I appreciate the fact that Maurice, unlike Forster himself, is a very unremarkable man: he's conservative, a bit of a snob, not very interested in music or philosophy and rather dull. But it's an invaluable document about a group of men who experience the love that dare not speak its name (to borrow from Wilde). So very sad.īut how triumphant for Forster to have written this book and dedicated it "to a happier year." No one would argue that this is Forster's best novel. He eventually comes up with something about Oscar Wilde. One of the most touching things about this very moving book is seeing the protagonist – the closeted, very ordinary stockbroker Maurice – struggling to describe who he is and what he's feeling. For a man to be with another man was a criminal offense. When Forster penned Maurice, homosexuality was so taboo that there was no name for it. What a gift to have a novel about same sex love written a century ago by one of the premier 20th century British authors! It eventually came out after his death, in the early 1970s. Forster ( Howards End, A Room With A View) finished this gay-themed novel in 1914, and though he showed it to some close friends, he didn't publish it in his lifetime.
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The prose is so easy to read that that’s a thing in writing: how to keep your prose good enough that readers will keep on reading. There are so many interesting characters written with incredible detail regarding their backstories. If I had one word to say about this novel, think of it as Castlevania and Vox Machina having a baby together and then deciding: How do we make this even more crazy? Sure it has all the fantasy tropes of old, but there was something about Sadir’s writing that made me want to read on. Hunted by Educators and Dusters in a city-state where an escalating conflict between the human and demon population threatens to boil over in a civil war, will Varcade and his ragtag crew save Akrab from the cruel Bone Lord, or will they make things even worse? Varcade makes his living as a reckless sword-for-hire, caring only about himself, until his self-centered lifestyle is turned on its head when he is contracted to recruit a misfit team of unruly assassins and take out the mighty Bone Lord of Akrab.īut the Bone Lord is aware of the plot and sends her band of Dusters to stop them individuals who have gained bizarre and lethal magical powers by snorting the pulverised bones of dead gods. Varcade fled to the deserts of Harrah to escape his past as an Educator, a member of an order of zealot warrior-monks that aims to shape the world according to their sacred Teachings by force. Kings of the Wyld meets Deadpool in this action-packed fantasy adventure set in an Arab-inspired landscape. I’m excited to write a ~planned~ duology. In terms of books, it’s a YA fantasy adventure like Shadow and Bone, Yona of the Dawn, & Jade Fire Gold. It combines a lot of elements from many genres–epic fantasy, sci-fi, and even some hints of steampunk thrown in there (airships make an appearance!)-and just like those books, it’s my love letter to everything I love-hence the comps. My YA fantasy adventure inspired by Korean celestial maidens (선녀), w/ romance & echoes of Castle in the Sky is arriving 2024 Add to Goodreads: HERE Dear Reader, There’s not much I can say about this book, as I’m in the middle of writing it, but I was recently telling my friend the premise and she was like so basically it’s REBEL SEOUL meets THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA, and…. I’m writing a fantasy duology! I pitched it to my editor as “if a Final Fantasy boy met a Ghibli heroine…” and here we are. Then she opened a studio on her parents’ trout and salmon farm in Scotland, and began designing hand-drawn wallpaper for luxury hotels and boutiques. Basford started out in fashion, working on silk-screen designs. “And coloring is not as scary as a blank sheet of paper or canvas. “People are really excited to do something analog and creative, at a time when we’re all so overwhelmed by screens and the Internet,” she said. Part of the apparent appeal is the tactile, interactive nature of the books, which offer respite to the screen-weary. Basford’s book on Instagram, where he has 1.8 million followers. The craze was kicked off in part, it seems, by a Korean pop star, Kim Ki-bum, who posted a delicately colored-in floral pattern from Ms. Basford has become something of a literary celebrity in South Korea, where “Secret Garden” has sold more than 430,000 copies, she says. “Each page can transport you back to a gentler time of life,” she said of Ms. Rebekah Jean Duthie, who lives in Queensland, Australia, and works for the Australian Red Cross, says she regularly gathers with friends for “coloring circles” at cafes and in one another’s homes. Others have turned it into a social activity. Hard-core fans often buy several copies of her books at a time, to experiment with different color combinations. While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.įans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. |