Postal Inspector, and founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock lobbied Congress to make it illegal to distribute “obscene, lewd, and lascivious” material through the U.S. And she was popular enough to afford to live in a Fifth Avenue mansion.Įnter Anthony Comstock. She performed surgical abortions, and also opened up a boarding house where clients with unwanted pregnancies could give birth in anonymity. She offered up preventative powders, female monthly pills, and other abortifacients. Madame Restell, a “female physician,” was the premier abortionist in NYC. Until the middle of the 19th century, abortion was legal and viewed as a private medical procedure. The Gilded Age saw an unprecedented reversal of women’s reproductive rights. I love him so much.Ī few historical notes and explanations. I had so much fun writing Nellie’s book, which has been rolling around in my head for a few years now.
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A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the listener through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.ĭespite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2011įrom National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. She describes Acts and Omissions as “a window into the weird world of Anglicanism, as experienced on a Cathedral Close. Ah, how much easier Holy Communion would be if the priest said, ‘Let us offer one another a piece of flan’!”Ĭatherine Fox, a novelist and clergy wife (her husband is the Dean of Liverpool), once memorably defined a deanery synod as “a group of people waiting to go home”, and she brings a sharp and exceptionally well-informed eye to bear on the foibles of the C of E: “Today, as everyone in the parish of St John’s, Renfold, acknowledges when they ring him on Friday, is Father Dominic’s day off.” Always winter and never Christmas”) - as is Jane Austen: “It is a fact universally acknowledged that a single priest in possession of a modest stipend must be in want of approximately seven tons of pastry goods.”įrom this, the author draws liturgical inspiration: “We do genuinely love one another, even though we find the Peace an awkward business. Lewis is referenced, wittily but unexpectedly (a priest is described as “so far back in the closet he’s in Narnia. In fact, its literary heritage is altogether impeccable, but with a twist. Intended as a 21st-century homage to Trollope and Barchester Towers, it also traces its apostolic descent from Dickens, since it originally appeared in weekly instalments - albeit on a blog rather than in a periodical - and the 2000-word chapters give the novel considerable pace. THIS is a funny, affectionate, and devastatingly accurate portrayal of the Church of England today. We operate a Platform on which participating retailers, merchants, stores or owners of websites of online stores (“Merchants”) offer you the option to make payment for their goods and/or services (“Merchant Services”) on a deferred and interest-free basis (“Deferred Payment Structure”). 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I am pleased when I get a review that states the reader was at first put off by the size of one of my books, and then he or she wishes the book had gone on longer because they enjoyed it so much. Is this bragging? Well.I do believe I know how to tell a good story and get the reader "involved". I've been doing this a long time and I kinda sorta know what I'm doing by now. I guess because I consider myself a pretty good storyteller. So, tell our readers why they should be reading your work. Not that you need much of an intro…you’re Robert Freaking McCammon. Our tradition here is to start by giving the author a chance to introduce themselves, and maybe even brag a bit. I think the best thing I can say is that he in genuine in every positive aspect possible.ĮBR questions are in bold, McCammon's responses are in normal text.ĮBR: First, thank you for agreeing to an interview here at Elitist Book Reviews. I don't get to say this very often about big-time authors, but I left my brief meeting with Robert McCammon more impressed than I was going into it. In the midst of my geeked-out mumbling, I managed to ask if he'd be willing to do an interview. You see, McCammon has become one of my favorite authors. It was only the second time I'd ever geeked out over meeting an author (the first time was Steven Erikson). I met Robert McCammon when he was in Salt Lake for World Horror.
His earlier novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World was, as the title suggests, two separate stories.Author Haruki Murakami is good at this.Several Discworld novels feature two parallel plotlines that occasionally interact, finally uniting near the end, for example Reaper Man (Death's retirement and Windle Poons's "afterlife", with slightly different typefaces to distinguish them) and Hogfather (Death taking the Hogfather's role Susan stopping Teatime).The Night's Dawn Trilogy has three major plots going at once. His Commonwealth Saga follows something like seven plots all at once, and they'd each be enough for a book of their own. It eventually then focuses exclusively on one, with the other only coming back just when the audience has forgotten about it.
We are talking about an adult, correct? A twelve year old could write this book better. The biggest issue I have on this 'book' is the horrid writing. Someone is looking for them, and that someone kidnaps Michael's mother and Taylor on his birthday. Shortly after they (meaning Michael, Taylor, and his best friend Ostin) form the club, they find out that Taylor and Michael's power isn't as coincidental as they thought. I swear, these kids act like they're in elementary school instead of high school. I highly doubt a fifteen year old girl (cheerleader!) would say something like that. What a co-wink-e-dink! <-how the hell do you spell that? Right after they find out that they both have powers, Taylor says "We should start a club!" Michael soon finds out that Taylor, aka 'most popular and prettiest cheerleader in school', also has electrical powers like he does. Here's the cliche part: Michael Vey is a scrawny teen that's constantly bullied, his best friend's a nerdy loser, and the main girl in the story is the most popular and prettiest girl in school. So, in brief, this book is about Michael Vey, a teenager that has electrical powers. Oh, why why why why why why why why WHY did I read this horrible, cliche-ridden book? So I can give a bad review of it, that's why! |