![]() ![]() Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelersâmerchants, ambassadors, even kingsâwho passed through the city. ![]() This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. ![]() Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. ![]()
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![]() Her first young adult novel, Word Nerd, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. Since then, Nielsen has written for over 20 Canadian TV series. ![]() Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show. They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. ![]() Susin got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. Susin Nielsen deftly combines humour, heartbreak, and hope in this moving story about people who slip through the cracks in society, and about the power of friendship and community to make all the difference. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse.īut Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around: he’s going to go on his favourite game show Who, What, Where, When and win the cash prize. ![]() ![]() So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rainbow Awards Guidelines: ainbow_awards_2016.html This book is intended for mature audiences. Although he's desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. ![]() Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence.Įverything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick-a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy. Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Publisher: Jex Lane 1 edition (August 5, 2016)Īmazon Kindle: Captive (Beautiful Monsters #1) Elisa_rolle Captive (Beautiful Monsters #1) by Jex Lane ![]() ![]() ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'gestation.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023 Human embryos still develop tails during the beginning of gestation, though it is absorbed back into the body. Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023 This law keeps the requirement for two in-person visits but would shrink the time frame for those visits to week six of gestation. 2023 Mifepristone is taken with a second medicine, misoprostol, to terminate a pregnancy through 10 weeks gestation. Caroline Catherman Orlando Sentinel (tns), al, 15 Apr. New York Times, 17 July 2022 This law keeps the requirement for two in-person visits but would shrink the time frame for those visits to week six of gestation. Her floor-length white gown featured an extreme. 2022 Medical experts define miscarriage as a pregnancy that ends naturally before 20 weeks’ gestation. Anne Hathaway graced the 2023 Met Gala in a Versace look that won the red carpet. Bob Christie, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022 Florida and Utah have bans that kick in after 15 and 18 weeks gestation, respectively. ![]() Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. ![]() 2022 All those projects are in the very early stages of gestation. Recent Examples on the Web The overwhelming majority of abortions in 2020, 80.9%, were performed at or before nine weeks' gestation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even on the days when nothing’s coming and I’m half ready to fling my computer up against a wall, I wouldn’t change it for anything. For fourteen years, I appeared in Fair City, (Ireland’s answer to Eastenders,) playing a character I like to describe as ‘the horrible old cow that everyone loves to hate.’īut now I have to say that writing is without doubt, the single best job in the whole entire world. ![]() ![]() MP: What was the transition like going from acting to writing full time?ĬC: I’m presently a full time writer, but prior to that, I worked extensively as a theatre and TV actress. ![]() You also have the chance to win "Personally.," as Suzanne promised books for five lucky readers (before leaving her work in the capable hands of Charlotte Allen). She has a great sense of humor and we enjoyed learning more about her. Her latest novel is "Personally I Blame My Fairy Godmother." Suzanne Sangster from Harper Collins presented Melissa Patafio and myself with the opportunity to ask Claudia some questions about her books, movies, being on an Irish soap opera and some other fun information. She has written "Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man" and "I Never Fancied Him Anyway" (which will be made into a film). Claudia Carroll is an author from Dublin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He won’t say where he’s been in the two weeks prior to the murder he won’t say what he was doing in the murder room and he won’t defend himself. His arrest makes this case even more personal for her.īut Treadles is less than forthcoming when asked to explain himself. It is an arrangement that Treadles isn’t entirely happy to have learned about, though he maintains a close friendship with Charlotte and keeps her secret, since she has previously helped him on several investigations. It’s the only way for a woman to do a man’s job, particularly if said job involves outwitting and outsmarting men. She pretends that Sherlock is her bedridden brother and that she is acting on his behalf as his eyes and ears on any cases at hand. This time, Charlotte, more affectionately known as Lady Sherlock, must prove her longtime friend Inspector Treadles innocent of a double murder in which he was found with the murder weapon inside a locked room with not one, but two, victims.