The madness of george the third7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() William Byrd ‘O Lord, Make Thy Servant Charles’, sung by The Sixteen Read more: Soprano sings King’s favourite hymn ‘Be Thou my Vision’ in historic chapel Nigel Hess, Roderick Williams, Shirley J Thompson: ‘Be Thou my Vision - Triptych for Orchestra’. ![]() Their individual musical responses to the Irish hymn ‘ Be Thou my Vision’, including a musical cryptogram of His Majesty’s name, were woven together into a single work: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleevesīased on one of His Majesty’s favourite hymns, this next commission came from a trio of composers, Hess, Williams and Thompson.South African soprano Pretty Yende stepped forward to sing a new commission: Sir Karl Jenkins: ‘Tros y Garreg’ (‘Crossing the Stone’).The orchestra was joined by Royal harpist Alis Huws for a new arrangement of a Welsh folk song set by Sir Karl Jenkins, commissioned by the then Prince of Wales over two decades ago: Bryn Terfel sings at Westminster Abbey coronation ![]()
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November 9 fallon7/4/2023 ![]() Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. November 9 Book Review: The Official Cover and Blurbįallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. ![]() There are good days and bad days, one in which we find a huge secret that Ben is keeping. This crazy premise works and the book is divided by each November 9th that they meet. They would meet for 5 years and Ben will write a book about it. ![]() They wouldn’t talk, stalk each other on social media, nor have their phone numbers. They make an improbable agreement: they would meet every November 9th. However, Fallon says she won’t fall in love until she’s 23 years old, 5 years from then. They start talking and they have so much chemistry they basically fall in love right there. She doesn’t know him but he’s so funny and charming that she plays along. While she’s having a bad argument with her dad, Ben sits by her side and starts pretending to be her boyfriend. ![]() Because of that, she thinks that she’d never find anybody to love or even look at her. She hates her father and blames him for the accident that happened to her two years prior to that – her body was burned in a fire. Fallon is having a conversation with her father in a restaurant. ![]() Princess academy series in order7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() It is set in a futuristic world and Cinder is a cyborg mechanic who meets the prince by chance. Ella EnchantedĮveryone loves a good Cinderella story but Marissa Meyer stepped it up in Cinder. ![]() It just helps me make a bit for doing what I love. This in no way changes the price for you. If you click on a link and decide to buy something I will get pennies for referring you. Some of these “princesses” aren’t actually princesses at all, just like the girls in Princess Academy, but they accomplish amazing things as they fight dragons, trolls, and traitors.ĭisclosure: I am an Amazon affiliate. Each of the books below is unique in its portrayal of princesses in a positive light as they each go on their own adventures. I also love how they lift each other up to become the best princess while mixing up the story so it doesn’t fit the typical fairy-tale mold. One of my favorite things about Princess Academy is the girls stepping up and make their own choices. ![]() Granted, the movie industry and authors have been branching out and finding new stories with princesses who take control of their futures. These are the princesses empowering girls today to write their own stories. I’m not a huge fan of the stereotypical Disney princess who just waits around for her prince charming to come along and fix her problems. I’m looking at you Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. ![]() ![]() Thallium was originally used as rat poison, but was discontinued due to the exposure risk.Īmong the distinctive effects of thallium poisoning are peripheral nerve damage (victims may experience a sensation of “walking on hot coals”) and hair loss (which led to its initial use as a depilatory before its toxicity was properly appreciated). Thus this substitution disrupts many cellular processes by interfering with the function of proteins that incorporate cysteine, an amino acid containing sulfur. Other aspects of thallium's chemistry differ strongly from that of the alkali metals, such as its high affinity for sulfur ligands. It can thus enter the body via potassium uptake pathways. Part of the reason for thallium's high toxicity is that when present in aqueous solution as the univalent thallium(I) ion (Tl +) it exhibits some similarities with essential alkali metal cations, particularly potassium (owing to similar ionic radii). Exposure to them should not exceed 0.1 mg per m 2 of skin in an 8 hour time-weighted average (40- hour working week). ![]() Many thallium compounds are highly soluble in water and are readily absorbed through the skin. Contact with skin is dangerous and adequate ventilation should be provided when melting this metal. Thallium poisoning is poisoning that is due to thallium and its compounds, which are often highly toxic. ![]() The power of yes shonda rhimes7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. If this is your first book, get it for free. To support The Stacks and find out more from this week’s sponsors, click here. Get Year of Yes audiobook by Shonda Rhimes on Speechify and enjoy the best listening experience. A beautiful, illustrated, aspirational companion journal to Shonda Rhimess New York Times bestselling memoir, Year of Yes. ![]() You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: Ĭonnect with Ashley: Instagram |Ashley North Style |Shop AN StyleĬonnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | Subscribe We talk about motherhood as a "job", the myth of doing it all, and if we would ever do our own Year of Yes. The book brings up topics surrounding the desire to be professionally successful and personally fulfilled. The book is Rhimes' memoir on the year she decided to say yes to everything and use the power of yes to change her life. Stylist and CEO Ashley North is back this week for The Stacks Book Club and our discussion of Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. ![]() Kissing comfort by jo goodman7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This involved casually sneaking peeks at the open book while pretending to take notes and study the handouts. Since I had to attend a work-related counseling conference, I elected to take one of the arcs with me so I could continue proofing while I was away.