![]() ![]() ![]() Gauri's chapters are narrated in a first person point of view, while Vikram and Aasha's chapters are narrated in a third person point of view. ![]() The chapters are narrated by Gauri, Vikram and Aasha. But what Gauri and Vikram will soon discover is that there’s nothing more dangerous than what they most desire. Every which way they turn new trials will test their wit and strength. Once they arrive, danger takes on new shapes: poisonous courtesans and mischievous story birds, a feast of fears and twisted fairy revels. Reaching the tournament is just the beginning. Together, they’ll have to set aside their differences and team up to win the Tourament of Wishes-a competition held in a mythical city where the Lord of Wealth promises a wish to the victor. From the author of The Star-Touched Queen comes a beautiful lush fantasy, Roshani Chokshis A Crown of Wishes. Unsatisfied with becoming a mere puppet king, Vikram offers Gauri a chance to win back her kingdom in exchange for her battle prowess. Hope unexpectedly comes in the form of Vikram, the cunning prince of a neighboring land and her sworn enemy kingdom. Faced with a future of exile and scorn, Gauri has nothing left to lose. Gauri, the princess of Bharata, has been taken as a prisoner of war by her kingdom’s enemies. For one young princess in a state of peril, a dangerous wish could be the only answer. ![]()
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What insights about mortality does the story offer?ħ. ![]() The story spans the hero's entire life, from early childhood to death. Why do you think the author chose to forgo names? What effect does this anonymity have on the telling of the story and on your experience reading it?Ħ. Apart from continents, no place is named in the book and all of the characters are anonymous. What happens to morality-for the hero, his father, and the pretty girl-in the pursuit of ambition? What happens to love?ĥ. What first intrigues the hero about the pretty girl? In what ways does her rise parallel-and diverge from-his? Were you surprised by the course of their affair? Why do you think the author chose to give it this form rather than craft a more conventional romance? What does the book ultimately have to say about love?Ĥ. ![]() How does the transition from rural to urban life affect the family? What challenges does it alleviate for them, both individually and as a unit, and what new challenges does it create?ģ. Why do you think the author chose to write this novel not only in the second person but also in the form of a self–help book? What effect did these choices have on your experience as a reader?Ģ. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by John Davis Billings![]() ![]() This book covers everything from food to pontoon bridges to signal corps to tent building to engineering marvels to mules, horses and most of the behind the scene aspects of a war. The most surprising issue about this Civil War classic was the authors dry sense of humor which often after a sense of confusion, left me laughing. If you dipped your bread in the coffee it killed anything. ![]() I also know that the Union soldiers soon learned how to deal with both. I know there was normal Hard Tack and I know there was soggy hard tack which came in two varieties, normal and flavored with maggots. I know more about the staples of the Civil War than I thought possible. The name of the book tells you more about the book than anything. ![]() I was intrigued by the name of the book because a sense of humor is unexpected in Civil War memoirs. I have a fetish for Civil War stories and have read many soldier memoirs and diaries. This is a difficult book to review because of the subject and because of the author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Piketty’s socialism is not just a socialism without the working class. ![]() And as the incomes of the rich become reliant more on asset wealth than salaries, the old forms of redistribution, based on income tax and corporation tax, cease to work. In a free-market economy, he argues, inequality inevitably rises faster than growth. Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the 21st Century showed how inequality is baked into our current economic model. ![]() If we don’t do something radical to reduce inequality, Piketty argues, “xenophobic populism could well triumph at the ballot box and initiate changes that will destroy the global, hypercapitalist digital economy”. The social coalition that drove redistribution in the mid-20th century has disappeared. But the main focus of the book is the present, which is marked by extreme and rising inequality, alongside the breakdown of traditional, class-based politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to the publisher for providing me early access to this title through Edelweiss. Sometimes my body is a slutty bitch bad girl I think we gotta stop fetishizing survival we are all survivors." ".where are our leaders? who can teach us how to justice, not just on tumblrīut on the dance floor in our homes in each other's arms? The secrets of their meanings as they wait for the nameless These names swirl in the river of sighs, whispering ".shadows without bodies, words without tongues I would LOVE to see it performed because I feel that is what the poems are intended for. There is a great video on YouTube of the poet talking about the poetry and concepts therein, but I haven't been able to find any performances of the poetry itself. ![]() This is a fantastic debut for this poet, focusing on identity and survival, navigating borders between gender expectations and gender identity, Chinese cultural background and Canadian "home," never feeling quite like they belong, but tackling life with a fullness and energy that comes across in every word. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Archenemies marissa![]() The only other comment I want to make is that there are only so many times you can use the word ‘guffawed’ in one book and two times is probably that number. I only had one comment about the performance and it was that even though he was meant to be at reduced health and all that, I still imagined Ace to be a powerful(ish) middle aged man with a normal voice, not one that sounds like the 98 year old butler of the Addams family from a show in the 60s. Archenemies by Marissa Meyer - online free at Epub Archenemies by Marissa Meyer by Marissa Meyer Views 21.6K Novem3 ratings The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles. On the plus side, there were some superheroes and villains in this series with such fantastically new and fresh powers, Sketch and Ruby among others, that it meant it wasn’t just another powered people story. There were some eye roll moments, the feeling like we’ve seen this before somewhere…but admittedly, it’s a big ask to expect any writer, or creator of anything for that matter, to avoid repetition thoroughly at this point in history. ![]() I haven’t enjoyed a series like this since The Hunger Games or Kirstin Cashore’s Graceling series. When you don’t want there to be only 3 books ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments I lost my heart at wounded knee![]() In the old days he could have regained leadership by going to war, but the treaties pledged him not to engage in hostilities with either the white men or other tribes.When we saw the top of the mountain from Albuquerque we wondered if it was our mountain, and we felt like talking to the ground, we loved it so, and some of the old men and women cried with joy when they reached their homes.” We told the drivers to whip the mules, we were in such a hurry. We came back and the Americans gave us a little stock and we thanked them for that. “The day before we were to start we went a little way towards home, because we were so anxious to start. “The nights and days were long before it came time for us to go to our homes,” Manuelito said.As was the custom of the people when receiving strangers, the Tainos on the island of San Salvador generously presented Columbus and his men with gifts and treated them with honor. ![]() Those Europeans, the white men, spoke in different dialects, and some pronounced the word Indien, or Indianer, or Indian. ![]() ![]() Mark Twain’s incomparable humor sets this book apart from the countless run of the mill travel guides. It was a perfect pick for the pandemic as it let me indulge in some armchair travel! It made me reminisce nostalgically about the places I have already visited and compare notes with his experiences and also made me dream of places I have yet to visit. The Innocents Abroad was published two years later, in 1869. At the time he was a travel correspondent for the San Francisco newspaper, “The Alta California” and sent dispatches about his travels to them and to “The New York Tribune” and “The New York Herald” too. In 1867, he embarked on a pleasure excursion with a group of fellow Americans from New York aboard Quaker City, a retired Civil War ship, for a five and a half month long trip around the Mediterranean. ![]() Not many people know that he was a prolific travel writer well before he published his two famous novels. ![]() When you hear the name Mark Twain, you immediately think of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I recently read The Innocents Abroad, a travelogue of a journey by ship to Europe and the Holy Land, undertaken by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. ![]() Click on the link below to access a hypertext map that traces the route of The Quaker City excursion: ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Cheryl strayed vogue![]() ![]() Wild tells the amateur hiker’s tale, peppered with the colorful characters she encounters along the way, as she struggles to find inner peace and stability. After hitting rock bottom, she decided to confront her emotional pain by trekking over 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail. Her books have been translated into 26 languages around the world.Īt age 22, Cheryl found herself shattered by two major life events: her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the end of her young marriage. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Allure, The Missouri Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun and elsewhere. She is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of her widely popular Dear Sugar columns for , and the critically acclaimed novel Torch, a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild. ![]() |