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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Laila Lalami's poetic debut, begins with the illegal journey of four Moroccans across the Strait of Gibraltar. Moments away from the shores of Spain, the boat capsizes and the passengers are forced to swim for their lives, and their freedom. What follows is an exploration of the pasts that led to this passage, and the futures that emerge from this voyage.
Less a novel than a series of biographical sketches, the book seems at times like a tease; Lalami does such a beautiful job creating her characters that readers will undoubtedly be left wanting more. Still, each portrait gives us a chance to not only engage with the character, but to gain an understanding of the religious, socio-economic, and emotional circumstances that compel each person to leave Morocco. Faten, a student who dons the hijab, is forced to flee when her religious beliefs start threatening the lives of influential educators. Murad, a serious, educated young man chances the crossing in search of a better life, where he doesn't have to hustle tourists to make a living. In each scene, Lalami bring Moroccan culture to life, from the tree-lined suburbs of Rabat to the Douar Lhajja slum, "where couscous pots were used as satellite dishes."
With Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Lalami creates a world that is both modern and traditional, hopeful and desperate, mournful and joyous. Readers can look forward to much more from this talented new voice. --Gisele Toueg
Book Description
In her exciting debut, Laila Lalami evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco and offers an authentic look at the Muslim immigrant experience today.
The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain. There’s Murad, a gentle, educated man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife to find work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future.
What has driven these men and women to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? Sensitively written with beauty and boldness, this is a gripping book about people in search of a better future.
Customer Reviews:
Lovely debut.......2007-08-01
I've just finished this lovely, poetic novel, debut by Laila Lalami about how hope is making us in move and about how much we are willing to sacrifice to make it happened.
First I'm very pleasantly surprised with the structure of the novel ("novel" in some lovely weird way). Namely it starts from the middle of the story, somewhere in the middle of the road between survival and life (or should I say 'hope'?), in the middle of the night, between two continents: Africa and Europe; in the middle of the path which separates "not just two countries but two universes."; in the boat made for eight people but which bears thirty passengers right now.
All those passengers have in common hope, their dream about life they couldn't have in their motherland - Morocco.
They are approaching Spanish coast with fear in their stomach and hope in their eyes and ... (I'll avoid spoilers) ... after page or two we are reaching the spot where story starts to branch (it's like a reverse delta). Or maybe it's even better to say that we are reaching narrowest spot on the 'sandglass'.
Sandglass is turned over and now we are following lives of the main characters prior their journey and here the novel becomes sort of collection of short stories. And these stories are very detailed and very personal portraits of persons with different characters, professions, education, etc. which are living in the same (mainly) political/economical pot which will transform them in immigrants.
It is a very colorful picture of nowadays Morocco and clash of its traditional and modern faces. Land filled with tourists seeking for roots of Paul Bowles's inspiration, or hashish, or some other sort of exotic adventure while muezzins are calling for prayer from minarets, with streets with girls covered with scarves and gay couples fearless sitting in the bars. We are introduced with some Islamic customs, especially in the marriage; with two completely different ways of interpretation of Qur'an: traditional as if there are no changes from the time of the Prophet and the modern one which is adapted with the current civilization level. And of course cuisine: you could feel the smell while passing through the pages mouth-watering.
However accent is on the horrifying economic situation with huge unemployment population (sometime regardless their education), extremely (and quite openly) corrupted system, from university via any sort of bureaucracy 'till the judicial system. Indeed you have a sensation of hermetic-incurable-never-ending-no-way-out, sensation so strong that you can feel it in your throat. Sensation that is boosted with descriptions of their homes, streets, furniture, etc so that you are wondering "How on Earth they're surviving at all?" and naturally when you're looking with their eyes immigrate in Spain is best (if not only) solution.
Then again sandglass is turned over and now we can see how immigrants live in their new country. Of course those kinds of dreams are often nightmares but it is incredible how people can find consolation and be satisfied. I guess when you manage to leave enormous misery behind, new misery doesn't look so unbearable. You just have to remember the ones who weren't that lucky and who would instantly exchange their place with yours.
Naturally new life will change them but while some changes are expectable (no one would gladly accept to leave horse and ride donkey again) some changes are so drastic that I had to double check if that is the same person.
I should say that 'sandglass' will be turned over more than once: to let us know why would anyone leave its own people, family, friends, customs and go in unknown land among strangers, become stranger himself (even among compatriots); to let us know how the ones who survived the trip but have not succeed in their intention are reestablish their lives in the country they wanted to leave; and to let us know about the ones whose lives have torn from the roots and are thrown on the other soil.
