6/27/2023 0 Comments The midnight circus book![]() ![]() Her story “Requiem Antarctica,” for instance, a collaboration with Robert J. Her foreword and endnotes offer additional context for the work, creating a satisfying - if often unsettling - reading experience.Īlthough she draws from conventional roots, Yolen has a talent for mashing up traditions to create something entirely her own. Her menagerie of stories is distilled from a cauldron of fairytales, legends, and history, featuring everything from selkies to shapeshifters witches, weavers, and warriors and angels murderous to ravenous. This collection teems with Yolen’s weird, folkloric verve. It is true to the real tradition of Andersen: mesmerizing, haunting, and often not for the faint of heart. Her work is not Andersen Americanized: sanitized, watered-down, Disney-fied. ![]() ![]() Yolen is often dubbed “the Hans Christian Andersen of America,” but that should not be misunderstood. From her first novel in 1969 to this phantasmagorical assortment of stories and poems spanning the 1970s to 2020, she has amassed an eye-popping bibliography of over 370 books. The Midnight Circus is the latest dark and trippy collection from award-winning author Jane Yolen. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Empyre dan slott![]() As a Fantastic Four fan, I was satisfied, though I will admit that I was disappointed in the end. The dialogue is fun and natural, and overall this is an enjoyable read. ![]() The issue touches on some of the Kree and Skrull history, but mostly provides some great character moments for the protagonists, especially the young ones. Still, even if it isn’t essential reading, Dan Slott has crafted another enjoyable Fantastic Four story that mostly reads as a neat little one-shot. It doesn’t seem to be essential reading for anyone except those who plan on consuming all of Empyre and for massive Fantastic Four fans. Obviously this left readers with a lot of questions, and Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 is here to give some answers.Įmpyre: Fantastic Four #0 is a solid prelude to the big event, but it doesn’t really offer too much information. The cliffhanger however stood out, seemingly putting the Fantastic Four on the enemy’s side. It was pretty standard stuff, but it read like a classic Avengers story and offered plenty of potential for a solid event. SilvaĮmpyre #0 gave an interesting enough introduction to Marvel’s next big event. ![]() ![]() Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 Marvel Comics Writer: Dan Slott Artist: R.B. ![]() ![]() ![]() (She was then painting his picture, a half-length of which she also made an etching.) She spoke Italian as well as German, he says, and expressed herself with facility in French and English - one result of the last-named accomplishment being that she became a popular portraitist for British visitors to Rome. Writing from Rome in August 1764 to his friend Franke, Winckelmann refers to her popularity. ![]() From Rome she passed to Bologna and Venice, everywhere feted for her talents and charm. In 1763 she visited Rome, returning again in 1764. Later visits to Italy of long duration followed. Angelica rapidly acquired several languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz, read incessantly and showed talent as a musician, but her greatest progress was in painting, and by her twelfth year she had become a notability, with bishops and nobles for her sitters. ![]() It was he who taught his precocious daughter. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffman, was a relatively poor man but a skilled painter, who was often traveling for his work. She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/ Austria where her family originated. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Two Roads by L.M. Augustine![]() ![]() But a journey with no end offers no hope of comfort, of peace, of rest. You may not know who you are.” We’re all our own heroes now, and our journeys are to find ourselves, or to invent selves we can call our own. Harrison hints at the anxiety of such a life as he reaches the bridge: “You may not know where you came from. Nevertheless, we continue traveling in Kerouac’s words, “the road is life.” Nowadays, as Harrison’s song implies, there’s no quest set before us, no Ring to destroy or Kingdom to restore. Whether it’s Sal and Dean freewheeling across the country or Frodo and the Fellowship walking to Mordor, the road is the setting for any archetypal Hero’s Journey. The imagery of the road is pervasive and resonant. Whimsical ukulele jangles and burnished slide guitar snakes around the classic Liverpudlian voice as the famously “spiritual” Beatle sings, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road can take you there.” ![]() George Harrison’s final album Brainwashed opens with a joyful anthem to the possibilities of the road. ![]() ![]() ![]() The importance of yo-heave-ho theory is that it places the development of human language in some SOCIAL CONTEXT. ![]() Examples : Ouch!, Ah!, Hey! 3 The Study of Language - George Yule Yo-heave-ho Theory The sounds of a person involved in physical effort could be the source of our language, especially when that physical effort involved several people and had to be coordinated. This view has been called “ bow-wow theory “ of language origin and these words echoing naturel sounds are called “ onomatopoeic words “ A similar suggestion : “ The original sounds of language came from naturel cries of emotion such as pain, anger and joy. “ The Natural Sound Source “ Primitive words could have been imitations of the naturel sounds which early men and women heard around them “ Examples : cuckoo, splash, bang, boom. 2 The Study of Language - George Yule The Divine Source The basic idea of the theory is that : “ If infants were allowed to grow up without hearing any language, then they would spontaneously begin using the original God-given language. Yet we have no physical evidance relating to the speech of our ancestors and because of this absence of evidance speculations about the origins of human speech have been developed. We do not know that spoken language developed well before written language. The Study of Language - George Yule The Study of Language George Yule 1 The Study of Language - George Yule UNIT 1 THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE We simply do not know how language originated. