![]() ![]() Poor in finances but rich in love, they have two biracial daughters, Elizabeth Ann Atkins and Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan, who look white. At age 19, Marylin sparks a racial and religious scandal by marrying former Roman Catholic priest Thomas Lee Atkins, who is white and 25 years older. ![]() , Neubuch,, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS DETROIT INTERRACIAL FAMILY AGE DISPARITY IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michigan The adoptive mother's abuse instills in the girl, whom they name Marylin Elnora, ambition to achieve great things on her own. , Neubuch,, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS DETROIT INTERRACIAL FAMILY AGE DISPARITY IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHI… More. Atkins: The Triumph of Rosemary : A Memoir - Paperback ![]()
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![]() ![]() Posted in Hockey Romance Reading Project, Queer Fiction, Reading Challenges, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Trans and/or Non-binary Lit, YA Fiction ace author ace character ace spec author ace spec character ace spec representation ace/allo romance AE Wasp Akemi Dawn Bowman Alex Harrow Alison Evans Amy Aislin Annabeth Albert aro spec character aromantic character Asian American author autistic books autistic character Avon Gale Black author Black character Ceillie Simkiss character with addiction character with PTSD Claudie Arseneault Cole McCade Constance Bougie contemporary fiction contemporary romance contemporary YA Cori McCarthy CT Callahan Daria Defore demigray ace character demiromantic character demisexual author demisexual character disabled character f/f romance fantasy gray ace author gray ace character hockey romance indie author J. ![]() ![]() Lured by the prospect of establishing a major church and all the positive things that should come in its wake, Christ agrees. ![]() ![]() This angel persuades Christ to preserve and present the sayings of Jesus, but only in such a way that they could one day form the basis of a great religion. This works well until the entrance of a dark, smooth-tongued stranger, identified by Christ as an angel – though whether good or fallen is left for readers to decide for themselves. Jesus is an itinerant preacher and miracle worker, while Christ is his devoted chronicler. The only truly inflammatory note in this challenging novel is the word "scoundrel" in the title, given that the two main characters of Jesus and his twin brother Christ both come over as virtually blameless. If Jesus here sometimes sounds like a modern cult leader, advocating that his disciples cut ties with their own families – so what happens to their wives and children? – it's not Pullman's fault. Questionable statements that do appear, such as His referring to a Gentile woman as a "little dog" or His self-proclaimed mission to set son against father and daughter against mother, are already there in the Good Book. ![]() For, on the evidence of this novel, the author says nothing bad about Jesus. Fanatics whose threats have recently occasioned Philip Pullman to require a guard both at home and when he speaks in public should pack up their Bibles and go home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t satisfying for me, and I feel like it was a rare misstep. But I digress.Īs far as the ending goes, I felt it was far too abrupt. I didn’t know that the Multiverse was actually a part of the Moorcock mythos, but after reading this book I dug deeper into it to find some fascinating tidbits about it. The story also delves into Moorcock’s Multiverse. If you like epic fantasy AND dark fantasy, this is right up your alley. ![]() His writing style is epic, even if the tone is dark and somber. In particular (and I shared this on Instagram) Moorcock’s descriptions are amazing. Without spoiling the story, I will say that the book, as a whole, was compelling and well-written. There was the resurrection of a dead god, the cruel death of a character in an inevitable way, and the confrontation between the Lords of Chaos and Lords of Order. This book was actually four short stories bonded into a single narrative.Įach of the four arcs felt pretty disconnected, but had several stand out moments. I knew, going into it, that I was missing some pieces of the story. Stormbringer is the last book in terms of the chronology of the Elric series. Not the version I own, but similar to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reinforced by Saunders’s ability to mimic the inanities of American speech in dialogue, this adept orchestration of voices and language practices is frequently a source of pleasure in itself. Above all, the stories are often very funny, so that even if we remain uncertain how to interpret the narratives’ mutated reality, we can still enjoy their oddities, especially as conveyed through Saunders’s deadpan, understated style, which can assimilate the most stilted, bureaucratic jargon with the most colloquial, slang-ridden expressions, often in the same paragraph or even the same sentence. Although his stories are to first-time readers no doubt a little puzzling, requiring that we accommodate ourselves to their surrealistic settings and premises, ultimately they are puzzling in an entertaining way, the settings and events just off-kilter enough to provoke the reader’s curiosity, the premises and actions just outrageous enough that we find their departures from established reality both disconcerting