![]() ![]() Other characters Fix (a stalking policeman) and Aouda (a rescued Indian damsel) are amazingly created colourful characters too. ![]() ![]() This dude is clever, he worries like he is always ruining the plan but he is very loyal, apt gymnast and sometimes a lifesaver. His trusty French manservant is amazing too - Not for a long time have two characters been so three dimensional and have I truly cared about them so much in 200 or so pages. If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless. I have to ask - does anyone know if he has been in any of Verne's previous stories as it seems like he has an amazing past. Never fearing or worrying whatever dilemmas are thrown in his path and always willing to fail the mission to help his friends. He is so deep, that so much is beneath the surface of this quiet, content gentleman. Fogg is an obsessive-compulsive routine loving timekeeper who bets his chums at the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days, which a newspaper said was possible - if no delays were incurred. Similar to The Journey to the Centre of the Earth which I read yesterday - Verne creates amazingly awesome and complex characters. I could end the review at that and I would be content! This is the second Verne book I have devoured in two days which have both been accredited four-five stars. "Truly, would you not for less than that make a tour around the world?" ![]()
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I ask this question out of sorrow, yes, but also in wonder, upon reading Cynthia Hogue’s beautiful, transformative instead, it is dark, a book not of tales or dreams or historical accounts but of memories that survive us, that have already survived us, as they’ve entered the lyric. ![]() The personal is alchemized as Hogue weaves history and present day in poems that explore how there, here, an individual voice in the stark language of lyric poetry, speaks a complex truth and casts a laser light on violence, resilience, survival, and-the heart of this collection-love. Hogue spent years researching the lives of civilians during war, work crystallized in her tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark. When asked, family members told her never-before-shared tales of parents who were POWs, collaborators, Resistance fighters, and one most vulnerable-of a hidden child. Hogue embarked on a quest to discover if there were more such memories in her extended family in France. Following her husband’s massive heart attack, Cynthia Hogue began writing poems based on dreams and memories that he, born during WWII in occupied France, had as a child growing up in a time of vast postwar food shortages. ![]() ![]() Perfumes: the guide - Turin, Luca & Tania Sanchez. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Fashion, Marie Claire, Allure, and Psychologies, for which she was awarded a Jasmine Prize (UK). : Perfumes: the guide (9781846681028) by Turin, Luca & Tania Sanchez. She is the co-author with Luca Turin of Perfumes: The A–Z Guide and The Little Book of Perfumes. TANIA SANCHEZ is a writer with an interest in perfume, aesthetics, and culture. Though he has Italian citizenship, he was born in Beirut and has lived in France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, the US, Germany, and Greece. 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