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We, Monsieur de Montigny, Davion, and myself, went by land to the house of the Reverend Jesuit Fathers while our people remained behind. We found there Reverend Father Pinet and Reverend Father Binneteau, who had recently arrived from the Illinois country and was slightly ill. I cannot describe to you, my lord, with what cordiality and manifestations of friendship these Reverend Fathers received and embraced us while we had the consolation of residing with them.
Their house is built on the bank of a small river, with the lake on one side and a fine and vast prairie on the other. The village of the savages contains over a hundred and fifty cabins, and a league up the river is still another village almost as large. They are all Miamis. Reverend Father Pinet usually resides there except in winter, when the savages are all engaged in hunting, and then he goes to the Illinois.
We saw no savages there; they had already started for their hunt. If one may judge of the future from the short time that Reverend Father Pinet has passed in this mission, we may believe that if God will bless the labors and the zeal of that holy missionary there will be a great number of good and fervent Christians. It is true that but slight results are obtained with reference to the older persons, who are hardened in profligacy, but all the children are baptized, and the jugglers even, who are the most opposed to Christianity, allow their children to be baptized.
They are also very glad to let them be instructed. Several girls of a certain age and also many young boys have already been and are being instructed, so that we may hope that when the old stock dies off, they will be a new and entirely Christian people. In Frank Reed Grover, used Shea's translation to propose that the mission had not actually been located at Chicago, but rather further north on the north branch of the Chicago River, near Skokie, Illinois.
Mission de l'Ange Gardien was a 17th-century Jesuit mission in the vicinity of what is now Chicago, Illinois. Background In the 17th century the Chicago area was inhabited by a number of Algonquian peoples, including the Mascouten and Miami tribes, who had migrated into northern Illinois and Wisconsin as a result of the Beaver Wars. Icon of a guardian angel Guardian Angel by Pietro da Cortona, A guardian angel is an angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group, kingdom, or country.
Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity. The concept of angels that guard over particular people and nationalities played a common role in Ancient Judaism, while a theory of tutelary angels and their hierarchy was extensively developed in Christianity in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many refinements since the 5th century.
Belief in both the East and the West is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to,[1] and present prayer to God on that person's behalf. In the books of the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament The guardian angel concept is present in the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and its development is well marked. These books described God's angels as his ministers The church design "is reminiscent of the early Romanesque sculpture at the abbey of Moissac.
Both churches have a scalloped profile that seems to incorporate a bit of Moorish influence. Both the human and animal forms are treated with the same incredible flexibility The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the s is identified as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court. Point du Sable was of African descent but little else is known of his life prior to the s. During his career, the areas where he settled and traded around the Great Lakes and in the Illinois Country changed hands several times among France, Britain, Spain and the new United States.
In , during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British military In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and humanity. Such angels are given specific names or titles, Louis, Missouri dedicated to empowering the disadvantaged through an array of programs which include family services, a food pantry, senior citizen support, and developmental childcare. Its mission is "to serve those living in poverty by helping them improve the quality of their lives and become economically independent.
The agency serves over 7, children, families and senior citizens each year through emergency services at its Hosea House location and with licensed, accredited child care at its Child Development Center. History Founded in by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, as an orphanage for young girls Guardian Angel Settlement Association is one of the longest-enduring charitable organizations in the St.
In the s Daisy E. Nirdlinger conducted business w It has been aired since on TF1 France. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and her magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears by snapping her fingers. Josephine Delamarre Season 1 Episode 1: Le miroir aux enfants Director: Philippe Niang Original Air Date: December 15, Casting: She would like to stop the competition but her mother does not want to listen. Season 2 Episode 2: The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort Dearborn during the War of , and a new fort was constructed on the same site in By , the fort had been de-commissioned.
Parts of the fort were lost to both the widening of the Chicago River in , and a fire in Background Diagram of the first Fort Dearborn Historic events The history of human activity in the Chicago area prior to the arrival of European explorers is mostly unknown. In , an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Po Guardian Angels School[2] School District , a pre-K to 8th grade private school, is affiliated with this church. Faribault invited Father Augustine Ravoux to establish a mission among the Sioux Indians in what would become the town of Chaska.
Ravoux built a small log chapel and named the parish St. Francis Xavier, but dismantled the chapel three years later when the Native Americans saw the European immigration as a threat, and in turn threatened to burn the chapel down. The chapel was sold to German Cat In some places, the feast is observed on the first Sunday in September with the permission of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Catholics set up altars in honor of guardian angels as early as the 4th Century, and local celebrations of a feast in honor of guardian angels go back to the 11th Century.
History Devotion to the angels is an ancient tradition which the Christian Church inherited from Judaism. The papal decree establishing the feast was cosigned by Robert Bellarmine, which has led some scholars to speculate Michael by Raphael, 16th century St. Saint Michael the Archangel is referenced in the Old Testament and has been part of Christian teachings since the earliest times. The feast day of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael is September From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watch Raphael performs all manners of healing according to all Abrahamic religions.
Medieval French rabbi, author and Tanakh Hebrew Bible commentator Rashi views Raphael as being one of the three angels that appeared to Abraham in the oak grove of Mamre in the Book of Genesis. Raphael was generally associated with the angel mentioned in the Gospel of John as stirring the water at the healing pool of Bethesda. Raphael is also an angel in Mormonism, as he is briefly mentioned in the Doctrine and Covenants. However, the focus later expands to other characters, such as James' sister Lauren and several other characters who work alongside him and in separate missions.
The tailor's Jewish faith--or lack thereof--is challenged when a man calling himself Alexander Levine Harry Belafonte enters his life, claiming to be his guardian angel. Levine claims he must make the tailor believe in his mission, or fail to earn his angelic wings. The story was adapted by Emmy-nominated writer Ronald Ribman and Bill Gunn, who had scripted the satire The Landlord , "a well-received and complex examination of American race relations". Pays des Illinois, lit. While these names generally referred to the entire Upper Mississippi River watershed, French colonial settlement was concentrated along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in what is now the U.
It was settled primarily from the Pays d'en Haut in the context of the fur trade. Over time, the fur trade took some French to the far reaches of the Rocky Mountains, especially along the branches of the broad Missouri River valley. The French name, Pays des Illinois, mea Since its introduction in late , the series has presented Christian-based storylines through 3D animation provided by the LA based Backyard Digital Studios.
