![]() He suspects Stephen Farraday, a rising young politician, or Stephen’s wife Alexandra, both of whom were at the dinner party at which Rosemary died, or Rosemary’s friend Anthony Browne, who is now paying attentions to Iris. Although the inquest brought in a verdict of suicide, George Barton, Rosemary’s husband, has had his own theories about her death, feeling sure that his wife’s lover or someone else at the party had something to do with it. ![]() Colonel Race, who features as a minor character in several of Christie’s other novels, such as Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table, appears in this, though in this he takes a more leading role in the investigation along with an Inspector Kemp.Īs the book begins, Iris Marle is remembering her sister Rosemary Barton, who died by cyanide poisoning a year previously, and since this traumatic event, no-one who knew Rosemary has been entirely unchanged. Like Towards Zero, Sparkling Cyanide is one of Christie’s ‘stand-alone’ detective novels published during the war years but which does not refer to the war and seems to be set before it. ![]() ![]() (HarperCollins 2006: in ‘1940s Omnibus’, originally published 1945) ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Cemetery Street by John Zunski![]() ![]() In my early years I struggled with reading, I couldn’t understand that sotp was pronounced stop or that gniht was pronounced night and that meant time for bed. In reality, I was anything but a prodigy. ![]() Okay, it didn’t happen quite like that, but, I write fiction and that sounded interesting. When I finally did, I made lots of noise and a blizzard of scrap paper. Whatever it was, I found myself looking up, impatient to sit before it. When I could walk, I found my way to the typewriter, maybe it the noise of the keys, that rhythmic ratta-tat-tat sounded more magical than music, or maybe it was the bell that dinged after a bunch of ratta-tat-tats. ![]() Plus, my name has provided me with cool initials – JAZ.Ī) I was introduced to the world with a pen in hand, before I could crawl I drew squiggly lines on my crib. I know an author named Stephen King, no, not that Stephen King, so imagine the dilemma he faces. I’m glad to have a semi-unique name as not to be confused with established authors. ::Author Interview:: ::John Zunski:: 1) What is your name? Do you use a Pen Name? If so, what is it and why?Ī) Hi Carmen, John Zunski here, and Zunski isn’t a pen name, though the name has penned a novel or two. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Brennu-Njáls saga by Unknown![]() Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, “Perspectives on Digital Catalogs and Textual Networks of Old Norse literature.” Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 6:1 (2021), pp. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, “From Oral Prosimetrum to Viking Metal.” ARV - Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 77 (2021), pp. ![]() Kestemont, Mike, Karsdorp, Folgert, de Bruijn, Elisabeth, Driscoll, Matthew, Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, Ó Macháin, Pádraig, Sawyer, Daniel, Sleiderink, Remco, Chao, Anne, “Forgotten books: the application of unseen species models to the survival of culture.” Science 375:6582 (2022), pp. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna, “When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia: Danish Historiography and Early Transmission and Reception of Hrómundar saga Greipssonar.” Scandinavian Studies 94:3 (2022), pp. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna and Lavender, Philip, “The Prose Summary as Antiquarian Tool and Literary Springboard: An Edition and Translation of Ormars þáttur Framarsonar.” Opuscula 20 (2022), pp. Kapitan, Katarzyna Anna and Tarrin Wills, 'Sagas and genre: A case for application of network analysis to manuscripts preserving Old Norse-Icelandic saga literature' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2023). ![]() ![]() The six-book series (four are presently out) builds in sexual content, and in the third book, readers finally get a scene that has been set up since book one. The series' female protagonist, Poppy, is introduced at the start of the series as “The Maiden” but becomes anything but by the final of book one. It’s as if “Under the Mountain Rhys” morphed into a Vlad-the-Impaler type vampire/god with a dark sense of humor and fetish for women wielding swords, but also extremely compassionate - fiction men are wild like that. He’s twisted in the most deliciously depraved ways. If you’re looking for a male love interest that rivals Rhysand in debauchery, then enter Hawke. From Blood and Ash (FBAA) is one of the top recommended series to overcome your ACOTAR hangover - and for good reason. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Trinity by Lauren Dane![]() Two Poems by Kari Flickinger w/ Four Art Works by M.S.Excerpts from Pandemic Party – Moira J.Loss – A Poem and Drawings by Moira J.A Love Letter to Me – A VISPO by Maggs Vibo.An old quarantine – A Poem by Suchi Govindarajan.Counter-Narrative Against Hindutva Terror: A ghazalesque – Nabina Das.Pandemic Paintings – Works by Cathy Daley (2020-2021). ![]()