This is a story about their hope which helps them to stay alive.
A compelling first novel.......2007-04-29
Laila Lalami's novel is structured in three parts. The first one is called The Trip in which the reader gets acquainted with different characters attempting to reach in secret the Spanish coastline via the Strait of Gibraltar in a six-meter Zodiac. There is Faten, Aziz, Murad, Mouna and Halima.
In the second part of the novel called Before the reader learns what motivates these characters to wish to escape from Morocco
In the third part of the book called After we discover what happens to Faten, Aziz, Murad, Mouna and Halima once they reach the coast of Spain.
In a prose both spare and observant, the author follows her characters' varying fates. Men and women adrift and caught between the stagnation of Morocco and the hope of a better life in Spain. Laila Lalami is a sharp observer of the human condition and their characters are infused with universal emotions so that we can find part of ourselves in each of them. And it is also a vivid picture of the customs of modern-day Morocco.
Wow. Great book!.......2007-04-25
I think this was my favorite book for 2006. The fiction is well written, the plots are solid, and the cultural sense is solid. I am impressed at the author's ability to make me feel what her characters are feeling, understand what they are thinking, and end up having a complete empathy for their actions, even when I disagree with them.
Buy this book. Read it. Study it.
If I am ever able to write this well, I will be overjoyed.
Culture and Warmth.......2007-03-27
Laila Lalami's "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" is a brilliant and accessible collection of stories that takes a closer look at the lives of four of the thirty people embarking on a fourteen kilometer journey through the Straight of Gibraltar. An inflatable boat, that was only meant to accommodate eight, lands (though I use this term loosely) the Moroccans illegally in Spain.
"Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" is cleverly crafted into two parts: "Before" and "After." "Before," of course, tells what compels Lalami's characters to immigrate to Spain. Aziz hopes to make money to set up himself and his new bride. Educated and bookish Murad also dreams of a better job. Halima wants to save herself and her three children from an abusive husband, whom she fears won't grant her a divorce. Faten's story is told through the eyes of her best friend's father. He condemns her headscarf and conservative views and isn't opposed to using his high connections at Faten's university to keep her away from his daughter.
"After" is a follow-up, letting us glimpse into the reconstructed lives of those who made it and those who didn't. Aziz finds himself distanced from his family. Murad discovers a new livelihood. Halima's son becomes the local prophet, and Faten converts to the antipode of everything she once believed in.
"Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" is not only a socially conscious pursuit full of culture and warmth, it's a great read.
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits.......2006-09-08
* Plot in a nutshell: From separate walks of life, four Moroccan main characters' stories are linked in their desperation to illegally immigrate to Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar to find better employment and better conditions for themselves and their families. The book opens with the treacherous journey in a raft, and focuses on Faten, Noura, Halima and Aziz, then moves backwards to the events that brought them there.
The story follows their lives as they struggle to make their way in a strange land combating prejudice and squalor. As usual, when trying to escape one's problems, other problems are created.
* Sample of prose: "Larbi Amrani didn't consider himself a superstitious man, but when the prayer beads that hung on his rearview mirror broke, he found himself worrying that this could be an omen. His mother had given him the sandalwood beads on his college graduation, shortly before her death, advising him to use them often and well. At first Larbi had carried the beads in his pocket, fingered them after every prayer, but as the years went by he'd used them with decreasing regularity, until one day they ended up as decoration in his car. Now they lay scattered, amber dots on the black floor mats."
* Author reminds me of: T. C. Boyle in his wonderful book The Tortilla Curtain, in the way he was able to capture the plight and desperation of illegal immigrants, allowing readers inside their heads and lives.
* Best reason to read: This well-written "journal" is a reminder that, in spite of religious and cultural differences, we all have the same wants and needs under the skin - a timely topic in this age when the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina have taken center stage.
Average customer rating:
- A beautiful and hard to forget story.
- It's a keeper; great story; great writing
- 3 1/2 stars
- Couldn't Put It Down
- I only got halfway through
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Beauty Like the Night
Liz Carlyle
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Let bestselling author Liz Carlyle sweep you away to Regency England and into the lives of a family where scandal is served up like a soup course and dangerous secrets aboud.
The daughter of London's wickedest widow, Helene de Severs left England in disgrace and has struggled to overcome her heritage. Renowned within Europe's emerging psychiatric field for her gift for healing children, she returns to England confident she has learned to govern her own reckless emotions.
