![]() Beginning with the decline of Rome, he guides us through classical literature and its impact on Augustine before he takes us further back in time to the origins of Ireland and the Celts. Somewhat whimsically, Cahill devotes only his final 50 pages to the crucial period between the seventh and ninth centuries, spending three- quarters of his book on a very vivid mise-en-scäne. Cahill (director of religious publishing at Doubleday and coauthor with his wife, Susan, of A Literary Guide to Ireland, 1973) introduces us to saints and scholars: the warrior-monk Columcille, for example, who, exiled to Iona, defended poetry and the bards and baptized Scotland and Columbanus, who died in Lombardy after having founded more than 60 monasteries en route from Ireland. As the Roman Empire imploded and barbarians descended upon the Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great task of copying all the literature they could find and, by their wanderings to the court of Charlemagne and throughout Europe, assured the continuity of civilization through the Dark Ages. ![]() ![]() Scholarship, humor, and a keen understanding of human nature combine in this history of Ireland and her rarely acknowledged contribution to European culture. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Quiet strength by tony dungy![]() ![]() He finally got over the hump by winning Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears behind Peyton Manning and the feisty play of strong safety Bob Sanders. As a head coach he lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the brink of a championship before being let go. Tony Dungy has been in the National Football League as a coach for many years. ![]() Tony Dungy is a rather unique and inspiring person. Also features a foreword by Denzel Washington and a 16-page color-photo insert. ![]() The softcover edition of this #1 New York Times best-seller includes a new chapter! In it, Coach reflects on the 2007 football season and last year's successful hardcover release of Quiet Strength. How is it possible for a coach-especially a football coach-to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, and the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, now updated with a new chapter, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family-and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed. ![]() Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments This woven kingdom illumicrate![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() *I pretend to be shocked over my win and squeeze out a few tears for the cameras while hugging my emotional support dog who is sitting next to me* “And the Oscar for Best Actress in the new exciting drama Managing Not to Throw This Book Repeatedly Against a Wall goes to… Kat!” UPDATE: this book is a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, y'all, this is my 13th reason Tahereh deserves to get her ass ATE for publishing this masterpiece ngl. “speak the truth now or i will slit your throat” is a love language we get this knife to the throat scene that had me screaming into the night sky. This book reminded me why the forbidden love trope is my FAVORITE. ![]() i think i might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.” like AHHHHH The way Kamran is falling HARD for Alizeh… “You have consumed my thoughts since the moment I met you…i feel now, in your presence, entirely strange. omfg like i was NOT disappointed once! our main girl Alizeh? badass to say the least. from the Persian mythology that was woven into it to the lush romance. I was here for every minute of this book. the characters? i would DIE for them! the ending? TAHEREH if you don’t drop book 2 IMMEDIATELY □ it’s been a hot minute since i picked up a fantasy book and after reading this book…i won’t be able to get enough. this book singlehanded cured my depression. This was 40 chapters of badassey, ecstasy, and euphoria. Tahereh Mafi put her whole taHUSSY into this… ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Rachel ashwell home![]() ![]()
5/30/2023 0 Comments Speaker of the dead ender's game![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He receives the same education as other children, but the military recognizes him as their best bet to be supreme commander and often manipulates its own rules to make sure Ender has the necessary technical skills and the right character for their ends. His existence was called for by a program aiming at producing commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or "Buggers." He attends Battle School, an Earth-orbiting space station that trains similar prodigies. In the first book of the series, Ender's Game, Ender is the youngest and most well rounded of three children his parents received permission to have a third child, which is rare in the state's strict two-child policy. In the 2013 film adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender is portrayed by Asa Butterfield. The book series itself is an expansion, with some changes to detail, of Card's 1977 short story " Ender's Game." ![]() Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels ( Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Observations by Jane Harris![]() ![]() During this period, Jane wrote stories and a number of short film scripts. She went on to undertake an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia then completed a PhD at the same university. On her return to Glasgow, her short stories began to be published in magazines and anthologies. She started to write short stories during this period while confined to bed in Portugal with a bout of flu. She studied English Literature and Drama at the University of Glasgow, then trained at East 15 Acting School in London.