Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma: Making a Catholic Self, 388-401 C.E.: Volume 2
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By 388 C.E., Augustine had broken with the Manichaeism of his early adulthood and wholeheartedly...
The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life
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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the...
The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies...
The Last Bachelor
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In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark...
Touching the Stillness
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Touching the Stillness Radio Program Touching the Stillness, with Rev. Paulette Pipe, is unlike...
The Gently Mad: Life, Business & Entrepreneurship without the BS
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If you're looking for that inspirational kick-in-the-pants to help take your life and career to the...
Sam (228 KP) rated The LEGO Movie (2014) in Movies
Oct 28, 2019
I loved the multiple worlds of lego as well as layering the film with deeper life lessons and meanings on what it means to be special anf different.
This whole film was beautifully done right down to the animations. The charactera really make this film and I can't help but praise whoever designed the script, both the dialogue and the execution of it is wonderfully done, I couldn't possibly ask for more.
Good Luck with That
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Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as...
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ClareR (5854 KP) rated The Illustrated Child in Books
Oct 26, 2020
Tobias creates a series of beautifully illustrated books starring both Romilly and Monty, and their lives are changed. They find fame, as readers believe that the books are a kind of treasure hunt - which, incidentally, reminded me of the Kit Williams book, Masquerade, published in the late 1970’s. Strangers start to camp out in their garden, digging holes all over their land to find the treasure - meaning that Romilly is unable to leave the house.
Life changes again when Tobias’ behaviour becomes more and more erratic, Romilly’s mother comes back in to her life, and she meets her grandmother. Things seem to be continuously changing, and nothing is consistent - there’s no stability in Romilly’s life.
This book was not at all what I expected. It started out as something of an idyllic childhood, but as time went on, Romilly’s life is irrevocably changed. I felt so much sadness for her, and there were times when I was almost in tears (you might need a hanky!). This deals with some pretty serious themes: dementia, mental illness, death and child abuse. All the way through I was rooting for Romilly and hoping that she would get the help that she needed and deserved. This is such a beautifully written book, and I would have no hesitation in recommending it.
Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my e-ARC.
Deborah (162 KP) rated The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) in Books
Dec 21, 2018
Josephine Tey may have been writing in the golden age of detective fiction, but she's didn't stick to the accustomed 'rules' and went her own way, making for some very interesting books. The Daughter of Time is probably her best known book. It's a book that works on more than one level as it's about what it's ostensibly about, but I also see it as a comment on the meaning of Truth (The Daughter of time of the title) and of course, Tonypandy! In our modern age with 24 hour news, social media, 'fake' news, I'd say this book is more relevant than ever!
It's just a very well written book and I'll finish with one bit that really came out to me this time as simply a fantastic thought, beautifully put: "...perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer."