![]() ![]() But what she risks-her art, her family, her marriage-she may never get back. My first novel, The Kennedy Debutante, came out in 2018, and my second in 2020: The Girl In White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly.My third, The Paris Bookseller, about trailblazing entrepreneur Sylvia Beach and the original Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, came out this year. Starved for affection and purpose, facing a labyrinth of romantic and social expectations with more twists and turns than Monaco’s infamous winding roads, Grace must find her own way to fulfillment. Hardest of all for her adoring fans and loyal subjects to comprehend, is the harsh reality that to be the most envied woman in the world does not mean she is the happiest. ![]() ![]() The loneliness of being a princess in a fairy tale kingdom that is all too real. The heartbreaking reasons she trades Hollywood for a crown. The sacrifices it takes for an unappreciated girl from Philadelphia to defy her family and become the reigning queen of the screen. The girl in white gloves.īut behind the lens, beyond the panoramic views of glistening Mediterranean azure, she knows the truth. An icon of glamor and elegance frozen in dazzling Technicolor. “Perfect for fans of Grace Kelly, royal-watchers, and fans of biographical fiction alike." -PopSugarĪ Library Reads Pick and Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice! ![]()
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Melvyn bragg richard burton7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book he discusses marriage, women, his work, arthritis and addiction to drink, and also shows himself to be a fine descriptive writer and humourist with a love of literature. Further films intervened, then, in quick succession, he divorced Elizabeth Taylor, married Suzy Hunt and re-married Taylor, divorced her and married Sally Burton. After a scholarship to Oxford, a brilliant career in the theatre, then Hollywood and films like "The Robe", his career blossomed with "Camelot" and "Cleopatra" after which he married co-star Elizabeth Taylor. Here, the actor who was born Richard Jenkins, the twelfth child of a South Wales miner, stands revealed as never before, often in his own words. ![]() Bragg has also had the benefit of conversations with actors and close friends, including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Lauren Bacall, Robert Hardy, John Neville, Emlyn Williams, John Le Carre and Alec Guinness. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation. Many of those close to Burton have talked for the first time, including his daughter Kate, his elder sister Cis, who brought him up as her own after the death of his mother when he was two years old and the teacher Philip Burton who adopted him and gave him his name. Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before, has brought together the private and public sides for the first time. This is the first biography of the actor, Richard Burton, to be supported by his own 300,000-word unpublished journals that cover the years of his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, plus all his papers and unpublished memoirs of his adopted father. ![]() All The Names by José Saramago7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Senhor José lives in a small house literally connected to the Registry’s main building, and meekly devotes himself to his occupation-while also surreptitiously working on his private collection, which documents the lives of miscellaneous celebrities. The unprepossessing Senhor José, a middle-aged bachelor, works as a clerk in a nameless large city’s Central Registry (of Births, Marriages, and Deaths)-an Orwellian maze whose largest section is eternally extended backward, to accommodate the records of the ever-increasing ranks of the deceased. ![]() The resonant themes of identity and autonomy are examined with keen precision and rich humor in the Portuguese Nobel laureate’s most recent (1997) fiction, a novel that compares very interestingly with Saramago’s fascinating The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1997). ![]() Brown by Kevin Young7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() “During the book, in the five different writing sessions, there’s five different songs written. “There’s the physical book and it’s also available on Audible as an audiobook,” Griffin explained during a recent phone conversation. But Griffin actually completed those songs, which are now available for online streaming via platforms like Spotify. The business parable describes five collaborative writing sessions for Stark, breaking down in detail the tracks constructed. In the new book, now available via Brown Books in paperback and as an audiobook, fictional journeyman songwriter and musician Jake Stark interacts with characters like Sir Daniel Smith-Daniels, AKA Sir Kid, a billionaire with a background in mathematics and economics who applies his curiosity to music via Nashville publishing house The Row, helping Stark to look deep within himself and reinvest in his potential. ![]() Sunday, Octoin Chicago, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen Better Than Ezra performs on stage at the House of Blues. ![]() War and peace book7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() A Year of War and Peace solves this problem by breaking down the gigantic novel into small, bite-sized pieces. In fact, its size is often cited as the reason people have not read it yet. The primary reason you should join me is that War and Peace is one of the greatest books ever written. This unique reading of War and Peace is something I’ve been doing every day for the past seven years. These reflections will focus on the novel’s characters and how thinking about their nineteenth-century triumphs and failings may help us to live better, more fulfilling lives today. Over the course of one year, should you choose to join me, we will read one of the 361 chapters of War and Peace per day followed by a brief reflection on the chapter published here on Medium. ![]() A Year of War and Peace is the bibliotheraputic equivalent of mainlining your favorite mood enhancer. ![]() His Au Pair Obsession by Gia Bailey7/1/2023 ![]() And the heroines? Shy, sweet, smart, ambitious, and everything in between, these ladies always get their happy endings. ![]() All her heroes, from mountain men to billionaires, are possessive, obsessive alpha males, who go OTT for the women they fall for. Steamy Romance - High Heat - High Emotion - No cheating - No cliffhangers - HEA guaranteed Keep up Gia Bailey loves to write steamy, sweet, short romances to keep her warm during the cold Scottish nights. After all, life’s too short for anything other than a HEA. When not writing, she lives with her own burly Russian mountain man and all-knowing four year old, and enjoys baking, reading, jumping in muddle puddles (it’s Scotland, so there are lots), and inventing elaborate dreamworlds to play in. ![]() ![]() Gia Bailey loves to write steamy, sweet, short romances to keep her warm during the cold Scottish nights. