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![]() ![]() In Wild Swans she casts light on why and how Mao was able to exercise such paralysing control over the Chinese people. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. ![]() She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. ![]() She was briefly a Red Guard at the age of fourteen, and then a peasant, a ‘barefoot doctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. Needless to say that this is a harrowing book to read, but it’s also an eye-opener (for me at any rate) about what happened in China under Mao. Her family suffered atrociously, her father and grandmother both dying painful deaths and both her mother and father were imprisoned and tortured. It’s taken me a couple of months to read Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (first published in 1991), Jung Chang’s book about her grandmother, her mother and herself, telling of their lives in China up to and during the years of the violent Cultural Revolution. ![]() ![]() There was also a school, a restaurant, a bookstore, three basketball courts, an exercise center, and a cavernous mirrored atrium. A circular drive with a fountain in the middle led up to a bone-white sanctuary that sat eight hundred next to it was a small chapel, modest and humble, with pale-blue walls. ![]() It was not a single structure but a thirty-four-million-dollar campus, built in the nineteen-eighties and spread across forty-two acres in a leafy, white neighborhood ten miles west of downtown Houston. New Yorker: " Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston" - "The church I grew up in was so big we called it the Repentagon. ( From The Reading ListĮxcerpt from "Trick Mirror" by Jia Tolentino Former deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. Jia Tolentino, author of " Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion." Staff writer at The New Yorker. New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino explores modern culture through her experience as a millennial, and how social media shapes identity. (Elena Mudd) This article is more than 3 years old. ![]() New Yorker writer and author Jia Tolentino. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I suppose you’d have to say the biggest is in the way we see the past, and especially in women’s history. There have been lots of new discoveries in manuscripts too. ![]() Or the recent electrifying discovery of the Danish camp at Torksey that has transformed our view of the Viking invasions and the campaigns of the Viking Great Army in the 870s – a turning point in English history. In archaeology, for example, think of the Staffordshire hoard, or the re-excavation of Sutton Hoo by Martin Carver whose new discoveries included fragments from a plundered ship burial of similar size and wealth as the one found in 1939. ![]() ![]() Important discoveries and major excavations have revolutionised our view of the period in the intervening time. It’s hard to believe the original edition of In Search of the Dark Ages was published forty years ago! When a new edition was proposed, though I had corrected it and done limited revisions over the years, I felt now the time had come for a major re-write. The new edition of In Search of the Dark Ages is published on the 40th anniversary of the old book, which elements did you have to update due to new understanding? Our editor, and MJ Porter, author of Son of Mercia, had the opportunity to pose a few questions, along with some readers of Aspects of History. Wood’s book of the series was published afterwards, and now, 40 years on, he has released a new edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first Broadway revival of the acclaimed 1973 musical, suggested by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night." The production is inspired by Nunn's recent London production. Tommy Krasker, who has produced 12 albums of Sondheim music for several labels, including his own PS Classics, which he co-founded with Philip Chaffin, produces the new recording. Sondheim and librettist Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music - the waltz-filled rumination on love - began previews Nov. ![]() A release date for the album has not been announced.Ĭatherine Zeta-Jones and five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury head the cast as Desiree and Madame Armfeldt, respectively. 4.įor the new recording, orchestrator Jason Carr has expanded the chamber-sized theatre orchestra of this Trevor Nunn-directed revival. PS Classics and Nonesuch team up to record the new Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, bringing the cast - including Angela Lansbury - into a Manhattan studio Jan. A Little Night Music Cast Album Gets Recorded Jan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. One winter extends to more she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don't fulfill her restless need for human companionship. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.Ĭruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() With his devastatingly charming smile, his persistent flirtation, and a love that sparks from the flames of friendship, he offers her a much-needed escape from the turmoil.Īs powerful forces threaten the lives in Apollo Beach, Katrina can’t escape the evocative world of mythological enchantment and evil prophecies that lurk around every corner. Her only solace is found in Alec Stone, the gorgeous guy next door. When tragedy strikes and she’s sent to live with her only remaining family in the tiny coastal town of Apollo Beach, Katrina starts counting down the days until her eighteenth birthday.Īs Katrina learns the legends of her Ancient Greek ancestors, secrets from her heritage are exposed-secrets that her mother purposefully concealed. Her fiery temper seems to perpetually land her in hot water, making her an outcast among her peers. Katrina Summer always knew she was different. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was followed by the red hot sequel, which is titled Entice. This series kicked off in 2013 for the first time with the release of the debut novel, which holds the same name. This series has many novels in it and so if you are looking for a series with tons of books to check out, then start with Try and work your way on to the second book Take before you move to Trust and then Tease and Tate and then finally True.Įlla Frank is the creator as well as the author of the intriguing fictional series known as Exquisite. She has been trying her hand at writing ever since the day that her grandmother was able to hand her a book that she really liked and it was over as she had fallen in love.Įlla Frank is the creator as well of the Temptation series. ![]() ![]() Frank resides in the United States in the southern area.Įlla may write romance novels for a living, but it turns out that her personal life is not as dramatically full of action and adventure as her books are! She is married and also has a cat that she likes to parent. She is a co-writer of the PresLocke series, a popular favorite among fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1972: Who's the Lady in the President's Bed? (as B.K.The Associated Press reported that her death occurred on January 10, 2004, however, Social Security Death Index and Virginia Death Records indicate that she died on January 13, 2004. She died of natural causes at her home in Richmond, Virginia, and is survived by two daughters from her first marriage to Leonard Ripley, a son-in-law and granddaughter, Alexandra Elizabeth (of her namesake). She was thrice wed from 1958-1963 to Leonard Ripley, an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, from 1971-1981 to Thomas Martin Garlock (1929-2008), and in 1981 to John Vincent Graham (1926-2007), a former professor at the University of Virginia, from whom she was legally separated at the time of her death. Born Alexandra Elizabeth Braid in Charleston, South Carolina, she attended the elite Ashley Hall and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955 with a major in Russian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anna failed to recognize him, displeasing the King, who decided she looked nothing like her portrait. The King (wearing a disguise) met Anna for the first time in Rochester on New Year’s Day, 1540. Pleased with Anna’s portrait, Henry chose her to be his wife.Īnne of Cleves (c. Henry would use the portraits to decide which sister to marry. ![]() Thomas Cromwell (Henry’s Principle Secretary and Chief Minister) suggested Anna, so the King sent Hans Holbien to paint a portrait of Anna and her younger sister, Amalia. Following the loss of his third wife, Jane Seymour-who died less than two weeks after the birth of Henry’s longed-for male heir, Prince Edward-it was decided Henry’s next wife should be the means of forming a political alliance, in case England was attacked by France and the Holy Roman Empire. In Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait, readers are introduced to Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anna von Kleve, commonly referred to as Anne of Cleves. ![]() |