Its name was The Titanic.)īrooke and Vincent married in 1953. He spirited her off to Europe, and when planning their return journey the following year, he selected the most luxurious vessel he could find. (Vincent’s father was John Jacob Astor IV, who in 1911, after ending a difficult marriage to Vincent’s mother, took a teen-aged debutante as his bride. The widowed Brooke soon found herself being courted by Vincent Astor, scion of one of America’s wealthiest, most famous families. (Although Buddy Marshall never actually adopted him, Anthony changed his last name from Kuser to Marshall.) Marshall was, by all accounts, the love of her life she was devastated when he passed away in 1952. Ultimately, she divorced Kuser and married Charles Henry “Buddy” Marshall in 1932. The union was in every way disastrous, save for the birth of her only child, Anthony. At the age of seventeen, she was pushed – one wants to say, shoved (by her social climbing mother) – into marriage with John Dryden Kuser, who proved to be an alcoholic and an adulterer. She was born Roberta Brooke Russell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1902. Astor Regrets, Meryl Gordon recounts the crowded, eventful life of this doyenne of New York Society. Up until just a few years ago, there was one person in particular who appeared at one gala or another almost every week. A regular reader of Evening Hours could not help noting that certain names and faces appear repeatedly.
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Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, finally reveals the shocking truth about Sutton's murder in this riveting novel about secrets, lies, and killer consequences. If she can't find my killer before time runs out, she'll end up behind bars. And when it does, Emma will be suspect number one in my murder investigation. The truth is bound to come out eventually. But as questions and accusations start flying, it's harder than ever for Emma to keep playing me. At first the police assume the body is Emma's. Suddenly everyone knows there are two girls who look like Sutton Mercer - and that one of them is dead. But when it comes to finding my killer, she keeps running into dead ends. She's unearthed dark secrets about my friends, my family, and my tangled past. For months, my long-lost twin, Emma, has been living my life and trying to solve my murder. Lovecraft cited this book as an influence, and it's the direct source of Hastur's name note Chambers himself got it from a short story by Ambrose Bierce, "Haïta the Shepherd", in which it's just a shepherd's god. A common thread is a fictional play also called The King in Yellow, the reading of which either drives people mad or leads them to a dark fate.ĭue to the publishing date, it's in the public domain in most countries and readable online. The stories are scattered all over the map between horror and romance, but all generally have ties to France as a setting, the later ones moving more and more into romance and increasingly starring artists. The King in Yellow is a rather surreal collection of short stories by Robert W. From Cassilda's Song in The King in Yellow, Act i, Scene 2 In fact, she estimates that ‘‘the outtakes must now number close to a thousand pages’’ (6). (5)Īmy Tan did ultimately complete a novel for publication, but only after she had ‘‘deleted hundreds of pages from computer’s memory’’ (7). a pain in my neck, which later radiated to my jaw, resulting in constant gnashing, then two cracked teeth and, finally a huge dental bill. I developed literal symptoms of the imagined weight of my task. In fact, she points out in ‘‘Angst and the Second Novel,’’ she agonized so much about her second novel that she damaged her health and suffered from debilitating physical discomfort: Like many writers whose first books have received spectacular and widespread attention, Tan admits that she was more than a little apprehensive about the critical and popular reception that her second published novel would receive, knowing that reviewers and readers would inevitably be unable to resist comparing the second book with the first. In 1991, two years after her tremendous success with The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan published The Kitchen God’s Wife. Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife He has also always been a reader, writer, and TV and film watcher par-excellence. Throughout his adventures, in spite (or because) of bad livers, broken hearts, and other ailments common to the modern world, Ensley has managed to marry well, and to help raise one of the great American mutts, and three cats of indeterminate, though likely royal, lineage. He is currently undergoing treatment for allergic reactions to the words “class,” “coursework,” and “higher education.” In recent years he has become an academic late bloomer, and in a burst of energy has completed his AA, BA, an MA in History, and an MLIS. Guffey has at one time or another been a chef, waiter, bartender, bouncer, car rental agent, cardiac model, restaurant manager, gas station attendant, electronic gambling associate, and ditch-digger third class. The New York Observer described the book as "witty and