![]() This is sibling rivalry at its most vicious: crossing her sisters could cost Cleopatra her life, let alone her throne. During this time, readers are treated to royal intrigue and the cutthroat politics of Cleopatra's two older sisters, Tryphaena and Berenike, who are desperate to prevent Cleopatra's rule, since she is the favorite daughter of their father, King Ptolemy XII. ![]() Meyer's short chapters can occasionally make the narrative feel choppy, but her lush, detail-rich prose ably evokes Cleopatra's life as a young princess, beginning at age 10 and continuing on until she turns 22. Before she was a queen, Cleopatra was a girl, and Meyer's incarnation of the future monarch longs to be treated as normal-wandering the marketplace, learning to dance-even as she secretly hopes to someday rule Egypt. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Is challenged to survive without access to his money and business connection for The company they run selects its’ CEO on the basis of this challenge from the current junior to the existing post holder. The story starts with an annual challenge between two very successful and wealthy young men. Ages spent creating, uploading and adjusting to get the right dimensions, content in the right place and getting rid of the stuff on the standard templates. ![]() ![]() Yes, but at the minute they are for the paperback formats and sizes and don’t fit, as you are told in an overnight e-mail. Nope, you need them to fit in the guide lines. To add to the pain there it has to have much wider safety margins. The other issue that comes with the change of template size … is the need for a size new cover. The closest available from the ‘Zon for their hardback format is 8.5 x 5.5! That means a separate Word manuscript for each. All my paperbacks are in the 8 x 5 inch layout beloved of major publishers of paperbacks such as Penguin. There are two problems with the hard cover version. the first time I have ever published in three formats, the e-book, the paperback and the new baby a hard cover format edition. A new Crooke and Loch story escaped into the rainforest …. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roy makes powerful observations about the communist movement, the injustices of caste discrimination, gender inequality, colonialism, religion and politics. ![]() The novel opens with a thirty year old Rahel returning to her house in Ayemenem to meet her brother Estha and she recalls the story of her life tracing events before and after the arrival of Sophie Mol. It is this event that lies at the heart of the novel and leads to circumstances that change the course of the small lives of Ayemenem. ![]() The seven year old twins are not concerned with the big things but anticipate the arrival of their nine year old English cousin Sophie Mol, the daughter of their uncle Chacko. It is a simple story set against the backdrop of social discrimination, communism and the caste system revolving around the lives of the twins Rahel and Esthappen (Estha), the children of Ammu Ipe who grew up in 1960s in Ayemenem in a Keralite Syrian Christian family. Her powerful message about family, class and caste led to comparisons with William Faulkner, her acute observation of society told with understated emotion reminded readers of Charles Dickens, and her inexplicably poetical and magical words of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ![]() ‘The God of Small Things’ is about the Big Things of LifeĪrundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, the winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 is a modern-day classic. Booker Prize (1997), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1999) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my only real gripe about the book, but it was the difference between a four-star rating and a five-star rating for me. I definitely feel like the middle could have been cut down significantly. Because of all the filler in the middle of the book, it took me a whopping two-and-a-half weeks to read this book, while I'd finished each of the first two books in under a week. The latter seemed quite fan-servicey, and while there's nothing wrong with that, it was a bit much for me. There's a lot of dialogue between characters that doesn't necessarily lead to anything interesting or serve to advance the plot or character development, and there are many spicy scenes that did not at all seem necessary. While there are definitely some good and important moments in this middle section of the story, so much of it is just filler. This portion of the book builds on what we learned about Poppy in A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire, and it delves further into the history of the Atlantian gods. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. There, as Poppy explores its cities, and its people learn to trust her, she has a decision to make - take the crown that is rightfully hers, or abandon her kingdom for a safer life away from the centuries-old tension between Atlantia and Macedonia and the war that is sure to come. After several wild twists and turns, Poppy and Casteel return to Atlantia. ![]() ![]() However, once things settle, and there's time to breathe, the story screeches to a halt. ![]() |