The movie is intended for viewers aged six and older. The protagonists are Biblical and fictional angels. The series is a departure from the traditional version of angels such as envisioned by Gustave Dore; the almost mech-armoured angels in this series are more futuristic, with fantastical chariot vehicles and glowing weaponry. They depart by spreading their wings and flying down to Earth where they battle demonic fallen angels that seek to corrupt humanity. The student angels Anawi The diaries were authored by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as the book's editor.
A United States edition was published by Thomas Dunne Books on May 13, ,[1] although this edition has no subtitle. The second volume of the series, Secret Servant: Plot introduction The first diary fills in the gaps between a number of agent 's missions including the period between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, but also includes an entire backstory for Moneypenny.
For the first time since Fleming intr Site of Chicagou on the lake, in Guillaume de L'Isle's map Paris, Flag of Chicago The history of Chicago, Illinois, has played a central role in American economic, cultural and political history and since the 's has been one of the most dominant Midwest metropolises. The area's recorded history begins with the arrival of French explorers, missionaries and fur traders in the late 17th century and their interaction with the local Pottawatomie Native Americans. There were small settlements and a U. Army fort, but the soldiers and settlers were all driven off in The modern city was incorporated in by Northern businessmen and grew rapidly from real estate speculation and the realization that it had a commanding position in the emerging inland transportation network, based on lake traffic and railroads, controlling access from the Great Lakes into the Mississippi River basin.
Despite a fire in that destroyed the Central Business District, the city grew exponentially, becoming the n The competition was named for the pararescuemen and combat rescue officers known as the "Guardian Angel Weapon System. Akira Ishida He is one of the two fallen angels that broke free from his imprisonment in hell and begins to cause the disappearance of the guardian angels on earth. He has red hair and 2 bands across his forehead. Zeus gave him the ability to heal with his lips, when he became a Saint Beast. Hikaru Midorikawa He is one of the two fallen angels that broke free from his imprisonment in hell and begins to cause the disappearance of the guardian angels on earth.
Zeus gave him the ability to read minds with his fingertips, when he became a Saint Beast. He is very close to Suzaku no Rey and he has the ability to fly his wings is pure white in color with a shade Edward Michael Grylls born 7 June , better known as Bear Grylls, is a British former SAS serviceman, survival instructor, and honorary lieutenant-colonel, and, outside his military career, an adventurer, writer, television presenter and businessman.
He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild — , originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for the United Kingdom release. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July , Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at age 35,[6] a post he has held for a second term since At the same time Christian colonization of some areas outside Europe succeeded, driven by economic as well as religious reasons.
Christian traders were heavily involved in the Atlantic slave trade, which had the effect of transporting Africans into Christian communities. A land war between Christianity and Islam continued, in the form of the campaigns of the Habsburg Empire and Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, a turning point coming at Vienna in Annunciation of Gabriel by Jan van Eyck, It was first described in the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently developed by other traditions.
Gabriel the archangel is also a character in other ancient Jewish writings such as the Book of Enoch. Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending this people against the angels of the other nations. This timeline of Christian missions chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most significant missionary outreach events.
Apostolic Age Earliest dates must all be considered approximate 33 — Great Commission of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations;[1] Pentecost, a day in which Jews from a variety of Mediterranean Basin nations are converted to faith in Jesus Christ. Starring Nadine Samonte in the title role, it premiered on November 15, The series concluded on April 25, with a total of 24 episodes.
Overview Every week, the show features different guest stars with different plots. In the story, there are three types of angels: Pauleen, a blue angel, acts as Abby's guide whenever she has to go down and aid the mortals, and in the process, teaching her all about life.
Pegg came to public prominence in Britain as the co-creator of the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, directed by Edgar Wright. Pegg went on to co-write and star in the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy: He and Nick Frost wrote and starred in the sci-fi film Paul Pegg portrays Benji Dunn in the Mission: The storyline is continued in a three episode sequel series, Angel Blade Punish! The first series was released in the U. Also, based on the first series, the doujin videogame company Digi Anime released an eroge visual novel of Angel Blade in Humans live in 99 cities above the smog, while the surface be Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E.
Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law Philip to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia has already married Gino and becomes pregnant again. She gives birth to These special operations units are also used to support NASA missions and have been used to recover astronauts after water landings.
They are attached to other SOF teams from all branches to conduct other operations as appropriate. Of the roughly Air Force Cross recipients, only 24 are enlisted rank, of which 12 are Pararescuemen. Part of the little-known Air Force Special Operations community[5] and long an enlisted preserve, the Pararescue service expanded to include Combat Rescue Officers early in the 21st century. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Prior to 19th century It is abandoned four years later. Conflicts develop between French traders and the Fox tribe of Native Americans.
The story follows the peaceful alien invasion[1] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book began with his short story "Guardian Angel" , which he expanded into a novel in , incorporating it as the first part of the book, "Earth and the Overlords".
Completed and published in , Childhood's End sold out its first printing, received good reviews and became Clarke's first successful novel. The book is often regarded by both readers and critics as Clarke's best novel[2] and is described as "a classic of alien literature". Several attempts to adapt the novel into a film or Guardian resembles an earlier Kirby and Simon character Captain America first published 13 months earlier by Marvel Comics where he had no super powers and carried an indestructible shield.
He is the alter-ego of the comic book character Jimmy Olsen played by Mehcad Brooks. Cover of Star-Spangled Comics vol. He was trained to fighting conditio Kyla Alissa Pratt born September 16, is an American actress and musician. After playing the daughter of Eddie Murphy's character in the films Dr. Dolittle 2, Pratt became the main character in the remake series of the franchise such as Dr. Tail to the Chief, and Dr. She has also played in the series Let's Stay Together. She gave birth to another daughter, Liyah Kirk Legend of the Guardians: Plot Soren Jim Sturgess , a young barn owl, lives in the forest of Tyto with his family: Air Rescue Service formed new squadrons, which replaced existing flights of the old squadrons.
It was briefly in Angel is a member of a subspecies of humans known as mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. The character originally possesses a pair of large feathered wings extending from his back, enabling him to fly. He is the heir of the Worthington family fortune, and this privileged background results in Warren being stereotyped as self-absorbed and unable to deal with hardships during his early years with the X-Men. This personality was ultimately replaced with a more introspective and brooding personality in the late s, when the character was changed into the darker "Archangel" persona.
