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Desire and Death in the Spanish Sentimental Romance, 1440-1550
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Jan Jordan is having a birthday—a birthday she’s been dreading since she learned to count...surely life can be nothing but downhill from here.
Kenny Pearson is old enough to know better, but he doesn’t care. As long as he can still knock a softball out of the park and brag about it over a beer with the guys afterward, life is good.
Ida Bauer is old and doesn’t mind saying so. Her husband is gone and so are most of her friends—and she has to face it—soon she will be too. Does she have anything left to offer in the time she has left?
God has a plan for all these people...if only they will listen.
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Another winner by this author! .......2005-06-21
This book inspired me to look into my own heart and realize there was a message I needed to hear. All of Roxanne's books are truly wonderful and i can promise you will not be disappointed if you take the time to read them.
Roxanne Henke Welcomes us to Brewster.......2005-04-14
We plan and God answers with a nudge, reminding us that He is in charge. That He knows what is best for us and that it is so much more than we ever imagined it could be.
In Always Jan, Roxanne Henke welcomes us to Brewster, North Dakota, the kind of town where most people would love to live and raise a family. It's a place where people know your name and reach out to help each other. It's where folks gather at the restaurant or gas station to gossip and commiserate with each other. It's a place, like most others, only smaller, where the inhabitants have hopes and dreams, love their friends, family and neighbors and share the sadness of broken dreams and deep hurts. It's also a place where God lives.
Jan believes she is "getting old" and losing her beauty. Kenny owns the local gas station but there isn't enough money for his growing family. Ida, Kenny's aunt, values independence, health and a vital future. Each character experiences a "challenge" that they didn't expect and didn't want. Henke weaves each character's life dilemma through the lives of the others in a seamless manner. Jan, Kenny and Ida are each broken, in their own way, and each must learn through their personal trials that God's plan is the best plan.
There was a time when I didn't enjoy Christian fiction because it wasn't real life. It seemed that life in Christian fiction was always "happy ever after," if only we believed. Real life isn't always perfect, even when we trust and believe.
Roxanne Henke's novel Always Jan approaches life in a "real" way: real people, with real problems, who struggle to live their faith. I smiled, I squeezed the tears threatening to break free and I kept reading. I didn't want the story to end because I felt I knew these people and I liked them, "warts" and all. I can't wait to read her other novels. If you haven't read Roxanne Henke's novels, please do so and "Welcome to Brewster...it's a good place to call home."
This could be my favorite Roxanne Henke book yet!.......2005-03-29
Always Jan really got to me. I have enjoyed every book Roxanne Henke has written, even learning something while I experienced a terrific, page-turning read. But this one hit home in a special way. Maybe it is because of my age - and the book is about aging; maybe it is because of a close relative's life which rather parallels Ida's in the story. I'm not sure. But I found this book to be so much more than just a wonderful read.
The story is told in multiple, first person, points of view - a style that well suits Henke's clear, concise writing. Jan: the beauty who is fearful of aging, Kenny: the sports-playing dad who wants to replay those high school days, and Ida: Kenny's elderly Aunt who struggles to live alone as her health declines and loneliness threatens to overcome. Roxanne weaves these three lives together in a beautiful tale that grabs your heart and won't let go until the last line.
I absolutely loved it! And recommend this wonderful book to every person who likes to read the best in inspirational lit.
Aging.......2005-02-18
This book beautifully shares the truth that "getting older will be, and is, a joy as long as you do it with the Lord at your side!"
Good stuff!.......2005-02-10
Having read all of Roxanne's books, I looked forward to this one and was not disappointed. Roxy has a way of making you see her characters as the person living next door or down the street. Hopefully you have all had an "Ida Bauer" in your life--or will be an Ida Bauer to someone else. One of the most profound messages was given by one of the lesser characters (I won't go into it because it would give you too much of the storyline) so you can see Roxy develops her characters well. Lessons on aging, on friendship, on unconditional love, on giving someone a chance, on "glory days"...very well done! I'm a librarian in a small town and can't keep the other books in the series on the shelf!
