A New Economics for Modern Dynamic Economies: Innovation, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship
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It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic...
The Black Pencil Woman: A Portrait of My Mother
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Told with beautiful honesty and adept written skill, The Black Pencil Woman: A Portrait of my Mother...
Hiss Spun by Chelsea Wolfe
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While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow,...
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Through a Glass Darkly
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As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through A Glass Darkly sparkles with...
The Mark of the Salamander (The Island of Angels, #1)
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1575: Nelan Michaels is a young Flemish man fleeing religious persecution in the Spanish...
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Major/Minor
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A vivid and haunting coming of age memoir set in Paris in the 1980s. Originally published to...
Janeeny (200 KP) rated The Illumination Of Ursula Flight in Books
May 8, 2019
The Goodreads blurb reads
“Born on the night of an ill-auguring comet just before Charles II's Restoration, Ursula Flight has a difficult future written in the stars.
Against the custom of the age she begins an education with her father, who fosters in her a love of reading, writing and astrology.
Following a surprise meeting with an actress, Ursula yearns for the theatre and thus begins her quest to become a playwright despite scoundrels, bounders, bad luck and heartbreak.”
On the face of it it sounds like a ‘coming of age’ historical drama, which it essentially was, and not in an era I really have much an interest in. So it was nice to read something a little out of my comfort zone.
As the blurb says, Ursula is a young girl with aspirations of the stage. Unfortunately for Ursula her parents have a life planned for her and being a lowly actress is not one of them. The story follows Ursula's struggles to follow her parents wishes whilst trying to stay true to herself.
I loved the way this was written, its told from Ursula's point of view and interspersed with little snippets of play writing by Ursula. Ursula is a very strong character that is way ahead of the era she lives in. What I loved most about this book was near the end, i won't spoil it, but suffice to say I think the author was very clever with the ending she chose.
To summarise, it’s a well written well reserached coming of aged historical drama with a strong female lead and an admirable feminist message.
The Low Voices
Manuel Rivas and Jonathan Dunne
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The Low Voices is a novel about life, it is life itself telling stories, it is the memory of the...
Children of a Broken Sky (Redemption Chronicle Book 1)
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A sin buried at the dawn of time. A world made to endure the consequences. For untold ages,...
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Defy the Night in Books
Jan 12, 2018
The setting of "free" France during early World War II is something most people are not aware of because it was when most of the world was in denial. The people there fought on silently doing what they could for whom they could. This was not the Resistance as most people know of but perhaps it's predecessor.
The book was very well written and as I stated before the characters definitely had their own personalities. I will be adding this book to my classroom library and recommending it to the school library.