![]() He described it as ‘ the relationship between a male cat and his female owner told from the cat’s perspective.’ In 2016 it was adapted into an anime TV series as well as a manga version drawn by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. She and Her Cat began life as a five minute 1999 anime by Makoto Shinkai. Judging by my success with this one, the other four are sure to appear here soon!)įirst up, I should declare that I am a cat person, and I am very fond of the Japanese fascination with cats in literature. (The other four books to soothe a battered soul are Banana Yoshimoto’s new book of stories, Dead-End Memories, Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (already on my TBR), Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada and Idol, Burning by Rin Usami. My soul was not feeling particularly battered (except for this seemingly endless La Niña rain!) but I definitely felt soothed after reading these four short interconnected cat stories. One of the online sites that came up when I duck, duck, go’d this title, suggested She and Her Cat was one of the five translated books this season that could soothe a battered soul. ![]()
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THE IMPROBABILITY OF LOVE marks acclaimed documentary filmmaker Hannah Rothschild’s first foray into novel writing. 〉 The debut novel from Rothschild paints an irreverent picture of love and loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gina, who studied law at the University of Auckland in the late eighties and was admitted to the bar in 1991, was always interested in writing. Gina, who is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent, is looking forward to linking up with First Nations authors and Pasifika writers, as well as working on her new book, which, like her newly released novel Na Viro (Fijian for whirlpool), will also be a science fiction fantasy novel and a work of Pasifika futurism. “We will be thrilled to meet her and have her here for the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival.” Varuna’s creative director Amy Sambrooke says the opportunity to connect Gina with First Nations writers and with Pasifika writers in Western Sydney was too good to pass up. Gina will spend four weeks at the Varuna National Writers’ House in Katoomba, New South Wales, thanks to the Michael King Writers Centre in association with Varuna, which is the foremost institution for literature development in Australia. The celebrated author, known for her Pasifika futurist science fiction, is heading off to Australia’s Blue Mountains this September after being awarded an inaugural writers’ residency. Despite dedicating more than 30 years of her life to law, University of Auckland alumna and Ockham New Zealand winner Gina Cole is unlikely to return to practising anytime soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Conceived by Mary Wang, each interview provides an intimate look into the artistic process.Ī Twitter sage and a comforting voice of the digital age, reliably funnier, more incisive, and better able to deliver near-perfect commentary on both the quotidian and the serious than perhaps anyone else on the platform, Patricia Lockwood is a rare gem of joy-offering chaotic good in an online world that typically leans toward chaotic evil.įollowing two books of poetry, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Lockwood’s 2017 memoir, Priestdaddy, was an immediate hit. ![]() Miscellaneous Files is a series of virtual studio visits that uses writers’ digital artifacts to understand their practice. ![]() ![]() When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie’s freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives into the hostile Carolina night. Seemingly a quiet philosopher, Ewan has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home Guard, and a thoughtful but unbending strength Marlie finds irresistible. Unbeknowst to those under her roof, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in her laboratory. ![]() Her formerly enslaved mother’s traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her-until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie’s home for their new base of operations in the guerilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause. ![]() įor all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor-but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the tapes were never kept there anyway. 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And thankfully, I've kept notes on all of it.” Detailing the plot of the episode, he shares that yes, he was nicknamed “Clark Kent,” years ago on the royal beat, and yes, just like in The Crown, his office was broken into while he was working on the book. “I had eight script writers on a conference call discussing the absolute minutiae of that period of time. “To be honest with you, the story of how we made Diana: Her True Story has been a TV drama waiting to happen,” Morton says, noting that he served as a consultant on the episode, titled “The System.” Their covert collaboration recently became fodder for an episode of The Crown, with Elizabeth Debicki playing Diana, and Andrew Steele portraying the bespectacled author. When