![]() ![]() ![]() Good for traveler’s to New York or those who want to know more about Italian cooking.Įven if you’ve never set foot in New York City restaurant, Prune, Gabrielle Hamilton‘s effortlessly charming and minuscule place on East 1st Street in Manhattan, the kind of place for which the adjective “jewel-box” was created–even if you’ve never sucked down a gin martini at its zinc bar or let a few drops of anchovy butter drip from a grilled head-on prawn onto the brown kraft-papered wobbly table, Hamilton will feed you a meaty tale via her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter. Note: Today a knowledgeable food writer tells us about a new memoir by a chef who is also a writer who travels through kitchens of New York, France, Greece, Turkey and Italy. ![]() Destination: New York City, Italy Book: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton A GUEST POST by Casey Barber ![]()
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![]() Today, it seems there's no subject matter that doesn't suit the format. It's come forward in leaps and bounds in recent years, spurred on by the international success of titles such as Reinhard Kleist's graphic biography of Johnny Cash, "I See a Darkness," or Ulli Lust's memoir "Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens" ("Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life"). ![]() ![]() While so much of the German capital's creative reputation is hype, the local comic and graphic novel scene is genuinely exciting. I also recently found out that Berlin is home to Germany’s one and only comic book library, the Comicbibliothek Renate in Mitte. Sequential art is everywhere in this city, from comic strips luring you away from turgid headlines about the euro crisis and electricity tax hikes every time you open a newspaper, to bookstores' graphic novel sections, which seem to expand exponentially every time you turn your back. The term is controversial - to some it just means an expensive comic - but be that as it may, it's a genre that's left the bedside tables of teenage nerds, grown up and gone mainstream. How passé! These days, they're turning their talents to graphic novels. There was a time not so long ago when everyone in Berlin would tell you that they were writing a novel. ![]() ![]() In 1893 he joined a sealing cruise, which took him as far abroad as Japan. By the age of sixteen he had left school, worked in a canning factory, spent time as an oyster pirate and been a member of the Fish Patrol in the San Francisco Bay. Jack London (1876-1916) was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, California. ![]() Andrew Sinclair, London's official biographer and the volume's editor, provides a brief account of London's life as a sailor, desperado, socialist, adventurer and acclaimed author. In his introduction, James Dickey probes London's strong personal and literary identification with the wolf-dog as a symbol and totem. This volume of Jack London's famed stories of the North also includes 'Batard', in which an abused dog takes revenge on his owner and 'Love of Life', in which an injured prospector, abandoned by his partner, must struggle home alone through the wilderness, stalked by a lone wolf. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog struggling to survive in a human society every bit as violent as the natural world. ![]() The Call of the Wild, London's masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Andrew Sinclair with an introduction by James Dickey. The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales. ![]() ![]() In real life and in the novel, Gaza is a tropical shantytown on the outskirts of the city of Mamoudzou where much of the action of the novel takes place, but it is also one of the novel’s primary acts of translation. The Gaza at the heart of the novel is in the island of Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Comoros archipelago of the Indian Ocean. Although it shares a name with the territory of Gaza, the eponymous neighborhood in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropic of Violence (Graywolf 2020) is not in the Middle East. Media coverage of life in Gaza tends to revolve, almost singularly, around the theme of violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() The name has also become synonymous with contested sovereignty in an era of postcolonial globalization, where, despite their supposed ephemerality, words like “settlements” and “camps” are imbued with a certain permanence. Gaza is a name capable of conjuring many ideas: statelessness, precarity, violence, tenuous and embargoed freedom, occupation, colonialism, and the list goes on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Patricia finished her first novel in late 1978. Dalton Booksellers, and finally at the Dayton Hudson Corporation headquarters. She worked for several years as a financial analyst and accountant, first with the Minnesota Hospital Association, then with B. from the University of Minnesota in 1977. ![]() She finished it five years later and started her second book at once, having become permanently hooked on writing by this time. She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic, just after graduating from college in 1974. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in Biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses at all. Patricia Collins Wrede was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the eldest of five children. ![]() ![]() Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. ![]() As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites, which in turn allows us to provide our editorial content FREE to readers.