![]() Books on the Hill (BOTH) Open Dyslexia Kickstarter.#BlogTour #Review - The Lynmouth Stories by Lucy V.#Review - The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.#Review - Eye of the Sh*t Storm by Jackson Ford.(I loved the way that Gildas's actual habit of denouncing pretty much everybody in his writings carries through to acrimonious relationships with nearly everyone else here.) To these she adds a conflict between the old religion of Celtic paganism and the new Christianity represented by the priest Gildas - also a real person, who wrote one of the few contemporary histories of Britain. But this is a setting that gives an author a great deal of room and Holland takes full advantage, placing this story in a definable place - the kingdom of Dumnonia, in what is now South West England - and associating it with real people (her King, Cador, his successor Contantine, and their Saxon opponents). ![]() Again, though, the historical records are scant. It's also sometimes seen the "age of Arthur", a British leader defending his people against the invading Saxons. ![]() This period of this book is sometime described as the "dark ages" - a term originally used because of the lack of contemporary written records, but which is now used less because on hearing it many imagine a time of barbarism and decay, which (as this book shows) it was not. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A sensation in its day, Crime and Punishment has left an indelible stamp on the world of literature. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. A towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath.Īn impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. ![]() ![]() ![]() He learned to read aged 11 and suspects that dyslexia runs in his family, according to the piece. In this Guardian profile, Vuong says that he was “a terrible student” at a rough school where “being a slight, queer, yellow boy, it was very easy to be picked on”. Or crystallised essences of emotions, surprising and somehow aptly rendered. ![]() ![]() To continue with our metaphor-trust us, nothing so awkward appears in Vuong’s work-these poems are exquisite jewels. (As is, incidentally, Mai Der Vang’s Afterland.) If you’re like us, picking up a collection like Night Sky With Exit Wounds is an easy and painless way to reenter this corner of the literary world. We blame memories of horrible effort required in high school to make sense of stuff from the distant past, but this is really, truly no excuse. We at Travelfish are prolific readers, but we often fall down when it comes to staying abreast of what’s happening in the poetry world. ![]() |