![]() ![]() ![]() "Finally, he was quartered," recounts the Gazetted'Amsterdam of 1 April 1757. On 1 March 1757 Damiens the regicide was condemned "to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris",where he was to be "taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing buta shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds" then,"in the said cart, to the Place de Grève, where, on a scaffoldthat will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts,arms, thighs and claves with red-hot pincers, his right hand, holdingthe knife with which he committed the said parricide, burnt withsulphur, and, on those places where the flesh will be torn away,poured molten lead, boiling oil, burning resin, wax and sulphurmelted together and then his body drawn and quartered by four horsesand his limbs and body consumed by fire, reduced to ashes and hisashes thrown to the winds" ( Pièces originales.,372-4). Excerpt, Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishįrom Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Fracture Me (novella) – Told from Adam’s perspective.She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. But his immunity to her power has left her shaken, wondering why her defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from. Unravel Me – It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner.But when the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment arrives, he has many different plans for Juliette. Even though Juliette shot him in order to escape, Warner can’t stop thinking about her. ![]() Destroy Me (novella) – Told from the perspective of Warner.But she finds a strength she never knew she had… Juliette has never fought for herself before. But The Reestablishment sees her as an opportunity for a deadly weapon. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. One touch and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. Shatter Me – One touch is all it takes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upstairs/Downstairs social comment and magical realism thrown in here and there. Set at a time of unique turbulence in a colonial landscape on the verge of collapse, it is told in an effective mixture of hilariously Monty Pythonesque humour, combined with On the surface, Levy's tale is of a torrid romance between the indomitable mulatto slave, Miss July, and her master, a spiritual contortionist, Robert Goodwin. ![]() It is in many ways a comedy of manners on life in the great house, taking equal shots at despicable masters in all their evil, arrogance and pretentiousness, and their luckless slaves, who survive them through a combination of sly ingenuity, effective obsequiousness and hypocrisy, sabotage and resilient perversity. ![]() The Long Song is a wickedly funny parody of life at Amity sugar cane plantation in Jamaica, in the years leading up to and just after emancipation of July 31, 1838. ![]() ![]() ![]() The house, Green Noah is a castle that has stories of it's own, a place where the present mingles with the past and the past reflects in the future. This part was very alluring to me as a child, I could identify with Tolly alone at Christmas and this house with a loving Grandmother and 'others' was perfect escapism. ![]() Longing for a family and siblings of his own Tolly is interested in the children who used to live there, their portrait hangs on the wall and in the evenings Mrs Oldknow tells stories of this family that lived long ago and were relatives of theirs. Having been worried about how old she was, Tolly was surprised to find that they got on so well they were just like two human beings together, their age didn't matter. ![]() After spending holidays at his boarding school, his Grandmother who is actually a great grandmother asks him to stay with her for the Christmas holidays. Tolly is near enough an orphan, his mother is dead and his father, who has married again is absent from his life. This book is a delight to read aloud, the poetic descriptions, conversations, stories by the fire, interspersed with excerpts of carols make it a magical story to read aloud yourself by your fire just as Tolly and Grandmother Oldknow do themselves by theirs. We reread our favourite book of all time in the lead up to Christmas and finished it today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main focus of the work, however, is the biggest battle of the campaign-Perryville. From planning to completion, it details the military movements of both Union and Confederate forces, including the battles of Richmond and Mumfordsville. ![]() Compiled from firsthand sources such as letters, diaries and regimental histories, this book tells the story of the South’s ill-fated attempt to bring Kentucky into the Confederacy. Among the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Perryville was also one of the most decisive regarding Southern hopes to take the war into Union territory. Full of blunders and missed opportunities, this operation served only to convince the Kentuckians of what they suspected all along: The Confederacy, for all its braggadocio, was incapable of holding the state against determined Union forces. In 1862, the Confederacy launched a campaign to sway the indecisive border state of Kentucky. ![]() ![]() ![]() So he’s determined to convince her he’s playing for keeps this go around? Fine. Now a family issue has brought Dalton back to Sundance, giving him a chance to prove to everyone-especially the woman he thought he lost-that he’s a changed man.Īurora “Rory” Wetzler has fallen for cowboy hottie Dalton’s smooth-talkin’ ways too many times. That’s when he took the McKays’ love-’em-and-leave-’em reputation to new heights-fleeing the ceremony and Wyoming. Three years ago, Dalton McKay looked across the altar and saw the woman he knew he’d love for the rest of his life…only it wasn’t his bride. The last McKay standing is knocked to his knees… REDNECK ROMEO ~ Rough Riders book 15 ~ release date June 18th We finally have REDNECK ROMEO jacket copy - here you go - getting excited yet? ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.Īll Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. ![]() The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. ALL YOUR PERFECTS by Colleen Hoover-a reviewĪ / Amazon.ca / B&N / KOBO / Chapters Indigo / Google PlayĪbout the book: Release Date July 17, 2018Ĭolleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told as a duel narrative one that was from the novel written by the father after they lived in the home for twenty days, and the other, the daughters’ return to the house decades later. When she moves back in while she renovates the house, planning to sell it, she begins making discoveries that align with what her father had written… and that makes her question everything. But Maggie can’t remember anything and she isn’t convinced that anything in the book actually happened. When she was last at the house when she was five, something horrible occurred that made the family flee the house, never to return.Īfter they left, her father wrote a book and claimed that it was the true story of what happened to their family while they lived there. This tale is about a woman named Maggie Holt who inherits a house that she thought her family had long since sold. ![]() Let’s dive in! My Thoughts on Home Before Dark by Riley Sager ![]() ![]() When it arrived in the mail it had a lovely note from the amazing Kelso! Feel free to check out my reviews for Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied, and Lock Every Door.Īs soon as the newest book was available for pre-order, I placed my order through one of my favorite bookshops, Gibson’s Bookstore. This is a haunted house story that you won’t want to miss! Home Before Dark by Riley Sager is a very eerie tale filled with twists and turns that centers around a mansion with a dark history. ![]() ![]() I recently read The Night Diary, which is currently the only book I am calling a favorite of this year and I’ve read 86 books so far. ![]() I am not the best at writing letters that are also going to be on display but you know, I am trying. (Updating my review with the letter I wrote to my great-grandma as part of the blog tour) Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity.and for a hopeful future. ![]() But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. ![]() ![]() In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country ![]() ![]() ![]() The Expanse series has sold over two million copies worldwide and is now a major television series. A price that will change the shape of humanity - and of the Rocinante - unexpectedly and for ever. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. New technologies clash with old, as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient pattern of war and subjugation. ![]() On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity - and the power to enforce it. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance, still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. ![]() Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the ageing gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. NOW A MAJOR TV SHOW ON NETFLIX Persepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. ![]() |