![]() He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. ![]() Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. ![]() A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, “a literary giant of the Latin American left” and “global soccer’s preeminent man of letters.” He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, and Voices in Time. About the Author Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence – until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything.įorced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.Ī privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club ** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 ** ![]() ![]() She was also the first science-fiction writer to receive the “Genius Grant,” better known as the MacArthur Fellowship. Octavia Butler was the first black American woman science-fiction writer to achieve international acclaim. To me, her literary imagination is filled with incomparable creative power. ![]() So I ventured on a new hunt to discover black science-fiction writers, and that is when I discovered Octavia Butler. I lived for the likes of Harry Potter, Underworld, and “Inception.” But I eventually noticed that none of the characters looked much like me. When I left home for college, I started asking questions without the guilt of being punished by The Almighty and fell in love with stories that challenged my perception of reality. I wanted to read and watch everything she said would reserve me a one-way ticket to hell. I, on the other hand, felt limited and emotionally abused. ![]() In her eyes, she was protecting me from temptation, showing me the path, and working toward keeping me focused on it. Deeply rooted in her Christian faith, she forbade me to watch certain movies, read certain books, or participate in certain activities. I was a teenager when I first read Octavia Butler and had recently begun rebelling against my mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe. Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings. Roman Britain and Early England, 55 B.C.-A.D. The Ecclesiastical History of the English People The Greater Chronicle Bede’s Letter to Egbert. Print.īede, Judith McClure, and Roger Collins. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1983. Print.īede, Eddius Stephanus, and David Hugh. The Real Middle-earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages. Northern Mysteries & Magick: Runes, Gods, and Feminine Powers. Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 1987. Print.Īriès, Philippe, Georges Duby, and Paul Veyne, eds. Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work. ![]() Arthur’s Britain: History and Archaeology AD 367-634. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1995. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, you’re entering into this same tradition of prayer shared by the greatest men and women in Christian history. And, of course, this is how Mary, Joseph, and Jesus prayed too. Saints up and down the centuries have prayed the Psalms each day, including John Paul II, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Benedict, and the first Apostles. ![]() It does this by bathing the morning, afternoon, and evening in prayer, so that “the whole course of the day and night is made holy by the praises of God.” Its purpose is to sanctify the day and the whole range of human activity. It is a liturgy because, like the Mass and other sacraments, it is a public prayer of the Church, Christ’s Mystical Body, as distinct from private devotions such as the Rosary, novenas, or personal prayer. By the medieval period, monks chanted the entire Psalter, all 150 Psalms, throughout each week, and sometimes in a single day!Įventually, this form of prayer became known as the Liturgy of the Hours, also called the Divine Office. ![]() It hearkens back to the Jewish custom of praying at fixed hours, a practice early Christians continued. The Liturgy of the Hours is an ancient, structured way of praying Scripture throughout the day, focusing especially on the Psalms. ![]() A brief introduction to this ancient prayer of the Church. ![]() ![]() Which is weird because Africa today has many groups that still live the hunter gatherer lifestyle. They don't feel like someone from the culture I know. (You almost never see books delve into the significance and mysticism of Masquerades, Tribal marks, the various priests and priestesses that are the foundation of most groups, religious orders, secret societies, the mixture of Islamic and native beliefs, desert spanning trade, the nomadic cattle pastoralism vs farmer tension that has existed in Africa from ancient times up to the modern day)Įven for those that do, it can sometimes be apparent that they are selecting the most superficial elements to put into their background to make it seem African, but the characters don't speak with the voice of people from that culture. They're not drawing from the incredibly varied and dense folklore, mythology and history across the continent. The problem though I find is that while many of the books that get mentioned in these threads have an explicitly African or African-inspired setting. Which as a Nigerian always warms my heart because I'm also on the same journey as well. ![]() ![]() So I've seen a number of threads of people looking for fantasy books or series set in Africa to get something different. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2014 that Lifetime said Seeds of Yesterday would be the last film about the family. But even though there are five books, Variety wrote in Oct. Lifetime is giving us both of the movie versions of the third and fourth books, with If There Be Thorns premiering on Saturday, April 5, and Seeds of Yesterday premiering on Saturday, April 12. If There Be Thorns is the third in the series and it's followed by Seeds of Yesterday. ![]() Andrews' Dollanganger series, which all started with the evil grandmother locking her grandchildren away in the attic. Lifetime is premiering another movie about the incestuous blonde-haired Dollanganger family, so is If There Be Thorns the last book in the series? Turns out, there are actually five books in V.C. The twisted tale of Flowers in the Attic has haunted me since I was a young child and saw the gothic horror novels on my mom's bookshelf. ![]() ![]() Then through a few friends, he discovered the growing market of M/M Romance and was thrilled beyond words. In the 90’s, he wrote for gay magazines, but stopped because they wanted him to cut out story and romance, and write only sex. He has written all his life, it is where he finds his joy. ![]() He is a “Star Trek” and Joss Whedon fan from way back! He loves science fiction & fantasy, horror, romance and more, has gone to SF&F conventions his entire adult life, and been lucky enough to meet many of his favorite writers. He sees his wonderful daughter just often enough to miss her when she isn't there! He has a romantic soul and is extraordinarily lucky to have many friends. Ehey have a fabulous little dog, Sarah Jane. Thomas lives in Kansas City with his husband for nearly fifteen years and was legally married in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Naturals: Buy (US Kindle Edition) Buy (US Hardcover) Buy (US Paperback) Buy (UK Kindle Edition) Buy (UK Paperback) Buy (CA Kindle Edition) Buy (CA Hardcover) Buy (CA Paperback) Buy (Worldwide Hardcover) Buy (Worldwide Paperback) It’s essential for any YA or crime bookshelf. If you can suspend your disbelief in regards to the premise, you’ll be rewarded above and beyond. ![]() I recommend The Naturals series to anyone and everyone if given the chance. This is exactly how a series should be: consistently high quality. And the serial killer case carries over into the series closer, Bad Blood, which is mind-blowing brilliant. It must’ve been a nightmare to research and organise, because it involves the Fibonacci sequence. ![]() Killer Instinct is definitely an improvement, and I was well and truly hooked.īut the series really shows its genius in Book 3, All In. But I gave the first book a chance, and it isn’t bad as I feared. Teens working for the FBI sounded more fantasy than contemporary. Upon hearing the premise for Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s YA crime series The Naturals, I was sceptical. NOTE: I originally posted this at Speculative Chic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem is that he finds Greer way too attractive for his own good, and knows that her motivation is in direct conflict with his. The bay has only recently been re-born, a fishing industry has sprung up, and Eben has no intention of letting anybody screw with his town again. Eben is a born-again environmentalist who’s seen huge damage done to the town by a huge paper company. However, she finds a formidable obstacle in the town mayor, Eben Thinadeaux. She takes a room at the only motel in town, and starts working her charm. Greer slips into town and is ecstatic to find the last unspoilt patch of the Florida gulf coast. There’s one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a community casino-which will be perfect for the film’s climax-when the bad guys blow it up in an all-out assault on the townspeople. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town. ![]() Now Greer has been given one more chance-a shot at finding the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget movie. ![]() Her last location shoot ended in disaster when a film crew destroyed property on an avocado grove. Greer Hennessy is a struggling movie location scout. ![]() |