I've been reading about the First World War solidly since December and I've had enough now. The complete works of Remarque are both highly interrelated with his Osnabrück background and speaking thematically of a critical examination of German history, whereby the preservation of human dignity and humanity in times of oppression, terror and war always was at the forefront of his literary creation. Remarque's novels have been translated in more than fifty languages globally the total edition comes up to several million copies. The first publication attained worldwide recognition, continuing today.Įxamples of his other novels also internationally published are: The Road Back (1931), Three Comrades (1936, 38), Arch of Triumph (1945), The Black Obelisk (1956), and Night in Lisbon (1962). German history of the twentieth century essentially marks biography of Remarque and fundamentally influences his writing: Childhood and youth, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States. People most widely read literature of author with pen name of Erich Paul Remark in the twentieth century. Experiences of German-born American writer Erich Maria Remarque in World War I based All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), his best known novel.
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What follows is basically an episodic introduction to the universe Chambers created: the fate of Earth (somewhat apocalyptic, leading to an exodus from the planet and either to Mars or into space), the Wayfarer crew, different species are introduced through those episodes and it is a gentle, fun trip with some moments of tension. And it is a long journey taking over a year (or a “standard”) to complete so we only reach Hedra Ka in Chapter 18 with only five chapters left thereafter. This is one of those books which does exactly what it says on the tin! The book does track the journey of the space ship The Wayfarer to Hedra Ka, a distant planet recently – and controversially – admitted to the Galactic Commons. Adonis blue is a type of butterfly and is found on chalk downland in warm sheltered spots. Chapter 11 A Miracle, A Miracle The last chapter in the book is called Adonis Blues. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity. Watch this interesting video clip of the author Michael Morpurgo speaking about the book and where the idea for The Butterfly Lion came from. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005, and founded the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare. He has written more than 150 novels and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Blue Peter Book Award, while several of his books have been adapted for stage and screen, including the global theatrical phenomenon War Horse. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children, and has sold more than 35 million books around the world. “A master storyteller at his best” The Sunday Times “The Butterfly Lion is unique among animals and books, and will touch all hearts – both young and old.” Virginia McKenna, Born Free Foundation Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. I won’t ever forget you.”Ī lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.īertie rescues an orphaned lion cub from the African veld. “All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. In what I would consider a masterclass of writing, Connelly examines the gulf that exists between everyday natural justice and the rules that apply when dealing with the legal process. This is the kind of fare we might expect from John Grisham but Connelly handles his characters expertly like chess pieces and builds the suspense in a must-turn-the-page fashion. What follows is, for the most part, set inside the courtroom. One of Hallier’s ‘foreclosure’ clients, Lisa Trammel, is accused of killing the mortgage broker who is in the process of repossessing her house. Haller (half brother to Connelly’s better known hero, Harry Bosch) is forced, because of the poor economic situation, to move from criminal defence work to the less glamorous chore of defending people facing foreclosure of their homes – something we’ve become all too familiar with in this country. I enjoy courtroom dramas on screen and TV, not so much in book form, but Connelly has the knack of bringing his courtroom proceedings alive and gripping on the pages with consummate skill and total believability. I waited for the paperback edition of Michael Connelly’s 2nd novel featuring Mickey Hallier, the defence attorney we first met in ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’. The Fifth Witness – Michael Connelly – My take. Hers is pyrokinesis, and was triggered by some shady drug experiments committed on her parents by an even-more-shady governmental organisation known as The Shop. Or, at least, I did the first time that I read it.Ĭharlie McGee is a little girl in the grand, early-King tradition of "kids with special powers". It's one of the books that stepped into public consciousness – it had a film made with Drew Barrymore in, for goodness' sake – and people rattle it off as a classic. And why wouldn't they? It's early King, when (collective wisdom has it) he was still writing exciting, original novels, playing in the ballparks of horror-SF that his diehard early readers love. A few weeks ago, in the thread for The Long Walk reread, commenters began listing their top 10 favourite King books. The problem with something as subjective as literature is that your average reader is, sooner or later, going to disagree with majority opinion and I knew that when it happened during this reread, I would have to write about it honestly. The Kingkiller Chronicles is a series of massive fantasy books written by Patrick Rothfuss. Nonetheless, it tops my list mostly due to how exceptionally awesome the first two books in the series were. Even the title, Doors of Stone, might change, and the cover I have included above is a fan-made cover that features on Goodreads. I have no idea when it is going to be released, nor do I have a firm idea of the book’s plot. There are several problems with wanting to read this book. Stay tuned to see reviews of these books when I get a copy of them.įor this week’s Waiting on Wednesday, I am going to look at the book that is easily number 1 on my personal must-read list, the third book in Patrick Rothfuss’s epic The Kingkiller Chronicle, which is at the moment tentatively titled Doors of Stone. Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy. Irreverent humor for intellectual misfits. How would you describe your books to someone unfamiliar with them? By e-mail, Lawson spoke about her writing, her stuffed raccoon and why it is (sort of) okay to call her crazy. Her new book, “Furiously Happy” (Flatiron, $26.99), brings together odd stories from her life along with some heart-rending confessions about her struggles with depression, anxiety and chronic pain. The daughter of a professional taxidermist whose family kept (live) chickens in a filing cabinet in the garage, Lawson is also the irreverent voice of the Bloggess, a popular blog where this wife and mom turns her troubles - of which there are many - into a cockeyed comedy of self-deprecation and slapstick. Jenny Lawson’s first book, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” - a darkly humorous memoir about her hardscrabble upbringing in rural Texas - drew comparisons to David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler and was an instant bestseller. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year He himself is a gentle soul who does not understand what is happening to him. The language they use to describe his struggles are raw and real, but with a gentleness that made me love Vivek as much as the other characters in the story. I can tell you that Akwaeke Emezi has written this book with so much love, especially for Vivek. During this journey, we are given glimpses, then long, long looks at Vivek and the struggles he endures. From then until the end of the book, readers are taken on a journey to discover the cause and reason for his death. His body is dumped on the porch of his family’s home, to be discovered by his mother. The Death of Vivek Oji is one of the most beautiful stories I have read this year. Now, with their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi has become an author to always look out for. I fell in love with the author’s writing and bought their previous novel, Freshwater, right after reading Pet, which sealed my love for their work. The first time I read their work, I read the young adult novel Pet, which is a beautiful story of what happens when the monsters you think have disappeared are right under your nose. Akwaeke Emezi has quickly become an author whose work I must read as soon as it is released. If acquisitive languages like English see the need, they will steal them, but there are plenty of gems which remain unplundered. Hardback, 19.9 x 17.2 cm (7.8 x 6.8 in), 112 pp., £10.00/$14.99Īvailable for Kindle (£6.65/$10.21) and in the iTunes Store (£6.99).įurther details and illustrations are on the author’s websiteĭictionaries are full of words which cannot be expressed in exactly the same way in other languages. Ten Speed Press / Square Peg / Random House, UK 4 June 2015 / US 16 September 2014 “Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words” |