’s harmless until it isn’t, until we wake and realize we can no longer live without its conditions, its effects, its functionalities. If Albert Camus were alive today, he’d write “The Myth of Sisyphus” about our massive, shared, ubiquitous digital brain-social media rendered as yet another component of the absurd. ![]() No matter how exhaustively we post, tweet, comment, and curate our feeds, it isn’t until we reach a plateau, a full-stop, that we realize how bound we are to the routine maintenance of our online identities. ![]() ![]() In addition to introducing recent literature on music autobiographies, the article expands on post-foundationalist political thought to make a case for a renewed examination of Latin American music autobiographies and their relevance to the study of music, sound, and the political. I take Colombian composer Guillermo Uribe Holguín’s 1941 autobiography Vida de un músico colombiano as a paradigmatic case in order to argue that Latin American music autobiographies are not secondary sources that lack historical or literary value-a common historiographical assumption-but rather agonistic and intermedial objects that intervene in local and translocal networks. This article presents an analytical framework for the study of Latin American music autobiographies. ![]() |