ĭuring a workshop on sexual addiction - and really, who thought that would be kinda boring? - I was reading the arc in stealth mode. I received the advance reader copies of KISSING COMFORT simultaneous to getting one last chance to find errors with an e-copy of the manuscript. So many people are involved: an editor, an assistant, a copy editor, the publisher, the art department, an agent, and assorted others who have specific jobs I don’t necessarily understand but accept as critical to the finished product.Īnd sometimes, in spite of all those eyes on the prize, what is really required to spot an OMG! in the making is a friend with myopic vision and a mind that lolls happily in the gutter. ![]() Even after all these years of writing, the process of shepherding a manuscript from submission to bookshelf (and now, e-reader) is still something of a mystery to me. A funny thing happened on the way to the foreplay.Īllow me to explain. ![]() Sonnet of elizabeth browning7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She would therefore be the Portuguese, the woman writing these sonnets for the poet she loved and admired, and who loved and admired her in turn. Robert’s admiration for the poem made Elizabeth frame herself as Catarina (who also sang), filled with admiration and love for the Camoens of her day, Robert. Their relationship was broken up, and she died in 1556. Robert loved Elizabeth’s 1844 poem “Catarina to Camoens,” which is a fictional farewell, spoken when she is dying, by the real lady Catherina de Athaide to the great Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camoens (1524–80), who had made her the lady of some of his love poems. ![]() Although the title is intentionally misleading, the mistake it fosters has an element of truth in it. The title is often mistaken as suggesting that the poems are translations of some Portuguese collection of sonnets (like their friend Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar khayyám, from the Persian). ![]() She only showed him the poems in 1849, three years after their marriage and elopement, and published them, at his insistence, in her 1850 collection of Poems. Analysis of Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portugueseīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on FebruĮlizabeth Barrett Browning wrote this wildly popular sonnet sequence, most famous for its penultimate sonnet- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” (sonnet 43)-during Robert Browning’s courtship of her in 18. ![]() Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The tension between these elements drives both the comedy and the tragedy or Pryor’s work and his life: no matter how many times he tries to come back to the idea that we’re all just human, just the same, he’s pulled back into the realities of inequality and racism that continue to dog society. There’s a lot in Pryor Convictions, and Other Life Sentences that’s universal too - and even more that’s uncomfortable reading but still holds true. Elements, like the Chinese waiter with the stammer, might not have aged well but a lot still stands either because it’s universal or because, more depressingly, it’s still accurate. It’s a pretty damn perfect introduction to the variety and humanity found in his performances - though of course, do remember it was the ’70s. My main experience of Richard Pryor before reading this autobiography was ‘Live in Concert’, filmed in 1978. ![]() ![]() Kelly Pemberton grounds her firsthand research into India’s Sufi shrines and saints by setting her observations against the historical backdrop of colonial-era discourses by British civil servants, Orientalist scholars, and Muslim reformists and the assumptive portrayals of women’s activities in the milieu of Sufi orders and shrines inherent in these accounts. Insightful field research into the complexity of women’s roles in a subset of Islamic culture Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women’s participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. ![]() Winter wheat by mildred walker7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() I recommend this novel highly for its way of creating very individual characters leading quite plausible lives rooted firmly in very real physical and psychological worlds. Also remarkable is the novel's wartime setting, as Walker writes of Pearl Harbor and the impact of entry into WWII on the lives of her characters, even while that war was still being fought (the novel was published in 1944). Though Montana was her adopted home (Walker grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and attended Wells College), she writes with an intimate knowledge of farm work that is rare in literature. ![]() ![]() Most remarkable for a reader growing up in a mid-century rural community, the novel evokes vividly the seasonal rounds of living and working on a farm circa 1940. Meanwhile, it can be read with a kind of page-turning breathlessness that keeps readers hoping that everything - against all odds - will somehow turn out for the best. Its bittersweet portrayal of human relationships has a deep ring of emotional truth, and its understanding of the constantly shifting nature of identity makes it almost postmodern. ![]() Written over sixty years ago about ranchers living in remote parts of Montana, this old fashioned coming of age novel has a surprising currency. ![]() |