5/13/2023 0 Comments The North Water by Ian McGuire![]() His vision and his story owe a lot to Mr. McGuire is not reveling in such Sweeney Todd splatter effects simply to be sensational rather, he puts them in the service of a Hobbesian view of life as nasty, brutish and short, and plagued by fear and violent death. All of which is served up to us not just with gory visuals, but with sick-making sounds and smells too. These events are described in gruesome detail worthy of a horror movie, as is the slaughter of whales and seals - shot, harpooned, clubbed, gutted and cut into oozing, greasy pieces. ![]() And an oarsman’s arm is ripped off by a polar bear. Two Eskimo hunters are killed while they sleep. A sailor is nearly decapitated with a saw blade. ![]() One man has his head bashed with a brick, and “there is a fine spray of blood and a noise like a wet stick snapping.” Another is bludgeoned with a piece of whalebone. It is also as epically bloody as a Jacobean drama or a Cormac McCarthy novel. ![]() “The North Water,” Ian McGuire’s savage new novel about a 19th-century Arctic whaling expedition, is a great white shark of a book - swift, terrifying, relentless and unstoppable. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments House rules by chloe neill![]() ![]() ![]() I was surprised to hear this - and am now even more in awe of her prolific output than when I thought CLV was her “day job”. She works her office “day job”, then tries to write for an hour or two in the evenings. If you have not read this series and do not want to know which book has a devastating cliff hanger, please come back and read this post after you have finished the series! After the jump, you can see what she had to say, and I hope I got all the details right. I tried to take a few notes while she spoke so I could share her banter here, but I kept getting distracted by her funny stories, so I know I missed a few things. Some fans brought the entire series from home for her to sign, and she graciously obliged. ![]() She spent an informal hour conversing with her audience, handing out swag (!), answering questions, and signing books. ![]() And I’m so glad she decided to visit Oregon, so I could meet her! Not only were we not suffering the snowstorm of epic proportions that was pummeling the northeast at that very moment, but we actually saw intermittent sunshine on the afternoon she arrived - the highest honor one can get in this part of the country!! over the weekend with book-signing events for House Rules, the newest installment in her Chicagoland Vampires series. Chloe Neill paid her first visit to the soggy northwestern U.S. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments All you zombies robert heinlein![]() ![]() ![]() In Our Fair City, a parking attendant named Pappy, a sentient whirlwind named Kitten, and a crusading reporter named Pete aim to take down their corrupt city government. They takes listeners inside a mental institution, where a man suffering from delusions has been confined. The man and his wife had once traveled with a host of imaginary animals searching for places to sell elephants. In The Man Who Traveled in Elephantsone of both Heinlein and Spider Robinsons all-time favorite storieswe join a former traveling salesman on a bus. ![]() The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose originsand relation to the young manare more complex and stranger than the Ouroboros ring on the barkeeps finger. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. This collection from Grand Master Robert A. Featuring All You Zombies, the basis for the movie Predestination ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The book the sum of us![]() ![]() politics, because the majority of Americans will soon be people of color. This dynamic is key to the future of U.S. After Donald Trump’s election, she realized that it isn’t enough to just analyze how bad economic policies cause racial disparities we also need to understand how racism drives people to choose bad economic policies in the first place. In her introduction, McGhee explains why she quit her job leading the economic policy think tank Demos to write this book. Meanwhile, conservative politicians, media figures, and billionaires deliberately stoke white fear to win power, and when they do come to power, they continue with the same political agenda that has economically devastated the American middle class since the 1970s: cutting taxes for the wealthy, deregulating corporations, privatizing schools, defunding social programs, and suppressing labor unions. Thus, these white voters reject policies that help nonwhite people, even when those policies would actually benefit everybody. Specifically‚ she argues that many white voters view the world through a zero-sum paradigm: they see politics as a competition between themselves and people of color, and they think that, in order for themselves to win, people of color must lose. ![]() ![]() lags far behind other developed countries in fields like healthcare, education, pollution, and voting rights because of the way that racism shapes American politics. In The Sum of Us, policy researcher Heather McGhee argues that the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The slip of my ball gown even caught on the heal of my "stage partner's" character shoe during one matinee and was pulled down to my ankles. Yes, it was a funny situation.but I was thrilled to take part in my first ballet!