6/20/2023 0 Comments Love and war by melissa de la cruz|a New York : |b Listening Library, |c 2018. |a Love & war |h : |b Alex & eliza series, book 2. Torn apart by new trials and temptations, can Alex and Eliza's epic love survive life in the big city? The battles are just beginning in the sumptuous sequel to Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story. And with Alex's star on the rise, Eliza can't help but feel neglected by a husband who seems to have time for everyone but her. Eliza struggles to build a home in the hustle and bustle of New York City just as Alex's burgeoning law practice brings him up against his greatest rival-the ambitious young lawyer Aaron Burr. Yet even after the Revolution comes to its historic close, Alex and Eliza's happily-ever-after is threatened. But when the war unexpectedly arrives on Eliza's doorstep, she must fight for a better future-for their fledgling country and for her marriage. even if that means leaving his beloved Eliza behind to join the front lines at the Battle of Yorktown. Still, Alex is as determined as ever to prove his mettle and secure his legacy. As the war for American independence rages on, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler begin their new life as a married couple. A New York Times Bestseller! The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story 1781.
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6/20/2023 0 Comments Milk by alice kinsellaIntimate, warm, startlingly vivid and gentle, this is at once a delicate reflection on a moment of gigantic change in body and mind and a powerful, often painful confrontation of the politics of a country so deeply unsure about its women. How does this country treat its mothers? What does it mean to be forever tethered? Forever in love? Set against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland, in Milk Alice draws for us her own map of motherhood, a crucial reflection spanning nine months of pregnancy and the first nine months of her child's life. For the first time, she considered the experiences of her mother, her grandmother, and the generations of women who came before them. With her body struggling to recover, darker intrusions ran through the days and nights of new motherhood. And soon Alice's world began to expand and contract in ways she could never have imagined. Into this warm cocoon, this big, empty house, would arrive a little baby. She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her family. She received an Arts Council Next Generation Award 2022/23. She studied English Literature and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin. Alice Kinsella was in her mid-twenties when she became pregnant with her first child, newly engaged and about to embark on a life in an unfamiliar town on the west coast of Ireland. Soldier Sailor is a blistering account of that twilit zone of early motherhood. Alice Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1993, and raised in Co. 6/20/2023 0 Comments Jane gloriana villanueva realAnd to make matters worse, the biological donor is a married man, a former playboy and cancer survivor who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works but was also her former teenage crush. Set in Miami, the series details the surprising and unforeseen events that take place in the life of Jane Villanueva, a hard-working, religious young Latina woman whose family tradition and a vow to save her virginity until her marriage to a detective is shattered when a doctor accidentally artificially inseminates her by mistake during a checkup. 6/20/2023 0 Comments Till they have facesOver time, some questions have settled in for me: Unlike some work that is obscure or poorly written, each time I have read the book I have deepened in my knowledge. Part of this hesitancy, I think, is that I don’t fully understand the novel. And, despite all this, I have struggled to talk about Lewis’ only work of “ literary fiction” for the blogging community. Moreover, Till We Have Faces is critical to my research into C.S. These teaching times have included several close readings of texts. I have several hours of lectures about the novel, and get to teach it twice this semester–once at The King’s College, and once at Signum University, with two weeks in each class for discussion. I know of many people who resist Lewis’ work, but admit that Till We Have Faces is among the 20th century’s important novels.Īnd, despite this, in more than 900 posts, I have never really blogged about Till We Have Faces. The writing is elegant, the portrait is intimate, the transformational element is intricately tied to the psychological development in Orual’s tale, and the fictional world is complete. It is the dying-days journal of Orual, Queen of Glome, who sues her capricious gods for their unfairness to her. Lewis’ most genius work of fiction, Till We Have Facestruly is a remarkable novel. Though I am always nudging readers to see The Great Divorce as C.S. |