![]() ![]() Her observations, the way she phrases things, are not distinct from mine. ![]() I liked the idea that it’s this profession that combines artistry and attention to detail but then you have the heavy equipment. Tell me about that choice.īecause Boots was not going to be in the book that much, I wanted him to have interesting trappings without being too cliched. ![]() Lola’s fianc e, Boots, is a glassblower. All the raw material is coming from inside the house, and so you’re more culpable for every choice, as opposed to bouncing off the reality of the world. ![]() If there’s a talent contest and the options are read a poem, spin in circles or juggle and speak German at the same time, I would choose to read a poem, but this feels like juggling and speaking German. How does writing fiction and nonfiction compare?įiction feels scarier and somehow more embarrassing to me. If I had been married for 20 years and got a divorce and wrote a book about divorce, nobody would think it was some sort of revolution or revelation. I wanted to give a literary treatment to dating because it’s what takes up a section of your life. At a certain point everyone realises that it doesn’t matter what other people think. I get pegged as someone who writes about her wacky adventures in dating.Īge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Data flow topics have over 160 pages of explanations. ![]() About 20 pages go toward project structure and another 30 on functions and lambdas. The book’s emphasis on doing real work comes out when it focuses on some of the more advanced aspects of Python. For example, McDonald takes the time to explain what makes Python a functional language, not obvious to those only familiar with procedural or object-oriented languages. That said, there is a good amount of basic information in the book presented with few assumptions about the reader’s prior programming background. That’s probably why McDonald spends only about 50 pages on Python syntax and a little over 20 pages on Python variables. ![]() It is sometimes said that Python is easy to learn but hard to master. McDonald, a software engineer, has written a +700-page treatise on Python that is aimed at people who already are familiar with some other software language but who want to do something real with Python-and want to get up to speed with the language as quickly as possible. Readers may initially see the title of this book and think it entails a “for dummies” type presentation of Python. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zola’s schemes aren’t clear to Fable, but when the ship lands at Jeval and he begins recruiting dredgers, including our ole pal Koy (whom you’ll recall tried to kill our heroine in the previous book), she starts to see that his plan is much bigger than she imagined-and that she’s at the center of it all. Oh yeah, and Clove, Saint’s former navigator, isn’t dead and is in fact working on the Luna! Cool cool cool. I think we all remember the cliffhanger from Fable since it was so goddamn egregious but in case you weren’t as incensed as I was, Namesake picks up right where its predecessor left off: Fable is being held captive on Zola’s ship (the Luna) after she decided to just, you know, sneak into town to get West’s mom’s ring like what could possibly go wrong?! And right before she was kidnapped, she ran into Saint (her dad), who tells her that West isn’t who she thinks he is. Our girl is moving up in the world (but she’ll always look like Bryce Dallas Howard to me). I particularly like the details in the artwork that show how her life has changed since the first book: the gorgeous earrings, the make-up. If you put the cover of Fable next to this cover, you get Fable’s whole face! Nice one, designers. ![]() Warning, there be spoilers ahead! If you haven’t read Fable, turn back now or you’ll ruin a great read for yourself. Relationship Status: The Wind In My Sails ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zombies are commonplace walking the streets and when you look up you see the sky trolleys. Musical spirits and ghosts are not unusual in Nola, but we bridge other oddities not found on your travel agent’s brochure. These episodes have been coined “Color Rushes.” Graffiti can float on the air now and people passing through the graffiti become disoriented, one person vomiting flower petals after going through a tag. The fourth defender is Casey, an ex-tagger who abandoned his art when he saw his creations coming to life on their own. Three are children who will face off against the likes of legendary song villain Stagger Lee and a gruesome ghoul he reports to. Take away the songs, songs manifesting themselves as spirits, and the city collapses against a collection of all the storms ever visited on the area.Ī chosen few are tasked with using magic to fend off the attack. Evil is out to kill nine essential songs holding this world together. Music always felt like the heartbeat here, we just never realized it is the heartbeat. There is no place like it, except in “The Ballad of Perilous Graves.” Alex Jennings fires up the torches to show the real Nola. In the spirit here, I ask that if you are currently deceased, it is imperative that you resume living at once and begin reading – (very loosely taken from part of the digital galley). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My mom’s father married at least ten times, to nine women. Granny’s father was a member of the Dallas County Local of Socialists. Had my maternal grandmother’s father really been a communist in early twentieth-century Dallas? Had my mom’s father really married thirteen times? Had his father really killed a man with a hay hook? Slowly I confirmed these stories, at least partly. When I did start researching my ancestors, only my mother’s side interested me: the Texan rabble-rousers, scoundrels, and misfits I’d grown up hearing about. So I never expected to become interested in compiling my own family tree. He was an avowed white supremacist, a defender of slavery, and I aspired then to be as little like him and his branch of my family as possible. Growing up, I associated genealogy with the begats of the Bible, with an old family tree my father showed me, and with my father’s reverence for the Old South. