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At age 23, she left for Africa to visit a friend, whose family lived on a farm outside Nairobi, Kenya. She retained her dream of going to Africa to live among and learn from wild animals, and so she took on a few jobs including waitressing and working for a documentary film company, saving every penny she earned for her goal. Jane was unable to afford college after graduation and instead elected to attend secretarial school in South Kensington, where she perfected her typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping skills. Dolittle series and, in love with Africa, dreamed of traveling to work with the animals featured in her favorite books. ![]() When Jane was about eight she read the Tarzan and Dr. She had a much-loved dog, Rusty, a pony, and a tortoise, to name a few of their family pets. As a child, she had a natural love for the outdoors and animals. Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, best known simply as Jane Goodall, was born in Bournemouth, England, on April 3, 1934, to Margaret (Vanne) Myfanwe Joseph and Mortimer (Mort) Herbert Morris-Goodall. ![]() ![]() Moreover, I will allow myself to be outrageously opinionated and blunt: Solenoid is the greatest surrealist novel ever written. ( 2022 Update: Five years later, Deep Vellum is publishing the English translation by Sean Cotter). So, if you can read Spanish or Catalan, or any other European language in which the book will appear within the next few years, I recommend getting this novel and plunging right into it: it is one of those awe-inspiring literary juggernauts which grace exacting readership only once in a decade. ![]() Unfortunately, it is unlikely that there will be an English translation any time soon – indirect evidence of that is the fact that the English translation of Cărtărescu’s acclaimed trilogy Orbitor ground to a halt after only the first volume came out in English as The Blinding back in 2013. ![]() I have read Mircea Cărtărescu’s latest novel in Marian Ochoa de Eribe’s Spanish translation, which was kindly provided for this review by the publishing house Impedimenta. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will what happens north of the Arctic Circle stay north of the Arctic Circle? Praise for All In "Everything a reader could want!"- New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James "Sexy, smart, and completely unputdownable. But like two magnets, they are inexorably drawn to one another. ![]() The last thing Tom needs is an arrogant big city reporter to complicate matters and the furthest thing from Ambra's mind is getting mixed up with a gruff, chauvinistic caveman like Tom. He is also in Kiruna to win back the woman he loves. Traumatized by his experiences, Tom is hiding out in a friend's luxury cabin in the wintry woods. Tom Lexington is a security expert and elite soldier who has come back from captivity and torture in Tchad. Haunted by a past threatening to catch up with her she quickly discovers that the easy job nobody wanted to take has hidden depths. She has been sent to cover a story in the cold and snowy eternal darkness that is Kiruna in December. Ambra Vinter is a reporter for one of the county's biggest evening newspapers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I played Viola, and every night a friend dumped a bucket of water on me before I went on stage so I’d appear “shipwrecked.” The play has been a favorite ever since – it’s hilarious but also melancholy, silly as well as profound, and Viola is such a witty and sensitive character. The original inspiration for this book was Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which I first encountered through my high school theater program. What was your initial inspiration for The Last True Poets of the Sea? It’s family story, a love story, and an adventure story all centered around the hunt for a long lost shipwreck - and it’s full of fish puns. If you were to describe The Last True Poets of the Sea in one sentence, what would it be? Hello and thank you so much for having me, and for having written such beautiful things about TLTPotS! About me: I’m a writer living in Philadelphia, and I have a rabbit named Ned who’s currently flopped beside me. ![]() ![]() Hi Julia, thanks so much for joining me! Can you tell us a little about yourself? Julia Drake, the author of the absolutely wonderful The Last True Poets of the Sea, was kind enough to answer a few questions about her, her book and writing! I read The Last True Poets of the Sea as the April book with my Sapphic Book Club, and we all shared our thoughts here if you want to check it out! I absolutely adored this book with all of my heart and would really recommend you check it out! Sasha ❤ ![]() ![]() Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. ![]() As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts―first drink, first cigarette, first kiss―while Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. Marlena by Julie BuntinĪn electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decadesĮverything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. It sounds like it has the potential to be one of the best debuts of 2017. That’s a combination that I’m a sucker for, so I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on this book. This book first caught my eye because I love books that explore friendships, and based on all of the glowing advance reviews, it sounds like Marlena is going to be a beautiful, powerful, and heartbreaking read. ![]() My “Waiting On” Wednesday selection for this week is Marlena by Julie Buntin. “Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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