agent about the murder of an ex-lover who turns up dead in a local pond:Ĭ AM: Yeah, mostly. One reader nominated “Carnal Innocence,” in which the plantation heir Tucker Longstreet is questioned by an F.B.I. The runaway winner was Nora Roberts-La Nora, the Queen, or, simply, NR. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining”). There were nods to Georgette Heyer (“I remember every word you have spoken to me”) and Connie Brockway (“You are my country, Desdemona. Last summer, Sarah Wendell, an editor of the Web site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, posed a question to her readers: “So what line of dialogue from a romance has rocked your socks to the point that, long after those socks were lost in the dryer, you still remember it?” Jane Austen got a few votes (“You pierce my soul. “I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it’s good for me,” Roberts says.
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One of the series that I have heard constantly praised by friends, fantasy fans and other book reviewers is The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan. Ever since I expanded my attention to a range of other genres, I have been seeking out and reading a number of different fantasy or science fiction books and series, many of which I have or will review on my blog and on Goodreads. While this is a fantastic genre to focus on, it did mean that I missed out on many of the biggest science fiction and fantasy releases for the last several years. I am no exception to this rule, as for years I was mainly focused on the historical fiction genre. One of the saddest realities of being a bibliophile is that no matter how hard you try or how much spare time you have, no one can read every great book that comes out every year. Reviewed as part of my Throwback Thursday series, where I republish old reviews, review books I have read before or review older books I have only just had a chance to read. Publishers: Orbit Hachette Audio Publication Date – 16 April 2013 Though he is describing how and when it first emerged in the 1920’s, these key ideas are relevant to how modern architecture continued to emerge and evolve from the ‘international style’ that became standardised throughout the world, and can be identified by closely tracing the steps of one of the most influential fathers of modern architecture, Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965) aka, Le Corbusier, after the catastrophic events of World War II.Įnding in 1945, the “mechanical slaughter” of WWII eradicated Le Corbusier’s confidence in the machine and its ‘progressive’ potential. Modern architecture emerged through transformations in society and developments in technology, and was used to break away from the past. 1: View of The Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut It has been used both to break with the immediate past and to reinstate older continuities, both to handle the problems of the big city and to serve the aims of contemplative mysticism.”įig. It has served a multitude of interests and functions from mass housing to the glorification of capitalist institutions, from rarefied private villas to spaces of sacred meaning. “ Modern architecture has emerged against a setting of major social and technological transformations it has registered a gradual shift from rural to urban existence in the industrialising world. |