![]() ![]() It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived. ![]() The surviving Parallel Lives ( Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi) comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, or Demosthenes and Cicero. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives ![]()
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![]() And a national debate over the unwritten code of baseball and the accountability of players for acts on the field will erupt in a courtroom and in the offices of the baseball commissioner. The stakes are high for Tim Charles as he faces the unimaginable consequence of his last pitch. What began as a feud between two teams turns into a legal drama that will play out in a grand jury and potentially a full blown jury trial. Veteran prosecutor Jaime Brooks reluctantly accepts the task of investigating a case that could change the way the game of baseball is played forever. Is it just a tragic part of the game? Or could it actually be criminal? The crackling sound the ball makes as it hits the helmet will be heard throughout the baseball and legal community. The next pitch he throws will shock the nation. Phillies rookie pitcher Tim Charles must decide whether to honor his manager's call to retaliate against a Met's batter or ignore him and risk losing his club's respect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lancaster could walk away and work on a new project (which would be great, no doubt!) but I hope she revisits our favorite Gandry tribe and gives us updates on everyone and… ****SPOILER QUESTION, DON’T READ ON IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED THE BOOK****** One reviewer said they felt “deeply satisfied” with this book and its ending and I have to agree. I even woke up a little early so that I could get just that much more of the book in before I had to start my day MAN I LOVE A GOOD STORY. Did I sacrifice three hours of sleep anyway? Yes I did. The answer is, of course, YES – great job, Lancaster!!! Just as in previous books, there were lines that made me laugh out loud, the book events kept up such a pace that I had a hard (read: A BATTLE) time putting it down, and there was this thing called work plus life demands that kept making me do it. I WAS SO HAPPY TO LOG ON AND SEE BOOK 3 RELEASED YAAAAAAY!! After Book 2, Gron’s Fated, readers were very excited to see what this new heroine would be like, and maybe the biggest expectation of all: Could Kranu shape up and quit being a jerk?! After Ruth’s Bonded I was thoroughly, deliciously hooked on VC Lancaster’s work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her family is financially ruined, her mother writes, and Gwendolen must come home immediately. Daniel is also in town and he and Gwendolen make note of each other but aren’t actually introduced, and when she returns to her room late one night Gwendolen finds a letter from her mother that changes the trajectory of her life. The initial focus is on Gwendolen Harleth, a vivacious young woman who is staying with friends, gambling and generally enjoying time away from the constraints of her family. When casting around for a classic to read, I thought of this, George Eliot’s last book, about which I knew nothing beyond the title.ĭaniel Deronda opens in a casino in a resort town in Germany, and the first few chapters only mention the title character in passing. I had previously only read Silas Marner by Eliot, in high school English, and while I had kind of liked parts of it, I recalled it as a bit of a slog (but then, a lot of 19th century fiction was and is a bit of a slog for me). ![]() I became a George Eliot fangirl after reading and loving Middlemarch a few years ago. Jennie B Reviews classic fiction / Historical fiction / Jews / Judaism / non-romance 9 Comments ![]() FebruREVIEW: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most hyped children's debut of the decade. Lara Williamson, author of A Boy Called Hope and The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean Oh, and the rhino poo - giant poo will never not be funny. ![]() I laughed out loud at the part about yin and yang and win and wang. So good you'll CLUCK with laughter! Pamela Butchart, author of Baby Aliens Got My Teacher In the words of Jean-Claude the pigeon, I am in love with this most delicious, beautiful and delectable book and I wish to fly away with it! Laura Ellen Anderson, author of Amelia Fang and Witch Warsīrilliant, laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely moving M.G. Laugh out loud funny, with an important underlying message on how to cope with anxiety Abie Longstaff, author of How To Catch a Witchįresh and funny - this reads like a modern-day Dahl Christopher Edge, author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright Wonderfully heart-warming and absolutely hilarious Cat Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island Hysterically funny! Jeremy Strong, author of My Brother’s Famous Bottomįull of heart and humour, wit and wisdom, and rivers of rhino poo Sophie Anderson, author of The House With Chicken Legs ![]() Cleverly daft storytelling at its very, very best Maz Evans, author of Who Let The Gods Out? ![]() ![]() ![]() With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. ![]() There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.ĭesperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.Ī kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. ![]() ![]() Quite possibly only Statley Elkin possesses the exact blend of irreverence and care, of hard-core realism and fabulous invention, to have pulled this off.Įlkin knows that cliches are the substance of our lives, the coinage of human intercourse, the ways and means that hold our messy sleves and sprawling nation intact. And I should say at once that this "triptych," as Elkin calls it, composed of three sections entitled "The Comventional Wisdom," "the Bottom Line," and "the State of the Art," is the work of a master, a story eloquent in its gestures and amazing for the ease with which it moves from a liquor store hold-up in Minneapolis to the "wall-to-wall Wall" of damnation, from Heaven as a "theme park" to Hell as "the ultimate inner city." Half farce, half morality play, The Living End puts God himself on trial, the Lord faced off against the damned who in their countless number equal Everyman. THE LIVING END is Stanley Elkin's comic fable of Heaven, Hell and the Last Days, a small book big in evey way but length. ![]() By TERRENCE DES PRES TERRENCE DES PRES is the author of The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. ![]() ![]() ![]() The revealed truth of God is that without the atonement He cannot forgive- He would contradict His nature if He did. ![]() Never accept a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God, this price had to be paid. We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous cost to God that made all of this ours.įorgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. ![]() There is no other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary. The only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is through the Cross of Christ. To base our forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. Ephesians 1:7īeware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. ![]() ![]() The Jungle Book was the first cartoon I remember watching on TV every Sunday when I was a kid. As you go from one thrilling escapade to the other, let Kipling take you into a world of fantasy. Together they face many dangers and adventures, as Mowgli comes face-to-face with Shere Khan the tiger and the Bandar-Log.Įmbark on this adventurous journey with Mowgli, Rikki-tikki-tavi, Little Toomai and many others, as you read the enchanting ‘The Jungle Book’. Mowgli begins his journey and learns the law of the Jungle with the help of his new-found friends: Bagheera the wise Panther and lovable old Baloo. Adopted by Father Wolf, the man-cub Mowgli grows up with the pack in the Jungle. On a warm evening in the Seeonee hills, a family of wolves finds someone at the threshold of their cave–a human child, who knows nothing of the world of men. Genre: Children’s Fiction / Classics / Indian Literature / Animals Publication Date: April 2nd 2018 (First published 1893) ![]() ![]() ![]() Love can transform, destroy, renew, and strip down. ![]() Our interpretations of love vary across languages, cultures, religions, time periods, and individuals. It is a feeling, an experience, and a decision you constantly make. Love is complicated, ineffable, and constantly changing. How do you write about love?Īt the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Along the way, we’ll discuss how to capture this convoluted emotion in language, and provide tips on how to write a love poem of your own.īefore we examine romantic love poems, let’s address the hardest part first. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, preparing for Valentine’s day, or trying to write love poems of your own, the examples included in this article will help you express the fantastic complexity of love. As a result, a corpus of beautiful love poems has emerged throughout our many millennia of writing and sharing poetry. Because love is a highly personal and variable experience, no two love poets will approach the topic in quite the same way. Love poems have tried to capture the essence of love since the dawn of poetry itself. ![]() |