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "You talk like that and you wonder why you get dirt-duty." "There's a reason Biff isn't mentioned in the other books, you know? He's a total - " A sequel? Revelations 2, just when you thought it was safe to sin?" "I'm not sure I'm supposed to know, but the rumor is that it's a new book." Stephan coughed, clearly an affectation, since angels didn't breathe. "I was reminded why angels are cast out." It's all in the orders." Stephan handed him the scroll. Pack the gift of tongues and some minor miracles. "When do I leave? I was almost finished here." "What do you think?" Stephan held out the scroll so Raziel could see the Burning Bush seal. "Really?" Raziel checked his watch, then tapped the crystal. The archangel Stephan was standing over him, brandishing a scroll like a rolled-up magazine over a piddling puppy. "Raziel, what in heaven's name are you doing?" Each time he turned the cloth a muted chorus rang from the closet, as if he'd clamped the lid down on a pickle jar full of Hallelujah Chorus. A wineskin of glory had leaked in the corner and the angel blotted it with a wad of fabric. Halos and moonbeams were sorted into piles according to brightness, satchels of wrath and scabbards of lightning hung on hooks waiting to be dusted. The angel was cleaning out his closets when the call came. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book mixed the real story with the story of fictional characters from different parts. We all know the story of the Titanic and it's voyage to New York. Claire is reunited with a long-lost love … but is their love star-crossed?Howard Fitzwilliam tells the story of Titanic’s dead, as he collects them from the ocean, serving on the Mackay-Bennett. They are joined by Claire, a young Irish girl, and her niece, five-year-old Nora. Third-class passenger Adene and her daughter, Isla, are travelling to emigrate to America after the death of Adene’s husband, Robert, some months prior. When Lady Cecilia meets handsome fellow first-class passenger Henry Hamilton, an avid photographer, travelling to America to meet with the Biograph Company, she falls in love, defying her entire family. Lady Cecilia Gresham is travelling across the ocean with her family for her arranged marriage to Thomas Vanderbilt, heir to the Vanderbilt fortune. No one has heard the story told quite like this before …Fred Barrett, Lead Fireman of Boiler Room 6, spends his days and nights working to extinguish the coal fire that has been plaguing the Titanic’s hull for weeks. Everyone thinks they know the story of the Titanic. ![]() ![]() The Nobel Prize is awarded for an entire life’s work, but Márquez need not have written anything else to merit his inclusion as a laureate. With its release in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude defined Márquez as a writer, Colombia as a country South America as a continent and Magical Realism as a movement. And it makes the commonplace fantastical: who ever imagined discovering ice. It alludes to the revolutions and counter-revolutions which litter South America’s history. ![]() The sentence is cyclical, containing both the beginning and the end of the story as well as a hint of what happens in between. The first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude encapsulates not only a book, but also a nation, a continent and a literary movement. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. ![]() Three questions arising from One Hundred Years of Solitude ![]() ![]() She brings to life the man, born to be a spare and suddenly heir to the throne at a time when not having a male heir, risked civil war, pain and suffering. ![]() Flawed, petulant and vain, yet intelligent, emotional and complex. It takes a fictional tale by an author such as Alison Weir to bring Henry VIII to life, not just the bully and monster from history, but a much more nuanced character. And the crown weighs heavy on a king with all but his one true desire. The great future of the Tudor dynasty depends on an heir. Henry rules by divine right, yet his prayers for a son go unanswered. But Arthur’s untimely death sees Harry crowned King Henry of England.Īs his power and influence extends, so commences a lifelong battle between head and heart, love and duty. ![]() In grand royal palaces, Prince Harry grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry – and the golden age of kings that awaits his older brother. A second son, not born to rule, becomes a man, and a king… ![]() ![]() Publisher Scribner, called the book a story for people " who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed".Īn early review from the Washington Post said Illusions II was written in Bach's "signature tone of carefully modulated bliss". "There's no blessing that can't be a disaster, and no disaster that can't be a blessing," writes the author, who on 14 February will also release a new "complete" edition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The short ebook tells of how Bach met his "spirit guides" – including Jonathan – following his plane crash, when his plane, known as Puff, clipped a power line. ![]() And "Kindle Singles gave me the opportunity to share my story immediately." ![]() ![]() "But after I was very nearly destroyed in an accident aboard my seaplane, I wondered if it were not an accident at all, but a test," he said in an announcement from. ![]() He has now touched on Jonathan again, both in a just-published followup to his 1977 spiritual memoir Illusions written after he nearly died in a plane crash in 2012, and in a new edition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, out later this week and including "the never-before-published Part Four".īach said he never intended to write Illusions II, which has just been released as a Kindle Single and is his first comment on his near-death experience. ![]() |