This method of interpretation is one that Pope also uses in his editorial work for Shakespeare. However, Pope approached both his translations from a subjective perspective, substituting accuracy for a version that he felt Homer would have written if he lived in England during the 18th century (“Alexander Pope”). Due to the success of both these translations, Pope was able to live free of debt (“Alexander Pope”). During 1725-26, Pope, along with William Broome and Elijah Fenton, completed a translation of The Odyssey (“Alexander Pope”). In 1720, he completed a verse translation of Homer’s The Iliad, a translation that was the greatest labour of his life (“Alexander Pope”). Aside from the poems that Pope is famous for, he also accomplished notable work as an editor and translator. Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl, from National Portrait GalleryĪlexander Pope (born died May 30, 1744) was an English poet and satirist, famous for such poems as An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712-14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733-34).
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I would have loved to see these 2000s TV darlings owning it as two grown adult women negotiating their mature dynamic." There is some light de-aging and a cute color filter on the '80s scenes, but we simply do not have the technology to make people in their 40s look 20 years younger. Because Chalke and Heigl inexplicably play their 20-year-old selves and the ghost of this creative decision hovers over the entire series, we need to discuss it up front. Their story is told over three timelines: The '70s, the '80s, and 2003, with the girls aged 14, early 20s, and 43, respectively. It tells the story of best friends Kate (Sarah Chalke) and Tully (Katherine Heigl), who have known each other since eighth grade and remain enmeshed in a tight-knit, volatile, and sometimes unhealthy relationship 30 years later. "Why this story, this moment, this medium of storytelling? Why these creative liberties - or lackthereof? Netflix's Firefly Lane, based on the novel by Kristin Hannah and adapted for TV by Maggie Friedman, is a show that fails to answer any of these questions. For producers ignoring this warning and moving ahead anyway, you have one job: Tell us why," says Promo Khosla. "It goes without saying yet still needs to be said: Not every book needs to be adapted for TV or movies. While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston (now a district of Birmingham) and Sheffield. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cafés are one of Smith’s greatest loves, from her first moments in New York in 1965, owing to a youthful romanticism bound up in Arthur Rimbaud and the Beats, and she lists favorites across the world: from Paris and Sydney to Uppsala and Tucson. She writes of feeling off-balance and lethargic, overcome by malaise, bound otherwise by the simple daily routines of her café, her black coffee and her brown toast. Here, she’s sectioned her work off in “stations” rather than chapters, the disjointed times and places also emphasizing the strongest connections in her life.Īt one level is the present for Smith, roughly a year and a half of a particularly difficult period. At 66 (now 68), memory and love weigh heavily on Smith’s mind as she writes. M Train contains elements of manifesto, passionate tributes to the writers she reveres, accounts of some of Smith’s stranger travels and vivid passages of her continual search for artistic inspiration. This more experimental memoir aligns with Smith’s balanced artistic halves, the poetry and the punk rock. M Train moves in several arcs at once, fading in and out of dreams, jumping between subjects and years like a stone skipped across a lake. While Smith’s 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids was a tender and intimate portrait of two artists coming into their own, this follow up eschews conventions. Unfolding from the hazy edges of a dream, Patti Smith’s M Train is a memoir that blends a lifetime of scattered memories with the small, comfortable routines of every day experience. TLDR, it's not what you're expecting, it's better. We might get a France every now and again, but this is an incredibly well written book about medieval SWEDEN. Even Christian Cameron had to make his protagonists English, even though theyre barely in England. Vikings, English Archers, English Knights. I'm an American who knows more about Crecy than Gettysburg because historical fiction writers(and consumers, I imagine) only seem care about English history. And most importantly ITS NOT ABOUT ENGLAND. "They don't even get to Jerusalem til the end!", to which I answer: the book is called "the ROAD TO JERUSALEM and not "WE GOT TO JERUSALEM EARLY" That person sold me a book. I believe somebody was complaining on here about a "misleading title". I never realized how universally atheist new books are becoming, and having just a good guy priest, not a former badass(there is one of these, though), not secretly working against the protagonist, or whatever trope that's going around, is ironically refreshing. It's a very positive and more importantly to me NOT PREACHY view into Christian philosophy, at least thats how I see it. Went looking for trashy historical fiction.