![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next decade, she straddles both worlds, performing, composing, and navigating relationships with Woferl and her domineering father in one while battling supernatural foes for Hyacinth in the other. As Nannerl craves her father’s attention and wishes to escape the inevitable anonymity that womanhood promises, she agrees. Hyacinth, a beautiful, shadowy boy, pale and blue-eyed, is the go-between who offers Nannerl figurative immortality in return for her help. Lu ( Rebel, 2019, etc.) interweaves 18th-century historical figures and events with a fantasy land called the Kingdom of Back, an alternate world actually invented and named by the real Mozart siblings, Nannerl and Woferl, where trees grow upside down and a prince and princess are missing. ![]() The year clavier prodigy Maria Anna Mozart’s younger brother, Wolfgang Amadeus, begins to show an even more astonishing musical genius, a mysterious boy from a fairy land enters her life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I'm going to learn to read Dutch so I don't have to wait that long. Books by Floortje Zwigtman Criaturas fantsticas Ich, Adrian Mayfield Tegenspel / druk 4 Wie Sonne und Mond Adrian Mayfield - Auf Leben und Tod Het. Luister naar het begin van 'Schijnbewegingen' van Floortje Zwigtman (uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff). It's also a wonderful coming-of-age and "coming out" (as much as that was possible during that time) story, and as an added bonus there's a romance that's to-die-for - at least for someone like me who likes it slow and awkward and sweet. Floortje Zwigtman - Schijnbewegingen (voorleesfragment) - YouTube. ![]() It's a fantastic historical novel - as someone who knows quite a bit about that time and Oscar Wilde's life in particular I have to say the author does an amazing job playing with the people from that time, interweaving their lives with that of the main character. One day, he meets a customer who will later introduce him to a whole new world - homosexual Victorian London, including the circle of men around Oscar Wilde. Schijnbewegingen by Floortje Zwigtman, Jun 22, 2018, Luitingh Sijthoff edition, paperback Schijnbewegingen (edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. It's set in the 1890s, and it's the story of Adrian Mayfield, a young shop boy. In fact, it's the kind of book I always wanted to write, or at least to exist, back during the days of the height of my Oscar Wilde obsession. ![]() ![]() ![]() A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle-and people in general-has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. 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You might then go back to the beginning and start reading, or you might start reading wherever it was in the article when you decided to stop skimming. ![]() You scan the title and a few sentences here and there and eventually make a decision to stop reading or read on. ![]() Restak gives the example of reading this essay. Yet research suggests this sense of freedom may be merely an illusory by-product of the way the human brain operates. In Richard Restak’s The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own:Īt the moment of decision we all feel we are acting freely, selecting at will from an infinity of choices. We believe that our conscious mind directs our thoughts and somehow controls our subconscious mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality. ![]() ![]() The novels use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives. ![]() For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. 'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, most of the Yamaguchi-gumi’s revenue is said to come from drug trafficking. ![]() The Yamaguchi-gumi The current kumicho, Tsukasa, also shares his sentiment, and even today members are forbidden from dealing in drugs. He even founded an organization dedicated to the eradication of amphetamines. However, Kazuo disdained drug use and forbid the Yamaguchi-gumi from dealing in drugs. Under Kazuo, the Yamaguchi-gumi expanded its operations to include extortion, labor racketeering, gambling, prostitution, loansharking, smuggling, and many other legal and illegal activities. Kazuo entered the gang as a boxer, and helped to restore the organization after it fell apart during WWII. It began as a union of local Kobe fishermen, and it wasn’t until the third kumicho, Taoka Kazuo, that the gang transformed into the global organization it is today. Harukichi Yamaguchi founded the Yamaguchi-gumi in 1916. The current kumicho is Shinobu Tsukasa, also known as Kenichi Shinoda. According to Fortune Magazine, it is the world’s largest organized crime syndicate and second in revenue ($6.6 Billion). According to the National Police Agency, as of 2014 the Yamaguchi-gumi has 10300 active members, 13100 associate members, totaling at 23400 members, roughly 44% of the Yakuza population. The Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi, or