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aisling’s behavior especially gave colonizer vibes. Trigger warnings for racism, homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia, Islamophobia, bullying, toxic friendships, gaslighting, parental abandonment, and brief mentions of depression.Ĭan white girl entitlement be a trigger? Because the way Aisling and Deirdre mistreat Hani raised my blood pressure. But relationships are complicated, and some people will do anything to stop two Bengali girls from achieving happily ever after. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.ĭespite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other. ![]() She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. ![]() Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate-Ishita “Ishu” Dey. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. December 13th, 2021 – December 15th, 2021 Rating: Format:Įveryone likes Humaira “Hani” Khan-she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. ![]() Penpal by Dathan Auerbach7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There were absolutely freaky moments and times where I had to stop and go “oh my god” or “woah, that’s weird”. This book was recommended to me, and I wasn’t disappointed. And that hindered my ability to give it a higher rating. However, there were somethings in this book I just couldn’t get into. There were times where I would get goosebumps when reading the words Dathan Auerbach had written on these pages. ![]() This one for sure had a creepy, creepy vibe. If you’ve ever stayed in the woods just a little too long after dark, if you’ve ever had the feeling that someone or something was trying to hurt you, if you remember the first friend you ever made and how strong that bond was, then Penpal is a story that you won’t soon forget, despite how you might try.” Beginning with only fragments of his earliest years, you’ll follow the narrator as he discovers that these strange and horrible events are actually part of a single terrifying story that has shaped the entirety of his life and the lives of those around him. In Penpal, a man investigates the seemingly unrelated bizarre, tragic, and horrific occurrences of his childhood in an attempt to finally understand them. How much do you remember about your childhood? Before long, it was adapted into illustrations, audio recordings, and short films and that was before it was revised and expanded into a novel! “ Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. ![]() Equilibrium by Tiana Clark6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The mother-in-law sees the taking of the portrait on the plantation as an act of redeeming the past. In “Soil Horizon,” Clark is called by her white mother-in-law to a Tennessee plantation for a family portrait. Not all writers are capable of this, and the fact that Clark employs it in a seamless way gives credence to the reasons why her work is worth reading. Clark is adroit at bringing the reader into the scenes she paints with words. I Can’t Talk About The Trees Without The Blood is a gripping collection of poetry. THIS REVIEW FIRST APPEARED IN THE ADIRONDACK REVIEW I'm not afraid to write what I need to survive." I'm notĪfraid to take up space I need to survive. Liquor/blasting the classroom with my noisy stereo. Lips/butt/haircurlers are mine/urban/slang/longįingernails/arrested/dialectic are mine/burningĮrotic hottentot/blue bandanna/Beyoncé/like-like Not a prop or a sieve or a literary device. When they try to conjure the other, a fantasticįield of fictitious black and brown bodies. Tell them when my chest tightens and flares up A poet to watch, follow, and listen to with open ears. So glad I came across this book in an online article. The poem about having a conversation with her white mother-in-law about taking some family photographs on a plantation-Soil Horizon-was shattering. This is a collection that bears reflection, re-reading, repeating. ![]() So many incredible poems and lines in here. ![]() The four loves cs lewis sparknotes6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I feel The Reading Life has complied a solid collection for the single volume book. It is important for the reader to know if the book uses too many references from the same source and not enough from others. The source is given with each reference at the quote, but it is not in complete for a one stop reference. The Reading Life doesn’t have an index or notes section. I feel it is important to list all of the references for two reasons.ġ. Firor”, “Letters to Rhona Bodle” (2), “Letter to Sarah Neylan”, “Letters to Dom Bede Griffiths” (2), Rehabilitations and Other Essays, and Reflections on the Psalms. ![]() I have all the references listed and the number represents how often it is used: An Experiment in Criticism (4), Of Other Worlds (5), Present Concerns (2), God in the Dock (2), Surprised by Joy (4), George MacDonald: An Anthology, Studies in Worlds, On Stories and Other Essays on Literature (2), The Four Loves, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (2), Selected Literary Essays (3), “Letters to Arthur Greeves” (10), The Weight of Glory (2), Christian Reflections (2), Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (2), “Letter to Ruth Pitter”, The Four Loves, The World’s Last Night and Other Essays (2), Mere Christianity (2), “Letter to Warfield M. ![]() The pulled material for this book is from several sources. They all have the subject of his reflections and views on reading. Lewis’s books, essays, reviews, and letters. The Reading Life is a collection of pulled material from C. ![]() |