and surprisingly tangent to existing conditions of that reality. It is not so hard to understand why readers and reviewers would find the fiction of George Saunders appealing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This room wasn’t used very often so she didn’t always attend to it, but the parson had made a special request for her to get it looking extra nice, and she had taken to the task with her customary diligence. His housekeeper, a Mrs Rosemary Chapman, was going about her business in the guest bedroom on the top floor – wiping surfaces, vacuuming, and humming as she went. Though the parson was not at home, his third of the building was neither empty nor quiet. In spite of its greater size (five bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to the estate agent’s particulars), the part now in private ownership had been given the modest name of Parsonage Cottage. It continued to fulfil its job of sheltering its parson from the elements, while the other two-thirds had been sold off. A few years earlier, for reasons to do with money, the third of the building closest to the church had, with some internal bricking-up, been discreetly separated from the rest. Its fortunes had declined though, and its latest incumbent had been the first to suffer its new incarnation as a semi-detached dwelling. A list of their names could be found engraved on a wooden board inside the church. A handsome brick building of three storeys, it had been built on the site of a previous, smaller church house and had been accommodating parsons for more than two hundred years. Peter’s church, a yew tree and a grave-spattered lawn separating the two. When viewed from the village green, as it tended to be, the parsonage stood to the right-hand side of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() In ‘Salem’s Lot, successful author Ben Mears comes to the small town of Jerusalem’s Lot and comes face to face with the local rubes. Which is probably why he so often writes about college graduates struggling in blue collar environments. ![]() I’m sure to him he remembers vividly what it was like to be 23 and struggling, but the truth is he’s been the most popular author on the planet for three times as long as he was a “starving artist.” The problem is that he’s a college educated, classically trained writer, and he's been a household name and fabulously wealthy since he was in his late-20’s. ![]() He likes rock and roll, blue chambray work shirts*, has stayed married to the same woman all these years, lives in the same house in the same town, and populates his literary work with endless blue collar characters. Despite also being one of the most successful authors ever, King protects his image as a lucky bastard milltown boy with everything he can muster. Stephen King is one of the most aggressively blue collar authors ever. ![]() ![]() Most of the browsers support the use of Cookies. ![]() Cookies will store details of the website's browsing behaviour and what is frequently chosen by you and your browser. Texts contained in Cookies typically consist of identifiable data, website’s name and some numbers and texts. ![]() Cookies will be stored in your browser when you visit that website in which Cookies’ content can be retrieved or read only by the server that created such Cookies and such content will be sent back to the original website of each visit. 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Originally published in 1932 and for decades since one of Stefan Zweig’s most popular biographies, this “portrait of an average woman,” betrothed at fourteen, crowned queen at nineteen, and beheaded at thirty-seven, aimed “not to deify, but to humanize.” Supplementing library and archival research with psychological insight, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a vivid narrative of France’s most famous queen, her relations with her mother Empress Maria Theresa, her husband Louis XVI, and her lover Swedish Count von Fersen, set against the backdrop of the French and Austrian courts of the *ancien régime*, the French Revolution and the Terror. Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter 186,000 words, 14 illustrations) Originally published in 1932 and for decades since one of Stefan Zweig’s most popular biographies, this portrait of an average woman, betrothed at fourteen, crowned queen at nineteen, and beheaded at thirty-seven, aimed not to deify, but to humanize. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The men are not being charged with a crime, but are being held for purposes of national security. Finally, Yuki’s father informs the family that he is being sent to an internment camp with other Japanese-American men. Eventually, the remaining family members are let go, but Yuki’s father does not return, and they have no news of him for a week. Within a few hours of the attacks, FBI agents arrive to arrest Yuki’s father and detain the rest of the family in their home. ![]() When the family hears about the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, they are shocked and worried about the future of the United States. The main character, eleven-year-old Yuki Sakane, lives with her father, mother, and older brother, Ken. Journey to Topaz is a fictional work heavily based on the time Uchida spent at a camp in Topaz, Utah. Uchida was a Japanese-American who, along with her family, survived internment in a US prison camp during World War II. Journey to Topaz is a 1971 young adult novel by Yoshiko Uchida. ![]() |