Lucrezia comes off sympathetically, in love with both her brother Cesare and her second husband and suffering the inevitable conflict when one tries to murder the other, and the other retaliates. Readers of this book will know with fictional certainty who killed Juan Borgia and which relative fathered Lucrezia’s infant. Like most historical novelists, Puzo picks a side and resolves the thorny problems over which historians still argue. There were also a few ascetic saints, but they do not figure in this story. This Borgia family consists of a pope so handsome that most women flush upon meeting him, and with illegitimate children so attractive one could hardly blame them for their enthusiastic incest. This gangster story takes place in Italy during the late 15th and early 16th centuries at the time of the papacy of Alexander VI. The title of this novel evokes The Godfather both as a marketing device and an indication of the tone to be taken.
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Some of the locales are accurately evocative, and Torn is reasonably credible in the lead. It was certainly interesting to see Rip Torn so young and so good-looking, and to see Ellen Burstyn in such a flagrant display of nudity. It's structured as if somebody said "let's make a film of Tropic of Cancer" without actually feeling any passion for why they wanted to do that. Such picaresque efforts rely on the charm of characterization for impact, and this film has some of that, but not enough. Many scenes seem to concentrate on the minor characters for much too long, and without apparent purpose. It represents a string of vignettes, and they don't seem to lead to any common goal. The movie could never find anything to focus on. It tried now with a Rip Torn overvoice reading from Miller's work, then with some poetic shots of the beauty of Paris. The movie had difficulty synthesizing this sense of sacred and profane in harmony. He is the modern Catullus, the poet not of "lovemaking" but of the joys of flat-out *****ing. In order to appreciate Henry Miller's style, it is essential to get a feel for the juxtaposition of his elegant, often heartfelt prose, and the profane nature of his subject matter. To do otherwise opens the door to idolatry and leaves the church doing what Watts calls "bowing toward Babylon." He reviews the development of the symbols, songs, and gestures that celebrate America and how they were introduced into worship. He maintains that in faithful worship the story of Jesus must be re-presented and performed in such a way that the only affections and loyalty that are fostered are those Christians everywhere rightfully share. Watts contends the inclusion of elements of American nationalism in worship is detrimental to the integrity of Christian worship. What is being done in worship when national holidays are celebrated, the American flag is displayed and honored, and songs are sung that extol the nation? Are these benign gestures? Or could they actually be idolatrous? In this insightful and persuasively argued study Craig M. When the alpha who all but destroyed Lola tries to start a game of cat and mouse that’s all claws, the safest place for Lola may be the one she’s most terrified of, in the arms of an alpha pack. If only she could resist their perfect beta, Leo, whose patience and determination to see her heal breaks down one wall after another. And Lola is only a beta, one who comes with deep scars and an unshakeable aversion to alphas and their powerful presences. These alphas are everything Lola dreamed of, but they already have an omega-a playful male model who won’t stop flirting with her. 192 likes, 47 comments - Amanda (smartwomenspicybooks) on Instagram: Lola & The Millionaires by Kathryn Moon: Parts 1 and 2 OMG/Taboo. But that’s easier said than done when one stumbling incident after another leads Lola closer to an alluring pack of captivating men. Armed with her dream job and her less than dreamy apartment, Lola is ready to start a new chapter of her life without alphas. No more hiding in her cousin’s apartment licking wounds that won’t heal. No more chasing alphas who abuse and toss away betas like her. Lola Barnes only wants one thing, to get her life under control. Lola & the Millionaires: Part Two Audible Audiobook Unabridged Kathryn Moon (Author, Publisher), & 2 more 4,830 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes. Among those who were put into jail, deported, and eventually died was the father of our author. Many people designated as 'kulaks' were put into jail or deported. The USSR embarked on the road of turning all farmers in the country into hired workers totally dependent on the State. The famine claimed the lives of more than one million people in his homeland. The situation was aggravated by the bad harvest in Kazakhstan in the early 1930-s, according to the author. Those policies led to a catastrophic decline in agricultural production. Owning a horse may be regarded as a crime. The regime under Stalin declared a fight against the class of presumably well-off farmers who were labeled kulaks. This term refers to Soviet policies aimed at disbanding individual farms and turning them into collective farms owned by the State. His childhood coincided with collectivization. The author recalls his childhood and youth in Soviet Kazakhstan and