Medieval monasticism lawrence6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 524?) and Saint Columba (Colum Cille) of Iona (d. 461? or 493?), the legendary missionary to Ireland and its primary patron saint, was a bishop, not a monk, but his two fellow patron saints, Saint Brigit of Kildare (d. They also built schools and scriptoria (copying rooms) where they began producing the artistic and scholarly works that made them famous throughout Christendom.īoth bishops and monastic men and women helped to create Irish Christianity. What is more, by the end of the seventh century Irish monks had thoroughly organized churches and parishes throughout the island according to monastic models, and had even begun to send missionaries abroad to bring Christianity to formerly Roman territories. As with the doctrines and rituals of Christianity, the Irish created a form of institutionalized ascetic life dependent upon continental originals but unique to the society and culture of Ireland. Irish Christians embraced monasticism as enthusiastically as they had accepted the Christian religion itself. ![]()
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The black house trilogy6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate.īut since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.Įach year the island’s men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality.įor Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice. The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people’s fear of God.īut older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. ![]() Get FREE worldwide delivery of THE BLACKHOUSE from The Book Depository ![]() Krysia by Krystyna Mihulka6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I am the author of numerous books, including Becoming Emily: The Life of Emily Dickinson, An Unlikely Ballerina, A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. In 2004 my article, “Hopeful Faces of Freedom,” was published in the Contra Costa Times.- Krystyna Mihulka I am a member of the California Writers Club. Later I continued to study memoir writing at Adult Education Pleasant Hill and California State University East Bay. I have lived here ever since under my married name, Christine Tomerson.Īlways interested in writing and painting, at the age of 53 I received an associate of arts degree with honors from Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. In 1962 my family and I migrated to South Africa, and in 1969 to the United States, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then I settled in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where I married a young Polish World War II veteran. ![]() ![]() After being liberated from Communism I spent several years in refugee camps in Iran and Africa. In 1940 I was forcibly deported to a remote communal farm in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, where I struggled to survive as a political prisoner for nearly two years. I was born in 1930 in Lwὸw, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). ![]() Angus thongs and full snogging6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She is insecure about her appearance and fears she will never have a boyfriend. The plot follows 14-year-old Georgia Nicholson (Groome) as she tries to find a boyfriend while also organising her 15th-birthday party.įourteen-year-old Georgia lives in Eastbourne with her parents Connie and Bob and little sister Libby. The film stars Georgia Groome, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Aaron Johnson and Eleanor Tomlinson. ![]() Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (also known as Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging) is a 2008 teen romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Gurinder Chadha, based on the young adult novels Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999) and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers (2000) by Louise Rennison. ![]() One moment by kristina mcbride6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I cannot remember a time when I didn’t want to create my own characters and stories so I could offer others the kind of magic that those authors provided for me.ĭo you have any advice for future authors or illustrators? Why did you want to become an author or illustrator?Īs a child, I loved escaping into the fictional world of the stories I found at the library across the street from my house. ![]() This changes on a regular basis, but today I’d have to say Gillian Flynn, Stephen King, and Jay Asher. ![]() Who are your top three favorite authors or illustrators? “It’s not time to worry yet.” -Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird What was your favorite book when you were a child?īridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Kristina lives in Ohio with her husband and two young children. She also bookstalks people on a regular basis. You might be surprised to learn that Kristina was almost kidnapped when she was a child. Kristina has a thing for music, trees, purses, and chocolate. Kristina is a former high school English teacher and yearbook advisor, as well as an adjunct professor at Antioch University Midwest. Kristina McBride has published two novels for young adults-THE TENSION OF OPPOSITES and ONE MOMENT. ![]() Dream by Garrett Leigh6/11/2023 ![]() But then he encounters Dylan, who makes his heart pound once more with purpose. ![]() At least visiting Lovato's offers respite from a life defined by illness a glimmer of light in the dull gray of his so-called life without dance. Surely Dylan can't trust his instincts when friendship has bruised his heart so badly before? The deck is stacked against former ballet dancer Angelo Giordano ever finding real love. ![]() It should be a perfect escape, and for one magical night it seems that way, but then worlds collide, and reality bites when Dylan's hookup desperately needs a friend. ![]() It's a place for every fantasy, where a night of insane NSA sex brings relief. When unrequited love leaves Dylan Hart sleepless and nursing his wounds, instinct draws him to the one place he's found mindless respite in the past-Lovato's. ![]() Genevieve cogman the untold story6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Irene and friends-a human detective, a dragon prince, and a fae apprentice-delve into myths and folklore with scholarly diligence to fill in the gaps about Alberich’s past amid mounting rumors of worlds disappearing, and increased political unrest between dragon and fae. Cogman skillfully gets new readers up to speed on the rich worldbuilding-in which an interdimensional library preserves the balance between worlds through the stories it houses-as Irene is assigned a top-secret mission to hunt down Alberich, a nefarious traitor to the library who she’s recently learned might be her father. Cogman’s thrilling eighth Invisible Library fantasy (after The Dark Archive) finds librarian Irene Winters and her motley crew investigating a conspiracy rooted in the origins of the Library itself. ![]() Review of the sentence by louise erdrich6/10/2023 ![]() The novel completely immerses the reader into the events that took place during the beginning of the pandemic, toilet paper hoarding, obsessive hand sanitizing, and conversations with loved ones through doors. Tookie tries to solve the mystery of the bookstore haunting while also struggling with what occurs in Minneapolis during 2020. Her sentence doesn’t stop when she is free the past and present weigh heavy on her as the novel takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Black Lives Matter protests. Originally sentenced to life, she instead gets out in a decade and finds a job at an independent bookstore. Her time in prison was spent reading the dictionary and any book she could get her hands on. Tookie loves to read and loves to sell books. It is narrated mostly by Tookie, a woman previously incarcerated for accidental body theft, as she navigates the world as a newly changed woman. “The Sentence” follows a group of Native American booksellers in Minneapolis haunted by the spirit of their former customer Flora. ![]() ![]() Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Louise Erdrich released her latest novel, “The Sentence” on Nov. ![]() Book who is maud dixon6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the best things about book blogging is discovering books that you might otherwise have missed through other lovely bloggers. How did it happen – and where is Maud Dixon, who was in the car with her? Florence feels she may have been played, but wait, if Maud is no longer around, maybe Florence can make her mark as a writer after all… ![]() Beach walks, red sunsets and long, whisky-filled evening discussions…win-win, surely? Until Florence wakes up in a hospital, having narrowly survived a car crash. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire the much-promised second novel. The arrangement comes with conditions – high secrecy, living in an isolated house in the countryside. Fired from her first job in publishing, she jumps at the chance to be assistant to the celebrated Maud Dixon, the anonymous bestselling novelist. Correction: Florence Darrow IS going to be a writer. Celebrated, bestselling, elusive…who is Maud Dixon?įlorence Darrow wants to be a writer. ![]() The tea rose book6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.īut Fiona's dreams are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor.įiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. ![]() A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph.Įast London, 1888-a city apart. ![]() |