Thursdays in the park by hilary boyd6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It also makes us aware of the fact that being older doesn’t mean the end of the world and that you can enjoy your life exactly as your children or grandchildren. What I so enjoyed in this story is that the author let us see the world through 60 – year – old Jeanie’s eyes and bring it to attention that her world is not so different to our own, only because she is older. It quickly turned out that this book is much more than it seemed – it’s deep, complex and very emotional story – a great mix of many issues, such us love, betrayal, depression, feeling guilty, shame. ![]() I’ve only read one book by Hillary Boyd, “A Most Desirable Marriage”, and enjoyed it immensely, so I was truly happy when the opportunity of reading and reviewing “Thursdays in the Park” came my way. “Thursdays in the Park” is being re – issued five years after the novel became the ebook phenomenon. They offer each other a second chance at life and love.īut will they have the courage to take it? They talk, laugh, share hopes and secrets and heartbreaks. Surely, at just sixty, a loveless marriage can’t be the only thing left on the horizon? Then, one Thursday in autumn, Jeanie meets Ray in the park, and a chance meeting blossoms into a friendship. Jeanie has been married for thirty years, but her husband George has become so cold and distant she may as well be alone. Source: Received from the publisher in return for an honest review, thank you! ![]()
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The night blanco calderon6/30/2023 ![]() He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. Rodrigo Blanco Calderón is a writer and editor. Blanco Calderón said about the potential of language, “I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words.” Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. ![]() ![]() The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism’s failure to resist US influence. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Book Clubīook of the Month The Night Author: Rodrigo Blanco Calderon Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN-10: 644210401 / ISBN-13: 978-1644210406. ![]() Connecting Latinas through literature! Main menu Skip to content ![]() Judy blume in the unlikely event review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It also juxtaposes the real events that are experienced by the story’s characters with the account of the stories printed in the news. Additionally, the use of real news stories by her for informing the readers helps create the contexts for the events leads to addition of an additional layer or the reality to their experiences. She does this by slowing down the world thereby making the readers feel the effects in a more evocative manner. Judy Blume successfully recreates the real human experiences in the story. Judy’s focus is on the elements and events that are seemingly mundane but it allows for the action of the store with the right pace intensifying the larger events like the plane crashes, deaths, conflicts and revelations and making them more of an impact to the readers. The story is written in a third person tone that closely follows the various characters of the story all of whom their own stories written in a series of short chapters. Judy Blume has written this novel in a conversational and accessible tone for which the writer is popular as a young adult fiction writer. ![]() In the Unlikely Event narrates fictional stories based on real life events of serial crashes of airplanes in Elizabeth, New Jersey between the months of December 1951 and August 1952. ![]() Lanark gray6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So, I can really trace the origin back to the visual. He would always describe himself as an artist who fell into writing, studying at Glasgow School of Art in the mural and stained-glass department. I think it’s bringing the visual to the fore, isn’t it, and making his written work accessible. Sorcha Dallas: Oh, and I think that’s pretty accurate in some way. Hannah Wylie: In his obituary, The Guardian called Alasdair a Clydeside Michelangelo. ![]() I interviewed Sorcha at The Alasdair Gray Archive. He died in 2019, leaving behind a vast collection of work, a cult following and Sorcha Dallas, his dealer and now archivist. He was writer-in-residence at University of Glasgow 1977 to 1979. Alasdair Gray was a prolific writer and artist from Riddrie, Glasgow, known for Lanark and his distinctive artistic style, seen in his murals in Hillhead subway station, Òran Mór and The Ubiquitous Chip. ![]() Have I Got a Guy for You by Alix Strauss6/30/2023 ![]() With a large crowd of more people (2:1 female advantage) than chairs, we comfortably perched upon a little stanchion, using the grass as a table for our sparkling water. Last evening's reading took place not in the cozy inside of the bar out at its beautiful backyard garden. ![]() We've been to many great readings at Stain Bar, like this one a year ago - and back in May 2007, we even inflicted ourselves upon an understandably restless audience there. ![]() we were a few blocks from Dumbo Books HQ at one of our favorite hangouts on Grand Street, Stain Bar, for the Sunday Salon reading series, which last evening featured the editor and four contributors to the anthology Have I Got a Guy for You!: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes You Up. On a very hot Sunday, we dropped in for two brief visits to the McCarren pool party (it was easy to get in, unlike last week when we were locked out) and also stopped by the Giglio on the last day of the Feast, but lots of more articulate bloggers have written about those events.Īt 7 p.m. ![]() |