highlights the entirety of that heartbreaking experience. The final chapter details the journey home that Mukhamet Shayakhmetov undertook after he had been discharged from the army due to his medical condition (the author was severely wounded near Stalingrad). It ends during WWII in which the author participated as a soldier in the Red Army. The account begins with the events in the late 1920-s and early 1930-s during the time of collectivization in the Soviet Union. The book is divided into three parts: Class Enemy, Famine, and War. He had originally envisioned it as a picture book, but it became a 70,000 word manuscript. At the time there wasn't one, but Jarvis then wrote the story of The Deptford Mice. The publisher responded positively and asked if there was a story to accompany the drawings. Jarvis continued to doodle mice, and when a friend of his saw the sketches, he suggested they be sent to a publisher. That something was a mouse who would become the character Oswald Chitter. He had been designing a big, furry alien but decided to take a break and draw something small. Robin Jarvis came up with the idea for The Deptford Mice while working as a model-maker for television programmes and commercials. It was followed by The Crystal Prison, also published in 1989, and The Final Reckoning, published in 1990. The first book, The Dark Portal, was published in 1989 as a Purnell book by Macdonald & Company in London. They struggle to defeat the evil Jupiter, mysterious and all-powerful lord of the sewer rats. The stories tell of a mouse girl named Audrey Brown and her friends. The books concern a community of mice living in an empty house in the London borough of Deptford. SeaStar Books (US) The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of dark fantasy novels by Robin Jarvis. I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to how breath-stealing Jake truly is. “All okay?” I ask, turning my head to look at him. Fuckin’ idiots…oh, you know that thing I asked you to do for me… you did? Good, thanks.” With a sigh, Jake ends his call and tosses his iPhone onto the side table. If they have a problem with that, then remind them they are not irreplaceable…I know. “Just tell them to do the job I pay them to do. Jake is beside me on his own lounger, his hand in mine, fingers laced together, as he talks on the phone to Stuart. Letting my leg dangle off the edge of the lounger, I push my toes into the soft white sand. Ushing my sunglasses from my eyes to rest on top of my head, I tilt my face toward the still-hot early-evening sun. TRU… CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN JAKE… CHAPTER EIGHT TRU… CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN JAKE… CHAPTER ELEVEN TRU… CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN FIVE MONTHS LATER… CHAPTER EIGHTEEN JAKE… CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO TRU… CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR For those of you who read The Mighty Storm, loved it, recommended it to your family and friends, wrote reviews, sent me wonderful messages…this is for each and every one of you. What most people need instead is, well, range.Īccording to Epstein, the world for nearly everyone is not a place where specialization - which he argues leads to myopic thinking - is truly beneficial. Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World, a new book by David Epstein, a former investigative and science reporter at ProPublica, argues that this theory of specialization applies to a limited number of skills and fails to set its adherents up for success. It makes intuitive sense: If you want to get good at something, work hard at it until you are. That, Gladwell argued, was what successful people did. Throughout that book, he frequently cited the so-called "10,000-Hour Rule," which stated that to master something, one needed to practice it correctly for that amount of time. How?Ī little more than 10 years ago, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell was published. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Range Subtitle Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Author David Epstein after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed audiobook sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. Her insight into the transactional, transient nature of being a young woman in the city and, no less importantly, of party girl life, is joyously sultry, a celebration of decadent abandon in the face of distrustful men, precarious finances and unknown career paths. For the author, these are girls coming from a lineage of glamorous, rootless women – the socialites of the 1930s and 40s, screwball comedy stars, and Jean Rhys heroines.Īn advice columnist for The Baffler, as well as a podcaster and filmmaker, Granados is attuned to the complexities of social interactions and personal dilemmas. Best friends Isa, the story’s diarist narrator, and Gala arrive in the city for a season of scraping by they sublet a room cheaply, wrangle dinners paid for by other people, and sell vintage clothes at market stalls to fund their nights out. “People keep saying it’s the hot girl summer book,” says Marlowe Granados of her debut novel Happy Hour, a tale of the sticky, sweet heat of summer in New York City and girls living their best, champagne-soaked lives. |