The three also figure into the origin myth of South Slavic peoples in some legends. There are multiple versions of the legend, including several regional variants throughout West Slavic, and to lesser extent, other Slavic countries that mention only one or two brothers. The legend states that the brothers, on a hunting trip, followed different prey and thus travelled (and settled) in different directions: Lech in the northwest, Czech in the west, and Rus' in the northeast. Lech, Czech and Mech(Rus) ( Czech pronunciation:, Polish pronunciation: ) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles (or Lechites), the Czechs, and the Rus' (Mecheits).The three legendary brothers appear together in the Wielkopolska Chronicle, compiled in the early 14th century. The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia ( Poland) and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in " Chronica Polonorum" (1506)
0 Comments
The pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common.There are forks in the road to wealth that have nothing to do with choice or desire or effort, forks that have to do with chance, and in your case, the order of your birth is one of these. But like many desirable things, simply being well known does not make it easily achieved. Getting an education is a running leap towards becoming filthy rich in rising Asia.The older woman waits for the younger woman to age, the younger woman waits for the older woman to die.Here are some of my favourite lines in the book. The quick pace of the story easily reels you in however, and I was very quickly hooked on the two characters, their evolving lives and the romance between them. The structure of the book, what it purports itself to be, the book setting and the point of view in which the text is narrated is unique and rather confusing at first. This book was unlike any other book I've ever read. Fall in love with Reid and Lucie all over again with updated content, the highly requested addition of an epilogue to their HEA, plus two bonus scenes!** **Rediscover this brand-new edition of the (2012) New York Times and USA Today Bestseller, Seducing Cinderella. Now he needs to switch up his game plan if he wants to win Lucie’s heart…before she gives it to somebody else. So when her childhood crush offers her lessons in seduction in exchange for getting him ready for the biggest night of his career, Lucie jumps at the chance.īut when his feelings begin to change, Reid finds himself in the fight of his life, and it’s not even in the octagon. Bookish girls don’t usually land the hot guys, and she’s gone unnoticed by a certain doctor for way too long. Lucie Miller needs some professional help of her own. But Lucie is no longer a scrawny little girl, and she’s more than capable of handling a bad boy with a bad attitude. Fortunately, his trainer knows the perfect physical therapist to get Reid healed and back into fighting shape-the little sister of Reid’s best friend. Only months before reclaiming his championship title, mixed martial artist Reid Andrews suffers a serious injury. He’ll teach her the art of seduction…for a price. (Summary by Noel Badrian)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. It contains five stories: 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant,' 'The Devoted Friend,' and ' The Remarkable Rocket. The Remarkable Rocket is also a tale about egotism and conceit. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. The Miller in the Devoted Friend is not only selfish but an egotistical hypocrite. The Selfish Giant will not let the children in his garden but repents and is redeemed. In The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose, Wilde explores love and self sacrifice. Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy and imaginative treatment it is a reaction against the purely imitative character of modern art.” His Fairy Tales then were only partly written for children and as he said, "partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness". LibriVox recording of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) by Oscar Wilde. Readers will look forward to learning more about her." -USA Today "Galloway is an everywoman, smart, successful and a little bit unsure of herself. Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS AND THE RUTH GALLOWAY SERIES But the further Nelson investigates the deaths, the closer he gets to Ruth's isolated cottage-until Ruth, Zoe, and Kate all go missing, and Nelson is left scrambling to find them before it's too late. When he links a case to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit Ruth and enlist her help. Meanwhile, Nelson is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. They struggle to stave off isolation by clapping for frontline workers each evening and befriending a kind neighbor, Zoe, from a distance. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as Norfolk's first cases of Covid-19 make headlines, leaving her and Kate to shelter in place there. Three years after her mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of her own Norfolk cottage-before she lived there-with a peculiar inscription on the back. Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor-until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer, in USA Today Elly Griffiths' penultimate novel in the beloved series. Success and Likeability – A social experiment is summarized in which two résumés stating business success are presented to various people.Also discussed is the theory that females more frequently than males display impostor syndrome concerns, and the concept of " fake it till you make it". Sit at the Table – Anecdotes are given about Peggy McIntosh stating that women are pressured not to accept compliments about their accomplishments, Padmasree Warrior stating that people should consider taking opportunities even if they do not feel qualified to execute them, and Ginni Rometty discussing how she took risks even staking personal failure. The Leadership Ambition Gap: What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid? – Anecdotes are given in which Judith Rodin questions why highly talented women choose to leave careers and become homemakers and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon gives her opinion that a double standard makes ambition be perceived as a negative quality in a woman when it would be positive in a man.The synopsis of the eleven chapters of the book is: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead is a 2013 book encouraging women to assert themselves at work and at home, co-written by business executive Sheryl Sandberg and media writer Nell Scovell. this third book has three POVs, and when that third voice unexpectedly took over, i literally gasped with excitement, and my little readerheart pitter pattered. But oh, how it gathers!Īlthough the books are named for plucky protag koli, he was never my favorite character, so when the second book split the POVs between koli and spinner, it was a very welcome development. When something big starts to fall, it goes as gentle as thistledown at first. This is a good/better/best kind of trilogy: The Book of Koli set everything up, The Trials of Koli widened the margins, and this massive conclusion explodes everything, resetting the pieces beautifully. “They look for it to have a good shape and end where it’s supposed to.” “What do people look for out of a story, Spin? You told enough of them to know.” Perhaps the relenting appeal of pearls is that they manage to be understated yet utterly luxurious at the same time. Worn in recent years by the likes of Rihanna, Gigi Hadid, Dua Lipa, A$AP Rocky and Harry Styles, it's certifiably cool again. Over the last few decades, a string of pearls had come to be associated with the preppy elite – a little dowdy, a little twee – but thanks to a host of designers, the pearl necklace has been refreshed and is back and more popular than ever. Later, they proved so precious in ancient Rome that Julius Caesar declared only the ruling class could wear them. A long and storied history, it is thought that pearls were gifted to Chinese royalty as far back as 2300 BC. An iridescent gemstone that’s been used as finery for millennia, pearls are one of the most classic jewellery choices you can make. Taking into account popularity of the twilight vampire saga we can assume more and more handsome vampires need coffins. Oh, poor sex-starved women without men… Dale Power’s “Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself” It seems like no lovemaking to horses is implied, although the title and book cover seems weird anyway. Lesbian horse stories? We must be kidding, right? Nope! Look for this book at Amazon or Google Books and you will be able to buy or download it, of course if you are a fan of novels about the poor life of women without men. “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories” by Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan Someone is going to go through a severe hangover. Girls just stare at him without helping to stand up. What was he drinking? The poor little boy seems to have an unpleasant time and problems with gravity. However, there might be some more gentle way of conveying the meaning. Well, of course, the educational value of this book is simple – booze is not cool. He is trying to do so the first two pages. Seriously, what’s with this book and author? A little boy, obviously drunk, is trying to get up. This is part of a technique that we see throughout this collection. Then again, through the rest of the book, Smith repeatedly disclaims her own expertise on everything (“a casual appreciator of painting, a dilettante novelist, a non-expert”), then dazzlingly proves herself wrong. Or perhaps it’s because she is “by nature not a political person”. The pieces that open the book are the weakest, particularly those on British politics, perhaps because they were all written for US publications and tend to stick to the surface as a result, though there’s no doubting the force of Zadie Smith’s feelings on the “arsonists” behind Brexit, or her passion to explain (again, to a US audience) the importance of state involvement in everyone’s lives. The subjects covered here are vast: art, cinema, dance, music, literature, life. |