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Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
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An Amazing Piece of Work!!.......2007-03-28
I have to share this: Recently while weeding out my various collections and selling some, my Mother listed this book for me. I did not tell her it was fiction and after looking over and reading some of the book she decided to go online and get more information about the Kesh. She was convienced they had actually existed. Now, my Mom is an intellgent and informed woman -- The amazing job Ursula did in making the Kesh so REAL is astounding! This Book and Tape are definitly worth the time and money for ANYONE who appreciates Great writing.....Genre be darned!
One of her best.......2006-08-12
Ms. Le Guin is one of the foremost authors in America working across a broad spectrum of genres. This is one of her best works detailing a life in a culture that works with the land & the spirit. The rich details of this culture appear in the music, poetry, stories and art of the Kesh. These are a vibrant people who appeal on every level.
It's Hard to Know What I Think.......2006-03-03
On the one hand, I agree with all the good things other reviewers have mentioned. On the other hand, I also agree with all the bad things.
The cultures in the book struck me not so much as "simple" but as "simplistic." I think I was also really bothered by the lack of enough story to illuminate the practices of the society. The story parts were great. The poetry parts frequently drove me up the wall (true also of my reading of Tolkein). It was choppy, which made it difficult to read without the concentration one reserves for *actual* archaeological study.
I think in the end that might have been my biggest problem with it. I wanted to read about a world that never was, a world that might be, a world of people different from me. Instead, I was stuck reading fake archaeology. I was uncomfortable with the in-between-ness of it - I either wanted real archaeology, or real fiction, not a mishmash of the two. The book is incredibly self-indulgent of the author; what saves it is that LeGuin is so phenominally gifted that even her self-indulgence is interesting and well-written.
It was compelling (in places) and maddeningly dull (in places). I think I'm glad I read it - but I'm not sure - and I don't think I'll read it again - but I'm not sure.
I'm sorry this isn't a more coherent review. It's hard for me to know if the problem was mine, or the book's. A very strange, in-between book that left me in a strange, in-between place.
In sum: Very well written, very unique book, that left me very ambivalent about whether it was "worth it" as a reader.
Deserves a Much Wider Audience.......2005-07-07
Ursula LeGuin's Kafka Award winner and 1985 National Book Award runner-up is the deepest deep-ecology fiction I know of and my favorite novel. It's the only scifi book to earn such honors [her 1972 National Book Award for "The Farthest Shore" was in Childrens Books]. "Always Coming Home" is less a book about landscape than a book that inhabits a landscape. I've just finished my third reading in twenty years.
True to her anthropological scifi themes, LeGuin creates the feeling of living in a very different culture better than any other writer I've read. In negative reviews I've seen, [not just here] aside from problems reading it's "experimental" format, I've been struck by reviewers simply not getting it at a fundamental level.
Many years ago, the credo of my graduate fiction-writing workshops was "Show, don't tell" and "Be concrete", both accomplished through use of details. Thus defined, ACH is a fiction-writing tour de force in which she not only invents an Amerindian-like culture [with advanced technology, sort of], but has us participate in its calendar of rituals, oral wisdom and parables, eco-knowledge, recipes, poems, songs and family fights. The original boxed editions included a cassette tape of fables, poems, songs, and sacred chanting in a language she invented for these people, the Kesh. And the Kesh are embedded within the natural landscape of California's Napa Valley sometime in the nebulous future.
The story takes place millenia after a worldwide industrial apocalypse. Fossil fuels are exhausted, wide swaths of territory are poisoned by chemicals and radiation and sterilized by plastic sands. Large geological events have put the San Francisco Bay basin, California's central valley and the Great Basin under the ocean.