While Angel's wings were originally feathered, his transition to Archangel resulted in metallic wings The character played prominent roles in the comic book storylines "Annihilation" and "Annihilation: He became the leader of the space-based superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy in the relaunch of the comic of the same name. He has been featured in a variety of associated Marvel merchandise, including animated television series, toys and trading cards.
He will also reprise the role in Ave Fairphone is a social enterprise company which aims to develop smartphones that are designed and produced with minimal environmental impact. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands and was supported in its startup phase by the Waag Society, a foundation which aims to foster experimentation with new technologies, art and culture. Fairphone was founded to develop a mobile device that does not contain conflict minerals which in smartphones are typically gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten , has fair labour conditions for the workforce along the supply chain producing it and help people to use their phone longer.
The second version of the company's device is one of the first modular smartphones available for purchase — designed to be easily repaired and upgraded. Fairphone was founded by Bas van Abel as a social enterprise company in January , having existed as a campaign for two and a ha The name has become associated with a myth that the French continuously maintained a military garrison at a fort near the mouth of the Chicago River, and the future site of the city of Chicago on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.
All the ones about Israel, Palestine and Syria, pretty much. I can't get my head around the scale of the killing in Syria. On a happier note, Rebecca and the Queen of Nations is on order at Wellington library - thanks for alerting me to the series. Sounds perfect for us.
Teresa is racing through the Rainbow Magics now - we have 22 out at the moment - and I am trying to sneak a bit of variety in but mostly failing! Mainly set at the end of WWII, the story revolves around a dysfunctional family, a husband and wife who don't get on at all, their son on the cusp of adulthood who is scared to take any risks, and a daughter who embraces risks. Both are products of their upbringing. It's a study of character rather than an action packed plot.
The contrast between Alan with his girlfriend, their relationship already seeped in restrained normality and Madge, the younger sister, sneaking out to meet a German POW who she has fallen in love with makes this an interesting read. The book was recently reissued by Virago and there is a nice little write up on it here.
Apparantly Bainbridge based the story on her own family. Can't resist adding the final sentence from gaskella's review: Sep 2, , 2: My trip there was in , and regardless of the government, the people were incredibly friendly and welcoming. Curious in a good way and immensely hospitable. Rather than bombing the country and creating more casualties and refugees, I'm in favor of taking what we would have spent on that and putting it into support, direct and indirect, for the refugees. We should know how destabilizing large refugee populations are, and given the location of the country, how much greater the risk is.
Quite apart from the humanitarian issue. Sadly, there will be more support for bombing than humanitarian aid in government circles. I agree re the difficulty commenting on an audiobook is a factor - I can't bookmark something that strikes my fancy as readily. On the other hand, it forces me to go more slowly than I do when I read, so I catch the tiniest details. Sep 2, , 4: Stephanie - it is a bit of a mission visiting everyone's threads and trying to dodge book bullets!
Cushla - What I like about the NZ Girl series is that they are under pages so are quick reads but if the first one is anything to go on, they should convert a few readers over to historical fiction. I'm happy to recommend books on the Middle East that I come across that I think are worthwhile.
Quite a bit of selective referencing going on to make history fit a viewpoint. I find the politics of all this as interesting as the history itself. Suzanne - I agree with you about looking after the refugees, there doesn't seem to be a side to back now that international jihadists are in the fighting. Apart from terrible human cost of these conflicts, there is so much destruction of sites of cultural importance. I just read a YA novel that starts with the Taliban dynamiting the Buddhas, so depressing. I'm looking forward to reading some fiction set in Syria to get a feel for the people and the place.
The closest I got to Syria was standing on the Golan Heights and looking across to the border, though that was so long ago. Your current reading is mightily impressive Kerry. I bought The Luminaries today and it is odd pages in a large format which is a challenge alone, Penman is on the shelves at nearly the same length and the others are hardly light reading either.
Congratulations on your latest thread and your opening on Syria and its displaced children is sobering indeed. The British voted not to involve militarily which I think is, on balance, probably the right decision as it will make a bad situation worse and allow the wrongdoers the distraction of foreign interlopers to smudge and fudge the reason for their involvement, but we need to be pushing the UN to start fulfilling the role it was set up to do. Hi Kerry- Congrats on the new thread.
The Syrian situation is absolutely heart-breaking. I hope to get to that one too! I'm so glad you started a new thread. It allows me to jump in without feeling I have to wait until I have time to read all the old messages. I'm looking forward to reading Broken Homes but my library doesn't have it. What is up with that? Congrats on the new thread, Kerry.
Good for you for spotlighting forgotten victims in the Syria mess. I'm another one who is lining up a read of The Luminaries after the positive LTer comments. I liked the Gormenghast Trilogy when I was a young guy. I also read the Gormenghast Trilogy many years ago. I considered rereading it with the group read--but it hasn't happened!
I wish I had a better system.. I've now read 3 Bainbridge books this year and will definitely be going on to read more. This was historical fiction set between and While the book is about Master Georgie, the story is told by 3 narrators who are involved with his life in different ways. The book starts out in Liverpool but moves on to a Crimean War setting.
Georgie's interest in photography is part of the story and the book is divided into six plates rather than parts. You never quite pin down the essence of Georgie as you are more seeing him as each narrator sees him. I won't blather on and will point you to rebeccanyc 's eloquent review on the book page. This won several awards and was also longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Bainbridge was famous for being the Booker Bridesmaid, shortlisted five times without ever winning, and in Master Georgie won a public vote for the 'Best of Beryl' Booker.
Paul, I'm enjoying The Luminaries and as I'm nearing the halfway point it is much easier to hold. The Penman will have to wait till I clear a few others such as Gormenghast and a couple of library books. Mark, the Catton book is great so far. I've been to the town it's set in though there were no longer the number of pubs there as in the times of the goldrush. Hi Lisa - long time since I came across you on LT, did you go on a trip? I'm enjoying Bainbridge and will keep reading her books.
Morphi, Broken Homes has just come out, I requested from the library months ago so was in the five in the long queue for the book. Joe, I'm really enjoying Gormenghast , the characters are so despicable, grotesque and the language is wonderful. It's a slow read but a good one. So glad I took the plunge this year, it's one from my 'bucket list'.
Roni, I'm finding it a slow read but enjoying it, the writing is so descriptive. I'm not usually up to reading 3 in a row like this. I'm hearing that book 3 isn't up to the standard of the first two books. From the library sale table today: I love the library sale table! Up a tree in the park at night with a hedgehog is a great title. I would buy it for that reason alone. I'll look forward to seeing what you think. I'm just getting back into the LT groove and trying to catch up on threads.
It's hard to get hit by so many book bullets at once. Lisa - sounds like you've been really busy. Three weeks in France would have been lovely. My 6 year Thingaversary is in a couple of days. I'll probably put a book on pre-order and get a text for a Coursera course I'll be taking next year. Yesterday I received a few used books that I'll count towards this and maybe think about a couple of others: A History - Anita Shapira Considering: Slow Reading in a Hurried Age by David Mikics - looks interesting but at this stage I'll wait for reviews to come in Swedish Folk Tales by Polly Lawson - illustrations are by John Bauer and gingerbreadman just alerted me to this iconic Swedish artist.
I've been interested in Citizens for awhile, and I would have bought it several years ago if I wasn't daunted by its size. I have another of his books, Landscape and Memory which looks to be very good but I never pull it off the shelf. You can find out about Coursera here. I found out about it here on the LT threads, it's free online learning offered by prestigious universities around the world. Tel Aviv University has just signed on and is offering a couple of interesting ones and I decided to do their 'The Emergence of the Modern Middle East' course.
Thank you for sharing the links. So your class begins in March? It looks very interesting. If I can, I may join you. It would be great to have 'company', I couldn't resist that particular course and there's plenty of time to get some reading done as well. Morrigan caught a young rabbit this morning, ate half of it and left the body on our patio, then crashed out on a sofa Kerry - La Bainbridge will be back on my own agenda soon too. Surprising that she never won the Booker really. Smiled at your bulging biceps being generated by Ms. Catton 's work and note that your training programm is on windown now that you are on the home stretch.
Interesting buys and intended buys. I should read the Begin biog too as he is a controversial figure in the UK due to his activities pre-Camp David. Have a lovely weekend. It's a memoir of growing up in Afghanistan in the years following the departure of Soviet troops, which is fascinating and engaging. At one point, the narrator and his family, having decamped from Kabul in a futile attempt to seek a quieter place with family, end up actually living INSIDE one of the caves behind the eye of one of the Buddhas. Sep 7, , 1: I read a great article by Gordis about him recently in an Israeli newspaper which looked back over his many years in Opposition and then PM.
I know he wasn't a favourite of the British due to his Mandate activities. His The Revolt makes interesting reading. Suzanne - I took note of that title when you read it and have seen it on display in a bookshop here. The book I read also talked about the people living in the caves behind the statue.
Kerry - I love that picture of Morrigan - it's hilarious! And I've heard it said that rabbit's not that filling I'm gonna definitely keep an eye out for the Begin biog too. He was unquestionably a controversial figure in Israel's history, but his importance can't be denied. Pioneer of Revisionist Zionism in pre-WW2 Poland, fleeing just days after the German invasion, Soviet 'prisoner-of-war' in Siberia, Irgun commander in British-controlled Palestine terrorist or freedom fighter?
That's a debate for perhaps another day Thanks also for mentioning The Revolt - I need to fill a 'Begin gap' in my reading on Israel and this looks like one worth wishlisting. I've also added White Nights. Have also been eyeing up The Luminaries Got a big laugh at the picture of Morrigan post feast. He's quite the cat lout. We've noticed his preference for stretched out poses but that one sure made us laugh.
I could only think "What a kangaroo pose. His nickname is 'the beast'. Morphi - no litterboxes here and the carcass disappeared so no clean up of that either thank goodness. Paul - I'm very much looking forward to it. I should reread The Revolt , it's been many years since I read it. Alex - I could finish it today, just need to stop spring cleaning the house. I wanted to support Victoria University Press so bought my copy direct from them and was surprised to get a signed copy. Still heavy though, and i'm trying as I read not to crease the spine.
Brenda - he's turning out to be a great cat. What a classic photo! I sneakily ordered The Luminaries from Book Depo, on a whim the other day: Read a book set in a British Commonwealth Country prior to Catton introduces us to her twelve players and through their stories we find a mystery involving lost and found gold, opium, shipwrecks, forgery etc etc. I enjoyed the wide variety of characters she used especially the Chinese focus that is sometimes overlooked in stories about the goldrush. She has structured the story around the Zodiac, attributing each of the main characters a Zodiac sign, this does not need to be understood to follow the plot.
I'm inclined now that I've finished and know the characters and their motivations to look at each one from this astrological perspective. She also structures the book around a diminishing length of each part and chapter, so while the first part is almost half the book, the last 12th part is only one page. I loved Catton's debut novel The rehearsal and have been waiting for a few years for this one to come out, yes the wait was well worth it. This is a wonderful New Zealand novel, she evokes the times really well.
Last year I read a lot of the same online newspaper archives PapersPast that Catton used for research as I was researching my family history in the s Nelson hotel industry. It's amazing how many hotels these small towns had. I'm hoping this makes the Booker Prize shortlist, though as I've only read one other from the longlist, The Testament of Mary , I'm basing my hope on my reading from other Booker years. This book is getting lots of buzz and yours is the second or third rave review I've read.
I just wish it wasn't so long! I know, suck it up cupcake. Great to get your take on The Luminaries Kerry. It's on my wishlist.
That's a really helpful review of The Luminaries , Kerry. I wasn't quite getting what it was all about, although I knew LTers were enthusiastic about it. I'm motivated to try to figure out a time to read it now. I'm going to launch into it soon The Luminaries , I mean The Luminaries is definitely the short list book that appeals the most. Hearing such good things about it. Nice review of The Luminaries , Kerry.
I'm glad that you also enjoyed it. Thanks for all your comments on The Luminaries , I'm so pleased that it made the shortlist. I finished Gormenghast this morning so will be reading a few library books now. I have Broken Homes and Black Friday: CHERUB at home and both have enormous queues so I'll feel good about getting them back to the library asap, I also have a slow reading nonfiction on the go. I've started listening to Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh which is holding my interest, I should be listening to Battle for Spain but I had to reset my iPod and ended up losing a lot of audiobooks.
I'm really pleased about The Luminaries making the shortlist too. I have it out of the library at the moment reserved it ages ago but if I like it I will probably buy my own copy. Last time I did that with NZ fiction it was The Forrests and I gave up after pages and haven't gone back to it - I am sure this will be different!!
