Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
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Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect...
Pindar's Eyes: Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry
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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek...
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Elting E. Morison, Rosalind Williams and Leo Marx
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People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel...
Surreal Beckett: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism
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Surreal Beckett situates Beckett's writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism,...
War is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature
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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an...
This is Memorial Device: An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs 1978-1986
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Merissa (11958 KP) rated Ashes and Blood (Book One of the Dayla Series) in Books
Jun 19, 2020
The details in this story are simply amazing. The descriptions given help the reader to see every tree, person, and situation so clearly. The action is non-stop and with enough twists and turns to keep anyone happy. There is romance but not with the main character (or at least, not yet. I'm hopeful for the future!) which made a nice change.
And speaking of characters, the ones in here will jump out at you. They are so well described and three-dimensional, you will have no issue with remembering who is whom. I loved the girls' different attitudes and capabilities PLUS how Tristan was the one to watch, even though he came across as the most easy-going!
This was a fantastic start to the series and I really can't wait to read more and return to Dalya. Absolutely recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Glider Infrantryman: Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
Donald J. Rich and Kevin Brooks
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A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on...
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ClareR (5686 KP) rated The Long Long Afternoon in Books
Mar 2, 2021
Ruby Wright arrives to start her afternoons work at Joyce Hanley’s house, and instead finds her young daughter outside and a screaming toddler upstairs in her bedroom. When Ruby goes in to the kitchen, she is confronted with a room awash with blood and signs of a struggle.
When the police arrive, they arrest Ruby for murder. After all, she was the first person there - and she’s black.
Detective Mick Blanke takes on the case. It’s an interesting book, because not only is Mick solving the crime (with some considerable help from Ruby), he’s also showing the social divides in the USA at this time - rich and poor, black and white. He’s clearly not comfortable about the way that white people treat black people in Santa Monica, but he’s still not quite brave enough to call people out on their racism.
This is an engaging, quick read - or perhaps I read it quickly because I didn’t want to put it down. It’s a clever, unpredictable story. In all, it’s a book I’d recommend without hesitation!
Merissa (11958 KP) Jun 20, 2020
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