![]() The book is fascinating and rich with depth and detail. Told through the eyes of Charlie and Isabella, two young farmers who are breaking convention and challenging the norm with regard to their land. Wilding is the perfect book for this season. One thing that is a constant is that time is passing and that brings with it the beauty of the natural world around us which seems to be excelling at the moment. You can remind yourself of the theme for each month in my earlier post: here. The theme for the Reading Challenge for April was: Focus on a story of nature and / or the spring season. The book for this month came at just the right time. We’ve all embraced the new normal but I for one would really like to see my family some time soon! One thing I do take comfort in is that each day that passes means that we are a day closer to our old sense of normality. Part of me is really shocked that it is May and another part of me feels like each day is becoming a blur. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, it was listed at 125 on the Publishers Weekly list of the best-selling children's books of all time. ![]() Though the book included "burp", a word then considered to be relatively rude, it was a success upon publication, and has since sold more than a million copies. Though it contains three short stories, it is mostly known for its first story, "Yertle the Turtle", in which the eponymous Yertle, king of the pond, stands on his subjects in an attempt to reach higher than the Moon-until the bottom turtle burps and he falls into the mud, ending his rule. It was first released by Random House Books on April 12, 1958, and is written in Seuss's trademark style, using a type of meter called anapestic tetrameter. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a picture book collection by Theodor Seuss Geisel, published under his more commonly known pseudonym of Dr. ![]() ![]() Here I catalog and comment on six author-artists whose individual output has been robust, often across a variety of genres and artistic mediums, and I mention several more who have been almost but not quite as active. Since I began Time Now eight years ago, easily a hundredbooks, films, plays, musical compositions, and other artworks about America’s post-9/11 wars written-and-composed by veterans and interested civilians have appeared, and much has been published online, too. Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne, while writing Moby-Dick. ![]() ![]() Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This continues as he describes his street, as he throws rocks on the roof “of each deadbeat no-hoper shithole lonely downtrodden house in Long lands Road, Nowheresville”. ’, showing terms of ownership of the place in which his identity currently belongs too, but does not like, giving us a sense of in closure and displacement. He states this clearly with the words, ‘My Street. This is conveyed in the poem ‘Long lands Road’, where billy’s internal conflict is shown through his un-satisfaction of his original community in which he lived in and was a part of, leaving him disappointed and also a sense of embarrassment towards his identity. In the very early stages of 'The simple gift', Herrick displays sixteen year old, Billy Luckett’s, sense of alienation by using his first person character to highlight social issues such as hostility within his family, leading it to break down, and his feeling of loneliness and worthlessness of identity. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel, ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick, and the fairy tale of ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson. The idea of belonging is a dynamic and an essential aspect of human life which can come through, due to the connections made with the concepts of identity, place, relationships, acceptance and understanding to oneself and other people. To belong is to fit in, or to be rightly placed in a specified position or environment. ![]() ![]() Silas Marner's origin is as unusual as its content. ![]() Although Eliot explored this blending of fantasy and realism elsewhere in her career, she never executed it so fully as in Silas Marner. In addition, the novel strikes a bargain between the realistic and the fantastic in its depiction of village life and culture in nineteenth-century England. It also expresses aspects of Eliot's own life as a creative artist in several interesting ways. The story of Marner's expulsion from society and his eventual redemption through the love of a child, Eppie, has powerful Biblical and mythic resonances. Still, it is no mere fairy tale, nor is it ultimately less weighty than the bulk of Eliot's output. The novel is only slightly longer than the short stories that Eliot published in her first work, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858), and it is less than half as long as her other novels. ![]() Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe, published in 1861, is unique among George Eliot's writings for its brevity and its apparent allegorical clarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ship taking his unit was sunk en route to Singapore, and the survivors were picked up by a Dutch boat fleeing to India. Though trained for desert warfare, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 he was sent to Singapore to fight the Japanese. In 1940, Clavell joined the Royal Artillery. ![]() Clavell was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. Richard Clavell was posted back to England when James was nine months old. He directed the popular 1967 film To Sir, with Love for which he also wrote the script.īorn in Australia, Clavell was the son of Commander Richard Charles Clavell, a Royal Navy officer who was stationed in Australia with the Royal Australian Navy from 1920 to 1922. Clavell also wrote such screenplays as those for The Fly (1958) (based on the short story by George Langelaan) and The Great Escape (1963) (based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill). Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994 ) was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. ![]() ![]() Something about this book drew me to it, however. This graphic novel was such a pleasant surprise! I had read works by Scott Westerfeld before (such as Uglies, Zeroes, and Swarm) and was either only mildly impressed, or completely disappointed. Addison Merrick is one such explorer, dedicated to finding out what happened that night, and to unraveling the events that took her parents and left her little sister mute and disconnected from the world. But a few intrepid explorers know how to sneak through the patrols and steer clear of the dangers inside the Zone. Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech accident? A porthole opening from another world? Whatever it was, no one’s allowed in the Spill Zone these days except government scientists and hazmat teams. Summary: Nobody’s ever really explained the Spill. Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Horror, MysteryĪ physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. Author: Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author), Alex Puvilland (Artist), Hilary Sycamore (Colorist) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “From the moment I could remember, it was made very clear to me that I was going to the United States,” he says. Díaz nods in agreement, settling into the chair across from where I am seated. As immigrant children, I begin, we learn at a very young age to view America as a kind of utopia, a place to be lauded. It is a cold Monday afternoon in early January, and I am in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss the novel, which turns 10 this September, with its author, Junot Díaz. It is this dream that is at the center of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In America, the land of opportunity and democracy, anything is possible. This dream tells us that no matter our circumstances elsewhere, in America we can make it. We leave behind families and careers many of us leave to survive, escaping countries shrouded in violence and death. Terrifying, promising and elusive, it pulls us from our native lands. ![]() ![]() The film is based on the novel by “Room” author Emma Donoghue. Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on “manna from heaven.” As Anna’s health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is determined to unearth the truth, challenging the faith of a community that would prefer to stay believing.įlorence Pugh ‘Abused’ Herself for ‘Midsommar’ Role: ‘I Felt Immense Guilt’ ![]() An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. ![]() Per the official synopsis, it’s 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. ![]() It’s the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O’Donnell, whose Catholic family claims she has eaten nothing since her 11th birthday, which was four months ago. Florence Pugh’s first screen role after “Don’t Worry Darling” is Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio’s “ The Wonder.” The “A Fantastic Woman” and “Disobedience” director helms the drama for Netflix, which releases “The Wonder” in theaters on November 2 before it arrives on the streaming platform November 16. ![]() ![]() ![]() These USC researchers believe that a substantial proportion of neurogenerative diseases are wholly or partly due to age-related small vessel disease of the brain. Berislav Zlokovic and his research team at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. The concept that Parkinson’s disease is essentially a vascular dysfunction disorder comes from the pioneering work of Dr. Vascular Dysfunction in the Brain as an Initiating Event in Parkinson’s Disease ![]() |