![]() It was the best of times it was the worst of times. There’s also the sudden death of a loved one in the book’s second act, complete with psychological fallout, as well as plenty of picturesque outdoor dining and leisure activities. Almost immediately, his train of thought takes unwelcome and chaotic turns he compares it to being 'stoned on bad, cheap dope' and he experiences bizarre visual hallucinations. Meanwhile, Sabrina and Cleo, in the book’s B-plot, suffer the pangs of estrangement - one hesitates to schedule a visit, the other feels stressed and isolated and less intimate than before. Enslin spends 70 minutes in Room 1408, dictating his experience into a handheld tape recorder. The protagonist, Harriet, is a burned-out medical professional considering a career change. What differentiates “Happy Place” from a standard love story is how much it’s a love-in-the-time-of-covid story, though inexplicably, neither covid nor the pandemic is referenced explicitly. All romances, be they comedies or dramas, demand that their leads get vulnerable and confess their feelings before is too late. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible. ![]()
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![]() ![]() (We can only hope his executioner will be as meticulous.) In the meantime, we get more of everything we’d expect from Mantel’s evocation of the reign of Henry VIII: power, rivalry, strategy, love, loyalty, ambition, regret, loneliness, lust-all centered on the magnetic Cromwell, a man who knows everything from the number of soldiers commanded by each nobleman in England to the secret desires of their wives and daughters. ![]() On the second page, the executioner, who was brought over from France, refers to him as Cremuel (“No Frenchman can ever pronounce his name”), and finally, a few paragraphs later, when the swordsman is showing off the special blade he used on the queen, “he, Cromwell, touches a finger to the metal.” And we’re off, knowing that by the end it will be Cromwell’s head that rolls. ![]() “Once the queen’s head is severed, he walks away”: With this perfect sentence, Mantel plunges into the scene of Anne Boleyn’s execution, and there’s no need to spell out who “he” is. The end comes for Thomas Cromwell-and for the brilliant trilogy about his life that began with Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012). ![]() ![]() His family was first forced to live in converted horse stables in Santa Anita Park, a racetrack in Arcadia, California, before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arizona and finally to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. They Called Us Enemy, the George Takei graphic novel, focuses on Takei’s life as a Japanese-American during World War II. The cover of ‘They Called Us Enemy,’ the George Takei graphic novel, courtesy of Top Shelf Productions Only approximately 11,000 people with German ancestry and 1,881 Italian-Americans were interned - a tenth and a hundreth, respectively, of the number of interned Japanese-Americans. Though German- and Italian-Americans were also sent to internment camps, it was on a much smaller scale. (Not that it was okay to intern the other 38% either.) Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese people in America despite that 62% of those interned were American citizens. ![]() Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. In 1942, Takei’s family, along with 120,000 other Japanese-Americans, were put into internment camps for the duration of World War II. ![]() ![]() It sets up the scene and introduces us to all the key players, but in lightning fast succession. The opening arc – Preludes and Nocturnes– is probably one of the less interesting arcs of Gaiman’s magnum opus. Still, Gaiman is crafting a sort of modern fable and fairytale, and – as one of his characters reminds us – the fairy tales we tell our children today are heavily sanitized. There’s quite a lot of disturbing images and ideas thrown into the mix here – perhaps more than later on. ![]() There’s very little light or reassuring in the volume, but the lightest element Gaiman uses is quite surprising – his personification of Death as… well, a nice person. ![]() ![]() Nightmares and demons are frequent guests, but few are as evil as some of the humans we encounter. The tales call to mind some weird hybrid of Tim Burton and the Twilight Zone. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vickii has completed hundreds of hours of continuing education over the last 30 years. ![]() Her certification in massage therapy was earned at the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington, DC. She holds an undergraduate degree in education from Bloomsburg University and a master’s degree in counseling from McDaniel College. Vickii Engel, MS, LMT, has been a practicing massage therapist since 1987, specializing in the relationship between mind and body. Presentations and Workshops for Groups ( *** A variety of CDs also available to rent on these topics.)Ĭontact: (410) 848-9257 Author of “ Creating Calm – 3 Powerful Models for Navigating the Rough Seas of Midlife“, 2016 “relaxed body…peaceful mind…”.Nonverbal Communication / Body Language.Meditation Practice, Instruction, & Coaching ***.Holistic Counseling for Self Care and Spiritual Growth ***. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Liza was the author of four highly successful, bestselling and critically acclaimed books about London’s history, Restoration London, Dr Johnson’s London, Elizabeth’s London (a Sunday Times bestseller) and Victorian London, all published by W&N in the UK and St. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.” In an interview in the Guardian, she told John Cunningham “I am not a properly trained historian. Only after her retirement did Liza begin to write the kind of social history books that she had been trying to find: books that described the everyday life of ordinary London people – if people are ever ‘ordinary’. She was called to the bar by Gray’s Inn in 1949 but never practised after various jobs, including a spell in East Africa in the Colonial legal service, she found a job in the Solicitor’s Office of the Inland Revenue, where she stayed until her retirement in 1987. Liza Picard (1927-2022) was born in Essex and read law at the London School of Economics. ![]() ![]() This friend has a friend who is also a rabbi, but of the Reform movement. The priest remains strong in his Christian faith and Harfenes launches on a three-page diatribe against "Christianity, which is no more than an extension of Satan's arm to poison hearts with a vile hatred." Later in the book, Harfenes meets a friend of his, a fellow rabbi who is also a very conservative Jew. But I was still really repulsed by him.Īround page 100, Harfenes encounters a Catholic priest who'd been born a Christian but was sent to the camps because of his Jewish ancestry. He was at the Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen camps, the last of which I'd never heard of and which he says was the worst of all. He lost his wife, two sons and one daughter. He came from an extremely large family, 141 of whom passed through Auschwitz, 13 of whom survived. Clearly the book was written for people who think like him and have lived his kind of life, not for atheists from Ohio like me. For instance, whenever he spoke of dates he always used the Hebrew calendar, and he never bothered to define the religious objects and rituals he practiced. He was always referring to Jewish stuff I had to look up. He strictly adhered to the Jewish laws, even in the camps, even at great risk of his life. Harfenes was an extremist Jew, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi descended from a long line of the same. ![]() ![]() It's the first time I've read a Holocaust memoir and deeply loathed the author. I've never read a Holocaust memoir like this and I hope I never read the likes of it again. ![]() ![]() 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, ISBN 0-7089-2346-1. ![]() Also two supernatural stories, which Christie did not have the stylistic resources to bring off successfully." Publication history Robert Barnard: "Posthumous collection, containing several good Marple cases previously only available in the States.
![]() ![]() ![]() The stories reveal much about why people submit to others and how they feel about their submission. If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?Ī painful pleasure.turns to pleasing pain - A Submission to Love Vesey’s rebellion (1822) was to have involved, according to some accounts, as many as 9,000 slaves from the surrounding area, but the conspiracy was betrayed in June before the plan could be effected. The reading makes you feel as if you're there witnessing it with Solomon's emotions. Solomon’s Secret with the incredible whipping scene between Solomon and Amber, Solomon's fantasy mistress. It was memorable because we learn how casual his rebellion was with the slave girl and how serious and determined the secret society is to enforce it's philosophy. Were she is now and how she goes on day by. The story goes back and forth between here present life and her memories. Her stories of what she went through, her feelings were interesting. Although some her memories and scenes were extreme, her feelings and experiences were captivating. In Rebellious Slave where Reuben is in silent rebellion in a dark dungeon while his Coterie Mistress, Melissa, makes what would seem to be the only decision a member in good standing could do. This is a compilation of different memories of a sex slave. What was one of the most memorable moments of Dommes & Submissives? Yes, I would listen to Dommes & Submissives because it has a great amount of subtlety in the character portrayals that are presented by the intonations of the reading. Would you listen to Dommes & Submissives again? Why? ![]() Stories that you'll want to listen to again ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He joined the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in 1969, where a large part of his career was associated with working major crimes, narcotics and homicide.Ĭhief Deputy Englert lives in West Linn and has his own consulting business. He began his career with the Downey, California Police Department after graduating from the Los Angeles Police Academy. ![]() What can the blood left at the scene of a crime tell us about the crime? Our guest speaker, Chief Deputy (Retired) Rod Englert, is an expert in the area of homicide crime reconstruction and blood spatter interpretation.Ī 42-year veteran of law enforcement, Englert retired as Commander of the Operations Division, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office in Portland, Oregon, in 1995. ![]() |