sixth Yamaguchi-gumi is the world’s largest Yakuza organization. Shinobu Tsukasa, aka Kenichi Shinoda, kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 5 critiques multitasking, with Keller drawing on research that shows it can harm energy and attention. Keller cites the “80/20 Principle,” which states that 80% of success comes from 20% of effort, to argue that there is value in devoting attention to the most impactful tasks and goals. Chapter 4 contends that believing all things are equal is a mistake. Part 1 of The ONE Thing (“The Lies”) then examines myths and misconceptions that surround traditional characterizations of success. ![]() ![]() Chapter 3 reviews examples of businesses and individuals that Keller views as successful, showing that all of them have benefited from focus and the help of mentors. In Chapter 2, Keller uses the metaphor of dominoes falling in succession to illustrate how tasks undertaken in the pursuit of a goal are most effective when they are incremental and cumulative, with a view to long-term purpose. Focusing in this way, Keller advises, ensures that goals are best aligned with purpose and prioritized in such a way that you can achieve them. Chapter 1 outlines Keller’s idea of the “ONE Thing,” which means focusing on the most important task or concern of a given goal. Keller divides The ONE Thing into three major parts but prefaces these with three introductory chapters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The recollections accumulate until Ari Folman arrives at Sabra and Shatila and his investigation reaches its terrible end. Tanks crush cars and buildings with lethal indifference snipers pick off men on donkeys, men in cars, men drinking coffee a soldier waltzes through a storm of bullets rock songs fill the air, and then yellow flares. Soldiers are haunted by inexplicable nightmares and flashbacks - snapping, growling dogs with teeth bared and eyes glowing orange a recurring image of three young men rising naked out of the sea to drift into the Beirut battlefield. Gradually, the blankness of his mind is filled in by scenes of combat and patrol, misery and carnage, as well as dreams and hallucinations. Then came a friend's disturbing dream, and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: what was he doing during the hours of slaughter?Ĭhallenging the collective amnesia of friends and fellow soldiers, Folman painfully, candidly pieces together the war and his place in it. ![]() Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night or of the weeks leading up to it. ![]() One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began to massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. "Special, strange, and peculiarly potent. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is quick to note that the Middle East is not monolithic and that the six countries had varying roles and experiences in the Arab Spring but without a manageable focus, she writes like a travel writer with a tight deadline, seeking to concisely answer questions an academic might probe over several hundred more pages. ![]() Culbertson walks through the citadels of Amman and Carthage and the pyramids of Egypt, vividly illustrating the omnipresence of the ancient in the modern her treatment of the Ottoman Empire's demise is particularly illuminating. ![]() Shifting gender roles and the relationship between Islam and democracy are among her central concerns, as is the huge increase in the number of young people that will shape the region's future. Culbertson, a RAND Middle East analyst, travels through Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, and Egypt, trying to understand the 2011 political upheavals that were "optimistically," and, she ultimately argues, inappropriately, called the Arab Spring. ![]() ![]() ![]() Behold, even in the terrible deafening silence of their abandonment, the gods had never been more clear. ![]() ![]() Either the prophecy is fulfilled and both Egypt & Hatti find salvation or Mursili and his allies fail - plunging both kingdoms into indescribable darkness. Hell hath no fury like a spider caught in its own web. Yet, with those closest to him being sacrificed in the process and the tide continuing to rise against them, how far is King Mursili prepared to go to see the prophecy fulfilled? King Mursili II’s only hope to restore his own Hittite Kingdom to greatness is to restore the Amarna line to power in Egypt, to atone for the sins of his father. Queen Ankhe has but one hope to maintain her hold on the throne - an alliance with the Hittites. The ambitious vipers Ay and Horemheb are nipping at her heels in their bid to seize power. His wife, Queen Ankhesenamen, is left without a male heir. The last living male descendant of the Amarna line, Pharaoh Tutankhamun, has died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. This compilation edition includes all three books in the Amarna Series: Ida, Hawara & Raia. ![]() |