Summerset Abbey by T.J. Brown7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() There is just something so lush and poignant about that time period because in retrospect, we know we are watching the dying of a way of life. Though I’ve always been interested in the time period, (I read Amanda, Miranda, by Richard Peck when I was sixteen) I can come right out and say it was Downton Abbey that got my creative juices going. What sparked your interest in telling the story of your three characters and their lives on the cusp of WWI? Brown begins a sweeping trilogy set in Edwardian England with Summerset Abbey, her historical fiction debut. Vividly evoking both time and place and filled with authentic dialogue and richly detailed atmosphere, Summerset Abbey is a charming and timeless historical debut. The impending war offers each girl hope for a more modern future, but the ever-present specter of class expectations makes it difficult for Prudence to maintain a foot in both worlds. But when their father dies and they move in with their uncle’s family in a much more traditional household, Prudence is relegated to the maids’ quarters, much to the girls’ shock and dismay. ![]() ![]() Rowena and Victoria, daughters to the second son of the Earl of Summerset, have always treated their governess’s daughter, Prudence, like a sister. Reminiscent of Downton Abbey, this first novel in a new series follows two sisters and their maid as they are suddenly separated by the rigid class divisions within a sprawling aristocratic estate and thrust into an uncertain world on the brink of WWI… ![]()
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Make My Move by J. Bree7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() I liked the girl power, the friendship so seemingly different girls formed and became a force in their own rights. But she is also ambitious, because she wants to have a good life away from crime she wants to get the highest marks and with them she wants to earn a scholarship for college. I really loved, that Lips is not the meek shy girl but a badass and she hold her own against her Bullies. A lot of secrets of the five are revealed and I really loved the girl power in this book. The older brother pretty often makes an appearance and get them into trouble. Now Lips and Avery are best friends and she gets to know the whole group a lot better. I had to shorten the review so it's mainly about book 2. To read the full review go to Just drop out. ![]() ![]() This was a buddy read with the #cakeeaters from RHR. Read other books by this author in the future: yes ![]() Sweet audrina book7/6/2023 ![]() In the end, it will help lead her to the terrifying secret that everyone knows. Something magical happens to her when she rocks in it, but that journey is not without its terrifying turns. Upstairs in the locked room are her sister’s clothes and dolls, her animals and games, and her sacred rocking chair-which holds the secret of all her sister’s gifts. In his eyes, her sister was so special, so perfect-he never stops mourning her passing and is constantly comparing Audrina to the memory of the daughter he had. She believes her father could not love her as he loved her sister. ![]() In My Sweet Audrina, Audrina Adare only desires to be as good as her sister. Andrews’s most haunting and enthralling novels with this gorgeous volume containing both My Sweet Audrina and Whitefern as they follow Audrina struggling with her family’s dark secrets. ![]() A Touch of Stardust by Kate Alcott7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() It wasn’t hard to recognize the columnist Hedda Hopper. Julie scanned the crowd, trying to pick out the critics and journalists, several of whom looked enlivened by the prospect for disas- ter. He held himself immobile in the restless crowd, arms folded, a set expression on his face. ![]() You could see it in the director George Cukor’s rigid stance. ![]() Selznick had invited everybody who worked at the studio to watch the “festivities” of the first day of shooting, a word that had produced a fair number of snickers among those who knew how fraught with problems this venture was. A roll of jittery chatter was threading through the huddled crowd of people on the edge of the Back Forty. Why not tough, sexy Doris? Thinking about it made her less intimidating, if not more likable. ![]() Lots of girls here were walking around emulating some star they wished they could be. It occurred to Julie that Doris sounded a little too much like the wisecracking, flip Rosalind Russell. Her speech had its usual cynical tone, delivered with a roll of the eyes and a wry, impatient twist of the mouth-not quite a smirk. "Nothing nervous about this happy crowd, I’d say,” murmured Doris, surveying the field where she and dozens of others stood waiting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on the writings of the Situationists and a range of contemporary theorists, Capital is Dead offers a vast panorama of the contemporary condition and the classes that control it. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we're living in is more dystopian than the techno utopias of the Silicon Valley imagination? And, if this is the case, how do we find a way out? Capital is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyse this new world of information, but also to change it.Ī follow-up to her groundbreaking A Hacker Manifesto, Wark takes us on a tour of our information age. This might seem heretical in relation to Marxs Capital, which deals in a simplified form with just the capitalist. ![]() In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flows of information. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse? It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalismwhat if it's something worseIn this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. ![]() Funny you should ask books7/5/2023 ![]() Ten years later, after a brutal divorce and a healthy dose of therapy, Chani is back in Los Angeles as a successful writer with the career of her dreams. But what comes next proves to be life changing in ways she never saw coming, as the interview turns into a whirlwind weekend that has the tabloids buzzing-and Chani getting closer to Gabe than she had planned. All Chani wants to do is keep her cool and nail the piece. Then she’s hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker: her number one celebrity crush and the latest James Bond. ![]() While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does is churn out puff pieces. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Cosmopolitan, NPR, The Washington Post, Book Riot ![]() It’s filled with delightful banter, hot romance, and a love story that’s worthy of the big screen.”-Kate Spencer, author of In a New York Minute and host of Forever35 A restless young journalist with big dreams interviews a Hollywood heartthrob-and reunites with him ten years later to discover exactly how he feels about her in this sexy and engrossing novel. ![]() Bound by Danger by S.E. Jakes7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Which means, as of today, you’ll start seeing the first book in the Mirror series, Mirror Me, up for purchase. It’s not a matter of doing more Tyler than SEJ things (which is what some readers have been writing to ask about)-it’s about balancing the two names. So here’s the deal-in order to get myself back on the horse, I started working on things that were the most far along in the process. I couldn’t write on some of the stuff I was supposed to write on and then when I did write on things I was supposed to write on, there were issues (and yes, I’ll get into those at another time). And writing in general has been challenging. I owe a lot of people a lot of books, readers and editors alike. Coupled with the death of my dad last year, it’s just been a lot. It’s a lot of complicated shit and a long road ahead. ![]() I can write through a lot of things, but this particular brick wall I ran into (aka my mother)-it just didn’t work. And my muse doesn’t like things like constant phone calls and hospitals. But here goes: Lots of family shit = unhappy writer. I’ve started and stopped this post a million times. (I refer to Tyler and SEJ in this post because I’m cross-posting □ ![]() Matthew arnold culture7/5/2023 ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. ![]() His elevation of bourgeois ‘culture’ to the very top of the national political agenda effectively expelled other cultures from possessing any equivalent national legitimacy. ![]() By contrasting ‘culture’ with other sites of authority, Arnold was able to detach cultural authority from state authority even as he declared the ‘proper’ study of culture to be the most crucial task confronting nineteenth-century Britain. For, it is the very magnitude of the role that Arnold accorded to ‘culture’, and ‘cultural’ critics, which has succeeded in obscuring the connections between cultural authority and other sites of power. 1 Arguably, it is precisely because Arnold succeeded in obscuring the connections between intellectual authority and other sites of social, economic and political power that he continues to be embraced by theorists across the political spectrum. ![]() I begin, then, with Matthew Arnold, not least because he continues to be cited across the political spectrum as a ‘major influence’ on critical theory today. Given that this book is primarily an intervention into current radical theory, it seems appropriate to begin with another intellectual intervention into the role of the intellectual that took place in the late nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() Quimby is also getting ready for his first day of college. ![]() The morning is busy and excited, with herself and her sister getting excitedly getting ready for their first day of school. This makes Ramona glad, as her parents trust her enough to let her take care of herself. The thing that most excites her about the change in schools is that now she could travel all by herself on a school bus, as her sister Beezus now goes to another school for junior high. She is excited because is going to a new school, Cedarhurst Primary School, as her old one, Glenwood, had been changed into an Intermediate School. The story begins with Ramona Quimby getting ready for her first day of third grade. This book is about the life and experiences of Ramona Quimby, who is now in third grade. It is the sixth book of the popular Ramona series. ![]() Ramona Quimby, Age 8 is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and was published in 1981. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() For cinema lovers, the book can go two ways: worthy of praise because it contains commendable films, all the best film has to offer or highly controversial because either there's film that don't need to be there or because there's something missing. There isn't actually 1001 films since each year goes by, a new entry of films are included and some are removed from the list. ![]() ![]() A few years down the road Steven Jay Schneider composed one of the most interesting books of recent years, the compilation of greatest films ever made entitled "1001 Movies to See Before You Die". ![]() |