![]() ![]() “Cuculiner” is an important part of Ferdydurke, evidently, since it is on the back cover of my copy, as quoted from W. Posted by Lale – cuculiner – l’encuculement For anyone interested in Polish letters (or literature and philosphy in general), this is a great book with entries by Zbigniew Herbert (a fascinating account of the Templars) and Jerzy Stempowski who tells a fantastic story about being trapped in a remote Carpathian smugglers’ hideout, in the winter and near death, with a random assortment of books during WW2. Last night I pulled “Four Decades of Polish Essays” from my shelves and found selections from Gombrowicz’s diary regarding the book we’re reading. I’m reading Gargantua and Pantagruel which seems like a good compliment to Ferdydurke. I love Susan Sontag… How long do I have to finish? Unfortunately I won’t have time to read it all in one or two sittings (my preferred way to read a novel) because of school assignments. I just received my copy of Ferdydurke and I’m reading the Susan Sontag foreward. ![]() Very good choice of literature, one of the best (used to be very controversial) Polish authors. ![]()
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![]() The school is placed on a floating space station in space. Ender accepts the request and goes to the Battle School, leaving behind the person that he loves the most: his sister Valentine. However, Ender still gets asked by someone from the Battle School to come and join it. One day, Ender’s monitor gets taken away, which suggests that he is not good enough to join the school. ![]() The military gave him a monitor to see if he is able to go to the Battle School, where young children are being trained to become officers in the army. A monitor is a device that allows the heads of the military to see things as Ender sees them. ![]() His brother Peter hates Ender for having a monitor on his back longer then Peter had. He is the third in a family of children who are very special, because they think and do as if they are smart adults. Ender is six in the beginning of the book, but in the end he is about fourteen years old. The story is about Andrew ‘Ender’ Wiggin, a young boy from who lives on planet Earth. So the world is desperately searching for a new general who can try to save the world from devastation. The war was barely won by a genius general, but he is not able to protect the world again for another upcoming war with the Buggers. That is forty years since an almost devastating alien invasion by the Buggers, an alien type from the other side of the galaxy. ![]() The story is set in the future, around the year 2070. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading." -The Boston Globe From the iconic author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, a spiritual journey that brings joy to the meanings of love, grace and faith. An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation." -The New York Times "A remarkable piece of writing. ![]() A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Vivid, compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes it on, reluctantly but professionally, and as he watches Corina from the hotel room he’s rented across from the Hoffmans’ central Oslo apartment, he becomes “bewitched”. He doesn’t really want to say yes to his boss Hoffman but once he knows what the gig is, there’s no way out of it. So it has to be murder – and he has something of a taste and a talent for “the magical moment when I, and I alone, had power over life and death” – it’s “the virus I had in my blood”, he says. “I can’t drive inconspicuously… I can’t be used in robberies… I have a weak, sensitive nature I have to stay well away from drugs”, plus he falls in love so quickly that pimping isn’t an option either. Olav explains early on that he’s not much of a baddie. Blood On Snow is another stand-alone for the Norwegian superstar author, a short, pacy little thriller which, instead of delving into the psyche of a morally dubious cop, reveals a villain with a heart. Nesbø topped the charts twice in 2014, with Police, the latest thriller starring the brilliant but troubled alcoholic detective Harry Hole, and with stand-alone crime novel The Son. ![]() ![]() ![]() I recommend this book because it provides insight into why a young woman would choose to fight against the Germans who occupied her beloved France, the training that she underwent, and how she ultimately joined, and then was fired from, the British Intelligence Service. Before her death in 1950, she translated her memoir into English, and most of it was published posthumously in France in 1966 and in England in 1968. After the war, Sergueiew used her diaries to write a memoir in French. Sergueiew kept a diary of her activities from when she first approached the Germans until she quit working for the British in late June 1944. ![]() She was determined to fight the Germans in her own way – as a double agent in the employ of the British. She volunteered to become a spy for the Germans although she never intended to fulfill that role. ![]() As the title of this book indicates, Lily Sergueiew was a double agent during World War II. ![]() |