6/20/2023 0 Comments Lady anne glenconner book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bordering Sandringham the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were frequent playmates.įrom Maid of Honour at the Queen’s Coronation to Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret, Lady Glenconner is a unique witness to royal history, as well as an extraordinary survivor of a generation of aristocratic women trapped without inheritance and burdened with social expectations. Her childhood home Holkham Hall is one of the grandest estates in England. Eldest child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, she was, as a daughter, described as ‘the greatest disappointment’ by her family as she was unable to inherit. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and extraordinary resilience which define her.Īnne Glenconner has been close to the Royal Family since childhood. The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen’s Coronation. ![]()
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6/20/2023 0 Comments Henry V by William Shakespeare![]() ![]() Here’s the most famous line from Henry’s whole speech: ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers įor he to-day that sheds his blood with me ![]() This will last forever – until the end of the world. This story shall the good man teach his son įrom this day to the ending of the world,Įvery good man will teach his son about the battle, so that not a single year will go by when the battle is not remembered on St Crispin’s Day. But then this was probably deliberate anachronism on Shakespeare’s part: he needed to mention the names of figures his audience would recognise from the popular history (and earlier plays, such as his own trilogy of Henry VI plays), otherwise Henry’s claim that these names would be ‘familiar … as household words’ in years to come might sound comically wide of the mark. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That one took a very long time to get going. Through a complex set of machinations, the book ended with Rain and the youngest Bride, Cossy, on the run in Maracoor Crown, the capital of the country of Maracoor.ĭespite my love of Maguire’s The Wicked Years, I nearly gave up on the book for the first 100 pages or so of The Brides of Maracoor. Slowly Rain regained some of her memory with the help of her companion, an acerbic talking Goose (Iskinaary). In The Brides of Maracoor, a young green-skinned woman with amnesia named Rain Thropp washed up on Maracoor Spot, a small island inhabited by a cloister of nuns (for lack of a better word) left to guard a mysterious artifact. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something real-and he’s tracked her down to prove it.ĭoes she tell Bruce and ruin their idyllic honeymoon-and possibly their marriage? Or should she handle this psychopathic stalker on her own? To make the situation worse, strange things begin to happen. He insists that their passionate night was the beginning of something much, much more. Then the mysterious stranger suddenly appears-and Abigail’s future life and happiness are turned upside down. ![]() She puts the incident-and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name-out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. ![]() He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind-a refreshing twist from her previous relationships.But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders.Ībigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. ![]() ![]() As you do, you earn medals, the currency of this world, which you can use in the Build-a-Bear Workshop stores that are present on every island. You must win four minigames to gain a puzzle piece that will unlock the next island. On each seasonal island, the player goes on an adventure of exploration and discovery to find treasure chests (that provide nifty accessories such as wands, sun-glasses, and books), help furry friends with tasks, and play minigames. Once you have created your new friend, you sail off on the Friend Ship to four islands that represent the seasons of the year, and end at a party held on a fifth island. Players select to create one of eight furry friends, and once they land on the type of bear, kitty, dog, or turtle that they want to create, they then give it a heart, whisper a wish, dress it, and name it, much like it is done when visiting one of the retail Build-A-Bear stores. ![]() BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP: A FRIEND FUR ALL SEASONS is a Wii game that is duplicates and expands on the experience a child has when visiting a Build-a-Bear Workshop retail store. ![]() 6/19/2023 0 Comments The cage by megan shepherd![]() ![]() As the unlikely group struggles for leadership, they slowly start to trust each other. None of them have a clue as to what happened, and all of them have secrets. And she isn’t alone.įour other teenagers have also been taken: a beautiful model, a tattooed smuggler, a secretive genius, and an army brat who seems to know too much about Cora’s past. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix of environments-tundra next to desert, farm next to jungle, and a strangely empty town cobbled together from different cultures, all watched over by eerie black windows. When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. From Megan Shepherd, the acclaimed author of the Madman’s Daughter trilogy. ![]() The Maze Runner meets Scott Westerfeld in this new series Kirkus Reviews calls “swoon-worthy and thrilling” about teens held captive in a human zoo by an otherworldly race. “Gripping and addictive-Shepherd has delivered again! A captivating mix of intrigue, deft twists, and complex questions, this is a must-read.”-Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, New York Times bestselling authors of These Broken Stars ![]() 6/19/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman the kindly ones![]() ![]() The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh: Understanding Grant Morrison's Batman. ![]()
6/19/2023 0 Comments Greenland david santos donaldson![]() ![]() His need to be seen and heard, and then the juxtaposition of his life to that of Mohammed’s – both the other, both trying hard to fit in, both with great education and yet feels not accounting for much, each with white lovers, almost not knowing what to do with them. This is where it all begins for Kip, or rather unravels. Forster’s secret lover, who was also a Black queer man like Kip. ![]() His novel takes him in the mind of Mohammed el Adl, E.M. Kip Starling has decided to rewrite his novel in three weeks by locking himself in the basement. As a brown gay man, facing a terrible mid-life crisis, and trying to adjust to the world that’s rapidly changing around him, I couldn’t identify more with Kip, the gay black narrator of the novel. I have just finished reading “Greenland” by David Santos Donaldson, and there is so much unpacking to be done – not only where the book is concerned but also when it comes to my life. ![]() 6/19/2023 0 Comments Scum society for cutting up men![]() ![]() While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland’s earlier photographic projects »Girl Pictures« (1997–2002) and »Mama Babies« (2004–07). Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history a dismemberment of the patriarchy a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. The nature of collage - heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy - has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. ![]() Inspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) »Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto« introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. ![]() |