![]() ![]() ![]() As Philbrick writes, “Samuel Adams and his compatriots had created what was, in essence, an extralegal, colony-wide network of communications that threatened to preempt old hierarchical form of government.”īut the most interesting lesson was that, even though the American Revolution might have been partly kindled by social networks, it was taken over and won by militias. The affair of the purloined Hutchinson Letters reminded me of WikiLeaks, the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes reminded me of Twitter, and the Tea Party reminded me of, well, the tea party. ![]() The Committees of Correspondence conjured up comparisons to the role played in Tahrir Square by Facebook and other social networks. When reading “Bunker Hill,” Nathaniel Philbrick’s vivid narrative of the Boston area militia skirmishes that sparked the American Revolution in 1775, I couldn’t help thinking about more contemporary revolutions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when Anthony’s lips touch hers, she’s suddenly afraid she might not be able to resist the reprehensible rake herself. Kate’s determined to protect her sister-but she fears her own heart is vulnerable. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate’s the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams.Ĭontrary to popular belief, Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands-and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. ![]() London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry-he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield-the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. after watching episode 1 i ran so fast to goodreads and started stalking everyones books and me always being curious af and wanting to know if sienas gonna be. This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. The inspiration for season two of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. Among the keepers I couldn’t part with when it was time to Thin the Collection of Dusty Romances Prior to Moving were most of my Julia Quinn novels, and many of the Nora Roberts’. Look for Queen Charlotte, the new Bridgerton story by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes, inspired by the Netflix series. 1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, Londons most elusive bachelor, who has shown no. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() s Marin grows stronger, so does Marie's voice for her." Booklist also provided a positive review, noting that "Marie’s heartfelt reading enlivens the story and wrings meaning out of each word. (138) Nur noch 15 auf Lager (mehr ist unterwegs). ![]() The audiobook, narrated by Jorjeana Marie, received a starred review from School Library Journal, who stated that Marie "conveys the depth of Marin's moodiness, introspection, and confusion. Dieses Buch gibt es in einer neuen Auflage: Alles okay (Reihe Hanser) 9,95. The Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, and Seventeen named it one of the best books of the year. TIME added the book to its "100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time" list, and Bustle named it one of the best books of the decade. Kirkus called the book "An elegantly crafted paean to the cleansing power of truth," and Booklist called it "aw and beautiful." The Washington Post named it one of nine influential young adult novels over the past 50 years, placing it alongside Harry Potter, The Outsiders, and The Hunger Games. We Are Okay received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, and School Library Journal, as well as a positive review from Horn Book Guide. We Are Okay is a young adult novel by Nina LaCour, published Februby Dutton Books for Young Readers. ![]() ![]() And he was sitting on the bench waiting for her to have lunch and all of a sudden the building behind him blows up. ![]() She taught nursery school at a government building in Oklahoma City. And the big event in that, which you could see was diminished only in tragedy, I guess, because it's the same tragedy, but every day he'd go wait for his Native American partner. "He meets on a bus a Native American woman and finds his calling, as a bingo caller on a reservation. Simpson's White Ford Bronco during the infamous chase seen round the world.Īs if all that weren't enough, Roth also included the Oklahoma City bombing in the script: ![]() I'm not exactly sure what's "funny" about that sequence, but hey, what do I know? Other tidbits from Roth's script included Forrest becoming a ballroom dancer, and dancing with Princess Diana and Forrest somehow ending up in the back of O.J. He offers a very different view on the life of the main character compared to the original novel plot of Winston Groom. We had a funny sequence where they were busing in Florida at the same time, so people were angry about either the busing, or kids having to go to school with the kid who had AIDS. Eric Roth, listed in the movie credits as screenplay writer (who was awarded the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Forrest Gump ), rewrote quite a few of the novel’s qualities for dramatic and cinematic purposes. ![]() ![]() "And people wouldn't go to class with him in Florida. "It was gonna start with little boy having AIDS," said Roth. In the video interview above, Roth lays out some details about his script, none of which sound very good. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am almost tempted to say that it is still a very promising subject-for somebody else. I think that a harlequinade like “ The Flying Inn” was an extremely promising subject, but I very strongly doubt whether I kept the promise. I think “ The Napoleon of Notting Hill” was a book very well worth writing but I am not sure that it was ever written. “y real judgment of my own work,” he confessed, “is that I have spoilt a number of jolly good ideas in my time.” Chesterton had a low opinion of his own abilities as a novelist. The first is the wisdom of innocence, or the sanity of sanctity, whereby we see the miracle of life with eyes full of wonder the second is the self-centredness of one who refuses the challenge of growing-up. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” is the tension that exists between the childlikeness demanded by Christ and the childishness that St. ![]() ![]() Shrewd, and with a commonsense wit, possessed of such a thundering voice that skeptics wondered if she were a man, she was never, Painter asserts, a quaintly exotic innocent. A striking presence on the platform, the subject of an as-told-to autobiography that went through many editions and helped sustain her financially, she seemed a born survivor, shedding slavery, abuse, poverty and prejudice during her 80-odd years (admirers claimed 110-she died in 1883). Isabella Van Wagenen, a Pentecostalist domestic born into slavery about 1797 but who reinvented herself at 59 as an abolitionist orator, then into a fiery suffragist, is seen here through the prism of the religious, social and political movements that animated her. ![]() ![]() Yet it has additional strengths as 19th-century social history. ![]() Because other biographies of Sojourner Truth, unusual even among ex-slave women as itinerant preacher and political activist, have been published in recent years, Painter's compelling life loses some of its edge. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll try to talk about the poem in sequence from first section to last and at least tell you some of the ways in which I make sense of it. ![]() I began last time by talking about that first verse paragraph of the poem. “The Waste Land”: The Burial of the Dead And indeed, The Waste Land, which is a poem that in certain ways tries to imagine a form of private ritual, or at least struggles with this question, was certainly considered by some readers to be a neurotic poem. ![]() Is it possible for the individual to produce some kind of shared patterning of experience such as ritual represents? For Freud, who is, of course, a thinker in the background of The Waste Land and all of the poetry that we’re reading and thinking about this semester, private ritual meant neurosis, sickness of a kind, some kind of derangement. Professor Langdon Hammer: Is private ritual possible? This is a kind of oxymoron, “a private ritual,” because ritual is, or should be, precisely something that’s collective and shared. Modern Poetry ENGL 310 - Lecture 12 - T.S. ![]() ![]() Gold sand can be quickly scooped up into bags, but the ants soon catch the scent of the intruders and hurry to the surface. To steal the ants’ gold, camel caravans approach the nests on hot summer mornings, when the ants are safely underground. The sand they bring to the surface is full of the precious metal, making them an attractive target for treasure seekers, but they also fiercely defend their gold from anyone who would dare take it. Most importantly, gold-digging ants excavate their nests in an area rich with gold dust. These ants are exceedingly fast, strong, and dangerous. In the Ortus Sanitatis, the gold-digging ant is given a form unlike any ant – indeed, unlike any living animal, with a rounded, bird-like head and four legs with long talons. Skins of those ants brought before Alexander the Great were like panther skins. Pliny specifies that they are as large as an Ethiopian wolf, and the color of a cat. Gold-digging ants are smaller than dogs, but larger than foxes. Their story is the same regardless of location. Some later sources, such as the Ortus Sanitatis, move them to Ethiopia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Herodotus originally placed the Gold-digging Ants in the sandy deserts in the land of the Dards, in India, within the Persian Empire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magical realism + girl power! Lin’s cell phone zaps her with special powers, and she must defeat a villain who spreads evil through binary code. Teens go to astronaut camp venture into space and develop superpowers, but still have time for a little romance. Now that she’s a teenager, Princess X is everywhere: she sees sticker, patches, graffiti inspired by the character, and there’s even a webcomic. May and her childhood best friend Libby created Princess X stories, with Libby drawing and May writing-until Libby died in a car accident. YA Fiction and Graphic Novels: A Superheroes, Supervillains, and Superpowers Booklist ![]() ![]() So, here’s yet another superhero booklist. It includes a few graphic novels as well, and a few novels that aren’t exactly 100% superhero novels, still would appeal to fans of the genre. I made this YA superhero booklist for my library’s readers’ advisory print materials and it’s slightly different from the one I made for The Hub. More superhero book matches coming later this summer!Īt YALSA’s The Hub, I shared a young adult fiction superhero book list. ![]() On the library’s tumblr, I made a “what would the Avengers read?” booklist. On the library’s blog, I shared a superhero book list - for grown ups. I’ve been busy with work and the two classes I’m taking this summer, but I’ve still managed to write some blog posts, just not for my own personal blog. ![]() ![]() Their lives, loves and feuds are shared with millions of fans on the streaming platform PlayMii, and they are living the dream. Gifted, gilded people who have everything - fame, respect, adulation, more freebies than they can ever unbox. They are the influencers, the lucky ones. McManus' Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You - Ed, Maxine, Leni, Xav. Perfect for fans of Gossip Girl and Karen M. ![]() Clear your schedule - you won't be able to stop reading' Kat Ellis, author of Wicked Little Deeds and Harrow Lake 'Dead Lucky is a glitzy thriller and I felt every high, every low and every pressure. I hugely recommend this book to anyone who likes a twisty thriller' Emily Barr, author of The One Memory of Flora Banks 'An electrifying murder mystery brimming with intrigue, twists and unforgettable characters. It was gripping, refreshing and wonderfully told: Andreina is brilliant at misdirection, so I had no idea what was ahead. ![]() |