Īnyway, to make a long story short, those were stressful weeks, being in an onstage performance at a university theater, and having lots of new systems and routines to learn quickly. It was a little awkward, as most of the other parents, were, well.real parents. ![]() I made it into the performance as."a parent." I'd started taking lessons so much later than the younger girls in my classes, and was so tall compared to my peers (who were being cast as Russian dancers, soldiers, or sugar plum fairies), that the only role the directors could use me in, was as a parent at the Christmas party where Clara gets her nutcracker. I auditioned for the Nutcracker (which the Utah Valley Regional Ballet Company would put on every year). When I was fourteen I was a gangly, late-blooming wanna-be ballerina. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Overlook hotel stephen king![]() Otherwise, the film was shot almost entirely at Elstree Studios in. ![]() That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Timberlines exterior shots were used in The Shining Movie to portray the Overlook Hotel. You grieve for your daddy, and when you feel you have to cry over what happened to him, you go into a closet or under your covers and cry until it’s all out of you again. The Shining was published in 1977 as King’s third novel, and the second to be adapted for the screen. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. Stephen King infamously hates Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel The Shining, but his disdain may really come down to the biggest distinction between the book and movie: the Overlook Hotel’s motivation. ![]() There is a short prequel called 'Before the Play' that covers the back history and a selection of the dark things that happen at the Overlook, from construction in 1910 up to just 1958. ![]() Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. 'Because' is probably the best in-universe answer you'll get as King himself has left it vague. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dhalgren amazon![]() Don Gorton, Boston Activist and G&LR Mainstay.Power Games Inhabit Guibert’s Last Novel. ![]()
5/13/2023 0 Comments The gods of howl mountain![]() After being stated, the main theme is then very slightly modified with a few different ascending notes, but transposed up a perfect fifth (to the key of F-sharp major, the dominant key, but with flattened sixth) and played on different instruments. The simple theme begins slowly and quietly in the lowest registers of the orchestra, played first by the cellos, double basses, and bassoons. ![]() The piece is in the overall key of B minor. enough" – avoiding the commitment implicit in the phrase " To thine own self be true" and just doing enough – is central to Peer Gynt 's satire, and the phrase is discussed by Peer and the mountain king in the scene which follows the piece. Grieg himself wrote, "For the Hall of the Mountain King, I have written something that so reeks of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and 'to-thyself-be-enough-ness' that I cannot bear to hear it, though I hope that the irony will make itself felt." The theme of "to thyself be. There is a tremendous uproar in the hall." The lines sung are the first lines in the scene. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children and relatives. The scene's introduction continues: "There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. ![]() ![]() The piece is played as the title character Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters "Dovregubbens (the troll Mountain King's) hall". The two- phrase theme, written in the key of B minor Audio playback is not supported in your browser. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Heartstopper yearbook![]() Furthermore, she is the creator, writer, and an executive producer for the Netflix adaptation of Heartstopper.Īlice Oseman is a beloved young adult author whose works have delighted countless readers with their unique stories and memorable characters. Her other works, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless, have all achieved similar success.Īlice Oseman is also the creator of the popular LGBTQ+ YA webcomic romance Heartstopper, which is now published in physical form by Hachette Children’s Group. Her debut novel Solitaire, which was published when she was just nineteen, was nominated for the YA Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Inky Awards, and the Goodreads Choice Awards. The British writer’s novels have been widely praised for their entertaining and thought-provoking content. Oseman has developed a special talent for creating complex, interesting protagonists and crafting thrilling narrative arcs. Her award-winning works have captivated audiences with their vivid characters and carefully crafted storylines. ![]() For over a decade, Alice Oseman has been a brilliant voice in the world of young adult literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl-happily-right-now is a stretch-so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. ![]() Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. ![]() ![]() Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. ![]() |