![]() ![]() “The Facebook of books…Before you know it, you’ve been reading for an hour.”- The Chicago Tribune Get ready to be impressed and entertained.”- Library Journal In doing so, he succeeds in creating a book to be not just browsed but absorbed. “Forsyth’s fascinating entries employ erudite humor and playful historical anecdotes to make these dusty old words sound fresh again. “This is not a book to be gulped down at a sitting, but gently masticated to be savored in small bites… irreverent commentary on the history of the terms and when to use them is worth reading…Every page contains a new jewel for logophiles and verbivores everywhere.”- Publishers Weekly Forsyth wants to drive home the point that potent rhetorical devices are all around us-whether in political speeches, advertisements or Katy Perry lyrics-and he does that handsomely.”- The Wall Street Journal ![]() One moment we are in the company of the Athenian orator Demosthenes, the next we’re rubbing shoulders (or shoulder pads) with Dolly Parton. ![]() ![]() As he moves in 39 succinct chapters through techniques such as hyperbaton (deliberate disruption of a sentence’s logical word order) and enallage (calculated disregard for conventional syntax), his frame of reference proves admirably wide. Forsyth has a flair for finding zesty examples. “Besides reinvigorating our sense of the ingredients and recipes that make our utterances flavorsome, Mr. The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase ![]()
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![]() ![]() Who would want Nelson dead? As he starts to investigate, Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels were more fact than fiction. One of the victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's who wrote timely political thrillers.īut evidence suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of Nelson's death - he had received several mysterious blows to the head. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are killed. ![]() Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. When Hurricane Leo arrives at Florida's Camino Island, a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen – even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime. And in the sequel, Camino Winds, Bruce is the primary protagonist, and we get to follow along and know him better, which feels like scratching an itch left by the first book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a heart-wrenching, beautiful story told in fragments-short stories in themselves-that track backward in time, from the painful end of a relationship that once had involved deep love to its joyful beginning full of hope. ![]() Now it’s five years later, and she’s trying to pick up the pieces of her heart after Theo has suggested a break but in reality moved out. But then life, with all the mundane choices and decisions that can either bring people together or gradually, quietly pull them apart, happened. Delighting-in-every-moment-exploring-each-other happy. She left everything behind-her mother, her job, her country-for Theo. The narrator of this book is an unnamed 30-year-old woman who moved from Dublin to London to join her boyfriend, Theo. After 5 years together, an Irishwoman and an Englishman break up. ![]() ![]() Johnson still dared to ask questions and to dedicate her life to seeking the answers. Despite the threat of being distanced from the church due to very frivolous thoughts regarding religion that was indisputable for many centuries, Elizabeth A. ![]() Starting her theological work as a CSJ sister she went much further than the paternalistic limits of religion allowed at the beginning of the second half of the 20 th century. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather ConditionĮlizabeth Johnson is an outstanding figure in the modern theology due to her incomparable contribution to the understanding of God, of the figure of the Christ in both the ideological and the historical perspective as well as the rise of feminist theology. ![]() ![]() Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes ![]() ![]() I think that this makes the book so different, though. You would never use these sort of words in 2011, modern life. I am now availing myself of the liberty you have frequently honoured me with of dedicating one of my novels to you." As an example, this is what Jane writes when she is planning a dedication in one of her novels: "Sir. ![]() I think Jenny's personality, particularly, came across very well.īecause this is a book set in the past, the vocabulary is very different, as they use historical terms and they speak differently. It is not clear whether Cousin Eliza was real or not. It was particularly hard for the author because obviously both Jane Austen and her cousin Jenny Cooper (whose real name has been Jane Cooper but the author decided not to have two Janes to make it less confusing) had both real people, but that nobody knew that much about in their teenage years. Overall, I think the characters' personalities were well written. ![]() ![]() But behind all this, she is a very caring, generous soul. She is cheeky and doesn't care what other people think of her, as she is very rich. Cousin Eliza is extravagant and colourful – she is a true romantic and is proud of her very French nature. ![]() |