Rosemary Sutcliff began her career as a writer in 1950 with The Chronicles of Robin Hood. She then worked as a painter of miniatures. Her early schooling being continually interrupted by moving house and her disabling condition, Sutcliff didn't learn to read until she was nine, and left school at fourteen to enter the Bideford Art School, which she attended for three years, graduating from the General Art Course. Due to her chronic sickness, she spent the majority of her time with her mother, a tireless storyteller, from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of historical fiction. She contracted Still's Disease when she was very young and was confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. She once commented that she wrote "for children of all ages from nine to ninety."īorn in West Clandon, Surrey, Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta and other naval bases where her father was stationed as a naval officer. Although primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults. Rosemary Sutcliff, CBE was a British novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed historical fiction.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Rock Crazy by Rochelle WeberI enjoyed this book for the most part, and would recommend it to friends, but I had one major question-how did Elise end up half frozen lying on the side of the road? I wish the author had shown the accident as it happened. The pacing was tight and the ending had a nice surprise twist that was Kleenex-worthy. This book was warm and engaging and kept my attention from the beginning to end. Just who is this young lady and why does she seem so… familiar? Lord Richard values his privacy, but the chit who has invaded it seems to show surprising glimpses of gentility. Elise is on her way home from making a deposit on her Christmas pudding account at the grocer’s and is wondering if she’ll have money to buy enough currants and raisins to make the pudding really special for her family, when she awakens in the home of Lord Richard Stilton unable to remember who she is or where she belongs. Stirring Wishes is a sweet novella set in Regency England just before Christmas. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Selected stories by alice munro"The Albanian Virgin" is two stories in one: the first-the fanciful tale of Ghegs kidnapping a young Canadian woman-is told within the second, about a bookstore owner who has lost her own bearings after a divorce. In "Carried Away," for instance, a dead character makes a sudden, inexplicable appearance in what is otherwise the thoroughly naturalistic account of a librarian's disappointment with love. What is the important thing? What do you want us to pay attention to? Think." What does Alice Munro want us to pay attention to in her Selected Stories? Everything, really, and so her narratives loop back on themselves, jump decades backward and forward in time, introduce characters who later drop out of the action, and generally break every rule in the short-story-writing book. "Too many things," a creative writing instructor tells the narrator of "Differently." "Too many things going on at the same time also too many people. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Alex a cold fury hockey novelAnd if he could ever learn to forgive her, they just might have a future together. Cutting him loose was the hardest thing Vale ever had to do-until now. She had to clean up her act, and that would never happen with Hawke around. As crazy as she was about Hawke, her reckless behavior and out-of-control drinking were starting to scare her. Vale Campbell isn’t the same girl she was at twenty. She’s almost unrecognizable when she walks back into his life seven years later-except for the look in her eyes that feels like a punch to the gut. The only thing Hawke misses from that life is the pierced, tattooed free spirit who broke his heart without so much as an explanation. And why shouldn’t he? He’s worked his way up from the minor leagues and made himself a star. Off the ice, elite defenseman Hawke Therrien enjoys his fair share of booze and good times. The coin shortage caused by "Space Invaders The misstep that helped topple Atari's $2 billion-a-year empire The serendipitous story of Pac-Man's design The video game that saved Nintendo from bankruptcy Through meticulous research and personal interviews with hundreds of industry luminaries, you'll read firsthand accounts of how yesterday's games like "Space Invaders, Centipede, and "Pac-Man helped create an arcade culture that defined a generation, and how today's empires like Sony, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts have galvanized a multibillion-dollar industry and a new generation of games. This engrossing book tells the incredible tale of how this backroom novelty transformed into a cultural phenomenon. Kent has been there to record the craze from the very beginning. And author and gaming historian Steven L. From the arcade to television and from the PC to the handheld device, video games have entraced kids at heart for nearly 30 years. "The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade. Inside the Games You Grew Up with but Never Forgot 