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After recently reading Julian by Gore Vidal which chronicles the life of the Roman emperor, I find myself exploring even earlier times with The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. Telling the tale of Aristotle's tutoring of a young Alexander the Great, I am in constant awe of how she can communicate the feeling of a moment with concise sentences.
Categories: Reviews, Authors, Graphic Novels
The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, commented: "Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain."
See the list after the jump.
Author on Stieg Larsson's biography, The Man Who Left Too Soon. (1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist.
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004 he finished three detective novels in his trilogy The Millenium-series which were published posthumously; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Part two of the video is after the jump.
All Rae Seddon, also known as Sunshine, wants is to be alone for a few hours. The Voodoo Wars have been over for years now, and there aren't any "bad spots" too near her grandmother's old cabin - it should be a perfect place for some peace and quiet away from her job at her family's cafe. But then she's captured by vampires - and when she wakes up, she's chained just feet away from one of them. Vampires in this universe aren't sexy (or sparkly) at all, yet Con the vampire and Sunshine realize that they need each other in order to survive. When Sunshine escapes, she brings Con with her; however, any chance of peace and quiet is gone. Not only are the authorities interested in her case, but the forces that chained her up with Con are still out to get them both.
Categories: Reviews
Join one of our book clubs this fall and engage in passionate discussions of great literature. Our Grant Park store has four clubs. Each club meets once a month and is run by an experienced facilitator. The available slots are Tuesday evening, Wednesday evening and Thursday evening. Grant Park also has a daytime book club that meets Tuesday afternoons.
If you are interested in joining any of our clubs or want more information, please email John Toews at events (at)grant.mcnallyrobinson.ca.
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