![]() ![]() Who remembers, for example, that the rebels had to club (and sometimes shoot) their way through irate Dublin civilians during the first days of the Rising to take up their positions? Yet these less-than-inspiring details are also part of the Rebellion’s story as re-told here by McGarry. If its symbols are well known, however, some of the less heroic aspects of the Rising are less well remembered. Even now, the idea of heroic but failed struggle in 1916 touches something powerful in the Irish nationalist psyche. These images helped to build a revolutionary separatist movement in the years after the Rising and to propel nationalist Ireland into armed confrontation with the British state in 1919-1921. ![]() The gruesome execution of James Connolly, tied to a chair to face the firing squad. The battle at Mount Street, where 12 Volunteers held off a regiment. The green-uniformed Volunteers, huddled inside the burning GPO, fighting off the massed forces of Empire outside. Part of this may be down to the potent imagery it left us. But as a symbol – a resurrection of the idea of a defiant “Ireland”, fighting “England”, the historical oppressor – it was, and remains, stunningly successful. As an attempt to seize power it was woefully unsuccessful, incompetent even. Historian Peter Hart, quoted in Fearghal McGarry’s new book on the Easter Rising, describes the insurrection as, “performance art”. You can listen to Fearghal talk about his book here. ![]()
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![]() John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. Helped by local barman, and former marine, Jack Sheridan, Mel must face her past, and finds that there may be a future in Virgin River after all.įor the second time in a year, a woman arrives in the small town of Virgin River trying to escape the past. But when a tiny baby is abandoned on a front porch, Mel must decide whether to stay and help or cut her losses and leave. However, her hopes are dashed within an hour of arriving: the cabin is uninhabitable, the roads are treacherous and the local doctor wants nothing to do with her. ![]() ![]() When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees an advert for a midwife in the remote town of Virgin River, she decides this is the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to revitalise the nursing career she loves. ![]() ![]() ![]() This blurb is misleading to the point it makes me mad. Sexy, suspenseful, and lightning fast, Up Close and Dangerous showcases a beloved author at her dazzling best. Sure enough, upon her return to civilization Bailey’s suspicions mount: Who tampered with their plane? Who’s trying to reunite Bailey and her husband in the afterlife? Trusting her life – and heart – to Cam, Bailey must outwit a killer who will stop at nothing to finish the job. ![]() Stranded in the wilderness, and struggling to douse her feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her side, Bailey begins to wonder whether this was a mere accident. A year later, while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine sputters – and then fails.Ĭam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot, manages to crash-land the aircraft. ![]() For in Linda Howard’s world, trust can be a weapon, a kiss can be a threat, and intimacy can be deadly.īailey Wingate’s scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their father’s will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war ensues. In her latest tour de force of romantic suspense, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard blends these elements into a gripping story that will keep readers breathless – and leave them begging for more. a dangerous trek through the Idaho wilderness. Romantic Suspense published by Ballantine 17 Jul 07Ī mysterious plane crash. Alicia Thomas’s review of Up Close and Dangerous by Linda Howard ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the people are completely willing to help and be blatantly used because they’re so charmed by this oddball group of old people still kicking around when most around them are in the process of giving up. The plot descends into jollity, murder, and capers, as always with touches of real emotion mixed in along the way.Ī delightful thing that is becoming clear as these books go on is that the four pensioners (retirees for my fellow North Americans) are really beginning to collect a crowd of friends/sources/people they can use when they need to as time goes on. Now they have their sights set on the murder of a newscaster ten years before who worked near where they live (and it doesn’t hurt that Joyce has a little crush on the newscaster they are trying to rope in to helping them with the investigation, as he was a close friend and colleague of hers before she was murdered). Our four septuagenarians are still at it, solving murders on Thursdays, and hopefully things have calmed down after the chaos of their last big case. I don’t know how much more I can continue to say about these books, as my love for them is not diminishing but only growing, and the books are so consistent with what I love about them, I don’t want to just be saying the same things every time a new one is published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the book Nedra provides detailed examples (anonymized) from her practice to highlight how poor boundaries present themselves in our daily lives, specific actions to begin practicing healthy boundaries and real outcomes from individuals who created healthier boundaries. Nedra Glover Tawwab has achieved this balance so elegantly by addressing the origins of poor boundaries, where poor boundaries can exist in our lives (self, family, friends, work, social media, etc.) and coaches the reader as to how to begin creating the type of healthy boundaries required to live a happy life without resentment. The cost for us not having healthy boundaries is great! This book will help.