Gk chesterton the ball and the cross7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() There is humor, particularly as the two main characters' battle royale is constantly being denied by circumstance. Chesterton allows the reader to make up his or her own mind. MacIan and Turnball are well matched in their vigorous and various positions. ![]() (Only now, Christopher Hitchens and Alistair MacGrath debate on YouTube about religious belief in a modern world.) My edition includes an excellent introduction by Martin Gardner, who describes the genesis of the book from many conversations between Catholic Chesterton and Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford, a "then widely read journalist who was an archenemy of Christianity." (Amazingly, upon the death of his wife, in 1923, Blatchford developed a belief in the afterlife and became a spiritualist!) I appreciate that Chesterton, in writing The Ball and The Cross, didn't take sides. Published in 1909, this book remains timely 100+ years later. Despite, or even because of, their differences, they come to like and respect the other, even as they vow to run him through with a sword. Satire, humor and solid writing follow as various adventures and assorted characters interrupt their immolatory efforts. ![]() The Ball and the Cross follows Evan MacIan, a devout Catholic, and James Turnbull, an ardent atheist, on an engaging romp throughout England as they attempt to find a quiet spot to fight to the death over the supremacy of their respective ideologies. ![]()
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He will be my ruin book7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed she’s the kind of heroine you can’t help but like.Īrcher (aka Marquess of Hawksfield) is a complicated man. Lady Briannon Findlay is full of spirit, surprises, and personality and I couldn’t help but be drawn to her and root for her as she does everything from face down a highway robber to going riding (secretly) on her horse early in the morning. ![]() While I was puzzled by a number of the choices it was also a fun read. Oh but don’t let the lack of sense stop you from reading this story. This is the story of two people who knew each other as children, but apparently didn’t see each other for many years which quite bluntly didn’t make much sense. No respectable woman in her right mind would have you! You’re… you are… appalling.”Īrcher did the one thing he could to silence her tirade. My Rogue, My Ruin by Amalie Howard & Angie Morgan ![]() Harperaudio the lost apothecary7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With crackling suspense, unforgettable characters and searing insight, The Lost Apothecary is a subversive and intoxicating debut novel of secrets, vengeance and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time. When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary’s in a stunning twist of fate-and not everyone will survive. ![]() Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. ![]() But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. Synopsis: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. ![]() Stan musial 1948 bowman7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Stan Musial, 2001 Topps Heritage ROOKIE Reprint Card #36, St. ![]() Stan Musial circa 1942 rookie season card - St. STAN MUSIAL 2001 BOWMAN HERITAGE ROOKIE REPRINT GAME USED SEAT Louis Cardinals) - Baseball Slabbed Rookie Cards Stan Musial 1960 Topps Baseball Card #250- PSA Graded 3 VG (St. Stan Musial 1959 Topps Baseball Card #150- PSA Graded 7 NM (St. Stan Musial 1949 Bowman Baseball Card #24- PSA Graded 2 Good (Centered/Under Graded/St. ![]() Pictureġ948 Leaf Baseball #4 Stan Musial Rookie Card RC Graded PSA 2.5 '48ġ948 Leaf Baseball #4 Stan Musial Rookie Card RC Graded PSA 4 Cardinalsġ948 Leaf Baseball - Stan Musial - Rookie Card RC #4 - Graded PSA 1 (MC)ġ948 Leaf Stan Musial Rookie Card #4 RC HOF - PSA 4 (VG-EX)Ģ012 TOPPS RARE CR-19 STAN MUSIAL CARD SLABBED WITH 1942 ROOKIE CLASS PINĢ019 Topps #TGCR-12 Stan Musial Rookie 1948B Chrome Greatest CardĪWESOME CARD LOT - 50 CARDS with 1960s BASEBALL CARDS ~ Each lot Includes STAN MUSIAL ~ MICKEY MANTLE ~ WALTER JOHNSON ~ HANK AARON~ BABE RUTH ~ NOLAN RYAN ~.īOWMAN CHROME 2001 ~ STAN MUSIAL ~ CARDINALS ROOKIE REPRINT CARD #3 PSA 10 Mint Here's a list of Baseball Rookie Cards of Stan Musial that are currently for sale on eBay and some other online shops. ![]() Utopia avenue david mitchell review7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68.ĭavid Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder of the families we choose and the ones we don’t of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper of music, madness, and idealism. ![]() Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.”. Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever. When Mitchell’s bigger mythos suddenly Kool-Aid Manned its way into the book, I, a veteran of Slade.