6/27/2023 0 Comments The uncanny x men omnibus volume 2![]() ![]() The couple lives in Brooklyn with their two children. He collaborated with George Lucas on three novels in The Chronicles of the Shadow War, and has delved into fantasy with the publication of Dragon Moon, a dark fantasy novel co-authored with his wife, Beth Fleisher. His debut novel was Firstflight, the story of a young female astronaut in the twenty-first century, to which he wrote two sequels, Grounded and Sundowner. He wrote the Star Trek twenty-fifth-anniversary graphic novel Debt of Honor and a Next Generation sequel, Cry, Vengeance, for DC Comics, as well as" "Alien/Predator: The Deadliest of Species for Dark Horse. He has been the co-creator of several top-selling series for Marvel Comics, including Excalibur, Wolverine, New Mutants, and, in the United Kingdom, Captain Britain. ![]() He wrote The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2. Chris Claremont is one of the bestselling comic writers in the world. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Robin ha cookbook![]() ![]() That's because she uses her talents as a comic book artist to explain and illustrate techniques and walk you through the recipes. ![]() ![]() The book, engagingly written and illustrated by Robin Ha, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, makes learning this cuisine – which might otherwise be daunting if you're a first-timer – approachable and fun. It's also a hugely important part of Korean culture, as this story about kimchi and South Korean "gastrodiplomacy" from NPR's the Kitchen Sisters explains. The jar, which needs to be glass and very large – like 96 ounces large – is for making kimchi, which is not only delicious (and super-healthy) on its own, but also an ingredient in many Korean dishes. The second is to procure a copy of Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes. ![]() If you want to learn to cook Korean food and you're starting from scratch, the first thing to do is find a very large jar. ![]() ![]() In taking a German story and using it as material for an English play, Marlowe transposed the legend into a startlingly different context with the result that this famous play posed some awkward questions to contemporary audiences, as it still does for modern audiences today. The plot itself, however, is not Marlowe's own: the story existed in a German work, the Faustbuch from 1587 Marlowe's play has been called of this tradition. ![]() ![]() The Dr Faustus we encounter in Marlowe's play is a Renaissance scholar with the ambition of Icarus ('His waxen wings did mount above his reach'). Modern yet medieval, contentious yet conservative, tragic hero or tyrannical villain: both play and protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's infamous Doctor Faustus present the audience with a maze of contradictions which have divided critics since its first performance. It helps us see how Marlowe's creation of a tragic Faustus makes a big difference to the moral character of the story. Although it contains many of the key elements, it approaches its central character in a very different way. In this essay undergraduate Lizzie Davis looks at the story behind Marlowe's play. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Harrow lake kat ellis![]() She's never even met her Grandmother she doesn't want to go stay with her, but Larry is insistent that it is what Nolan would want. ![]() Adding to her stress, Larry, her Father's long-time assistant tells her it would be best for her to go stay with her maternal grandmother while Nolan is in the hospital recovering. Their relationship is contentious to say the least, but when Lola returns to their NYC apartment one evening and finds Nolan bleeding out after a brutal attack, she is devastated. Lola often feels like a bird in a cage a pet, for Nolan to trot out to impress industry people and the press.Īs Lola becomes a teenager, she begins to battle more against Nolan's strict control over her life. The two have a strange, strained relationship. When Lola Nox was 5-years old, her Mom ran off, abandoning Lola to be raised by her famous father, Nolan a director of Horror movies. ![]() My first thought upon finishing Harrow Lake was that sometimes the truth is scarier than the nightmare. ![]() ![]() He examines the dominant influence of Kant, with his revolutionary emphasis on "self-determination," and traces this influence through the development of romanticism and idealism to the critiques of post-Kantian thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard. ![]() In this rich and wide-ranging book, Terry Pinkard interweaves the story of "Germany"-changing during this period from a loose collection of principalities into a newly-emerged nation with a distinctive culture-with an examination of the currents and complexities of its developing philosophical thought. In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy dominated European philosophy, changing the way Europeans and people all over the world conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion, human history, politics, and the structure of the human mind. ![]() |