6/30/2023 0 Comments Montana sky by nora roberts![]() ![]() Lastly, if you do kill a bear because it's attacking you, as unlikely as that is, at VERY least you have to report it!Īnd MOST ANNOYING INNACCURACY I HAVE EVER READ:Īt one point, Sister is flirting with Love Interest over the round pen fence as he "puts a yearling through it's paces." Scene ends with Sister climbing up behind Love Interest, and galloping around bareback. Horses aren't stupid, they'll just run away. Secondly, she was riding a horse, and there has never been a bear attack of someone riding a horse in Montana. First of all, you can't just kill things outside of legal hunting seasons. Apparently, she shot it because it was attacking her. In the very beginning, the main character's love interest hears a shot and goes running to find the main character butchering a bear she just shot. There were so many ridiculous factual inaccuracies that I could write a novel on this novel! How incredibly annoying to someone who actually lives this life that she would butcher/romanticize it to this extent! Booo! Boooo! I read it all the way through, but I hated it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() However, her first work to end up being recognized was started at the tender age of sixteen. Indeed, she first got the inspiration for her book Throne of Glass after listening to music from Disney’s Cinderella.Ī writer from a tender age, Maas’ life has revolved around writing, having written for as long as she can remember. Maas has stated that Music plays a large role in her writing, inspiring many scenes, characters and plots of her books. Said writers greatly influenced her Young Adults writing, while writers such as Peter Beagle, Anne Bishop, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Terry Brooks, Emma Bull, James Clemens, Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. Maas is an avid writer, drawing influence from writers such as Lloyd Alexander, Suzanne Collins, Robin McKinley, Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce, Phillip Pullman, J.K. Married, and the owner of a pet dog, she lives with her husband in Pennsylvania, a state whose picturesque scene she is very fond of. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the same university in 2008. ![]() She later attended Hamilton College in the same state majoring in creative writing, with a minor in religious studies. ![]() Born on the 5th of March 1986 in New York City, New York, Maas spent most of her youth reading and writing. Maas is a New York Times best selling author of young adult and fantasy works. ![]() ![]() While Justice Sleeps has “movie script” written all over it. Recommended for readers of the Da Vinci Code and similar novels, and also for watchers of TV shows like Law & Order. There’s a lot to like here for thriller fans. (I also don’t play chess, and the author leans pretty hard on chess analogies.) I can imagine some readers will love all the twists, turns, and puzzles. The plot was a little too convoluted for my liking, but that may be partly because I’m just not in the mood to figure things out after a year of Covid-19 pandemic. The bad guys especially, while diverse, are pretty standard in their bad guyness. I did not feel character development was a great strength of this novel. Avery is smart and capable, and she is surrounded by a small cast of interesting side characters. Main character Avery Keene is biracial and has a drug addict mother, allowing Abrams to touch on issues of race and family, addiction and loss. The author clearly knows her way around DC, the federal government, and the Supreme Court. Sharp and fast paced, it covers a lot of ground. While Justice Sleeps is an intricately plotted thriller. ![]() ![]() Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction. From the publisher: From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Ariosto orlando![]() ![]() This edition, by the heirs of Aldo Manutio, also contains five additional poems by Ariosto. This epic has three main themes: the romance of Orlando and Angelica, the war between Christians and Muslims near Paris and the complicated love affair between Roggero and Bradamante. It was first published in 40 cantos in Ferrara (1516), and later expanded into 46 cantos in the definitive edition prepared by the author and published in 1532. Orlando Furioso was conceived as a sequel to Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato. The Orlando Furioso transformed the traditional chivalric theme of the epic by introducing sentimental and ironic elements. Ariosto was a man of arms until 1500 when he abandoned his military career. He was a personal friend of cardinal Bembo and produced numerous works in Latin and Italian. Vinegia: In Casa de Figlivoli Di Aldo, 1545. Vinegia: In Casa de' Figlivoli Di Aldo, 1545.Īriosto was a man of arms until 1500 when he abandoned his military career for writing. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This slander is repeated in Pulp Fiction, when Marsellus says to his hillbilly attackers: ‘I’m gonna get medieval on yo’ ass.’ The myth has its roots in the Reformation, when Puritan reformers sought to discredit the 900 years that preceded them as a fog of ignorance. The idea that the Middle Ages was a time of superstition, brutality, short lives, nonstop dysentery and a retreat from rationality has many promoters. Half the population, for one thing, he says, was literate. No one, as Professor Seb Falk points out in this brilliant study of medieval astronomy and learning, ever disbelieved the world was round, and medieval people were far cleverer than they get credit for. It was that brilliant duo who, in 1937, penned the memorable lyric ‘They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.’ The song has been recorded by at least 15 artists over the years, from Fred Astaire to Lady Gaga, and is embedded in the consciousness of the West.īut its headline message - medieval people are stupid - is total nonsense. We can probably blame George and Ira Gershwin. ![]() |