Īs an individual that has done a great deal of ‘The Work’ to improve my wellbeing, it is rare to find literature in the area of psychology/self-help that strikes such a perfect balance between both addressing complex principles in Psychology and making the content simple to understand and incorporate for the reader. ‘Set Boundaries, Find Peace’ should be a required reading before we reach adulthood! Whether it’s through family or social conditioning, the vast majority of us have incorporated poor boundaries into some or all areas of our lives. ![]() ![]() I say this not to exceptionalize myself-as if acknowledgment of affect were a way toward escape-but to say these experiences are typical of trans women, and, more broadly, how the academy is structured, unemployment, grief. ![]() A time that, like a gate or rack, keeps one just before a visible open. I was in the thicket of a kind of time that is very proximate to death. I was “depressed” and “suicidal,” in a kind of pathological way I still can’t grant myself. ![]() One evening I saw a post on Facebook about the life expectancy of a trans woman being 27-which I doubted, still doubt-but I had turned 27, and, I don’t know, it felt impossible not to shut the world off. I am not ashamed of what I was writing or had written, but across those months in the winter and early spring of 2016 when I graduated my MFA, I was unemployed, lost my healthcare, my cohort moved back home with their families (which for various reasons typical to many, but especially trans women, was not available for me at that time), I was turned down for work across a spectrum of legality, two of my immediate friends were hospitalized (trans women who were assaulted), and three friends died (all trans women, two who died by their own hands and one who was murdered). Writing was, for me, like a gate, or slab beneath a charred, dripping piece of a thing, collecting remains. ![]() ![]() Read the poem, listed as “III” at Poetry Foundation, and listed as “LVII” in the collection. Feeld, by Jos Charles (Milkweed Editions, 2018). ![]() ![]() ![]() Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Of these, he is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie. He is one of five people to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless). For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. ![]() For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most important scientist in history. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Linus Carl Pauling FRS ( / ˈ p ɔː l ɪ ŋ/ February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. ![]() ![]() ![]() “An utterly engrossing fantasy.” - The New York Times “ confirms McKinley as an important writer of modern heroic fantasy, a genre whose giants include C. Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king’s troop is assembled: “The Black Dragon has come. ![]() ![]() That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history. īut modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment. ![]() Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. In Robin McKinley’s Newbery Medal–winning novel, an outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realmĪerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also makes a god and worships it he makes it a graven image and falls down before it. Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself he also makes a fire to bake bread. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house. Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line he outlines it with red chalk. He also gets hungry and his strength fails he drinks no water and becomes weary. ![]() The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame. Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit? Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame. ![]() ![]() ![]() But his extraordinary poetry, a primary domain for his soul work, remained hidden from the world until after his death in 1633. ![]() In his lifetime, George Herbert was appreciated for his attractive personal qualities, his pastoral sense and sensibility, and his faithful Christian practice. When we find words of the right sort to ask about the divine––words like ‘delight’, ‘enjoy’, ‘pleasure’, and persevere’––God can do nothing better than answer us in our own vocabulary. ![]() The seventeenth was almost the last century to succeed in looking within without falling in head first and being submerged––probably because its thinkers had as a governing conception not reality conceived as within the individual consciousness, but, rather, the possibility of inner harmony with reality. Mary’s, Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK (Photo by Jim Friedrich) ![]() |