![]() ![]() This is a dog eat dog world and I’m so so amazed by the stakes, the world building, and the way the author explores the deepest darkness inside all of us. ![]() Moral persons are almost nonexistent, and love and trust are temporary and switching abstracts. Nowadays a lot of YA books are addressing this, showing us grey moral characters and I love that! But in NOT EVEN BONES, you’ll find the whole world corrupted and grey. Every single one of the characters have done questionable things. This is a really mature, sophisticated, insightful, and thought provoking book. This isn’t your typical YA urban fantasy. I mean the book left me reeling and I’m worried I might get book hangover now (considering I’ve got a blog tour coming up this month, this is NOT good!!). ![]() I started this book three days ago and devoured it so quick, it’s so bloody good (pun intended). I MEAN, WHAT COULD BE MORE SCARY THAN BEING EATEN ALIVE? I cannot think of any other book that surpassed this one when it comes to stakes and consequences. Seriously, this book has not only made me question deeply about grey shades of life and morality, but also about my own book and how poorly I’ve created the stakes in my book. OMG this is one of the best books of the year!! ![]() Content warnings for the book: Body mutilation, cannibalism, body dissection, murder, blood, sadism, fire, gun violence, gore, human trafficking, kidnapping. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Raven Tower’s cover caught my eye, but I swiftly slammed it shut out of frustration at yet another attempt to defy expectations by altering the way authors tell stories. ![]() It should therefore come as no surprise that I leaped at the chance to read Leckie’s fantasy book as soon as I learned she was writing one. Jemisin, although I’d argue that neither of them has seen the precipitous climb to fame and success that Ann Leckie has. For a comparison, we’d definitely need to look at the debuts of writers like Brandon Sanderson and N.K. ![]() Ann Leckie, whose debut book Ancillary Justice won every major genre prize on offer, is likely the only author to have had as significant of an impact on the world of Science Fiction & Fantasy in the past ten years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon he turned apostate and sought a university position, which set him on the path to becoming the star of German philosophy in the 1920s. The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.Heidegger grew up in Catholic Germany where, for a chance at pursuing a life of learning, he pledged himself to the priesthood. ![]() One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. Barne- og ungdomsbøker for motvillige lesere.Se alle bøker innen Dokumentar og fakta ». ![]() ![]() ![]() He initially left the pup behind when he and Pierre prepared to get through the no-man's land, but found he couldn't do it. In an abandoned farmhouse between those lines, while trying to tend to his injured pilot, Robert discovered an abandoned German Shepherd puppy. But in the winter of 1939, on board a Potez 63 fighter-bomber, gunner Robert and his French pilot, Pierre, were shot down by German ground fire from the ground, their plane crashing in a no-man's land between the French Maginot and German Siegfried lines. ![]() He was practically seething with patriotic rage, wanting to get up in the air and shoot down the Nazis so he could have his country back. In 1938, escaping his beloved, native Czechoslovakia before the Nazis rolled in and seized control, Robert Bozdech joined the French Air Force. Yet that's the exact vibe that author and burgeoning war dog historian Damien Lewis gives off in The Dog Who Could Fly, and it is true together they have an incredible, heroic adventure. It feels uncouth to exclaim "What an adventure!" about the close relationship between a Czech airman and his newfound German Shepherd in the thick of World War II, one of the darkest times in the history of the world. Set against the backdrop of war, The Dog Who Could Fly is a story of the unshakeable bond between a man and his best friend - a dog. ![]() ![]() She stares straight ahead, but we’re told she notices the colorful lupines outside her window. There is a cane beside her bed, a cane which we won’t see again until the end of the book, when she’s not just old but “very old.” The picture shows Miss Rumphius alone in bed with her cat and a book she is not reading. When she goes to the Land of the Lotus-Eaters, the text says, “and there, getting off a camel, she hurt her back.” In the picture, she’s pressing her hand into her back while she rides the camel sidesaddle. The fictional story - which feels real - is about the Lupine Lady, a little girl named Alice who, over the course of her life, finds a way to take her grandfather’s advice: “You must do something to make the world more beautiful.” That something has a lot to do with lupines.