![]() ![]() Suddenly, Ramie is waking up, straining to understand a voice calling in the distance. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off. On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and champagne. ![]() In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty. But despite it all, she can’t ignore the fact that she isn’t necessarily happy. She enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. She made her fortune, and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous. ![]() Thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. Told with Beth Harbison's wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently." ![]()
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![]() Dumas is best known for his novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The world would probably not know of The Nutcracker if it weren’t for Alexandre Dumas. The original story was translated into French. Hoffmann The Nutcracker and the Mouse King translated into French The original version of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. His story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is about Marie Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, which comes to life and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, takes her to a magical kingdom of dolls. His original story was much darker than the version we now know. He was a German-born in Prussia, which is now Russia, and he was a lawyer and judge. However, what you probably don’t know is that the Original Nutcracker story was written years early in 1816. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was a story by E.T.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The choreographing was by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanova, and the now famous score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. While you may know the music, and most of us do, the first time The Nutcracker was turned into a two-act ballet was in 1892. (This post does contain affiliate links) Do you know who wrote the original story of the Nutcracker? When did it become a ballet? Why is it a Christmas classic? How many versions are there? I have researched to find out more about the Original Nutcracker – my daughter says that is what I do, but I want to share some information about it with you. What do you know about The Original Nutcracker? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Secure attachment is reliably associated with ‘the virtues of intimacy’ – the capacity to love well, or to engage in love relations of the best sort. In the paper, I describe this investigative strategy, discuss what motivates Aristotle to employ it in the work, and go through three contradictions that are plausibly identified as examples of its use-specifically, his claims that courageous people do and do not fear death, that friendship is and is not mutually recognized goodwill, and that virtuous people do and do not choose noble actions for their own sake. Though this may seem like a small point, this aspect of the work’s methodology has important consequences for how we should read it-specifically, we should be open to the possibility that some contradictions in the text are the result of his employment of this investigative strategy. ![]() This paper focuses on an under-appreciated way that the work is investigative: its employment of an exploratory investigative strategy-that is, its frequent positing of, and later revision or even rejection of, merely preliminary positions. Aristotle tells us that the Nicomachean Ethics is an “inquiry” and an “investigation” (μέθοδος and a ζήτησις). ![]() ![]() ![]() The food shortages, government control of the press, militarization of culture, spying on citizens, and mass arrests and torture of supposed “enemies” were all part of life in Soviet Russia. He was one of the few literary voices on the left to recognize and speak out against the human rights abuses of the Soviet Union, and his fictional work draws heavily on the very real totalitarian regime of Joseph Stalin. 1984 Was about the Soviet UnionĪll of Orwell’s books were written with a message, and 1984 is no exception. ![]() This selective recall has led to a widespread misreading of the book’s original warning. What remains in the cultural memory are simply fragments of the larger picture: government censorship, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, and Orwell’s clever neologisms (Newspeak, doublethink, and thoughtcrime, among others). In the decades since the time of its publication, the context of Orwell’s magnum opus has been lost. It was meant to warn against the growing spread of communism. They will focus on social media, security cameras, data collection, and “fake news.” The problem? The novel was not a commentary on the downside of technology. There will be no shortage of think pieces that will misinterpret its legacy. ![]() ![]() June 8, 2019, marks the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author argues that Do’s self-deprecating humor smuggles trauma to Australian audiences through laughs, and she explores the ambiguity in Do’s ability to occupy opposing identities of the “Other” and the “Aussie kid|bogan” simultaneously. This essay examines how Do’s style of self-deprecating comedy extends from his stand-up comedy to his national bestselling memoir The Happiest Refugee (2010). ![]() Vietnamese Australian Anh Do is one of Australia’s most famous migrant comedians and performs self-deprecating humor while drawing on sometimes traumatic experiences from his personal life as part of his stand-up comedy sets. Self-deprecating humor, the comedic act of making oneself the butt of the joke, is a staple of the Australian comedy industry and part of Australia’s national self-concept. ![]() ![]() Durrell also visited many countries while shooting various television series, including An Amateur Naturalist. He recounts these experiences in a number of books, including The Drunken Forest. The first, to the Cameroons, was followed by expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina and Sierra Leone. A few years later, Durrell began organising his own animal-collecting expeditions. His adventures there are told with characteristic energy in Beasts in My Belfry. On leaving Corfu he returned to England to work on the staff of Whipsnade Park as a student keeper. ![]() In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family and Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods. His family settled on Corfu when Durrell was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. ![]() ![]() His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. The moral right of the author has been asserted.Īll rights reserved. Lisa is married and has two children.Īll characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Her books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists. ![]() After graduating from Wellesley College with a political science degree, she published her first novel at age twenty-one. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. ![]() Lisa Kleypas is the author of a number of historical and contemporary romance novels that have been published in fourteen languages. ‘Flawlessly written… Kleypas brings together richly nuanced characters, an emotionally riveting plot, and a subtle touch of the paranormal to create an unforgettable romance that is pure reading magic’ Booklist ‘Kleypas launches the Friday Harbour trilogy with a delightful portrait of a picturesque town where people know everything about everyone and look out for each other… She enchantingly weaves together additional connections with relatives and friends, leaving many dangling threads that will lead the reader straight to book two’ Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() If you could rename McKettricks of Texas: Garrett, what would you call it? That smooth voice that identifies the characters through slight tonal differences. What does Jack Garrett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Garrett, upon getting injured, gripes and moans the whole time he was under observation because he wanted Julie to be in the same room with him-he knew she was in the waiting room. Hardy Cates tells Haven Travis as one point that he knew she might not love him or want to see him, but he was hoping it was ok for him to stay close in case she needed him. Strong alpha males but vulnerable when it comes to their women. Lisa Kleypas "Blue Eyed Devil" compares to "Garrett". What other book might you compare McKettricks of Texas: Garrett to and why? ![]() Garrett also treats Julie's son with respect and wonder. ![]() I love that he still fights with his brothers behind the barn and then has to go on national television with a shiner. Garrett is definitely alpha but you see a vulnerable side to him, too. Important life decisions have to be made by both characters. Garrett and Julie are such believable characters. What did you love best about McKettricks of Texas: Garrett? ![]() ![]() She was taken to Ellis Island suffering from tuberculosis again and spent a lengthy time in the hospital recovering. ![]() She was barely on American soil (in fact I’m not sure she was at all, I think she was still on the boat) when she gave birth to their son, Anothony Alexander Barrington, giving him Alexander’s American name as the papers for her escape named her as Jane Barrington (Alex’s mother’s name, which she takes as her name in the US). Tatiana is now in the US after Alexander made it possible for her to escape without him at the end of The Bronze Horseman. So if you haven’t read that book (and want to) and don’t want to find out how it ends, definitely skip this review.** **Note: It is impossible to review this book without giving away huge SPOILERS for the end of The Bronze Horseman. ![]() |