Words in deep blue book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() She realized that it was time to put Henry and their relationship behind her. He never showed up, and he texted her to say he overslept the morning she was leaving. ![]() So she wrote him a letter and tucked it inside his favorite book at his family's bookshop, and she waited for him to come to her. ![]() She knew that Henry was fascinated by Amy, the pretty new girl in school, but she figured she needed to tell him how she felt before she moved away. They were utterly inseparable, and the truth is, Rachel was in love with Henry. But as I was crying so hard I wet my t-shirt (don't judge), at the same time I was thinking that I may very well become obsessed with Cath Crowley's writing after this one. This book had me sobbing like I haven't since All the Bright Places or maybe even Me Before You, although there's not quite the same level of tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her multiple pregnancies hint that their majesties got along well enough to get it on frequently. The factual king and queen contended with many issues other than that of the royal variety, starting with George III's mental illness. The real Charlotte had 15 children with her George, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. In the early 1800s timeline that coincides with the main series, Rosheuvel's Charlotte obsesses over the lack of a royal heir from any of her remaining bumbling children – there are more than 10 of them. In "Queen Charlotte" we're treated to not one version of her, but two. Rosheuvel's dazzling sour candy rendition of the titular monarch in "Bridgerton" commands attention to such a degree as to make her secondary character worthy of ascension to her own show. ![]() Between Shonda Rhimes' Regency-style fantasy, " The Crown" and the "Harry & Meghan" business, Netflix wants to be known as the ruler of all monarchy-related entertainment.īesides, in a popularity contest, Golda Rosheuvel's Queen would defeat the King on any day. ![]() Counterprogramming " Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story" against the coronation of King Charles III can't be an accident. ![]() Trace evidence kathy reichs7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As a member of a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT), she assisted in the recovery of remains at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As part of her work at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA, formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. She travelled to Africa to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide in Rwanda, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. Reichs consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. She is a Professor (on leave) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. ![]() Reichs served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and as a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She specializes in the subfields of bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, and is one of only 119 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. ![]() The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() He finally (and surprisingly) relents, allowing Sasha to help at his hospital with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. Father specializes in neurasthenia (shell shock). Tom attends medical school in Manchester with little blessing from his father, who is a stern, arrogant, controlling disciplinarian, and prefers that Tom go off to fight in the war. Edgar receives his commission as an officer and travels to the battlefront in France. Their older brother Edgar is much bigger and stronger, while Tom is a worrier. ![]() Sasha hopes to become a nurse, while brother Tom desires medical school like his father. They live in 1915 Brighton, England, at the beginning of World War I, which is forecasted to end soon. Now I am seventeen.' Since she spoke out that she did not want her friend Clare to die, there has been a wall between Sasha and her family. In first-person journal-style narrative, Alexandra (Sasha) begins her story: ' I was five when I first saw the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader has to wait until the second sentence to realise his predicament, with ‘wrists bound with a cord’ and a rope which ‘encircled his neck.’ His executioners too are described in the same unemotional detached manner, as if interpreting events from the standpoint of military observation. The first section employs a detached narrative point of view, observing a man on a bridge. The story is structured in three distinct stages to give the reader different perspectives of Peyton Farquhar before the story’s surprise twist at the end. Bierce, himself a veteran of the American Civil War fighting on the Unionist side, uses that historical setting in a number of his short stories, of which An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is perhaps the most famous. ![]() |