![]() ![]() You can listen to the first episode of Season 2 of of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, "Oh! those fashionable Burney novels!", on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and other podcast apps, available via Buzzsprout.Īt the age of eight, Frances Burney didn’t know her letters at the age of ten, she penned a novel which is now lost, “The History of Caroline Evelyn” at the age of eighteen, she was friends with Hester Thrale and Samuel Johnson and at the age of twenty-six, she anonymously published Evelina, which, when her identity as the author was revealed soon after, thrust her into a writing career that would span decades and a fame that would last centuries (ODNB). The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 6, "The Ecology of Databases".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 7, "The Business of Gossip". ![]() The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 8, "Mary Hays, Mapped".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 9, "Transatlantic Trajectories".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 10, "Queen of the Disciplines".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 2: Episode 10.5, "Season 2 in Review".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 3: Episode 1, "By the Author of.".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 3: Episode 2, "Wollstonecraft, Revisited".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 3: Episode 3, "Working for the (Wo)man".The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 3: Episode 4, "The Canterbury Fails x The WPHP Monthly Mercury: MONKS!!!".Digital Bibliography as Feminist Practice. ![]()
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![]() The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?Ī beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth centuryĪ Macmillan Audio production from St. London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The greatest mystery wasn't Agatha Christie's disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it's what she discovered. In retrospect, it's frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. ![]() "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. ![]() Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning new novel that reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaknesses: Race is a problem for Fleming. He lives to please M and save England-cards, women, and caviar are the bread and water that makes those his primary directives possible. His taste is impeccable, but is also shadowed from his orphaned, public-school upbringing. ![]() Compared to the screen Bonds, Fleming Bond enjoys the good life, but isn’t a playboy. The Bond of the novels is unshakeably loyal, quietly debonair, and able to withstand tremendous pain. When he takes a wrong turn, there’s very little time to recover.Īnd while Fleming was great with action and procedure, his greatest creation is Bond himself. ![]() When he is in the groove, the James Bond books fly by like an Aston Martin on a winding French road. Fleming, writing at this pace, can be both sloppy and suspenseful. He wrote each of the novels while on his annual three-month vacation from his newspaper job in London. Like their cinematic counterparts, they vary wildly in quality the best of them are fantastic and the worst of them range from being a chore to being more than a little offensive.įleming wrote a novel a year starting in 1953 (here are all of them in order). So, this summer I decided to read all of the original Ian Fleming Bond novels. As a fan of the movies (especially the Connery and Craig iterations), I’d always wondered what the James Bond books were like. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You find yourself, sometimes, wanting the more robust underpinnings of her previous novels. Highly readable, quite short and told in Mandel’s customary delightful style, it’s full of compelling ideas – space colonisation and time travel, for example, and the simulation hypothesis (which is what it sounds like, that we’re living in a computerised simulation: some astrophysicists, as well as Elon Musk, apparently believe it’s feasible) – but addresses them too cursorily. And several characters – Vincent, Mirella, and Jonathan Alkaitis, the Madoff-style Ponzi-scheme villain of the previous novel – all rear their heads, some of them, like Alkaitis, living in the alternative timelines posited in The Glass Hotel (he’s not in prison, he’s in a hotel in Dubai). In Sea of Tranquility, named after the "silent flatlands" on the moon where the Apollo astronauts landed, the small settlement of Caiette on Vancouver Island is a crucial reference point from The Glass Hotel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative flips from Max’s present to his past, while also including scenes of the “Six Gun Western” tales he writes for the pulps. As well as its exploration of violence and the struggle to make ends meet, Pulp offers a poignant look at ageing and the limitations it brings to us. Pulp is another fantastic story by Brubaker and Phillips and I highly recommend it. As competition in the pulp market grows and money gets even tighter, Max looks to his troubled past for a way out. His stories of the Red River Kid have brought in just enough money to keep Max going through the hard times of the Great Depression. Max Winters is an aged pulp writer who pens Westerns for the booming pulp magazine market. And another must-have hardback from one of comics most-acclaimed teams.” A celebration of pulp fiction, set in a world on the brink. One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, Pulp is unlike anything the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips have ever done. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? ![]() ![]() “Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word – tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heath’s parents are divorcing, money is tight, and his childhood home is on the market. Sal is learning his path in life may not be exactly what he’d thought. Reese is secretly in love with his best friend and an ocean away from him for the summer. Gabriel is afraid he doesn’t know how to make friends outside their close circle and lacks self-confidence. Filled with ride or die friendships, found family, and dreams of the future, Golden Boys was exactly what I needed.ĭon’t get me wrong – these boys are each dealing with their own problems and challenges. What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them-and for their friendship?Īfter reading a few heavy, postapocalyptic-type books, I wanted something lighter. And Heath is stuck going to Daytona Beach to help out at his aunt’s beachfront arcade. Sal is interning on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Gabriel is going to Boston to volunteer with a environmental nonprofit. Reese is attending a design school in Paris. ![]() They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. National bestselling author Phil Stamper crafts the perfect summer friendship story, starring four queer boys with big hearts and even bigger dreams. ![]() ![]() As she grapples with not only grief but also her gender fluidity, Clare wonders where she’ll belong if she sheds her carefully constructed image and embraces her true self. but she’ll need to convince her parents, and her therapist, first.Ĭlare knows her sister thinks she’s the perfect twin, but Audrey doesn’t realize that Clare’s “popular” status is crumbling-she’s begun to question old friendships, dress in Adam’s clothes, and wonder what feelings for a nonbinary classmate, Taylor, might mean. This heartfelt novel for fans of Jandy Nelson and Adam Silvera follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brothers death. ![]() Tired of being seen as different from her neurotypical peers, Audrey’s determined to switch to the public high school, rebuild her friendship with Clare, and atone for Adam’s death. ![]() ![]() Now, Audrey’s attending an alternative school where she feels more isolated than ever. But as they got older, they grew apart, and when their brother Adam died, Clare blamed Audrey for the accident. This heartfelt novel for fans of Jandy Nelson and Adam Silvera follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their changing relationships-with each other and themselves.Īudrey’s best friend was always her twin, Clare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am so grateful this book landed in my lap when it did. Pen and paper is simply the method, but the reward is the real new depths of self-discovery, creativity, and intentionality for living. In as little as five to twenty minutes a day, scientific research shows this daily practice can help Drawing from years of coaching hundreds through the writing process–from first-timers to New York Times bestselling authors–Allison shares tried and tested practices for getting started, staying inspired, and using this simple habit to shift how you feel and show up to your life. The Power of Writing It Down is your guide to this transformative tool available to us all. As it turns out, using your words is one of the most powerful means you have for unlocking your life. Author, writing coach, and speaker Allison Fallon's life transformed when she discovered the power of a daily writing practice. This practice and pathway is free, it's readily available every day of your life, it takes just minutes of your time, and anyone can do it. For anyone who's trying to make sense of their life, who wants to get unstuck from the patterns that hold them back, hear this incredible everything you need for the freedom you want is entirely within reach. Discover the power of (finally) getting unstuck, claiming your clarity, and becoming the person whose life you want to live–all through a simple self-care practice you can build into your daily routine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Simultaneously.īut his story is more complicated than just Moses’ formidable ego and drive. He held up to 12 positions simultaneously, including at one point New York City Parks Commissioner, head of the New York City Planning Commission, Chairman of the New York State Power Authority, the Long Island State Park and New York State Parks Commissions, and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Moses held political power on a scale that’s unimaginable today. In Moses’ career, he helped bring the United Nations to New York, built Jones Beach, 416 miles of parkways, 658 playgrounds in the city, millions of acres of state parklands, the Brooklyn Battery and Queens Midtown Tunnels, vast amounts of public housing and the Verrazano Narrows, Whitestone, Throgs Neck, and Triborough Bridges. ![]() ![]() It has shaped her life and her mother’s before her. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all? ![]() When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue’s old magic may be no match for them. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses – will know what to do.īut for once Rue doesn’t know. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. ![]() The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. ![]() But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? ![]() |