![]() ![]() Will Phillip find a way to put the past behind him and embrace the love Eloise has to offer? We shall see.Įloise is a spinster. He intended to offer marriage to Eloise, but this high strong vision of loveliness being tormented by his twin children expects some semblance of a courtship before she says "I Do". Sir Phillip Crane is stunned to find the memorizing Eloise at his door, unexpected, and not some homely, unattractive spinster he imagined her to be. Starting off on the tail end of the story before it ( Romancing Mister Bridgerton), Eloise Bridgerton does something a little bit out of character and steals away in the middle of the night to meet a man she has only ever corresponded with though letters. ![]()
0 Comments
6/30/2023 0 Comments The Cross of Carl by Walter Owen![]() ![]() He is treading on bodies on which his feet slip and blunder. "Might as well be Hell 50." Although Owen's prose, especially at its most allegorical, is occasionally somewhat convoluted, it can also be inventively poetic, and the advance on the hill is a tour de force of horror: Carl, an overweight rookie whose nationality is never specified, goes over the top in a dawn attack on Hill 50: "you'll never get there," his sergeant says laconically. The story's four sections are titled after stages in the passion and resurrection of Christ. Under the drug's influence, in July 1917 he had a form of out-of-body experience in which he simultaneously experienced and observed the events described in the story. According to his own prefatory note, Owen was prevented from taking part in the Great War by a painful illness, the symptoms of which he attempted to alleviate with opium. The translator was born in Glasgow, and the book refers at one point to a "Balclutha of the soul", Balclutha being derived from the Scots Gaelic for "town on the Clyde". ![]() ![]() The author is described in General Ian Hamilton's preface as "a man of business in the Argentine", so presumably he was the Scots translator and stockbroker who "transvernacularised" the South American epics into English. A self-avowed allegory published in 1931, The Cross of Carl was written by one Walter Owen. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Plow over the bones of the dead![]() ![]() ![]() The way she capitalizes certain words, assigns her own names to people, ponders the proverbs of William Blake (where the fabulous title of this novel originates). I enjoyed being in the head of this marvellously unreliable narrator, smirked at her many amusing observations, her interactions with the people in her life and the natural world. Is it because Saturn is in the 8th house? Or because the animals have had enough, at long last? A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), finds herself in the middle of something of a murder mystery. These questions are asked in a most unique way. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The Doula Book by John H. Kennell![]() I am convinced that a large part of giving birth is mental. ![]() I was not surprised one bit by the fact that in the Cleveland Couples Studies women who had doulas were less likely to have a c-section, an epidural and had better psychological outcomes post delivery. ![]() I really like how this book promotes the woman’s strength and provides statical evidence that having a doula helps in all sorts of areas. They are typically women who are able to help guide a woman through labor and make sure that all her needs are met so that she is able to deliver in the best way possible. ![]() Doulas are birthing coaches more or less. The Doula Book is a thorough resource for anyone who is interested in what a doula does and the effect that doulas have on women giving birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Oh, please-that dreadful word!” he interrupted, holding up a finger with a gesture of impatience. “Your sympathetic heart and your knowledge of occultism-” John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. ![]() “AND what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case?” asked Dr. John Silence, Physician Extraordinary contains 0 illustrations. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long and Clark Ashton Smith. The list of authors who have been influenced by Blackwood’s work include William Hope Hodgson, George Allan England, H.P. John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908)Īlgernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869–1951) was born in Shooter’s Hill, now part of south-east London.īlackwood had a varied career, working as a dairy farmer in Canada, where he also operated a hotel for six months, as a newspaper reporter in New York City, bartender, model, journalist for The New York Times, private secretary, businessman, and violin teacher. In these six stories, John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, faces werewolves, devil worship, human sacrifice, haunted houses and a Witch’s Sabbath. ![]() |