Enough by sharon jaynes6/30/2023 He saw firsthand the difference it made to stand up straight. I watched Steven’s eyes grow wide as Papa grew tall. Then he took a deep breath and extended his curved back to its fullest upright position. My 77-year-old father-in-law, who was about five-foot-ten, stood with his back against the doorframe. We were measuring and marking various family members’ heights on the dining room door frame. Then one night my father-in-law took care of it for me. I tried my best not to say, “If you don’t sit up, I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” He didn’t know what to do with all that height, so he slumped. Then I had a son who seemingly grew to six feet overnight. “If you don’t sit up,” she would say, “I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” I don’t even know if Sears made back braces then, but it sounded like a pretty good threat to me. When my brother was a teenager, my mother used to threaten him when he hunched over at the dinner table.
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The Last Concubine by Catt Ford6/30/2023 The breath of audience applause on his face and will do anything toīecome a famous actor. Success beckons like a siren’s song, but the dark allure and smolderingĭesire for a new acquaintance rouse feelings Kallistos never imaginedĪlexios spent many cold nights singing to the sheepĪnd stars before traveling to Athens to help Sophocles. Theater competition, play for play against the celebrated master. The portrait of the city, and wolves in sheep’s clothing roam the Politics and scandal paint deep shadows across In Athens, the Great Dionysia festival rouses citizens with wine, song, Here’s a list of romances that don’t take place in England or New England.īeautiful One: An LGBT Historical Romance by Kerry Adrienne - Ancient Greece Historical romance novels tend to center on a few locations, despite the large mass that is our globe. LGBTQIA+ Historical Romance Novels…International Locations Black and blue book parm sandhu6/30/2023 In this enthralling memoir, Parm chronicles her journey from life on the outskirts of Birmingham as the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab to the upper echelons of the Met. She was also the only non-white female to have been promoted through the ranks from constable to chief superintendent in the Met's entire history. 'A page-turner which everyone who cares about policing and justice in Britain should read.' Meera SyalĪt the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman in the capital's police force. I was only vexed when I hit the chapters involving farming or fashion. I knew the novel, I found, the way a young man in love knows the body of his lover. Well, Tolstoy learned new languages by reading the New Testament in those languages, and as Anna Karenina was my bible, why couldn’t I?īecause Tolstoy was a genius and I was not and am not.Īfter seven years of daily practice, thousands of dollars spent on tutors, and several trips to language programs in Russia, including at Tolstoy’s estate, I had enough Russian to read Anna Karenina with some ease and complete fascination. So on a sabbatical, 10 years ago, I set out to read it in Russian, having given myself a couple of months of lessons. If I wanted to know what Anna Karenina “really said,” I decided I’d have to learn Russian. It was great, but it was just another translation. THE HOOPLA over Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of Anna Karenina in 2000 made me think I was going to have a doubly intense experience, more than I had had the first time or in the dozen or 15 times I had already read it in other translations. |