![]() ![]() Who first notices Romeo at the party? Tybalt Act 1 Scene 5 What is an example of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 4? Romeo foreshadowing that something will happen during the night that will result in his death. What sort of dream does Romeo have? A dream that reveals some sort of bad omen. Who is Queen Mab? The queen of fairies that brings dreams. What does Juliet's mother encourage her (Juliet) to do? Lady Capulet encourages Juliet to marry Paris. Why does Romeo agree to go? To see Rosaline at the party. Why does Benvolio want the two of them to attend the masquerade? So Romeo can compare Rosaline to other girls and find someone better. Why does Romeo end up reading the invitation to the Capulet party? Lord Capulet's servant Peter doesn't know how to read so he asks Romeo to help him read the names. Then he says that during those two years, you (Paris) can try to woo her. ![]() ![]() First he says that Juliet is too young, so wait two years. When Paris asks for Juliet's hand in marriage, what is Capulet's response? (Two parts). ![]()
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![]() But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. ![]() The foundations of modern knowledge-philosophy, math, astronomy, geography-were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeĪfter the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance-an exciting debut history. “ The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.” ![]() ![]() I cannot get the book out of my mind." -Aaliyah Reads "This is the BEST book I have read this year an easy 5⭐️. "Pearson created a magnificent piece of literature here, which examines human motivation, characters, political drive and individual emotion - and Dance of Thieves certainly lived up to the expectations set by The Remnant Chronicles!" Dance of Thieves sucked me right in from the get go!"- Literary Dust This is a book where women get to be unabashedly powerful."- Quill and Feather This isn’t a girl-pitted-against-girl book. ![]() Girls get to be anything in this story, from dangerous to gentle to both, and everything in-between. "Women are the driving force, and it’s incredibly refreshing to see that womanhood take everyform. ![]() Off my feet, and had me falling head over heals in love with her characters." -Mundie Moms ![]() Pearson's rich storytelling once again swept me Romance, danger, fierce characters, and humor. ![]() ![]() On board are ~2100 humans who are the seventh, and final, generation of an eventual settlement expedition that will land and live on Aurora. Well, in reality it didn’t go wrong but at the same time Aurora certainly didn’t meet my expectations nor the praise heaped on it by the writer of the article referenced (I wish I could find it again).Īurora is Kim Stanley Robinson’s melancholic and ambitious tale about a generational seed ship on its final leg of a 160 year journey to an Earth analog planet which is actually a moon of a larger planet orbiting the star Tau Ceti, 11.9 light years from Earth. ![]() At the time I was partially through Seveneves and found it a brilliant piece of speculative fiction. I picked it up after reading an article that opined if there were two science fiction books you read in 2015 they had to be Seveneves and Aurora. Full disclosure: Aurora is the first Kim Stanley Robinson book that I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is the author of four books, including the number one New York Times bestseller This Town, about the political culture of twenty-first-century Washington, D.C. Mark Leibovich is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for profile writing. ![]() It’s a vista that makes the Washington of This Town seem like a comedy of manners in comparison. All that cynicism, shading into nihilism, led to a country truly unhinged from reality, and to the events of January 6, 2021. Meanwhile, many of the most alpha of the lapdogs happily conceded to Mark Leibovich that they were “in on the joke.” As Lindsey Graham told the author, his supporters in South Carolina generally don’t read The New York Times, and they won’t read this book, either. Trump’s savage bullying of everyone in his circle, along with his singular command of his political base, created a dangerous culture of submission in the Republican Party. What would these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun, or at least the orbit of the spray tan? What would they do to preserve their “relevance”? Almost anything, it turns out. ![]() Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. This event is free with first come, first served seating. Please see in-store for mask requirements. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the respective and heterodox points of the two books. ![]() So “Native American” is rendered as the less misleading and more widely self-identified “Indian,” while “Christopher Columbus” appears as “Cristóbal Colón.”