![]() ![]() ![]() But it's also the perfect set-up for the monarch's lifetime of being photographed and painted – its very unreality both elevating and protecting her.ĭespite having sat for hundreds of official portraits – and inspiring countless unofficial artworks – the Queen remains inscrutable: a pure performance of a role. Looking at it today, it seems faintly preposterous – a fairy-tale image, the backdrop something that could practically have come out of an early hand-painted Disney film. The picture was actually shot in a room at Buckingham Palace, with Westminster Abbey represented by a theatrical cloth: a stage set on which the Queen plays her part. The backdrop is fake a mere image of the place where she was crowned queen. When Cecil Beaton photographed Her Majesty the Queen to mark her Coronation, in 1953, it was – as you might expect – in full pomp, with orb and sceptre, crown and robes, her golden throne standing tall amid the grandeur of Westminster Abbey… Except, well, it wasn't. ![]()
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![]() First-time novelist Sarah Miller has written a funny and penetrating storye. ![]() And everyone is wearing the cutest yellow thongs!" -Zoey Dean, author of the New York Times bestselling A-List series "Being inside Gideon's mind is like reading the personal diary of a guy you have a huge crush on and discovering that he's funny, sexy, wise, and more human than you ever imagined." -Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series "Teenage angst has never been so appealing. ![]() ![]() " amusing novele a unique twisteReaders will have a good time living inside Gid's head as he slowly becomes more confident-and goes a little wild along the way." - Publishers Weekly "Smart, funny, sexy and totally true, reading Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn is like getting access to a club you've always wondered about.and then you're inside and it's better than you imagined it ever could be. ![]() ![]() ![]() “He says you’re beautiful,” he tells her. Not after a boy on the playground said I sounded like a frog. No sound has left my throat since I lost my hearing. But there’s a grin tugging at the corners of her mouth at the same time. “Stop looking at her tits, dumbass.” He says the words as he signs them and her face flushes. When I don’t answer, she looks at my oldest brother Paul, who rolls his eyes and smacks the center of his head with his fist. ![]() I haven’t heard a word since I was thirteen years old. No one really talks to me since I can’t hear. Or at least she’s mouthing something at me. I see her mouth move out of the corner of my eye. I would tell her I’m a guy, I can’t help it. She shoves her wrist toward my face, and I have to jerk my eyes away. But I can’t take my eyes from her tits long enough to look at them. Her ni**les are hard beneath the ribbed shirt she’s wearing, and she pulls her sleeve back to show me something. I hope Paul did some laundry this morning. ![]() I reach down and adjust my junk, the metallic scrape of the zipper against my dick not nearly enough to calm my raging hard on. I’m so hard I can’t get up from behind the table where I’m drawing a tat for a client on paper. That skirt is made to draw attention, and she has all of mine. She’s a tight package in a short skirt that makes me imagine the curves under her plump little ass. I don’t know her name, but she looks familiar to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book, James Cone recognizes this profound paradox of the cross and argues that the cross ought to serve as the paradigmatic symbol through which one can talk about being both black and Christian in America. Martin Luther, in his Heidelberg Disputation, first elucidated the paradox between the presence and hiddenness of God on the cross. Jesus’ death on the cross represents a similar paradox, as the cross is a place of both the agony of Christ’s crucifixion and the promise of God’s presence amidst that suffering. Cone believes that the experience of being both black and Christian incites a paradox-as a Christian, his faith inspires him to be hopeful about God’s coming salvation and work in his life as a black man, his life experiences under the evils of segregation and ever-present threat of death lead him to despair. Cone’s book is a memoir on the painful experience of being both a Christian and a black man in America. ![]() The Cross and The Lynching Tree, the revered theologian and social critic explores the paradoxical relationship between Jesus’ death on the cross and the atrocious history of the lynchings of blacks by Southern whites, starting in the post-bellum South and leading up to the first decades of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Freud's ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but have also influenced the entire intellectual climate of the last century. Freud demonstrated the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an investigation of the workings of the mind in general, both ill or healthy. He was almost thirty when his interests first turned to psychology, and during ten years of clinical work in Vienna he developed the practice of what he called ""psychoanalysis"". First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological. ![]() He began his career as a doctor, specialising in work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was then forced to seek asylum in London, where he died the following year. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia from 1860 until Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938 he lived in Vienna. