![]() ![]() ![]() Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history. ![]() While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family-all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history. I’ll get into my thoughts after the synopsis. ![]() This review will also have slight spoilers for The Heretic Queen. I recommend reading that review first because this one will contain major spoilers for Nefertiti. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran is the sequel to Nefertiti, which I reviewed last week. ![]()
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" Driving while black" ( DWB) is a sardonic description of racial profiling of African-American motor vehicle drivers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Michael Furey is dead, his legacy still lives on in the mind of Gretta. “A vague terror seized Gabriel at this answer, as if, at that hour when he had hoped to triumph, some impalpable and vindictive being was coming against him, gathering forces against him in its vague world.”(Joyce 782). This idea absolutely terrifies Gabriel upon hearing it. Gretta also reveals to Gabriel that she has never fully achieved the same level of love and passion with another person since the death of Michael Furey. Gretta then tells Gabriel that Michael Furey died out of love for Gretta. Gretta reveals to Gabriel that she was passionately in love with Michael Furey. Most importantly Gretta’s old boyfriend Michael Furey. “The Dead” is seemingly centered around death, more importantly dead people and the legacy they leave behind. ![]() James Joyce incorporates the use of color, light, Gabriel’s male pride, snow, the living versus the dead, the past versus the present, and nationalism to help emphasize this theme of death. This theme of death is accompanied by is supported by multiple motifs and symbolism. As the title suggests, death is a central and prominent theme of the short story both literally and metaphorically. James Joyce's “The Dead” demonstrates the life of the Irish middle class in Dublin around the early 1900s. In this collection of short stories, the final and longest story of the collection is named “The Dead”. ![]() James Joyce published a series of short stories named “Dubliners” in 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() His company is the Library of Social Science and with the assistance of his wife Mai Chen he provides the books for many social science conferences and also provides book reviews in his field of study. Koenigsberg is considered a world authority on the psychology of war, genocide and discrimination. His home and his company are now located in Elmhurst, Queens.ĭr. from the New School for Social Research and taught for a time at Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Richard was born and raised in New Jersey and attended Wesleyan University where he studied under Norman O. Lots of fun and a great way to see Europe. This led to a professional friendship and eventually we created and participated in a number of panels for the International Society of Political Society conferences throughout the world. ![]() We met in the early 1990’s when I purchased one of his books and we struck up a correspondence. ![]() Richard Koenigsberg is one of my oldest and dearest friends. (First three-part part series on writers and writing)ĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Bryce’s lips land on mine, and the world turns upside down. Saying hello to Bryce turns into hours spent together on the ice, and then an invite to dinner, and then days at each other's side. And there’s my hero: Bryce Michel, league superstar. ![]() I never thought I’d be invited to the All-Star Weekend, but here I am. Look inside myself? Lotta beer and burgers there. I’m just trying to keep my head up and get through each day, until this wild ride comes to an end.ĭeep thinking isn’t really my thing. Good enough to be drafted into the NHL, and I’ve been on the roster for the past two years, but I’ll never make the Hall of Fame. I’m a middle-of-the-road, nothing-special hockey player. ![]() So why am I falling head over heels at the NHL's All-Star Weekend? Like how a man’s lips might taste, or how his body might feel in my arms. I'm thinking dangerous thoughts, and dreaming about impossible things. I’m shattering records and packing arenas every night, and I’ve promised my team: we’re going to win the Stanley Cup this year.īut I’m keeping big secrets. This game pulled me from my tiny Quebec hometown all the way to the NHL, and now? I’m the number one player in the league. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are undoubtedly plenty of other novels I would absolutely adore if I only knew they existed! I read 100 books a year searching for just this kind of feeling. The reason it hit me so hard is because with A Dangerous Collaboration, I’m prepared to state that this is now my favorite current mystery series. ![]() I enjoy historicals but I don’t really seek them out, and I’d never read any of the author’s work before she made it onto the prestigious shortlist. (Walter Mosley’s Down the River Unto the Sea, which I haven’t yet gotten around to, won the prize.) A Dangerous Collaboration, the fourth Speedwell book and the sequel to the Edgar-nominated A Treacherous Curse, was released last month, and as I was finishing it, I was struck with a terrifying realization: had it not been for Raybourn’s Edgar nod, I may never have discovered this series. ![]() As I wrote back in February, I started the Veronica Speedwell series as part of a project to read the six novels nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() My Thoughts: Just In Case is about Identical twins who share nothing in common except for their DNA. But as three days of literally having to walk in each other’s shoes unfold, will the sisters discover they should try to be more like each other after all? ![]() Both believe wearing the other’s clothes is going to ruin their chances: Clare’s of getting a promotion and Rosie’s of getting a snog. So both women are horrified when a luggage mix-up means that sensible Clare must attend a company conference with Rosie’s suitcase full of pink, frills and stripper heels, while flamboyant Rosie heads for a friend’s Italian destination wedding with Clare’s case full of suiting and sensible courts. Though they were born within three minutes of each other and spent their childhoods dressed in matching outfits, they’ve grown up to have less in common than Kim Kardashian and the Duchess of Cambridge. ![]() Description: Never were there two less similar identical twins than Clare and Rosie Marwood. ![]() ![]() Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she cannot help giving some of her heart-and more-to a man she can never marry. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the virile young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters-the princesses Margaret and Mary. ![]() Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. However, the world soon faces the possibility that an unknown moon will cause a total eclipse. ![]() The novelette tells the story of Kalgash, a planet that never experiences night because of the six suns illuminating it. Machines that learn to think for themselves–and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment. ‘Nightfall’ by Isaac Asimov got voted as the best science fiction short story in 1968. The other stories in the collection span far and wide: A dedicated scientist who whips up his own love potion. “Nightfall,” published when the author was only twenty-one, was arguably his breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than a single, overarching storyline, the bulk of the novel consists of several intertwining plots, each involving one or more members of the Logan family and illustrating various aspects of black/white interactions during the nadir of American race relations. It originally belonged to a white plantation owner, Harlan Granger, who sold it to cover his taxes during Reconstruction. Unlike most black families in their area, the Logan family owns the land on which they reside. In 1933, nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives in rural Mississippi with her three brothers, Stacey (twelve years old), Christopher-John (seven years old), and Little Man (six years old). ![]() The novel contains several themes, including Jim Crow segregation, Black landownership, sharecropping, the Great Depression, and lynching. In the book, Taylor explores struggles of African Americans in 1930s Mississippi through the perspective of nine-year-old Cassie Logan. The novel is the first book in the Logan family saga, which includes four sequels ( Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992), The Gold Cadillac (1987), and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020)) and three prequels ( The Land (2001), The Well: David's Story (1995), and Song of the Trees (1975)) as well as two novellas ( Mississippi Bridge (1990) and The Friendship (1987)). Part of her Logan family series, it is a sequel to her 1975 novella Song of the Trees. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a 1977 novel by Mildred D. ![]() |