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A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie5/21/2023 ![]() Neele learns that the taxine was ingested in marmalade, with a new jar put out at breakfast used by Rex alone that jar had been tossed in the yard and found by police. Inspector Neele agrees to work with Miss Marple, seeing what she can add. Miss Ramsbottom, Rex’s sister-in-law, invites her to stay. ![]() After the story of the three murders is in the newspapers, Miss Marple arrives at Yewtree Lodge to shed light on Gladys Martin, who learned serving and cleaning at Miss Marple’s home. The older son, Percival, tells the Inspector that his father was erratic and ruining the business. ![]() Inspector Neele is working full-time with the aid of Sergeant Hay on these murders, interviewing all at the office and in the home. The day Lance arrives at Yewtree Lodge, leaving his wife in London, Adele dies of cyanide in her tea, and a few hours later the maid Gladys Martin is found strangled in the yard, with a clothes peg put on her nose. ![]() Son Lancelot and his wife Pat are travelling from Kenya to London, at the invitation of his father, according to Lance at Paris, he wires that he will be home next day, and police meet him at the airport. ![]() Rex’s wife Adele is the main suspect in the murder. An autopsy reveals the cause of death was poisoning by taxine, a toxic alkaloid obtained from the yew tree, and that Fortescue ingested it with his breakfast, while a search of his clothing reveals a quantity of rye in his jacket pocket. When London businessman Rex Fortescue dies after drinking his morning tea, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Neele spearheads the investigation. ![]()
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Slipper by Hester Velmans5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() I started writing Slipper when my kids were little. I helped my mom and dad write their books ( Edith’s Story and Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II) and then had the opportunity to translate books. We moved here permanently 14 years ago.Īfter I got married, I quit my high-stress job and stayed home with my kids. My parents and his parents had places in the Berkshires, so we came here every weekend as our kids were growing. I met my husband, who was working in Westchester, and moved there. I came to New York in my middle twenties, when I was working for an international TV news agency. I grew up all over Europe, spent most of my high school and earlier years in Geneva, and went to college in England. 11 to discuss her new novel, "Slipper," which is “not the fairy tale you remember.” Watch a trailer of the book, created by Sheffield filmmaker Ben Hillman, on the author’s website. Velmans is the author of two children’s books, "Isabel of the Whales" and "Jessaloup’s Song." She and Matt Tannenbaum, owner of The Bookstore in Lenox, will be appearing at The Mount on Oct. She is tri-lingual, speaking English, French and Dutch, and specializes in translation of contemporary Dutch and French literature. Born in the Netherlands and educated in Switzerland and England, Hester Velmans is an author, editor and renowned translator who lives in Sheffield, Mass. ![]()
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![]() With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. ![]() ![]() A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. Though the killing was low-tech-largely by machete-it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I wasn’t, which left me hungry at the end. This book is charming, if short – actually, more novella than novel. But Tyler’s work shines brightest in characterization, and she remains in top form here. There’s humor here, and a family crisis, and a love story or two. His family knows him, loves him, and indulges his quirks. Poor guy, he doesn’t connect well with women, despite the best of intentions. ![]() Micah is also the super of his apartment building, more quirky characters there.īut Micah himself is the main voice, the one with whom we sympathize, even when we know that what he has just said or done will not bring the result that he wants. It is a book about nothing in particularbut at the same time it is a. The story is told from the POV of one Micah Mortimer, a good-natured forty-something oddball whose business, aptly named Tech Hermit, has him helping people with the simplest of computer chores. This is the life of Micah Mortimer, the protagonist of Anne Tyler’s latest novel, Redhead by the Side of the Road. ![]() ![]() I downloaded the Audible edition the day it was published. I’m a long-time fan of the author and jumped when I saw she had a new book out. If so, Redhead by the Side of the Roadis for you. Do you love this title? Do you love witty prose and quirky characters and off-kilter love stories, not to mention family dilemmas that are unique in their very commonness? Do you love reading anything that has Anne Tyler’s name on it? ![]()
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Dante's inferno dan brown5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s population. When Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Here’s the official synopsis for Inferno:Īcademy Award® winner Ron Howard returns to direct the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s (Da Vinci Code) billion-dollar Robert Langdon series, Inferno, which finds the famous symbologist (again played by Tom Hanks) on a trail of clues tied to the great Dante himself. Although I studied Dante’s Inferno in high school, it wasn’t until recently. Says he’s half way through the next Robert Langdon novel called Origin which comes out in 2017. Dan Brown has already referenced Dante and his Inferno.What is it like when the filmmakers say they want to make changes to the Inferno story?.What happened with making The Lost Symbol into a movie?.Since both Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are space and NASA enthusiasts, have they ever asked him to write Robert Langdon and some sort of adventure with the space program?. ![]() What it’s like to see his creations come to life on movie screens?. ![]()
