6/28/2023 0 Comments Ulysses grant memoirs![]() ![]() What caused Grant to become not simply a memoirist but one of the most successful memoirists of his day? As with so many of his achievements, necessity and circumstance figured heavily. ![]() ![]() More known for his reticence than for his eloquence, he was often depicted as a cigar-chewing stoic rather than a leader who expressed himself publicly. Yet for all his fame, Grant was a private man not given to literary pursuits. In America during the late nineteenth century, many celebrated figures wrote autobiographies, and many Civil War heroes less prominent than Grant published memoirs to great acclaim. By the end of the war, Grant was the highest-ranking general of the victorious Union army and he rode his immense popularity to two terms as president of the United States (1868–1876). Grant (1822–1885) wrote a Civil War memoir. It is both fitting and surprising that Ulysses S. ![]()
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![]() This is really good fun an excellent introduction to Robert as botha writer and a reader though the interview at the end is a little bemusing if you've not heard or read any of his previous booksthat should in no way distract you from the main story. A private eye story with Tom our hero teaming up with a drinken teddy bear to scour Toy City for the murderer of Humpty DUmpty (it's more fun than it sounds) and a final battle section which explaining will really mess up the books suprises. Roughly it splits into three parts an insane and hysterical fairy tale world (listen to the sample for an idea of this). ![]() In the meantime however enjoy this stand alone story. ![]() Robert Rankin has an excellent series of unabridged self read audio books available covering the massively inaccurately named Brentford Trilogy harrass the Audible staff to get them in. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Reign of wrath eva ashwood![]() ![]() Gage is Ryder, aka the leader of the group.Comparison to Den of VipersĪs I read the first book, I couldn’t help but compare the two stories together as each of the guys fits a specific role that lines up with the guys in Den of Vipers. They end up taking her to their house, after catching her killing someone behind their bar, trying to figure out if she’s going to be trouble for them. ![]() There were several individuals involved, but she’s down to the final name when she comes across the Kings of Chaos (Gage, Knox, Ash, and Priest). She starts out wanting to get revenge on the final man who had kidnapped her and her sister when they were teenagers. This series follows River through several different stages. This series is currently available on Kindle Unlimited. Knight but found you wanted more out of it (mainly plot and better development), the Dirty Broken Savages series by Eva Ashwood is for you. I can’t remember exactly when I read the first book, but the final book came of the series came out on March 31, 2022. I started reading this series last year when I finally decided to read books in the romance genre. These help support the blog, so I can keep creating content. ![]() ![]() This post may contain affiliate or referral codes, for which I receive a small compensation and you get a discount in exchange. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Margaret brown wise![]() ![]() Her books circulated in the millions during the last ten years, the last two were published with in a month, under the titles “Mr.Dog” by Simon & Schuster and The Noon Balloon, by Harper & Brothers. She used two pen names besides her own, Golden MacDonald and timothy Hay. ![]() Miss Brown wrote her books so quickly that she used several publishers for their issuance, Harper & Brothers, Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, Random House and William R. Since then she had been writing them at a rate of at least four a year. ![]() ” The Fish with the deep sea Smile” published by E.P. Miss Brown wrote her first book for Children in 1938. She also had a studio at 1335 York Ave that she called cobble court. Margaret Wise Brown, forty-two, author of many children’s books, died in Nice, France on Wednesday after an appendectomy, according to word received here. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ralph and the motorcycle book![]()
6/26/2023 0 Comments Eliot bede![]() ![]() Because he thinks he knows what "right" is, he is very self-confident, and he expresses himself honestly. Adam's is a very strong nature he is brave and aggressive, and he does not give way under pressure. This orientation gives rise to many fine qualities. For this reason, he is a sober young man, totally dedicated to his work he rarely does things for his own pleasure but strives to do the right thing in every situation. He has a stoic philosophy in that he feels that one should always do one's duty, no matter what the circumstances. Local Color and Comic Relief in Adam BedeĪdam is an intelligent but not well-educated rural carpenter who feels that he understands "the natur o' things." For him, life is very simple he believes that the world operates according to certain rather mechanistic principles which never change and that, likewise, one's life should be lived according to certain principles of right conduct. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist![]() OL15705351W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.10 Pages 278 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1590513339 ![]() Highly recommended for all fiction readers. I think the thing that distinguished this book from some other. ![]() This book was a real surprise for me as I was not expecting to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. 'The Unit' is both enjoyable as a superficial read, and an extraordinarily current thinker. 23 Responses to Review of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist. Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s uncanny dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future, where women over fifty and men over sixty who are unmarried and childless are sent to a retirement. However Holmqvist has pushed past the theme of female-oriented oppression, and explored what it means to be oppressed in the name of the greater good, indiscriminate of sex. Urn:lcp:unitnovel00holm:lcpdf:a9b24d7c-0af8-4100-af0c-8b0818b75da4 Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:18:00 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA135304 Boxid_2 CH120201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donorīelvederetiburonlibrary External-identifier ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Unshaken by francine rivers![]() ![]() Because women of her their time were held by strict laws, it makes me more remarkable to me that someone who clearly was foreign had the ability to be accepted by God's people, as an ancestor to Jesus! Reading this story was a delightful way to spend my Sunday, while giving my own faith a boost. As has been the case with the other stories of women of the Bible whom Francine writes about, Ruth was not an Israelite by birth, but a woman who came into the faith because of the support and love she received from someone who was - and in this case was her mother-in-law. Overall, I'd say the novella was still worth reading, and Francine Rivers managed to capture the emotions of what would have been felt by the grieving widows who together had to learn how to trust the God they served and what He had in store for them. ![]() ![]() Whenever the women or men would have snippets of conversations between them about Naomi or Ruth, it seemed to break up the flow of the story. The only thing I would have changed were the brief commentaries by the rest of the onlookers who were observing their lives. Romantic Times This novella includes an in-depth Bible study perfect for personal reflection or group discussion. ![]() Francine Rivers spins a tale that’s not only true to history, but satisfying to the heart. Not only did it have a backstory on the lives of Naomi and Ruth, it added more depth to their characters than I would have thought about, making it a believable account. Unshaken is book three in the popular Lineage of Grace series about five unlikely women who changed eternity. Having watched a few movie portrayals of Ruth, the dutiful daughter-in-law to Naomi, I was eager to see what the novella would include. This story of Ruth as told by Francine Rivers is yet another good read I enjoyed. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum![]() ![]() It really took me a lot longer to get through it. I did enjoy this book, but it did seem to "drag" just a little more than Road to Gandolfo. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful ( The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. ![]() He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The idiot pevear![]() ![]() However, his first novel, Poor Folk (1846), was so well received that he abandoned engineering for writing. He studied to be an engineer and began work as a draftsman. One of the most powerful and significant authors in all modern fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky was the son of a harsh and domineering army surgeon who was murdered by his own serfs (slaves), an event that was extremely important in shaping Dostoevsky's view of social and economic issues. This wonderfully fresh and faithful translation-never before published-is sure to become the definitive edition in English. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, as Dostoevsky's "positively good man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his moral idealism. ![]() He soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. ![]() In "The Idiot, Prince Myshkin, a saintly man, is thrust into the heart of a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. Read full overviewįrom the award-winning translators of "The Brothers Karamazov, a superb new translation of the novel in which Dostoevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul." From the award-winning translators of "The Brothers Karamazov, a superb new translation of the novel in which Dostoevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul." In "The Idiot, Prince Myshkin, a saintly man, is thrust into the heart of a society. ![]() |