A disastrous marriage left notoriously ruthless Camden Rutledge, Earl of Treyhern, with a traumatized child and he decides to hire a governess so that he can concentrate on other family fires. Yet the moment Helene arrives, Treyhern's cold reserve is melted by desire he long thought dead. With her elegant clothing and mountain of luggage, the woman is not who he expected. Or is she? Sometimes the workings of the mind are as dangereous as those of the heart. And soon, danger is truly everywhere...
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A viscount calls upon a renowned European psychiatrist to help his daughter, who is left traumatized and unable to speak after witnessing the tragic death of her mother. After Helene comes to help the girl, she and the viscount find love, in this sensual romance from the author of "My False Heart" and "A Woman Scorned".
Customer Reviews:
A beautiful and hard to forget story........2006-10-01
Liz Carlyle gives me makes me feeing that I am reading a true classic. For some odd reason I found this book to be on the rather dark and dreary side.
Yet I still really liked it.
The characters of Cam and Helene are wonderful. I only wish there had been more romance in the story and less mystery.
It's a keeper; great story; great writing .......2006-09-29
Here's another (rare) 5 star book. It's not often that one is that worthy. I get tired of reading lame books. You'll truly enjoy the story of Camden and Helene in this one. I plan on reading more from L. Carlyle. I hope you like this one as well as I did. Happy reading.
3 1/2 stars.......2006-04-22
No one writes unrequitted love like Liz Carlyle. She has a way of drawing her reader into the story. However, "BLTN" was about 100 pages too long. I found myself skimming over quite a few parts.
The love scenes were steamy and well written. Her dialogue is brilliant...except for the repetitive usage of the phrases: "is it not?", "does it not?", are you not?", etc. I found that to be extremely ponderous.
That said, Cam and Helene are very likeable characters and clearly love each other. Not my favorite LC, but not so bad. A bit slow going in parts but not a bad read.
Couldn't Put It Down.......2006-03-14
Cam and Helene are true soul mates...from the beginning you know Cam will never look at another woman the way he looks at Helene....this book has a subplot that involves the early days of mental illness as a recognized medical problem. Helene is a governess trained to help children who have been traumatized like Cam's daughter. Helene and Cam have a prior history, Helene's mother was Cam's father's mistress. As youngsters they fell in love but their parents forced them apart and out of duty to his family Cam enters an arranged and loveless marriage. His wife ends up dying in a fire and his daughter witnesses it. She is mute and suffers from unknown horrors and that's why Cam has hired Helene. Helene and Cam try to fight their attraction but cannot, they give into it. However, secrets from the past are tearing them apart along with Cam's vulnerable daughter. This book never bores but is much more than a simple romance.
I only got halfway through.......2006-03-03
I am sure this book gets more interesting in the second half, but I didn't get that far. I got tired of these characters, and the lack of plot. It went like this: Governess arives. Employer recognizes her from a tryst they had as teenagers. They both regret their past. She wanders around in the garden. She visits a church. She plays backgammon with a brother. They remember the past. They worry about a child. They meet in the library. They talk, but not really. They are repressed and depressed. Nothing happens.
Sorry, I can only take so much of this. I'm going to go read some Amanda Quick -- at least her books are entertaining. Or Joanna Lindsay -- at least her books are sexy. At this point, I frankly don't care if Cam and Helene make it to bed or not.
Book Description
With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, with a couple of million Posleen behind them and fourteen million to the front, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies. But they have a hole card: far to the north the shattered SheVa Nine is undergoing a facelift. Rising from its smoking ashes is a new weapon of war, armed with the most advanced weaponry Terra has ever produced, capable of facing both the Posleen hordes and their redoubtable space-cruisers. Capable of dealing out hell as only SheVa Nine can. If Mike O'Neal and the other members of the 555th are going to survive, it will come down to how much Posleen butt Bun-bun can kick. Prepare to eat antimatter, Posleen-boy.
Customer Reviews:
Deux ex machina indeed.......2007-09-17
"The biggest complaint I have is the deus ex machina saviors . . . "
Sums it up for me. I have refused to buy or read anything else in the series because of that ending.
Sorry, John, but there has to be some penalty. Readers had a lot invested in the series by that point. It was great until then but that just makes what felt like a betrayal even worse, whatever the reason.
I can't think of many books in the enormous numbers I have read that left me feeling this, well, cheated.
I originally read the ending with growing disbelief. It felt just as if, a few chapters from the end of a very long book in a long series, that the publisher had called and told the author that the fifth book was a no-go and this one had to end the whole story (and was still due in his hands in a couple of days).
