![]() ![]() Bryson is a pleasant and funny guide to a subject at once overexposed and elusive-as Bryson puts it, “he is a kind of literary equivalent of an electron-forever there and not there.” (Nov. ![]() Bryson's curiosity serves him well, as he delves into subjects as diverse as the reliability of the extant images of Shakespeare, a brief history of the theater in England and the continuing debates about whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really wrote Shakespeare's works. ) does what he does best: marshaling the usual little facts that others might overlook-for example, that in Shakespeare's day perhaps 40% of women were pregnant when they got married-to paint a portrait of the world in which the Bard lived and prospered. ![]() Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English. In this addition to the Eminent Lives series, bestselling author Bryson ( The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Front cover image for Shakespeare : the world as stage. In the absence of much documentation about his life, we have the plays and poetry he wrote. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Considering the hundreds of thousands of words that have been written about Shakespeare, relatively little is known about the man himself. William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. ![]()
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Part of Griffin believed that the council and her superiors were overreacting, that Jorie was writing fiction that no one would take seriously anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t know if chocolate was something I would like. They say the trees beyond the wall become jeweled by clear pearls of ice, and that the High Kith drink bitter hot chocolate at outdoor parties where their laughter is white lace in the chilled air. People say teardrops of hail spangle the pink-sand beaches outside the city. But every now and then a wind blows from the west that freezes everyone’s bones, Half Kith and High Kith and Middling alike. Ethin-a pretty name for a city, and this city was pretty for the right sort of people-is usually warm, so warm that tiny purple indi flowers grow out of the cracks of crumbling walls. ![]() Maybe I should have been more careful from the moment I saw the bird from my little window in my little room in the tavern attic, so cold I had been going to bed fully dressed. They would find infractions enough in the Ward, whether from drinking or improper dress or any of the many offenses you can commit when you’re Half Kith. ![]() They knew, as I knew, that the festival meant the militia would be out in force, seeking to fill their quotas for arrests. The children must have seen the danger in their own games, in the crescent moons, roughly cut from tin, that they strung from fishing line on sticks and dangled to cast shadows beneath the pale sun. ![]() THERE WERE WARNING SIGNS in the Ward that day that anyone could have seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then came Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001) and England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), both of which are atmospheric and at times ghostly cultural histories of deep Albion. His non-fiction output has ranged widely in subject matter, beginning with Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) about the "brightest" of the 1920s Bright Young People, an aristocratic lover of Siegfried Sassoon who spent 17 years in "decorative reclusion" after the second world war. ![]() I thought: why have I bothered?"įor a long time it seemed Hoare's career was anything but planned. It's really remarkable – the whole of my career planned out at the age of 14. The whale I'd painted in poster paint using my mother's clear nail varnish to make it look slicker and shiny as if it had just come out of the water. "Alongside the blank verse and stream of consciousness lyrics were doodles: pictures of whales, 70s glam-rock stars, 1920s decadent figures – all of my obsessions. He was surprised to find a blue notebook that had belonged to his father, who worked as a cableman all his life, but had been commandeered by the teenaged Philip. ![]() A couple of years ago Philip Hoare, now 55, found himself digging around in a sideboard in the semi-detached Southampton house in which he grew up. ![]() ![]() ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become ![]() Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Face Like GlassīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, She has been stretching, spreading and contorting to make room for us all, and I think that is why geography no longer makes sense.” The city grows, and not just through the effort of pick and shovel. I will tell you something else, though I cannot prove it. When the Grand Steward declared that nobody was allowed to enter or leave the city, I believe he became her chosen beloved. Sometimes I even wonder whether it is only possible to create True Delicacies here because she gives them their power, as a bribe to stop us leaving. ![]() She is the city, not the tunnels, and so she does everything she can to keep us down here. "Oh, I don’t think she’d like that," the Kleptomancer remarked, with a hint of affection in his voice. If I’m sane, then we shouldn’t be sitting around talking – we should all be clawing our way out as fast as we can." "Because, if I’m sane, then there’s something wrong with Caverna, something horrible and sick, and nobody else has noticed. “Has it ever occurred to you that maybe you’re sane? That you’ve always been sane? That perhaps you’re the sanest person in the city?" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dylan, being the one to spread the gossip about Abby and Hadley, is excluded from this invitation. The director, Rupert Mann, found Massie Block's cellphone and insisted Massie, Alicia Rivera, Claire Lyons fly out to L.A. ![]() This leaves the film one actress short and one empty spot for the coveted "loser" of the movie. This results in the entire audience hearing the secret, including Abby and Hadley.Īfter a gruesome catfight which ended up happening live on television on The Daily Grind, Hadley quits Dial L for Loser. But unfortunately, Merri-Lee Marvil's annoying co-host had her microphone on in the toilet. ![]() Backstage, Dylan Marvil tells the PC a confidential secret in the bathroom-Abby has been hooking up with Hadley's boyfriend for the past few weeks. The Pretty Committee scores tickets to The Daily Grind, where Abby Boyd and Hadley Durk are revealed to do a conversation together something that hasn't happened since Abby stole Hadley's boyfriend, Palmer Dryden. Plot This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). They eventually make up, but is there something that will stand in the way of that? Massie, Claire, and Alicia go to Los Angeles to audition for a part in an upcoming movie called "Dial L for Loser," but when Claire snags the lead part, Massie and Alicia are far from happy for her. Dial L For Loser is the sixth book in The Clique Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hammer and Hoe-a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” that tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality-is more important now than ever. ![]() You can read more about the magazines name in this article by Robin D. 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