Sep 11, , 9: I'm so pleased that I've finally tackled Peake's work, and this second book is truly inspired. It covers Titus as he grows from schoolboy into manhood and uncovers more aspects of life in the castle with a focus on the professors who attempt to teach or avoid teaching the young boys of Gormenghast. Steerpike also continues in his ambitious quest for power. Peake's world is quite unlike anything I've come across, the language and descriptive passages are just wonderful, Dickenesque?
The overwhelming theme of this book is Titus and his ongoing dilemma of being the 77th Earl and the Gormenghast traditions and rituals that that implies over his individual desire for freedom. I've read on the group read thread that the third book, Titus Alone is fairly weak as Peake was unwell when writing it and at half the length of the other two, he was not able to pull off a work of brilliance.
He had planned a series of volumes. I'm looking forward to reading book 3 for all that. Parkinson's disease and Peake's ensuing death at age 57 prevented him from writing down more than a few hundred words and ideas for further volumes. Read a book that is ninth or higher in a series. As I said when 14 came out last year, I love Muchamore's series for teen readers. They are all action packed thrillers involving highly trained children and teenagers going under cover to help solve crime. Muchamore has a new series coming out next year, 'Rock Wars' Pleased to see that The Luminaries made the shortlist and that you enjoyed the exercise of reading it.
Have a lovely Sunday. Pretty cool looking bookshop in France -. I am trying not to jump in right now on The Luminaries but it's getting harder and harder not to give in to temptation. There's also a library somewhere about that looks like a bunch of books, too. I think maybe it's in Kansas? Hey, I was close! It had Kansas in the name.
This is the first in The Sword of Honour trilogy and I'm very much looking forward to reading the other two books. I have an omnibus of the trilogy that has sat on Mt tbr for too long so was pleased to get a headstart with the audiobook. He opened the literary cafe, Tmol Shilshom , in in Jerusalem, named after one of the works of S.
Agnon , Israel's only Nobel Laureate. Ehrlich has had numerous short stories published in English and two short story collections published in Hebrew. This book finally pulls together some of his translated work in one volume, what is possibly unusual is that there are a variety of translators.
I enjoyed all these stories of life in contemporary Israel. While some were only a couple of pages long others covered more ground. Some were wistful, others humorous. The first story 'To the Limit' is a 'fun' road rage story. His bookstore-cafe in Jerusalem, Tmol-Shilshom, is a haven for avant garde artists and writers, hosting readings by authors such as David Grossman, Etgar Keret, and A.
Thank you for taking the time to include the links and photos of Tmol Shilshom. One note about milium, or Israeli reserve duty, it's not just men, is it? I believe women also serve until the age of 38 or the birth of their first child. According to the JC online, the age ceiling has been lowered and men now serve until age 40 and officers 45? It's such a foreign concept for me as an American to wrap my mind around.
I wonder what sort of exceptions they give? It certainly puts my ill humor about my recent jury duty into perspective. Hi Lisa - thanks for the info on miluim, I was lazy and took the info from a wikipedia page that probably wasn't up to date. It is a long term commitment which is why secular Israelis get annoyed that the Haredi don't serve in the IDF. I know that one of my husband's friends got out of army service by living on salted water or something for a few days and failing the medical.
I got called for jury service about a year ago, luckily I only spent a morning there and didn't get selected. My son served on a murder trial and dropped out of uni for a semester because of it. Wow Kerry - good on him for doing that but I don't think that should be expected! Jury service has become worse now that you can't be excused. Instead you have to nominate a time when you can serve.
Students are finding that really difficult. I have the Luminaries but haven't cracked it open. Too scared of the sizemaybe over Christmas?? However I've just recently been given a copy of Into the River so I'll get on to reading it this weekend! The issue of the numbers of haredi in the IDF and civilian service is currently pretty heated. It's interesting how it differs from US perspectives. Here the question is one of religious freedom, for instance in the last draft Quakers getting to be medics rather than soldiers because it was against their religious beliefs to fight.
It's not that they are opposed to fighting, per se. That must have been tough on your son. I am fortunate in that it was my first time being called, and I too was released after only a few hours. On the other hand, someone has to do it if we are to maintain our current system of "jury by peers" which I have issues with, but still It probably would have been better if I had served and let someone like your son off. Not that I complained about being able to go home.
Read a book containing one element author, location, theme, etc. This is the 4th Peter Grant book and another good contender. I'm enjoying these but won't go into any details just suggest that you start at the beginning. Now I must tackle the latest Lee Child as I'm sure whoever is next in line at the library will want me to get it read asap. It seems that the book has been banned in libraries in North Carolina, Randolph County. What a strange world we live in. Hi Kerry, great to see your bullet on Who will die last: It's on my wishlist as it neatly fits my niche Venn diagram centre section of short stories, contemporary Israel, and fiction in translation.
I think I'll enjoy at least some of the stories. Well worth a visit for any book lovers who are visiting the city for a first time or any time for that matter and need a break from all the holy stuff The wonderful Agnon book that it takes its name from is translated in English as " Only Yesterday ", but the phrase is Hebrew for literally "yesterday, the day before yesterday", and is often used colloquially in a sort of "back then" or "ages ago" sort of a way As for 'miluim' army reserves - usually women don't do it at all.
A female soldier would only do reserves if they had a very specific role that not many others would do in the regular army - for example: Some poor souls - usually Doctors and medics - would do more, maybe even 8 weeks a year.
Men and women are all drafted at age 18, but it's generally easier for women to get an exemption if they are a married, or b ultra-orthodox. Though the attitude towards the latter exemption is in flux in recent years. Similarly, male conscripts are often exempted at 18 if they are enrolled in intense religious studies - though this too is in flux with the latest coalition and has understandably always been contentious.
But some orthodox Jews do serve, and I can attest that when I was a drill sergeant in my latter days in the service, some of my best recruits and the most self-disciplined young men were those soldiers who managed to hold together their strict religious observances AND manage to get through army training with their sanity intact - no mean feat!
This is 18 in the Jack Reacher series. Nothing literary here, just good escapist fare.
Sep 25, , 9: This is the first in the Omar Yussef series set in Bethlehem. His sense of justice is stirred when a former pupil, a decent and caring Palestinian Christian man is arrested on the charge of collaborating with the Israelis. As he makes his own enquiries into the first killing that instigated the charge, Yussef is protected by the fact that he is known as a decent man and from a strong clan.