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heldmann adopted his pseudonym on his release from jail, and fictions by "Richard Marsh" began appearing in literary periodicals during 1888, with two novels being published in 1893. It has been discovered recently that in fact Heldmann had been sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour in April 1884 for issuing a series of forged cheques in Britain and France during 1883. After this, Bernard Heldmann published no further fiction under that name, and began to use the pseudonym "Richard Marsh" a few years' later.įor a long time the reasons for the end of Heldmann’s business relationship with Henty and his adoption of a pseudonym were a mystery, with some scholars suggesting that Heldmann was anxious to obscure his father’s German-Jewish origins. Henty promoted the young Heldmann to the position of co-editor in October 1882, but Heldmann’s association with the publication was ended abruptly in June 1883. The most important of these was Union Jack, a quality boys' weekly magazine associated with authors G. ![]() ![]() Heldmann began publishing fiction during 1880, in the form of boys' school and adventure stories for magazine publications. Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12 October 1857, in North London, to lace merchant Joseph Heldmann (1827–96) and Emma Marsh (1830–1911), a lace-manufacturer’s daughter. ![]() ![]() The Mongols and Tamerlane used terror in this way to reduce cities without having to resort to siege. Once unleashed, it can set an example to constrain behavior without the necessity of fighting. State terror, whether implicit or overt, has haunted the centuries as war’s bogeyman, the specter of mass murder. In the despotic societies that make up the major portion of history’s fabric, it has served as the tool of enslavement and guarantor of mass obedience. Announced with warlike violence, terror remains suspended like a sword in times of peace over the heads of all who dare to rebel. The same was later true of antiquity’s first military empire, the Assyrian, whose brutal methods of reprisal were intended to crush the spirit and break the will. The first Mesopotamian empire, that of Sargon of Akkad, was founded on terror. Terrere means “to make tremble” in Latin. Without reaching all the way back to prehistory-itself ruled by terrifying insecurity vis-à-vis nature, wild beasts, and other men-the use of terror to govern began at the very birth of organized society as a means of dissuasion or punishment. ![]() ![]() Submission to the established order and to force has been most of humankind’s sole avenue to security and, ultimately, to freedom. All despotic societies have been founded on fear, as have so-called totalitarian regimes in the modern era. ![]() Throughout history, power has more often than not been wielded through terror-that is, by inciting fear. ![]() ![]() ![]() I highly recommend the audio of this novel! As for right now? I'm on to my next Christopher Buehlman book! I will be keeping an eye out for more of his work in the future. The narrator, Mark Bramhall, was absolutely phenomenal-I loved his Southern accents and voicing-they brought the story alive for me. There's nothing new or extraordinary here, but a well told and atmospheric story is always welcome on my Kindle, (and now on my phone!), and I enjoyed this immensely. What follows is a well told, atmospheric and creepy story that went in a totally different direction than what I expected. In the letter he received about the inheritance he was warned not to actually live in the house, but of course, he does so anyway-along with his fiance Eudora. Set mostly in GA in the early 1930's, a damaged WWI veteran moves down from Chicago to a house he has recently inherited. I downloaded Those Across the River knowing nothing about it, and I think that was the best way to go in to this story. I saw this book available and remembered that my friend Tressa had just recommended me a book by this author a few days previous. I recently got a new phone that came with some fancy earbuds, so I decided to head over to Overdrive and check out an audio from my library, so I could try them out. In fact, I downloaded another of his books just now. Those Across the River is my first Buehlman, but will not be my last. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. ![]() ![]() įeast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother, America’s Bravest Mother, America’s Worst Photographer, or America’s Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season-a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a teenager with the world on her shoulders, yet she manages to smile, have fun, live, and still take her duties seriously. Dawn, who has replaced her murdered parents as the delegate, is all but responsible for walking the fine line that keeps humans safe. And though the treaty is intact, the humans go into hiding each day when the sun goes down, for fear of rogue vampires. So here we are in Denver, and our heroine Dawn is the new delegate to the leader of the local vampires, Lord "Bloody" Valentine. ![]() The VampHu treaty came out of this, the main stipulation being that vampires will not attack the humans within their walls as long as they provide blood to the vamps. Long story short, there was a decades long war between humans and vampires. I don't want to give all the details away, because that aspect was fascinating for me to read. In DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN, you learn exactly what happened to bring about the bleak existence humans endure. Many of the post-apocalyptic books that I've read have been vague in that respect. I would consider DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN to be a post-apocalyptic/dystopian crossover, heavier on the post-apocalyptic. I loved everything about it: the characters, the plot, the dangerous world.everything. ![]() So I'm just going to come out and say it. ![]() "Soon the monsters will come out to play. ![]() |