![]() I work in my garden shed now with my co-writer, a giant black Labrador who is scared of feathers. I think it is proof that you have to follow your dreams - no matter how scared you are of failing - your dreams always know the way. I was working in the BBC newsroom when my agent called to tell me that publishers wanted to buy Sometimes I Lie. I loved being a journalist, but my secret dream was always to be an author. What made you make the switch from reporter and news editor to full-time novelist? ![]() In an email interview, Feeney talks about her career as a journalist and how she made the transition to full-time writer. The result is a bigger twist than we expect in the end, we’re left wondering whom we should really believe. ![]() But Amber is very much aware of everything around her and, unable to speak or move, is left to burrow within the memories from before the accident to get to the truth, wondering if her husband, her sister, or possibly even she herself is responsible for her condition. ![]() The plot revolves around a woman, Amber Reynolds, who, after a horrible accident, is left in a coma. In keeping with the trend in contemporary fiction of the unreliable narrator, novelist Alice Feeney, in her debut, Sometimes I Lie, shows why this literary technique never ceases to enthrall readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. Meanwhile, Lydia doesn't want to be difficult-and she does not mean to keep secrets-but there are things she's not telling.Like why the box of "paper stuff" she keeps under her bed is so important.And why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger.And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be the key to unraveling his mysterious past-but at what cost?Īges 10 up. A Home for Goddesses and Dogs as its meant to be heard, narrated by Patricia Santomasso. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. Wasn't one rescue enough? Lydia is not a dog person-and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. Lydia's struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl's arrival. Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming-and a little quirky. It's a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother's death. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him. This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world's best bad dog. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mystery itself is compelling and an improvement over the first book. Their affection for one another, their enthusiasm for anything remotely exciting, and their good humor all exemplify the best of humanity, not just for old people, but for people of all ages. ![]() ![]() They are its heart and soul, and this book is another superb display of that. The draw of this series has always been its characters. This time, they need to recover twenty million pounds' worth of diamonds and suss out a murderer. With their trademark mix of sweetness, smarts, and humor, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron come together to stick their noses where they don't belong. What sort of business though? Diamonds? Murder? Perhaps a bit of both? That would be nice.Our four loveable septuagenarian are at it again. ![]() ![]() Ondaatje superimposes on this tableau the landscape of the pre-war North African desert, with its strange brotherhood of Western explorers, filtered through the consciousness of Harm's patient. Only Kip is functioning efficiently, defusing the mines. So: a dying man and two wrecks-for David has become a morphine addict after his recent capture and torture, while Hana, who coped with the loss of her soldier sweetheart and their child (aborted), has been undone by news of her father's death. They are joined by David Caravaggio, an Italian-Canadian friend of Hana's father but also a thief used by Western intelligence, and Kip (Kirpal Singh), an Indian sapper in the British Army. ![]() The war-damaged villa, its grounds strewn with mines, has gone from to German stronghold to Allied hospital, its sole occupants now a young Canadian nurse, Hana, and her last patient, a born victim. ![]() ![]() Canadian poet/novelist Ondaatje (In the Skin of a Lion, 1987, etc.) assembles, mosaic-fashion, the lives of four occupants of an Italian villa near Florence at the end of WW II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. ![]() Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented in the first-person, “The Husband Stitch” traces the heteronormative narrative of an unnamed woman who meets and marries her husband and bears a child before passing in an unexpected manner. My interpretation ends in the finale as, like Medusa, the Narrator’s husband beheads her, resulting in the satirical conclusion that the perfect patriarchal woman dies as soon as she is created. To this end, I align the Narrator with Medusa through secondary research, marking her as an archetypal monster through her overt sexuality, pregnancy, and green ribbon. Machado describes the Narrator’s sexuality with grotesque and abject terms, separating her from the patriarch’s preferred sexual and domestic compliances. The Narrator presents her unreliability and evasiveness through a metanarrative cast of voices that identifies males as evolving beings while women remain in stasis. The bildungsroman narrative follows an unnamed woman who struggles with the slow decline of her autonomy, which includes her husband and her obstetrician mutilating her vagina with the eponymous husband stitch. ![]() ![]() This literary analysis of Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch” reinterprets women who exist outside patriarchal prescripts. Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio ![]() ![]() ![]() "But that's not how it felt on the inside. "On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more 'male,' mine more and more 'female,'" Nelson writes. In some senses, The Argonauts captures Nelson and Harry at their most rigidly gendered - Nelson pregnant after years of "deriding 'the breeders'" and Harry achieving the body he long envisioned for himself after going through testosterone therapy and surgery. The two components rub against each other. Nelson's vibrant, probing and, most of all, outstanding book is also a philosophical look at motherhood, transitioning, partnership, parenting and family - an examination of the restrictive way we've approached these terms in the past and the ongoing struggle to arrive at more inclusive and expansive definitions for them. that for some, 'transitioning' may mean leaving one gender entirely behind, while for others - like Harry, who is happy to identify as a butch on T - it doesn't?")īut that doesn't quite capture The Argonauts' whirlwind character. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is, on one level, a memoir about Nelson's pregnancy with her first child, Iggy, and her partner Harry's concurrent female-to-male "transition." (The quotation marks are borrowed from Nelson, who at one point wonders "how to explain. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Argonauts Author Maggie Nelson ![]() ![]() I remember ice skating on Beebe Lake and many parties we architecture students had. I still play golf and keep busy with bridge, etc.”Ībout Cornell, Joan writes, “I remember Junior Week dances in the Armory with big name bands at either end of the building. ![]() He is a professor at the University of California, Chico. ![]() “When Pat died, I moved to an active adult community in Chico, CA, where my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter live. I remember Junior Week dances in the Armory with big name bands at either end of the building. During those years we took many cruises, as well as golfing and fishing trips. ![]() In 1988 he retired, and we spent 21 years in Sonoma until he died in 2009. “We later moved to Foster City and Pat opened his architectural office in San Mateo. Another roommate, Rosemary Williamson Colgate, and her husband, Stirling ’48, PhD ’52, lived in Livermore, also close. “My Alpha Phi roommate, June Johnson Reynolds, and her husband, Hugh, lived in Sunnyvale, not too far away. We then returned to the West Coast and lived for 18 years in Sacramento, where our daughter Gail and son Tom were born. “After being married, we spent a year in Seattle and returned to Ithaca, as Pat needed one more term to get his degree. ![]() We received a wonderful letter from Joan Dall Patton, who fondly reflected on her life with husband Ed “Pat” Patton, BArch ’49. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very young to be having a baby and having to cope with the cold reality of single fatherhood before he had even graduated college. I was visiting a friend who had just had a baby. I wonder how different my life would have been if I had read this book years ago when it first came on my radar. And since reading it, I have found myself questioning everything about my normal thought patterns and my responses to the ebbs and flows of day-to-day life. I stayed up late over three nights and got up early just so I could read this book. If you could only read one book for the rest of the year, Man’s Search for Meaning should be it. Man’s Search for Meaning is one of those rare books. There are only a handful of books that have permanently changed the way I view the world, the way I view life, and my constant state of mind. Frankl is one of the most life-changing books I have ever read. Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very simply, Daredevil shares a close relationship with Batman across the comic book companies. ![]() If you are in anyway interested in the olden days of comic books without the retro-post-modernism that typically accompanies such fare, this is the story for you.ĭaredevil's come on leaps and bounds from his early days. It’s a nostalgia trip – which means it isn’t quite as compelling as the duo’s work on Batman – but it does lend the collection a nice feel to it. The truth is that it offers a wonderful eulogy for the carefree comic book stories of old, simple and ridiculous fare with simple storylines and clear-cut good guys and bad guys. Cynics would describe it as the last classic that Loeb wrote. The first part of Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb’s informal ‘colours’ trilogy ( Spiderman: Blue and Hulk: Grey being the rest of it), Daredevil: Yellow has a lot going for it beyond the two talents behind a trilogy of iconic Batman stories ( Haunted Knight, The Long Halloween, Dark Victory). It’s been told a lot of ways, with many other people in my life, but this is the way I choose to remember it when I think of you. ![]() |