![]() ![]() That’s the basis on which Netflix is selling us this series? Granny Haley? There are plenty of other academics here, but none seems to back up Haley’s theory. “And I remember clear as day her saying to me, ‘Shelley, I don’t care what they tell you in school - Cleopatra was black.” And that’s that. I would come home and tell her what I was learning,” she begins. “My grandmother was the inspiration for me. ![]() She was, until recently, president of the Society of Classical Studies, so presumably she will come at this subject with academic rigour. “Blatant historical fallacy,” says Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, pointing out that Cleopatra was descended from the Ptolemies, who were Greek.īut perhaps the show - executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will - will give us detailed evidence to support the theory? Here, in the opening minutes, is Prof Shelley P Haley, from somewhere called Hamilton College. That’s because it portrays Cleopatra as black, not in the spirit of colour-blind casting but as a historical fact. The Egyptian government is not amused by Netflix’s new docudrama series, Queen Cleopatra. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. ![]() “In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character.īenjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. ![]() The Christian Science Monitor review from July 2003. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each offers part of an unfinished story, a balance of music and imagery. “The poems in Bonfire Opera frame a vibrant folk opera. Bonfire Opera is a feast you’ll want to devour and a garden that will never stop yielding.”-Dean Rader, University of San Francisco If a book can be smart and funny and dark and wise and vulnerable and beautiful all at the same time, this one is. In one of her best poems, Laméris writes, ‘This is what I’ve made here, a garden, a feast.’ That’s for sure. ![]() In these finely crafted lyrics, worms, berries, skin, hawks, dirt and desire exist and even thrive in a symbiotic relationship that is a model for a new way of thinking. Everything is alive in these poems, even loss. This is what it is like reading Danusha Laméris’ Bonfire Opera. ![]() “No experience is more fulfilling than reading the work of a writer who is a master of her craft-of feeling like the book you are immersed in is an entire world. In melodic and sumptuous lines, she considers desire, sorrow, beauty and death. This is a collection you will want to keep close, ‘a reminder to begin, again, by listening carefully with the body’s rapt attention.’”-Ellen Bass ![]() “Bonfire Opera, Danusha Lameris’ ravishing second collection of poems, lives up to its title and then some. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their desperate, world-shattering actions will leave the Avengers at each other’s throats - and give rise to the Cabal! And as the realities of the Multiverse collide, time runs out for everyone! Collecting AVENGERS (2012) #24-44 and NEW AVENGERS (2013) #13-33. Buy a cheap copy of Avengers By Jonathan Hickman Omnibus. And the collision of the Avengers and the Illuminati is imminent! But as teammate faces teammate, the Time Gem takes the Avengers on a peril-filled journey into days-to-come - ultimately sending Captain America 50,000 years into the future to witness a true Avengers world! Meanwhile, as the Incursion crisis worsens, the members of the Illuminati struggle with the weight of the burden they’ve shouldered. 2 NEW PRINTING (Avengers Omnibus, 2): Larroca, Salvador, Marvel Various, Ribic, Esad, Hickman, Jonathan: 9781302945497: : Books Books Comics & Graphic Novels Graphic Novels Buy new: 125. Finch penciled the first six issues and issues 11-13. AVENGERS BY JONATHAN HICKMAN OMNIBUS VOL. The first issue, written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by David Finch, was dated January 2005 but appeared in November 2004. AVENGERS BY JONATHAN HICKMAN OMNIBUS VOL. brings a corrupt version of the Avengers into the Marvel Universe. The New Avengers is a spin-off of the long-running Marvel Comics series The Avengers. ![]() Jonathan Hickman’s epic Avengers run builds to the end of all things! A runaway planet is on a collision course with Earth. ![]() ![]() What follows is the complicated, awkward, hilarious, and tender tale of two teens shedding their pasts, figuring out who they are-and falling in love. One fateful night, their paths cross at Wren's family's Arthurian-themed catering hall. Today I reviewed Robin Constantines debut novel The Promise of Amazing. In fact, I went into The Promise of Amazing expecting something different than I got. Interesting name, cute cover, promising synopsis it was exactly what the doctor ordered. Gabe's: star of the lacrosse team, top of his class, and on the fast track to a brilliant future-until he was expelled for being a "term-paper pimp." Now Gray is in a downward spiral and needs to change but doesn't know how. I love contemporary and I was so stoked to get into The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine because it seemed right down my alley. She wants to change but doesn't know how. ![]() Wren is the quiet good girl who's always done what she's supposed to-only now, in her junior year, this passive strategy is backfiring. ![]() ![]() Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she's not popular, not a social misfit. Robin Constantine's New Jersey romance The Promise of Amazing is a sexy, poignant, funny, and authentic debut novel that will appeal to fans of books by Stephanie Perkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Jennifer E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rin loses control and attracts attention, the empress is taken away to safety. The empress appears at the end of war celebrations in Adlaga where they are set to assassinate their 29th victim. She’s always wrestling with Chaghan while he questions every decision and gives her orders. She is also struggling with leading the Cike. Rin is struggling with her