endearing", and Booklist described the book as "frivolous but fun to read". Peterfreund used her time at Yale as the basis for Amy's Eli experience. Peterfreund's first book, Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel, details the second semester of Amy "Bugaboo" Haskell's junior year at Eli University, a thinly veiled Yale University clone, after she is tapped for Rose & Grave, a secret society that opens its ranks to women for the first time. An avid traveler, Peterfreund lives with her husband and daughters near Washington, D.C. Before becoming a novelist, she was a costume designer, book cover model and food critic. She drew upon her time as a daughter of Eli to color her Secret Society Girl novels. Peterfreund grew up near Tampa, Florida and graduated from Yale University in 2001 with a double major in literature and geology. Jacobs makes evident the intense familial bond they had with one another, their spouses, and children as they endured grave illness, isolation, financial hardship, and the frustration of being thinking women in a man's world where intelligent, educated women were discouraged from engaging in substantive communication on nondomestic issues. They shared private thoughts on everything from courtship, marriage, and child rearing to philosophical, economic, and political issues. Jacobs bases her study on their lifelong correspondence. Among the many biographies-and collections of the letters-of Abigail Smith Adams, this one by Jacobs ( Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft) uniquely focuses on the interconnectedness of Adams with her sisters, Mary Smith Cranch and Elizabeth "Betsy" Smith Shaw Peabody. Giving in to them means more than just falling in love it would mean accepting the weight of an entire country on her shoulders. From Nichole Chase, the New York Times Bestselling author of Suddenly Royal, and Karpov Kinrade, the USA Today Bestseller of Vampire Girl, comes a holiday romance sure to put the magic back in your year. While Sam tries to navigate her new world of politics and wealth, she will also have to dodge her growing feelings for Alex. Not to mention heiress to an estate in his country, which makes her everyone's front-page news. She's stubborn, feisty, and incredibly sexy. That is, until he meets Samantha Rousseau. Īs crown prince of Lilaria, Alex D'Lynsal has had his share of scandalous headlines, but the latest pictures in the press have sent him packing to America and forced him to swear off women. The truth will change the course of her life in ways she never dreamed. Working on a master's degree in wildlife biology while helping take care of her sick father, she has no time for celebrity gossip, designer clothes, or lazy vacations. Samantha Rousseau is used to getting her hands dirty. So when a duchess from the small country of Lilaria invites her to dinner, Samantha assumes it's to discuss a donation for the program. Suddenly Royal (The Royals, 1) Mass Market Paperback November 26, 2013. Read 1,340 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Samantha Rousseau is used to getting her hands dirty. Suddenly Royal (The Royals, 1) by Nichole Chase Suddenly Royal book. Serious educational, professional, and creative achievements are more possible and more accepted for Mormon women. Of the ten genres, women are represented in seven, all but discourses, the essay, and drama.Īs the twentieth anniversary of the publication of that volume approaches, what can be said about the place and the contributions of Mormon women in recent fiction? Certainly the larger social currents of feminism have partially changed the deep channels in which Mormon currents also run. Of the ninety-seven authors, twenty-nine (29.9 percent) are women, and, of the 130 selections, 43 (33 percent) were authored by women. Lambert published their landmark anthology, A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, they clearly made a conscientious effort to include women authors. Lavina Fielding Anderson (Ph.D., University of Washington) is a founding member and past president of the Association for Mormon Letters, former associate editor of Ensign and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, current editor of the Journal of Mormon History, and an editorial board member of Signature Books, Restoration Studies V, and Mormon Women's Forum. When Shirk couldn’t find or secure one that was already trained, her caregiver told her to train one of her own. Karen Shirk had always loved dogs but as a college student, she had other things on her mind – until the sunny afternoon when she fell flat on the sidewalk and ended up in ICU, diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease that would put her in a wheelchair.ĭepressed, bored and uninterested in life, Shirk figured her days would be spent in that chair – until she was urged to get a service dog. Your dog knows you perhaps better than he knows himself, and in “The Underdogs” by Melissa Fay Greene, you’ll see how that could be a real lifesaver. He hopes to share your snack before you even realize you’re hungry, and he often beats you to bed. You were just thinking about going for a walk, and he starting bouncing before you said a word. |