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, BookGorilla is not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. While all titles recommended by BookGorilla must meet our standards for price, quality, and appropriate content, some publishers or rightsholders compensate us for prominent placement on the site or in our email bulletins.īookGorilla is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. Copyright © 2007 - 2023 Windwalker Media. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d say if you haven’t read the first book, you can go into this one as a standalone. They bond together and run an inn, which is the main setting for this follow-up novel. ![]() I was initially excited to read Angel in a Devil’s Arms when I realized the heroine would be a character I met in the first Palace of Rogues book, Angelique! She was the mistress of the heroine’s late husband in Lady Derringer Takes a Lover and I loved the friendship development between the two ladies in that book. because his true birthright, he now knows, is guardian of Angelique Breedlove’s heart. Now his whole life depends on proving his love to a woman who doesn’t believe in it. And the passion-explosive, consuming-drives Lucien to his knees. One scorching kiss drives home the danger.īut in the space between them springs a trust that feels anything but safe. and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove’s bed.Īngelique recognizes heartbreak when the enigmatic Lord Bolt walks into The Grand Palace on the Thames, and not even his devastating charm can tempt her to risk her own ever again. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what-and who-he wants. From USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long comes the second book in an exciting new historical romance series, the first since her beloved Pennyroyal Green series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He marries his cousin, Celeste, and they subsequently have children and teach them valuable lessons. Because of his travels and civilization, Babar is chosen king of the elephant kingdom. Just as he returns to his community of elephants, their king dies from eating a bad mushroom. ![]() Babar escapes, and in the process leaves the jungle in exile, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. It tells of a young African elephant, named Babar, whose mother is killed by a hunter. The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. Gavin Magrath (young 1989 TV series and movie)īabar, Doctor of Letters, King of the ElephantsĪrthur (brother-in-law), Badou (grandson), Lulu (granddaughter), Periwinkle (daughter-in-law), Cory (son-in-law)īabar the Elephant ( UK: / ˈ b æ b ɑːr/, US: / b ə ˈ b ɑːr/ French pronunciation: ) is an elephant character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff. Gordon Pinsent (1989–2015 2 TV series and movie)ĭan Lett (1999–2000 movie and TV series) ![]() Cover of the first Babar story, Histoire de Babar ( Story of Babar), published 1931. ![]() ![]() Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic. While Wang’s story of pursuing the American dream is undoubtedly timeless, it’s her family’s triumph in the face of “xenophobia and intolerance” that makes it feel especially relevant today. With immense skill, she parses how her family’s illegal status blighted nearly every aspect of their life, from pushing her parents’ marriage to the brink to compromising their health. During her five years in the States-“shrouded in darkness while wrestling with hope and dignity”-Wang managed to become a star student. “Pushing past hunger pains,” they took menial jobs to support Wang, who worked alongside her mother in a sweatshop before starting school at age seven. Her parents left China (first her father, then Wang with her mother), and came to the United States with absolutely nothing. Wang revisits the painful years of her early childhood growing up as an undocumented immigrant in New York City. ![]() ![]() This fueled her father’s desire to find a better life in America, the “Beautiful Country.” In China, Wang’s parents were professors, but upon arriving in New York City in 1994, their credentials were meaningless. Beautiful Country is a memoir by Qian Julie Wang. ![]() During China’s Cultural Revolution, her uncle was thrown in prison for criticizing Mao Zedong, leaving his parents and younger brother, Wang’s father, to pay for his “treasonous” ways in the form of public beatings and humiliation. In this extraordinary debut, civil rights lawyer Wang recounts her years growing up as an undocumented immigrant living in “the furtive shadows” of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something to note: THE INITIAL INSULT is the first book in a duology, so it’s left open-ended in regards to the mystery of the missing parents and other points. I’m not sure that being inside Cat’s head was necessary. There was also a third POV from the character “Cat,” whose voice was confusing. None of the characters were particularly likable, but I’m glad there was a dual narrative between Tress & Felicity, so at least we could hear where both were coming from. This book was strange and dramatic, and gruesome at times. So in The Cask of Amontillado style, Tress plans to wall up Felicity, brick by brick, in Usher House’s coal chute, unless she finally admits what happened to Mr. Tress’s parents disappeared seven years ago, and the only witness was Felicity, though she’s buried any memories of that terrible night in her subconscious. In Amontillado, Ohio, at the condemned Usher House, Tress Montor devises a sinister plan to get information out of her former best friend, Felicity Turnado. THE INITIAL INSULT gives a modern YA spin to the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, taking inspiration from several of his classic tales of suspense. ![]() |