īut two terms Mann makes a repeated point of not mincing in 1491 and 1493 are “New World” and “globalization.” Simply put, the “New World” is not so new-not even close “globalization” is not just about economic integration. Mann, author of the 2005 study 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and the subsequent 2011 volume 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, has a clever method for dealing with the controversial nomenclature surrounding any discussion of the pre-Columbian Americas: he calls peoples by the names which present-day members call themselves, and stays true to the historically self-described titles used by individuals and groups that existed in the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time Charles Dirac was twenty, in 1888, he had done three stints of national service in the Swiss army, dropped out of university in Geneva and left home, without telling his family where he was heading. 1ĭirac knew that his father had endured a childhood no less miserable than his own. ![]() Dirac examined them from time to time and talked with distant relatives about his father's origins, apparently still trying to understand the man he believed had blighted his life. But most of Dirac's acquaintances knew nothing of this: at home, he allowed no photographs of his father to be displayed, and he kept his father's papers locked in his desk. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Preface to Getting Married, 1908Īs Kurt Hofer had seen, the elderly Paul Dirac was fixated on his father Charles. It is in many respects conspicuously the reverse. English home life to-day is neither honorable, virtuous, wholesome, sweet, clean, nor in any creditable way distinctively English. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Vera, a biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. She was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Schiff graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and subsequently earned her B.A. Schiff was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded by Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen, a professor of French literature at North Adams State college (now called Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). ![]() Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts. Her biography of Vera Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, the need to be what her parents want her to be and fulfil her perceived obligations to them makes her mute herself in their presence. The new-to-me author handled it all so beautifully that it not only worked, but left me looking forward to reading more of her work.Ĭharlotte is such a great FMC. There were aspects of the story, from reading the blurb, that I was afraid wouldn’t work for me. ![]() The immediate and deep connection between Charlotte and Daniel is wonderful. ![]() Charlotte knows her duty, but what about her heart? ![]() But perfect girls do not share searing kisses with men who are not their betrothed. What could possibly go wrong?Ĭharlotte immediately realizes her fiancé has sent in a doppelgänger, but continues the ruse so no one will realize her fiancé has all but abandoned her. They used to pretend to be each other all the time in their youth. Daniel allows his twin to talk him into going to the week-long house party in his stead…just for a few days. Moreover, he’s begging off his own engagement party. Before Charlotte knows it, she is engaged to be married.ĭaniel Weston can’t believe his identical twin brother is marrying a lady he barely knows. The Marquis of Hawksridge is titled, handsome, and heroic-precisely the kind of gentleman her parents want for her husband. When Charlotte Grisham is saved from an out-of-control carriage by a handsome gentleman, she knows fate has sent her the perfect man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, a fierce urge to reassure her filled him. “I’ll protect you,” he found himself saying, a gallant and reckless offer considering his planned move. “I’m never safe,” she whispered, her voice so low he had to bend closer to hear. He brushed the wetness away with his thumb, his hands lingering and cupping her face. “You’re always safe with me.”įor some odd reason, her eyes welled and a tear clung to her lashes. He lifted her chin with a gentle finger and gazed down at her. You can find Raising the Stakes on Goodreads ![]() And maybe find the courage to embrace a future with Liam… If she can just win Liam’s support, Vivie knows she can give Button a good life. Suddenly two forces are drawing her out-Button, the cub who needs her help, and Liam, the man who’s dead set against her rehabilitating the bear. But when an orphaned bear cub raids her pantry and conservation officer Liam Walsh appears with news of poachers nearby, her private, peaceful world is turned upside down! From dark memories of the Bronx, from danger, from entanglements. Tucking herself away in the Adirondack woods was supposed to keep Vivienne Harris safe. The blog tour runs from 1 till 7 April, you can view the complete tour schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours. This blog tour is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. This is my stop during the blog tour for Raising the Stakes by Karen Rock. ![]() |