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Chapters: Scottish Buddhist Nuns, Scottish Roman Catholic Nuns, Marie Docherty, Margaret Sinclair, Euphemia Ii, Countess of Ross, Ajahn Candasiri, Laurentia Mclachlan, F. A. Forbes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marie Docherty (b. 1942, Glasgow) was a Scottish nun known as "Sister Alphonso", whose name kept cropping up when allegations of abuse at Nazareth House homes were being investigated. Docherty was convicted in September 2000 of four charges of cruelty to young girls in her care at the Nazareth House homes in Aberdeen, Scotland and at Lasswade in Midlothian, Scotland. Growing up in Glasgow in a working class family, in 1960 at age 18 she entered the Order of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth. Upon becoming a nun she was given the name "Sister Alphonso". She was assigned to the Nazareth House in Aberdeen in 1963. The cruel and unnatural treatment of girls over a 15 year period ended in the 1980s at the Nazareth House homes when they were transformed to cater for the care of the elderly, instead of young children. Adeline Spence, three years old in 1966, was sent to the Glasgow home. She described the treatment she received there, "It wasn't until I left that I realized you didn't beat people up, that you weren't forced to eat your own vomit, that your nails were not cut so close to the quick that your fingers bled", however she did not specifically name Docherty as one of the perpetrators of her abuse. Adeline Spence referred to more than one nun perpetrating the abuse, "If you wet the bed they would make you wear the wet sheet round your body and your wet pants on your head. After a while that stopped, but they made you jump into a cold bath every morning." After a six-week trial, Ms. Docherty was found guilty of four out of 23 charges. Sh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2417365 ... Read more

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Odd and unsatisfactory
Halfway through Domino I was seriously beginning to wonder whether the author was visually impaired, not a native speaker of English, or both. Even allowing for the strain of writing in a pastiche of eighteenth-century English, the language is just odd - is there any native English-speaker who doesn't feel the word "waggle" to be inherently silly? It is used here in passages of high drama.And the "evocative descriptions of the sights, sounds, smells and society of eighteenth-century London" which are promised on the back cover, and do indeed fill the book, persistently give the impression that the author had never seen the things he is describing - very odd in a novel about a painter! It's not only the descriptions of historical details that are out of kilter (surely anyone who has ever looked at Hogarth's pictures of London low-life would have noticed that the women don't wear buttoned blouses?- or that it would be impossible for them to "unbutton the tops of their petticoats" in the street to attract custom?) - everyday things are misdescribed in odd ways; as when the face of a character who chokes goes "the colour of Rhenish wine" - pale yellow - despite wearing thick heavy make-up.

The behaviour and manners of the characters is quite improbable for the period. A threadbare would-be painter could not possibly mix in society with a rich lord as a social equal, and could certainly not address or refer to him by a nickname. Nor would a fashionable portraitist demand that a stranger visiting him would dress up in the clothes of a wealthy lady client so he could go on painting her portrait - a life-size lay figure for that purpose was a basic piece of an artists equipment. And so on, and so forth. This might not matter if the characters and the story were interesting, but they aren't. I would call this book a failure on every level.

a voice teacher and early music fan (early history as well)
DOMINO= A MASK TO DISGUISE AND CONCEAL THE ACTUAL VISAGE OF THE MASQUERADER AND THAT'S WHAT THIS BOOK IS ALL ABOUT! But unless one has a special interest in this late 18th century era, it would be laborious reading indeed. However, if one does have an interest, as I do, it is worth 'wading' through.Though it is fiction, it reads very much like a documentary, though confusing at times.

'Domino' is a Rabelaisian journey, by internationally best-sellingauthor, Ross King.Reaching into the world of 1770's London from the palatial palaces of the city's finest to their country manors, from the garret room of George Cautley, a hapless young struggling artist adrift in the gilded world he wants to conquer to the magnificent opera houses of Milan, with their deep dark secrets.Ross King, indeed, does much more than paint a portrait of a time long gone, but brings it to life, with an immediancy that only very fine historical writers can achieve.

'Domino' is the story of the inscrutable and beautiful Lady Beauclair, the castrato singer Tristano, and the unworldly Cautley, and Eleanora, mistress and muse.It tells how the young inexperienced Cautley makes his way through 18th century London high society, where nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a MASK.By way of dark and menacing maneuverings of the tempestuous immoral Lady Beauclair and the castrato Tristano as well as other characters, Cautley is drawn into a web of intrigue.

Laced with black and somewhat evil humor, this picturesque tale of art, artists, patrons and ne'er-do-wells is filled with surprises, victories and tragedies told with the pace of a thriller and richness of a restored oil painting.Replete with mystery and immersed in historical details, THIS BOOK IS ALSO A PHILOSOPHICAL MUSING ON THE DISGUISES OF THE WORLD AND EVERYONE'S SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.

Beautiful language, but ponderous pacing
Lushly written by a writer who has clearly done their research.The descriptive passages rival those of Suskind's PERFUME, and the story is beautifully structured, the character's well drawn.So why, then, didn't I like this book more?I suspect it might be a question of pacing.I found it a little ponderous, at times more concerned with displaying its own knowledge than telling the story. Still, for fans of the period, I can easily recommend it.

A Great Disappointment
I really wanted to like this book. I am a great fan of historical fiction and have enjoyed some of Ross King's later books, particularly "Michaelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling". I struggled through to the middle of "Domino" before I finally gave up on it, deciding that there are too many other good books to waste anymore time on this one.

The major flaw in "Domino" is that there is not a single likeable character in the story. Neither is there someone despicable enough to hold the reader's attention. In this, his first book, Ross King doesn't give the reader any reason to care about the fate of the characters. The supposed mystery is a Domino itself - a trumped up, unimportant story masquerading as a fascinating life story that is not even interesting.

I recommend that if you like Ross King, read his later books. He seems to have developed a lot after this one.

Domino falls flat
This novel is rich with historical and period detail and many of the passages in the book are beautifully written. There are also some very funny scenes throughtout.Yet it is a difficult story to follow and many aspects of it are just implausible. It really lacks a plot and never solves the mystery.If you love historical fiction then this book might hold your interest, but much of the book just does not make sense. ... Read more

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Title: United Way of National Capital Area defends its spending. (Newsline).
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