![]() ![]() Miss Pettigrew thinks she is applying for the post of a governess and Delysia requires a maid to keep her affairs in order. Miss Pettigrew is mistakenly sent by the employment agency, to the apartment of young singer and aspiring actress Miss Delysia LaFosse. The day starts quite drearily with Miss Pettigrew desperately seeking a job to avoid being thrown out of her abode. This Persephone Classic, recounts the events of the most remarkable day in the life of Miss Guinevere Pettigrew. To take a look at other books published in the same year, reviewed by other bloggers, please take a look at this blogpost and this one. I am reviewing this book as part of the #1938club, initiated by Simon David Thomas of Stuck in a Book and Karen of Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings. Laughing and thinking about this passage from Winifred Watson’s memorable novel ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ (1938). Why men waste money getting drunk on that, when they can get a really cheap palatable drink like lemon squash …!’ ‘Ugh!’ thought Miss Pettigrew, disappointed. She slipped her class surreptitiously on the table. ‘Where were you brought up?’ commiserated Michael. I’ve never had it, ever, even when I’ve had a cold, as medicine.’ I always wanted to taste whiskey,’ said Miss Pettigrew happily. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of only few humans that was not bred in Cain, Wavorly knows freedom better than anyone, and she is determined to escape the clutches of her oppressors, even if by the hands of death.īut surprises lay beyond every certainty, and within every doubt. ![]() Today, eighteen-year-old Wavorly Sterling is officially a supply unit, bound to serve her blood willingly to her master for the rest of her life. For centuries, councils have sought to assuage the blood shortage by enslaving and breeding humans, turning them into profitable supply units for the rich and the abled. In the Vampire Stratocracy of Cain, human blood is scarce. ![]() **Disclaimer: I was given an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.** ![]() ![]() Brady, Lindy, Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England. ![]() Understanding Bede is a key to understanding British society in the present as well as the past. when did the Venerable Bede not write in Latin English translation of the Gospel of John. Bedes Ecclesiastical history of the English people, Oxford Medieval Texts. The issues around these questions are not academic or antiquarian. The attraction and fascination of his work is partly in seeing the tension between the strategic use of wealth and political power for religious ends and the example of self-effacing service and simplicity of life offered by some of Bede's greatest Christian heroes. But Bede also wrestles with the difficult question of how the Church relates to and serves the political order. Rowan Williams shows in his introduction how Bede works to create a sense of national destiny for the new English kingdoms of the seventh century, a sense that has helped to shape English self-awareness through the centuries, by using the imagery both of imperial Rome and of biblical Israel. Yet it is a key text for any student of English history. Bede's best known work, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, was written in Latin and is not immediately easy to understand and follow. ![]() ![]() Check out an exclusive first look at interior pages below, along with the complete solicitation text from Berger Books and Dark Horse.Īfter a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlem’s cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. 7, is a prequel mini-series set before the events of the graphic novel, as Zane goes “incognegro” for the first time to determine who murdered a black writer at a “scandalous” interracial party in 1920s New York. Incognegro: Renaissance, which launches Feb. ![]() Writer Mat Johnson and artist Warren Pleece’s original Incognegro graphic novel was first published by Vertigo in 2008, and follows black reporter Zane Pinchback, whose light skin allows him to go “undercover” to investigate lynchings in the 1930s American South. ![]() While the entire initial slate of legendary editor Karen Berger’s Berger Books imprint at Dark Horse will surely reflect Berger’s long history of taste-making at Vertigo comics, Incognegro: Renaissance carries perhaps the most direct legacy from DC Comics’ mature-readers imprint. ![]() ![]() “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() And if trying to adjust to American life is not enough, Natti is being stalked by a mysterious, charming high school senior, Seth O’Keefe, who is annoyingly persistent in his attempts at seduction. The only clue related to her murder is an ancient, encrypted necklace Natti discovered after her grandmother’s death. Yet the brutal murder of her maternal grandmother has made her life very complicated. The last thing Natara “Natti” Stone wants to do is to start anew at Setemple High School. ![]() Their worlds collide in California’s high desert. “Her mouth parted slightly, waiting for Seth to breathe life into her own body, just like in the story. Today’s Halloween SPOOKTACULAR feature is an UPPER YA Paranormal from debut author, Kelsey Ketch.ĭaughter of Isis (Descendants of Isis, #1) Hi there, and welcome to my stop on the DAUGHTER OF ISIS blog tour hosted by YA Bound Book Tours. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Helen, Yalia and Anne all meet, they are all aware of a strange bond between them. Anne knows Josiah is dying and she is not looking forward to what will happen to her afterwards. Is this really the end of their marriage? They do still love one another, but sadly, this doesn't seem enough.Īnne Boleyn is being kept a prisoner by Josiah Franklin. ![]() Yalia has not been herself since a traumatic incident in her life occurred three years earlier. Helen and Yalia are on the verge of separating. How can this be? Anne has travelled through time, that's how. This woman is none other than Anne Boleyn, King Henry V111's beheaded Queen. Imagine her surprise when she receives a highly improbable inheritance from her father, scientist Josiah Franklin. Historian Helen Franklin's area of expertise is the Tudor times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their discontent, despite its economic slant, turned aggressive and xenophobic. ![]() They blamed the government for granting permits that allow vast numbers of visitors to enter as well as unlimited travel for residents from Shenzhen, a neighboring city. Protesters accused the traders of driving up retail prices and rents, while neighborhoods transform themselves to serve mainland tourists rather than local communities. Their grievances weren’t with the mechanics of voting, but with so-called “ parallel traders” from the mainland who have been sweeping tax-free products such as baby formula off the shelves in Hong Kong and reselling them across the border for profit. The protests were smaller in scale, much less representative of the Umbrella Movement’s many voices, and angrier, erupting in shopping streets and malls near the Chinese border in February and March. Three months after the police shut down the pro-democracy movement that made headlines last fall, a new wave of protests crested in parts of Hong Kong. Elaine Yu ▪ April 1, 2015Īt right: Hong Kong's tallest building, built jointly by the city and SHKP (See-ming Lee / Flickr) But Hong Kong’s protesters have yet to confront the deeper interests tying their future to that of the mainland. In its call for electoral democracy, the Umbrella movement sought to challenge China’s tight grip on Hong Kong politics. ![]() ![]() Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.ĭetermined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real-and Ben is hooked. ![]() ![]() Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this adaptation, Polk returns to his hometown of Hattiesburg Mississippi, where the film is set. Blackbird is based on the novel of the same name by Larry Duplechan, published in 1986. Polk is the creator of the groundbreaking series about young Black gay men, Noah’s Arc, which ran on Logo for two seasons from 2004-2006, culminating in the theater-release 2008 film Jumping the Broom. This journey is the basis of Blackbird, a 2014 film by Patrik-Ian Polk that deserves a revisit during Pride season. ![]() And if acknowledging their queer spiritual offspring is difficult for congregations, for religious LGBTQ youth themselves, the journey to self-acceptance can take them through hell. Church communities are often delighted with their queer kids-until they come out. In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that “religious precociousness is one of the unacknowledged features of queer childhood.” For LGBTQ kids brought up in the church, musical performance, altar serving, and church drama, scripture reading, preaching, or testifying, can be opportunities to unleash the fabulousness of queer performance. ![]() |