![]() That style often led him into difficulties with readers, but he insisted upon his own voice anyway. No wonder, then, that Capes’s work only held “touches” of distinction.īut Capes also produced novels marked by his own style consistently. In general, Capes produced two or three books per year, though in 1910 he published four: Historical Vignettes, Jemmy Abercraw, Why Did He Do It?, and The Will and the Way. In 1899, he produced two more volumes: At a Winter’s Fire and Our Lady of Darkness. In 1898, two years after his first published book, Capes published three books: Adventures of the Comte de la Muette during the Reign of Terror, The Lake of Wine, and The Mysterious Singer. Capes’ job, however, was to produce pages upon pages of genre fiction, and he did so thoroughly. ![]() After his studies at Slade, Capes worked briefly for a publishing company - even editing Theater magazine for its last year - but eventually settled into the profession of a popular writer.Ĭapes published rapidly: serialized mystery stories, historical romances, and some fairly creepy ghost stories. A job as a clerk led nowhere, and other businesses left little impression. ![]() After school Capes's career wandered aimlessly. ![]()
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![]() Rylant is perhaps most well known as a novelist. ![]() A prolific author who often bases her works on her own background, especially on her childhood in the West Virginia mountains, she is the creator of contemporary novels and historical fiction for young adults, middle-grade fiction and fantasy, lyrical prose poems, beginning readers, collections of short stories, volumes of poetry and verse, books of prayers and blessings, two autobiographies, and a biography of three well-known children's writers several volumes of the author's fiction and picture books are published in series, including the popular "Henry and Mudge" easy readers about a small boy and his very large dog. ![]() ![]() An author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children and young adults as well as an author and author/illustrator of picture books for children, Cynthia Rylant is recognized as a gifted writer who has contributed memorably to several genres of juvenile literature. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Hope in a jar by kathy peiss![]() ![]() Would you try another book from Kathy Peiss and/or Rosemary Benson? The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.Ībout Female Entrepreneurship at its Core ![]() ![]() Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman. Walker - in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women - Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The Vacationers by Emma Straub![]() ![]() Joining them are Charles and his husband, Lawrence, who are in the process of adopting and anxiously waiting for that phone call. Her characters are distinct but recognizable in ways that remind readers of their own families, friends, and selves.Īs the family sets off for the Balearic island of Mallorca, we meet Franny and Jim their 18-year-old daughter, Sylvia a grown-up Bobby, now 28 and his even more grown-up girlfriend, Carmen, a 40-year-old personal trainer the Posts are none too happy to see their son still dating. It’s not necessary to have read these stories to enjoy The Vacationers, but Straub has spent quite a lot of time with the Posts, and it shows. ![]() In the novel, we spend 14 days with the Post family, but Straub, in Other People We Married, her first collection of short stories, has already written about a younger Franny Post, her best friend, Charles, her husband, Jim, and their son, Bobby. ![]() What separates The Vacationers is just how well Straub knows her characters. Like many summer books, it’s a quick read and its tone is often light and humorous and like many readers, its characters are looking for a brief escape into another world. Emma Straub’s novel, The Vacationers, is definitely what you’d call a “summer read.” The swimming-pool-blue cover, with its floating figures in bright red bathing suits, looks right at home on the edge of a beach towel. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Harold purple crayon book![]() In its simplest interpretation, Harold and the Purple Crayon is a tale of personal fortitude, grit, and resilience. In fact, the plot of his story is formed by a series of crises: Harold plummeting from a mountain and then rising from his terrifying descent by drawing a balloon to catch him Harold, over his head in the ocean, crafting a trim little boat to save him Harold pushing ever-forward by drawing a future. Like all heroes, Harold has his fair share of ups and downs along the way, which he bravely chooses to face head on. When, however, he employs its mighty illustrative powers, Harold creates a whole universe around him in which he embarks on a hero’s journey that eventually leads him home. ![]() When Harold doesn’t use his trusty companion to draw, the pages he travels are barren and white. ![]() Crockett Johnson’s 1955 children’s book, Harold and the Purple Crayon, tells the story of a boy and his empurpled crayon alone in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucas who agreed to publish it as the fourth title in his series of The Dumpy Books for Children " (Schiller, p. The author never intended the book for publication, but through the encouragement of her children and friends the manuscript was shown to E.V. Bannerman wrote her stories to entertain her own children. IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION AND A VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS CHILDREN S CLASSIC. viii, 57,, , A very nice copy, light aging and touch-ups to the binding, a very well preserved copy with little evident wear, corners, head and tail all in very nice condition, the textblock clean and tight. ![]() Morocco backed clamshell box with the spine printing in gilt. 16mo, publisher s original light green cloth lettered and decorated in dark green, the upper cover and spine with ruled borders and vertical stripes and author and title printed in compartments. Illustrated in color throughout with twenty-seven full-page illustrations by the author, engraved on wood and color-printed by Edmund Evans. