The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public Library, Clark County Public Library, Dayton Metro Library, Wright Memorial Public Library, and Tipp City Public. Fortunately, I had interviewed him before and during our last conversation I knew mostly what to expect.Īt the end of this interview we had a few extra minutes so I shared an essay from Shuly Cawood's new collection of flash non-fiction, What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said. From the publisher: A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is. His passion for language and literature was unmatched. The swirl of controversy which surrounded him was a constant. He was often saying things that offended people. It was a daunting challenge to interview him. He was once quoted as saying they would have to remove him from the classroom "in a body bag." The author of over fifty books, Harold never retired. He gave a lecture to his final class just four days before his death in 2019. Bloom has been called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world" (Wikipedia).īloom taught at Yale for 65 years. Professor Harold Bloom (1930-2019) made his second and final appearance on the program 25 years ago.
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This is a historical romance can be labeled a proper romance. Nervous Nellie’s nervousness necessitates knowledge of the novel. But is Marcus willing to risk his heart a second time? What began as a sensible arrangement now has the possibility to become so much more. Marcus, though determined not to expose his heart again, finds more to admire in his childhood friend with each passing day. When Ellen is presented as a possible bride, he proposes a marriage of convenience.Įllen accepts his hand, hiding her feelings rather than risking her husband’s rejection. Still nursing a broken heart, he prefers a practical approach to matrimony rather than romantic love. Until her match-making friends contrive to reintroduce Ellen to the man she has secretly loved since their shared childhood.Īs the younger son to an earl, Marcus Calvert must wed in order to inherit his estate. Overlooked by society and underappreciated in her family, Ellen Bringhurst has resigned herself to spinsterhood and a life of reading. A marriage of convenience is not what either of them wished for. Publisher’s Description: He vows to never risk his heart again. Blech! Well, Ellen is going to have to take her own future into her hands and she does… Called a spinster at 26 (I mean, really?), what does Ellen have to look forward to? Shuttled around from family member to family member being treated basically like a servant because she’s not got a husband. (When she wasn’t waitressing, cleaning houses was among the jobs Beagin held down over the years.) She did try to dissuade the caller. The foundation was honoring her first novel, Pretend I’m Dead, an idiosyncratic book narrated by a house cleaner who gets too involved with her clients. “I kept saying, ‘Writing foundation?’ We went back and forth like that for a while.” Beagin eventually accepted that she was among the 2017 recipients of a $50,000 grant for emerging writers. “I was 47, and I’d been waitressing full-time for seven years, writing in the early mornings, and I was burnt out.” At first, she thought the Whiting Foundation was a scam. When she got the call that would change her life completely, Jen Beagin was in the middle of using a hair dryer to warm up the freezing sheets of her bed in a beautiful but unheated 300-year-old Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Was the Blood Countess historys first and perhaps worst. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Read The Countess A Novel of Elizabeth Bathory by Rebecca Johns available from Rakuten Kobo. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. Rebecca Johns Copy Quote I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. Quotes From 'The Countess' By Rebecca Johns 1 Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. 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Vasilisa Sidkorolyavolkva is a Lycan of royal blood. They will be something more-something feared by both of their kinds.- Book Synopsis Embrace the seductive call of the latest novel in Christine Feehans #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. But if they claim each other as lifemates, it will change them down to the bone. They both know they must reveal the darkest parts of their souls if they hope to survive and protect the ones they love. They are so alike, warriors bound by honor and plagued by secrets. He can see into her mind and feel what is in her heart. In all the centuries of his existence, no one has ever affected him like Vasilisa. Afanasiv Belan is a Carpathian, an ancient one. But nothing seems real until the night she meets him in the flesh. She knows nothing about him except that he is hers. The prophecy that says a man will come to claim her as his mate, and that she will guard his soul. 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The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences.Įrotic and moving, this is a novel about marriage, love and sexuality, and the lifelong repercussions that meeting a group of debauched cosmopolitans has on a new marriage. Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel, but is he convincing her to divulge her secrets or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees?Īdapted by Stuart Moore and illustrated by Chris Wildgoose, this graphic novel presents a thrilling new take on Batman before he donned the cape and cowl. There he meets Madeleine Wallace, a brilliant killer.and Bruce's only hope. On the way home from his 18th birthday party, newly minted billionaire Bruce Wayne makes an impulsive choice that puts him in their crosshairs and lands him in Arkham Asylum, the once-infamous mental hospital. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Before he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. This action-packed graphic novel based on the New York Times bestselling book by Marie Lu transports readers to the shadowy gates of Arkham Asylum, where Gotham City's darkest mysteries reside.and which now threatens to imprison Bruce Wayne.Ī ruthless new gang of criminals known only as Nightwalkers is terrorizing Gotham and the city's elite are being taken out one by one. Batman: Nightwalker Marie Lu 4.3 38 Ratings 9.99 Publisher Description This dark and twisty BATMAN in the blockbuster DC Icons series is an action-packed thrill ride from 1 New York Times bestselling author MARIE LU. Description This action-packed graphic novel based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Marie Lu transports readers to the shadowy gates of Arkham Asylum, where Gotham City's darkest mysteries reside.and now it threatens to imprison young Bruce Wayne. |