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From there, each section emerges with a unique voice, at times telling overlapping stories from different perspectives, an aspect I deeply enjoyed. But the book improves dramatically once it surmounts the first chapter’s drudgery. It turns out that’s also the book’s saving grace because, had the whole book been told in the voice of Candace Fleming’s Katharine of Aragon, the book would have been insufferable. But what got me past that bit is the fact that each queen’s story is imagined by a different writer–that stood out and caught my interest. (Note: not from the point of view of each of Henry’s lovers–because there are even more of them.) Which inspires the book’s melodramatic subtitle, The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All. It’s complicated.) Fatal Throne offers a retelling of that story, alternatingly told from the point of view of each queen. (Note: turns out he did have sons–two of them. Many are vaguely familiar with Henry VIII and his six wives, each of whom met a variously cruel fate in his quest for a son. The story picks up 2 years after his death and Lou is a mess, rightfully so. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future.” ReviewĪfter falling in love with Will Traynor and Louisa Clark, I was not sure how I was going to adjust to this story fresh off of Dignitas. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding-the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. “How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? After You by Jojo Moyes After You Goodreads Synopsis And there's also a marked sense that culture is possibly contracting in certain areas. So I suppose inevitably you're going to find in this book that there are contrasts that are going to arise between the different eras. And by the time we return to the League story in 2009, it's a much bleaker cultural landscape still. Certainly by 1969 where pop culture was predominant and previous culture was perhaps in danger of becoming increasingly marginalised. But changes in society over the first 50 years of the century meant that by the middle years culture had changed. They're more often drawn from popular culture, because of course popular culture has expanded incredibly in the 50 years since 1910 when culture was still largely the preserve of an educated elite. By the time we get to 1969 we've got some equally interesting characters but they're a kind of different category. When we start out in 1910 we have a fairly rich background to draw from – we've got Brecht's Threepenny Opera which was set around that time, we've got all of those wonderful occult characters that were being created around then. Unlike in previous years, the atmosphere hasn’t turned toxic in the German capital, despite the poor run. But Hertha had earned their luck in front of 63,000 supporters. Goals from ex-Stuttgart captain Marc-Oliver Kempf and Florian Niederlechner edged a nervy encounter that the visitors could easily have drawn on another day. The game certainly wasn’t one for purists, but the home side showed commitment and unity. But, lo and behold, it’s only three games and three wins now as Hertha beat the Swabians 2-1 on Saturday to show there’s a bit of life in the ‘Old Dame’ yet. Ahead of the basement battle six-pointer against VfB Stuttgart, new interim manager Pal Dardai had repeatedly talked about “four games, four wins”, a mission statement that sounded more like a prayer in light of Hertha’s position at the bottom of the table. Maybe there’ll still be a happy end of sorts, however. The damage might be entirely self-inflicted, but that doesn’t make the experience less painful. But after €374million (£326m $412.5m) worth of investment by ex-sugar daddy Lars Windhorst went up in a cloud of blue smoke and a litany of mistakes deposited the club on the brink of Bundesliga 2, Hertha have started to invoke feelings of compassion rather than schadenfreude. 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Renée Watson is the author of the children’s picture book, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (Random House, June 2010), which was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. So the achievement of Margaret Wolfit in translating George Eliot's supposedly autobiographical novel to the stage (or to the needs of a solitary performer) is the more remarkable.įor it introduces everyone who seems to matter, manages to keep them nattering to us as spectators and, also, shrewdly, retains the author's tone of voice and sense of humour whenever it can. It can hardly be described as breathtaking entertainment since "The Mill on the Floss" has, until its tragic end, all the characteristics of its kind least suited, you may think, to theatrical adaptation. It is a breathtaking evening at the Fortune Theatre, in the sense that we come to share the actress's evident inhalation of the novel and exhalation of it - all in two hours for us. She worked as a librarian in New York City public schools from 1961-1968. Lorde then earned her bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University. It was there that she grew confident in her identity as both a lesbian and a poet. After an English teacher rejected one of her poems, Lorde submitted it to Seventeen magazine – it became her first professional publication.Īfter working a variety of jobs in New York and Connecticut, Lorde studied for a year at the National University of Mexico in Cuernavaca. She graduated from Hunter High School, where she edited the literary magazine. She once commented, “I used to speak in poetry.when I couldn’t find the poems to express the things I was feeling, that’s what started me writing poetry.” She was around 12 or 13 at the time. Lorde connected with poetry from a young age. As a child, Lorde dropped the “y” from her first name to become Audre. She was the youngest of three sisters and grew up in Manhattan. A prominent member of the women’s and LGBTQ rights movements, her writings called attention to the multifaceted nature of identity and the ways in which people from different walks of life could grow stronger together.Īudrey Geraldine Lorde was born on Februto Frederic and Linda Belmar Lorde, immigrants from Grenada. Poet and author Audre Lorde used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black lesbian woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal’s office for the third time in three days, and it’s still the first week of school. How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany’s locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn’t under the best of circumstances. It’s tagged as middle grade, but if you have a sense of humour, if you like Hitchhiker’s Guide, and if you want to read something that is sort of like that, except in a modern day school setting… then you can read and hugely enjoy this book no matter what age you are. I read Sal & Gabi Break the Universe because the book sounded awesome, and I received and Advance Reading Copy, and I am here to tell you that I loved it. Why? Well, I have kids, and I have kids who still (sometimes, if I’m lucky) let me read to them, and sometimes I read “their” books because they look good, and sometimes I just read books because I don’t really care if something is tagged YA, or middle grade or whatever else. I read quite a bit of YA and middle grade fiction. |