![]() ![]() Kapoor’s book shows the folly of such easy references – the sheer scale of the repression, the hundreds of thousands of arrests, the horrific slum clearance and family planning programmes, the suffocating censorship of every publication – all this is hopefully beyond the ambitions of the present dispensation, and its actions so far pale in comparison. ![]() ![]() It is fashionable to compare recent events that portend bad tidings – the everyday lynchings and the Governmental silences and justifications in response to them, the draconian laws passed through the Money Bill route or promulgated through ordinances – to the Big E. While Kapoor does detail her extended family’s predicament in the 19 turbulent months where India faced its biggest danger as a democracy (including a full chapter on the escapades of her brother-in-law, Subramanian Swamy*), the bulk of the book is devoted to providing an overview of the Emergency, the immediate events that lead up to it, the clamping down on any dissent, the sinister 5- & 20-point programmes and their consequences on India’s poorest, detailed profiles of Indira & Sanjay, and the aftermath of the event. If – like I was – you are slightly hesitant to buy a book that declares itself a personal history of the Emergency, since you’d rather read an impersonal one, don’t be. ![]()
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![]() Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. Then another body is found, killed in a similar way. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. ![]() What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases.ĭr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. ![]() North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Shetland and Vera series, returns to North Devon in The Heron's Cry, the second book in the Two Rivers series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, following The Long Call. ![]() ![]() Isaac, Austin Sheenan, and Sue Maynes are among the successful submittors who have been featured on the website. Several writers, including Frank Prem and myself, also write poetry. ![]() ![]() Other members with a Science Fiction focus include: Alanah Andrews, Aiki Flinthart, Rebecca Langham, Jodie Rye, Carleton Chinner, Lachlan Walter, Alethea Kinsela, and Shelley Calopa. Horror/Dark Fantasy authors participating in the group include: Alan Baxter, Steve Herczeg, Steve Dillon, Keri Arthur, Shelley Russell Nolan, Pamela Jeffs, Noel Osualdini, and Ryn Lilley. This appears to be a group of authors drawn together by their interests in writing Science Fiction, Fantasy or both. I joined the Australian Speculative Fiction Group on Facebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() The powerful imagery of the panels as well as the realistic dialogues shows the horrors of the barely survived flight and above all the suffering they are subjected to afterwards in southern Spain. ![]() The book begins with the sensitive depiction of the social and economic hardships facing North Africans who live in poverty like the main character and which drive such people to leave their home country to seek a better life for their families. While the story is fictional, it is based on the real life of a Moroccan father Rashid and is marked by its strongly expressive, mostly realistically drawn strips and its dramatic plot, which explores extensively the dark side of being a refugee. In it, he tells the story of the odyssey of a North-African refugee in the European Union. His most important work to date has been the 216-page graphic novel »Näkymättömät kädet« (tr. The book, published also in French with the title ✽es Oiseaux, des Mers«, deals with human freedom, forbidden love, rigid social structures and similar themes. 2003 saw the release of his second comic set in Hong Kong, »Linnut ja meret« (tr. He set up his own design agency Studio Tietäväinen in the same year. ![]() ![]() Smiling Moon), in 1995 together with Harri Hannula. Tietäväinen released his first comic, which plays in Thailand, »Hymyilevä kuu« (tr. He is a qualified architect, graphic designer, illustrator and caricaturist, but has mainly made a name for himself in the past years as an author and illustrator of longer comic stories. Ville Tietäväinen was born in 1970 in Helsinki. ![]() ![]() ![]() We know that the experience is advancing their enjoyment of learning as well as supporting progression in their spoken language/communication, literacy and language to support writing.īringing a book to life for young children can be a transformative experience for all involved. What greater pleasure is there than being able to engage in a story through ‘playing it out’ with your peers? I use the phrase ‘playing it out’ as this is what young children believe they are doing….’playing’ the story and having a really good time with their classmates at the same time. An example of pleasure is enjoying reading books. Pleasure means the state of being pleased, delighted or gratified. An example of pleasure is to cook someone a very special meal. Pleasure is defined as ‘to please or gratify someone’. Definitions from Oxford Languages - translations and definitions: ![]() ![]() In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Career Īfter graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia. ![]() Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double-majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. ![]() Early life Įmily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. ![]() Her notable works include Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only. University of Virginia School of Law ( J.D.)