A fine addition to the series.......2007-02-15
I know exactly what I liked about this book over the earlier ones...the focus wasn't on superhero Mike Oneal. No, the focus was on Bun-Bun, the superhero mechanized cannon\assault vehicle! And while superheroics were still present, there were real people involved as well. I guess that's just my preference.
Overall, this is a great wrap-up to the posleen invasion phase of the series. As usual, the combat sequences are vividly portrayed and just a ton of fun.
Starts Strong, but Lingers Too Long - and Took One Book Too Many! .......2007-02-02
"A Hymn Before Battle" and "Gust Front" introduced John Ringo and his War Against the Posleen universe with a rousing start. Unfortunately, the next two books (this review is for "When the Devil Dances" and "Hell's Faire" because, even as Ringo admits, they are really one book) do not live up to the beginning. "When the Devil Dances" starts strong, picking up a while after the battle of "Gust Front"; humanity is struggling in pockets of civilization as they continue to battle against the initial invasion of the Posleen. But, they also know that the next, bigger wave is approaching, and that stopping the final taking of Earth by the Posleen seems impossible without re-enforcements from the units fighting off world - re-enforcements that they are told are not coming.
These two books are darker as well; Ringo admits to this in his afterwards of "Hell's Faire" where he talks about the effects of 9-11 on his writing of the book(s) and where he also admits to the faults of the third and fourth books of the series.
Though the book(s) has(ve) some great moments and some great battles, there are some serious flaws riddling the story. The biggest problem with the third book (or third and fourth books), is that it is too long...way too long - really needed some editing. Again, Ringo admits to this; which is unfortunate because that means it could have been fixed before publication. I think most of the blame falls on Baen Books, not Ringo; Baen has become a bit of a factory and its good authors suffer for it.
Another big problem with "When the Devil Dances" and "Hell's Faire" is the direction Ringo takes to story and the characters. The darkness that Ringo brought to these books, does not fit the first two books or the universe he created. And, he leaves us completely unfulfilled in regards to the background intrigue that has been building throughout the series. And, when he talks in the afterwards of walking away from the universe for a period of time because he is burned out on it, I found that very unfair as there was too much left undone.
And a warning: my biggest problem with these two books is the way he ends it! I won't tell you the ending, but it is so quick and so pat, I was left so dissatisfied, that it spoiled the universe for me. Then it got worse when the next books in the universe were cash-cow pot boilers written by other authors! What a disappointment.
The Continuing Human-Posleen War series.......2007-01-10
I like Ringo's Posleen books quite a bit, but Hell's Faire and When the Devil Dances would have been better as a single (somewhat slimmer) book. Note - To his credit, the author does discuss why the books came out the way they did instead of as one work.
The final battle.......2006-12-20
The Human-Posleen War has reached a crecendo now, with this apocolyptic final battle that lasts for 29 hours and over three states in South East America. Mike O'Neal is still fighting with the 555th, a military unit with specially designed suites to fight the physicaly stronger aliens. Elsewhere SheVa (a supertank made to be able to shoot down huge landing space crafts) is also engadged and up to it's neck in alien opposition. The major turning point in the novel is the use of nuclear weapons as stratagic weapons, as it is the only really effective away of dealing with the threat on such a massive scale.
This is the last book of the series, well, for me anyway. I know there is more books in the series, but they address other aspects of the war that do not interest me. "Hell's Faire" is not exactly a sequal to "When the Devil Dances"; they were intened to be one long novel. I think it was a good idea to seperate them; the combined book would have been nearly 1000 pages.
The book brings back all the old characters you have grown to love, Mike, Papa O'Neal, Cally, Gunny Pappas, Duncen, and all the others. And once again they're the problem, they don't seem real but all more or less John Wayne cloned. They have grwon hard and cold by the non-stop war. None more than Major 'Mighty' Mike O'Neal, who orders a nuke strike, knowing his daughter will most surely be killed by it. Cally seems a little too wise for her years
The only other real problem I had, and this is with all the books, is with the cloak and dagger espeionage that pop up from time to time, like the idea that the Durhel are not the benevloent benifacotrs that they claim to be. Good idea, but I don't think it was ever really explained (or maybe I just missed it). I didn't think the unresolved mystery fit well with a streight forward war book.
Still a wonderful finale to a good science-fiction war series.
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- Defeating the Malignant Centaurs.
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Hell's Faire
John Ringo
Manufacturer: Baen Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000NOYBUS |
Customer Reviews:
Defeating the Malignant Centaurs........2007-09-28
I definitely enjoy sci-fi books, alt-his books, soldiers' war memories books and historical battles books.