As the former TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief from until , Rees has been able to bring the reader a great insight into the tensions in this Palestinian town between the various clans and also between Muslim and Christian Palestinians. I was also interested in this book as I have hazy memories of visiting Bethlehem back in about when it was a much safer and friendlier place than it has become since the Oslo Accords.
I didn't realise that you were in the IDF, thanks for doing your bit to keep Israel safe. I hope you enjoy the Ehrlich and only wish that I'd visited his cafe on my last trip there. Read a book with one word of an apple variety in the book title. One that I struggled to read and can't say I enjoyed it that much.
The main character was difficult to like and that started to sum up how I felt about the whole book. I've really enjoyed her other work so won't hold this one against her. Hartnett gives us a classically constructed, cultured novel that achieves the rare feat of bringing history to life. When two girls in wartime England connect with a much older, ghostly legend, strong characters and skilful storytelling make for an easy suspension of disbelief. They also enable the author to weave more contemporary themes of war and social difference into a compelling, rewarding narrative.
It sounds like "compelling" and "rewarding" are not the adjectives you would choose to describe this book. Hi Kerry Way behind on the threads, I'm stopping by to say hello. I really enjoyed The Collaborator of Bethlehem when I read it and had forgotten the series till I read your review. I must get the next one out of the library. Tmol Shilshom looks fantastic! Sep 30, , 8: Lisa - I think her YA writing was outstanding and expected to enjoy this one but the main character was a very annoying girl and while it was a realistic portrait I found it coloured my reading of the book.
The 'legend' was around the two princes from the tower. Cushla - I'm keen to continue with the series too though my current push is to read my own books and I'm letting library books mostly take a backseat. I'm going through a very slow reading phase so library books that I'm interested to read almost always seem to be on the cusp of their return dates with no renewals possible.
I've given up on reading the Syrian fiction as I've struggled with so much fiction of late. I'll probably stick to nonfiction and crime novels for a while. That said have just been thoroughly entertained by the ridiculous Fortunately, the milk by Neil Gaiman. Pirates, wumpires, time travel, space bullies etc etc. The illustrations add much to the reading pleasure of this tale. Includes a foldout middle section. Read a book by an author that is on LT's Top 75 Authors list. Cushla - Teresa might enjoy David Walliams books, his latest is 'Demon Dentist', lots of humour and great illustrations.
I took the plunge and bought a kindle touch on trademe last week as I found that I wanted to read the numerous e-books I've downloaded on my kindle app to iPad but have to share the iPad with the rest of the family. Fortunately, the milk will probably be in demand, I put my name down for it at the library a few months ago.
I'm in the queue for Rose Under Fire at the library. Fortunately, the Milk sounds awesome!! I might buy it for my niece and do a sneaky read first. Oct 1, , 2: A short but beautifully illustrated retelling of the Bible story, David and Goliath. This time the story is told from Goliath's POV and Gauld draws a sympathetic portrait of a simple Goliath who would rather be in camp doing admin than out on patrol. By far the star of this book is the artwork, it is quite stunning - simple and spare using a brown palette.
Lisa - I'm looking forward to picking it up in the next couple of days. Yes, Lisa, this Gaiman would make a lovely present for an emergent reader. Alex - you could probably read this one in the bookshop. I'd love to see the US version. I keep finding things to put on my wish list. Stephanie - thanks for visiting despite all the book bullets! At least Goliath will only take about 30 mins of your time. I didn't know Gaiman wrote children's stories. Oct 2, , 5: Morphy - Also Odd and the Frost Giants and he's done a few picturebooks as well. Oct 20, , 2: No extensive list of planned reads for October I can't see myself getting through much more than the group reads I'm behind on and the few interesting library books that keep turning up.
So on the bedside table still: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, by James Barr - it got taken back to the library at the beginning of Sept but I have it out again, I was halfway through and it's now my priority read. I didn't know George MacKay, who is quite young, but a quick wikipedia search brought up this little gem: He cast himself in the lead role of the Wolf so that he could swing from trees. I've read the first two books in Matt Rees's mystery series, and enjoyed them both. He also wrote a non-fiction book that is a bit "a plague on their houses" about the conflict and thus tends to be roughly along the same lines as my own views, which may be why I thought it was interesting, after reading so much polemical stuff from POVs on both sides.
Long time no catching up with you. You've been a busy girl. Hi Kerry- How are you? I haven't visited in awhile. I am glad you enjoyed Goliath. I have the latest Ness book, waiting in the stacks. Hopefully, I can bookhorn it in. I liked both the book and movie versions of Defiance , although since I read the book first I was a bit annoyed with some of the liberties they took in the movie.
Especially since it is nonfiction. But it did make for a good movie with, as you say, excellent actors. Suzanne - thanks for the rec of more Matt Rees, I've picked up the next to Yussefs on kindle. Also tracking down that nonfic one. I'm fairly careful what I pick to read when it comes to nonfiction set in this arena. Hi Kathy - just the nudge I need to catch up on your thread! I'm behind with everyone at present. Yes, the Ness calls to me and I love the cover. Mark - got caught up with you yesterday, not sure if I posted there. Thanks for the nudge on Goliath , I had to ask my library to purchase some copies and then wait for it to come in.
I'm really lucky that lots of my 'requests to purchase' bear fruit. Lisa - so long since I saw the movie that I probably won't notice the differences. I'll definitely watch it again once I'm through with the book. She's had a few great books for teens published but this one must have failed to find a home so she's taken the plunge and self-published it as a digital book. Skye's mother will never tell her much at all about her family but when Skye finds a discarded letter that says her great grandfather is quite ill and probably won't pull through she confronts her mum and they end up travelling to a small settlement up in the hills from Westport.
Lots of family secrets and a well established protest against a mining company's proposal for a second opencast mine in the fauna rich region form the background to this engaging story. Orman has drawn on fairly current West Coast issues such as the protest group, Save Happy Valley Coalition SHVC , an environmental activist movement, infiltrators to the protest groups, opencast mining and environmental issues as well as her own family history to write a realistic and enjoyable YA novel.
Because Barr wrote this fairly recently he had access to newly released material from both the British and French government archives that gives new insights into some of politiking that went on. I read the first half back in August and the last half over the last couple of days so what sticks in my mind is how hated the French were and then in their turn the British by the time they left the area.
