5/29/2023 0 Comments Rude Rhymes by W H Hard-On![]() ![]() ![]() Read the full poem in A Poem for Every Day of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri. To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsįrom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. What a world of merriment their melody foretells! There, on the black bough of a snow flecked maple,Īppears in A Poem for Every Winter Day, edited by Allie Esiri. While in the secret dark a fresh snow fallsīehind us as we walked along the parkway, Dont be mistaken, dont be misled, Mary came home with a pain in her head. called it 'very funny and very dirty' but it is hard to believe that its authors meant for one moment that it should be taken seriously. Pleading with soldiers at a shifting frontier Mary came home with a pain in her (ahem). Or women shawled against the goosedown air To a fire, a roasting bird, a ringing phone, Of Atlantic air, then home at dusk, snow-blindįrom following chains of fox and crow and hare, ![]() Don't Miss Books that had us hooked from the first line Read moreĪppears in A Poem for Every Night of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri.įor papery rustles out there in the nightīefore it’s all seen off with a salt-lick ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Colleen mccullough cesar![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t know a whole lot about ancient Roman history then, and it was off-putting in the same way Russian novels are off-putting - so many characters, each with three long names, yet only a handful of first names to distribute among the lot of them, so you get your Gaius Cornelius Rufus and your Gaius Lucius Ahenobarbus and so on and so on. I started this series years ago, when The First Man in Rome (1990) originally came out in paperback, and I just could not get into it. The seven gigantic books (average length seems to be about 700 pages) sweep through over a hundred years of Roman history, from Julius Caesar’s forerunners Marius and Sulla, up to Caesar Augustus. This is a series of books so epic, the word “epic” doesn’t really do it justice. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Amazon blindness jose saramago![]() ![]() I am an ophthalmologist myself, I found this story to be an intriguing thought experiment, but I was waylaid by the fact that the author made no attempt, or possibly consciously avoided the attempt, to make the story scientifically plausible. In the story he has the blind listening to readings from the only sighted individual as their only source of entertainment, and he may have intended this as a more powerful verbal parable that a written one. Maybe this was the intention of Saramago. The endless run-on sentences and lack of proper names makes the reading hard to follow, but as a narrative, it isnt so bad. I agree with the reviewer that pointed out that this parable is much more accessible in the oral than in the visual format. Blindness is a powerful parable, but I think it has to be read as a surrealistic allegory rather than any attempt to portray the situation as it might actually occur in the real world. Saramago is a Nobel laureate, so I think we have to credit him with having insight worthy of our attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His talent team has worked on such features as Despicable Me, Rio, Gnomeo & Juliet, and Horton Hears a Who-and fully produced Niko: The Journey to Magika and El Americano. Visit her at .ĭavid Campiti is an animation producer and voiceover actor and is CEO of Glass House Graphics/Cutting Edge Animation & Publishing Services. Little do they know that despite her expert archery skills, the smelly Geryon, ring-nosed Minotaurs, and scorpions in Beast-ology class scare her as much as they do anyone else Access-restricted-item. She also coauthors the Goddess Girls and Thunder Girls series with the fantastic Joan Holub. Artemis's friends and classmates see her as the most courageous goddessgirl at school. the Beauty Artemis the Brave About the Author Joan Holub has authored and/or. Suzanne Williams is a former elementary school librarian and the author of over seventy books for children, including the award-winning picture books Library Lil (illustrated by Steven Kellogg) and My Dog Never Says Please (illustrated by Tedd Arnold), and several chapter book and middle grade series. Book Synopsis The first four adventures in the Goddess Girls series are now. She lives in North Carolina and is online at. ![]() Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bones and all novel review![]() ![]() She has devoured her hunger with the flesh of everyone who has shown her affection and love, and it stands true until the film's end.īones And All movie was first released on September 2, 2022, at 79th Venice International Film Festival, but the film is set to premiere in the United States on November 18, 2022. Yearly has been a cannibal since the age of just one or two years old and her first victim was her babysitter. However, unlike other coming-of-age and young romance films, Bones and All have a very gore and dark side to the protagonist. The film is based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, the film directed by Luca Guadagnino follows Taylor Russell's character Maren Yearly through her cross-country road trip in Reagan-era America, finding herself. A weird combination, right? Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell play cannibal lovers. ![]() The upcoming movie "Bones And All" is about cannibalism and romance. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments A is for Alaska ; an ABC Book with Alaska Place Names for eac... by Kyle Forbush![]() But watch out! Alaska has over 40 active volcanoes. Much of the state is covered in a layer of permafrostpermanently frozen soiland it’s home to the largest glacier in North America. ![]() Along the southeast coast, you’ll even find rain forests. Alaska deserves its reputation for being cold. The taiga forest in the center of the state is filled with evergreen trees, lakes, and meadows. Visit Denali National Park to see its snow-capped celebrity, Denali-the tallest mountain in North America. The northern and western coasts are tundra landscapes: flat and treeless with whipping winds. Called the Bering Glacier, it’s 2,250 square miles, about the size of the state of Delaware. Much of the state is covered in a layer of permafrost-permanently frozen soil-and it’s home to the largest glacier in North America. The state is bordered by Canada on the east, the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean in the north, the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea in the west, and the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Alaska in the south.Īlaska deserves its reputation for being cold. ![]() Head north through the contiguous (that means connected) United States, cross into Canada, then go all the way west to get to Alaska, the largest state (in area) in the Union. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Never cry wolf book![]() ![]() The young, naïve Canadian biologist Tyler is assigned by the government to travel to the isolated Canadian Arctic wilderness and study why the area's caribou population is declining, believed to be due to wolf-pack attacks amongst his orders to study them, he is also given a gun and required to kill one wolf and examine its stomach contents. The narration for the film was written by Charles Martin Smith, Eugene Corr and Christina Luescher. The film is also notable for being the first Walt Disney Pictures film to feature brief full-frontal male nudity, as well as scenes with bare buttocks. The film was released on October 7, 1983, for a limited distribution, and in the regular theaters on January 27, 1984. It was the first Disney film to be released under the new Walt Disney Pictures label. ![]() The film also features Brian Dennehy and Zachary Ittimangnaq. The film is an adaptation of Farley Mowat's 1963 autobiography of the same name and stars Charles Martin Smith as a government biologist sent into the wilderness to study the caribou population, whose decline is believed to be caused by wolves, even though no one has seen a wolf kill a caribou. Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Story robinson crusoe![]() ![]() Friday is basically Crusoe's protege, a living example of religious justification of the slavery relationship between the two men. ![]() FridayĪnother friend/servant of Crusoe's, he spends a number of years on the island with the main character, who saves him from cannibalistic death. A simple youth who is dedicated to Crusoe, he is admirable for his willingness to stand by the narrator. XuryĪ friend/servant of Crusoe's, he also escapes from the Moors. He is a contradictory character at the same time he is practical ingenuity and immature decisiveness. The novel essentially chronicles his mental and spiritual development as a result of his isolation. Because of this need, he brings misfortune on himself and is left to fend for himself in a primitive land. The main character of the story, he is a rebellious youth with an inexplicable need to travel. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Two can keep a secret series order![]() ![]() "But if I found the right story for, then maybe - I wouldn't say never." ![]() Once I conclude a character's arc, I want to get out of their heads. ![]() I don't think I'd revist Malcom or Ellery. "But a lot of people have said that they love the character of Ezra, and that they want to see more of him. McManus added that the story of Echo Ridge "feels done", although she wouldn't entirely rule out revisiting one of the characters down the line. ![]() "Ellery is one of the characters who believes that secrets should be out, and there should be answers - but she suddenly gets confronted with the truth, which would destroy people she loves. "A big theme of the book is secrets, and the power of secrets. And soon after the siblings' arrival, another girl goes missing.Įllery becomes determined to find out the truth about what happened - although she ends up unraveling more of the town's past, and the secrets the residents have been hiding, than she expected. The opening pages of Two Can Keep A Secret introduce brother and sister Ezra and Ellery, and their heartbreaking family secret: their aunt, Sarah, went missing at the age of 17.įive years later, the homecoming queen was brutally murdered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. Translated from the Portuguese by William L. Machado de Assis, Joaquim, Epitaph of a Small Winner. Machado de Assis, Joaquim, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. Jackson, Kenneth David, Machado de Assis: a literary life. Graham, Richard, Machado de Assis: reflections on a Brazilian master writer. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2015. Machado de Assis and female characterization: the novels. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.įitz, Earl E. Reginald, Machado de Assis: multiracial identity and the Brazilian novelist University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.ĭixon, Paul, Machado de Assis’ homeopathic narrators. Reginald, The Space-in-Between: Machado de Assis and the Postmodernity Sensibility. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970.ĭaniel, G. Taylor & Francis Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 01 December 1971, Vol.25 (4), p.408–410.Ĭaldwell, Helen, Machado De Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels. ![]() |