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Rebecca Harper bears the emotional scars of her father’s crimes, and now she has two rules: never let anyone get too close, and never admit weakness. Then one day a ten-year-old boy turns up, claiming to be her son, and her simple ordered world turns upside down. Now in her mid thirties, she’s restless and can’t work out why. Self-made business owner Dale McGuire has always enjoyed two things in life: women and fast cars. Hi everyone, so I am officially back from my hiatus, I was back at work last week but have been quietly lurking in the shadows catching up on people’s blogs, I’m nowhere near done but I’m getting there! Now the last month I haven’t actually read all that much but I do have a lot of half written reviews so I thought I would combine them into a few shorter reviews. In 1936 on the way to a vacation in Europe, listening to the rhythm of the ship's engines, he came up with And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which was then promptly rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. “And her name is Cécile de Troyes, which you very well know, so quit pretending otherwise.” “Perhaps our mistake was in not finding you a deaf one,” Marc said. I hardly need another woman in my life telling me what to do, and it would mean I could do all the talking and she the listening.” “On second thought, perhaps it wouldn’t be dreadful at all. “She isn’t mute, is she? That would be dreadful.” He leaned back against the chair, his strange eyes fixed on me. Tristan peered at me as though I were a curious insect. “Even if I hadn’t a gag of magic in my mouth, I wouldn’t have dared spoken. I will love you until the day I take my last breath and that is the truth. He stopped, the weight of his sorrow greater than any mountain. The cold of the water bit into my skin and I sobbed, terrified. I tried to hold on to him, but my fingers wouldn’t work. “Tristian, no, no, no!” I tried to scream, but I couldn’t. I tried to struggle, but he was too strong. He got to his feet and stepped into the water. You promised.” He had to be coming with me - he said he was and Tristan couldn’t lie. He kissed my lips, silencing my questions. That you’ll travel wherever the wind takes you. Dance in spring rains and let snowflakes melt on your tongue in winter. That you’ll gallop on horseback through summer meadows. “Promise me you’ll get better,” he whispered. I wanted to wipe them away, tell him that everything would be all right, but my body was locked stiff with pain. He turned his face to me, and it was streaked with tears. Morgan is one of those novelists for whom writing an "edgy" book means having all the characters precariously balanced just this side of loathsome, giving them as few redeeming qualities as possible and packing their dialogue with enough F-bombs to fill three Quentin Tarantino scripts. Much of the book - maybe too much - feels like he's going back to the same old well. There is not, exactly, a surfeit of originality, but you knew that when you saw Morgan's name on the byline. Is there entertainment to be had here? Oh, indeed. Add a little extra seasoning - say, by making our ex-war-hero protagonist middle-aged, paunchy and gay - then just heat and serve. Morgan novel, an edgy and violent tale featuring an anti-hero in a gloomy, war-torn world who is drawn into a complex drama involving criminals, creeps, conspiracies and cover-ups, upon which the very fate of civilzation itself will ultimately hang. And the result is - drum roll, please - a Richard K. Morgan, the firebrand Scots writer who took a cattle prod to the gonads of stodgy post-cyberpunk SF noir with his edgy and violent Takeshi Kovacs trilogy and his edgy and violent exegesis on racism and xenophobia, Thirteen, now trains his sights on heroic fantasy. Quite often, he was very funny, even when he was warning against Hitler.” When the Nazis placed a price on Kerr’s head, he joked that he felt insulted because the amount was too low. "He used to broadcast a lot on the radio, before they stopped him. "When I would go into his room, there were newspapers piled so high that I had to wade through," she said. "He would always speak out." Despite the very real risk to his life, he continued to criticize Hitler until his microphone was confiscated. "He always had a very strong sense of Jewish ethics,” Judith Kerr once said of her father. A formidable and influential voice in Berlin, Alfred Kerr had taken to publicly criticizing Hitler and knew his card was marked. Judith Kerr was nine years old when her father, a renowned literary and theater critic, made the decision to flee Germany in 1933. I can tell you that Flanagan wrote the book for his father, who was a prisoner of war during WWII. Bits of poetry are quoted throughout the novel, beautifully strengthening the character development and the scenes where they appear as well as foreshadowing each section of the book. The title of the novel is derived from Matsuo Bashō’s poem of his travels to Japan’s remote north-eastern region, Tohoku. I’m still heart and soul into it as if I’ve been hit by something massive and I’m disoriented, unsure what happened. What a book! Incredible! I’d like to tell you more about why I liked it and how it impacted me, but I don’t know where to begin. I just finished reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. “ Summer grasses/All that remains/of soldiers’ dreams.” Matsuo Bashō The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan |