![]() ![]() ![]() simultaneous Time Warner audio Literary Guild main selection and Reader's Digest select edition author tour. The story, which explores the romance theme of love after grief, is set in the mid-late 1990's, then-contemporary Wilmington, North Carolina. (Knowing that Kevin Costner has been slated to play Garrett on screen doesn't hurt, either.) Film rights to Warner Bros. Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks Message in a Bottle is the second romance novel written by American author Nicholas Sparks. ![]() By the time they do, Sparks has proved that a man who romantically (and manually) pens missives to his lost lady love in the era of e-mail is a welcome hero in this fin-de-millennium fax-happy world. There are few surprises here as we watch the couple learn to love in Catherine's slowly waning shadow. Theresa also finds that Garrett just might be ready to love again. Piqued by his epistolary constancy, Theresa follows the trail to North Carolina, where she discovers that Garrett has been mourning his late wife for three years writing the sea-borne messages is his only solace. Inside, a message begins: ""My Dearest Catherine, I miss you."" Subsequent publication of the poignant missive in her column turns up two more letters, found by others, from the same mysterious writer, Garrett Blake. Three years after divorcing her cheating husband, the single mother is vacationing on Cape Cod when she finds a bottle washed up on the shore. Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost faith in the dream of everlasting love. ![]() Avoiding a sophomore slump, Sparks follows The Notebook with another sentimental candidate for the bestseller lists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then I wonder, how often have I read this book so that I know the text well enough to spot a comma in the wrong place, or a missed adjective? Nerdy, obviously. KM: OK, I’ve finished the reread, and am enraged that this NEL edition of Gaudy Night that I’m reading for the first time (since my old 1970s edition fell apart) has too many errors and typos and missed or incorrect punctuation for me to ignore. Secret surveillance in the Den has uncovered the following conversation. The three of us, being as one in the opinion that Gaudy Night is far, far more than a mere detective story, began to re-read it and compared notes on why each of us finds this book so important in our lives. ![]() ![]() Bookfoxes Kate and Hilary went into synchronized ecstasies over this piece, a potent reminder of one of our favourite passages in a much-loved novel. Meanwhile, we leave you with this post.ĭuring VL’s Poetry Week 2013, Bookfox Moira wrote a piece full of affection and insight on the sonnet at the heart of Dorothy L Sayers’s novel Gaudy Night. Here on Vulpes Libris we are taking our summer break now – we’ll be back on Sunday 18th August. Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers – The Heart Of Rest, and beyond. ![]() ![]() Previous rebellions had declared their contemporary dynasties corrupt and therefore in need of revival the Taiping, by contrast, branded the entire imperial order blasphemous and in need of replacement. ![]() In place of the imperial institution, the rebels called for restoration of the classical system of kingship. The Taiping rebels denounced the divine pretensions of the imperial title and the sacred character of the imperial office as blasphemous usurpations of Shangdi's title and position. How were the Taiping rebels, professing this new creed, able to mount their rebellion and recruit multitudes of followers in their sweep through the empire? Thomas Reilly argues that the Taiping faith, although kindled by Protestant sources, developed into a dynamic new Chinese religion whose conception of its sovereign deity challenged the legitimacy of the Chinese empire. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping leader, Hong Xiuquan, to establish his Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. ![]() Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. ![]() |