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Although Holland had studied Latin in school, his Greek is completely self-taught, and he set himself the task of translating one paragraph of the over-800-page Histories every day until he finished. i love them so fucking much, and you can’t tell me you don’t love them cuz i’ll literally haunt you in your nightmares (i’m not very scary tho). I want you to have mixed feelings about Wes because I want you to understand his story as it goes through each chapter,” Nerada said.

the only thing i loved about this book was the sibling relationship and dynamic between lan and brandon my 3 stars are for them ONLY. Which I will never understand, because dedicating two pages to describe a five year old kid getting a boner, is just wrong. Read this article for an asexual person's response to a widely shared 2017 video that also featured a queer alphabet that erased ace and aro people: https://www. In 2001, Radio Four also broadcast a dramatic play he wrote based on Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, titled Our Man in Athens.s Sleeper in the Sands is set in Egypt, starting with the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 and travelling backward in time as a deadly secret is unveiled. glyn still has the personality of a door and is still an unbearable bore, pls free me from her insufferable character.

the love and admiration they have for each other is everything to me 🩷💗💘 lan teaming up with niko to get revenge for what happened to bran 8 years ago just so he can finally live in peace gave me so much serotonin. In October 2014 it was published for the first time by University of Ottawa Press [19] and a launch was held at the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool. Lowry labelled Under the Volcano as "The Centre" while marking Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid, Eridanus, and La Mordida as "Trilogy". his coping mechanism was following a schedule from morning to night, and then doing the exact same thing the next day. every time i was in bran’s head it was like being in my own, and i cried my heart out while reading his pov, because i just saw so much of myself in him it literally terrified me.

The sting is fading, but in its place is the kind of exhaustion that comes from just one more representational disappointment. Holland argued that there is very little contemporary historical evidence about the life of Muhammad, with no mention of him at all in historical texts until decades after his death, and no mention of Mecca in any datable text relating to him until over a century after he died. He has said that his two passions as a child were dinosaurs and ancient civilizations: "I had the classic small boy's fascination with dinosaurs – because they're glamorous, dangerous and extinct – and essentially the appeal of the empires of antiquity is much the same. Holland stayed with the supernatural horror genre for his next few books, continuing to use his knowledge of ancient cultures and settings.

as i said in one of my updates “every brandon king needs a nikolai sokolov, no actually every brandon king deserves a nikolai sokolov” and that i will stand by till the day i die. niko was pretty much an open book, and not that much different from himself in the other books, still sleeps wired places (except if he’s with bran), still hates clothes, always walks around half naked, and still sends dickpics to the group chat, etc. Yazidis [were] shot and thrown like refuse into pits; men and boys beheaded in front of their families; girls as young as eight subjected to gang rape; beatings; forced conversions; torture; slavery.Landon's book was so rushed, and Bran was just there for his own story (NikoBran crumbs only), and I don't think that Landon even mentioned Bran the way Bran did. It’s not like a literal dictionary — you’ll def need an adult to spell out what exactly many of these things mean (for example “A is for Aro and Ace. I thought it would have a deeper, and some beautiful meaning but as usual - like almost everything in this series - it was connected to Landon King. I would say it’s more focused on gay male/drag cultural touchstones (with words included for Kiki, vogue, sashay, etc. And up to now, no one's thought of injecting enormous quantities of concrete into the landscape and permanently disfiguring it.

His father expected him to go to Cambridge and enter the family business, but Malcolm wanted to experience the world and convinced his father to let him work as a deckhand on a tramp steamer to the Far East. So yes, they had a lot of good moments, but the first half of the book was unbearable and repetitive for me. The second, Æthelflæd: England's Forgotten Founder (2019) is an entry in the Ladybird Expert series, and tells of Athelstan's aunt (and daughter of Alfred the Great), Æthelflæd, who ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia in the early 10th century. It was to rival the epics of other great modernists, and he referred to it in several personal annotations and letters as the concept evolved over many years and works-in-progress.The Langley resident’s debut novel doesn’t only challenge societal labels people are put into, but also gives voice to perspectives we don’t often see, he said. Taking a stand against it, however, is something that Jeremy Corbyn, by backing a promoter of the blood libel, has failed to do. Allies are important, but it's more important to give visibility to a collective that is, more often than not, ignored. I remember seeing a comment that the White might be Jonathan King and I laughed so hard that I probably woke up the entire neighborhood. It's funny how it's a pattern that all first-gen characters have traumas because of their parents, but the second-gen characters have traumas either by the artist mum's agent (cough Angry God cough) or having complexes.