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Shapiro inheritance![]() ![]() Still, she writes in “Inheritance” that even after writing deeply about her father, there was something she “could never quite fathom” about her relationship with her parents. “When I discovered as a teenager that he’d had a wife I’d never known about…I always longed to know more about that time in his life,” wrote Shapiro. ![]() ![]() To make him proud, after the fact,” Dani told the PBS NewsHour about her father, Paul Shapiro.Īmong the works that Shapiro penned for the father who raised her was a 1998 essay called the “Secret Wife,” about with her discovery that he had been wed to a woman who died just six months after they married. That has been one of the driving forces of my life as a writer. “My dad died before he had a chance to be proud of me. But she had long sought to better understand him through her writing before that moment. Years after her dad died, Dani Shapiro found out he was not her biological father. Our March pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Dani Shapiro’s “Inheritance.” Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up for our newsletter. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Comix by Les Daniels![]() ![]() ![]() I've been asked this before and I really don't know exactly. Les Daniels: You know, this is odd, because I don't know. Tabula Rasa: So, how did you become interested in horror? I think we're conducting a survey at Tabula Rasa, trying to find similarities. This makes it an excellent time to explore the realm of of an author who believes in an 'old-fashioned' story. The author of the official histories of Marvel and DC comics, and the encyclopediac Living in Fear, Mr Daniel's 'Chronicles of Don Sebastian' have recently been reprinted by Raven Books, the first three in an omnibus and Yellow Fog to come. I should like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Daniels, and for the addresses of all those second-hand bookstores. The guide was given to me by Les Daniels, my host and part-way excuse for lighting out of Boston and away from my partner still stuck at the conference. Providence, where most of the houses along Benefit Street are older than European Australian settlement, and people in black staggering around with maps marked 'A Lovecraftian Guide' are completely ignored by Brown University students. Update: Go straight to the addendum, regarding White Demon.Īh, New England, deep, black stain on America's cultural map.Living With Fear An Interview with Les Daniels by Kyla Ward First Appeared in Tabula Rasa#7, 1995 ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Rise of empire riyria![]() ![]() With the creative escapes from whatever situation these two find themselves in, the majority of the book is really easy reading and the banter as natural as ever. This part of the book is set largely on a ship and for me, whether tied to this restriction of exploration or otherwise, it just didn’t seem to have the usual Sullivan pace.Īs before, the main draw of Rise of Empire is the relationship between the two leads, Royce and Hadrian. The two books contained within, Nyphron Rising and The Emerald Storm are less alike than the two in Theft of Swords and while this is welcome, I did find The Emerald Storm to be less enjoyable. Rise of Empire is the second omnibus edition in Michael J Sullivan’s Riyria Revolutions, and while not quite as good as the first, it’s still a rollicking good read. ![]() Rise of Empire, Riyria Revelations #2 by Michael J Sullivan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think his Ult Spider-man work is amazing. The more extreme dislike can come if a persons favorite character is really mischaracterized by Bendis, to the extent they consider them ruined. ![]() Fans on message boards tend to know how other writers write characters prior to Bendis or alongside him, and also the stories these characters were in, and so Bendis inconsistency can rub many the wrong way. Now what I just said about Ares can be applied to so many characters Bendis has written, Sentry is just a crazy insane guy, Noh Varr is just some teenage alien kid, Ms Marvel is there to be a punch line for fat jokes, Luke Cage is all about being a daddy oh and all the characters become quippy as well. Not necessarily inherently bad, but one character has more depth and complexity than the other, and the other one is probably more accessible to casual fans of comics. So say a character like Ares who was written as a deep and complicated badass character, under Bendis sort of becomes a character that will act like a macho bruiser and make jokes about killing and woman. He can tend to write characters one dimensionally, but he will employ friend banter type dialogue to create a sort of artificial depth. ![]() |