The daughter of Fantine, Cosette is abandoned by her father shortly after her birth. Javert is completely without mercy, but this harshness stems from his own past: he was born in a prison. He does not believe that one can reform oneself from a criminal background, and he pursues Valjean relentlessly, waiting for him to take a misstep. JavertĪ narrow-minded police officer, Javert is completed focused on upholding the law and punishing every kind of criminal activity. She dies from consumption, but not before securing a better future for her daughter. In order to support her daughter Cosette, she takes up a number of low paying manual jobs, and finally resorts to prostitution. FantineĪ young and beautiful woman from an impoverished background, Fantine is impregnated and abandoned by the man she loves. Valjean is intelligent and resourceful, and notable for his incredible physical strength. He is also referred to as Monsieur Madeleine. However, his past threatens to follow him into his brighter present, and he has to go into hiding once more. When he meets a generous priest, he begins to turn his life around, becoming a successful businessman and later taking in the lost child Cosette. Imprisoned for stealing bread in order to feed his sister's children, Valjean is a good man turned bad by circumstances.
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Her reviews and articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Delta Magazine, the St. Petersburg, Florida, in the winter and Madison, New Jersey, during the summers.Īccording to her web site, “Former librarian and children’s book reviewer Augusta Scattergood has devoted her life and career to getting books into the hands of young readers. She has lived in many states: Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, California, and Florida. Because she always wanted to be a librarian, she went to Simmons College School of Library Science in Boston after college. She met her husband, Jay Scattergood, at UNC. She went to Mississippi University for Women but graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an English major. Mary Augusta Scattergood was born in Cleveland, Mississippi. "Jennifer Saint's Ariadne is a shimmering tapestry of two sisters bound by deceit and the shadows of family history.With a fresh voice and keen insight, Saint adds flesh and bone to an ancient myth, drawing the reader into an uneasy world of ever-afters. "Jennifer Saint's Ariadne is a shimmering tapestry of two sisters bound by deceit and the shadows of family history.With a fresh voice and keen insight, Saint adds flesh and bone to an ancient myth, drawing the reader into an uneasy world of ever-afters." -Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind? Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.Īriadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. The account of the eleven years of her religious life, marked by signal graces and constant growth in holiness, is given by Soeur Thérèse in her autobiography, written in obedience to her superior and published two years after her death. He preferred to leave the decision in the hands of the superior, who finally consented and on 9 April 1888, at the unusual age of fifteen, Thérèse Martin entered the convent of Lisieux where two of her sisters had preceded her. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and being refused by the superior, went to Rome with her father, as eager to give her to God as she was to give herself, to seek the consent of Pope Leo XIII, then celebrating his jubilee. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873 died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Story of a Soul (Version 2) The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India, Supriya Gandhi (Harvard University Press, January 2020)ĭara Shukoh was the eldest and most favored son of Emperor Shah Jahan. In her book The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India, historian Supriya Gandhi writes a well-researched biography of the heir-apparent, showing how unrealistic it is to burden a historical figure with present-day guesswork. This attribution of greatness and peace to a single individual deserves a closer, more systematic historical look. Certain voices on the Indian right speculate that had Dara Shukoh succeeded Shah Jahan, Hindus and Muslims could have continued to live peacefully on the subcontinent, and Pakistan would never have come into existence. Against the fundamentalism that Aurangzeb is associated with, Dara Shukoh stands a possible hero who could have turned the course of the history of the subcontinent. He is often contrasted with a brother he eliminated in order to become the Emperor himself. Aurangzeb, the last of the great Mughals, also continues to haunt contemporary debates about the origins of Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India. In times of communal tensions, Muslims are derogatorily called “the sons of Babur” after the founder of the Mughal dynasty in the 16th century. Indians continue to engage with the Mughal Empire in a way they don’t with any other dynasty. A sub plot in the book took a few characters to Barbados this time and introduced the reader to the atrocious conditions of the slave trade and sugar harvesting industry. Philippa Gregory has a talent for showing how the politics and living conditions of the day affected everyone from the Queen right down to the every man, or ferryman as the case may be. So much happens in this generational family saga that it's hard to believe the plot takes place in just 4 years, but this encompasses the disquiet around the religious beliefs and practices of King James II, the unrest around monarchy and parliament and of course, the divide between Catholics and Protestants. This instalment in the historical fiction series begins in spring 1685 and takes us through to summer in 1689. Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory is the third book in the Fairmile series that began in 2019 with Tidelands (Book 1) and follows straight on after the events in Dark Tides (Book 2). This is no different in Count Your Lucky Stars, so I appreciated seeing her open to the possibility of love. Margot was by far my fave side character in the series, since she uses snark to hide her tender heart. I was thrilled when I heard Margot was finally getting her own book. The chemistry is palpable and they both know it, but can either of them get past their old hurts to trust a new future? And when she needs to find a new place to live ASAP, Olivia can’t say to Margot’s offer of her spare room and, eventually, no-strings sex. Running into Margot when she first meets the happy couple is a pleasant surprise, even if it brings Olivia’s decade-old heartbreak back to the surface. And getting the nod from her boss to plan a quick-turnaround wedding for tech CEO Brendon and his fiancee Annie (from Hang the Moon) is the perfect opportunity to prove herself. Recently divorced from her high school sweetheart and now living in Seattle, Olivia is determined to grab life by the horns. That is, until her childhood best friend (who Margot was also head over heels for and had her heart broken by) drops back into her life-and her apartment. So, even though she’s not interested in a romantic relationship, Margot is starting to feel lonely and like an afterthought. Theme: Friends to Lovers, Friends with Benefits/No Strings Attached, Second Chanceįollowing the events of Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, Margot is the only single person left in her tight-knit friend group. Genre: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA, Romance We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Mon at 1pm, Gboyega Odubanjo Author of While I Yet Live. Reclined deck chair, in the sun, reading, half supine, moderately but not severely overweight, winner of two National Book Awards, a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Lamont Prize, two grants from the National Endowmentįor the Arts, a Prix de Rome, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Medal, and a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a president emeritus of PEN, a The fifty-six-year-old American poet, a Nobel Laureate, a poet known in American literary circles as 'the poet's poet' or sometimes simply 'the Poet,' lay outside on the deck, bare-chested, moderately overweight, in a partially It was fun watching him begin to see the error of his ways as the realization that he cannot fight his attraction to Julian slowly takes over. And he thinks the pack is more important. The villains are super-evil, and the good guys a bit clueless in the beginning, but it is all in the interest of creating an entertaining read.Djal has stood by Iben, the new Aberdeen pack alpha we met in 'Pocket Sized Prince', for decades, and now his loyalty is challenged, at least in his mind: he thinks he cannot devote himself to keeping the pack safe at the same time as caring for and protecting a. We also find out how much has been going on behind the scenes, and the sinister plot of those wanting to take over is partially revealed. Review 1: As the second volume in the series, this book takes up the pack beta's story, and it turns out to be quite the tale! After the initial takeover of the troubled pack by Alpha Iben, there is lots more work to do to make this a secure place. |