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Fever a novel by mary beth keane5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is likely, a virtual certainty in fact, that she was exposed to the disease at some point, even though she reported never having had it. Mallon, or at least the part of it that gained some notoriety in early 20th century New York City.Īlthough Mary did not suffer from typhoid fever herself, at some unknown point early in her life her body began producing the Salmonella typhi bacterium responsible for the disease, and she would have that dark passenger for the rest of her life. Fever is Mary Beth Keane’s novelization of the life of Ms. It was famous in its time as a bar-less cage for one particular bird, Mary Mallon, more widely known as Typhoid Mary. One must receive special permission to visit, as there is very real concern about the possibility of visitors plunging through rotted out structures. North Brother now sports a handful of decaying buildings. ![]() These siblings are currently owned by the New York City Parks Department, and are preserved as a wildlife sanctuary. ![]() In the East River, between Queens and the Bronx, and within sight of the largest penal colony in the world, Riker’s Island, lie two tiny islands, South Brother and North Brother. A puff of exasperation is emitted…waiting) Let’s see. Try using soap this time, and I don’t want to see anything but skin under those fingernails. You call that clean? Are you kidding me? I’ve seen cleaner hands in mud wrestling. Before you start reading let’s see those hands. ![]()
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Steve ignorant the rest is propaganda5/20/2023 ![]() Ignorant’s life story punches holes through those perpetual allegations. Throughout the band’s life (and in the quarter-century since) Crass were routinely labelled as ‘middle-class hippies’ as refugees from the counter-culture of an earlier era and as privileged interlopers in the punk arena. The result is an engaging and revealing read, offering numerous fresh insights into the ‘Crass story’, and a very personal coming-of-age tale which brings alive the era of Ignorant’s own childhood and adolescence. More than twenty-five years on from the winding up of that band, Ignorant has authored an autobiography recounting his life before, during and after his time as a member of Crass. Although the role of singer was shared amongst many of the musicians in the band, Ignorant’s signature vocal style did so much to define Crass’s unmistakable and innovative (though since much copied) early sound. Steve Ignorant, one of the founder members of the anarchist punk band Crass, wrote, recorded, toured and performed with the band throughout the eight intense years of its existence in the turbulent times of early Thatcherism. ![]() ![]() As promised some time ago, this is my review of The Rest is Propaganda, from Freedom 16 July 2011 ![]()
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Tipping the velvet novel5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Nancy finds herself broken hearted and in a desperate situation, without the means to support herself. Kitty and Nancy travel to London together where they find some success performing on the stage. Waters builds their relationship so delicately, so innocently and this lends a great tenderness and fragility to the emerging relationship between the two girls. Nancy discovers both Kitty Butler and the romantic yearnings of her own heart on an outing to the theatre. Nancy is in her late teens as the story opens and we walk beside her through her coming of age and her coming out. She is the daughter of an Oyster selling family in Whitstable, southern England at the end of the 1880s. What’s Tipping the Velvet all about?įrom the first page we are invited through the veil, into Nancy’s personal life. The language, the style, the story, the pacing, I savoured every page. It took me on a journey unlike anything else I have ever read. Published in 1998 when she was just 28, it has been rightly hailed as a standout in lesbian Literature. Tipping the Velvet was Sarah Waters’ first novel. I am thrilled to write about Tipping the Velvet for my first book review on my blog. ![]()
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Sudenmorsian by Aino Kallas5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() "They all are, of course, very progressive. He also introduced the essay and aphorism into Estonian literature as serious literary genres. Stories, poems, literature studies, and travel books, written mostly during his long period of exile. However, he became a highly influental culture figure in his country. Tuglas published only two novels, Felix Ormusson (1915) and Väike Illimar (1937). zip of the website is also available.įriedebert Tuglas (1886-1971) - surname until 1923 MIKHELSONĮstonian author, scholar, critic, national writer of the Estonian Soviet Socialist ![]() All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ![]()
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Fright watch the stitchers5/20/2023 ![]() And the closer Quinn and Mike get to uncovering the answers, the more they realize just how terrifying the truth may be. They’ll have to search for clues and follow the mystery wherever it leads-even if it’s to the eerie pond at the end of the street that’s said to have its own sinister secrets. Now, Quinn’s determined to keep the investigation going with the help of Mike, her neighbor and maybe-crush. When he was alive, they’d come up with all sorts of theories about the Oldies. Are they vampires? Or aliens? Or getting secret experimental surgeries? Or is Quinn’s imagination just running wild again? If her dad were still around, he’d believe her. ![]() She calls them “the Oldies” because they’ve lived on Goodie Lane for as long as anyone can remember, but they never seem to age. His detailed primary research into campaigns and negotiations between politicians and their backers illuminates many subjects that later historians have too quickly passed over. Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there’s something off about her neighbors. This is a sequel to the author’s famous The Robber Barons. Something strange is happening on Goodie Lane. Chapter 2 - The Stitchers - Fright Watch, Book 1 - song and lyrics by Lorien Lawrence, Rebecca Gibel Spotify Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Liked Songs Privacy Center Privacy Policy Cookies About Ads Your Privacy Choices Cookies English Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. ![]() “The chills come guaranteed.” -Stephen King The start of a spine-tingling new horror series perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Goosebumps. ![]() |