6/28/2023 0 Comments Palace walk by naguib mahfouz![]() ![]() They are joined by their sons Yasin, Fahmy, and Kamal, and their daughters Khadijah and Aisha. ![]() His wife, Amina, prides herself on being the perfect obedient Muslim wife and rarely ever leaves the house, which is a rule ofal-Sayyid Ahmad’s. He believes that his family should obey and honor him, and that he is both infallible and unquestionable as head of the household. Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd el-Gawadis the head of the el-Gawad household. The novel presents this change through the day-to-day life of the Muslim el-Gawad family. It touches on the political climate of the time, as Egypt transitioned from British occupation to nationalism. Palace Walk takes place in Cairo during World War I and directly after. The novel was not translated into English until 1990. Palace Walk is a 1956 novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Funny you should ask novel![]() ![]() So when his PR team reaches out to recreate their famous interview, she knows she should turn it down. Despite her hard work, Chani's whole career is linked to Gabe's. ![]() Chani has made a name for herself publishing essay collections and celebrity profiles, but the one thing anyone seems interested in is what happened between her and Gabe Parker all those years ago. What was supposed to be an afternoon interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that gets all the tabloids buzzing.Now, ten years later, Chani is divorced and living back in LA, ready to focus on her work. When Chani and Gabe meet for the interview, Chani tries to keep it professional even though she's squealing inside, but nothing could've prepared her for what was to come next. Chani knows this is the chance of a lifetime and will boost her career to new heights, so the pressure is on. ![]() Then she gets the opportunity to interview Gabe Parker, the hottest actor in Hollywood, and her celebrity crush. While all her other grad school friends are nabbing book deals, Chani Horowitz is writing puff pieces and blog posts for whatever media outlet will have her. What was the last book you picked up solely based on the hype? Mine was Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman, and it was totally worth it! ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Tacky’s Revolt by Vincent Brown![]() ![]() ![]() Tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of this event across disparate parts of the Atlantic world, Vincent Brown offers us a superb geopolitical thriller. That certitude would never be the same, nor would the views of Black lives, which came to inspire both more fear and more sympathy than before. ![]() Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. Read Tackys Revolt The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown available from Rakuten Kobo. It was also part of a more extended borderless conflict that spread from Africa to the Americas and across the island. Their uprising - which became known as Tacky's Revolt - featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence. In the second half of the 18th century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Hair love matthew cherry![]() “To see this project go from a Kickstarter campaign to the big screen is truly a dream come true. And it debuted big, in theaters nationally, alongside Sony’s Angry Birds Movie 2. After almost two years in production, the short was ready to debut. It was clear that we weren’t the only ones loving Hair Love. ![]() And we’re trying to make them feel normal and have a little Black girl with maybe kinky hair feel like she’s represented,” he told Because Of Them We Can.Ĭherry went on to launch a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $300,000, surpassing the initial goal of $75,000 and Cherry’s stretch goal of $200,000, setting a new record for short film fundraising on the site. ![]() "Media is impressionable and when little kids see shows, movies and magazines and don’t see people who look like them in a heroic place or complex place or don’t see themselves at all it makes them seem abnormal or an exception to the rule. At the time, Cherry said that his focus was representation, and he wanted to make sure that Black fathers and their daughters were the focus in his film. ![]() The NFL player turned filmmaker was on a mission to highlight the relationship between Black fathers and daughters in a short film, inspired by viral videos of fathers doing their daughters’ hair. We first wrote about Cherry and his budding animated short in 2017. Hair Love, the popular children’s book turned animated short by former NFL player, Matthew Cherry, gets nominated for an Oscar, USA Today reports. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Mine to take by cynthia eden![]() ![]() As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake. He won't let her go again.īut with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. Now, he can have anything-or anyone-that he wants. He's not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. The years have changed him, hardened him. He'll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. She'd put all of her emotion into dancing, and she'd tried to forget him. He'd joined the military, vanishing from her life. Two lost souls, they'd come together in a firestorm of need and desire. When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her-Trace Weston. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won't stop pursuing her, not until she's dead. ![]() The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is, rather, an attempt to pin down what we might call his particular tone of voice an endeavour to answer the question: is there a Le Carré mode of expression that is uniquely his? In trying to answer this question I propose to look at two works separated by three and a half decades. ![]() What is it about the way this writer writes that is sui generis? This analysis will have nothing to do with the seriousness of the themes that Le Carré tackles in his novels, or his near single-handed rebooting of the spy genre, or his position as one of our most significant and highly regarded contemporary novelists. Therefore it is perhaps an opportune moment to analyse just what it is about his style that makes the prose so “Le Carré-esque”. Given that his first novel, Call for the Dead, was published in 1961, his longevity and productivity as a novelist – close to 60 years – is both remarkable and astonishing. There are more than two dozen novels, the most recent of which, Agent Running in the Field, was published in 2019, days before the author’s 88th birthday. The sudden and unexpected death of John le Carré last month inevitably prompts an evaluation of both the work and the man. ![]() ![]() For that reason, he does not force readers to trudge through vast thickets of dates, places, kings with Roman numerals after their names, and other confusing facts. As he explains, his study is intended to be an interpretation of the Middle Ages, not a textbook. Wickham’s aim is not to provide a thorough description of events. The traditional foci of medieval history surveys-England and France-are also well represented, alongside the German kingdom, Byzantium, Russia, Scandinavia, and numerous other parts of Europe. ![]() Wickham’s expertise in the Italian peninsula is evident through-out the book, but this region in no way dominates the narrative. Geographically, the work is also even-handed. ![]() The book treats the Middle Ages as traditionally defined-namely, the years from approximately 500 to 1500 a.d.-in a well-balanced fashion, conferring roughly equal coverage to the early, central, and late medieval periods. Wickham, one of the leading historians of the European Middle Ages, offers his own unique perspective on the period in this lively survey, which squeezes an extraordinary amount of information into a modest 257 pages of text. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Melinda’s voice is distinct, unusual, and very real as she recounts her past and present experiences in bitterly ironic, occasionally even amusing vignettes. “A story told with acute insight, acid wit, and affecting prose.” This is a compelling book, with sharp, crisp writing that draws readers in, engulfing them in the story.” ![]() “Melinda’s pain is palpable, and readers will totally empathize with her. a novel that will be hard for readers to forget.” The plot is gripping and the characters are powerfully drawn. “A frightening and sobering look at the cruelty and viciousness that pervade much of contemporary high school life, as real as today’s headlines. “An uncannily funny book even as it plumbs the darkness, Speak will hold readers from first word to last.” But the book’s overall gritty realism and Melinda’s hard-won metamorphosis will leave readers touched and inspired.” Yet Anderson infuses the narrative with a wit that sustains the heroine through her pain and holds readers’ empathy. “In a stunning first novel, Anderson uses keen observations and vivid imagery to pull readers into the head of an isolated teenager. ![]() Playlist Praise for Speak: Original Edition ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Mayes frances![]() Her love affair with Italy and her interest in the concept of home are two threads that have run through her work ever since. And it can be resplendent and include a new lover, a new country, and a new - old - home. ![]() The appeal for readers is clear: In unsentimental language focusing on everything from the very big (the history of Italian architecture) to the very small (the wax on a brick floor), Mayes promises that there is life after divorce. Newly divorced, she and her then-boyfriend purchased a rundown villa in Tuscany and set out to fix it up themselves. The poet and writer was the chair of the creative writing department at San Francisco State University when she wrote the book in 1996. ![]() In 2003, a movie adaptation of the same name premiered, starring Diane Lane, who got a Golden Globe nod for her portrayal of Mayes.Īnd even though Mayes now has nearly 20 books under her belt, Under the Tuscan Sun remains her most popular. ![]() ![]() Twenty-six years ago, when Frances Mayes published Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy, it immediately became a New York Times best-seller - and stayed on that list for two-and-a-half years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. ~ Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood. Faulkner worked in a variety of media he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. From William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, SeptemJuly 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. ![]() |