The book's antagonist, the Condor culture, Leguin's version of the warrior-dominated Indo-Europeans migrating from the steppes into agrarian Europe circa 3500 B.C. is an almost cartoonish sketch. A foil for Kesh society, Condor society is a social and material culture as unsustainable as our current rapacious, consumption-at-all-costs society [which may be changing]. But it's a mistake to read ACH as a simple industrialization versus environmentalism vision. It's not primarily about that, nor is it about the future, nor a metaphor for today, nor utopian fare, although it's partly all those.
Ultimately, with science-hunger moved off-stage, ACH is about how it has felt and what it has meant to be human over our million or so years on the planet. This hasn't changed, nor will it, despite today's technological veener. LeGuin's vision sums up this entire experience of being human and particularizes it to one specific biophysical environment just as all cultures have been so particularized, except in some instances over the last few millenia.
The Kesh do have industry. For example, much of their Na valley floor is covered with vineyards and a railroad delivers barrels of wine to the coast where a farflung maritime trading system begins. But it's appropriate technology use; their culture is rooted in being human, not in production. The Kesh are not poor, nor subsistence-level livers, nor backward in any way, but their material lives service their non-material lives -- their humaness -- and not vice versa. They still have teenagers, testosterone-driven conflicts between groups, curious and lazy people, firebrands, hermits, dissidents, warriors, mystics, cliques, social outcasts and the joys and tribulations of sexuality.
Anyone familiar with the structure and daily lives of primal cultures will recognize the verisimilitude under the scifi novel conventions here. And if you know a bit about the vanished, semi-sedentary cultures of the California Indians you'll find LeGuin's fictitious one as real as rain. [The cultures that inspired her are revived in "The Ohlone Way", a gem of a book by Malcolm Margolin.]
The book's major weakness is it's stiff, shallow, and simplistic antogonist [culture], a characteristic problem in LeGuin's work; she doesn't write good villians. Another is the actual narrative, the story of Stone Telling, only 112 extracted pages and our primary view of Condor culture, so I wish she'd developed it more. Her P.O.V. -- that of a socially immature, pre-adolescent in a restrictive harem -- may be the problem in both instances. I want some plot device to get her out of the house. Still, Stone Telling's story resolves perfectly for this symphony of life in the Na Valley.
The book's non-linear format will turn many people off, and it's flawed, but for me ACH is in a class by itself, even beyond the novels of my favorite novelist, William Faulkner. Faulkner is the better writer, perhaps, but the realization of the Na Valley exceeds that of Yoknapatawpha County.
LeGuin's anthropological slant is developed to it's structural extreme: a collection of field notes and texts including visual and impeccably accurate oral material -- a file cabinet -- as novel. This hints at the epistolary origin of the English novel. Giving the book the time and attitude it requires means buying or borrowing the CD/tape. You not only hear the Kesh speak and sing, a suprisingly evocative tool, but even the Na Valley landscape itself. This audio portion of a novel is not only unique but integral to LeGuin's mosaic. She's constructed a complete culture, a formidable creative accomplishment.
LeGuin spent formative years in the Na valley and the village of Sinshan itself. I live in the Bay Area and know it's ecosystems and pre-contact Native American culture. She's nailed them. Sit on a shaded, worn redwood deck bordering a bay laurel or redwood grove, gaze out at the dry, yellow, August hills of the California coast range, and it's easy to see, feel, and smell the ancient stone and redwood Kesh family great houses. Easy.
The Kesh live in a numinous environment that is mostly lost now but is still here for us to rediscover. Give this book a chance and you will breathe with the Kesh.
Predicting, or observing?.......2005-01-25
Ursula Le Guin is my favorite living author, and this is my favorite of her novels. If you don't want a review that comes from that position, which has developed over thirty years and uncountable books and is not (quite) as facile as it sounds, stop now.
This book, though, received a lot of criticism, some of it, perhaps, just. It was criticized for appropriating Native American culture, and although Le Guin is explicit in denying that as her intent, it's an issue worth discussing. Because Le Guin is the daughter of anthropologists specializing in deep study of native cultures, it might be truer to say that those visions of the world have appropriated and influenced her. Nonetheless, this is something to discuss if you teach the book, or recommend it to a friend.
