But I wasn’t able to create this narration successfully, so I decided to have the motel become one of the main characters in the novel instead. I have always loved stories told by unique narrators or unique perspectives, like death’s narration of The Book Thief. I decided at that point to have a single narrator, the motel, tell the story of its occupants. But then a third character appeared, needing his story to be told as well. Initially the novel was going to be told from the alternating first-person POV of the two main characters. I had some themes that I wanted to explore, including poverty, gender, and mental illness, which all eventually found their way into the novel. That simmered for a while, until I placed her at a run-down Scarborough motel. Two years ago I wrote a couple of paragraphs about a teenager who was a homeless runaway. My novel The Nap-Away Motel has been alive in my mind for so long now that it is hard to remember how it came into being. I’m hoping the experience will allow me to grow as a writer. I expect the long-form mentorship will help me to see the strengths and weaknesses of my writing more clearly.
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It means that the forces of democracy are found in all times, ready to rally behind a cause of worldwide significance" (241). But it means that there are men of good will all over the world, in every race, in all classes. He says, "Maybe dying under a fascist bomb doesn't necessarily mean that Filipinos would have the right to become naturalized American citizens. Carlos would face another significant turning point in his life when his brother, Macario, who had accompanied him during the organized labor movement, told him he was leaving for Spain because he wanted to fight for democracy and equality, just like he had tried to do in California. After Dora's departure, Carlos's condition had worsened and he spent his days in the hospital, with only books and his own words to keep him busy hence he read a book a day. The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise in modern scholarship. Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The many sources in translation bring alive the world of Mesopotamian thought and forefront Ishtar as the most supreme of deities.” Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University, UK Full of good sense, yet written with flair, this study of the goddess of all goddesses is an important and infinitely useful contribution to the study of ancient myth and religion. Yet Louise Pryke has achieved something quite remarkable here in synthesising the multivalence of the goddess’s deeds and personas into a coherent and manageable whole. “Ishtar is, without doubt, one of the most complex and baffling of the many gods of antiquity. Blennerhasset-footnotes as well as Big Feet-Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, John Hay, William Cullen Bryant in their historical pajamas. We had met Washington, Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, Col. In “Empire,” just published, he goes back for a missing chunk: the expansionist years of the Spanish American War and Manifest Destiny. In his fictional re-creations of our nation’s political life-”Burr,” “Lincoln,” “1876,” “Washington D.C.”-Vidal first-named his way from the Revolution and the Jackson era, to the Civil War, to the robber-baron Gilded Age, to a stretch running from the later New Deal into the McCarthy days. As mentor, Vidal has reservations about his protege. Gore Vidal and History are on breezy first-name terms, but there is a trickle of irritation underneath. One day a disturbed nursing home resident whacks her on the head with a maraca in a desperate attempt to stop her singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. She works as a music therapist, playing songs on her acoustic guitar to alleviate, or perhaps that should be exacerbate, the sufferings of dementia patients, burn victims and autistic children. When we meet her, she is almost 40 and has finally fallen pregnant with the help of an IVF program after years of trying to conceive with her husband, Max. The issue it explores, the conflict between advocates of gay rights and fundamentalist Christians, is topical and dramatised in a direct and unpretentious manner. Yes, it contains its full measure of shonky prose and clumsy dialogue, but so do many "literary" novels. And Sing You Home, Picoult's 18th novel in 19 years, is not without merit. It is all literature the only distinction that really matters is whether a book is good or bad, whether it is intelligent, absorbing and well-written. Picoult is right in the sense the distinction between literary and non-literary fiction is completely bogus. Shipman offers an engrossing biography of an unusual woman for whom, she says, the truth was whatever she wanted it to be unfortunately, the book is somewhat marred by repetitious prose and digressions. In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth. ) makes a good case that Mata Hari was a naïve, innocent scapegoat for a demoralized French military that had endured heavy losses and mutinous troops, and that she was also the victim of a hypocritical, rigidly moralistic patriarchy offended by her shameless sexuality. Shipman ( The Man Who Found the Missing Link Financially destitute, Margaretha reinvented herself in Paris as Mata Hari, gaining fame and fortune performing in various stages of undress in exotic dances that evoked the East, and she collected a series of highly placed, fawning lovers. She married a much older, jealous, heavy-drinking and insolvent officer stationed in Indonesia who probably gave her and her children syphilis the disastrous union ended after her young son died of poisoning, possibly from a botched syphilis cure, and Margaretha relinquished custodial rights to her daughter. Xecuted as a German spy by the French in 1917, the notorious Mata Hari was born Margaretha Zelle in 1876, the spoiled daughter of a prosperous Dutch merchant who would later abandon her to the care of relatives after a humiliating bankruptcy and his wife's death. by Pat Shipman A New Biography of Mata Hari In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. However, it is what it is – in three days, I will be homeless. I look forward to living in an actual house again. This is not by choice (although many individuals before me have chosen this lifestyle and enjoyed the freedoms that it can offer, and if that is what works for them, kudos!) Personally, I enjoy having a permanent residence and the sense of stability and security that it gives me. When she knew that becoming homeless was imminent, she reached out online and had an immediate response from strangers interested in what she had to say about her situation. Brianna became homeless through a set of circumstances that you can read more about here. She created the blog The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness and is also now a published author with her book of the same name being published very soon. 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He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. First class mail normally takes 7-14 days to arrive, however sometime the package does running late which will take longer than 2 weeks but less than 1 month to arrive (for U.S. Shipping Policy: I normally will ship your order within 1-2 business day. 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