5/11/2023 0 Comments Chekhov plays![]() ![]() In a country like France, where support for Ukraine is steadfast, this is hardly for lack of sympathy. Only one playbill, for “The Seagull” at the Théâtre des Abbesses, mentioned Ukraine. While the Ukrainian flag was unfurled regularly on French stages in 2022, it made an appearance just once at the performances I saw of those four plays: At the end of Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country,” at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, an actor brought it out and held it during the curtain calls. In Paris, no fewer than four Russian plays were on at prominent playhouses in late January and early February, including Chekhov’s “The Seagull” and “Uncle Vanya,” as well as lesser-known works, such as pieces by Turgenev (“A Month in the Country”) and by Ostrovsky (“The Storm”).Īnd the artists involved appear to be staying away from mentioning the war. The Russian dramatic repertoire, more widely, has flown under the radar. ![]() ![]() Putin’s favorite authors, cross-examined, in Ukraine and elsewhere, for his expansionist views.Ĭhekhov’s plays, on the other hand? So far, nobody is pulling them from the stage. ![]() Dostoyevsky? One of President Vladimir V. Tchaikovsky’s militaristic “1812 Overture?” Potentially offensive, and dropped from many concerts. Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago, cultural institutions in Europe and the United States have contemplated what to do with Russian art. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments A high end finish by kate carlisle![]() ![]() Now she’ll have to nail down the truth-or end up in permanent foreclosure. But as they get closer to prying out the murderer’s identity, Shannon is viciously attacked. ![]() She's happy to put her rotten date behind her, but when Jerry’s found dead in a run-down Victorian home that she’s been hired to restore, the town’s attractive new police chief suspects that her threats may have laid the foundation for murder.ĭetermined to clear her name, Shannon conducts her own investigation-with the help of her four best friends, her eccentric father, a nosy neighbor or two, and a handsome crime writer who’s just moved to town. On a blind date with real estate agent Jerry Saxton, Shannon has to whip out a pair of pliers to keep Jerry from getting too hands on. But while her home-renovation and repair business is booming, her love life needs work. You can read a free excerpt of A HIGH-END FINISH (book 1) here. In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman-contractor Shannon Hammer. Kate Carlisle, profile picture Kate Carlisle. THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FIXER-UPPER MYSTERY SERIES!ĭon't miss the Hallmark Movies & Mystery Originals starring Jewel, based on the Fixer-Upper Mystery series! ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Adelaide genevieve wheeler![]() ![]() Why else would they have attended that same play last fall, or that Yankees game in 2016? Their paths never crossing until just the right moment. (He has to… right?) Because it’s clear to Adelaide that their fate was written in the stars. But Adelaide is convinced that if she just tries and fights and loves a little harder, he’ll fall for her as deeply as she’s fallen for him. ![]() ![]() All of a sudden, Adelaide finds herself completely in love.ĭoes he respond to texts? Honor his commitments? Make advanced plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all. With wonderful friends and fierce ambitions, Adelaide has little interest in finding “The One” right now, but when she meets Rory Hughes on a dating app-a charming Englishman who’s been placed there by fate, she swears-that all changes. Adelaide Williams is a 20-something American, living in dreamy London. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The library book by orlean![]() ![]() presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. ![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. ![]() At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Lightbringer claire legrand![]() In this epic finale to the Empirium Trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand, two queens, separated by a thousand years must face their ultimate destinies. ![]() The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers Furyborn and Kingsbane! Legrand brings her trilogy to a triumphant but bittersweet ending, effortlessly weaving together complicated plot strands and giving further nuance to already complex characters. Betrayed and abandoned, she fights to keep her power at bay-and away from Corien, who will stop at nothing to travel back in time to Rielle, even if that means destroying her daughter.īut when the mysterious Prophet reveals themselves at last, everything changes, giving Rielle and Eliana a second chance for salvation-or the destruction their world has been dreading. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire’s capital as a broken shell of herself. Buy Lightbringer by Legrand, Claire online on Amazon.ae at best prices. ![]() ![]() Separated from Audric and Ludivine, she embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien’s side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be. Meanwhile, whispers from the empirium slowly drive her mad, urging her to open the Gate. Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Charming billy book![]() ![]() ![]() He is loved - and mourned, even when alive - by his whole family, most particularly by his cousin Dennis, who is closer than a brother.