opium addiction and the visions the phoenix is sending her. They are now in the employ of the Pirate Queen Moag who mostly deals in contraband opium imports. They’ve been traveling for 3 months and, so far taken out 29 targets on their way to their primary one, the Empress. In present day the Cike sail on the Petrel into the port city of Adlaga. ![]() On the first day Nehza is permitted to watch him on his own Mingzha convinces him to go down toward the grottos on their property where he is killed. He’s doted on by their mother and not denied anything. ![]() Mingzha is the youngest of the children in Nehza’s family and the only one not destined for military service. The book starts off with a flashback to Nehza as a child with his younger brother. If you haven’t read it then I don’t recommend you read this post. The 3rd book in this series is being released later this month and if you’ve read The Poppy War, and The Dragon Republic but don’t remember everything that happened in book #2 and want a refresher this is for you. ![]() A note before reading: This recap is spoiler filled. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as sensual passion sparks into an inferno, an enemy lies in wait to trap Jeffrey, and will stop at nothing but his death. ![]() ![]() The prim and proper Amanda finds herself helpless to resist his advances, even as she fights the desire he arouses.Īmid the rumblings of revolution stirring sleepy Williamsburg, Amanda and Jeffrey surrender to the burning attraction flaring between them. But the handsome, dashing Jeffrey is a dangerous rogue, for he incites the very passion that caused her to flee her beloved England in disgrace. ![]() If she finds evidence of Clayton's treason against the Crown, the governor will forgive the debt and introduce her into society. If he doesn't tread carefully, Jeffrey could face worse than losing his heart - he could hang for sedition.Īmanda Reeves craves acceptance among the gentry, but a debt of her father's threatens to send her family into the almshouse. But the bewitching, fiery Amanda threatens to weaken his resolve. He has vowed to never fall in love again after his fiancée betrayed him to the British. Is the red-headed beauty who appears through the smoke in a blacksmith's shop forged from a dream, or Jeffrey Clayton's worst nightmare? An avid patriot aiding the colonies in the cause of freedom, Jeffrey knows Amanda Reeves is spying on him. NEW historical romance set in 1775 Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he meets Megan, he is immediately drawn to her, he wants her and he is not ashamed to communicate that to her. He lives the life of a bachelor, enjoying the perks of his success but dedicating his life to his career. She is now dedicated to her nursing job body and soul, loved by patients and colleagues alike, but with no one waiting for her at home at night. ![]() Once upon a time she dreamed of becoming a singer but that dream was cut short when her singing partner left her behind to pursue his own singing career. ![]() Megan is a paediatric nurse and Jules’ old friend from college. We were introduced to these characters at the end of Fight With Me and even from that short introduction we knew they would set those pages on fire. In the third book of the With Me in Seattle series, we meet Megan and Will. Kristen Proby’s unique brand of feel-good smuttiliciousness never ceases to make my heart beat a little bit faster and Play With Me just added its own beat to that particular arrhythmia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience. With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. ![]() Inside this Instaread of Furiously Happy: Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, and not the original book. The furious bit is important to Lawson because it is a measure of the effort and determination that goes into trying to. ![]() Within a few hours of using #FuriouslyHappy, Larson's many Twitter followers got behind her idea, and the hashtag began trending. Not mildly happy, or even mindfully happy, but furiously happy. After one particularly bad period, she decided to be "furiously happy" to counter the sadness. She experiences serious lows, such as days she cannot get out of bed, and she has thoughts of suicide. But Jenny Lawson just GETS ME and so does the universe apparently because this. As a result of her illnesses, she is chronically depressed. 5/5: 'We all get our share of tragedy or insanity or drama, but what we do with that horror is what makes all the difference.' This may turn out to be an ode to how I have once again fallen down the rabbit hole, but I promise my intentions were pure when I started out wanting this to simply be just a book review. The author, Jenny Lawson, suffers from clinical depression, an anxiety disorder, an impulse control disorder, avoidant personality disorder, insomnia, and rheumatoid arthritis among other illnesses. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things is a series of essays that are hysterically funny and poignant at the same time. ![]() ![]() As the book develops and more characters are added, he discovers that the magically collected designs within the carpet is what is known as The Fugue: an ancient civilization and people who have lived since the beginning of existence but over time, after cohabiting with humanity, have lost numbers and suffered destruction. Gazing into its intricate patterns, he sees more at work here, and discovers paradise for the first time. The main character, Cal Mooney, is a person going nowhere fast in a dead-end job, until he comes into contact with this large rolled up carpet that is being moved from a house. Weaveworld is a book that will delight, appall, horrify, and leave you thinking about the meaning of place and belonging somewhere. ![]() Starting out seemingly normal with normal people, it immediately jumps to the mundane and insane. A relatively early book in Clive Barker’s career when he was still living in England, it is set within his hometown of Liverpool. ![]() |