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Wurtzel prozac nation6/8/2023 She says that the publication of "Prozac Nation" was a huge event. MEGHAN DAUM: For a certain kind of young writer, particularly young female writer in the 1990s, Elizabeth Wurtzel was exactly who you wanted to be and exactly who you were afraid to be.įRIEDMAN: Meghan Daum is a writer who came up a few years after Wurtzel. ROSE FRIEDMAN, BYLINE: Here are some words you might encounter about Elizabeth Wurtzel if you read her obituaries today - funny, narcissistic, glamorous, messy, sad. It caused a sensation for its no-holds-barred depiction of her struggle with depression and drug abuse. The cause was cancer "Prozac Nation," her memoir published in 1994, launched her career when she was 27. Bestselling author Elizabeth Wurtzel died today at the age of 52.
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Watching her laugh as spray spattered her sleeve, he felt extremely fortunate. But now he'd discovered a different Violet―vibrant, responsive. When she was subdued and distant, as she'd always been when he saw her before their marriage, it was hidden.Ī secret, like the flower she was named for, obscured by broader leaves in the forest. Violet's beauty―for it was undoubtedly beauty―arose from animation, he realized. And her gray eyes shimmered and sparkled. Her sandy hair leaped and curled around her face. The wind had whipped color into her cheeks. And how lovely she looked, out here on the water. Or so he once thought.He was delighted that she shared this pleasure with him. Life is predictable for a Duke's first son. A dazzling Regency romance from bestselling author Jane Ashford.
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Once you have read this, you will never feel exposed again! An excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch. The result is a book that is reassuringly epic in scope but refreshingly short in length. To help readers put events, places and empires into context, the book includes 36 specially commissioned maps to accompany the text. While the book covers world history from the Big Bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events and empires since the dawn of the first civilisations in around 3500 BC. The book does not aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that non-historians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past. A Short History of the World aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to read and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. There is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history – and how it all fits together – is far from perfect.
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Edge of glory rachel spangler6/7/2023 As their time together stretches on, both women must confront not only their assumptions about each other, but also their own world views amidst a steamy landscape of temptation, power, purpose and raw attraction. The complications only escalate as the two set out on a scorching path through a region that shatters all expectations. The plan seems simple enough until she meets Loreto Molina, and it quickly becomes apparent that Loreto knows more than her casual demeanor might suggest. Refusing to repeat their mistakes, she hires a guide, translator, and purveyor of Andalucían culture for the week leading up to her big meeting. The job should be easy, but many others have failed. When Simone Price lands in southern Spain, she has one job upon which the future of her entire career rests: She must convince a small, Spanish publishing house to sell their business to her much larger American corporation. They only need to work together, but the heat and the history around them and between them conspires to demand so much more. Simone and Loreto don’t have to like each other.
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The ugly duchess book6/7/2023 I also had the idea that a lot of commas must have turned into dots in the dutch translation (though I can't check or prove this suspicion) - Germans love long sentences with loads of commas, but there were none to be found here. all very confusing and, pardon me for repeating, flat. It started off well enough with the part about Margarete's father, whom we got to know a little, but quickly goes downhill with sentence upon sentence about politics, names, lands. My problem as that I felt we never really got to know the characters, and never really got a feeling of being in the place where they were. I expected this to be 4, but it quickly dropped to 3, 2, then 1. How adorable is her grown son Meinhard with his pet dormouse, for instance? The description of Frauenberg is also nicely done. There are also several other intersting characters, most with fun quirks. Duchess Margarete of Tyrol is an amazing subject for a book she inherited her fathers land and ruled over them, was respected depsite her apparently bad looks, got divorced against the popes will and was in the middle of big political drama over several lands (of which a map would have been much appreciated). This book was SO promising! It had everything one would need for an awesome historical novel it plays in the 14th century, in countries about which there are not too many novels, and has some amazing characters about, to my knowledge, there are no or almost no other novels. Dutch translation of "Die hässliche Herzogin" ("The Ugly Duchess" in English)
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Texas blue by jodi thomas6/7/2023 I quit teaching, took out my retirement to live on until I got royalties, bought a new computer and five jogging suits to work in, and went to work. Romance Writers of America named it the Best Historical Romance that year - my first RITA. The Tender Texan - sappy title but everyone loved the book about the founding of Fredericksburg, Texas. What was the turning point when you determined you could write full-time? I didn’t know how to write deep characters then, so I had to keep killing off characters and bringing in new ones. I didn’t know it at the time, but she was looking for a Texas voice, and I’m about as Texas as they come. A year later I went to a national writing conference in Dallas and pitched it to an editor. That’s when I figured it out-writing is about a hundred times harder than people think it is.Īfter that first rejection I waited a week and started the next book. I remember my husband saying when I got the first rejection letter, ‘you didn’t think it would be that easy, did you?’īy then I’d taken every class I could on writing, read every book I could find on writing, and wrote every night. It took me two years to write the first book, and I was surprised when no one wanted it. Most of the time I was standing still and the publishing world was buying out one another. JODI THOMAS:I’ve published over forty books now with Kensington, Berkley, Penguin, Putnam and HQN and HarperCollins. LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: Jodi, you’ve published dozens of novels in the past quarter-century-plus.
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Dresden book 106/6/2023 Marsters’s voice is perfectly suited to this character and to many series fans he is Harry Dresden (much like Daniel Radcliffe is Harry Potter). Our narrator is James Marsters of TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame. This series is a thriller but throws in equal measure of humour and playfulness. Harry’s unconventional detective work takes us into the underbelly of Chicago, where he faces off against mobsters and vampires (with a healthy dose of werewolves). He struggles with money, is often mocked and isn’t accepted by his magical colleagues. Harry is a regular guy who owns a consulting practice and just happens to have some wizarding skills. Don’t be tricked though - this is not your mother's Agatha Christie. This expansive detective novel series, almost pulp fiction-like in style, is set in modern day Chicago. But is there something going on behind the scenes that eludes even a wizard? Harry Dresden is the only professional wizard in Chicago and he knows his stuff.
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When a homeless veteran comes to the fruit stand one day and asks for food, Tena is not sure how to respond-but Wayne intervenes and offers to let him stay in the barn. Tena Speicher has come to live in Bird-in-Hand after her fiancé left her for an English woman. Will Clara help Jerry renew his faith in God, and will they find love beneath the summer sun? As the friends get to know each other again, Clara pushes Jerry to examine why he abandoned his Amish beliefs. What if she somehow loses them both? But Christian, a new boy in the community, also works in the garden-and falling for him may be exactly the distraction, and lesson, that Katie Ann needs.Ĭlara Hertzler is surprised when Jerry Petersheim, her old friend, comes to the garden to drop off his younger sister-especially because Jerry has been gone for years, and now seems to be living as an Englisher. Enjoy a year of beautiful seasons in this story collection, as young Amish couples manage a community garden and harvest friendships and love along the way.Īs the young people of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, plant a garden in memory of their friend, Katie Ann begins to worry that her older brother, Ephraim, is dating her best friend.
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Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn6/6/2023 Perhaps the greatest strength of the novel is Finn’s recognition that playing with history doesn’t amount to much without strong characters. The story mainly follows Edward and Lucy, both of whom are instantly likeable. THINGS HALF IN SHADOW is very much about the journey, the incremental revelations about the main characters, and the mystery they are investigating. Throughout the tale we learn of Edward’s dark past and get wrapped up in a story filled with adventure, intrigue, and the supernatural.Īs far as the plot goes that’s as much as I want to say. It all starts simple enough, with the investigation of a young medium by the name of Lucy Collins. THINGS HALF IN SHADOW follows Edward Clark, a young crime reporter in 1869 Philadelphia, who is asked to investigate and debunk the city’s many psychic mediums. Alan Finn’s novel, THINGS HALF IN SHADOW ( Amazon), scratches that itch nicely. From Jasper Kent to Sarah Pinborough to Robert McCammon… I love it. I’m already a lover of history, and I can’t get enough supernatural stuff. Adding supernatural elements to Historical Fiction is one of my favorite things.
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