She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection.īut Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. I read it a couple of weeks ago and then attended a virtual discussion with one of the authors that was literally amazing.Īccording to Benedict’s website this historical fiction book is a remarkable story of J. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray is an excellent read in honor of Black History Month.
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“Waiting for the Night Song is a singular, riveting portrait of persistence and friendship at the end of empire. Hank Phillippi Ryan, award-winning author of The First to Lie With its combination of powerful themes and intensely immersive setting, fans of Delia Owens will swoon to find their new favorite author. “Human nature clashes with Mother Nature in this riveting and heartbreaking coming of age story – – gorgeously written, and wonderfully told. “Julie Carrick Dalton’s deftly constructed, urgent yet slow-burning debut novel reads like a warning from the frontlines of our rapidly deteriorating natural world.” Michelle Hoover, award-winning author of Bottomland and The Quickening This is a story of love, of home, of friendship and family, of a childhood’s innocence and an adult’s comeuppance, all of which are in the line of fire in this beauty of a page turner.” “Both a timely and timeless literary mystery, Waiting for the Night Song is as seductive as it is smart, blending the allure of Julie Dalton’s beloved rural New Hampshire setting with the dark undercurrents of a community’s racial divisions and betrayals. Dalton “mixes mystery with pointed (but beautifully written) commentary about the natural world.” Toms is faced with loneliness and disconsolate because of his life duties to take care of his family. Tom is a daydreamer who longs for a life of adventure. Tom is a stable of what it looks like in an everyday society of a dreamer. It is clear that Tom does not want to live in that reality a would rather follow his own dreams. There is also a scene Tom’s proclaim Laura as odd and cannot survive in the outside world. There is a scene in the play when he knocks down his sister, Laura, glass menagerie and still shows her no love. Tom is a hard worker and trying his best in life. She provides them dissatisfaction with life and the dreams they had. Amanda becomes so focused on success than letting her children living life. This is a pacifier to her life and her past. She devoted her life to focus on her children and managing their life and dreams for success. She yarns deeply for her past life that it makes her blind to her true reality. There is a line that Amanda says “My devotion has made me a witch and so I make myself hateful to my children!” and “I worry so much, don’t sleep, it makes me nervous!” This is very heartbreaking and shows that Amanda is not happy in her true reality and the life of her children. Amanda’s relationship with reality is not very solid in this play. Jeremiah Lear ended up defaulting to the London Stock Exchange in the economic upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars owing to the family's now more limited finances, Lear and his sister were required to leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together when he was aged four. He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, 21 years his senior. Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate of 21 children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear, a stockbroker formerly working for the family sugar refining business. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.Īs an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. The Book of Nonsense, The Owl and the PussycatĮdward Lear ( – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. Children's literature, literary nonsense and limericks. That’s a hard combination to pull off but Pen does him justice. But what I love most about Kai is that he has honor, pride, loyalty, and a big heart. He’s controlled, mysterious, full of self-loathing, and like a caged animal, on the brink of attack. We learn in Hideaway that Kai definitely has a dark side. Although he was a big portion of Corrupt, we still didn’t know much about him. I love the tone that Pen sets, it’s creepy, it literally puts pressure on your chest, making it hard to breath. I love that I could open this book up and already feel my peripheral vision start to darken. So once it was announced that Kai’s story was next, I couldn’t wait to see what Pen could come up with. Corrupt is still an all-time favorite novel of mine, and is comparable to absolutely nothing else that I have ever read. It’s needless to say that Hideaway is most reader’s #1 most anticipated release of 2017. Corrupt is currently on sale for only $0.99. It is strongly recommended that you have read Corrupt (Devil’s Night #1) prior to reading this book. While the romance in this story is a stand-alone, the plot is a continuation of events that began in CORRUPT. *Hideaway is a romantic suspense suitable for ages 18+. The second installment in the Devil's Night Series. Hideaway (Devil's Night #2) by Penelope Douglas Of course, it doesn’t go well, because Willow is now wanted dead by the angels! She gets scooped up by a handsome young man named Alex who somehow knows who she is and is trying to tell her that she’s the only - in the world? She may be able to defeat the angels, but it's not possible. Willow decides to go after her to possibly help her change her mind. Beth is convinced that her life will become better and she has no need to continue school, but her life force is only getting drained away, bit-by-bit. She can either live a shorter life or listen to Willow, but of course Beth refuses to listen. Angels may seem like good people to some, but that is only the people who have been fed off of who are at risk of a disease, cancer and illness which is called “Angel Burn” but these people only see the beauty of the angels, thinking that the angels are helping them. Beth’s life will go downhill from the peculiar thing she has seen, an angel. Her life changes when she gives the reading of the most popular girl at her school, Beth. She’s just the girl with “dreadful” clothing choices, strange hobbies and is a psychic, giving readings since she was young. Weatherly that revolves around Willow, the weird girl that just doesn’t fit in with the standards for a pretty girl at her school. An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed. Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub. “What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable.
Tw: graphic domestic violence, graphic attempted rape, suicide, depression, alcohol abuse, depression Where are all the people who wonder why the men are even abusive? Isn't that where the only blame should be placed?" "People spend so much time wondering why the women don't leave. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.Īs questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan - her first love and a link to the past she left behind. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up - she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. “I smell the ocean, / the fresh salt wind, wafting lotions / from suntanned skin.” Astrella’s ( The Butterfly Alphabet Book, not reviewed, etc.) acrylic paintings are spectacular. Each appears in boldface as an added reminder for readers. The gentle rhymes are at once descriptive and instructive, offering an almost tangible awareness of the ocean as well as an understanding of each particular sense. Several stanzas of verse, spread out over multiple pages, are dedicated to each sense, each scene focusing on familiar seashore activities of young children: dodging among the waves, constructing sandcastles, savoring the warmth of the sun. Ryan ( Esperanza Rising, 2000, etc.) celebrates the many marvels of the ocean as experienced through a child’s sense of taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. An eloquent tribute to the wonders of the sea, also functioning on a more pragmatic level as an introduction to the five senses. Personal reflections by different folks about how Lorde’s work has impacted them.Archival documents from Lorde’s courses, lectures, and speeches.Videos of Lorde’s speaking engagements with captions/transcripts.Poems by Lorde and critical analysis of Lorde’s poetry.Excerpts and quotations from biographical texts about Lorde.Excerpts from secondary sources that critique and build on Lorde’s work, or utilize her theories of oppression and difference.Captioned stills from the films, The Berlin Years, The Edge of Each Other’s Battles, and Before Stonewall.More systematic quotations and excerpts from Lorde’s essays.I have some aspirations for future posts, including the following: I have also shared captioned stills from interviews with her and her colleagues/loved ones. Up to this point, I have focused primarily on sharing her primary texts, such as her essays and poems, as well as photographs of her and her loved ones. My goal for this blog has always been to share the work of Lorde so that other people have the opportunity to engage with her writings, whether that means learning/unlearning, taking comfort, drawing inspiration, or seeking knowledge. The way that I thought through issues and experiences was changed–I clearly remember this transformation, but I can’t imagine going back to the time before I read Lorde. When I first read Audre Lorde, I felt my mind shift. |