5/28/2023 0 Comments Wink poppy midnight bookShe was the high school queen who reached forward one day during math class, grabbed Holly Trueblood’s thick, white-blond hair in her fist, and cut it off at the skull while Holly screamed and screamed. She was the neighborhood hero who organized games of Burn the Witch and got everyone to play. She was the girl next door who fell off her bike and laughed at her bloody knees. People say you can’t feel real love that young, but I did. We were both sixteen, and I’d been in love with her since I was a kid, since I was still reading monster comics and spending too much time practicing sleight-of-hand tricks because I wanted to be a magician. The first time I slept with Poppy, I cried. ***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof***Ĭopyright © 2016 April Genevieve Tucholke They called themselves "lords of the earth." But the reality was somewhat different as they lived in terror and bondage to their spirit world, regularly sacrificing tribe members including children to appease their gods. The naked "Yali" cannibals lived in the darkness of Irian Jaya's Snow Mountains. I find it incredible that the author has managed to gather so much detail for this story having not been regularly present amongst this people group himself. "Lords of the Earth" is by the author of "Peace Child" and is written in a similar style but it relates to a different tribal group. I received this recommendation via this list of top 10 missionary biographies which is worth checking out!Īnother really great book that I found hard to put down. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Dead wake by erik larsonHowever, many passengers were unconcerned because they believed that the ship was impervious to submarine attacks.Īt the same time that the Lusitania was setting sail for Liverpool, Germany’s U-20 submarine was also on its way to Liverpool. Many people interpreted this as a specific threat towards American passengers boarding the Lusitania because they believed it couldn’t be attacked by submarines. On May 1st of 1915, Germany published an advertisement warning that any ship-even merchant ships-are vulnerable to German attack. The Lusitania’s captain, William Turner, is experienced and was the fastest to complete a round-trip journey between New York and London. President Woodrow Wilson is trying to stay out of the conflict because he wants to avoid a war with Germany and its allies. They’ve also started attacking neutral merchant ships that carry civilians. In the past year, German submarines have been sinking British ships. It quickly set records for fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing, stealing away Germany’s coveted Blue Riband. It was owned by Cunard Steamship Company and first sailed in 1907. In Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson describes the last journey of a British passenger ship called the Lusitania. 1-Page Summary of Dead Wake Overall Summary 5/28/2023 0 Comments Memoir by poehlerWho are the best SNL cast members of all time?īut while there aren't any jaw-dropping revelations per se, Yes Please includes plenty of new information about Poehler that even die-hard fans probably didn't know. "I also don't like people knowing my s-." (Reports last week detailing the "reveal" of her past drug use also really blew the details included in the book out of proportion.) "I don't want to talk about my divorce because it is too sad and too personal," she writes. While Poehler acknowledges Arnett in relation to their children, their separation is glossed over entirely. Though it's a breeze of a read, anyone looking for salacious details about the SaturdayNight Livealum - particularly about her divorce from Will Arnett - will be disappointed. Fortunately, the final product is much easier to consume than it apparently was to produce. With a schedule that includes 12-hour days on her sitcom Parks and Recreation, as well as raising two boys under 6, Poehler makes no secret of what a tedious process it was to complete Yes Please. Amy Poehler devotes a substantial amount of ink in her new memoir Yes Please to telling readers that she "had no business" writing a book in the first place. Keller's answer was quite interesting: "I really felt that sometimes I entered a type of trance, that I was really connected to something higher myself. In an interview with the novelist, Martha Cinader astutely asked Keller whether she had seen herself "as a shaman" while writing Comfort Woman. Keller was so haunted by the graphic images of the former military comfort woman's horrible experience that her dreams were filled with "images of war and women, of blood and birth." She found that the only way to "exorcise these images was through writing." Keller's reminiscence of her peculiar experience is shamanistic in its images and implications: she seems to have been possessed by the spirits of comfort women, who urged her to bear witness to their military sex slavery in writing. When she attended a human rights symposium in 1993, Nora Okja Keller listened to the testimony of Keum Ju Hwang and learned the truth of Japanese military sex slavery in World War II. 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