So much meddling and how different it all could have been. My next nonfiction read will probably be The most beautiful walk in the world by John Baxter which I got halfway through back in January so I might as well finish it. Also on Paris, I have home from the library a beautiful looking Australian publication, Paris: It's full of gorgeous photos, even covers some of Paris' beautiful bookstores including Karl Lagerfeld's 7L which sounds like it could just be as interesting as his home library. Apparently he likes to select some of the stock which is mostly design, arts, architecture and fashion oriented books.
His home library is so perfectly designed. I would be afraid to take a book, fearing it would ruin the aesthetic! I love that he loves books - there are some close up images of his books here , though I just have to add 2 more pics to my thread: Stephanie - I have to agree, the power play between the two countries in this region especially during WW2 was quite something.
Oct 4, , 6: Read a book that is set in a country that is a current member of the United Nations Security Council. I've had this on my tbr pile for a couple of years, picked up cheap as I was intrigued by the title and the cover image. I found out that it had been on some banned book lists when it first came out and that it had also been on several award shortlists.
I started it last night when I was looking for something to read while soaking in the bath that I wouldn't get too cut up about if it got an accidental soaking. The story had me hooked from the first page. It starts off in a summer camp, a boy and a girl have been abandoned for the night by their peers on a small nearby island Goat Island , they've been labelled 'the goats' and stripped of their clothes as part of an old camp tradition.
Both are loners, only children and not at all popular. Together they decide not to wait for morning and when they make it back to the mainland on their own, they steal some clothes and decide to escape from camp altogether. The two children form a lovely platonic friendship, each helping the other and together they are strong.
I was expecting these two protagonists to be much older from the blurb on the back of the book and the cover image but they are only tweens. This is a great little read, and very realistic in its portrayal of friendship. Why was it banned? Maybe the bullying but probably because the two huddle together for warmth when they sleep There's a lovely review of it here: It is still as sweet and solemn and kindhearted and hopeful as it was when I first opened the book and discovered a writer and a pair of protagonists who spoke so strongly to me.
The loveliness of this little novel lies in the spare, fluid writing and in the two main characters, Laura Golden and Howie Mitchell, whose friendship in the book is perfect. My library has 9 books by Brock Cole, but not that one, Kerry. Our new downtown library just opened this week--there are new pictures on my thread from my visit down there today. I think you'll love Code Name Verity and of course Gaiman is easy to read.
Shame about the Brock Cole book, I forgot to add that the nudity at the start of the book could also have been a banning factor. And I love those photos of your new library. I've made a start on Rose under fire and it is very appealing. I just picked up my copy of Rose Under Fire at the library last night. Should start it today. Kerry; interesting as I hadn't had Lagerfeld down as a reader and he does seem to enjoy posing with his collection so I'm wondering if they are there for effect or the enjoyment of reading.
The British and French, as with all world powers of the era, didn't cover themselvs with glory and, in many ways, the world is still picking up the pieces of their shenanigans as you nicely put it. Paul, apparently he can often be found browsing for books in Librarie Galignani bookstore which is just around the corner from his apartment. I just love the look of his dining room, the scale is just perfect, lots of books but not overpowering the space.
I thought shenanigans was an appropriately diplomatic descriptor! Oct 6, , 6: Read a book where letters from the title can spell words related to Halloween treat. I read Riordan's The Cello a few years back and thought it quite nifty, about a gay teen who played cello and lived on an estate, a bit of a recipe for disaster and a good read. This one also uses music as a form of breakthrough, this time it is young Billy who is horribly burnt and orphaned during the London Blitz and spends several years undergoing plastic surgery on his disfigured face while living in an isolated residential home in the countryside with other disfigured and disabled casualties of the war.
He's given a clarinet and through the solace of music begins to nurture a dream of a better life rather than dwelling in the past. This was Riordan's first novel and gleaned from wikipedia - 'when Riordan was nine he was in an air-raid shelter that was bombed, killing several people nearby and leaving him suffering from such severe shock that for over 50 years it was a repressed memory before he worked elements of it into his first novel.
His bio is very interesting, he played football in the Soviet Union in the s, became a leading expert on sport under communism and studied politics in Moscow before he was expelled when one of his articles was mistranslated. His obiturary is here: James Riordan lived an interesting life. The article didn't say, but I wonder if music was instrumental in his coming to terms with his own trauma. I've just laughed my way through these holiday complaints and want to share the hilarity: It took the Americans only three hours to get home.
The children were scared. That is very funny indeed. It is unbelievable at times how stupid some people are.
I can't get over how stupid people can be: It's seems too riduculous to believe, and yet somehow I do. That's why we never book tours. Can you believe these people vote?! My SIL sent me this one: A long time ago I went to Cancun with my roommate from college. It was around the same time MrMorphy and Morphy got married. We were both shocked, embarrassed, by how many times we heard someone say "This would be a really great place if there weren't so many Mexicans here. I remember being in a queue years ago for the ferry from Italy to Corfu and some young woman calling out 'Does anyone here speak American?.
You all were bad. I'm an American and wouldn't ask that. I would ask if anyone spoke English. There is no such language as American! Oh I apologise for the awful punctuation mistake in that post. I find myself continually doing that when I type quickly.
Anyway it was funny and there were lots of Americans around to help her so she wasn't at risk or anything. I saw it on the shelf the other day and noticed that I'd already got to the halfway point so thought I'd finish it. I enjoyed several of the chapters, especially the one on the French Revolution. I appreciated the numerous quotes both those at the start of each chapter and the ones sprinkled through the text, some are quite obscure but almost all are about Paris.
Baxter is an Australian writer who came to live in Paris with his French wife many years ago. He started doing guided walks by chance some years ago and in this memoir he tells us how he fell into being a guide and commentor on Paris and a little about odd corners of Paris. It's rather enjoyable and I've noted a few places - cafes, statues, streets that I'd like to visit on my next visit to Paris. There is a strong literary theme running through the book that adds to the ambiance but he can sound at times like quite a snob, and gives the impression that his walks are quite pricey.
I also have The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White around somewhere and should finish that one as well On the metro, I always ride in first class. The restaurant was launched. The action glided from the American bar, run by Bob, to the rows of tables topped with paper and fabric tablecloths.
