![]() ![]() Love and Friendship takes the shape of an expostulatory novel. ![]() ![]() She was also a witness to the French Revolution where her husband, the self styled Comte de Feuillide was guillotined.įor the young Jane, these events must have been sheer inspiration to a writer's imagination. Eliza herself was an extremely colorful figure and is thought to have been the illegitimate daughter of the first Governor General of India, Warren Hastings. It is dedicated to one of her cousins, whom she was very close to, Eliza de Feuillide. It is scribbled across three notebooks, in childish handwriting, and the complete work is thought to have been written over a period of six or seven years. Begun when she was just eleven years old, Love and Friendship is one of Jane Austen's stories that very few readers may have encountered before.Īusten experts feel that this story was written, like many others, only for the pleasure of her family and friends. ![]()
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![]() He was formerly editorial manager at This Is Africa,co-edited Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria (2018), and edited Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon (2019).ĭzekashu is the founder of Bakwa, an organization that empowers Cameroonian storytellers across multimedia outlets such as Bakwa Magazine, Bakwa Books and Bakwacast. Dzekashu was runner-up in the Sonora Review’s Flash Friday Caption Contestin 2012, and received special mention for the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize. His fiction has appeared in Wasafiri, Kwani? and Jungle Jim. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor Da Silva Arajo (Germano. In 2016, he was a writer-in-residence at the Ebedi International Writers Residency, Iseyin/Nigeria. Of Passion and Ink: New Voices From Cameroon (Dzekashu Macviban). He studied bilingual letters at the University of Buea/Cameroon and subsequently published his first book, Scions of the Malcontent, in 2011.Īfter a one-year stint at the Ann Arbor Review of Books, he subsequently wrote for publications including /kamerun, The Africa Report, This Is Africaand IDG Connect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dzekashu MacViban is a writer and editor based in Yaoundé. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers continues to win both industry acclaim and reader loyalty around the globe. Thanks to Tyndale House and NetGalley for providing a free ebook for review. It could have been confusing, but it wasn’t. I was especially impressed by the way the story switched between the present and past, taking us back to show us the events that turned Roman and Grace into the adults they’ve become. The characters are layered and complex-just like with real people, it takes a long time to truly know them. Or not … The Masterpiece doesn’t shy away from the hard issues of modern life.ĭrink. Grace Moore is a divorced single mother who’s broke but needs a job so she can justify keeping the son she almost gave up for adoption. Roman is a character with issues stemming back decades. ![]() The fact he’s also a graffiti artist, decorating (or defacing) prominent Los Angeles buildings. Roman Velasco is a rich young artist who’s hiding secrets. ![]() She’s written some of my favourite Christian fiction, and The Masterpiece is a worthy addition to that shelf. She’s even written a dual timeline story ( The Scarlett Thread). She’s written Biblical fiction ( Sons of Encouragement), biblical retellings ( Redeeming Love), historical fiction ( The Mark of the Lion trilogy), contemporary fiction ( Leota’s Garden, When the Shofar Blew). Francine Rivers is, in my opinion, the queen of Christian fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the accelerating offensive of the Westminster executive against its restraints: against rival centres of power in Brussels or Edinburgh, against plural interpretations of history, against law itself. Another approaching hard rain is less obvious but more dangerous. One, of course, is territorial: the matter of Scottish secession and perhaps Irish reunion. Constitutional storms are massing over the old United Kingdom. Not the unwritten playground rules that supposedly guide the Anglo-British state, but those semi-sacred printed sheets of paper for which men and women in the outside world have been known to die. Now, with the same pioneering enthusiasm, she has produced a book about constitutions. W ritten constitutions ? ‘Because of where I came from, these documents seemed profoundly exotic.’ In spite of where she came from, which was England, Linda Colley became many years ago the first English intellectual to explain to her nation just how exotic ‘Britishness’ was. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article appears in the Fall/Winter 2021 issue of Southbound. ![]() Once everyone’s stomachs have settled, it’s time for a steaming bowl of chili at the event’s chili cook-off. Amateur thrill-seekers can pony up for a tandem jump, zip-line ride, or harnessed “bridge walk” across a catwalk. There are over 1400 established rock climbs within New River Gorge National Park and Preserve with heights ranging from 30-120 feet. Motorists are urged to find alternate ro According to dispatch, the New River Gorge Bridge is closed this morning. “It’s an absolute giant object,” he says. Both lanes on Route 19 on the New River Gorge Bridge are closed until further notice. The event’s BASE coordinator, Marcus Ellison, notes that the bridge is more than double the height of a typical BASE jump. Meanwhile, rappellers descend by rope and thousands of onlookers cram onto the bridge for a spectacular autumn panorama. ![]() Here, steel beams meet steel nerves as experienced BASE jumpers (like skydivers without the plane) leap into the abyss, one every few seconds for six hours. October 16 is Bridge Day, the largest organized BASE jumping event in the world. Most days it’s traversed by cars and vans loaded with visitors, but once a year, it’s open only to pedestrians-brave, brave pedestrians. Suspended 876 feet above a mighty Appalachian canyon, the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is a man-made marvel inside New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, America’s newest national park. