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Last week, Australia's biggest brick manufacturer closed a key plant, citing poor sales. 'Building costs are skyrocketing - materials and labour costs are at record levels and rising inflation is putting huge pressure on builders.' 'It's no secret that all builders are facing unprecedented challenges right now. Mr Maher said he wanted to work with an administrator to put the business on a 'more sustainable footing' to allow it to complete the homes it had started. 'I want to emphasise that Mahercorp has not collapsed and is not in liquidation,' he said in a statement emailed to customers this week. Up to 730 homes will be affected, however all of the properties are believed to be insured.ĭirector and CEO Steve Maher said the company was entering voluntary administration as it was the 'only option' after learning a major insurer would no longer support the business. Last week, Melbourne-based construction company Mahercorp told its customers it will enter voluntary administration. It comes as a deluge of Australian building firms have gone under in recent months. Mr Cotter said it was too early to say why the company had failed. William Cotter of Robson Cotter Insolvency Group has been appointed as liquidator. Rose Hathaway from Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy series springs to mind as an exemplar of this most detestable of character types. I’ve forgone many series for failure to connect with the main character, due mostly to my inevitable distaste for women who act before they think. She makes her own decisions, dependence be damned, yet those decisions aren’t reasoned, at least not to any degree reflected in the narrative. Allison has determination in spades, and unfortunately it’s the kind I dislike the most. I am not one of those readers, because for me, it takes more than sheer determination to demonstrate strength of character. Will see her as a welcome divergence from the weak-willed women who rely on others to save them, the damsels in distress who give reliant women a bad name. When I started reading this I didn’t know who our main character was supposed to be. And picking up her backlist works! Her prose is beautiful, and I love how she took Arthurian legend and made it genderbent and queer.Īdmittedly I am not all too familiar with the Arthurian cannon. I hadn’t read anything by this author before, but now I will definitely be looking forward to more from her. You all know I love a good retelling right? So obviously when TorDotCom asked me to review Spear by Nicola Griffith, I couldn’t say no. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.Īnd so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. It’s a magical, dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild. In the Skinjacker trilogy, kids who die linger in Everlost, a limbo made up of all of the things and places that no longer exist in the living world. The Skinjacker trilogy by Neal Shustermanīefore Neal Shusterman wrote Arc of the Scythe, he gave us the Skinjacker trilogy, and it won’t surprise you to know that it also has a lot to do with death. Here are some places to start! Series to Read if You Love Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe 1. These books combine so many fascinating genres (speculative fiction, dystopian, horror, political thriller, high-stakes action/adventure), and they leave you desperate for more. Death is no longer inevitable, but must be inflicted by Scythes to keep the population under control. In the future he’s imagined, all diseases can be cured, all injuries can be healed, and even old age can be reversed. If you’ve read Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series, you know that it is truly unforgettable. Blake began writing the poem, which deals with themes of temptation and the apocalypse, in 1796, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The Nine Dreams is based on a mythological epic poem by Blake called Vala, which consists of nine volumes and nearly 150 pages. The event is free and open to the public. Experimental musicians Sarah Lipstate and Guy Barash have created a custom score for the experience, and Flynn's wife, actress Lili Taylor, also performs in the films. Viewers will be invited in groups of 10 or so to walk through the installation, which culminates in a live performance by Albanian actress Drita Kabashi. The performance, called The Nine Dreams, will be an immersive experience featuring nine filmed vignettes, each about five minutes long, installed inside the silos. Now, a film version of that performance is set to make its world premiere in Houston this weekend at the Silos at Sawyer Yards. During that time, he's endured hurricanes in the North Sea and a global pandemic. Houston author Nick Flynn has spent the better part of a decade trying to bring an epic poem by Romantic writer William Blake to the stage. Kabashi will give a live performance of the final vignette of the film at The Silos this weekend. Actress Drita Kabashi in The Nine Dreams. The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? Has any other modern novel had such a wonderfully philosophical opening than this one? Suffice to say, Kundera had me at the very first paragraph. The title itself was familiar, though not the author’s name, and I rather innocently mistook Kundera for a woman at first glance at the cover. It is about everything in the world.īeing already a Kafka fan of some long-standing, I was quite open to another absurdly minded Czech telling the story of his city and by extension the rest of the world. Whatever else you do, just read this book. Shortly before my friend Chad and I departed, he mailed me a letter and directed me to get my hands on a copy of Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. There is probably one novel that is the most responsible for the direction of my post-graduation European backpacking trip ten years ago which landed me in Prague for two solid weeks. One day, an FBI agent enters the store and begins to question him about several murders, which may or may not be related. The protagonist, Malcolm Kershaw, is the co-owner of the Old Devils Bookstore, a place specializing in mysteries. I've only read one other Swanson book so far ( Before She Knew Him) and this one was very different. There's a lot I can't say about Eight Perfect Murders, but I'll try to give you some idea what it's like. I just didn't know I wanted to read a mystery about one until now! When Goodreads or Buzzfeed or whatever posts a list of "50 Must-Read _ Books" or "10 Most Anticipated Books of _", then you can bet I'm clicking. This book scratched an itch I didn't even know I had, so to speak. What an adventure this book was! There's no denying that Eight Perfect Murders was a good deal more meta than my usual thriller picks, but I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through the mystery/thriller/crime genre- from the classics to the modern to the obscure. People like Owen make Nashville the envy of America." -U.S. will be a key part of Nashville's history and a guide to our future. “Reliving the Nashville flood is painful but inspiring no one tells the story better than Owen. But what would emerge triumphant from the depths of such profound darkness was a community of family, friends, and strangers far more steeped in love, hope, and kindness than they could ever possibly fathom… Destruction in communities and businesses was both total and personal, as Owen Grimenstein lost his home, most of his possessions, and very nearly, his own life. This memoir is the true, first-hand account of one man’s survival during the Nashville floods of 2010, as entire neighborhoods were submerged, streets ran like rapids, and lives were lost. What was originally expected to be a typical Tennessee spring rainstorm in May of 2010 suddenly and swiftly churned into the fourth largest, non-hurricane natural disaster in American history. LaLa knows only that these children, and the four who swiftly follow, need her steadfast loyalty and unconditional affection.īut the greatest impact on Charlotte’s life is made by a mere bud on the family tree: a misunderstood soul who will one day be known as the Lost Prince. Neither Charlotte-LaLa, as her charges dub her-nor anyone else can predict that eldest sons David and Bertie will each one day be king. So begins the unforgettable story of Charlotte Bill, who would care for a generation of royals as their parents never could. She is excited, exhausted-and about to meet royalty. Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain’s royal family-a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.Īpril, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. |