![]() ![]() ![]() )-fails to meet the high standard set by her exceptional medieval novels. Nationally bestselling author Madeline Hunter has captivated fans with unforgettable romance novels filled with suspense, seduction, mystery, and love. Hunter weaves in an excellent subplot involving blackmail and suicide, but this tale-the second in a new trilogy (following The Seducer Their relationship, though highly sensual, feels strained, and Vergil's opportunism concerning her money may trouble readers. Nevertheless, she falls in love-and quickly into bed-with the mysterious Vergil, who finds himself taken with her despite her independent ways. Bianca wants to be an opera singer, not a wife. Though Dante is willing, the lady is not. Though high in the instep, the Duclaircs are dangerously low on money, and Vergil hopes to replenish their coffers by marrying Bianca off to his rakish younger brother, Dante. Vergil, Viscount Duclairc, is unexpectedly thrust into the role of guardian to high-spirited American heiress Bianca Kenwood when his older brother dies suddenly. , etc.), is a sizzling take on the guardian-ward formula. This conventional Regency-era romance from Hunter, who's best known for her medieval romances ( Lord of a Thousand Nights ![]()
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Ruth Ozeki, an American Japanese and a longtime Zen practitioner, begins the novel with an epigraph from Uji, and the book can be read as one long commentary on Dogen. ![]() ![]() A time being is also a being who lives in time, who is alive, and who will therefore die. ![]() The time being is a kind of eternal present. The time being is deep time, as opposed to linear, chronological time. ![]() “The time being” is an English translation of the Japanese word uji, which is the title of a short piece of writing about time, by the 13th-century Zen master and poet Eihei Dogen. ![]() |