![]() ![]() This book looks at their architecture from an entirely fresh perspective, shifting the emphasis away from such areas as France towards the creativity of other regions, including central Europe and Spain. A great variety of buildings-synagogues, halls, and barns-testify to the diverse communities and interests in western Europe in the centuries between 11. Medieval architecture comprises much more than the traditional image of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry. Treating the subject thematically rather than chronologically, construction methods, patronage and function, as well as the symbolic meanings represented in architecture are explored, providing an excellent reference for students of art, art history and the general reader. With the emphasis shifted away from such areas as France towards the creativity of other regions, including central Europe and Spain, this comprehensive volume focuses on the diverse nature of a great variety of buildings between 11. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this unique study, the traditional image of medieval architecture consisting entirely of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry is set aside to provide an entirely new perspective. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Grave Secrets by Susan Gee Heino![]() ![]() #dontsayIdidntwarnyou #iwanttoreadallthebooksplease I did warn you thusly about my inability to narrow today’s list to a reasonable number of titles…. You can also keep up with 2022’s new books as I learn about them by bookmarking the ‘ 2022 Releases‘ page on my blog menu & checking it periodically! I’ll also include links to all the January-April 2022 releases, each in their own list by month. ![]() In my continued quest to streamline these posts (I tried, really I did), I’m only (let’s be honest – there is no ‘only’ about the number of books on this list) selecting the books that most caught my eye to spotlight here. Tuesday: Historical Fiction (non-Amish & non-suspense) Monday: Contemporary Fiction (non-Amish & non-suspense) Here is the schedule of posts for the week so you can zero in on your fave genre! ![]() I’m speaking, of course, about the mystery & suspense books on the horizon, and Early 2022 is bringing so many fabulous-looking new releases!! Get your lists ready and join me in TBR madness as we look at Early 2022 Mystery & Suspense New Releases (January – April)! Happy Wednesday! Our look at the new book season has brought us to the genre for which I wave a flag of surrender on ever reaching the end of my TBR galaxy. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Fallen Crest Public by Tijan![]() Sam has to cope with the devastation of her life and family while juggling the traitorous every-day life her privileged high school. Mason and Logan Kade are star athletes, resident bad boys and school jocks boys (and men) want to be them and girls what to do them. It was what every girl wanted to hear.”īooks in Fallen Crest High series should be read in order:īook 0.5: Mason- can be read after book 1.įallen Crest High (book 1) follows high school junior Samantha Strattan, Sam during some tumultuous weeks after her mom leaves her father and moves in with her new man, the father of their town’s infamous and highly popular Kade brothers. ![]() “Mason moved back and whispered as his lips teased my skin, "You're going to ride me long and hard tonight." I grinned against his neck. ![]() ![]() The slow brewing & lustful romance between Sam & town heartthrob Mason Kade! ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The waterworks doctorow![]() ![]() (For background see Luc Sante's Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York.) U.S. It is in fact a horribly corrupt and violent town. Martin is editor/narrator McIlvaine's best writer and when he disappears McIlvaine goes looking for him. ![]() He has twice recently seen his father, dead these last two years, being driven through town in a sepulchrally white omnibus. Martin believes, and others agree, that he may be losing his mind. This was before the city had grown much above present-day 72nd Street. A retired New York City newspaper editor writing after the turn of the century recounts the tale of what happened when his talented freelance writer, Martin Pemberton, went missing in the 1871. A moody, elegant thriller, beautifully paced. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This riotous musical romp presents a play-within-a-play whodunit as a troupe of eccentric Victorian performers put on their production of Charles Dickens’ unfinished story “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”. A non-stop ride of mystery, murder, and musical delight Based on Charles Dickens final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is filled with clues. Quick conclusions often lead the best of us astray… ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The inner circle meltzer![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Gripping, fast-paced, and filled with the fascinating historical detail for which he is famous, The Inner Circle is a thrilling novel that once again proves Brad Meltzer as a brilliant author writing at the height of his craft. It is a secret, Beecher soon discovers, that some believe is worth killing for. His search will lead him to discover a coded and ingenious puzzle that conceals a disturbing secret from the founding of our nation. Soon a man is dead, and Beecher is on the run as he races to learn the truth behind this mysterious national treasure. After they accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact - a 200 hundred-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington, hidden underneath a desk chair, Beecher and Clementine find themselves suddenly entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder. When Clementine Kaye, Beecher's first childhood crush, shows up at the National Archives asking for his help tracking down her long-lost father, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault where the President of the United States privately reviews classified documents. He has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself.Until now. ![]() "īeecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. ![]() And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments An enchantment of ravens series![]() Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. ![]() Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could cost him his life.įurious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. But when she receives her first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible mistake. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. ![]() Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The idiot dostojevski![]() ![]() ![]() In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the consequences of placing such a singular individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–69. Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Idiot ( pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ post-reform Russian: Идиот, tr. Drawing and handwritten text by Fyodor Dostoevsky ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Norman bridwell books![]() The “Clifford” books became a read-aloud literary staple. But he was nonetheless the embodiment of kindness and amiability, a four-legged, wet-nosed, bright red lesson in learning to get along with others. He was an affectionate, slightly clumsy, eager-to-help creature who had flaws - he had a tendency to dig up flowers, among other things - and caused problems. ![]() ![]() In the actual drawing of the book, Clifford turned out close to the size of a house. That had been his own fantasy as a little boy, he said. Bridwell was an out-of-work commercial artist living in New York City when he sold the idea for a single book about a dog big enough for his loving owner, a little girl, to ride. Bridwell’s wife of 56 years, Norma, told The Associated Press that he had prostate cancer and that he had been in the hospital for three weeks after a fall at his Martha’s Vineyard home in Edgartown. Bridwell, confirmed his death without specifying a cause. Kyle Good, a spokeswoman for Scholastic Books, which over the past half-century has published dozens of Clifford titles by Mr. Norman Bridwell, the creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, a figure who looms as large in toddler lit as the great white whale does in the American canon, died on Friday in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments War and peace anna karenina![]() ![]() ![]() Garnett closes the proceedings by reciting a conjugation of the verb “to Karamazov.” Garnett insists, is “Tchaikovsky.” When she recalls for the audience the arduous process of translating “Karamazov,” she confuses the four brothers with the “Three Sisters,” a stumble that leads inevitably to the musical number “O We Gotta Get to Moscow!” Mrs. ![]() The Russian for “hysterical homosexual,” Mrs. ![]() The mangling of the translator’s craft is a main plot point. In the first production of “The Idiots Karamazov,” at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Garnett was played by a student at the drama school named Meryl Streep, who portrayed the aged “translatrix” as a muddled loon. Which causes the angelic monk Alyosha to wonder, “How can there be a God if there are feet?” The main character is based not on any figure in Dostoyevsky but, rather, on his first and most enduring English-language translator, a woman of Victorian energies and Edwardian prose, Mrs. In the early seventies, two young playwrights, Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato, collaborated on a satire about nineteenth-century Russian literature called “The Idiots Karamazov.” In their liberal interpretation of Dostoyevsky, Father Zosima is a gay foot fetishist. Constance Garnett’s versions of the great Russians inspired Hemingway but outraged exiled writers. ![]() |