Le Guin's also been variously accused of predicting the future with that least forgivable sin, earnestness, and of creating a prescriptive utopia in which no reasonable reader can believe. These charges, though, I find less worthy of discussion. Those who say it's unbelievable cite
a) the Kesh's success in dealing with the military-industrial Condor through nonviolent resistance (nonviolent resistance actually work? Ridiculous! Oh, wait a minute...),
b) the improbability of the Condor getting so caught up in their exploding toys that they don't make good use of them (also ridiculous! no one would build more and more bombers while failing to provide body armor for their troops, and the Afghanis never drove out the techno-heavy USSR with flintlock rifles), and
c) the belief that the culture of the Kesh "really" wouldn't be anything like this.
If we're talking of earnestness and prescriptive prediction, though, I think such critics undermine their own position. It doesn't get much more earnest, or much more prescriptive, than saying that someone else's imaginary culture "would" "really" have done thus-and-such. One of Le Guin's points is that the world doesn't *have* to go the way that some military-industrial-consumer Americans are prone to believe it must; there are other choices, though perhaps only after some very regrettable ecological catastrophes. She's also mildly famous for pointing out that SF authors don't predict the future; they observe the present. By that standard, ACH doesn't say that people will live in Kesh-like valleys, or that they should live in Kesh-like valleys, but that some people, right now, do in some sort live this way. And that, in my experience, is the literal truth. Those people are silenced and ignored and sneered at and mocked, but they exist, and not just in straw-bale solar houses.
In terms of Utopia, Le Guin explicitly rejects it(in the passage "Pandora Converses with the Archivist.") Now maybe she needs more than a single rejection to prove that this doesn't function as an improbable utopia; but it doesn't hurt to actually read the thing before dismissing it, and see what she does say.
I tend to think that it avoids utopianism by what IS included: for instance, people in the Valley routinely and slowly die of mercury poisoning (or something very like it, "sevai".) Not so Utopian, really. Again, rather than having machines which make all manual labor obsolete, we see two women digging a garden in soil that's "like wet concrete when it's wet, and like dry concrete when it's dry." They do this by digging a shovelful and then handing it to the other woman to clean off the concrete-like mud while digging a second shovelful with a second spade, and so on. If that's your idea of utopia, I can only say it's not mine: people suffer, people die, people work, sometimes, very hard. The fact that they aren't doing it in Wal-Mart, or in a cubicle, doesn't mean that hard work isn't, well, hard work. Thirdly, living "in harmony" in this valley (or anywhere else) isn't just a matter of the warm fuzzies: it requires some knowledge of ecology, and some brutal adjustments to it. These people can have two children per person, no exceptions. If you marry someone who's got two, you won't have any children of your body. If you want six, you're out of luck, that's all, and it's not such an easy proposition. "Living in balance" is a term easy to scoff at; but balance, as those know who've tried it, requires work and thought, both routinely thought to be unnecessary in a well-maintained utopia. And, finally, this "utopia" spans one valley in one mountain range: the Kesh's "goodness" hasn't convinced the rest of the world to change its ways, not even the Pig People next door. If picturing a world in which one insular society is allowed to live sustainably and peacefully is Utopian, then, yes, it's Utopian; but viewing this as so improbable as to be not worth contemplating says more about the reader than about the author.
Still with me? needless to say, I recommend it very highly indeed. Maybe it's not fair in its use of indigenous elements; I don't feel qualified to say. Maybe it is a Utopia, if people can die and suffer and sweat and fart in Utopia. But whether or no, it's a beautiful and entertaining and thought-provoking book.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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"Beware of shaking hands with a Sterkarm!" goes the folk saying. Why the warning? The members of this wild 16th-century Scottish clan are left-handed, and while they smile and offer the right hand, the left wields a dagger.
