![]() ![]() at a party, and he later proposed to her. In 1952 Brown met James Stillman Rockefeller Jr. The relationship began as something of a mentoring one, but became a romantic relationship including co-habitating at 10 Gracie Street beginning in 1943. ![]() Starting in the summer of 1940, Brown was in a long-term relationship with Michael Strange, poet, playwright, and actress. In the early 1950s, she wrote several books for the Little Golden Books series including The Color Kittens, Mister Dog and Sailor Dog. In 1947, Brown wrote The Little Island under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald (illustrated by Leonard Weisgard), which won the Caldecott Medal. ![]() Her popular book The Little Fur Family, illustrated by Garth Williams, was published in 1946. Her first book was When the Wind Blew.īrown went on to develop her Here and Now stories, and later the Noisy Book series while employed as editor at William R. It was while working at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City that she started writing books for children. After graduation at Dana Hall in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.įollowing graduation at Hollins College in 1932, Brown worked in teaching, and also studied art. She later attended Dana Hall School in 1926, where she did well in athletics. Brown was born in Pomfret, CT, and she attended boarding school in 1923 in Woodstock while her parents were in Canterbury. ![]()
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Tracy Lorraine has done it again, with a brand-new enticing and angst filled romance series, this time a trilogy rather than interconnected standalones. The Revenge You Seek – Tracy Lorraine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 ![]() ![]() His provocative and groundbreaking writing, combined with masterly artwork by some of the medium’s top artists, made Swamp Thing one of the great comics of the 20th century. Alan Moore took Swamp Thing to new heights in the 1980s with his unique narrative approach. Created out of the swamp by a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world’s self-destruction. ![]() With real-life issues explored against a backdrop of horror, Swamp Thing’s stories became commentaries on environmental, political, and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book Saga of the Swamp Thing. ![]() ![]() Art by STEVE BISSETTE, JOHN TOTLEBEN, AND OTHERS All six volumes of Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, the writer of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, in one gorgeous slipcase box set! Before Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. art by STEVE BISSETTE, JOHN TOTLEBEN, AND OTHERS All six volumes of Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore, the writer of Watchmen and V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a realistic account of living with a chronic illness, yet without self-pity or melodrama. Quite naturally, she considers her own mortality and the sociological and personal effects of sickness. In her wonder at nature’s minutae, her writing reminded me of Anne Dillard’s in Pilgrim At Tinker’s Creek, one of my favorite books. As the author watches the snail eat portobello mushrooms & egg shells, she muses on the life cycle, slime variations and the unusual mating habits of the many kinds of gastropods. Never named or anthropomorphized, the snail proves a fascinating subject. This creature gives her focus and companionship over the long, fitful period of trying to stabilize her health. A friend brings her a woodland snail found on a hike, which ends up in a terrarium on a stand by her bed. After a number of relapses, she begins to recuperate, a process that takes many months. ![]() Eventually, they figure out it’s a rare auto-immune disease that leaves her so weak she can’t even sit up. Back in America, she is hospitalized with severe symptoms that doctors cannot find the causes of. No matter what I write, I won’t be able to do it justice.Įxpanded from an essay, this little book has its roots in the author becoming very ill on her way home from Europe. It is a splendid mixture of natural history, philosophy, literature and poetry, all conveyed in a deeply personal way by the author. By that I mean it sparkles, has depth and great value. The Sound of a Wild Snail eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey ![]() ![]() ![]() So the other day when I decided to review it, I emailed Daph and asked if she wanted to review it with me.ĭaphne: This is my favorite Maya Banks book. Warning: This title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, ménage a quatre, violence.ĭaphne and I read Colters’ Woman by Maya Banks at about the same time and have often discussed it (we even re-enacted one of the scenes – you have to scroll way down to read it, under the heading Foursomes Are Fun – once…because we were curious). Includes an expanded ending and a new, never-before published short story sequel. This book has been re-edited and revised. The only problem is convincing Holly of that fact-and protecting her from the danger of her past. Adam knows she’s the one the minute he holds her in his arms, and as soon as his brothers see her, they know it too. They’re losing hope they’ll find her, that is until Adam discovers Holly lying in the snow just yards from their cabin. One woman they know will share their lives and their beds. Straight into the arms of the Colter brothers.Īdam, Ethan and Ryan aren’t looking for women. ![]() Holly Bardwell is running from her past mistakes. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrated throughout with more than 300 colour and black & white photographs, maps and artworks, Ancient Peoples in their Own Words is an exciting, expertly written, highly informative and innovative insight into the history of the classical world. From military treaties to religious inscriptions, and from hieroglyphics to cuneiform to ancient Greek and Latin, the book includes examples from classical Greece, Rome, Bible texts, Persia, Minoan and Mycenean dynasties, as well as a couple of mysterious, still undeciphered cases. Presenting numerous ancient inscriptions from tombs, ceramics and buildings, accompanied by translations and text putting the work into context, this book explains the significance of these works both to the ancient world and for us today.īesides famous cases such as the Egyptian Rosetta Stone and Tutankhamun’s Tomb, the book features lesser known cases such as the Decree of Themistocles or examples of Roman graffiti. ![]() Ranging from the ancient Egyptians to the late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples in their Own Words makes historical primary sources accessible. The Untold History of the Roman Emperors - Michael Kerrigan - The Caesars were the rulers of the Roman Empire, a Republic so large it encompassed parts of Asia and Northern Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though she is used to taking care of herself quite handily, her father’s recent passing has left Isabel at sea and in need of outside help to protect her young brother’s birthright. The daughter of a titled wastrel, Lady Isabel Townsend has too many secrets and too little money. ![]() So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presents itself, he eagerly jumps – only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he’s ever met! Since being named ‘London’s Lord to Land’ by a popular ladies’ magazine, Nicholas St John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. And his eyes, Dear Reader! So blue!” Pearls & Pelisses, June 1823 Genre: Historical Romance (Regency, 1823) ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, it reminded me of old-school Disney movies as the audience is clearly middle grade, but the hints of adult awareness and humor are there. I found The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane to be extremely well written, engaging, and worth the time as an adult reader. ![]() Will Emmy discover the truth behind her father's disappearance, or will she find herself at the heart of a larger plot? Emmy is not really happy with this turn of events, but a mysterious letter referencing her father compels her to explore Wellsworth.and see if maybe the trail to her father isn't as cold as it appears.Įmmy and her new friends soon discover that Wellsworth is hiding secrets, and those secrets have secrets. With her mother's career rocketing into the the spotlight, Emmy is shipped away to Wellsworth, a prestigious private boarding school in England. ![]() The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane follows the adventures of Emmy, a girl who's father disappeared when she was 3 years old, and who's mother is a child psychology literary star with, ironically, no time at all to raise her daughter by the standards she dictates. This reads like something I would have devoured as a kid: a great title, a boarding school, some creepy secret societies, found families, and lots of interesting school/research side quests. ![]() ![]() She ends up in a fairyland, as per usual, and from there her journey takes her on an adventure, which does not quite live up to the epic nature of the well-known film, The Wizard of Oz, but is entertaining nonetheless.Īlong the way she meets many interesting and fun new characters like Tik-Tok the wind-up machine, a many-headed princess, the subterranean Nome King, and my favorite, Billina the smart and sassy talking chicken. This time around Dorothy is on a voyage to Australia to help soothe her Uncle Henry's rattled nerves (running a farm with hair-brain, heartless, cowardly help will do that to you!) when a storm washes her overboard. Frank Baum: Full-Time Author, Part-Time Prick You gotta think Baum was just fucking with his readers at this point. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This attempt to build a coherent world, with its own history, deities and forbidden texts, gave Lovecraft’s work a wonderful sense of the unknown, providing sci-fi and horror literature with the kind of rich storytelling Tolkien would later bring to fantasy with his Middle Earth books. The Necronomicon tied directly into this mythos, since it was said to contain a lengthy account of the extra-terrestrial Old Ones, and to merely look upon its pages would be enough to inspire madness. This Cthulhu Mythos, as it later became known, suggested that ancient, god-like beings once ruled the Earth, and could return to either destroy us or drive us all insane by anyone foolish enough to reawaken them. Lovecraft was apparently unhappy with The Hound, but both it and The Nameless City, published in 1921, marked the beginning of the author’s endeavours to set his stories in one coherent universe. ![]() The tale told of two grave robbers doomed by their theft of a jade amulet, which they recognised as ” the thing hinted of in the forbidden Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.” Although inspired by real texts, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Necronomicon was a product of Lovecraft’s fertile imagination, and mention of it first appeared in the short story The Hound, first published in 1924. Actually, the Necronomicon has a much shorter history than its true creator HP Lovecraft had his readers believe. ![]() |