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Blanca is a furious, hilarious fourteen year old ghost who lives in the former monastery where Sand and Chopin have come to escape the pressures of life in Paris, along with Sand’s children and a maid. ![]() For the first time in Stevens’ books we’re clearly in fiction territory: in the first paragraph, the narrator and real star of the novel, Blanca, declares that she has been ‘in Valldemossa for over three centuries’. ![]() ![]() After Bleaker House, a memoir about trying to write a novel, and Mrs Gaskell and Me, a memoir about trying to write a doctoral thesis, Nell Stevens continues her playful interrogation of the relationships between life, writing and life-writing with an account of the French novelist George Sand’s time in Mallorca with Frederic Chopin. ![]() 7/2/2023 0 Comments The titan book rockefeller![]() ![]() He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma.ĭrawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller’s private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects’ troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. ![]() Rockefeller, Sr.-the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalistįrom the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton : here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. ![]() 7/2/2023 0 Comments Oathbringer goodreads![]() ![]() ![]() I’m also not too articulate when my mind is blown, so trying to put into words my roiling feelings upon finishing Oathbringer will be difficult, but I’ll try my best to convey my thoughts on this work of art. I find myself speechless, as I often am after reading a Brandon Sanderson novel, because there’s so much to talk about and yet also so much I can’t spoil. If you’ve read the two previous volumes in the Stormlight Archive, you’d probably already understand this series is a masterful, meticulous continuation into the journey to explore the mysterious world of Roshar, and once again this third installment is revealing so much more about our characters and their roles in this epic tableau. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Ī full five stars to Oathbringer and nothing less. Thanks to Tor Books for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, ILLUSIONSĬops before breakfast. To my parents, who reassured me early on that the rest of the world was “just jealous.” Cover art by Kevin Burton Smith All rights reserved 2006 First published 2000 by Millivres Ltd. 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