"For your information, I picked up a flash from Denver. "Any late news?" Garth asked, over Dollard's shoulder. Since breakfast, he had sat glued to the news while a battery of video announcers reported from central strongholds on the progress of the bacterial epidemic that already had swept the Atlantic seaboard. The last of America's industrial tycoons refocussed his attention on the world telecasts. "Just see that we continue understanding one another," Edwin Dollard snapped. "It's right good we understand each other." It'll be like being reborn again." His pained somber eyes lit up. "As for women, there'll be time enough for them. The others-stupid sheep-let them die!" Lust spread his heavy cheeks into a wide grin. There'll be no tales out of those greaseballs."ĭollard's pudgy features relaxed. "The men still know nothing." His thin lips cracked into a forced smile. "Two more hours-and the ship will be ready," Garth announced. He was in time to observe Garth enter by the paneled tunnel door. Dwin Dollard's nervous stubby fingers spilled three precious drops of his fifth Scotch highball, as he veered his head away from the horrors on the telescreen.
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They may both be eighteen, seniors in the high school, and neighbors since they were children, but they're not friends and have barely anything in common, tied together by the fact that their respective best friends were a couple. No one would ever think Demi Davenport and Nikoli Sykes would make an ideal couple. With Brandy's new book, it was more mature young adult and had all the angst I needed! Most of the fake relationship romances I've read tend to lean towards adult contemporary, and the few young adult I have read are fairly innocent. Since Brandy was a new-to-me author, I decided to bite the bullet and dive in-and I'm glad I did. It takes an extra bit of convincing for me to even consider reading the trope, unless it's penned by one of my favorite authors. Admittedly, this was a bit of a risk because the fake relationship trope isn't exactly one of my go-to choices. Fake It 'Til You Break It was my introduction to Meagan Brandy's writing and it turned out to be a good one. During the 1980s the entire OED text, comprising the First Edition (1884-1928) and its Supplement (1972-86), was digitized as an integrated single text. Under John’s editorship, over 60,000 new words and meanings have been added to the OED.įor more than 35 years John has contributed to one of the largest and longest-running scholarly projects during a time of great change, and has been instrumental in ensuring the OED has been at the forefront of innovation. He was appointed Chief Editor in 1993, becoming the seventh OED Editor since Sir James Murray’s appointment in 1879. John, whose pioneering leadership has seen the OED embrace the Internet, joined the OED editorial staff in 1976, and became Co-Editor with Edmund Weiner in 1985. Oxford University Press today announced that John Simpson, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED), will retire from his post in October 2013. She was awarded the OBE in 1989, the CBE in 2001 and the DBE in 2012.Īmmonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time, is a memoir and was published by Fig Tree in October 2013. Penelope Lively is a former Chairman of the Society of Authors and has been a member of the Boards of the British Library and the British Council. She has written introductions and articles and has been a regular reviewer. Her memoir of childhood in Egypt, Oleander, Jacaranda, was published in 1994, and A House Unlocked, a personal view of the twentieth century, appeared in 2001. Many of her titles, both for adults and children, have been widely translated. Family Album was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her children’s book The Ghost of Thomas Kempe was awarded the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time won a Whitbread Award. The Road to Lichfield and According to Mark were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels have won several literary awards, including the Booker Prize for Moon Tiger in 1987. Penelope Lively is a novelist, short story writer and author of children’s books. Incredible the things I saw"), any number of atmospheric underlinings (".it's a jazz-joint and beat generation madtrick"), and one frenetic, funny, free-associational scene after another. There are Heideggerian sub-titles (Desolation in Solitude, Desolation in the World), lots of vaudeville lyricism ("I'm gonna take it all in. It's a long prose-poem in the form of a memoir-novel, in which the author (calling himself, as he's done elsewhere, Jack Duluoz) explores three phases of his life: the Zen-seeker bit (camping out on mountain tops, awaiting the joyful-sorrowful illumination) then the Frisco-New York prelude to fame finally the after-effects of being immortalized by the Luce publications and further dizzy-dim wanderings through North Africa, Europe and America. Kerouac's Desolation Angels may be dealt with quickly. |