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The term 'ancient astronauts' designates the speculative notion that aliens are Jennifer saint ariadne review5/12/2023 But that’s why I tend to avoid reading tragedy – personally, if not professionally. Greek tragedy, of course, is pretty much non-stop gloom, punctuated by tension, betrayal, suicide, incest and/or maiming, before a bit more gloom to round things off and female characters are often on the receiving end of the worst treatment tragedy has to offer. What I don’t love about feminist myth retellings is the Gloom.Īs a ProfessionalClassicist TM, I do have to acknowledge that the Gloom has classical roots. I love the beautiful covers that take Greek vase motifs and make them sparkly (not that I’m superficial or anything…!). I love walking into a bookshop and seeing the popular enthusiasm for novels featuring Medusa, Ariadne, Pandora, Circe and Elektra. 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You might not think this would pose a difficulty. next to the boxes are the options “gay,” “lesbian,” “bisexual,” “transgender,” or “heterosexual.” You’re supposed to check one. On some of its forms, the clinic I visit includes five little boxes, a small matter of demographic bookkeeping. From the Introduction: Sexual DisorientationĮvery time I go to the doctor, I end up questioning my sexual orientation. Astonish me shipstead5/12/2023 Combining a sweeping, operatic plot with subtly observed characters, Maggie Shipstead gives us a novel of stunning intensity and deft psychological nuance. Through Harry, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind-back into dangerous secrets, and back, inevitably, to Arslan. But as the years pass, Joan comes to understand that ballet isn't finished with her yet, for there is no mistaking that Harry is a prodigy. She quits ballet, marries a good man, and settles in California with him and their son, Harry. After her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan plots to make a new life for herself. She will rise no higher than the corps, one dancer among many. She will never possess Arslan, and she will never be a prima ballerina. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is destined to remain in the background. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Lady midnight lord of shadows5/12/2023 He didn’t want to remember the way Julian had looked when they’d come inside, Mark carrying Cortana and Julian with Emma in his arms, her blood all over his shirt, her hair matted with it. Mark didn’t want to remember his brother’s face when Julian had woken up near the quickbeam and seen Mark kneeling over Emma’s body, her stele in his hand, drawing healing runes on her lacerated skin with the shaking, unpracticed hand of someone long unused to the language of angels. His brother’s head was bent, his dark hair falling to cover his face. Mark caught a glimpse of the room before the door closed behind her: He saw Emma’s still form, looking small beneath a pile of heavy covers, and Julian sitting on the bed beside her. Cristina came out of Emma’s bedroom looking somber. A portrait of Taylor Swift abuts that of Julian Assange tech CEO Meg Whitman is followed by heavyweight champion Mike Tyson revered faces (Stephen Curry, Meryl Streep) are interspersed with the recently disgraced (Louis C.K., Woody Allen, our current president). Close, published by Steidl, compiles 120 of these images taken between 20. If any such catalogue existed of contemporary nobility, it’d likely be found in the portfolio of Martin Schoeller, the German-born photographer whose subjects have included nearly every famous (or infamous) person alive today. In the 1860s, after photographs became cheaper and easier to make, middle-class families collected card-sized portraits ( cartes de visites) of prominent people-priests, military heroes, artists, and singers-and traded them among friends or displayed them on parlor shelves. In imperial Rome, coins bore the profile of the reigning emperor so that no matter how far you were from the capital, you’d know the face of your ruler. Few things are collected as avidly as powerful faces. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón5/12/2023 Zafón has a fine talent for inserting unexpected hitches into a story line already resistant to graphing, whose outcome is definitely not seen from afar. The picture is complicated by the arrival of another curious publisher, Andreas Corelli, who offers David piles of pesetas to write, well, a book of a different sort, involving research that yields piles of corpses and occasions ample cliffhangers. This leads him into an onerous contract with the usual crooked publishers and, indirectly, into a rivalry with his former mentor-all of which, naturally, entails love triangles and smoldering egos. The none-too-heroic hero, David Martín, is an aspiring journalist who bucks hackwork to turn in a crowd-pleasing series for a tough boss. Indeed, this is a prequel-but only of a kind: Familiar figures turn up at points, only to seem less than familiar as the narrative twists and turns. Fans of his earlier book will be pleased to find themselves on patches of familiar ground, including a revisit to that wonderful conceit, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Mix Edgar Allan Poe with Jorge Luis Borges, intellectual mysterian Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and maybe add a dash of Stephen King, and you have some of the makings of Zafón’s sensibility. Another delicious supernatural mystery from bestselling Catalan author Zafón ( The Shadow of the Wind, 2005). Morning glory milking5/10/2023 (A note to DA Readers: there’s more to this book than weird minotaur sex. She clicks on an ad for the Morning Glory Milking Farm in Cambric Creek and before she knows it, she’s “milking” minotaurs for a living. Violet, is a human who needs a better-paying job. It’s a longish novella – around category length really and the cover really does give much of the game away. For now at least, it seems to be only available from Amazon. Geddit? There are sheep people populating this world but they are not major players in the story.) It’s not the kind of book I would usually pick up – it’s definitely one which was purely as a result of multiple *multiple* Twitter recs. I saw the buzz about this book on Twitter and I bought it because apparently I’m a sheep. Kaetrin B Reviews / Book Reviews Erotic-Romance / Fantasy / minotaur / novella / SFF 10 Comments AugREVIEW: Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. The nightfall by isaac asimov5/10/2023 (Perhaps the story’s Tunnel of Mystery is a metaphor for “tunnel vision”!) With six suns, the population have never experienced nightfall and therefore never seen a night sky. Other theories, including the existence of what cultists refer to as “stars”, are rejected out of hand. The available evidence leads them to conclude that the “end” will come as insane mobs burn up everything flammable in order to escape the darkness. The scientist’s hubris is an often overlooked theme of the story. Themes: science vs superstition (cultism), having the courage of one’s convictions, sensory deprivation, insanity, mob hysteria, scientific hubris. Hailed as one of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written it tells how, in preparation for the potential end of their civilization, a group of forward-thinking scientists have created a safe place to store their world’s accumulated knowledge and hide a select group of “survivors”. As once described by Isaac Asimov himself, Nightfall (is) the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. |