7/5/2023 0 Comments Prince harry's new bookCharles comes out of it better than I had expected, but it’s tough on William, in particular, and even Kate gets a bit of a broadside. The source told The Sunday Times: “Generally, I think the book worse for them than the royal family is expecting. One advanced reader has claimed that it is William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, who need to brace for the worst. READ MORE: Meghan Markle could be planning to release her own book after Harry's memoir The 38-year-old Royal is expected to be “tough” on William, and will also “lash out” at Kate, but he has reportedly been kinder than expected on King Charles. Now, some details of Prince Harry’s upcoming autobiography, Spare, have leaked, and according to the Mirror, they suggest the Royal Family could be set for more revelations. Yet in episode four of the docuseries, Harry accused his brother’s team at Kensington Palace of doing just that. The duke, in his Netflix documentary, said he and William promised never to trade or leak stories or brief against one another after witnessing the fallout of such actions in their father’s office. It comes after the release of the controversial Netflix series, Harry & Meghan. Prince Harry's eagerly anticipated new book, Spare, will go on sale this month and it's expected to unveil even more revelations about the Royal family.
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7/5/2023 0 Comments Tesla by Margaret CheneyHe was also a popular man-about-town, admired by men as diverse as Mark Twain and George Westinghouse, and adored by scores of society beauties.įrom Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered - and continue to alter - the world in which we live. Almost supernaturally gifted, unfailingly flamboyant and neurotic, Tesla was troubled by an array of compulsions and phobias and was fond of extravagant, visionary experimentations. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field - the basis of most alternating-current machinery - but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. In this “informative and delightful” ( American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors. Knowledge is like a circular fan whose bones are the medians (as in acupuncture's view of the body): touch any one point and others will be affected and conjured up. Perhaps it is true of most scholars that they are totalizers: scholarship beckons - ever further from one locus on the map of knowledge to another - toward a utopian whole. include information that is not independently verifiable." This volume reveals Borges the scholar as none other has before and revels in the intimate links between his fiction and non-fiction while carefully distinguishing between them: "his fictions may often resemble non-fiction. In fact he was a man sworn to the virtue of concision who couldn't stop writing." In Latin America, he also points out, Borges's essays are often considered to be the best of Borges. Eliot Weinberger's introduction to this marvelously rich and elegantly constructed book kicks off with a striking point: "JLB never wrote anything long, and so it is often assumed that he never wrote much. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The essex serpent book buyIt was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2017, and was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, the Wellcome Book Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the New Angle Prize for Literature. It was a number one bestseller in hardback, and was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was published by Serpent's Tail in May 2016. In January and February 2016 Sarah was the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Luca turin best perfumesEven the words themselves – fragrance, perfume, scent – are genderless: the daft male-only term ‘after-shave’ appears only to have been dreamed up in the 1920s as a marketing wheeze. Men wore fragrances which today we’d regard as outrageously effete: both Napoleon and Wagner were famous for drenching themselves in scent, and Victorian gentlemen favoured sweetly scented floral perfumes alongside the ubiquitous eau de cologne. Once upon a time, perfumes were perfumes, and there appears to have been little in terms of a gender divide until the early twentieth century. The fact that we divide perfumes into men’s or women’s fragrances has less to do with logic than it has to do with marketing, packaging and conventional thinking – and if you look back it’s not even that old a distinction. 5? Or woman enough to splash on Azzaro Pour Homme? I have to admit that I’ve never been a great fan of cross-dressing, but it makes about as much sense to talk about ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ fragrances as it does to talk about ‘male’ or ‘female’ art, music or food. Tagged With ‘Luca Turin’ Sex and scentsibilityĪre you man enough to wear Chanel No. 7/5/2023 0 Comments The fourth hand book reviewSadly, that was the case for both of Irving's last two books - the abysmal Until I Find You, and the mediocre The Fourth Hand. Even if the new book is legitimately terrible, it's still not easy to read someone you admire getting trashed by snooty reviewers. So I couldn't be more excited to read Twisted River! But when a favorite novelist publishes something new, I'm always a little bit apprehensive, as well. I've been a huge, huge John Irving fan since I stumbled across The Cider House Rules several years ago, and I've since read just about everything he's published, including A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Widow For One Year, which are two of my all-time favorite books. Forget Dan Brown and Stephen King, and with apologies to the late Senator Kennedy (whose memoir came out in September), in my mind, the fall publishing season hits its crescendo tomorrow with the release of the new John Irving novel - Last Night in Twisted River. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Winifred watson*** The text is famed for its black and white sketches by Mary Thomson of the Great Gatsby world of pre-World War II class-conscious Britain. And MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY is well launched by page three. The employment agency had mixed up Miss LaFosse, whose maid had just quit, with Mrs Hilary who wanted a governess. British-style) on a cold November London morning at the home of gorgeous, oversexed young singer/actress Miss Delysia LaFosse (born Sarah Grubb). She is mousy, terrified, desperate when she turns up at 10:00 a.m. The novel is about the final chance she has to land a paying job to keep her literally from a British poor house. Pushing 40 maiden lady Miss Guinevere Pettigrew has no friends, no family, is underfed, poor and a very inadequate governess. What phrases come to mind when describing Winifred Watson's 1938 comic novel MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY? *** "The mouse that roared? *** "The end of innocence? ***"It's never too late for love?" *** "Cinderella updated?" *** You get the idea. They listened to the voice of God and not only adopted one foster child but seven. Alec and Maggie Donahue are a lovely Irish couple living in Breeze Point, Cape Cod, and adopted seven boys from foster care. The Way Home is the first novel in Seven Brides, Seven Brothers series. Her Book, An Alaskan Christmas, has been adapted into a television movie by Brain Power Studios.īelle hopes that her books will inspire and entertain the readers. Her hobbies include traveling, reading, and spending time with friends and family.īelle is a member of Romance Writers of America. She’s one of the five siblings who grew up across the street, and a public library helped her become a great reader, which later inspired her to become a romance author. She married her college lover and became the mother of two girls. She writes inspirational romance novels set in small towns. Belle Calhoune is a Romance, fiction, and Spirituality author born in Quincy, Massachusetts. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Jarrod shustermanHis novel, Unwind, has become part of the literary canon in many school districts across the country and has won more than thirty domestic and international awards. Neal Shusterman is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of over thirty novels for children, teens, and adults. Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.The drought - or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it - has been going on for a while now. In addition to being on numerous award lists, Dry is currently in development with Paramount Pictures. Shusterman wrote Dry with his son Jarrod. “People might do whatever they can to survive, but once they don’t have to worry about that, they’re different.” When the Tap Out hits, eccentric Jacqui joins the trio, making for a haphazard group on a road trip hunt for water.Īs threads of civilized society begin to fray and stores of bottled water run out, could altruism and ingenuity be the keys to survival? The government has toned down the truth about how dire the water supply is, calling it, “The Tap Out.” Soon after, the faucets are dry and the countdown to survive begins.Īlyssa and her 10-year-old brother, Garrett, team up with neighbor Kelton, whose family has prepared for doomsday. Neal and Jarrod Shusterman bring us that what-if disaster in the form of an extended drought in Southern California. There is something oddly reassuring about experiencing a disaster that is not the one you are living. We discuss SFPL’s On the Same Page book selection for March/April, Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. A "hypnotic" ( The New York Times Book Review ) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption -from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. |