When a 21st-century mega-corporation opens a Time Tube to the 16th century, the stiff-backed CEO finds his plans for exploiting the mineral and tourism possibilities of the ancient English-Scottish border frustrated by the Sterkarms--raiding parties of men he regards as primitive animals.
On the other side of the Time Tube, anthropologist Andrea Mitchell has been sent to live with the Sterkarms to be the corporation's informant and translator. There she is surprised to find herself admired for her generous curves and accepted warmly by the volatile and affectionate--but intermittently murderous--clansmen. When her lover, Per, is grievously wounded on a raid, she persuades Old Toorkild, the chief, to allow his handsome and adored son to be transported to the 21st century for healing. But when Per awakes in a world four centuries ahead of his own, his terror and suspicions of treachery bring down a wild collision between heartless technology and a ferocious people skilled in passionate defense of their life and lands.
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize in England, Susan Price's The Sterkarm Handshake--a richly textured love story, a vivid and sometimes humorous portrayal of confrontation between cultures, and a thumping good page-turner--should find enthusiastic fans among teen-fantasy and time-travel buffs. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell
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"Beware of shaking hands with a Sterkarm."
For generations, the Sterkarms plundered the Scottish border. They were known for shaking on a bargain with a dagger clutched firmly in one hand -- and for not keeping their promises.
Now people from the 21st century have found a way to travel to the Sterkarms' time. The 16th century is rich in natural resources and historical detail, perfect for the modern investor or scholar. Anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds more than research there, as she falls in love with a young Sterkarm warrior. But when he realizes how powerful and destructive the visitors truly are, he vows to keep them from his land forever. And in the bloody battle that ensues, Andrea must choose between her love and her world.
Customer Reviews:
Just okay..........2007-06-06
Have been looking forward to reading this book for a while, as it has received many positive reviews here and elsewhere. What started out as a compelling story line, quickly turned into tedium and annoyance mixed with flashes of action. I kept telling myself to pick it up again, to keep going. Alas, halfway through, I gave up for good. A disappointment.
Capitalism clashing with clan warfare.......2007-02-24
I loved this book! My only wish is that more historical detail for the weapons and equipment had been present, such as found in Richard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series.
"A Sterkarm Handshake".......2006-05-31
I recently read the novel "A Sterkarm Handshake" and I thought it was one of the most wonderful books I have ever read...and trust me, I've read quite as few!!! I love the clever way that Susan Price can write how she can refer to the real world 21st and 16th side without really saying what happened or what she meant. Susan Price is a great novel and she's up there with J.K.Rowling, J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis. Susan Price has already won two awards for each of the books she has written "A Sterkarm Handshake" and "A Sterkarm Kiss". Although I must say, "A Sterkarm Kiss" though it was good, wasn't as good as "A Sterkarm Handshake." If you enjoyed "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman, you'll love this book. If you loved this book you'll love "His Dark Materials Trilogy" by Philip Pullman!!!
There are better books out there.......2006-05-03
The concept of this book is interesting, but I don't find the execution to be well done, especially in terms of characterization and writing.
We're supposed to accept the romance between Andrea and Per without ever seeing anything to support it. Windsor is more than just a bad boss, he's all the bad bosses ever concieved melded into one completely unbelievalbe person. It's impossible to think he could actually run a success company. His only purpose is to cause trouble and manhandle the plot towards whatever scene Price has in mind next. Bryce is initially the level-headed, logical security chief, but by the end of the book he's acting like one of the rent-a-cops he originally had such disdain for.
The coincidence with Joe Sterkarm is so outlandish, it makes the rest of the book impossible to take seriously. The overall plot is predictable, especially with the foreshadowing story about the elf-swan near the beginning. We already know what's going to happen; all that's left is to see which unlikeable characters die before it's over.