An unknown man with tiny round glasses, Henry Miller, had breakfast at the bar; Matisse drank beer while Joyce lined up his whiskeys. When Mistinguett made her entrance surrounded by her boys, the room stood to applaud her. After France was liberated, the party began again. Yves Klein wanted to paint the obelisk blue; La Coupole gave him a cocktail. In May , Cohn-Bendit climbed on top of a table.
Patti Smith played guitar on the terrace, Renaud busked and Gainsbourg and Birkin came for Sunday lunch - Paris Tourist info Angelina - Located beneath the arcades of the busy rue de Rivoli, across from the Tuileries gardens, this tearoom is most famous for its African Hot Chocolate, a thick, luscious concoction that has been compared to a melted chocolate bar. It was opened in During the Revolution, the Phrygian cap, soon to be the symbol of Liberty, was first displayed at the Procope; the Cordeliers, Robespierre, Danton and Marat all used the cafe as a meeting place.
After the Restoration, another famous customer was Alexander von Humboldt, who lunched here during the s every day from 11am to noon. The Procope retained its literary cachet: Coquille, editor of Le Monde, Anatole France were all regulars. Its choucroute; its cevelas, cold, squishy sausages smothered in mustard; and the man who made those sausages famous, a young writer named Ernest Hemingway, who came here when he had enough francs in his pocket for a cheap lunch.
I wish I could have read your review before we visited Paris in August. Lots of fun information. For instance, we walked past Cafe Procope several times, but the description in our standard guidebook was less detailed. The book itself is based on interviews with the various survivors who recounted their time with the partisan group. This was really interesting focusing on life in the forests, avoiding the Germans and then coming under the authority of the Soviets.
Tec does a good job of giving us an understanding of the character of the three main brothers especially that of Tuvia who she was able to interview only a couple of weeks before he died in This was quite a good listening experience, though there were some local or Russian words used that I would have liked to see printed down, also a map would have come in handy.
I enjoyed learning about the camp and how Tuvia set up the many workshops which gave work to the non-fighting members - such as the bakery, metalworking, a tannery and shoe making etc etc which all came to be valued by the other non-Jewish fighting groups. Tec devoted a couple of chapters to the women of the group and how they adapted, many became partners of the fighters in order to have a better chance of survival. They are named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who led the organization.
Under their protection, 1, Jews survived the war, making it one of many remarkable rescue missions in the Holocaust. The group spent more than two years living in the forests and was initially organised by members of the Bielski family. I'm glad you enjoyed Defiance. How do you think the movie compared to the book? I liked both, although the movie did change some things. I enjoyed reading about successful resistance and rescue.
Even though there was tragedy, it was not the unmitigated horror of the usual Holocaust book.
Hi Lisa - I didn't like to compare the two as it had been a long while since I saw the film and I want to watch it again now. I felt that it was such a remarkable achievement that they were able to survive both the Germans and the anti-semetic acts of the partisans that they shared the forests and the fighting with. I also enjoyed reading about the mass escapes from the ghettos, so many brave individuals. Have you read Escape from Sobibor which was also made into a film.
I found Castles Burning: A Childs Life in War by Magda Denes really interesting to read as she was a young child and quite precocious when the war came to Budapest and this 'annoying' childlike outlook comes across in the text, with everything centering around her childish wants and needs. At first I didn't like it but as the book went on I really grew to appreciate her style of writing and it felt very real.
So many books written on all this, but I do have to mention Uri Orlev who has written many books for children that are well worth hunting down. Oct 11, , 9: It's a remarkable story. No, I haven't read Escape from Sobibor , but I will look for it, thanks. I read Castles Burning at your recommendation two years ago and enjoyed it. His memoir was written many years later, so no childlike voice, but very interesting.
Have you read it? It's called A Lucky Child. Have you seen it? I haven't seen the movie of The Island on Bird Street but have read most of his books translated to English since finding out about him. Lead Soldiers is his memoir of the war. I haven't read A Lucky Child as yet, I think it's on my tbr list which actually means nothing as I have about books over on goodreads in my tbr section. I really need to go through it and tag them. My wishlist seems to propagate on its own. Periodically I weed it, but with little effect. I wish there were a way to wishlist authors. It would cut back on having several books by the same author wish listed.
Thanks for your review of Defiance: I thought I had it on my wishlist already, but it turns out that it was the book by Peter Duffy on the same subject: The Bielski Brothers , so I've added this one now too. I'm not sure which I will read first on the subject, probably the first one I end up coming into contact with though interestingly one of the reviewers of Nechama Tec 's book has read both and thinks that while both are good, hers is the better!
Not sure how much one can read into these things, but Tec's book has been added by members with an average rating of 3. It does sound like a fascinating story. Oct 12, , 1: Going back a few posts now but really glad to see you enjoyed The Luminaries so much. I'm on the reservations list at the library which isn't too long but think I'm unlikely to get to the top by the time the winner is announced on Tuesday! I've had the first volume on my shelves for years now and would like to read the trilogy someday so I'm glad to hear you've found them rewarding so far. I hadn't realised he'd planned further volumes though.
Sadly, that seems to be the legacy of the British Empire in a lot of places: As usual, you are reading all these wonderful sounding books I have never heard of! Hope you are having a great weekend.
I kept seeing mention of the Peter Duffy book when I looked up Defiance on the internet, I 'read' the Tec book because of the movie. I added If not now when to my library a couple of years ago when the other Paul mentioned it as a favourite but I still haven't read it Heather - I've just started the third book, Titus Alone , and it will be a slow surreal type read, quite different from the first two books so far. I'll be so chuffed to finish this trilogy as it has been on my radar for a while. I've already stated over on the group read planning thread for next year that I'm not joining any group reads ahead of time and especially not signing up for group reads of multiple books.
It becomes a chore as soon as your name goes on the list and I suggested Gormenghast! I've also given up on Reading Globally's theme reads as I don't seem able to get to books on certain themes within the 3 month period. The Baxter book on Paris isn't the best one out there but he does love his books and history and that shines through. For Baxter, tourist means American which can be annoying. Hi Roni - too true, so many great books out there. Another enjoyable entry and now I must wait for the next one to be published. He acknowledges that the creative arts is currently evolving with technology and advice that could have worked for his generation will probably not work for today's students.
Would make a good present for a student. There's a youtube clip of the speech here. Kerry - would you like to check out this thread