Well believe it or not John Ringo's "Hell's Faire" is a tasty combination of all these genres and writing styles, as the previous volumes in the series!
I've already read some books of what is usually known as "military sci-fi" and with the exception of Joe Haldeman's "Forever Peace" the rest of them range from "very boring" to "just so-so".
That is NOT the case with the present volume.
Mr. Ringo instills a strange sense of reality in all battle accounts (they really made me remember Lt. Wells "Give me fifty Marines not afraid to die" prose describing his Iwo Jima experience).
When he portrays the general picture of a battle or campaign they come so true as if you were reading Toland or Beevor or even Hastings. He even provides maps!
In this fourth volume of the series (or as the author explains the second half of the third volume of an intended trilogy), the energetic "Mighty Mite" is still not the dominant character, yet he recovers part of the limelight.
In his place several figures that have emerged to the front in the last volume continue having the focus (Cally, Wendy, Elgars, Le Blanc, Major Ryan, Lt. Sunday and Captain Chan amongst other. All of them are fully described and the plot is enriched.
The super-gun SheVa is still having the floor (with some major last minute add-ons), followed and supported by a plethora of Abrams.
As a special treat, the author delivers some dark jokes and an acid sense of humor romps thru the whole novel.
If you haven't read the first three volumes, I'll encourage you to do so in order to fully enjoy this tale.
The story is as follows: five years has elapsed since Earth was faced with the first Posleen's disembarkations.
Planetary resistance is almost gone. Only the USA still keeps a big part of its territory and is entangled in a deadly stalemate.
A new Posleen war leader arrives to Earth and starts using new and more effective tactics endangering human defenses.
Humans as always put a rough defense with what they have at hand.
The novel focuses on the second part of a mighty confrontation (I dare to call it "The Return of SheVa").
Oh yes! It is the END of this segment. We may see more confrontations in the future, but they will be with new (and more dangerous) foes.
"Hell's Faire" is a high quality sci-fi novel deserving to be read by every true buff!
Do not let the series pass by!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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With step-by-step instructions for over forty ways to pray, this valuable guide contains a wealth of timeless spiritual prayer practices that Christians have used over the last 2000 years from cultures around the world. Among the prayer practices you'll encounter in this book are the daily office, the prayer shawl, praying with icons, centering prayer, fasting, prayer beads, walking a labyrinth, pilgrimage, anointing for healing, and praying the scriptures.
Paths to Prayer offers a whole-person approach to prayer that takes into account each person's individuality and doesn't assume we all relate to God in the same way. A prayer styles self-assessment will help you reflect on your life, your preferences, and your unique way of interacting with the world. Try new dimensions of praying— innovative, searching, relational, and experiential— to deepen your encounter with the divine.
Customer Reviews:
Paths to Prayer book.......2007-05-13
By far the best book on different prayer styles I've ever read. Everyone in our study group is of the same opionion.
Stretch Your Ideas about Prayer.......2003-12-24
For those who are inside the church and are tired of same-old, same-old ways of praying and for those outside the circle of religious institutions but yearn for fresh ways to connect to your self and the Truth beyond yourself, here is a gold mine. Tricia Brown will stretch you by giving depth and variety. Enter this laboratory of prayer and experimenet with the author as your coach, and you will surely discover new parts of your soul and ways to express love in the world.
A Recipe Book Not A Gourmet Meal.......2003-12-21
Finally, I can begin to stop feeling guilty or deficient because I don't get up at 3am and pray on my knees for hours on a stone floor in the cold!Trisha Brown encourages us to explore and find the "how to pray" that works for us as individuals...maybe the stone floor one time, maybe the stream of consciousness conversation while driving down the road at another time.
I lead an adult education group at the church where I serve as DRE and we've been using this book as a resource and guide as we explore "ways and means" of prayer. We have been making our own sets of Anglican prayer beads, a new concept to many of the participants,and in the creation and construction of them we've discovered that that too is a way of prayer.
Thank you, Trisha, for helping to free us from "the one way" and opening doors to deeper, very personal ways to develop our relationship with a living God.
I learned so much!.......2003-12-19
This is a wonderful book on prayer. I learned over 40 ways to pray to God including the Wesley Covenant Prayer, Prayer Beads, the Tallith (the Jewish Prayer Shawl) and so many more. I now have a deeper and wider appreciation of the history of the Church. Thank you for this fine book.
worth reading.......2003-12-17
For th ose of us who want to learn how to pray...better, so to speak, this is a helpful book. I didn't realize there were so many "pathways."
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