5/22/2023 0 Comments Rebecca schaeffer novel![]() ![]() The vivid setting, Mercado de la Muerte (one of several Death Markets worldwide) in a sweltering South American jungle populated by buyers, sellers, and sold, is matched by a zipping plot interspersed with deliciously horrifying and gory scenes of dismemberment and destruction. Menaced by a zannie (creatures that feed off physical pain) and a ruthless woman, Nita, who is mixed species (with a brown-skinned human father and a nonhuman mother), has to figure out how to escape and whether she has any morals to live by. ![]() ![]() But when Nita’s conscience inconveniently prevents her from vivisecting a live specimen, she’s kidnapped and taken to the Amazon, caged by people in the same business. Her ghoulish mother hunts and kills, while Nita dissects them with a meditative grace, trying to think of herself as innocent. But she and her mother also deal in monsters, species regulated by the International Non-Human Police, selling their body parts on the black market. She can heal her own wounds and even block her pain receptors. An adolescent, yet Nietzschean, examination of humanity and horror. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Ignite me pages![]() ![]() Something that must be eating away at him.Īnd I suppose he deserves an answer. So I take a deep breath and try to find the right words, the right way to explain that there are so many bigger, heavier issues to deal with, but when I look up I find Warner is still staring at me, waiting for an answer to a question I now realize he’s been trying hard to suppress. Right now, that certainty would be enough for me. That he’s out there somewhere, surviving against the odds. Right now all I’m clinging to is a hope that he made it out alive. I don’t even know what’s happened to Adam, where he might be or what our future holds. ![]() I’m so shocked, so unprepared to answer such a question that I’m rendered momentarily speechless. “What could Kent,” he says, spitting the name, “possibly do for you?” “I don’t understand!” He breaks, finally losing his composure, his voice rising in pitch. “It’s a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.” Don’t torture me,” he says, meeting my eyes again. ![]() Twice I’ve laid myself bare for you and all it’s gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. ![]() “Don’t ask me questions you already know the answers to. His eyes darken, deaden, all of a sudden. “And you trust me with all this information?” I say. ![]() ![]() Orwell merely used this word for lack of a better word. The word ‘nationalism’ used in this essay was not used in an ordinary sense, especially at times where the emotion he was referring to does not attach itself to a nation. However, I believe the contrary, that is, he realized that he was also filled with the many traits he criticized, and by realizing this, he was able to conduct a thorough investigation about many intellectual failings in the one place where some reliable evidence could be obtained – that is, his own mind. ![]() Many who disagree with his opinions usually label him as being self-righteous and too hypocritical to admit that he was not immune from the many traits he harshly criticized. Many admire him for this criticalness, and some, who received his criticism, may despise him for it. ![]() “Notes on Nationalism” by George Orwell shows how Orwell utilized his writings to pierce through intellectual hypocrisy and expose those who deceive not only others, but also themselves. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments It's Not Shakespeare by Amy Lane![]() ![]() Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) and Shellback are among the producers nominated for & Juliet. The nominees for best musical are & Juliet, a jukebox musical featuring the songs of Swedish hit machine Max Martin Shucked, with songs by country pros Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark Kimberly Akimbo, with songs by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire (who previously collaborated on Shrek the Musical), and two musicals that were based on well-known movies – Some Like It Hot, based on the 1959 Billy Wilder classic, and New York, New York, based on the 1977 Martin Scorsese film, which is widely regarded as a miss. Some Like It Hot was the nominations leader, with 13 nods, followed by & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked with nine each and Kimberly Akimbo and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with eight each. ![]() The nominations were announced on Tuesday (May 2) by Myles Frost, who won a Tony last year for portraying Michael Jackson in the jukebox musical MJ, and Lea Michele, who stars in the current revival of Funny Girl. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Snail and the whale book![]() ![]() ![]() The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail's big plan that saves the day. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. ![]() One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. "How I long to sail!" said the tiny snail. The favourite picture book read by Imelda Staunton, complete with music and sound effects.Ī special book and CD edition of the bestselling The Snail and the Whale. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Colonel sun robert markham![]() While the front panel is fine but for a minimal corner scuff, the back panel also has a small scuff an inch below the top edge, and the rear flap has some toning and foxing to its edges (see photos). This is crisp, with no creases: the front and back panels very bright, with tiny scuffs to the upper corners and spine head: the spine is slightly darkened and has a couple of small splash marks towards its head. In the protected unclipped Tom Adams dust jacket. In the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt, very bright and fresh, corners and spine ends sharp, all like new, though with some light foxing to the closed top edge, and a small spot to the closed fore-edge, but with no foxing encroaching on the page surfaces. Contents very fresh and unmarked, may be unread. 