6/28/2023 0 Comments Station eleven author![]() This is the fourth year WVU has selected a book designed to engage the campus and community in a yearlong discussion. ![]() There are no zombies, no drones, no Big Brother, and when you are finished you have hope, not horror.” Instead of featuring the worst of humanity, it focuses on beauty and truth, and the things that make us tick once we have satisfied our basic physiological needs. Although it is set in a dystopian future, it is about as far from “The Walking Dead” or “The Hunger Games” as you can get. “When you read it, you genuinely want to know what will happen next. It is a page-turner,” said Susan Lantz, director of the Campus Read. “This is a beautiful, engaging, well-written book. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. “Station Eleven” was the winner of the Arthur C. ![]() This novel centers on characters connected to one another in unexpected ways. ![]() This is no post-apocalyptic thriller, but a hopeful story that focuses on a traveling theater and music troupe determined to bring beauty back to shattered communities. ![]() These are the questions at the heart of West Virginia University’s 2018-2019 Campus Read: “Station Eleven” by Emily St. Those remaining have figured out how to survive, but is that all there is: survival? What about beauty, art, history and human connection? A flu pandemic has decimated the population of the world, unraveling civilization and erasing centuries of technological and scientific advances. ![]()
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![]() In the seventeenth century, the friendship of the poet Katherine Philips, the “Matchless Orinda,” and Anne Owen (the pair “delighted not in physicality but in the union of souls and in philosophizing and poetizing”) was perceived as ennobling. But by the mid-nineteenth century, owing partly to Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mai, the joke was over: lesbian lovemaking was firmly connected with moral degeneracy, and, a half-dozen decades later, owing to Havelock Ellis and Freud, it was seen as proof of mental disorder.Īttitudes toward love relationships considered to be nonsexual proved less easy to categorize, because more is known about how women themselves conceived them. ![]() ![]() ![]() French libertine poets took it as “merely a prelude to heterosexual lovemaking” respectable eighteenth-century society sealed it off as a mode of transvestite zaniness inevitable among the unreal inhabitants of the world of the theater or among female prostitutes. In the earliest period, sexual contact between women seems to have been viewed with more humor than horror. The book’s survey of life and literature is divided into three periods-the sixteenth through the eighteenth, the nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries-and sets under examination two kinds of woman-to-woman relationships: connections understood by contemporaries to be primarily sexual in nature, and connections understood by contemporaries to be either nonsexual or, at any rate, only incidentally sexual in nature. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The ascent of money![]() ![]() In addition, the current position of this type of fund in the global market, alongside its relevance has been expounded by the author.įrom the outset, Niall Ferguson effectively designs his introduction by capturing the genesis of money as a tool of the trade. In particular, Ferguson employs other supportive arguments and assertions from other authors to explain the origin, growth, and major achievements of hedge funds. ![]() In the entire chapter, the author brings out important supporting references and arguments from other pieces of literature.Įxternal materials obviously solidify the author’s assertions alongside defining the need for further exploration. Notably, the beginning of Ferguson’s book in chapter one is highly captivating and creates a desire to read even more. ![]() The succinctness of this book lies in the critical analysis and emphasis of the financial history of money in spite of the fact it has impeded some important functions of the global economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() His works are often advertised as yōkai novels by the publisher, and their covers reflect this. Kyogoku considers yōkai folklore to be a form of sublimation and applied this idea to his novels. ![]() Kyogoku participates in Mizuki's World Yōkai Association and is a member of the Kanto Mizuki Association and the Research Institute of Mysterious and Marvelous East Asian phenomena. This preference was strongly influenced by Shigeru Mizuki (水木しげる), who is an eminent yokai specialist. Most of his works are concerned with yōkai, creatures from Japanese folklore he describes himself as a yōkai researcher. He has since written many novels, and received two Japanese literary prizes Kyogoku won the 16th Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for Nozoki Koheiji (覘き子平次) in 2003, and won the 130th Naoki Prize for Nochi no Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari (後巷説百物語) in 2004. In 1994, Kodansha published his first novel Ubume no Natsu (姑獲鳥の夏). After dropping out of Kuwasawa Design School, he worked as a publicity agent and established a design company. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Ocean vuong night sky![]() It's a thrilling new perspective charged with so much energy and passion. ![]() He draws upon references from Greek mythology and American iconography taking them into an entirely new context. Together they form a portrait of a distinct personality and the creation of an independent voice while meditating on themes including the body, violence, sex and nationality. The book is comprised of three sections: the first mostly deals with family heritage/the Vietnam War the second mostly concerns childhood/family life and the third explores adulthood and looking to the future. His poems have that arresting quality as they clearly come from the heart and contain an urgent desire to communicate. First published in 2016, it feels like one of those break-out books of poetry that's been universally lauded. “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong is one of these. ![]() There are some books which sit on your shelves for ages and you know you'll love them, but don't get around to reading them for some reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Willie Grimes maintained his innocence in his 1988 trial, but was convicted on flimsy evidence and served over 20 years behind bars. ![]() In this compelling tale of crime and punishment (of the wrong person), Rachlin explores a horrible case of wrongful conviction and ultimate exoneration. Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin Rachlin (Little, Brown) White,” Handy writes his afterword, “was correct about Charlotte’s Web being an ‘appreciative’ book – leave it to the coauthor of The Elements of Style to find such a lovely and perfect adjective – and I hope to have written one as well.”Ģ. Handy is empathic but not sentimental, and this beautifully written and designed book never lacks for fresh insights. ![]() Milne, Beatrix Potter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Mildred D. Handy, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, proceeds chronologically through childhood, beginning with picture books, and on through A. “ Curious George and The Little Engine That Could have their moments but Goodnight Moon is a transcendent masterpiece,” writes Handy in his paean to children’s books. Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult by Bruce Handy (Simon & Schuster) ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Secret wars hickman![]() ![]() ![]() Also joining the heroes is Miles Morales from the Ultimate Universe, who hid as a stowaway on that universe’s raft. So, while Doctor Doom has made a place for all that remains to live, he also has many threats present on the planet.Īs it turns out, the Doctor Strange that resides as the sheriff of Battleworld is the same Doctor Strange from Earth-616, and when he finds the raft capsule, he opens it to find Peter Parker, Carol Danvers, Jane Foster’s Thor, Star Lord, Cyclops with the Phoenix Force, Black Panther, and Reed Richards. The second is the Annihilation Wave lead by Annihilus, and the third is the self-replicating Ultron robot army. These factions are the zombies from the Marvel Zombie Universe. RELATED: ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’: Best Comics to Read Before Seeing the MCU Filmīattleworld itself is very hostile, with three main enemy factions existing beyond what is known as “The Shield Wall,” which separates Doctor Doom’s land of order from the rest of the planet. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Nutbrown hare book![]() ![]() McBratney, who said that “it’s as difficult to write a fine picture book, one that stands out from the crowd, as it is to write a fine novel”, praised Jeram’s illustrations, saying that “there’s a gangly awkwardness, a boneyness, about hares, that has captured, and with such a lovely soft palette”.Ī sequel to Guess How Much I Love You, called Will You Be My Friend?, is due to be published on 29 September. ![]() He wrote: ‘On good nights my little girl loves me all the way to the moon, but on bad nights she only loves me to the door.’ If you’re a parent (or a grandparent like myself), here’s hoping that you mostly make it to the moon. “I’d like to share with you one comment a father sent me. This evening, somewhere in the world, a mum or dad will be reading Guess with someone special,” he said last year, to mark the book’s 25th anniversary. “You turn the pages, you read the words, you do the actions and you play the game. But for McBratney, the book was just “a lighthearted little story designed to help a big one and a wee one enjoy the pleasure of being together”. Walker said that McBratney’s phrase, “I love you to the moon and back” had “taken on iconic status”, while the book had sparked an animated TV show, a stage play and toys. Photograph: Simon Graham/Harrison Photography Sam McBratney, author of Guess How Much I Love You. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Thank you amelia![]() ![]() This new edition is sure to please every fan of Amelia Bedelia'even Great-Aunt Myra! TolkienĪ classic Amelia Bedelia story is now an I Can Read Book, and in full color too! 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I was happy to discover that I still loved Poison Study, even after a second reading. It took me a while to get to them though, so last year I finally reread Poison Study and followed with the next two books. ![]() So when the following books came out, we added them to our shelves. ![]() I thought the setting, the characters, the plot, everything was great and just different enough to be refreshing when compared to the traditional fantasy I was devouring at the time. The Man of the House and I first read Poison Study when it came out in 2007, and we loved it. But danger might come from unsuspected sources, and as Yelena steps into what she believes to be a temporary situation, her true story is revealed and her life is forever changed. ![]() It’s an offer that comes with a twist to ensure that she doesn’t try to escape, she will be poisoned, and given daily her dose of antidote -which she would die without. Sentenced to death, Yelena will seize any opportunity to stay alive so when she is offered the position of food tester for the Commander, she immediately accepts. Posted by kay on Ap2:19 am in 2 stars reads, 3 stars reads, 4 stars reads | 9 comments Home » 2 stars reads » Review : Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study Review : Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study ![]() |