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments The last thing hetold me![]() ![]() The deeper they dig into who Owen really was and what he was really up to, the less the pieces seem to add up. This being a miniseries with seven hour-long episodes to fill, of course they’re right. By all appearances, he’s on the run from a federal investigation into an Enron-level fraud orchestrated by the tech firm he works for - and yet Bailey and Hannah cannot shake the suspicion that there’s more to his flight than meets the eye. On a day that starts out seeming like any other, Owen disappears, leaving no clues as to where he’s gone and only a few hints about what’s to come: a pair of cryptic notes to Hannah, now his wife of one year, and Bailey (Angourie Rice), his teenage daughter from a previous marriage, along with a fat bag of cash. Cast: Jennifer Garner, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Angourie Rice, Aisha Tyler, Augusto Aguilera, Geoff Stults, John Harlan Kimįaithfully adapted by Laura Dave and Josh Singer from Dave’s own bestselling novel, The Last Thing He Told Me begins with an irresistible mystery. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Cheat day by liv stratman![]() Of course, I rely heavily on my fellow writers to get through the days (and weeks and years) it takes to write a book. ![]() Kirby: I think the biggest source of validation for me is reading a new-to-me book and feeling seen and spoken to by it. When external support is less consistent, where do you find that seriousness of purpose? How do you find it? What convictions, rituals, people, or places do you turn to? That got me thinking about writers’ other sources of validation. In describing the formation of her book, Bess Winter mentioned that Michael Griffith’s full investment in her academic interests provided her the “seriousness of purpose and validation” she needed while pursuing her PhD at UC. Fiction writers may find this in the form of artist’s grants, MFA programs, and / or residencies. In a society that often undervalues art, institutional support is crucial to any artist’s development and success. ![]() Over email, I asked them how they wade these waters and continue to forge a sense of artistic purpose: (If you’d like to tune in remotely, you can also register via Zoom.)Īs accomplished authors and graduates of UC’s creative writing doctoral program, they are uniquely familiar with the writer’s life in all its forms: a solitary practice, an academic field, a community, an industry, an impulse. ![]() Assistant Editor Haley Crigger: The Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival kicks off today! This evening’s event, held in the Elliston Poetry Room at 5:30 PM, will feature readings from Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratman. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The obstacle is the way stoicism![]() ![]() It was from this adversity that they derived great meaning. Because bad things happen.īut what was special about the Stoics is that it is in precisely these difficult times that they managed to shine. They struggled, just as you struggle now.īecause life isn’t fair. He would bear the scars of it forever.Įven the more contemporary Stoics, such as Viktor Frankl and James Stockdale were both forced to embody Stoicism when their lives took unexpected turns. ![]() To say that Epictetus struggled early on in life would be a preposterous understatement: the first three decades were spent in harsh, unrelenting slavery. ![]() Wars, political rebellions, economic collapse, and pandemics all tested his fortitude. Marcus Aurelius’ reign, while he was loved by the people of Rome, was anything but easy. It was a fact of life in Rome just as it is a fact today. The Stoics, like everyone who has walked this earth, were not unfamiliar with suffering. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wright has created a character so compelling in her deviousness that you find yourself reading just to find out what she says and does next. ![]() "The Darkest Flower unfolds with the sinister beauty of a night-blooming poison. What about those in Kira’s orbit, a sunny suburb of moms behaving badly? What do they really know about Kira? What does Kira know about them? For Allison, the answers are getting darker every day. Besides, with an image as carefully cultivated as her garden, Kira would be insane to risk everything on something as outrageous as the attempted murder of one of her closest friends. But no one said the innocent had to be likable-or entirely honest. ![]() And PTA president Kira Grant certainly appears innocent-except for the toxic bloom in her backyard and perhaps a bit of a malicious streak. A win for her high-profile new client will give Allison the career she deserves. ![]() Ambitious defense attorney and single mother Allison Barton is anxious to escape the shadow of the low-down dog of a marquee partner carrying their renowned Virginia law firm. Now all eyes are on the accused, the victim, and a woman hired to look deeper. Attempted murder? Inexplicable accident? Either way, a PTA mom struggled for her life in an elementary school cafeteria, poisoned by a wolfsbane-laced smoothie at the fifth-grade graduation party. You’ll never believe the terrible things being said about the perfect president of the PTA. ![]() ![]() Ruth is still wondering how this ever seemed like a good idea. Wind-swept North Britannia, where the natives are in the mood for killing.Gaius Petreius Ruso, medicus to the Twentieth Legion, has been posted to the hostile north - and thrown into a no-win situation. *The first four books have all had two titles. ![]() Downie, but she isn't the person with the same name who writes medical textbooks, and recommends that readers should never, ever take health advice from a two thousand year old man who prescribes mouse droppings. A combination of nosiness and a childish fascination with mud means she is never happier than when wielding an archaeological trowel. Since she is unable to wind back time, British readers may find it useful to kno Ruth is the author of nine mysteries* featuring Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso and his British partner Tilla. Ruth is still wondering how this ever seemed like a good idea. ![]() ![]() Ruth is the author of nine mysteries* featuring Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso and his British partner Tilla. ![]() |