This is the story of Margaret More Roper and her quest to preserve her father's place in history. "Without her ... his collected works would be a completely different book and perhaps not exist at all. He would have been diffident about it, preferring to be known as an honest Londoner with the ability to make people laugh." It seems unjust to the rest of the More children that Margaret Roper is always referred to as More's favorite child, because he loved all of them. A Daughter's Love does a good job of highlighting the special connection between Thomas More and his daughter. Nice Bits:
Sadly, it is not available as a Kindle book...yet. This article was originally published on The Thomas More Book Club in 2010. Since then, A Daughter's Love has been published for the Kindle by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ASIN B003K16P5U
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I keep my old ebook readers. They are filled with books and memories. I have only gotten rid of one, the Literati, because it was awkward and had a strange screen glare. However, most people don't want sevent Kindles and three Nooks, so here is how to get rid of them Barnes and Nobel NookBarnes and Noble participates in state recycling programs, and these are their instructions on erasing and unregistering your Nook. "To erase and deregister your NOOK, do this:
Amazon KindleYou can sell your Kindle back to Amazon. I was not impressed with the prices - $5 for a Kindle one? - but you can get credit toward a new Kindle.
If you go to the Kindle buyback page, you will see the steps and any promotions. Currently, there is a $20 gift card from Amazon toward a new Kindle. Amazon will send a shipping label to you so that there is very little work involved. Amazon also has a recycling program. They cover the costs of shipping and recycling your Kindle; you print the label and take the Kindle to UPS. You can also call Kindle support at 1-866-321-8851 for help. Perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but I used to have a blog about cats. This post is from 2007. Perhaps Jesus had a twin kitten? That makes sense, if you think about it very little, or better yet, not at all.
Read less about it here. The reason for the cat in this drawing comes from the legend that a cat was born at the same time as Christ Child. Leonardo's Madonna and Cat. Jasper Ridley is no fan of Thomas More. The Statesman and the Saint is a dual-biography, and it is interesting to watch the parallel lives of Wolsey and More unfold. Jasper Ridley seems to believe the worst of More and the best of Wolsey, but he does offer some interesting views of the life of More, particularly how he separated his work life and his private life.
The unhappy aspect about this book is that Ridley seems to bent on presenting More as a dangerous man who was not capable of love; even the relationship with Margaret seems to be more of a reflected interest rather than a mutal connection. At the end of the book, Ridley goes overboard with a dramatic conjecture of how Wolsey would be in the world today. He suggests Wolsey would be a CEO of a company or some other behind-the-scenes power, and More would be a fanatical leader raising armies against those he wanted to eliminate from society. Much like God's Bestseller by Brian Moynahan, Statesman loses some of its sense of authority by accepting the rumors of More excessively torturing people as fact. Both books are written by established, credible historians, but even stronger authorities, such as John Guy, have discounted much of those suggested abuses. It is interesting that in America, the book was published as The Statesman and the Saint, and in England it was published as The Statesman and the Fanatic. |
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