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We Dream of Space is illustrated throughout by the author. Told in three alternating points of view, We Dream of Space is an unforgettable and thematically rich novel for middle grade readers. When the fated day finally arrives, it changes all of their lives and brings them together in unexpected ways. Salonga gives her students a project-they are separated into spacecraft crews and must create and complete a mission. As the launch of the Challenger approaches, Ms. ![]() The Thomas children exist in their own orbits, circling a tense and unpredictable household, with little in common except an enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. And Bird, his twelve-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA’s first female shuttle commander, but feels like she’s disappearing. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main and wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn’t understand. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties.Ĭash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Newbery Medalist and New York Times–bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration.Ĭash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That much-criticized self-help industry - worth $11.6 billion in 2019, according to one market study - operates from a place of lack experienced by its customers. The webinar yoked an Oscar winner to the lucrative self-help industry and some of its biggest names, specifically Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi. ![]() Promotional material touted the online event as an inspirational experience to help people “make sense of the senseless” and revive their soul. The Austin-based movie star hosted a free, multi-hour webinar, “The Art of Livin’,” which was open to the public. Behind Austin’s so-called minister of culture, a cult of personality amasses. Matthew McConaughey on Monday cleared away the last cloud of smoke around his folksy brand of omnipresence to reveal a long-coming truth. It took 12 minutes and eight seconds for someone to say, “Alright, alright, alright,” and just a little longer than that for bongo-esque beats to sound. ![]() ![]() ![]() He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?” I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.” ![]() ![]() “If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. “She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Straczynski wrote. ![]() Straczynski, who created the television show “Babylon 5” and wrote the screenplay for “Changeling” in 2008, said in an e-mail message that he wanted to address “the wardrobe issue” as soon as he took the job. In the reimagining of her story, Wonder Woman, instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters, is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants. Michael Straczynski, the new writer of the series, and into a quest by DC to shine a critical and creative spotlight on the heroine, who stands with Superman and Batman in its primary triumvirate of superstars, despite her series’ modest sales. The costume ties into an alternative history for the character devised by J. This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new - and less revealing - costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. Wednesday was a good day for Wonder Woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren is eager to join her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University and finally embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother's legacy. Now a new evil is on the horizon, and her granddaughter, Elloren, is believed to be Carnissa's heir - but while she is the absolute image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above nearly all else. Carnissa Gardner, the last prophesied Black Witch, drove back the enemy forces and saved her people during the Realm War. So foretells the greatest prophecy of the Gardnerian mages. And just as Night slays Day, and Day slays Night, so also shall another Black Witch rise to meet him, her powers vast beyond imagining. ![]() A Great Winged One will soon arise and cast his fearsome shadow upon the land. ![]() ![]() Railing against the unending mundanity of bourgeois existence, Haller splits his soul in two, designating all of his primal and carnal urges as part of an alternate personality, Steppenwolf (literally “wolf of the mountain”), which his intellectual side cowers in fear of. Previously an academic, Haller has turned his back on a 1920s Germany that he sees as morally depraved and increasingly tending towards insular nationalism, as his mental health spirals in a ceaseless cycle of depression, self-loathing, and suicide attempts (cheery). mirror that of its author – coincidence?) entitled Harry Haller’s Records (For Madmen Only). In summary, Steppenwolf takes the form of a book-within-a-book by Harry Haller (whose initials H.H. ![]() ![]() Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf is a German novel published in 1927, a novel whose title has seemingly been overtaken in the popular consciousness by the rock band and DC Comics character of the same name. ![]() ![]() One of the joys of exploring literature is rebellion, and for me that was a rebellion from a notion of an exclusively English canon of “classical” texts. Review by Hari (English Language & Literature) ![]() |