Īnd I got this. Her funding was not restored until she qualified for the Olympics. She described this as giving her "the kick up the arse I needed", and, forced to stop training at the University of Bath's facilities due to the cost of living in the city, she moved back home with her parents, funding her continued training with three part-time jobs as a swimming coach, a barmaid and a physiotherapist. Career Īfter initial success at junior level, including two gold and one silver medal in the 2003 World Junior Championships in Athens, Fell nearly gave up the sport in 2006 when, due to a series of shin splint injuries, her funding was cut by UK Sport. Heather has a degree in physiotherapy from Brunel University. Early life įell grew up in Tavistock, Devon, where she was taught to ride and shoot, both disciplines in the pentathlon, by the parents of the 2000 Olympic pentathlon bronze medallist Kate Allenby. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the women's modern pentathlon event. Heather Fell (born 3 March 1983 in Plymouth, England) is a former British modern pentathlete turned triathlete. British modern pentathlete and triathleteģ5-39F European Sprint Triathlon Championships Lessons from the Edge follows the arc of her career as she develops into the person we came to know during the impeachment proceedings. She has reclaimed her own narrative, first with her lauded congressional testimony, and now with this memoir.Ī child of parents who survived Soviet and Nazi terror, Yovanovitch’s life and work have taught her the preciousness of democracy as well as the dangers of corruption. Her courageous participation in the subsequent impeachment inquiry earned Yovanovitch the nation’s respect, and her dignified response to the president’s attacks won our hearts. But it came as a shock when, in early 2019, she was recalled from her post after a smear campaign by President Trump’s personal attorney and his associates-men operating outside of normal governmental channels, and apparently motivated by personal gain. ambassador to Ukraine-a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.īy the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. With more than 20 million copies in print in over 40 countries, her novels have been awarded the prestigious Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers’ Best, and the Laurel Wreath. Cast is a #1 New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling author and a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. Cast is the author of the House of Night novels, including Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, and Untamed. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey's old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs-like she really fits in. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Cast and Kristin Cast, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.įledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. Betrayed, the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series from P. The doctor Calder Brock takes Hester in and treats her wounds and nurses her back to health. On the way she is run over by the horse and cart of a doctor and injured quite badly. She is forced to live with their gardener Jacob and his wife Meg (whom Hester calls ‘Auntie’ and ‘Uncle’.ĭesperate to make a better life for herself she heads out one day to meet her cousin who she believes is the key to a better life. We meet our protagonist Hester White who having been previously fairly well off and well educated finds herself falling on extremely hard time after the deaths of her parents. Like super great.įor a kick off it’s Georgian, it’s dark, it’s gritty, it’s grim. Alright, alright I would’ve luh-huvved an actual proof but I’ll take a great book in whatever form I can. So I was absolutely thrilled to be approved to review this via Netgalley. I saw so many people posting beautiful pictures of stunning velvety proofs of this book and immediately got book envy. Years ago the Tucks drank from that same spring in the woods as they looked for a place to settle. Pausing by a stream, the Tucks tell Winnie their story. The group passes the stranger on the road that runs by the woods, and he follows them. Surprised, Winnie thinks she is being kidnapped. Mae and Miles Tuck arrive, and the three of them unexpectedly lift Winnie up on their horse and take her out of the woods and to the Tuck home. Winnie wants a drink, too, but Jesse won’t let her have one and says it would be bad for her. She watches as he drinks from the hidden forest spring and then covers it back up again. The next morning, Winnie walks into the woods to search for the source of the music and sees Jesse Tuck there. He has spent years trying to discover the secret of living forever and is looking for the family, but he doesn’t share that with Winnie or her grandmother. The stranger recognizes the music from stories he heard as a youth about a family that never aged. The Foster family owns the woods and lives next to them. Ten-year-old Winnie Foster, her grandmother and a stranger who is talking to them hear the music as they stand in Winnie’s front yard. As reunion time nears again, Angus Tuck stays home while his wife, Mae, heads to the woods outside of town to meet their sons. Once every 10 years, the Tucks meet for a family reunion. |