![]() ![]() If you’ve already heard the story of The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, you know that the royal magicians are a bit bumbling. “Every year the same four things! I’m mighty tired of those old things! I want something NEW to come down!” “That’s just the trouble!” bellowed the King. “You’ve always had these same four things come down.” “But King Derwin,” Bartholomew tried to calm him. ![]() It was wintertime, and King Derwin was very tired and bored with the weather.Īnd that winter when the snow came down, he started shouting! “This snow! This fog! This sunshine! This rain! Bahh! These four things that come down from my sky!” ![]() Seuss! And even though this book is seventy years old, it still provides timeless fun and humor.īartholomew is just a regular kid in the Kingdom of Didd, where King Derwin is not the smartest king on record. Both books were, and still are, so much fun! When I was researching books written in my birth year, I was happy to find the Oobleck book on the list! As a kid, as a Mom, and now as a Grandma, I have always adored Dr. Seuss, was published in 1949, so I grew up listening to this book and his other Bartholomew book, The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. ![]()
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She’s come to terms with the vast powers the vampires’ goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite group. ![]() Cast and Kristin Cast, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.įledgling vampires’ Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. Betrayed, the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series from P. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the outside, he might be pricklier than a puffer fish, but I catch glimpses of a delicious, cinnamon roll center.ĭid I mention the tattoos he hides underneath those crisp button-down shirts? Yowza. Especially when new dreams include a future with Jake. ![]() This isn’t the life I dreamed of, but dreams can change. It doesn’t help that the night Jake and I met, I got a little tipsy, and he had to carry me back to my hotel.īut the longer I stay on Oakley Island, the more I feel a connection to my childhood and to my grandmother. Turning Gran’s beach house into a bed and breakfast–a process that would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to deal with the grumpy lawyer living next door. Instead, I’m renovating my late grandmother’s home and posting about the process on Instagram. Just kidding–I’ll take the pelican any day.Īfter graduation, I thought I’d be off to grad school, doing research on my favorite poet. I’m not sure which is worse–the lawyer handling my grandmother’s estate or the attack pelican living on the screened-in porch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bargh takes us into his labs at New York University and Yale-where he and his colleagues have discovered how the unconscious guides our behavior, goals, and motivations in areas like race relations, parenting, business, consumer behavior, and addiction. ![]() Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.ĭr. John Gottman said was “the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past twenty years,” Dr. John Bargh has conducted revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research featured in bestsellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. John Bargh, the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, presents a “brilliant and convincing book” (Malcolm Gladwell) cited as an outstanding read of 2017 by Business Insider and The Financial Times-giving us an entirely new understanding of the hidden mental processes that secretly govern every aspect of our behavior.įor more than three decades, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() That one would have focused on organised gangs in different American cities, including Chicago and New Orleans. ![]() Scorsese was previously attached to direct a different TV series adaptation of the book back in 2013. It explored the tensions between different religious factions and a local rogues’ gallery of thieves, prostitutes, pimps, pickpockets and murderers. It picked up ten Oscar nominations and made $193 million at the box office.ĭeadline reports that the series will be ‘a new take on the story with new characters that were not featured in the movie.’Īsbury’s non-fiction ‘The Gangs of New York’ details the rise and fall of 19th century gangs in the city. The filmmaker directed a feature-length adaptation in 2022, starring Leonardo DiCpario, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis. The series will be based on the 1927 book by Herbert Asbury, with Scorsese serving as executive producer and taking on director duties for the first two episodes. Martin Scorsese is set to take audiences back to the mean streets of 19th century America with a new TV series based on The Gangs of New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These positions of knowing and unknowing render such beginnings ambivalent and complex. Meant to be read first, they are usually written last, and as such are marked by both their firstness and lastness. Philosopher Jacques Derrida problematizes the borders at which texts begin and end in a way that can help us think about the paradoxical status introductions and prologues hold (Derrida). ![]() Situated at the beginning of Chaucer’s work, the Prologue’s position as “first” would seem obvious, but we should reconsider the simple introduction it offers. Introducing the Canterbury Tales, the General Prologue produces a collaboration of strangers, a “compaignye” of pilgrims whose tales cooperate, conflict, and compete for attention. Beside and within these portraits of professional figures from Chaucer’s late medieval English society, the Prologue witnesses traffic among places, languages, and cultures as well as between the religious and the secular. It frames the longer story collection by setting the season, describing the pilgrims who will narrate the tales, and laying the ground rules of the storytelling contest. The General Prologue is, arguably, the most familiar part of the Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue: Cultural Crossings, Collaborations, and Conflicts Elizabeth Scala An essay chapter from The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales (September 2017) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Are we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. ![]() ![]() In doing so, she wrestles with some of our most profound questions: What does it take to inspire compassion? What impact can one person have? How should we respond to violence when it feels like it can't be stopped? ![]() With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin Miles paints portraits of detainees. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. ![]() "How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?" But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the difference. A single book might not change the world. ![]() ![]() The Empire is weakened but not defeated, and that much becomes painfully apparent when Grand Admiral Thrawn emerges from hiding and begins unifying the scattered remnants of Palpatine’s military. Heir to the Empire is set five years after that movie, a time when the New Republic is trying to solidify itself as the galaxy’s ruling power. ![]() It was one of the first stories to reveal what became of heroes like Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa after the events of Return of the Jedi. But Heir to the Empire is one of the stories that crystallized what came to be known as the Star Wars Expanded Universe. By that point, there had been a number of novels and a yearslong Marvel Comics series. It wasn’t the first Star Wars spinoff book to see the light of day. ![]() Star Wars: Heir to the Empire was written by Timothy Zahn and originally published in 1991. Play What Is Star Wars: Heir to the Empire? ![]() ![]() But as Lily uncovers more about Odile's mysterious past, she discovers a dark secret, closely guarded and long hidden.īased on the true Second World War story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable novel of romance, friendship, family, and of heroism found in the quietest of places. ![]() She grows close to her neighbour Odile, discovering they share the same love of language, the same longings. Lily is a lonely teenage desperate to escape small-town Montana. In Occupied Paris, choices as black and white as the words on a page become a murky shade of grey - choices that will put many on the wrong side of history, and the consequences of which will echo for decades to come. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. ![]() Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community of students, writers and book lovers - is a dream come true. IN THE DARKNESS OF WAR, THE LIGHT OF BOOKS ![]() |