Quite frankly, the puppet strings of the author are all too visible throughout the book. If you're looking for time travel with a cultural emphasis, I recommend "The Doomsday Book" and its follow-up "To Say Nothing of the Dog", both by Connie Willis. I guarantee you'll be happier for having read them than you will for The Sterkarm Handshake.
Stop Whining Andrea... .......2005-12-31
Really not worth the read. It started off as a cute little romance/sci-fi, you know, the type of time travel story, where people from two different times meet, fall in love and such. However, the difference was that in this book, the main character Andrea isn't even likable. So she's overweight, but somehow, the author uses her weight to justify all of her character flaws. Andrea is in love with Per, and a large part of it seems to be because Per's "hot," and she believes she can't do better in the twenty first century. She is able to kiss Per even after she watches him kill security guards who were her friends. It shows how shallow she is, because Per is not honest, treats her like dung when he wants to, and a killer. Throughout the book, she is portrayed as a self-sacrificing woman who would do any thing for the man she loves which was annoying because the relationship was more of a "fat-woman-being-flattered-by-the-attentions- of-hot-but-violent-and-sexist-teenager" fling rather than love. Andrea is portrayed as shallow, weak, disgustingly infatuated until she is beyond reason or morals. I would try to be sympathetic, but after pages and pages of her moaning about morals, and doing the right thing and then throwing herself at Per right after he murders her "friends" was too much. It seems that all the stereotypes of being overweight are placed on her: she has no self-confidence, very shallow and well, sort of dimwitted and overall weak.
Victor, her boss, was portrayed as the villain in the story, however it was much easier to sympathize with him. He is a business man, and although, he has some serious flaws, it is possible to see why he would get fed up with the Sterkarms and Andrea. He is disgusted by the Sterkarms, who rob his men, even when they had negotiated a treaty, and who kill in barbarious ways. I thought that was reasonable, compared to Andrea, who sees the Sterkarms wearing watches from the 21st century, which she knew were stolen, but doesn't say anything. Although Victor is selfish and greedy, he makes sense and is practical, whereas Andrea plays out to be a ditsy, hysterical girl with her first crush. If you are looking for a book with a heroine, don't read this one - its seems to bring the feminist movement back a few decades.
The plot was violent, and some of the nasty parts were unescessary. The author did a good job of using the vernacular, and describing the conditions of the time though. And I thought sending Per to the present was very amusing. The main weakness of the book is its main character, and if you are a feminist, keep away - you'll hate her as much as I do.
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Sterkarm Handshake
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"What is man, that you are mindful of him, the son of man, that you care for him?"Indeed, what is
a man?As our society sorts through what it means to be masculine or feminine and roles drift and shift, men as well as women feel the strain. Very recently, a small but growing field of theory called men's studies has appeared in reaction to the decades-long feminist movement in women's studies. Can the social sciences informing contemporary men's studies (psychology, cultural anthropology and others) provide helpful insight as to what helps or hinders men in becoming the sons, fathers, husbands, and brothers they ought to be?Following her landmark gender-reconciliation text,
Gender and Grace, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen turns her focus to men's studies in this new book. She incorporates the most recent and significant research in the social sciences with a biblically founded Christian worldview that sets the course for men and women being in right relationship. Surveying a vast amount of literature with balance and insight, Van Leeuwen probes the value and plumbs the limits of what the social sciences offer Christians.For men and women, for students, teachers and general readers, Van Leeuwen offers an alternative to mindless conformity to--or dismissal of--cultural "norms." Rather she encourages pursuit of a faithful masculinity that honors the God who made men and women to be a blessing to each other.
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Another Thought-Provoking Book by Van Leeuwen.......2004-11-09
She does it yet again! I really enjoyed an egalitarians viewpoint on masculinity in this century. It also made me realise how hugely important of a role my husband plays in my daughters life. It is scholarly, yet readable. An overview of masculinity in through the centuries and what affect that has on todays perception of what masculinity is. She has two sons, is a egalitarian and a very intelligent woman both as a scholar and from her personal experience.
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