Īfter working as a librarian, Miss Rumphius travels the world. The Lupine Award, presented by the Maine Library Association, got its name from this very book. ![]() This one was published in 1982 and won the American Book Award. ![]() I’m always up for a good picture book - one whose words and pictures work together to tell the story. My friend Sharon Gibbs recommended this book to me, and L.L. ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, more than half a dozen books later (most recently, Outrages, about sex and censorship in 19th century Britain), Naomi is sitting across from me in a cafe in Edinburgh, the city where she wrote The Beauty Myth 28 years ago. ![]() “An ideology that makes women feel ‘worth less’ was urgently needed to counteract the way feminism had begun to make us feel worth more.” Gloria Steinem praised the book, while the likes of Camille Paglia criticised it heavily. “Western economies are absolutely dependent on the continued underpayment of women,” she wrote in the introduction. ![]() It cleverly traced the links between patriarchy, the ideals peddled in contemporary advertising and pornography and increased pressures for women to get surgery alongside rising numbers of eating disorder diagnoses. In 1991, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth, a big and bold work of nonfiction that put to paper the oppressive beauty ideals of the day. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Silla’s friends start showing signs of possession, Silla, Nick and Silla’s brother, Reese, must contend with a deadly, immortal woman who will stop at nothing to take the book of spells from them. In her first attempt at magic, in an old graveyard near her home, Nick, the new boy in town spies on her he recognizes the magic that Silla is performing as the same magic his mother performed with him, before she went mad.īefore long, Silla and Nick connect, though Nick is unwilling to share his history with blood magic with Silla. ![]() When a mysterious spell book arrives, Silla hopes it will lead to some answers about her parents’ killer. ![]() The murder of her parents has left Silla damaged and lost, and Silla’s insistence that her father is not to blame only alienates her further from her friends and family. Publisher: Random House Children (US)/ Doubleday Children’s (UK) ![]() ![]() ![]() Och trots allt kan vi läsa Bertil Falks motsvariggörande för dess egna språkekvilibristiska skull. Men kan Finnegans Wake ens motsvariggöras? Vi famlar i blindo som med allt annat som rör James Joyces extrem-modernistiska verk. Bertil Falk kallar detta ett "motsvariggörande" av verket. ![]() Och just därför, i god joycesk anda, bör något liknande göras. Läsaren kommer på sig själv med att bli poetiskt hänförd - och inte sällan med att skratta högt.įinnegans Wake är naturligtvis omöjlig att översätta eller tolka på svenska. Men oavsett om läsaren förstår helheten eller inte - och det gör läsaren inte - finns här ett outtömligt flöde av ordlekar och språkliga nykonstruktioner som är underhållande, humoristiska, vackra och bisarrt fascinerande. Samtidigt är det så mångtydigt eller omöjligt att tyda, att läsarens främsta reaktion blir förvirring och rådlöshet. Finnegans Wake av James Joyce (1882-1941) är ett centralt verk i den litterära modernismen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh returns to enthrall readers with the third book in her seductive, atmospheric fantasy quartet. ![]() But what she discovers on the other side is a dangerous, duplicitous world full of mischief and magic she doesn't understand. When her best friend Celine disappears under mysterious circumstances, Pippa resolves to find her. With the help of Eloise, the daughter of a powerful sorceress, Pippa discovers Arjun's gateway and slips through in search of her friend. Pippa Montrose is tired of losing everything she loves. Pippa has no idea where her best friend has gone, but she's certain it's in the company of Sebastien Saint Germain and that Arjun can lead her to them. It's mere days until Pippa Montrose is to wed Phoebus Devereux and become a member of his well-heeled family, offering salvation to her own. But knowing it could save Odette, he returns, leaving the mirrored tare between the two worlds open and setting the stage for both love and war. ![]() Arjun despises the Sylvan Vale, and in return, it despises him. A healer from the Sylvan Vale could help her, but only Arjun Desai, as a half fey, can cross the boundary between realms. The Court of the Lions have done everything they can to save her but have failed. 'Vampires are back, and they're more seductive than ever' Bustle, on The Beautiful The much-anticipated third entry in New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh's sumptuous and thrilling series, The Beautiful. ![]() |