![]() Verrall noted in 1894, "that is to say, it has come down labeled as 'Homer' from the earliest times of Greek book-literature." "The whole collection, as a collection, is Homeric in the only useful sense that can be put upon the word," A. While the modern scholarly consensus is that they were not written during the lifetime of Homer himself, they were uncritically attributed to him in antiquity-from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.104)-and the label has stuck. ![]() The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter- dactylic hexameter-as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. ![]() ![]() The Homeric Hymns ( Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She had a husband she adored, a job of her own, a precious baby girl, and another child on the way. Sixty years ago Millie was living a dream. Millie's last wish? For Jane to forgive her. Maybe it's time she shared something, too. ![]() But for Millie, the news stirs heartbreaking memories of a past she's kept hidden for too long. Then Millie's granddaughter shares the thrilling surprise that she's pregnant. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane, with whom she's weathered a shaky relationship, suddenly moves back home. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. Three generations of women-and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() They go there and enter a world of bizarre oddities and a brooding war between vampires. The story is about a young boy named Darren (played by Chris Massoglia) and his friend Steve (played by Josh Hutcherson) who come across a traveling freak show that is in town for one night only. I was waiting and hoping for a bit more than the movie did deliver. However, that being said, it is not really enough to make it overly suitable for an audience out of their teenage years. "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" is a bit more gloomy and dark compared to the lovefest known as "Twilight". However, unlike "Twilight", this movie is not about love, sparkly vampires (though the big hair is here!) or werewolves (again, there is one of those as well). I will say that, much like "Twilight", this vampire movie is a vampire movie for a teenage audience. Reilly, well that ought to be unusual', and so I picked it up and decided to give it a go. I found this movie in a secondhand store, and thought to myself 'a vampire movie with John C. So I wasn't even aware that this movie was based on those, until I watched the DVD extras after having seen the movie. Although I worked in a bookstore a while back, I never actually did read a single of the Darren Shan books, although just familiar with them from the genre and the covers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter M. Maas, Victoria Aveyard and Leigh Bardugo. The Reestablishment will do anything to crush the resistance … including killing everyone Adam cares about. As the Omega Point rebels prepare to fight the Sector 45 soldiers, Adam is more focused on the safety of Juliette, Kenji, and his brother. Watch through Adam's eyes as he bridges the gap between Unravel Me and Ignite Me. But when the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment arrives, he has very different plans for Juliette. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Destroy Me (Shatter Me, 1.5) written by Tahereh Mafi which was published in. Perfect for the fans of Shatter Me who are desperately awaiting the release of Unravel Me, this novella-length. ![]() Even though Juliette shot him in order to escape, Warner can't stop thinking about her – and he'll do anything to get her back. Brief Summary of Book: Destroy Me (Shatter Me, 1.5) by Tahereh Mafi. The mind-blowing events between Shatter Me and Unravel Me are told here from Warner's point of view. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects the first two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me, for a thrilling insight into the minds of Juliette's two great loves – Adam and Warner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marie de France was likely influenced by a collection of medieval literary and legendary material known as the Matter of Britain. Besides authoring the Lais and some saints’ lives, Marie also translated Aesop’s Fables from Middle English to Anglo-Norman. She was educated: she wrote in Anglo-Norman and was apparently familiar with Latin, Middle English, and Breton (a Celtic language spoken in France’s northwest peninsula), because Breton lais, or lays (short, rhyming tales), were the basis for the Anglo-Norman verse narratives that became known as The Lais of Marie de France. ![]() Others have speculated that she was an abbess somewhere in England.) Scholars have also identified her as the first woman to author verse in French. (In fact, some have speculated that she was King Henry’s sister-but given that the name “Marie” was so common, it’s almost impossible to know for sure. Though apparently born in France, she lived in England and probably lived and wrote in a royal court, but which one is uncertain-possibly King Henry II’s and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine’s (reigning in the late 