![]() ![]() “Like a character out of Camus or Kafka, Erneste does not appeal to us by his warmth or humanity he resists our pity. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Set against the backdrop of a genteel Swiss hotel, and moving skillfully between two time periods, this exquisitely written story of a lifelong passion is rich in tension and emotion, exploring the nature of love and betrayal, memory, and regret. And Ernest must decide if he will finally take action. And then, after decades of silence, he receives a letter from a distraught and penniless Jakob asking for help. ![]() Nursing his wounds, Erneste slinks even deeper into his well-ordered world, hardening into what had only previously been a role. Jakob broke his heart when he fled Nazidominated Europe for a new life in America with his lover, Julius Klinger, a celebrated German intellectual. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a violent passion, aroused thirty years before, when he fell in love with a young waiter-in-training named Jakob. A sweeping, powerful novel about a man forced to come to terms with the memory of his lost love.Įrneste is the perfect waiter―and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his profession. ![]()
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Before we get to the excellent Delusions of Gender, which I can’t believe it took me so long to read, a word about my blogging habits. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as time wore on, so did the effects of racism and the burgeoning weight it bestows on its victims. Anger yes, defense yes, but still, love your enemy. In the battle against racism, he notes, violence is inevitable and often times expected but, don’t strike with hate, blows shouldn’t be delivered with a malevolent conscious. Throughout his career, Baldwin was enamored with the aspect of love., believing it to be the root of existence. ![]() Deemed “the pen of the Civil Rights Movement,” he often found himself in favor and at odds with the leaders of the era. 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The only way she felt she could express her identity was through poetry, which she started writing in middle school, becoming a published poet by the time she was 15. READ MORE: 15 Inspiring Audre Lorde Quotes “I cannot be simply a Black person and not be a woman too, nor can I be a woman without being a lesbian.” “I am not one piece of myself,” she said in a 1979 interview. ![]() ![]() Audre Lorde never felt like she fit into a box - and any category she did identify with reflected just one sliver of who she was. ![]() ![]() A powerful, rising force proceeds to carry out Mother Nature’s plan to systematically destroy towns, cities, states… and eventually, the world. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges. ![]() LinksīEWARE! 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One thing Banks does particularly well is to make his books completely accessible as stand alones, explaining the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, of which there are many. ![]() It's 25 years since Iain M Banks introduced us to the utopian Culture series of sci fi adventure books and The Hydrogen Sonata is the 13th in the series. ![]() Highly entertaining although not the best in the series by some distance. Summary: The sentient Culture ships feature more heavily than in many of this series of space operas, with the usual wit and sarcasm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The #MeToo movement of 2018, which began as an outing of sexual harassment and sexual assault, cascaded into analysis of gender inequality in the workplace in 2019, encompassing not only pay inequity but also barriers to advancement and representation of women in leadership. 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The author observes that there are actually a number of areas in which women still face discrimination. ![]() ![]() ![]() It might also be a case of fairy tales tending to be relatively contemporary in the versions I read (Grimms are only 200 years old), versus myths that for me either came in forms too heady for a kid in their original versions or watered down in retellings by contemporary atuhors, so I wanted a more fully realized version of everything. ![]() The difference I think is that I took a class in college reading myth as literature, and even though in a lot of ways fairy tales are no different (and I love the Grimms for example), what I usually felt about myths is that the stories I knew of them never told me enough, while I generally felt more satisfied with the fairy tales in their telling. I tend to shy away from modern retellings of fairy tales for reasons I’ve discussed in other reviews, but I really enjoy retellings of myths (though I like the straight retellings of them within their own context more than modern renderings of them in contemporary contexts). ![]() “Sing, Muse, he sings, and the edge in his voice makes it clear that this is not a request.” ![]() ![]() More than any other author of contemporary horror fiction, Barker has had a major impact on the direction of the genre. Primarily a playwright during this period, he also produced short fiction that he would eventually publish as part of his six-volume collection titled Books of Blood (1984-85). ![]() Born in Liverpool in 1952, Barker attended the University of Liverpool but moved to London in 1977, where he worked as a commercial artist and became involved with the avant-garde theatrical community. 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