įor those unfamiliar with the female Holmes- Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas marks the fifth in the series-there’s something you should know: In this world, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character and Charlotte is the true detective. Whether you are a longtime Sherlock Holmes aficionado or a fan of Victorian-era mysteries, you will be happy to know that Holmes’s sister, Charlotte, has returned for another adventure. ![]() ![]() They disliked each other, Emily couldn’t stand Simon and there was time she even tried to do all to avoid Simon’s dagger throwing stare and Simon was out to find teeny tiniest fault in Emily and whatever she did. I enjoyed bickering and small fight between them in first half. ![]() ![]() Shakespeare lovers would love to read this as there was idea of Shakespeare theme, his plays and sonnet. It was fun reading the story of Emily and Simon. The message was deep and thought provoking. It was about family love, belongingness, getting over grief, letting others help and share responsibility, and need of change without affecting the essence of originality. Well Met was cute, refreshing romance with hate to love arc that revolved around caring organized Emily, uptight rule-follower Simon, and Willow Creek renaissance fair with its historical theme. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1950 until his death Gallico lived outside of the United States, mostly in England, Antibes, and Monaco. ’Arris Goes to Paris (1958) and its four sequels and The Poseidon Adventure (1969), the basis for the hugely successful 1972 film. ![]() Rowling as one of her favorite books) Mrs. Among his forty-one books are the novella The Snow Goose (1941) Manxmouse (1968, often cited by J.K. In 1937 he published the essay “Farewell to Sport” and turned to fiction, publishing stories in publications like Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Yorker. He began his career at the New York Daily News, where he soon became famous for his adventures with star athletes of the day. He was born in New York City to an Italian immigrant musician father and a mother who had studied to be a singer, and paid his way through Columbia University by tutoring children and working as a longshoreman. Paul Gallico (1897–1976) was a popular and prolific sports columnist, screenwriter, and author of books for adults and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's almost a four star read, but I am left with a slightly dissatisfied feeling, so I gave it a three. This is the first of Angelou's work I've read though, so maybe I can find that in some of her other writing, probably in her autobiographies. I was also not overly fond of the religious aspects, but that's just a personal preference. I just felt like there was a little something missing, that there was more to the story, and although it is quite personal I suppose, I wish it would've dug deeper. I absolutely loved the parts about her life, where she comes from and where she's been, though I would have loved them all to be a bit longer, to have a bit more flesh on their bones.Īctually, I wanted that throughout the book: I wanted more. This book contains stories from Angelou's life, mixed with parts of wisdom and knowledge she has accumulated throughout her life. She's intelligent, humble and feels very much like a mother to us all, appropriately enough with the title of the book. You get a good sense of what kind of woman Angelou is. The writing in this is simple but lovely. I think the best way to describe it is that it's like a hug from a wise and loving woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re never told its name or its favourite TV show or what it likes to have for breakfast. There’s always a monster or a maniac or an evil presence in this type of story, one we never see up close. I call it the Nameless Faceless Fear story. ![]() Gradually I realised we were being told a story, a very familiar story. But still we weren’t getting to meet any of the people ourselves. They were criminals, we were told, health-risks, cheats, queue-jumpers, and some of them, it was claimed, were probably terrorists.īig and scary accusations. Just far-off glimpses.Ĭertain government ministers and media commentators had plenty to say about them. Back then we didn’t know much about who was on those boats, and the government didn’t seem to want us to. For weeks I’d been seeing small overcrowded boats on the TV news. Which is how it was with Jamal and Bibi and Boy Overboard. When I do it’s often because of something that’s happening in the outside world. Usually characters appear in my imagination unexpectedly, seemingly for their own reasons. For me it’s mostly an internal process.īut not entirely. ![]() The essence of their story, what happens in their thoughts and feelings as the story unfolds, the ways the characters change by the end of the story, everything grows out of that meeting. ![]() Which is really good.Īll my characters first appear in my imagination. I’m Manchester United and I’ve got the ball and everything is good. ![]() |