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Chang hoped to launch her American career with these English works but failed to find a publisher.Īlthough the two posthumous books received mixed reviews, they offer readers an insider’s view into the author’s life, especially the second book which revolves around her life in Hong Kong, where her magnum opus Love in A Fallen City (1943) is set.įor a true story of an influential Asian American Hongkonger, check out Clarie Chao’s biography, co-written with her mother Isabel Sun Chao. The semi-autobiographical novel is the second part to The Fall of the Pagoda (2010), which chronicles her childhood and adolescence from 1924 to 1938 in Shanghai. The Book of Change is one of her few works written originally in English inspired by her student days in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. She made her name in the literary arena while a high school student as a result of her works’ unique feminine elegance and classic beauty against the backdrop of a war-torn China. The Shanghai-born novelist studied English Literature at the University of Hong Kong in 1939. Think of a Hong Kong romance writer and Eileen Chang (1920-1995) will definitely come to mind. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them!
He includes the strange stories of hucksters, such as Thedore Morde, who ventured into Honduras in 1940 and who claimed to have found a remarkable city ruled over by the statue of a monkey god. The author then delves into the long history of the myth making that has surrounded the lost city for hundreds of years, dating back to Cortes. The author then recounts his first encounter with Steve Elkins, the cinematographer and adventurer whose dream it is to find the lost city. There, they hear about the dangers of the trip ahead, including venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders, and deadly diseases. Preston begins his narrative in when the expedition is in Catacamas, Honduras, a dangerous city controlled by drug dealers from which they will leave to enter the rainforest. Preston's book is a first-hand account of a dangerous expedition into the heart of Mosquitia, an area of Honduras, to find the lost city, alternatively called the White City and the Lost City of the Monkey God, that has long been rumored to exist there. This summary refers to Douglas Preston's Lost City of the Monkey God, published by Hachette Book Group in 2017. Various global powers sought to steal alien supertechnology, the tools of an extinct race, and put them to use as weapons. You mate it with something that truly is horrifying." This led to his short story " A Colder War," a "sort of sequel to At the Mountains of Madness" in which Stross has explained that the idea for the book began in 1992 with the question, "How do you put the horror back into H. Len Deighton is a British spy novelist known for novels like The Ipcress Files with a "sardonic working-class hero." Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, and Len Deighton." Neal Stephenson is a leading writer in the cyberpunk mode of science fiction, best known for his 1992 novel Snow Crash. In his acknowledgements, Stross writes: "Three authors in particular made it possible for me to imagine this book and I salute you, H. But due to the book’s inclusion in numerous lists as one of the books in the romance genre, I included it in my February 2018 reading list. However, I wasn’t too keen on reading the book because of the challenges I had to deal with in Pride and Prejudice. I’ve bought a copy of Sense and Sensibility while scavenging through a book sale. But who’d have thought that my next Austen would come nearly a decade later. Although I had a challenging time unraveling and appreciating the story, I was nonetheless stoked at being able to finish of the pillars of the classical English romance genre. This book, Pride and Prejudice, is one of most memorable reads because it was the one that introduced me to the wonderful world of English literature. My first taste of Jane Austen’s prose was way back in my college years. The sisters’ parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, cases both to readjust and question their own values. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor’s good sense, her readiness to observe social forms and Marianne’s impulsive candour, her warm but excessive sensibility it also highlights their shared predicament in the face of a competitive marriage market. Genre: English Fiction, Romance, BildungsromanĪs the title of Jane Austen’s first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. And the music! If one were to make a playlist of the references, one would have a greatest hits of black music: from Gambian drummers to Cab Calloway to Michael Jackson to Rakim. The narrator’s journey, from gritty estate to glittering globe and back again, is the juicy stuff of which film adaptations are made. It is by Aimee’s side that she travels the world, jetting from winters to summers.įor its plot alone, Swing Time makes for truly marvellous reading. It gives little away to say that she does, becoming an assistant to a pop star called Aimee. As with the Italian bestseller, the talented friend is the tortured one – prematurely sexual, rebellious at school, ungoverned at home – while the less gifted is an able student, determined to make it out of the neighbourhood. Residents of neighbouring housing estates in London, the pair meet at a community dance class, one (the unnamed narrator) clever and self-doubting, the other (Tracey) confident and self-destructive. A “best friend bildungsroman” in the Elena Ferrante mould, the novel tells the story of two girls growing up on the wrong side of town. Swing Time is Zadie Smith’s fifth novel and for my money her finest. The stories will often seek to engage readers in terms of the personal intricacies of the different characters, not only presenting their flaws and struggles but daily routines, pets, what they tend to have for lunch and so on and so forth, with the aim of generating a lively and wholesome image of each character. Jan Karon is described as introducing the town as its owner character, a place many readers look forward to visiting in each novel. The books are fictional in nature and Christian themed, often placing special emphasis upon the little town of Mitford within which its stories take place. The Mitford Years is a series of books from American Novelist Jan Karon set in Mitford, a fictional town in North Carolina, the novels centre on the character of Father Tim. She met Mitchell Sharmat while vacationing in Florida, and they married in 1957. She attended Westbrook Junior College, now Westbrook College, in Portland in the 1940s. 12, 1928, in Portland, Me., to Anna (Richardson) and Nathan Weinman, co-owner of a dry goods store, for whom the boy detective was named. Sharmat was born Marjorie Weinman on Nov. The New York Public Library named “Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden” (1997) one of its 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing. Some “Nate” books have been adapted for television one, “Nate the Great Goes Undercover” (1974), was made into an animated short that won an award at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival. His picture once adorned 28 million boxes of Cheerios, to promote children’s literacy, and he has cropped up as the answer in a New York Times crossword puzzle. Nate quickly emerged as something of a pop culture figure. Join the worlds greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the. (The hat was added by the illustrator Marc Simont, who drew the first 20 “Nate” books.) By (author) Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Illustrated by Marc Simont. Nate is a boy detective who wears a Sherlock Holmes-style deerstalker hat, loves pancakes and always catches his culprit, usually with the help of his dog, Sludge. But she was most known for her “Nate the Great” series, the first of which appeared in 1972. Robbie and Tristan have never been the kind of twins who can read one another’s minds, or finish each other’s sentences. Saddled with this unimaginable responsibility, Tristan is also trying to throw off his parents expectations, looking beyond hockey to his own dreams of acting on stage. Suddenly Tristan finds himself sharing a room with his “identical stranger,” charged with watching him at every moment, and preventing another attempt. But then Robbie tries to commit suicide and, afraid it will hurt his chances in the draft, their parents refuse to get him help, pretending it was an accident. It is what their father has been working towards and dreaming of their entire lives. But Robbie is the talent, the one who will be eligible for the NHL draft at the end of the school year. Twin brothers Robbie and Tristan both play hockey on an elite team for their private high school. Of being a star, taking the final bow at curtain call.” Of singing show tunes and making the audience feel. Instead, I dreamed of a Broadway stage and dancing. Maybe I would have if I weren’t always compared to Robbie. |