![]() ![]() His close friend, Govinda, joins him and the two wander as mendicants seeking alms and spiritual guidance. Siddhartha in the book is the son of a respected Brahmin priest and leaves the comfort and security of his home to seek the meaning of life. ![]() The story has striking parallels to Buddha's own life story in which he abandons his wealth and status as the young prince of Kapilavastu, his wife and young son and his family to embark on a voyage of self discovery. ![]() Siddhartha is a young contemporary of the spiritual master Gautam Buddha who lived in India at some time during the 4th century BC. Penned by a deeply spiritual German author, Siddhartha explores multiple themes of enlightenment, thinking beyond set rules, love and humanity. Once regarded as a cult book in the 1960s by the Flower Power generation, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse remains even today a simple and fresh tale of a man's spiritual quest. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But it’s a novella – I can finish that baby in a few hours. ![]() ![]() Oh yeah! It was the virgin thing lol But now it sounds dumb…I should just delete it. Spoiled princess falls for cold, virgin, bodyguard hero. Why did I download THAT book?The cover looks kind of cheesy…heads to Goodreads. I was in one of my OMG I have so many books but I don’t know what to read manic moments and saw this on my Kindle. That was the case with this book, A Royal World Apart. I end up downloading 20 books in one day then forgetting what the heck they were and why I bought them in the first place. Review: I’m such an impulse buyer when people are in a tweeting frenzy about a book. While their chemistry reaches fever pitch, Makhail knows he knows he must deny his desire-for Eva is promised to another man. It's not long, however, before the beautiful and imprisoned Eva entices him to leave his bonds of duty and honor behind. ![]() Hired for Eva's security, unemotional bodyguard Makhail Nabatov never makes a mistake, but the impulsive princess pushes his resolve to the limits. With her life mapped out since birth, Princess Evangelina Drakos-known for her dramatic flair-hopes the minor scandal she plans to create will deter potential suitors. When duty wars with desire, which one wins? ![]() ![]() This is bad because as you may remember, Tyrus is now emperor, he is mad, and in pursuit of Nemesis. As a matter of fact, she ends up being discovered and it is publicized. However, there is a contingent of rebels who believe Nemesis is alive. Only as we discover, she is alive and hiding out on a planet that does mining and has med bots with Anguish, another diabolic. Kincaid’s The Nemesis opens up with the whole of the galaxy believing that Nemesis is dead. FYI, if you have not read The Diabolic and The Empress, it might be a good idea to stop reading this review and instead pick those books up as there be spoilers from here on out. ![]() Personally, I appreciate getting closure on Nemesis, Tyrus, and the supporting characters. I think that if you are looking for a science fiction series that explores politics and humanity but is also kind of brutal, you should be reading this series by SJ Kincaid. ![]() Another day another series finished. The Nemesis is the final book in SJ Kincaid’s Diabolic series and what a closer it is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why haven’t I read more of your books? Maybe because I’m dumb? I dunno but I’ve got to do better and I will, I promise! The re release of your novel neatly coincided with my realization that I haven’t read many medievals lately and a reading experience was born. As the war for the crown and the land rages, Brunin must defeat the shadows of his childhood and put to use all he has learned, confronting his future head on.” When Brunin aids his lord in supporting Prince Henry in his battle against King Stephen for the English crown, his own land comes under threat. Here he meets the lord’s youngest daughter, Hawise, and a strong friendship is formed. As an act of encouragement, his father sends him to be fostered as a knight in the household of Joscelin, Lord of Ludlow. “Ten-year-old Brunin FitzWarin is an awkward misfit in his own family. ![]() ![]() King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. What really happened on that day of savage violence eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist’s dark past even if she knows it means losing everything she holds dear.Ĭelebrated author Laurie R. For behind the brushes and canvases also stands a notorious felon once convicted of strangling a little girl. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a case breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd, close knit colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century’s greatest painter of women, a man, as it turns out, with a sinister secret. ![]() For Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who’s less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it’s going to be a difficult case. A string of shocking murders has occurred, each victim an innocent child. ![]() ![]() As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were rich poets.” In this surreal time, poetry has finally attained the central position that poets are always telling us it possesses. “Poets were making real money,” Riviere says. Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Dead Souls opens in the aftermath of this cultural obsession with literary crime. Giant plants” – in short, all the various “crimes against originality” that authors are wont to commit.