5/13/2023 0 Comments A brief history of time reviewIts boundary is called the event horizon."Īnything or anyone who fell past the event horizon, Professor Hawking explained, would soon reach a point of "infinite density and the end of time" - bad news for hypothetical astronauts. "This region is what we now call a black hole. So one has a set of events, a region of space-time, from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer. Thus if light cannot escape, neither can anything else everything is dragged back by the gravitational field. "According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light. He showed that they must contain "a singularity of infinite density and space-time curvature", and he showed that they aren't completely black - theoretically, they can emit tiny amounts of radiation.īut in A Brief History Of Time, he took it back to the basics, giving this neat explanation for the phenomenon: This was Professor Hawking's area of expertise. If you read it, you'll have an idea of what black holes are all about If you're one of those 97 people, you'll be glad to know an even more concise version of A Brief History of Time was released in 2005: A Briefer History of Time. He was basing that approximation on a formula called the Fully Read Index, which measures how easy a book is to read and how dumb the author makes readers feel. "Of every 100 people who bought A Brief History of Time, three finished it," wrote Time's book critic Paul Gray in 2001.
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Alternatively, Mosher has been cursed as a literary pirate who exploited loop-holes in the prevailing copyright laws, in order to avoid paying royalties to the authors he published. Literary publisher Thomas Bird Mosher has been praised as an American Aldus whose finely-printed and modestly priced editions “introduced Americans to ‘the literature of rapture” (William Fredeman). Small, narrow octavo, original full yapp-edged parchment, uncut, original glassine, original slipcase.įirst American edition, one of only 725 copies, of Symonds’ translation of Michelangelo’s Sonnets, “highly esteemed by the rarest and most cultivated intellects of his age,” with lithographic frontispiece of Vittoria Colonna.Īdopted as a poet by the Florentine Academy, Michelangelo once admitted that his sonnets “do indeed proceed from me, but the commentary comes from heaven.” “The value of Michelangelo’s poetry is rather psychological than purely literary… Expression only finds a smooth and flowing outlet when the man’s nature is profoundly stirred by some powerful emotion”- the ruggedness of his style is outweighed by “his meditative inspiration.” Michelangelo’s sonnets were “highly esteemed by the rarest and most cultivated intellects of his age” (Symonds). Michael Angelo Buonarroti, His Sonnets, Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English by John Addington Symonds. “PIRATE PRINCE OF PUBLISHERS”: MOSHER’S EDITION OF MICHELANGELO’S SONNETS How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin? Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Initially it is shrugged off as overwork. All seems well, until afterwards Tom begins to imagine a presence in his house, later believed to be ex-resident Anne Driscoll, waking him up at night. Whilst at a neighbour’s dinner party, Tom is persuaded to be hypnotised as part of a joke. Tom Wallace is a typical middle-class suburbanite from the 1950’s, working in Publications at the North American Aircraft factory in Inglewood, California, renting a nice house with his pregnant wife Anne and young child Richard. So ‘Bravo!’ to Tor for re-releasing it.Īs might be befitting an older novel, the story’s fairly straightforward. But the actual book hasn’t been around here in the UK for a long while – I make it nearly fifteen years. Like those, this book has also been made into a movie, released in 1999 and starring Kevin Bacon (as A Stir of Echoes). Of these, I am Legend (which I reviewed HERE just before it was released as a Will Smith movie), or for those a bit longer in the tooth, The Incredible Shrinking Man are probably the best known two, though there are others. Why isn’t Richard Matheson better known and more read in the UK? If any of his books are known, it is more because of the movies of his novels, rather than the books themselves. Published by TOR UK, September 2013 (Review copy received) I would like to eventually read book 1 & book 3 but since I don't normally buy romance novels I probably won't get to them for awhile.Ī great book to read on a rainy summer day.Ī review copy of this book was provided by St. There was some talk of events that happened in book 1 and the characters from that book were side characters in this book but I didn't feel like I missed anything by not reading book 1. Smitten by the Brit is actually book 2 in a series but each book can be read as a stand alone. It was light and fun and just what I needed. I picked up this book because I wanted Bonnie & Theo to fall in love and they did just that. Smitten by the Brit is predictable and that's why I liked it. She begins a friends with benefits fling but both if them quickly realize they are falling in love. She ends her engagement and decides to take her dream job in England.Įnter the sweet and handsome Theo Wharton a man straight out of romance novel. Her life is going as planned until she walks in on her fiance doing the nasty with another chick. Smitten by the Brit is a Hallmark movie in book form and I fucks with it HARD!īonnie Blythe is an American English professor whose engaged to her childhood sweetheart. Romance A Thon: A romance released in 2019 5/11/2023 0 Comments The colour of magic coverRincewind agrees to be his guide for a high fee and, above all, due to the fact that he’s asked to do so by Lord Vetinari, Patrician of the city and also the only man able to guarantee order, if one can speak of true order, in a chaotic place like Ankh- Morpork. Twoflower is very rich, but only because gold is very common in his country: he’s a simple insurance salesman. The naive Twoflower arrives there with his traveling Luggage and his camera, or rather his picture box. The first part of the book takes place in the largest city in the entire Discworld, Ankh-Morpork. Yet, the book introduces very well many of the elements that would then become recurrent in the subsequent books of the saga. I’ll write it right away: the saga doesn’t start with a bang, and if you haven’t read any Pratchett book before, I probably wouldn’t recommend this one to start reading his works. Published in 1983, it’s the first part of the story of the tourist Twoflower (a native of the Agatean Empire) who, together with the wizard Rincewind, discovers Ankh-Morpork and its surroundings. The Colour of Magic is the first book of the Discworld saga. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Book guide to getting it onGuide To Getting It On! (6th edition, January 2009) ISBN 978-1-88.Guide To Getting It On! (5th edition, September 2006) ISBN 978-1-88.Guide To Getting It On! (4th edition, April 2004) ISBN 1-88.Guide To Getting It On! (3rd edition, February 2000) ISBN 1-88.Guide To Getting It On! A New and Mostly Wonderful Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages (2nd edition, September 1998) ISBN 1-88.Guide To Getting It On! A New and Mostly Wonderful Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages (1st edition, June 1996) ISBN 1-88.In the English language, Guide to Getting It On! has ten editions. It also uses comic-like drawings to maintain a light-hearted approach, such as a drawing of a vagina and a penis, both with eyes, a mouth, a nose, hands and feet having a dialogue. It is illustrated throughout with realistic body drawings. These quotations are from males and females, of a broad age range, that the author has interviewed during his research or who sent letters to him after the publication of previous editions of the book. The book uses informal language and quotations extensively to illustrate the points the author makes. Back cover of the Guide To Getting It On Style 5/11/2023 0 Comments The lorax storyHe also created a cartoon called Gerald McBoing-Boing which also won him an Oscar. Captain Geisel would write for Frank Capra's Signal Corps Unit (for which he won the Legion of Merit) and do documentaries (he won Oscar's for Hitler Lives and Design for Death). Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.ĭuring World War II, Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood. 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. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Misguided angel melissa de la cruzAnd as the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler to a terrible choice that will ultimately map the destiny of her heart. Melissa de la Cruz (is the author of many best-selling novels, including all of the books in the Blue Bloods series. Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of deceptions before the killers strike again.Īs the young vampires struggle for the survival of the coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but kept buried for centuries. Vampires are being abducted and their captors are planning to burn them alive online - for all the world to see. Struggling with her heartache over the loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a perilous new threat. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard the earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard the earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods.īack in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a crumbling coven. After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. |