6/24/2023 0 Comments Prisoner of geography book![]() ![]() I am lucky to have found an online community such as 1729, where people from different backgrounds shared ideas and learned from each other about technology that can create wealth (e.g crypto), health (e.g transhumanism), and truth (e.g decentralized media). we are all just a click away from other people that we are aligned with.Īs Balaji mentioned in the network state essay, people are organizing themselves not based on geographic distance but on geodesics, dynamic digital geography such as the social network. In the networked era, people with the same interest can convene and learn from each other. Now the internet has added a new meaning to community. Or the bustling bars in Montparnasse, Paris, where artists, writers, and philosophers such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso meet. For example, the famous cafe central in Vienna, where amazing minds used to hang out such as Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Expertise, creativity, and critical thoughts usually came and were passed around in a small local circle. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments Heartless book 2![]() ![]() But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans. At the risk of offending the King and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into a secret courtship.Ĭath is determined to choose her own destiny. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. But for her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for a woman who could be a queen.Īt a royal ball where Cath is expected to receive the King’s marriage proposal, she meets handsome and mysterious Jest. ![]() A talented baker, she wants to open a shop and create delectable pastries. ![]() In her first book not set in the Lunar Chronicles universe, Marissa Meyer shows that she has grown as a writer and is not running out of ideas.įirst sentence: Three luscious lemon tarts glistened up at Catherine.Ĭatherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland and a favorite of the unmarried King, but her interests lie elsewhere. There’s very little reason for me to like them, but I do anyway, because they are comfort reads, they have fluffy romances, they play with fairy tales, and they are simply fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() These Terms shall govern your use of the Atome website, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which Atome makes its services available, our mobile, tablet and other smart device applications, and application program interfaces (collectively, the “Platform”) and the services provided through the Platform in the manner described in Clause 2.1. These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you ( “you”, “your” or the “Customer”) and APaylater Financials Pte Ltd doing business as Atome ( “we”, “us”, “our”, “Atome”) (collectively, the “Parties” and each a “Party”). ![]() You should print a copy of these Terms for your records. The headings contained in this document are for reference purposes only. By using the Platform and the Atome Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and are deemed to have executed these Terms electronically. Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. ![]() ![]() Garcia Marquez always thought of himself as a journalist first and foremost and this brilliant collection goes a long way towards justifying that belief. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world." 'Garcia Marquez always thought of himself as a journalist first and foremost and this brilliant collection goes a long way towards justifying that belief.' Salman Rushdie his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career-years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the final years of his life. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Foer everything is illuminated![]() ![]() He is searching for his grandfather’s shtetl of Trachimbrod and to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, according to family history. The central plot involves a young Jewish-American writer, with the convenient name of Jonathan Safran Foer (played by an outstanding Jeremy Kahn, Dry Powder, Wittenberg), who goes on a ‘roots’ trip to Ukraine. ![]() The excellent direction by Tom Ross and sensitive, skilled acting by the talented cast adds to the absolute pleasure of this production. In 2005, the book became a well-reviewed, small-scale movie by Liev Schreiber starring Elijah Wood, and now the Aurora Theatre Company is presenting a simply wonderful theatrical adaptation by British writer Simon Block. ![]() Often novels don’t translate well to the stage or screen, but Jonathan Safran Foer’s acclaimed 2002 debut, Everything is Illuminated, is a notable exception. Adam Burch (left), Jeremy Kahn (center) and Julian López-Morillas in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, adapted by Simon Block, and directed by Tom Ross at the Aurora. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Stalingrad grossman![]() ![]() What we do know for certain is that Grossman was a war correspondent and that much of what he observed ended up in the various editions of the work, which Chandler calls “an act of homage…to honour the dead.” It may have helped that in the midst of the appearance of the various editions of Stalingrad (1952-1956), Stalin died (1953). ![]() They don’t tell us how many years were involved in examining multiple versions and printed editions of Grossman’s thousand-page novel, but in both the introduction and an afterword Robert tells us that “Grossman battled editors and censors throughout his career,” and that he had to tote the line for what Stalin himself regarded as appropriate Russian realism. ![]() It’s a small miracle that we have an English translation of Vasily Grossman’s novel, Stalingrad, given the huge amount of restorative work Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler had to undertake to piece the novel together. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Homer and the iliad and odyssey![]() ![]() The manuscript tradition for the Iliad is much better–there are more copies surviving from almost every period for which we have evidence. The epics were different enough that Samuel Butler (only partly joking) proposed that the Odyssey was composed by a woman. The epics differences were sensed in antiquity as well. Is this because more people had less experience of war? Is there something more modern or simpler about the Odyssey? In the past century the mentions of the epics started to draw closer together. ![]() Here’s a different Ngram provided by Kyle Sanders ( ohflanders)which indicates the Odyssey overtook the Iliad in the late 1960s If we were to evaluate the popularity of the epics based on their mentions ( using the Google ngram function), we would see that a few centuries ago, the Iliad had a pretty impressive lead over the Odyssey. ![]() ![]() Look around the house for items that are orange. Let your student color the pumpkin, traffic cone, tiger, and orange. Let your preschool student explore math while putting the carrots in order based on size: small, medium, and large. The lapbook printables use a carrot theme to teach math, science, phonics, and more. You will find these The Carrot Seed activities in our free lapbook. This classic book provides a springboard for many lessons: the letter C, the color orange, the color brown, how plants grow, and more. ![]() The little boy knows his carrot will sprout, and it (eventually) does. If you remember being little, or if you are the youngest child in your family, you will relate to The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss.įather, mother, and big brother all tell little brother that his carrot seed won’t grow, but he doesn’t give up. This won’t cost you anything, but it helps us to keep the site running. ![]() We sometimes use affiliate links in our content. ![]() ![]() Reader, you are in for a real treat' JENNY ZHANG 'Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve' ALEXIS COE 'North's knockout latest chronicles the travails of a midwife's daughter who joins a group of female and nonbinary outlaws near the end of the 19th century. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber, known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women outcast from society. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments An american marriage![]() This wouldn't have happened to you in the first place.īATES: And right then and there, the seed for "An American Marriage" took root. ![]() And he said, I don't know what you're talking about. And she said to him, Roy, you know you wouldn't have waited on me for seven years. JONES: The woman was beautifully dressed, and the young man, he looked fine. TAYARI JONES: And when I was there in the mall, I overheard a couple arguing.īATES: Something about them caught her attention. Then she went home to visit her mother in Atlanta and took a trip to the mall just to walk around and clear her head. Months later, she knew a lot about the criminal justice system and how it affected black men's lives, but none of that information moved her to write anything. She'd gotten a fellowship to study race and incarceration in preparation for her next book. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Tayari Jones was on her way to Harvard. She told Karen Grigsby Bates of NPR's Code Switch team how she came to write "An American Marriage." ![]() The writer's name is Tayari Jones, and her much-noticed novel began with a meeting in a mall. ![]() Next, we meet a novelist who says she owes her newest book to a chance encounter. He made his name painting people he met almost at random on the street. ![]() The artist who unveiled President Obama's portrait this week said his art depends in part on chance. ![]() |