6/8/2023 0 Comments Stephen king electricity book![]() ![]() ![]() The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it. In Under the Dome, he has produced another riveting masterpiece. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tidal pull' and Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. ![]() He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. Stephen King's most riveting novel since THE STAND, in which every chapter ends on a cliffhanger - a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Orinoco aphra behn![]() ![]() Is Behn’s presentation of Oroonoko “racist”? When she describes him as “noble,” is she judging by white European standards? Is she over-compensating because he is not European? What can we discover from Behn’s story about English (and European) assumptions about race at the time?ģ. And she also describes his features in terms of familiar European (and therefore “white”) physical characteristics. At the same time, Behn takes care to distinguish him from “brown” Africans, whom she describes in much less flattering language. Notice that she specifically assigns him positive aesthetic qualities: he is not just physically attractive, but Behn expresses his “blackness” is expressed in terms that almost suggest he is being described like a work of art. Consider the ways in which Behn treats Oroonoko as a black African person. ![]() ![]() Is he a “hero”? What qualities does he have that make him heroic? Does he have any qualities that seem to be clearly unheroic? Do you consider him to be “believable”? That is, does Behn seem to portray him realistically? What aspects of his character and action seem particularly realistic? Are there things about him that seem not to be realistic?Ģ. Oroonoko is the central character in Behn’s novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor is there a woman who has lived completely free of a man’s world. There is no life without family, friendship, connection, even if these are disastrous. But there is no human life in which a woman is not relevant - as a mother, daughter, lover, friend, neighbor, boss, enemy, if not existing purely as a self. To describe a novel as “women’s fiction” is to say that female lives are not as interesting, not as necessary or as worthy. Descriptors are warnings, created for readers who find stories about people of a different race, culture, sexual identity, societal or physical experience hard to follow, or vaguely discomforting, or simply irrelevant. IT’S BEEN ASKED BEFORE, but what exactly is women’s fiction? The definition according to the Women’s Fiction Writers Association - “layered stories in which the plot is driven by the main character’s emotional journey toward a more fulfilled self” - drips with subtext. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Green lights book review![]() ![]() “Well…Don’t half-ass it.” Of all the things my dad could have said, of all the reactions he could have had, Don’t half-ass it were the last words I expected to hear and the best words he could have ever said to me. ![]() When McConaughey suddenly wanted to switch his college major from a pre-law to film, with the goal of pursuing acting as a career, his father replied: When he realized that he wanted to pursue acting, he received a great gift from his father, but it wasn’t money or connections. He wasn’t one of those kids born into Hollywood, but instead a small town in West Texas. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I appreciated how he lived his life to avoid the thing that people regret most often on their deathbeds: This was a highly-enjoyable book containing several great stories and providing a lot of colorful background to my limited view of this actor. Matthew McConaughey was productive during the pandemic, collecting his diaries and reflecting on his life so far to complete the NY Times bestselling memoir Greenlights. ![]() ![]() 'A vast, intricate sci-fi showstopper' - Guardian on Salvation The Saints of Salvation is the epic conclusion to the Salvation Sequence by Peter F. And as forces battle on in the cold reaches of space, hope seems distant indeed. ![]() Yet in the far future, humanity are still hunted by their ancient adversary. Maybe allies scattered throughout space and time can join forces. Once there, they must signal its location to future generations, to bring the battle to the enemy. If it succeeds, those chosen will travel to a hidden enclave thousands of light years away. And while millions have fled to seek refuge in space, others continue to fight an apparently unwinnable war.Īs Earth's defeat draws near, a team attempts to infiltrate the Salvation of Life - the Olyix's arkship. One by one, cities are falling to their devastating weaponry. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price.įor two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. This is a high-octane adventure from 'the most powerful imagination in science fiction' (Ken Follett). ![]() ![]() ![]() Humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat, in this extraordinary conclusion to Peter F. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Alyson noel soul seekers![]() There we rented a picturesque casita in quirky Pioneertown, CA that was an exact match to the description of character Paloma’s adobe home in Fated. FATED and ECHO to be followed by MYSTIC (05.07.13) and HORIZON (11.12. Though we were able to shoot a large portion of the commercial in Los Angeles County, capturing the terrain of New Mexico required us to transport cast and crew to scenic Morongo Valley. From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortals comes a breathtaking new saga brimming with magic, mystery, and an intoxicating love story that will steal your heart away. Check out a behind the scenes video and stills from the three day shoot below: Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. The four novels, Fated, Echo, Mystic, and Horizon are based in New Mexico and focus on a group of characters with a variety of supernatural powers. TOH had the pleasure of creating the commercial campaign for Alyson Noel’s spellbinding book series, Soul Seekers. The Other House also created the Soul Seekers Series website. Daire must embrace her fate as a Soul Seeker and discover whether Dace is. ![]() The 60 second trailer is above plus a 15 second spot for each book below. Fated (The Soul Seekers) by Alyson Noel Half Price Books India Books inspire. ![]() Take a journey through the rabbit hole and find your soulmate with these commercials for the Soul Seekers Series by Alyson Noël. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Hickman avengers omnibus 2![]() ![]() He graduated to Fantastic Four, alongside one of his favorite writers, Chris Claremont. Working for the Marvel UK imprint led Spanish artist Salvador Larroca to a regular gig on Ghost Rider. Hickman returned to Marvel to mastermind a transformative relaunch of its mutant titles, beginning with House of X and Powers of X, and continuing with X-Men. His impressive list of credits includes a trio of lauded series for Image: East of West, Secret and the Eisner Award-nominated The Manhattan Projects. Hickman's years of planning culminated with the Marvel Universe-shattering Secret Wars. Hickman penned numerous Ultimate Universe titles before bringing his intricate plotting to Avengers and New Avengers. He then wrote the Dark Reign: Fantastic Four limited series, which served as a warm-up for his revered runs on Fantastic Four and FF, and two S.H.I.E.L.D. ![]() Teaming with writer Brian Michael Bendis, he launched Marvel's Secret Warriors, spinning out of Secret Invasion. Jonathan Hickman is the award-winning writer/artist of critically acclaimed independent titles Pax Romana, Transhuman and The Nightly News. ![]() ![]() I will never be able to think of the word “apt” without remembering the lengths to which my teacher went to explain to us why the cat, Dragon, had “an apt name.” Showing all of the signs of the anxious perfectionist I was, I didn’t want anyone to know that I’d read the book before. The next time I encountered the super-smart rats of NIMH, I was in fifth grade and we were reading the book together as a class assignment. I concluded with all of the logic of a 10-year-old that that must mean that Nicodemus and his community were out there somewhere. I remember being into the book enough that I used Ask Jeeves to find “NIMH” and was astounded that it was a real place. ![]() My copy called it The Secret of NIMH to tie it in with the movie, which had come out more than a decade beforehand. ![]() ![]() Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, I was in the third grade. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Heinlein starship![]() ![]() ![]() Starship Troopers received the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960, and by 1980 it had been translated into eleven languages and was still selling strongly. Still, there was no denying Heinlein was at the peak of his powers as a writer. So convincing and realistically imagined was Starship Troopers that the space war epic was considered highly controversial upon its release with several critics claiming it glorified the military and violence. Set 700 years in the future, Johnnie Rico never intended to join the infantry, but now that he is in the thick of it he must fight for his life first in the toughest boot camp in the Universe, and then thrust into battle against humankind’s most alarming enemy. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers is a timeless classic as resonant and influential today, as it was when first published. One of the greatest science-fiction military adventures of all time, Robert A. ![]() ![]() ![]() A white soldier attacking an Ojibwe village saves an Indian baby he then miraculously nurses with his own milk and raises lovingly as his daughter. Told in mini-chapters, “Father’s Milk” has the wide scope of a surreal novella. ![]() “Anna” concerns a woman who moves in with two brothers, a Jules and Jim scenario with a twist. The more contemporary “Hasta Namaste, Baby” exposes the secret, unspoken compromises of marriage as a man who has hidden his infertility from his wife lives with her betrayal when she becomes pregnant. “Naked Woman Playing Chopin” stands on its own as a moving, erotic depiction of music as love. Sorting out who’s who and keeping track of Erdrich’s generational time frame is never easy, but the chronological order of the stories helps. Erdrich ( The Plague of Doves, 2008, etc.) has created such a complex fictional universe, with mythic characters reappearing in different guises in her numerous novels, that these 36 stories, even those previously unpublished, resonate like favorite melodies.Īll the old favorites are here. ![]() |