5/31/2023 0 Comments The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh![]() and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. ![]() When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose-one Celine is sure has set her in his sights. ![]() When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sébastien's guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret. She soon becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's leader, the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and-especially-to the danger. ![]() But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Novel death in venice![]() ![]() In its turn, this prompted novel’s main character to embark upon the trip to a foreign land as the ultimate mean of expanding his intellectual horizons, with Venice becoming the choice for trip’s destination, due to this city’s geographic proximity: “What he was looking for was the unfamiliar and unrelated, which was indeed reached rather easily” (11). Even though Aschenbach was able to gain social prominence as an accomplished writer, he continued to think of his life’s purpose as such that has not been realized yet. Apparently, despite Aschenbach’s advanced age, his strongly defined sense of idealism never ceased affecting his attitudes towards surrounding reality. ![]() However, Aschenbach felt as if something important was missing in his life. According to author, Aschenbach was: “Too much occupied with the duties imposed by his ego and the European soul, too overburdened with the duty of production, too little interested in distracting himself to be a faithful lover of that gay outside world” (4). As it appears from the novel, before deciding to take a trip to Venice, novel’s main character Gustav Aschenbach used to profess essentially Nordic (Apollonian) values of self-restraint, intellectual exaltation, discipline and existential idealism. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow![]() ![]() Give or take a few punctuation marks, Sharp Teeth could just as easily have been written in prose, though that would have resulted in a far slimmer volume. Much will be made of the book's form - it's told in free verse - but that seems like a gimmick here. Toby Barlow's briskly entertaining first book, Sharp Teeth, aims to put lycanthropes first in the supernatural sweepstakes, with a narrative as relentless and powerful as a pitbull's jaws. Werewolves have always been the underdog, despite high-profile lycanthropes in the Harry Potter books and Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight series for young adults. Vampires have been the ascendant pop monster ever since Anne Rice's 1976 bestseller Interview with the Vampire. ![]() |