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The diary of an ageless man, reveals his abundant life-experiences throughout the ages. Delve into a world, that has seen the Middle Ages, the French Revolution, the American Civil War and much more. Please review the book, if you liked it!
Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained by the library books his father regularly brought him. Through these Wells found he could escape the boredom and misery of his bed and convalescence by exploring the new worlds he encountered in these books. From these humble beginnings began a career that was, after several delays, to be seen as one of the most brilliant of modern English writers. Able to write comfortably in a number of genres he was especially applauded for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds but his forays into the social conditions of the times, with classics such as Kipps, were almost as commercially successful. His short stories are miniature masterpieces many of which bring new and incredible ideas of science fiction to the edge of present day science fact. Wells also received four nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature Despite a strong and lasting second marriage his affairs with other women also brought the complications of fathering other children. His writings and work against fascism, as well as the promotion of socialism, brought him into increasing doubts with and opposition to religion. His writings on what the world could be in works, such as A Modern Utopia, are thought provoking as well as being plausible, especially when viewed from the distressing times they were written in. His diabetic condition pushed him to create what is now the largest Diabetes charity in the United Kingdom. Wells even found the time to run twice for Parliament. It was a long, distinguished and powerfully successful career by the time he died, aged 79, on August 13th, 1946.Voir livre
Some friendships last only a few years, yet shape an entire lifetime. At secondary school, Suat is the boy everyone overlooks: overweight, painfully shy and burdened by an illness he refuses to discuss. Behind his quiet manner, however, lies an extraordinary intelligence and a rare generosity of spirit. When he befriends a struggling classmate, Suat becomes far more than a companion. Through patience, discipline and kindness, he changes the course of another child’s life. But after graduation, Suat suddenly disappears. The years pass, bringing academic success, a career and all the distractions of adulthood. Nearly three decades later, one unfinished promise leads his old friend deep into the Latmos Mountains, to a remote village and a truth that has waited far too long to be discovered. Poignant and deeply human, A Belated Farewell is a story of friendship, poverty, memory and the quiet individuals whose kindness continues to live within us long after they are gone.Voir livre
They say librarians are old-fashioned. I’m anything but.As a 23-year-old woman I have my whole life ahead of me, and I’m in no rush to settle down.But my favorite patron of the Golden Creek Library has a different opinion … and at 72, Charles McArthur is hard to argue with.He wants to set me up with his grandson and I don’t have the heart to say no.When my date comes to my door, I am oh-so-glad I said yes.Chuck McArthur is a tall, dark, and handsome man who happens to love books as much as I do. He calls me Cookie, just like his gramps, and I’m more than eager for him to have a taste. Luckily for me, he likes a woman with some curves, and lucky for him, his dirty talk is quickly becoming my favorite sound.Best part? Chuck and I want the exact same thing: a no strings attached relationshipBut when tragedy strikes, everything changes.I may like it when he talks wordy to me … but maybe I need more than talk. Maybe I need forever.Voir livre
"McFarlane’s skill in evoking individual inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing their spirit make every character distinct." —The Washington Post on The Sun Walks Down, one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes. Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane’s newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer’s childhood town to Texas, Rome, and tropical northern Australia, McFarlane presents an oblique, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost. What damages, big and small, do these crimes incur? How do communities make sense of such atrocities? How does the mourning of families sit alongside the public fascination with terrible crimes? And can we tell true crime stories without centering the killers? From the acclaimed author of The Sun Walks Down and The High Places comes a captivating account of loss and its extended echoes in individual lives.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Voir livre
Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby's collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange. Set in the same post-climate-impact era, these stories range from playfully satirical to poignantly humane, bending traditional narrative forms and coming together into a brilliant and unusual contemplation of our changing world. Featuring the Hugo-nominated novelette "Muri," Honeymoons in Temporary Locations processes the unthinkable through riotous inventions like guided tours of submerged cities, Craigslist ads placed by climate refugees, and cynical pharmaceutical efforts to market a drug to treat solastalgia, the existential distress caused by environmental change. Shelby reengineers the dystopic bleakness that characterizes so much climate fiction by embracing an eclectic experimentalism leavened with humor, irony, and the inevitable bathos that characterizes the human experience. Unexpected and clever, this innovative collection confirms her status as a visionary writer whose work expands the forms, attitudes, and possibilities of climate fiction.Voir livre
A Kind of Cousin is a daring collection of short stories by Suenel Bruwer-Holloway that whisks readers on a journey through the raw and unapologetic facets of human experience. Like a fresh breeze, blowing irreverently through old taboos, sweeping away the cobwebs of political correctness , Holloway shatters the confines of political correctness, delving into the resilient and complex spirit that pulses through her homeland , a place of beauty, sorrow, and resilience. From the wily old woman in 'The Statistic', cleverly hoarding her exit from this world, to the candid wisdom of a child in the titular 'A Kind of Cousin', and the unflinching gaze cast upon society's underbelly in 'The Healer', these stories are as provocative as they are enlightening. 'The Right Therapist' delivers a satirical jab at the mental health profession, while 'Horseflesh' pays homage to the enduring spirit of an old donkey, a symbol of unyielding courage in the face of adversity. Strap in and prepare to be swept off your feet as Bruwer-Holloway tackles subjects often muffled by societal discomfort—farm murders, religious zealotry, the deep-rooted connections of the Afrikaner people to their land, and the poignant realities of aging and death. A Kind of Cousin promises a literary escapade that's as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.Voir livre
