5/11/2023 0 Comments Tuesday wiesner![]() ![]() The images before him generated a love of detail, an admiration for the creative process, and a curiosity about the hand behind the drawings. When the everyday play stopped, he would follow his imaginary playmates into the pages of books, wandering among dinosaurs in the World Book Encyclopedia. His home and his neighborhood became anything from a faraway planet to a prehistoric jungle. ![]() Perhaps it was this decor which awakened his creativity and gave it the dreamlike, imaginative quality so often found in his work.Īs a child growing up in suburban New Jersey, Wiesner re-created his world daily in his imagination. ![]() During David Wiesner's formative years, the last images he saw before closing his eyes at night were the books, rockets, elephant heads, clocks, and magnifying glasses that decorated the wallpaper of his room. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Known mostly as a novelist, Hurston also had a career as an anthropologist. (The title comes from the Spanish word for an enclosure where slaves were kept before the Middle Passage journey.) She poured his story, told mostly in his voice and dialect, into Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” After eight decades, the manuscript is finally being published next week. His listener, companion and scribe was Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Donning his best suit, but slipping off his shoes, Kossola told her, “I want to look lak I in Affica, cause dat where I want to be.” ![]() After two months of listening to Kossola’s tales, his interlocutor asked to take his picture. Sitting on his porch in 1928, under the Alabama sun, snacking on peaches, Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola) recounted to his guest his life story: how he came from a place in West Africa, then traversed the Middle Passage in cruel and inhumane conditions on the famed Clotilda ship, and saw the founding of the freedman community of Africatown after five years of enslavement. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Our dogs ourselves![]() Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. In Our Dogs, Ourselves, Alexandra Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex relationship that “dog lovers will savor and absorb” ( Shelf Awareness).Īs Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. ![]() ![]() The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. We buy them sweaters, toys, shoes we are concerned with their social lives, their food, and their health. We love dogs and (we assume) we are loved by them. ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” ( BookPage) celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Grrm not a blog![]() ![]() It's all been said and, while lots of fans agree with him, he's running the risk of becoming a ranting old man shouting about how things were better in his day.įortunately, House of the Dragon was well received – and there is talk of other spin-off shows that explore different aspects of life in Westeros.īut one season of HotD that fails to meet expectations or a spin-off that doesn't land could set people talking about the negatives of season 8 of GoT, rather than the huge success of the first seven seasons. ![]() It might also be advisable for Martin to stop talking about the parts of GoT that he didn't like. Of course, there will be fans who have only started reading the books since being introduced to the work of Martin via the HBO series.Īnd the books that have already been released are quite long themselves, totalling 344 chapters and over 200 hours of your life if you fancy giving them a go.īut it really is about time there was a definite release date for the next book in the series. In 2022, Martin wrote in his blog, Not A Blog, that the next novel in the series, Winds of Winter, is going to be a "big book" but didn't really give any indication of when it will be finished.īut with almost 12 years gone by since the release of A Dance With Dragons, it's clear to see why some fans are frustrated by the lack of progress. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments 22 daydreams by Chris Rose![]() ![]() ![]() Who knows, he may even persuade you to purchase his debut novel, Wood Talc & Mr. And sometimes, well, he’s completely flummoxed… So come along for the ride. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. Sometimes he’s amused sometimes he’s bemused. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world and be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. 22 daydreams Chris Rose 4.95 42 ratings3 reviews A journey, yes, of sorts. What you’ll find here are 22 of his favourite posts carefully chosen from his own website, and from a writer who never claims to own the answers to his queries and observations, but who simply articulates them as they, seemingly, seek to trip him over – he’s adept enough at tripping over his own shoe-laces. Maybe that one is down to you, the reader. ![]() ![]() And to generally find his way around in the attempt all with the lofty dream of becoming a known author an author of merit and for the right reasons: to bring literature back down to earth… to a place like, say, where fangs are still utilized for ripping into more traditional foods. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world – and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The art of starving sam j miller![]() ![]() By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington D.C., she is in the grip of a bout of anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Marya's story gathers intensity with each passing year. She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve. By age 9, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school, while watching Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. At the age of 5, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried because she thought she was fat. ![]() Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reeling from the death of their father and the disappearance of their sister Sukie, Olive and her brother are evacuated to the coast of Devon. So what’s it about? It’s 1941 and the Second World War rages on longer than anyone anticipated. It also happens to be the very worthy winner of the Books Are My Bag Award for Best Middle Grade Book of 2017. Her stories continue to delight and move me, and Letters From The Lighthouse is another gripping historical tale. Letters From The Lighthouse by Emma CarrollĮmma is a children’s writer who takes moments from history and turns them into exciting adventures that are massively relatable to children today. I’m a big fan of Emma Carroll and so it felt only right that I kick off my summer reads with one of her books. ![]() Banish those calls of ‘I’m bored’ and keep them entertained no matter what the weather brings with fantastic books for all ages. Summer is here and the holidays are almost upon us so I thought I’d start sharing my recommended reads for children to help keep those heads in books over the coming weeks. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Courtney allison books![]() ![]() ![]() But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: the Bataan Death March. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise–until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. ![]() “ tour de force.”– Publishers Weekly starred review ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m doing neither of us a favor by refusing to back out. ![]() It’s my own fault that I’m still in this mess, and I know it. All bets are off and reckless hijinks and outright battles ensue and now that they’re no longer pretending, well maybe they don’t hate each other after all. When she realizes Nicholas is also unhappy, and has seemingly been trying to sabotage their relationship for months, she decides two can play at that game. Their wedding is fast approaching and Naomi just wants out, but if she ends things she’ll have to pay Nicholas’s overbearing mother back for the wedding. Or so Naomi Westfield thought when she agreed to marry him, but something has changed and now she can’t stand him. ![]() Synopsis: Nicholas Rose is the perfect fiancé. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was first published in the literary journal Tryout in November 1920 and now resides in the public domain.Īn unnamed narrator, while gazing upon his pet cat, begins to reminisce about a law in the town of Ulthar which forbids the killing of cats and relates the story of how this law came to be. ![]() Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft's early period, aspects of "The Cats of Ulthar" would be referenced again in the author's works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. ![]() Influenced by Lord Dunsany, the tale was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's and has remained popular since his death. Upon witnessing the result, the local politicians pass a law forbidding the killing of cats. Upon hearing of the couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes invokes a prayer before leaving town that causes the local felines to swarm the cat-killers' house and devour them. When a caravan of wanderers passes through the city, the kitten of an orphan (Menes) traveling with the band disappears. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. " The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. ![]() Cover of the 1977 Necronomicon Press edition ![]() |