![]() ![]() Instead, Rosen provides the tools and terms with which to appreciate this central aspect of musical aesthetics, and indeed explores the phenomenon of contradictory sentiments embodied in a single motif or melody. ![]() This is not, however, a listener’s guide to any “correct” response to a particular piece. Through a range of musical examples, Rosen details the array of stylistic devices and techniques used to represent or convey sentiment. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways. ![]() How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Quinn's meticulous research and impeccable characterization shine through this gripping and beautifully executed novel." Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of HER LAST FLIGHT The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. ![]() THE ROSE CODE effortlessly evokes the frantic, nervy, exuberant world of the Enigma codebreakers through the eyes of three extraordinary women who work in tireless secrecy to defeat the Nazis. "The hidden history of Bletchley Park has been waiting for a master storyteller like Kate Quinn to bring it to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. "There’s power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kirk was 90 years old at the time of the trip. The Star Trek legend famous for playing Capt. ![]() It begins with records concerning space - the first privately-funded crewed spaceflight, the first private-citizen orbital mission, most people in space at the same time, the closest approach to the sun, the longest operating lunar rover as well as the farthest flight on Mars are there.Īs for the oldest man in Space, there was legendary actor William Shatner, who was part of a sub-orbital space flight. The book is divided into nine chapters, which cover topics ranging from space, life, animals, entertainment and the modern world. According to the editor, the GWR processed nearly 39000 applications and approximately 5,000 titles managed it through. The latest 256-page edition goes into space, unlike the previous edition, which was more focused on environmental issues and recycling. The 2023 edition of the annual Guinness World Record is out and as always, it is in demand, regardless of the fact that book reading seems to be on a decline these days.įollowing the same pattern since 1955, there are quite a few surprises this time around. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, almost every paragraph of this book is exactly the same. Four times, each scene almost exactly the same. He holds them at gunpoint while the mantises eat their families in front of them before turning Slayer on them. He uses this mantis, called Slayer, to corral other mantises from the island for his plan of revenge.Īfter feeding a couple of entire tribes to the them, Mellis goes on the hunt for his four betrayers, who luckily have been living within a couple miles of him all this time. He captures one, discovers a scent to make him unpalatable, and trains the insect to follow his commands. ![]() Dyke get caught trying to run off with all the loot and is tortured, castrated, and left for dead.Įleven years later, living with natives in the jungles of Columbia, Mellis experiences an enormous earthquake which opens a crack under an island, releasing a horde of man-eating killer mantises. This is the book I didn't know I was looking for all this time, and now I never have to read again.Īs a youngster in Brownsville, Texas, Dyke Mellis and his friends tortured, killed, and robbed a recluse of millions of dollars. ![]() ![]() ![]() The previous books in this series have relied heavily on world building, but now that the Witchlands are established, Bloodwitch can focus solely on its characters. ![]() ![]() Then there’s poor Merik who can’t seem to catch a break as he travels alongside Ryber and Cam while the Fury hunts them. Safi is with Empress Vaness where she uses her Truthwitch powers in hopes to help Nubrevna. Aeduan and Iseult are continuing their search for the woman from Owl’s tribe. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past.īloodwitch picks up where Windwitch left off. The Bloodwitch Aeduan has teamed up with the Threadwitch Iseult and the magical girl Owl to stop the destruction. Below, thwarted by a lake, a bloodthirsty horde of raiders await the coming of winter and the frozen path to destroy the sanctuary and its secrets. High in a snowy mountain range, a monastery that holds more than just faith clings to the side of a cliff. The entire Witchlands ensemble is back to continue on their adventure full of pain and ultimately growth.įans of Susan Dennard’s New York Times bestselling Witchlands series have fallen in love with the Bloodwitch Aeduan. ![]() After being disappointed with Windwitch, I’m happy to say that Bloodwitch reached all of my expectations and more. ![]() ![]() The Maharajah and his goons are taken outside and hung. Their menfolk gallantly ride to the rescue but, alas, they are too late to save one of the women, who is sacrificed to a very animated statue of Kali. Ten British women are captured by forces loyal to the Maharajah of Mahadhrana (“Scourge of Islam, Lord of the Seventy-Nine Elephants and a most infinite rascal”) and imprisoned in a dungeon to await the darkest night. Who could resist? I’m only just through the prequel, which concerns an incident in the Sepoy mutiny. These were the elements that came together on the Darkest Night: Kali’s festival of unbridled licence and foulest murder. This was the night when Dennis Wood faced the grimmest challenge of his whole life: a test that was to bring him face to face with the unspeakable horrors of a worship based on death and destruction.Ī young English girl stripped for sacrifice … blood-maddened, lust-crazed worshippers … and the esoteric mysteries of a faith founded on the ultimate Negation. The darkest night … the night when the devotees of Kali, goddess of destruction, make their unholy puja. ![]() ![]() Peter Saxon – The Darkest Night (Mayflower Dell, Oct. ![]() ![]() ![]() De Berniéres is a master of magical realism what he gives us in brutal and vivid depictions of violence, he balances wonderfully with warm glimpses of magical, folkish tales.ĭe Bernieres’ light touch and use of comedy makes his difficult subject matter and commentary on the state of late 20th century Central and South America more accessible. ![]() Set in a nameless country, thought to be based upon Colombia, we follow the exploits of philosophy lecturer Dioniso Vivo and his attempts to challenge the ludicrously corrupt government and drug cartel through a number of ingenious and condemnatory letters published in national newspaper, La Prensa. Seńor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second book in de Berniéres’ Latin American trilogy, though it can be enjoyed alone at no disadvantage. This week's Read comes courtesy of Miranda, our Reading Resources Intern who suggests Seńor Vivo and the Coco Lord by Louis de Berniéres. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Feinstein's writing is just middling, he gives away nonfiction plot points that could be used to create narrative tension, he overuses words (if the team "broke up" in laughter again, I was going to scream), and he just made the events of the season feel very repetitive. I found myself, time and again, wondering just how good the book could have been if a talented writer had had access to Knight for that season. However, I was amazed by how poorly it was written. ![]() I can't believe I hadn't read Feinstein's book sooner-it is still the best-selling sports book of all time. But still, his style of basketball was my bread and butter. This was, of course, before I learned of his hilariously out-of-touch sexism. I used to tell people I decided to get my undergrad degree at Indiana University because of Knight (in a past life I was an inappropriately obsessed basketball player, against all odds at 5'1"). I liked it because it was about Bob Knight, a figure I have been fascinated by for many, many years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rankine is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and professor of English at Pomona College and that two-decade long feeling of urgency she mentioned has seen her produce poetry that’s been short-listed for the National Book Award, and taken in subjects as unlikely as Zinedine Zidane’s infamous head-butt in the 2006 World Cup final and the portrayal of Serena Williams by the mainstream media. “There’s something very moving about having so many people step into a subject that I have been consumed with for so long, and suddenly understand the urgency that I have been feeling for 20 years,” she said. Now her work, which had started as a re-telling of personal experiences of racism, as well as a general view of the country and race, had inadvertently become a companion to one of the most volatile moments in recent US history. ![]() |