īut Riviere is just getting started with his deadpan satire. Friendships resulting from traffic accidents. Easter as the story’s climactic and final date. Descriptions of the light in western Scotland. ![]() It can detect the felonious reuse of “children who die in the first twenty pages. No infraction is too small to escape QACS’ notice. QACS analyses all aspects of a work of literature – “the machinations of plot, the structural dynamics of narrative and perspective, the balancing of metaphor and the density of descriptive language” – to identify elements of plagiarism. Sam Riviere’s debut novel Dead Souls presents itself as a single utterance, delivered in the course of a single night. And so, the publishing industry, desperate to regain the public’s trust, devises a computer tool: the Quantitative Analysis and Comparison System. As Facebook has taught us, every social and political ill can be cured with better algorithms. I intend no insult to the British poet Sam Riviere when I suggest that he has borrowed the gag (and Gogol’s title) for his debut work of fiction, Dead Souls (Catapult, 291 pages, 26. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading My Baby First Birthday feels like immersing oneself into the muck we are all born with and born into, that gory goo of flesh and blood that covers us as we are unknowingly delivered into a world designed to make some bodies suffer for the benefit of others. If that idea were to have a body, it would be newly born. I repeated the same ideas in every poem.” Unable to imagine touching anything that did not already have a name, a defined form. ![]() Unable to hear anything except what was audible. In her chapbook-length essay Hags, she writes that, as a poet, she was “unable to look past what was right there. Zhang has called herself a materialist and “occasional” sensualist. “I am not interested,” Zhang said in an interview, “in writing that’s just a bunch of ideas floating independent of the human bodies who came up with them.” Not only are bodies present in the poems, but the poems themselves seem to have corporeality-glob-like and many-limbed. Zhang’s own mother has called her poems “touchable,” and in My Baby First Birthday, you can see why. They seem to chew, swallow, digest, and shit out the irredeemable injustice and beauty of being born to a world we did not choose and to a family we never deserved. ![]() The 97 poems in My Baby First Birthday, Zhang’s latest collection, masticate this gooey love. ![]() ![]() A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre. Durrell would eventually complete the Quartet in France. Series list: Alexandria Quartet (4 Books) by Lawrence Durrell. The reputations of writers and their books inevitably rise and fall with. THE JUSTINE ALEXANDRIA BALTHAZAR QUARTET MOUNTOLIVE LAWRENCE CLEA DURRELL THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET is also available in a cloth- bound ediion THE ALEXANDRIA. He was separated from his first wife, Nancy Myers, and in Alexandria he met Eve Cohen, a Jewish woman on whom the character of Justine is loosely based and who became his second wife. Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea. During the 1940s he had worked for the Information Office in Egypt. However, it was only much later, in 1952, after his return to the Mediterranean, Durrell began actually writing Justine. While in Greece, he drafted a novel entitled The Book of the Dead, a predecessor to his first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. ![]() Later, in 1935, following his first marriage, Durrell moved with his mother and his siblings to Corfu, which he felt reminded him of India. He disliked living in such a different country and culture and never fully adjusted to it, even after his father's early death in 1932 when his mother returned with the rest of the family to live in England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unusually the first and scarcest title (Justine) is in much better condition than the others.Īt the age of 11, Durrell, who was born in the North of India near Tibet, was sent 'home' to England to be educated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Digger Stolz’s new book “Stumbling Thru: Keepin’ On Keepin’ On (Volume 2)” and a new contest.Īnd as always … Beer O’ Da Month (courtesy of our donators & Junaid), Trail News with Mags, Trail O’ Da Month (14ers ThruHike), Disco’s Trail Tip O’ Da Month and Ask-A-Hiker with D-low. Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike: Volume 1: .uk: Stolz, A. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Show #20!! – Today we bring you our first show of 2014 – Happy New Year! On this month’s episode we cover a “Month of Disasters” in Trail News, the 14ers ThruHike with guest Junaid “Speshul 41” Dawud live in studio, outdoor trips to tropical locales, Strider’s Top 10, a bunch of Donator shout-outs, Mailbag, Bad Bologna, Junaid’s “gear review” and Mags’ & POD’s reflection on A. Buy Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike: Volume 1 First Edition by Stolz, A. The Trail Show #20 featuring the Colorado 14ers Thru-Hike Winter trip reports, gear overviews, tips, and techniques.Road trip and car camping – gear and techniques. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection begins with “Free Ham,” a house-fire story that ends with an image short story buffs might recognize as an homage to Raymond Carver’s story “Why Don’t You Dance?” :“everything that is supposed to be inside is outside. In the case of Bertino’s debut collection, they send us into the sometimes surreal but always convincing world of skillfully drawn plots, complex metaphors, and quirky-serious wordplay. But allusions, in good hands, send us forward, not back into something we already know. This type of pleasure can be dangerous, because it comes freighted with the potential for self-congratulation it threatens to insulate the audience along with the author. ![]() Marie-Helene Bertino’s Iowa Short Fiction Award-winning story collection, Safe as Houses, offers, among many pleasures, the readerly pleasure of allusions both cultural and literary. ![]() |