writing Her True Story, Morton sent Diana questions and the Princess secretly recorded her answers, messengering the cassette tapes back to Morton via her friend Dr. ![]() ![]() Glaude shared that Baldwin’s “delicate balance between rage and love” provided him with perspective. This lie provides cover for a “value gap” that threatens our future and our collective soul. This refusal, Glaude contended, allows for the advancement of a lie regarding what this nation is and what it stands for to continue. His dismay stems from America’s refusal to come to grips with a racist past that has perhaps defined what the country is today more than any other identifiable feature. I became curious after listening to interviews in which Professor Glaude shared his disillusionment with the United States. ![]() The author compelled me, a white man with ancestral heritage I didn’t earn, to learn more about a lie that our nation has protected for centuries. Recently, I asked some close friends to join me in a book study of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrown through a hoop over her feelings for him, and desperate to keep a low-profile, Shannon finds herself once again the target of bullies as she forms a fragile alliance with rugby’s rising star. On her very first day at the prestigious private school, she comes into contact with the notorious Johnny Kavanagh. Bullied and tortured, she arrives at Tommen College mid-way through the school year praying for a fresh start and desperate to shake off the demons that plague her. Life has never been easy for Shannon Lynch. He needs to stay focused, and cannot afford to let distractions get in the way of the bigger picture.īut what happens when a lonely girl with sad eyes becomes the only picture? Striving to maintain balance, and on the crest of the International Summer Campaign, Johnny needs to keep his head in the game. Plagued with a hidden injury and desperate to impress the scouts watching his every move, Johnny has been placed on a pedestal so high, he has no room to make mistakes. The one that distracts him like no one ever has. The one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. ![]() ![]() Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College. Nothing can possibly get in his way, right? Primed for stardom, he’s heading straight for the top. On the rugby pitch, he’s a force to be reckoned with. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liss has penned a strange and, yes, peculiar alternate history of late-nineteenth-century London that creates a mythology of the time through eccentric characters. But Thomas has more serious problems than those of a disaffected young man. Thomas's older brother Walter has trapped him in a tedious clerical job at the family bank in London, and Thomas is expected to wed a wealthy young woman in whom he has no interest. His newfound friends and fellow investigators include the woman his brother is forcing him to marry, who is referred to as the “Jewess” and who doesn’t want to marry Thomas, either a wolf-faced girl and the influential real-life occultist Aleister Crowley. He is a twenty-three-year-old man whose best days are behind him. Despite being a mathematical genius, Thomas is a little obtuse when it comes to the social issues of his era, until he evolves from a privileged clerk to an outlier driven to solve the mystery of the Peculiarities. As Thomas learns more about his symptoms, he realizes that the sudden presence of magic in Victorian London has some connection to his family’s bank, and his curiosity launches an absurd inquiry into suspicious banking practices, secret occult societies, and supernatural math equations. ![]() Every few hours, he sprouts a leaf, a sign that he has been afflicted by the Peculiarities, which can take many other forms, including rabbit births and lycanthropy. The Peculiarities by David Liss Sold by: Services LLC 4.2 (151) Kindle Edition 9499.99 Available instantly Randoms Book 1 of 3: Randoms by David Liss Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hope’s arrest leads to the second half of the novella, a third-person narrative concerning the foundation of the Mormon community in Utah. Through the reading of fine details and other investigations, Holmes concludes that the killer is a cab driver, Jefferson Hope. The police misread the word “Rache” written in blood at the crime scene as “Rachel” Holmes reads the clue correctly as German for “revenge.” Drebber’s secretary, Joseph Stangerson, is accused of the murder but is later found murdered. It becomes clear that Holmes is a consulting detective when he is called upon by the police to investigate the murder of Enoch Drebber in an empty house near Brixton. He is introduced to Sherlock Holmes, a man of unusual habits. John Watson, an army doctor who, following the battle of Maiwand, has chosen to settle in London. The story begins with the narration of Dr. Analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in ScarletĪ detective fiction novella first published by Arthur Conan Doyle in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, and published subsequently as a separate edition by Ward, Lock and Company in 1888, A Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. ![]() |