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Moreover, Woolf’s parents were extremely well connected, both socially and artistically. Two of Woolf’s brothers had been educated at Cambridge, but all the girls were taught at home and utilized the splendid confines of the family’s lush Victorian library. She was also a nurse and wrote a book on the profession. Both of her parents had been married and widowed before marrying each other. Woolf had three full siblings - Thoby, Vanessa and Adrian - and four half-siblings - Laura Makepeace Stephen and George, Gerald and Stella Duckworth. The eight children lived under one roof at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson), had been born in India and later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a historian and author, as well as one of the most prominent figures in the golden age of mountaineering. Early Lifeīorn on January 25, 1882, Adeline Virginia Stephen was raised in a remarkable household. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, as well as pioneering feminist works, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. She wrote modernist classics including Mrs. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Born into a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. Audrey and her mother, who is a lunch lady at her school, struggle to make ends meet. Also, it's awesome that there's such a focus on technology in The Boyfriend App, because fiction tends to lag behind on the technological curve, but everything in here is very timely.Īudrey McCarthy loves hacking and programming, taught by her father, who perished in a mysterious accident, for which he was, likely, wrongfully blamed. It doesn't get super technical, but one of my best friends is super into app design and hearing all of the ideas and seeing the passion these kids have is so uplifting. I feel so brilliant when I understand those conversations, and that was a fun aspect of The Boyfriend App. As I sit here writing this, I still have the foolish grin on my face, because this book is that adorable.įor those who don't know, my day job involves working at a software company, so I hear a lot of talk about programming and apps and all of this stuff. To me, the best books are the ones that can make me feel, and The Boyfriend App delivered, making me actually laugh aloud and grin like an idiot pretty much the whole way through. I picked The Boyfriend App at just the right time, when I was in the mood for a lighter read, for a contemporary novel, and this hit the spot so perfectly. Seriously, this book is so fun and sweet and humorous and delightful. Guys, I am writing this as a zombie blogger, because I died of cute. This book tore my heart out and ripped it to shreds (nothing new with TBOA but totally worth mentioning) and showered me with feels. And Addie! She was so sweet! I absolutely loved their relationship. I can happily say this book changed the way I looked at him. I certainly had reasons not to like him (LEITH!!!), but he was also saving Renna from something she dreaded terribly. When I met the Leader in Defy, I wasn't sure what to think of him. The Christian messages bled through so well, and the story was superbly done all the way around. Mingerink has crafted an amazing story that will stir your heart. I wasn't sure what to expect going into it (I mean, no Leith and Renna for the most part?!) but I shouldn't have worried. *ahem* Okay, so this book in The Blades of Acktar is a novella that goes between book three (Defy) and book four (Deliver). I loved it, it was amazing, and I need Deliver (book four) NOOOWWWW. (Minor spoilers if you haven't read books 1-3.)įirst off, I have three things to point out about this book. Chambers has forgotten that out in the world, there is this:īeings willing to capture your ass for money and sell you to the highest bidderīut hey! I’m usually an At-Least-You-Have-a-Glass-of-Water kind of person, so I could have gotten on board with a book that tended to forget about the more dysfunctional among us, if only the narrative hadn’t been so disjointed. But they'll feel guilty, or talk it out at the end of the day, or Do The Right Thing (TM), and basically respect each other's right to be people. Sure, humans might be tired, or selfish, or cranky, or scared. Except in this book, where they don't suck. People are basically beings with a variety of upbringings, chemical soups, and experiences. In this book, Chambers seems to think people are basically this:īut they aren't. But I don't think I have to: think of it as being able to love Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back, but not Return of the Jedi. Here's the part where you think I'm going to eat my words. While in Florence he made friends with the lutenist Vincenzo Galilei, the illegitimate son of Galileo, who introduced him to his father, who had been convicted of heresy. But it appears he threw himself into the alien culture with gusto. Milton had described Catholicism as “the worst of superstitions” and a “heresie against the scripture”. “You encounter him as this towering figure of militant Englishness, someone who is very hostile to Catholicism and hostile to certain kinds of idolatory and tempting beauty, and all these things that the English Protestant mind associated with Italy.” “In some sense he’s the person you’d least expect to find there,” Moshenska said. Only a small plaque on a hotel five minutes’ walk from Florence’s vast Duomo confirms that Milton visited Florence “drawn … by the Italy of the classics”. If he is correct, one of England’s most famous works of literature also bears the stamp of the city of Dante. In preparation for a Radio 4 documentary – In Search of Paradise Lost –to be broadcast next Sunday, Dr Joe Moshenska, an academic at Trinity College, Cambridge, retraced Milton’s journey to Florence in the late 1630s and claims that the legacy of a formative trip can be spotted throughout Paradise Lost. But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. The ensuing torments of detoxification and withdrawal, and the never-ending urge to use chemicals, are captured with a vitality and directness that recalls the seminal eye-opening power of William Burroughsís Junky. He had so thoroughly ravaged his body that the facilityís doctors were shocked he was still alive. By the time he entered a drug and alcohol treatment facility, James Frey had taken his addictions to near-deadly extremes. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. restaurant (70)), what resonates most loudly is the ways that her relationship with her mother and subsequent other female relationships inform her identity formation. As Zami, Lorde has recreated “in words the women who helped give me substance” (Lorde 255).Īlthough Lorde examines numerous facets of her identity formation, including racism (she is spit on for being black (17) the family’s landlord hangs himself because he has to take in black tenants (59) the family is not served in a segregated Washington, D.C. Taken together, these women foster within Lorde the cohesive self. Her mother, however, is the emotional center of this memoir, the derivation and impetus for the patterns of connection and exploration that Zami encounters through the central female figures of her identity formation. This term is derives from her parents place of origin: the West Indies. Zami is “a Carricacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers” (Lorde 255). With viscerally sensuous language and articulate self-reflexivity, Lorde takes readers on a journey through her childhood and early adulthood, demonstrating how she comes to realize her true name. How does a black lesbian woman negotiate a cohesive self? In what ways do race, sexual identity, and gender intersect and render a human being who is liberated by the very things that oppress her? Audre Lorde explores these themes in her self described “biomythography” Zami. Instead, through a twist of fate, and despite her expensive Convocation Academy education, Nic is doomed to be a familiar like her mother. To her bitter disappointment, she will never be a wizard. Lady Veronica Elal, captive in her tower, has only one way out. With her by his side, he can ascend to such a position of power in the Convocation that he can destroy it forever. If he can obtain a familiar to amplify his magic, a highborn daughter he can marry, to be mother to his children, he’ll be that much closer to saving his family. Fortunately, through a wild chance of birth, he was born with powerful wizard magic, the first in his family in generations. Lord Gabriel Phel wants one thing: to rebuild the shattered fortunes of his people and restore his ruined house to its former station in the Convocation’s highest tiers of elegant society. Also listed are characters appearing in the prequels, The Deptford Histories and The Deptford Mouselets, as well as the sequel The Deptford Mice Almanack … Wikipedia List of characters in The Deptford Mice - A list of fictional characters featured in Robin Jarvis s novel series, The Deptford Mice. Whortle - noun see whort … Useful english dictionary Whortle's Hope - infobox Book | name = Whortle s Hope title orig = translator = image caption = author = Robin Jarvis cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = The Deptford Mouselets genre = Fantasy novel publisher = Hodder release date … Wikipedia … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles. |