Įmily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Credit is nevertheless given to Henry Cary’s splendid blank-verse version of 1814 (Coleridge adored it), and to the heroic 13-year enterprise of Dorothy Sayers for Penguin Books. Dante, as he observes, was never so “mealy-mouthed”. They preferred “a sound obscene” to the candid blast of Dante’s farts. ![]() (His award-winning West Indian travel books are worth hunting down.) Quoting the Italian maxim traduttore traditore (the translator as traitor), Thomson shows how prim English clerics flinched at words like “cul”, meaning arse. ![]() ![]() Ingeniously, he compares Dante’s castigation of a Florence fattened by banking and the sale of luxury goods to the outraged expostulations of Sir Harold Acton, when “weekend Surrey” arrived in Florence with vulgar expectations of Marmite jars and Twinings tea.Ī beguilingly light tone masks but never mars Thomson’s impressive scholarship. Playfully, he spots a modern Beatrice in the yearning lyrics that track a young beauty’s careless impact upon Brazilian beach-watchers (“But when she passes. (Almost half of the inhabitants of his Inferno are Florentine.) The fun comes when Thomson unleashes his imaginative gifts. Succinct but admirably wide-ranging, Ian Thomson’s richly illustrated exploration of Dante’s masterpiece opens with a brief account of the poet’s life both in Florence and later in the bitter exile during which he took revenge upon his native city. ![]() ![]() ![]() It isn’t your hand that’s throwing the food The ones who don’t take up for those of us that cry ![]() I’m referring to those of you that just stand by (When she finishes passing out the butterflies, she walks back onto the stage and places the microphone back into the stand.) Kiersten walks around the room, passing out butterflies to several of the students, including the three from the lunchroom.) Lake laughs out loud and I have to nudge her to get her to be quiet. ![]() Brill smiles at her and takes the butterfly out of her hands. “I’d like to extend to others what others have extended to me.” She takes the microphone out of the stand and begins walking down the stairs as she continues speaking.) (Kiersten slides the sack off her wrist and opens it, pulling out a handful of hand-made butterflies. I’m not putting up with your Butterfly anymore." Delicate like the cruel words that flow right out of your mouths and the food that flies right out of your hands…ĭoes picking on a girl make you more of a man? ![]() ![]() Another well-done aspect is the way Clare deals with her love triangle. ![]() I once read a guide to mystery writing that said, to paraphrase, that when the culprit is exposed the reader should first be surprised and then a moment later think, of course, it had to be! This is exactly the experience I had with Perception. The mystery is a really good one Harrington scatters red herrings throughout the story, sending the reader’s brain off in many different directions, and when the solution is finally revealed, it makes perfect sense. Clare feels a responsibility to use her power to help people and becomes embroiled in the case. And if this weren’t enough, another mystery emerges: Sierra, a fellow student, has gone missing. She also has two boys vying for her heart, plus a rather creepy secret admirer. Once a social misfit, now she’s locally famous and unsure how to deal with the sudden fawning attention she’s getting from kids who once shunned her. As Perception begins, that story’s aftereffects have turned Clare’s social life upside down. In the first novel, Clarity, Clare used her ability to help solve a murder mystery. ![]() ![]() Clare’s special power is psychometry: she can touch an object and see scenes from its past. (3.5 stars) Perception is Kim Harrington’s second mystery starring Clarity “Clare” Fern, a young girl who comes from a family of psychics. ![]() ![]() ![]() “‘You will not have your way this time,’ Katherine says, her lips close enough to the obsidian to kiss it. In One Dark Throne, the enthralling sequel to Kendare Blake’s The New York Times-bestselling Three Dark Crowns, Fennbirn’s deadliest queens must face the one thing standing in their way of the crown: each other. ![]() And Mirabella, once thought to be the strongest sister of all and the certain Queen Crowned, faces attacks like never before – ones that put those around her in danger that she can’t seem to prevent. Arsinoe, after discovering the truth about her powers, must figure out how to make her secret talent work in her favour without anyone finding out. Katharine, once the weak and feeble sister, is stronger than ever before. With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them and the Ascension Year underway, all bets are off. ![]() |