But I found myself much more intrigued by her narrative innovations, the methods by which she chooses to retell the familiar Old Testament stories. They treat Brooks’ novel as one centered on the king. Reading other reviews of The Secret Chord, I found that the reviewers primarily have focused on David himself. So Gwendolyn Brooks has imagined, not that missing account itself, but the process by which Nathan was composing his version of David’s accomplishments and insufficiencies. The prophet and seer Nathan is supposed to have written his own account of his friend, King David. In both fact and fiction, his lifetime has been quite thoroughly explored. King David, of course, lived a long and colorful life, one of triumph and tragedy intertwined. But this time, because my knowledge of the Old Testament comes from childhood Sunday School rather than any recent studies, I wanted to check the biblical and historical backgrounds of Geraldine Brooks’s novel, The Secret Chord. Normally I don’t read fact checks or other reviews before I write my own assessment of a new book.
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I liked the fact that I was reading them all for the first time! I have to admit, I was not sure about this book! I was expecting a short story collection, and I am not always really interested in short story collections, but this actually read more like a novel. The result is a perfect companion to Kelley’s bestselling series and a treasure for fans.I am really glad that I never got around to reading the stories that Kelley Armstrong had on her website. A brand-new story, written for this collection, reveals how Jeremy came to be a visionary and healer: touchy-feely qualities uncommon in a werewolf. Originally published by the author on her website (but since removed), these thrilling tales reveal how Clay became a werewolf, how he came to be adopted by Jeremy, Jeremy’s struggles to become the Alpha of the Pack and his terrible conflict with his father, Malcolm. 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Bissonnette refuses to gratuitously trumpet his story as an emblematic critique of American culture, human folly or entrepreneurial greed-though of course it is all that and more." - The Wall Street Journal "Thanks to Bissonnette's balanced and thorough reporting, the account of Ty Warner, founder of the Babies, becomes a portrait of a creator obsessed with perfection, making money in a business he loved, in a company built on his dreams." - Booklist "Bissonnette offers a crisp, investigative and presumably unauthorized biography of creator Ty Warner, 70, and a look at the rise of Beanie Babies and their swiftly ensuing three-year consumer craze. He writes fluently and has structured his tale artfully. 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Most of the novel recounts Dorrigo’s experience as a POW in the Burmese jungle on the “speedo,” horrific work sessions on the “Death Railway” that leave most of his friends dead from dysentery, starvation, or violence. Initially, it is related through the reminiscences of Dorrigo Evans, a 77-year-old surgeon raised in Tasmania whose life has been filtered through two catastrophic events: the illicit love affair he embarked on with Amy Mulvaney, his uncle’s wife, as a young recruit in the Australian corps and his WWII capture by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. From bestselling Australian writer Flanagan ( Gould’s Book of Fish) comes a supple meditation on memory, trauma, and empathy that is also a sublime war novel. But through objects he kept all these years - a vessel and a yardstick - her granduncle revealed how he spent his childhood in Lahore, Pakistan, where he would fly kites and ride his bicycle. “There was usually silence about Partition, my family didn’t talk about it,” recalls Malhotra, 33, in a Zoom interview from New Delhi, where she now lives after moving there in 2016. Partition - the arbitrary imposition of new borders by the departing British Raj and designation of Pakistan as the homeland for the subcontinent’s Muslims - forced Hindus and Sikhs to migrate eastward to India, and Muslims westward to Pakistan, displacing approximately 14 million people and killing another million. In a rare moment of candor, he opened up to her about the partition of British India in August 1947. Then studying to be a traditional printmaker, Malhotra visited her maternal granduncle. It was a trip that would change the trajectory of her artistic career. In 2013, while on sabbatical from her graduate program in studio arts at Concordia, Aanchal Malhotra, MFA 15, went back to her hometown of New Delhi, India. |