Īfter years of trying different careers, Jane worked abroad, variously as a dishwasher, a waitress, a chambermaid and an English language teacher. Jane was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and spent her early childhood there before her parents moved to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1965. Jane Harris (born 1961) is a British writer of fiction and screenplays. ![]() ![]() Because it's a lot more than that, and in the end, it's really a pretty great love story, even if it does veer into Cliche Town. At first blush, you'd think you'd read this story a hundred times before, and though you may be right, this is one of the best iterations of that story I've ever read. The story: Pushing the Limits is told in first person, alternating chapter by chapter between the POV of Echo, scarred ex-popular girl with a traumatic secret and serious daddy issues, and Noah, stoner foster-kid whose life is falling apart. And Echo has toĪsk herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll riskįor the one guy who might teach her how to love again. The crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And with the secrets theyīoth keep, being together is pretty much impossible. Understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have ![]() Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket,Įxplodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising Knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal.But when Noah Happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jockīoyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms.Įven Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. Rating: This book had everything I don't like-melodrama, pet names, cliches-and yet. ![]() Series: #1 in the Pushing the Limits series Review: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments These rebel waves book 2![]() There's not a ton of romance in this book. But it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book or anything. I didn't LOVE the religious aspects of the book, and like, I should probably get back in the habit of reading the synopses before I read books because if I had, I would have at least known it was coming instead of being totally surprised. ![]() ![]() ![]() It bugged me here, but the payoff was worth it. This book did the thing where Lu and Vex were off in one place and Ben was somewhere else and they didn't interact, which usually bugs me. Lu was a likable female protagonist, and I feel like a lot of times I dislike female protagonists because they're just so annoying. He was that kind of sarcastic and dry and funny sort of bad boy without being an asshole, so as far as I'm concerned, he's pretty much the ideal version of the character archetype. I thought that was cool, and again, you get a lot of the same stuff in YA fantasy, so I thought it was cool to get something different. ![]() Magic appears to be completely contained in plants, and different plants have different magical properties. I thought the magic system was unique (and I mean truly unique, like actually one of a kind). Someone is gay and there ARE pirates, al I guess I see the confusion.ĭespite that, I actually quite enjoyed this. Okay, so I think everyone (including me) knew by the time this came out that there were no gay pirates, which is disappointing. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Book american dirt![]() ![]() She received a seven-figure advance for her book, which has raised questions about how the publishing industry chooses which books, and writers, to aggressively promote, how authors approach writing about marginalized people from other cultures, and how the story of immigration, one of the most politically charged issues in the United States today, gets told.Īs education director at GrubStreet, a nonprofit writing center in Boston, Suarez (GRS’12), who has an MFA in creative writing, spends a lot of time thinking about these kinds of questions.Ĭummins has been attacked on social media for sensationalizing the Mexican migration with lurid violence and stereotypical characters. ![]() Not many people have a more informed perspective on the controversy swirling around American Dirt, the wildly hyped best-selling novel about a Mexican mother and her son escaping to the United States, than Latino writer Dariel Suarez.Īmerican Dirt’s author, Jeanine Cummins, identifies herself as white and Latina. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Dan brown inferno summary![]() ![]() To seek answers to the questions like, “What is he doing in Florence?” “How did he arrive here?” “Who is trying to kill him?” etc., he has to decipher Boticelli’s “La Mappa dell’ Inferno” – The Map of Hell. Soon he discovers that he is the target of an international organization – “The Consortium”. “Inferno”, the fourth book in the Robert Langdon series, written by Dan Brown, derives its name from the first part of Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy”, written in the 14 th century, which details his journey through hell.ĭan Brown’s “Inferno” begins when the famous Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon, wakes up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy and realises that he cannot remember anything from the past two days of his life. ![]() Robert Langdon – one of the most famous, most read and most loved fictional characters is back again to decipher historical symbols, find clues and save the world from a shady organization. ![]() |