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It is worth noting that there are significantly more volumes of poetry than literary prose works, and a list of only poetry titles would be a worthwhile one for a poet to curate. Likewise, only four titles are poetry the rest are prose. At this time, Chinese is still not quite the global language that English is, and in time, we can only hope that this translation oversight will be rectified. Hong Kong’s literature has a short history, and translations of literary work are sadly lacking. Diamond).Ī brief word on selection and presentation criteria: only four of the fifteen titles are translations of Chinese literature. But to curate is a curious task, and what I’ve selected might be best defined by this OED example: We are conscious of the debt we owe to those who built what we are now privileged to curate (1985, M. For one thing, ten to fifteen is an arbitrary range, and for someone who has devoted so much time and her writing to her birth city, I am keenly aware there are many other titles that could and even should be on this list. TO CURATE A reading list of ten to fifteen Hong Kong books that will inspire the international reader of literature is no easy task. The force comprised one commander, five captains, ten sergeants, forty corporals, lance-corporals, constables and lance-constables, and, in times of emergency, a "citizens militia" of varied size. during the day and the Watch, who served the same purpose in the hours of darkness. Since he had little interest in maintaining a police force the smart armour and equipment of the Watch quickly deteriorated.Īt this time there were four separate forces: The Palace Guard, who guarded the palace the Cable Street Particulars, who served as government intelligence the Ward, who acted as gate-guards, thief-takers etc. Four days later Veltrick's son assassinated him, and became Veltrick II. They had full copper armour and a copper shield inscribed "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter" ("Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly", Veltrick's motto). The Ankh-Morpork Watch & Ward was founded in AM 1561 by King Veltrick I. Note: Some of the information repeated below was taken from The Discworld Companion and the 1999 Discworld Diary, which had a City Watch theme, and has not been confirmed in any of the Discworld novels. 4.16.1 Special-Constable Andy "Two Swords" Hancock.4.11 Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets.4.9 Lance-Constable Salacia "Sally" von Humpeding. For now, Langdon shows Warren the pyramid. They also check out the contents of the envelope Langdon found but we’ll get to that in a second. He takes them to an underground room safe from prying eyes, where they can discuss what’s transpired thus far. He was in charge of every building within the Capital Complex and as such, knows all the ins and outs of these buildings – including hidden passageways and rooms. Langdon is understandably wary and suspicious of this guy, but he apparently used to be with the State Department. With Katherine by his side, the pair follow the clues to “Pass the Wayfarer”, slipping down into a hidden passageway where Warren, Peter Solomon’s close friend, happens to be waiting for them. Episode 2 of The Lost Symbol begins with Langdon being urged to toss his phone. But upon Morris’s release thirty-five years later, he’s about to discover that teenager Pete Saubers has already found the stolen treasure-and no one but former police detective Bill Hodges, along with his trusted associates Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, stands in the way of his vengeance. Morris hides everything away before being locked up for another horrific crime. Morris kills his idol and empties his safe of cash, but the real haul is a collection of notebooks containing John Rothstein’s unpublished work.including at least one more Jimmy Gold novel. Morris is livid, not just because his favorite writer has stopped publishing, but because Jimmy Gold ended up as a sellout. “Wake up, genius.” So announces deranged fan Morris Bellamy to iconic author John Rothstein, who once created the famous character Jimmy Gold and hasn’t released anything since. A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes much too far-the #1 New York Times bestseller about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King introduced in Mr. Yoon has written a fully American story about the pitfalls of the U.S. When a young Jamaican-American girl and a Korean-American boy fall in love at the most inconvenient time, poetry and science come together to create a near perfect union. Yoon’s debut novel “Everything, Everything” went straight to the top of YA “best of” lists and her follow-up novel shines just as bright. When 12-year-old Alice inadvertently saves the life of a “little” Bigfoot named Millie, two worlds collide in a fairy tale about the meaning of family, friendship and dancing to the tune of your own song.įans of Weiner will appreciate her signature “overlooked girl makes good” theme while new, younger fans will delight in the adolescent whimsy Weiner brings to the page. New York Times bestselling novelist Weiner (“Good in Bed,” “In Her Shows”) takes her first stab at the YA genre with this middle-grade gem. “Ghosts” cuts straight to the heart with the narrative of a second-generation, Mexican-American family in search of a new home, an escape from illness and the understanding that comes when sisters listen to the spirits. Using bold, expressive color and modern tween situations, she’s able to create fiction that connects with young readers in ways other graphic novelists haven’t. Telgemeier has dominated Young Adult (YA) bestseller lists over the last few years with her books “Smile,” “Drama,” “Sisters” and illustrated versions of the classic “Babysitter’s Club.” The amateur look of the drawings - combined with a hefty helping of grade-school camp - make for pure storytelling fun. I loved the landscape, the rich tapestry of mid-century Americana, prairies and cities. When two other characters enter the story-acquaintances from Emmett’s recent past named Woolly and Duchess-a third path opens. Billy has a plan too, a journey mapped by a mysterious series of postcards laid in a line on the kitchen table. Emmett has big reasons to leave the state, and a plan. The two boys are alone, but have each other. The Lincoln Highway begins with eighteen-year-old Emmett, recently returned from juvenile detention in 1954, reuniting with his little brother, Billy, on their foreclosed Nebraska farm. I can’t remember the last time I cared more about the heroes of a book so thoroughly and quickly. When I opened the first pages of Amor Towles’s newest novel, The Lincoln Highway, I had a feeling I was in for just this kind of experience-bighearted and hopeful, perilous and enlightening. The stakes are even higher when the underdogs are kids or teens-adventures like This Tender Land, classics like Huckleberry Finn. Give me a group of underdogs with a sea or continent to cross, the promise of treasure and an arduous road, and I’m all in. Stevenson's tour explored the country's history of brutal religious war - specifically, the resistance of the Camisards to Louis XIV's repression of Protestantism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, so similar to the treatment of the Covenanters in Stevenson's native Scotland at around the same time. There is also a young man's earnestness in the poetic lyricism with which he describes the landscape and scenery of the region, and above all in the core of the book: an extended discussion of religious tolerance and intolerance. Stevenson writes with a characteristic wry humour on his own failings as a traveller (who else would admit to hiking with an egg-whisk?), on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey (animal-lovers should brace themselves for nineteenth-century attitudes to beasts of burden) and on the discomforts of travel in the age before mass tourism and with, perhaps, a certain youthful (he was 24) condescension in his observations of peasant life on the cusp of modernity. Stevenson's account of his extended walk, in 1878, through uplands and mountains in south-western France amply fulfils this declaration of intent. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Read by Patrick Wallace.įor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. LibriVox recording of Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. This was never the story of one woman, or two. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe How will Carlitos support his mother? Carlitos wants to help but he cannot think of a way until his teacher, Miss Lopez, explains in class how her own grandfather had fought for better wages for farmworkers when he first came to the United States. She and the other janitors have decided to go on strike. One night, his mamandaacute explains that she canandrsquo t make enough money to support him and his abuelita the way they need unless she makes more money as a janitor. When she comes home, she waves Carlitos off to school before she goes to sleep. Every night, he sleeps while his mother cleans in one of the skyscrapers in downtown L.A. It tells about Carlitos, whose mother is a janitor. Andiexcl Sandiacute, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! is a bilingual fictional story set against the backdrop of the successful janitorsandrsquo strike in Los Angeles in 2000. |