1968 The first continuation of the James Bond series, following the death of Ian Fleming. ![]() ![]() Original black cloth lettered in gilt, in the pictorial. Colonel Sun Markham, Robert Amis, Kingsley Jonathan Cape. 5.95 When Ian Fleming died it seemed inconceivable that James Bond. Robert Markham: Colonel Sun: a James Bond adventure. MARKHAM, Robert AMIS, Kingsley Colonel Sun A James Bond Adventure. Colonel Sun by Robert Markham Kings- ley Amis. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Wives and daughters gaskell![]() ![]() Gibson’s views enlightened? Which of the novel’s characters are attracted to education or books? ![]() ![]() What views are advanced/represented on the education of women? Are Mr. How do their spheres differ from those of the men represented? Is this hampering? ![]() Kirkpatrick, the Misses Brownings, the female servants, Mrs. What is indicated by the social position of women in this society by the description of female characters-e. Preston, the Hamley’s butler and other servants, etc.) the Hamleys, the Misses Brownings, Lady Harriet, Mr. Gibson? To what other ranks and social classes are we early introduced? (e. What do we learn about class relationships in the novel’s opening chapters? What position is held by Mr. What other novels or novelists may have influenced the writing of Wives and Daughters? For example, how does Gaskell’s focus resemble or differ from that of Jane Austen in Emma, Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre and Villette, or George Eliot in Silas Marner and Adam Bede?ĭoes Molly enjoy her visit at the Towers? What social criticism is expressed in her reactions and her remarks on her return? What purpose is served by the opening scene in which Molly awakes for her day of visiting the neighboring aristocratic estate of Cumnor Towers? Which themes of the novel are introduced? What do you make of the title, “Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story”? In what way is this an “everyday story”? In what way is it not? Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters (1865) ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments My policeman full book![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative toggles between the 1957 diary entries of Patrick Hazlewood, wealthy and educated, who encounters a hunky patrolman named Tom Burgess on the Brighton streets, and the scribbled reflections in 1999 of Marion, Tom’s wife, who has taken Patrick into her home to care for him after a debilitating stroke. ![]() Roberts’s lachrymose gay novel is nine years overdue in becoming a sensation here. Less a love triangle than a battle of dueling guitars, the novel concerns a handsome closeted police officer, his gentle, long-suffering wife and his secret lover, an erudite, slightly older museum curator. Certainly that is the case with “My Policeman,” at least for American audiences it took the flurry of interest in the upcoming film for Roberts’s novel - her third of five to date - to be published in the United States. Decked out in 1950s leisure wear, they were shooting a scene for their upcoming film, “My Policeman,” based on Bethan Roberts’s stunning 2012 novel.įor all the hand-wringing that film and television have eclipsed literary fiction at the center of the cultural conversation, it must be acknowledged that occasionally cinema saves novels from mildewed obscurity. Maybe you saw the paparazzi shots that leaked last spring: Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, two of Britain’s most feverishly obsessed-over young stars, hanging out together on a pebbly beach in the resort town of Brighton. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Lessons book by ian mcewan![]() ![]() Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. ![]() The pleasure in reading this novel is letting it wash over you.” - Associated Press When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. One of the joys of the novel is the way it weaves history into Roland’s biography…. McEwan is a storyteller at the peak of his powers…. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. ![]() From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Seth speaks book![]() ![]() I am not speaking through Ruburt as one would through a telephone. ![]() There are many manipulations and psychological adjustments necessary. She is not just a simple matter of having this woman speak for me. I write this book through the auspices of a woman I have become fond of. Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 1 It carries within it the memory of each of your past existences and looks into subjective dimensions that are literally infinite. It is the inner perceiver of reality that exists beyond the three-dimensional world. #4 Your consciousness is not some fiery product formed accidentally through the interworkings of chemical components. You have been given the most awesome gift of all: the ability to project your thoughts outward into physical form. I am primarily a personality with a message: you create the world that you know. ![]() #3 I am a teacher, and I have not been a man of letters per se. I am an energy personality essence, no longer focused in physical matter. ![]() I am speaking to each reader individually, and I am older than they are, at least in terms of age as they think of it. #2 I am not speaking through Ruburt as one would through a telephone. #1 I write this book through the auspices of a woman I have become fond of. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() |