The hakawati6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() What else can one make of a book that jumps from the bedside of the narrator’s dying father to intricate tales of Baybars and Fatima, legendary figures from the early days of the Arab world? Hmmm.Ĭlearly, the best approach to this collection of complexities is to take it as a fabulous amusement. Alameddine paints when he’s not writing fiction al-Kharrat is in line to inherit the family’s Toyota dealership, but would rather noodle on the guitar. Both were born in Lebanon and educated in the United States, and they share an artistic temperament. ![]() (Note, though, that the on-line dictionaries I’ve consulted don’t seem to recognize the Arabic term.)Ĭompounding our confusion is that al-Kharrat seems to bear a marked resemblance to his creator. That’s “Osama the Liar”, according to Alameddine. How much of it we should take for gospel is moot, for although the book includes as astute an analysis of Lebanon and its troubles as you’ll find, it’s also narrated by a young man named Osama al-Kharrat. ![]() Rabih Alameddine is a modern-day Scheherazade, spinning out 1,001 nights’ worth of entertainment in this remarkable book, which is part fable, part memoir, and part family history.Īlameddine calls The Hakawati “a story”, which in itself blurs the line between fact and fiction. ![]() Doubleday Canada, 513 pp, $32.95, hardcover ![]()
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Jennifer egan manhattan beach review6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Seven years have passed war is raging, and 19 -year-old Anna is working in Brooklyn's Naval Yard, supporting her mother and disabled sister, the beautiful but "damaged" Lydia. The novel takes its name from a stretch of beach west of Coney Island, where Dexter lives with his wife, twin boys and daughter, the legitimate face he shows to the world: "No man visited Dexter's home without bringing his family." In the opening chapter, Kerrigan and his 12 -year-old daughter Anna pay the Styles family a visit – the memory of which lingers in Anna's mind long after the day itself draws to a close.īefore we know it, Kerrigan has disappeared – or been disappeared at this stage, his fate remains murky. In Brooklyn, Eddie Kerrigan works as a "bagman" for local kingpin Dexter Styles – he collects and moves money from and in between Dexter's various business concerns. It is 1934 and men across the United States are struggling to feed their families. ![]() M anhattan Beach begins during the Great Depression. ![]() Miss Invisible by Laura Jensen Walker6/12/2023 ![]() Her books all share one common thread: humor. 2021) set in rural Northern California, features the movie-loving Episcopal priest Pastor Hope Taylor Award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker has written several fiction and non-fiction books (17 and counting). Laura's Faith Chapel Mystery series (HOPE, FAITH, & A CORPSE, Jan. John and her irrepressible American Eskimo dog Gracie. Her Bookish Baker Mystery series (MURDER MOST SWEET, August 2020) set in the small town of Lake Potawatomi, Wisconsin, features baker, writer, and breast-cancer survivor Teddie St. A lover of mysteries since she read her first Trixie Belden in the fourth grade, Laura is thrilled to return to writing after a decade’s absence to write lighthearted “cozy” mystery novels. Award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker has written several fiction and non-fiction books (17 and counting). ![]() Andrew roberts george iii review6/11/2023 ![]() This is a man whom Thomas Paine called ‘’the cruellest sovereign tyrant of this age” George Macaulay Trevelyan, in his landmark History of England, spoke of “the unbending stubbornness of George III.” Then again, Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin considered him his hero, telling an American, “if he hadn’t been so stupid, you wouldn’t have been strong enough to come to our rescue in the war.” If anyone is due a make-over, or at least a good looking-over, it is the king who ruled Great Britain and its empire for the six decades between 17. He was the longest serving monarch in British history, the most misunderstood king of England until and perhaps including Edward VII, the greatest villain in the conventional narrative of early America, one of the most underrated figures in all of history – and the subject of one of the most compelling royal biographies of the contemporary period.Īndrew Roberts’s chronicle of the long passage of George III smashes assumptions, clarifies mysteries, establishes new perspectives and brings to life a figure demonized in American textbooks as a tyrant, celebrated in parts of Canada where Loyalists flocked for succour and safety, diminished in popular folklore as a syphilitic madman, and ridiculed in the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical Hamilton that has played to adoring audiences on both sides of the American border. Title: George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch. ![]() Jack ryan cardinal of the kremlin6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() As a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history, his dream of writing a novel came true with his first effort, The Hunt for Red October (1984). Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College. ![]() His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it - if he can - as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Įach must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first - and that's when all hell breaks loose. ![]() In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. ![]() Gora book by rabindranath tagore6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Vast in its scope and rich in thought Gora has been acclaimed as a monumental. ![]() Read 297 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. 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Instead of cycling-specific shoes with stiff soles and ski-binding-like clipped-in pedals favored by seasoned touring cyclists to allow for more power transfer to the cranks, Jacob’s bike is outfitted with stock flat BMX-style rattrap pedals that accommodate his running shoes and hiking boots. Jacob-like his house-builder father, handy with a Skilsaw-fashioned a plywood rack behind the seat and bolted two milk crates to it side-by-side. The red Specialized Hardrock says Milwaukee Tools on it because his dad, Randy Gray, age sixty-three, won it in a raffle. The important thing is the wave, the ride. After all, he figures, bikes are like surfboards-you don’t always have the perfect one for every condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ideally for a journey of this scale he’d ride a large, but the medium is what he has to roll with. The bike is heavy and too small for Jacob’s athletic five-foot, eleven-inch frame. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.” Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. ![]() Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata6/11/2023 ![]() Weedflower is the story of the rewards and challenges of a friendship across the racial divide, as well as the based-on-real-life story of how the meeting of Japanese Americans and Native Americans changed the future of both. With searing insight and clarity, Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Kadohata explores an important and painful topic through the eyes of a young girl who yearns to belong. But then she meets a young Mohave boy who might just become her first real friend.if he can ever stop being angry about the fact that the internment camp is on his tribe's land. ![]() Sumiko soon discovers that the camp is on an Indian reservation and that the Japanese are as unwanted there as they'd been at home. The vivid color of her previous life is gone forever, and now dust storms regularly choke the sky and seep into every crack of the military barrack that is her new "home." Other Americans start to suspect that all Japanese people are spies for the emperor, even if, like Sumiko, they were born in the United States! As suspicions grow, Sumiko and her family find themselves being shipped to an internment camp in one of the hottest deserts in the United States. That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. ![]() Teatro grottesco ligotti6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cooties – intellectual cooties and physical cooties from other people – are crawling all around us and all over us at all times.” We live in a world where every surface, every opinion or passion, everything altogether is tainted by the bodies and minds of strangers. All ideas are old and withered before they ever get to us: “Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next. One suspects a limitation with the genre but given Ligotti’s following, that doesn’t seem to matter.Īccording to Ligotti, we merely ‘rent’ ideas - a thoughtful and useful metaphor. And what’s ‘in here’ is totally arbitrary, including, of course, the absence of meaning. We are prone to create meaning out of thin air, as it were. Our instinct is to fight against this, to supply explanations or additions to Ligotti’s prose. The meaning of these stories is that there is no meaning. But, upon finding any, do try to restrain your enthusiasm. ![]() Blameless by gail carriger6/10/2023 ![]() Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.īlameless is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. The Blurb On The Back: Quitting her husbands house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Alexia becomes the. Read reviews and buy Blameless - (Parasol Protectorate) by Gail Carriger (Paperback) at Target. There is also a stack of books to the runner up. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Gail Carriger Blameless Themed Goodie Box is Coming The Chirrup, is soon to go out, Gentle Reader This time I’m giving away a Blameless themed goodie box to members, full of lovely things, which one lucky Chirrup member will win. ![]() ![]() To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. ![]() Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. ![]() Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. ![]() |