īilly has, however, "ripped apart, plowed through, as alcoholics tend to do, the great deep tightly-woven fabric of affection that is some part of the emotional life, the life of love, of everyone." For as the title suggests, Billy is charming, not just as a quintessential Irish talker, teller of tales or scraps of poems, but as a listener. In it, Billy Lynch is the alcoholic center of an Irish Catholic family in Queens. ![]() "Charming Billy," her fourth novel, is this kind of book, exquisitely presented. Alice McDermott's novels ("A Bigamist's Daughter," "At Weddings and Wakes") are like family albums, each scene hazy with the yellow light of history, nostalgic as faded Polaroids. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Transcription kate![]() ![]() Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky. What I Say: She believed that England could be a better country. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. Although Transcription does not belong with her recent twinned novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins, it is a historical continuation: where Life After Life began before the first world war. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. In the aftermath of war she joins the BBC, where her life begins to unravel, and she finally has to come to terms with the consequences of idealism. Juliet Armstrong is recruited as a young woman by an obscure wartime department of the Secret Service. Transcription is a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall![]() 10 Things That Never Happened, set in the world of the London Calling series, arrives in October. A special edition of Glitterland with expanded content will hit shelves on January 17, followed by the Something Fabulous sequel Something Spectacular on April 11. Mortal Follies is just one of many projects by Hall set for release in 2023. ![]() For the reputed witch has her own secrets that may prove dangerous to Miss Mitchelmore’s heart-not to mention her life.” But Miss Mitchelmore’s reputation is not the only thing at risk in spending time with her new ally. With the Duke’s help, Miss Mitchelmore delves into a world of angry gods and vindictive magic, keen to unmask the perpetrator of these otherworldly attacks. Then again, a malign enchantress might be exactly what Miss Mitchelmore needs. If one is to believe the gossip, she might be some kind of malign enchantress. ![]() And there are few less desirable than Lady Georgianna Landrake-a brooding, alluring young woman sardonically nicknamed ‘the Duke of Annadale’-who may or may not have murdered her own father and brothers to inherit their fortune. However, as the curse progresses to more fatal proportions, Miss Mitchelmore must seek out aid, even if that means mixing with undesirable company. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Time Gettysburg by Time-Life Books![]() High Tide at Gettysburg is a journalist’s rather than a historian’s work, and for sheer readability, there is no other single-volume history of the battle to match it. High Tide at Gettysburg(1958) by Glenn Tucker Its weakness is its plodding, tedious style, which often makes it a book more recommended than read.Ģ. Its great strength is its thoroughness, and it was the first to use in full the papers, letters, and testimonies assembled by John Bachelder from the battle’s participants. Lee’s preparations to the crossing of the Potomac River at Williamsport and Falling Waters. CoddingtonĬoddington’s work has become the touchstone book for understanding the full scope of Gettysburg, treating the campaign and not just the battle, from Robert E. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command(1968) by Edwin B. Space constraints prevented us from including the answers to one of the questions we posed: What are the five best books about the Battle of Gettysburg (nonfiction or fiction)? Here are their responses.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this scene from the Gettysburg Cyclorama, Union soldiers advance toward the sound of the guns during the battle.įor our latest newsstand-only special issue, Gettysburg, we asked a number of Civil War historians for their opinions on a variety of topics, including the battle’s most overrated and underrated performances, best photos, and most compelling monuments. COURTESY OF JASON MINICK, PHOTOGRAPHER, AND THE GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ![]() ![]() He carries out some courageous raids against a group called Tartars, and it made Temujin’s legend grow. He also wanted to kill before someone killed him and to defeat enemies that came from out of nowhere. This pushed him to survive, in fury, even as death stared him in the face. His father being betrayed by a nearby tribe and his entire family abandoning him, which left him all alone to die on the harsh plain. Born with the name Temujin and a khan’s son he was raised in a hunters’ clan moving its way through the rugged steppe. “Wolf of the Plains” is the first novel in the “Conqueror” series and was released in the year 2007. This is just like another series that this author writes, which is called the “Emperor” series (which Conn Iggulden wrote before this one). He mentions the differences in his author’s note found at the end of book. That being said, however, Iggulden does move away from the sources to tell a better story. “The Secret History of the Mongols” serves as the source material for this series. ![]() ![]() The series ended in the year 2011 with the release of the fifth book, which is called “Conqueror”. ![]() The series began in the year 2007 with the release of “Wolf of the Plains”. It is set during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, during the Mongol conquest. The “Conqueror” series written by author Conn Iggulden is from the historical fiction genre and it is about Genghis Khan and those that succeeded him (Ogedai and Kublai Khan). ![]() |