12th and early 13th centuries). ![]() Besides calling herself “Marie” in her manuscripts, the author reveals nothing else about herself. ![]() In one of her works, she refers to herself as “Marie from France,” and that’s how scholars and readers have identified her ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman is a spitfire, and that’s exactly what Nash needs right now. Lina is only in town temporarily and she’s sure to run at the first sign of a relationship, but Nash can feel himself being drawn to her. So when the woman his brother dated briefly twenty years ago (then befriended) moves into the apartment next door, it’s a shock to the system. Nash has always been a rule-follower, a relationship guy, and a kind, loving man – but the experience has changed him, and he can feel himself getting pulled into the darkness. The story follows Nash, a cop who was recently shot while on the job. These opposites attract in a big way, and it was so much fun watching them fall together. ![]() The romance is at the heart of everything though, and these two were fire together – it’s a hot slow burn, with crackling chemistry and tons of sexual tension. It could certainly be read as a standalone if you really wanted to, but the community is integral to the story and the suspense element ties the books together. I also loved the neighbors aspect, and just how much this community bonds together. There was just something immensely compelling about this wounded and vulnerable hero he’s a genuinely good guy who is in a dark place, and it’s not until a fierce, fiery woman enters his life that he starts coming back into the light. It was great to be back in Knockemout – this sequel did NOT disappoint! I think I liked it better than the first one, and that was very tough competition. ![]() ![]() ![]() more t is as well written as the first novel, and more complex in terms of plot and character, but the first half moved very slowly for me. Review 2: Half way through this sequel, I was prepared to give it only 3 stars. Anthony Ryan is one of the best fantasy authors in recent memory. ![]() All in all, it was definitely a worthy successor to the first book and I'm looking forward to the third. In some cases the tension was palpable and I almost didn't want to pick it up for fear of what might happen next. Tower Lord continues the story and, without giving away anything, I was not expecting any of the twists and turns that this book took me on. I really felt this way about the first book in the series, Blood Song, even though it was much more than that. ![]() Review 1: It's funny how every fantasy book by a British author seems to start off as a schoolboy's tale, and then develops into something else entirely later on. ![]() ![]() Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: "You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé." A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisner's work. ![]() She was, she writes, "just naturally reverent," a fact that didn't change when she-much to her own confusion-lost her faith as a teenager. Magazine March pickĪ Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America's search for meaning When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. ![]() ![]() What seems the end is only the beginning.A note to readers from the author:This is Book One of an interconnected series. Glory, passion, treachery, and conspiracy on the grandest scale. A proud warrior prince and his wounded half brother. Desire for this woman will propel their long rivalry into hatred so murderous it hurtles all three into an unimaginable future, and sparks the immortal rage of the Erinyes.A woman of keen instinct and unshakeable loyalty. ![]() An extraordinary woman who dances with bulls.The north wind brings a swift ship and two brothers, who plot Crete's overthrow. Step into the Bronze Age.Crete: A place of magic, of mystery, where violence and sacrifice meet courage and hope.Aridela: Wrapped in legend, beloved of the people. ![]() ![]() "The Year-God’s Daughter succeeds in bringing to life a very distant world and capturing a heady blend of archaeology, legend, myth and fantasy." Judith Starkston, author of Hand of Fire.Award Honoree of the BRAG Medallion for outstanding fiction.Book One, The Child of the Erinyes series. ![]() ![]() ``The poems! The plays! Our memoirs!'' Actually, even careless readers will notice that both sides have been using each other right along in speech, an evidently unintended paradox. ``Just think what we can accomplish together,'' enthuses the Supreme Command to the Commander in Chief. ' '' Sprouting stick limbs and large hats, the letters, uppercase if adult, lowercase when young, swarm antlike across cleanly drawn backdrops. ![]() The uneasy truce between the aristocratic vowels and the plebian consonants finally breaks down into open warfare, but at the advent of a giant scribble (oxymoronically described as ``zigs and zags with no form at all''), they join together to ``STOP'' the monster and bid it ``GO AWAY.'' `` `I can't fight that,' whimpered the jumble. Only occasional flashes of cleverness illuminate this parable of warring camps uniting in the face of a common threat. ![]() |