5/13/2023 0 Comments Marie Antoinette by André CastelotWhatever her faults, she was full of qualities that we can admire today. The best part is the very end when he describes her trial and execution. Ultimately, Castelot does sympathize with Marie Antoinette. Castelot does imply that some of these accusations might be true, such as her alleged affair with Axel von Fersen or her supposed frivolity (whatever that means). Malicious pamphleteers spread many baseless accusations against Marie Antoinette before and during the Revolution. For the average educated Frenchman, there would be no need to explain further, but it might be difficult for a non-French reader to follow his narrative. He mentions in passing the many controversies about her life before and during the Revolution without explaining them. Castelot shows the evil of some revolutionaries but is careful not to take too hard a position against the Revolution - a difficult task when the satanic malice of the French Revolution was so well documented. Unlike most 19th century French historians, he tries to take a more neutral position towards the French Revolution and its victims. It is very lively and interesting, with lots of actual dialogue. He wrote it in the 1950s for a popular French audience. His style was more that of a journalist and a playwright than that of a professional historian. André Castelot wrote a decent biography of Marie Antoinette.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Wild by Cheryl StrayedI was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and to do it alone. 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This delightful character-driven cozy is just the treat for you."- Kirkus Reviews Six chefs are preparing to compete in an outdoor tent at Storyton Hall in Virginia for prizes that will boost their careers-but is there someone who can't stand the heat? It looks that way when one of the contestants is found dead in a pantry packed with two centuries' worth of cookbooks, among other treasures and rarities. The witty new story from the bestselling author of The Secret Book & Scone Society series is perfect for bibliophiles who love a A Bookish Cook-Off with a little murder on the side. But when she and Alexander begin to fall for each other, Amy wonders if she even wants him to ever return to the realm of fiction. Together, Amy and Alexander set out to track Vigo and learn how and why Alexander crossed over. In fact, he IS Alexander, who has escaped from the pages of the book and is in hot pursuit of a wicked vampire named Vigo. 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Halloween II (Novelization) by Jack Martin There is a Serpent in Eden by Robert Bloch Horror continued to be released regularly until Zebra shut down their horror line in 1996, but starting in 1991 horror started started splitting off into Silence of the Lambs knock-offs, Interview with a Vampire copies, and young adult style covers.Ī full cover gallery with shop links over at Trash Menace Gallery Below is a comprehensive list of the almost 200 horror novels Zebra Books released through 1991. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Hard-Boiled by Erin A. SmithPulp magazine editors and writers emphasized a gritty realism in the new genre. She shows that although the work of pulp fiction authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner have become “classics” of popular culture, the hard-boiled genre was dominated by hack writers paid by the word, not self-styled artists. 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While an ancient demigoddess schemes to regain her full powers by causing terror, other people are swept up in the tide of events, including a politician who dreams of embracing his female side as a stage performer, a pop diva, a gay teen in love with his best friend, and an AI collective unsure of its role in the world. As a new drug spreads through the population, it unlocks long-hidden abilities and animal affinities, remnants of a mythological time when humans and nature intermingled. In this genre-bending debut novel, a science fantasy set in 2064, newly awakened demigods and artificial intelligences battle for the fate of South Africa. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Ted chiang exhalation storiesIn Exhalation, Ted Chiang addresses the most fundamental of issues – What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human? – alongside others that no one else has even imagined. In ‘Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom’, the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will. In the epistolary ‘Exhalation’, an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. In ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past errors and the temptation of second chances. The best kind of science fiction' – Barack Obama 'A collection of short stories that will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. These are tales that tackle some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries that only Ted Chiang could imagine. Although dark in premise, these parables – threaded through with references to ancient mythology and folklore – are filled with hope and humanism: a balm for anxious souls.’ – Daily Telegraphįrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. ‘One of the most exciting writers in science fiction. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Ninth Orphan by James MorcanThe frenetic cat-and-mouse chase moves from airports to train stations and hidden torture prisons, taking the reader on a shocking, nail-biting ride into the world’s closet of skeletons that goes beyond conspiracy theories to painful reality. But can the ninth-born orphan ever get off the grid? To find out you’ll need to go on a tumultuous journey around the globe to such far-flung locations as China, France, the Philippines, Andorra, America, England, Germany and French Polynesia. On the run, the mysterious man’s life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. Ow do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy. |