5/31/2023 0 Comments Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey![]() Much of the material was originally published online in the author’s blog as “Wool” (July 30, 2011), “Wool: Proper Gauge” (November 20, 2011), “Wool: Casting Off” (December 4, 2011), “Wool: The Unraveling” (December 25, 2011), and “Wool: The Stranded” (January 14, 2012).Ģ012 Howey, Hugh (b. Additional material can be found at the author’s website as well as the author’s “Story Behind Dust” at. ![]() Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. ![]() Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes “First Shift” (April 14, 2012), “Second Shift” (November 20, 2012), and “Third Shift” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Book about toad and frog![]() Though intended as a series for emerging K-2 readers, the books have become icons of quality children’s literature, with equal appeal as read-aloud picture books for nursery school children and timeless classics enjoyed by older children and adults. Frog and Toad Are Friends was the first volume of four that Lobel gifted the world over the next decade. Written and illustrated by an up-and-coming author, Arnold Lobel, the volume contained five charming stories that related the trials and tribulations of a genuine friendship. Gareth Matthews, "The Philosophy of Childhood"įifty years ago, a small children’s book about the exploits of two dear companions, an anthropomorphic frog and toad, was published. ![]() Yet Frog and Toad, because of the utter simplicity of its vocabulary, counts as a primer, an “I Can Read” book.” His one-liners have the grace, humor and profundity of great poetry. “Arnold Lobel had a special genius for incorporating Socratic irony into his simplest children’s stories. ![]() ![]() Jon Scieszka, celebrated children’s author and former second grade teacher All in brilliantly limited vocabulary and sentence structure that kept me sane and entertained through no less than 4,785,421 readings with beginning readers.” ![]() ![]() I'm not typically drawn to fast-paced action in my reading life. As long as you’re happy with them, my opinion counts for diddly-squat. I apologize to my thriller-loving friends. I hate to say it, but I’m not a big fan of thrillers. “She had witnessed a monstrous injustice and gone out to fight it. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle-amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat-discovers his own natural resources, and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well.Ī master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. ![]() The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle-young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. ![]() ![]() The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Good and mad![]() Still, together they give you a glimpse of the kinds of pleasures and frustrations on offer for readers of Good and Mad, journalist Rebecca Traister’s reported manifesto on feminism after Trump. New York magazine writer Rebecca Traister, the author of a new book about women’s anger called Good and Mad, says it is way, way too soon to pat ourselves on the back for. It’s true that the examples above are angry for very different reasons and channel their anger in very different ways it’s also true that the first two scenarios are fictional. New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister talks with Recodes Kara Swisher about her new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Womens Anger. ![]() ![]() 'Get your fucking hands off me, goddamn it!' yells a leader of the National Women’s Political Caucus at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, addressing the member of the white-guy network-news crowd who is trying to restrain her as she rages over their failure to cover her group’s contributions. ![]() 'It’s clear to me,' one of them tells him affectionately, 'that you stand out from our past encounters.' Then she shoots him in the face. Rebecca Traisters new book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Womens Anger, scrutinizes its causes, its repression, and its release in the last half. A couple of rough-and-ready French chicks talk their way into an architect’s house.and point their Smith & Wessons at him. Two Southern belles on the run get catcalled one too many times by the same schlubby dude they blow up his truck. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments We3 by grant morrison![]() ![]() ![]() 3, centers narratively, thematically, and emotionally on Rocket’s uncertain fate, it also includes three other “uplifted” mammals who also choose names for themselves, Lila (Linda Cardellini), a badger, Floor (Mikaela Hoover), a rabbit, and Teeths (Asim Chaudhry), a wheelchair-bound walrus, each one subject and victim of cruel, callous experimentation at the hands of the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), a millennia-old, megalomaniacal super-scientist with a God complex. While this particular scene, like much of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() Almost as importantly, the scene remains thankfully free of the ironic or sarcastic quips that typically undermine most Marvel productions. Especially in the context in which the scene unfolds, it’s an incredibly poignant, even heartrending scene, a canny mix of deft, layered writing, skillful voice acting, and realistic CGI (courtesy of Framestore). 3, writer-director James Gunn’s goodbye to the comic-book characters he introduced to audiences nine years ago and the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) itself, where Rocket (voiced once again by Bradley Cooper), the cybernetically and genetically enhanced raccoon we’ve followed across multiple MCU entries and phases, tentatively asserts his agency for the first time by giving himself something he never had: his own name. There’s a moment in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The third time remains the charm with James Gunn’s trilogy ender. ![]() |