![]() "CHILLING! The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse is an eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat. ![]() And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Įlin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. "An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." -Reese Witherspoon ![]()
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![]() ![]() “For 17 years, I dedicated my life to the U.S. ![]() When the American athletes were defeated by the Swedish team and knocked out of medal contention, Solo called her opponents “a bunch of cowards.” She was officially axed from the team following her comments. Soccer Federation, most notably in 2016 after the Rio Olympics. She was widely considered one of the best in her field, but her legacy has been tarnished for some fans due to multiple controversies.īefore her contract was officially terminated, Solo was suspended more than once by the U.S. ![]() Women’s National Soccer Team from 2000 to 2016, winning two Olympic gold medals and a FIFA World Cup title. The Washington native was a goalkeeper for the U.S. Hope Solo has been through plenty of highs and lows - both personal and professional - since beginning her U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this period, the East Indies were a colony governed directly by the Dutch - the local lords had been brought under the authority of the Netherlands. The East India Company was dissolved in 1800, after which the Dutch state nationalized the company's possessions, starting the next "period of the Netherlands East Indies," which lasted from 1800 to 1942 and - after the occupation by Japan - again briefly from 1945 to 1950. Initially, the Dutch had come to trade, not to conquer, and they built up a good working relationship with Java's many feudal lords. The capital was Batavia, present-day Jakarta. This has been called the "period of the Dutch East India company," and it lasted from 1602 to 1800. Besides the original spice trade, also non-indigenous cash crops like coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, rubber and sugar were introduced. Within a short time, the Dutch set up a large network of trading posts and fortresses in the Indonesian archipelago. ![]() As a huge profit was made, soon the United East India Company (V.O.C.) was founded. The first Dutch expedition came in 1595 to the East Indies, with the motive to get access to the spice trade and kick out the Portuguese. But before we can talk about Multatuli's life or the Max Havelaar, we first have to understand the situation in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, present-day Indonesia. ![]() ![]() ![]() I use many of the same tools as these artists: rhythm and texture, color or tone, balance and focus. I write because it lS the creative and artistic expression of the thoughts, ideas, goals, and concepts I hold, the same as a visual artist creates a picture or a statue to express ideas, or a musician creates sound. ![]() It seldom occurs to people that writers often feel the same way." "I don’t write because it’s ‘fun.’ Good writing 'n' volves a lot of hard work: organizing ideas, phrasing them, writing and rewriting them over and over till the meaning is exact and the style and form are just right. Artists express their ideas, feelings, and opinions of events, cultures, and emotions through their artistry. There is an understanding among most people that artists create art because it fulfills a need deep inside themselves. People seldom ask painters why they paint or sculptors why they sculpt. "I always find it interesting when someone asks me why I like to write. (Jason Delgado gets sent to live with his paternal grandpa.) (At the age of ten, Billy was kidnapped by his natural fat.) 1994 ![]() (When he was ten, Billy was kidnapped from his adoptive fa.) ![]() ![]() ‘Election day constituted a critical ritual of empire’.The empire Judson wishes to describe contains a range of diverse ‘cultural, religious and social practices’.A school isn’t a place where stuff is taught or learned, it is a site where teaching practices are carried out, or where the state engages with its citizens.people don’t have religious beliefs, they have religious practices.If concrete could speak this is what it would sound like. Thus: Site, situate, construct, locate, engage with, negotiate, difference, diversity, practicesĪre applied over and over again, about everything, to make everything sound the same. It uses the same dozen or so key terms over and over to drain the life out of any subject or period: The problem with this sociological-inflected style is that it is grey, flat, boring, extremely limited and highly repetitive. I can’t find out whether Pieter Judson is a native English speaker nor not, since his grasp of idiom is so wooden, but he is certainly fluent in sociological jargon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadly, I had misgivings after five or six pages and gave up after 50. Published in 2016, The Hapsburg Empire looks to be the most recent large-scale narrative history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the 1740s to its dissolution in 1918. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. "Cassaras's propulsive and profound first novel, finding one's home in the world-particularly in a subculture plagued by fear and intolerance from society-comes with tragedy as well as extraordinary personal freedom." - EsquireĪ gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The character of "Constantine" is supposedly based on Stanislav Vinaver. The book's epigraph reads: "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved". Publication of the book coincided with the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, and West added a foreword highly praising the Yugoslavs for their brave defiance of Germany. West's objective was "to show the past side by side with the present it created". The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West's six-week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. First US edition Cover art shows the Stari Most bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovinaīlack Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US. ![]() ![]() It was Halloween and Sylvie wanted to make a pumpkin moonshine, so she put on her bonnet and started out for the cornfield to find the very finest and largest pumpkin. ![]() Sylvie Ann was visiting her grandmummy in Connecticut. Teenie tiny little illustrations and handwritten print make this title especially dear, and the story is charming and innocent. This one, however, is still in print in paperback, but my copy is a wee hardcover in library binding that I bought for 25 cents. ![]() that's why I blog at a substantial financial loss and they make the big bucks. This is one of those instances when I have no idea why a publisher wouldn't reprint a book, when it is so obvious there is a market for it, but, hey. The later of which, my mother has been forever seeking out (her childhood copy was lost), but a search online will show that Snow before Christmas is way beyond her reach at this point. ![]() The very first published work of Tasha Tudor, it was followed shortly thereafter by an Easter book and a Christmas story all of which are similar in size. Tasha Tudor ~ Oxford University Press, 1938 ![]() ![]() ![]() When I wrote about Robert, Luke and Noah some years ago, they were, my then editor said, Died-with-their-boots-on cowboys, by which he meant rugged, realistic, down to earth cowboys who didn’t own multi-national corporations on the side. I’ve written seventy books now-and there’s a bit of that cowboy in every one of my heroes-even if they are CEOs or architects or beach volleyball players or former rock stars.īut there’s more than a little cowboy in each of the Tanner brothers. ![]() I snapped him right up (though he still thinks it was the other way around). A number of years ago now, I met one in a university library. The memory stayed with me as the yardstick against which I measured the men in my life. He was everything I wanted in a hero-honorable, tough, competent, generous, and he made my heart beat faster before I even knew why it was doing that. It was a case of imprinting, I think-like a duck. He was tall (to a five-year-old 5’9" is tall!), dark and handsome. It was, you will not be surprised to learn, with a cowboy. When I was five, I fell in love for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() So the more I looked into this historical event, the more I felt like it really embodied a clash between identities, the clash between Eastern and Western ways of looking at things, that I’ve experienced throughout my life. The Chinese government issued a statement protesting them because, from their point of view, the Roman Catholic Church was honoring these traitors to Chinese culture. Soon, I also realized that the canonizations were somewhat controversial. Saints tells Vibianas story, and the companion volume, Boxers, tells the story of Little Bao, a young man who joins the Boxer Rebellion. ![]() ![]() When I looked into the lives of these newly canonized saints, I discovered that many of them had been martyred during the Boxer Rebellion, so that’s sort of what set me up. An unwanted fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family. My home church was incredibly excited about the Vatican’s announcement because this was the first time that this deeply Western Church had acknowledged the Chinese. From American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang: an innovative look at China's Boxer Rebellion told from two points of view, in two companion volumes. There are a hundred and twenty saints in China, eighty-seven of whom were ethnically Chinese. I first became interested in the Boxer Rebellion in 2000, when Pope John Paul II canonized a group of saints in China. Gene Luen Yang’s breakthrough graphic novel, American Born Chinese, was hugely ambitious: a modern coming-of-age story filtered through the transformational powers of mythology and. ![]() |