![]() ![]() The death of the bird is regarded as a bad omen, as the winds die down and the sun mercilessly glows, bringing the sailors to the brink of dehydration. Fortunately, an Albatross appears and saves them from their unfortunate circumstance, only to be later whimsically shot by the Mariner. Things, however, take a startling turn when the ship suddenly encounters a terrible storm and guides them into icy waters, from which they are unable to escape due to its impenetrable ice. Later he goes on to describe the fine weather and the positive atmosphere prevalent among the crew. ![]() Accordingly, the Mariner begins his woeful tale, recounting the beginning of his journey as he boards and sets sail from a ship in his homeland. Although the young man demands to be left alone so that he can proceed to the wedding ceremony along with his two companions, he is nevertheless compelled to sit down and listen to the mysterious man’s tale. The poem opens with the appearance of its mysterious protagonist, a skinny old man with a curious glittering eye, as he stops a young man who is on his way to attend a wedding. Furthermore, the poem explores numerous themes including retribution, suffering, salvation, torment, nature, spirituality, and supernaturalism. An exciting, compelling, and eerie ballad, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner focuses on the uncanny experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage that has left him with a heavy burden to bear. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Illustration, ‘Sei Shōnagon Viewing the Snow’, c. ![]() Such things don’t sound very thrilling, but by concentrating on them and appreciating them, they become deep sources of satisfaction. An ‘event’ in her day includes observing the frost on the branches of a plum tree or enjoying the beating of the rain on the veranda roof. ![]() Typically she asks herself questions, for instance: what is the nicest time of day? In the summer: it’s the night, especially if it’s raining in Spring she prefers the dawn in Autumn, sunset in winter, the morning. We don’t really know where the lovely title of the book came from perhaps she slept with it under her head, occasionally adding a thought or observation by the light of the moon. Despise the high-status of her job, her daily life was, externally, deeply uneventful: an afternoon’s carriage ride outside the walls of the court compound might be the highlight of a year a day trip to hear a sermon in a temple seems to have been the farthest extent of her travels she spent all most all of her time indoors, in just two or three rooms she saw the same few people month after month her work largely involved keeping respectfully silent, knowing when to bow and remembering the complex titles of various officials.Īnd yet The Pillow Book gives the impression that she had a wonderful time. ![]() ![]() I bought this on a whim, after being stunned by the ethereal beauty and insight of A Field Guide to Getting Lost this summer, which I reviewed HERE. ![]() A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub. Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is scheduled to release in March, 2020. ![]() Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). ![]() ![]() ![]() Stapleton is solid as the aggrieved wife who remains loyal even as she slowly begins to understand her husband's actions. Vallone is superb as the volatile and treacherous Eddie Carbone who finally is consumed by his raging passions. The more Carbone lusts for the girl, the more he despises the young Italian and his "foreign" ways, hinting at his homosexuality because he is blond and likes to sing. All the main characters live in a small and squalid apartment, the perfect setting for the pent up lust and anger that fuels the actions of the characters. But something goes very wrong when the younger man (Jean Sorel) starts to get involved with Lawrence and Carbone's jealousy and lust for the girl come to the surface. Carbone is involved in illegally bringing two Italians (cousins of Stapleton) into the US and getting them jobs on the wharfs of New York City. wife Maureen Stapleton and her niece Carol Lawrence. This play by Arthur Miller was filmed by Sidney Lumet in France, but why? Lumet brings us the gritty and dark world of immigrant longshoreman Eddie Carbone (Raf Vallone) and his family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among these things are Bergotte’s family history, his milieu. The narrator, who will become Bergotte’s close friend, now tells us things about him which he only gradually learned, but which in turn correct the disillusioning swerve of that first physical impression. Time radiates in two directions, or dimensions, from this encounter: as a mirage belonging to the past dissolves, knowledge from the future comes into play. The fantasy Bergotte vanishes, but the caricature that replaces him is not intrinsically more ‘real’. ![]() When the narrator of A la recherche du temps perdu at last meets his idol, the great writer Bergotte, he gets a terrible shock: instead of the ‘white-haired, sweet Singer’ of his imagination, he sees ‘a young man, uncouth, short, thickset and myopic, with a red nose shaped like a snail-shell and a black goatee’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were conjointly confined to domestic labor wherever they typically went through violence at the hands of male employers.Throughout her book she tries to give us the message “If we ever want equality, we’re gonna have to fight for it together.”Īngela Davis writes about divisions in the feminist movements. For an example, black women were typically confined to the worst operating conditions, that weren’t abundant of associate degree improvement over additional undisguised styles of slavery. ![]() Davis writes extensively regarding the ways in which black women, free of slavery, were still oppressed. Basically, Davis argued that the white effort didn’t perceive the requirements of the black community. ![]() The author examines a distinct facet of feminist struggles for equality throughout history, although they’re united by one vital theme: the notion that racism has interfered with the power of the women’s rights movement to really win equality. Davis introduced the ways in which race, class, and gender worked along to form difference.The book is split into many chapters. Davis shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women’s movement have divided its own membership.Using a historical lens, Davis outlines the efforts of primarily white, bourgeois ladies to assist win enfranchisement. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard. “Feminism and Intersectionality: ‘women, Race, and Class’” ![]() ![]() ![]() But new students Paul and Sheldon have a plan to wake the school up - and Don't Care High will never be the same. “"Don't Care High: It's more than a nickname - it's a concept." At Don Carey High School, school spirit is so non-existent that nobody even noticed when a highway on-ramp got built over the football field. In a year and a half I should be caught up, depending on his current output. At my current pace of about a book a week. I picked up this to read next because of the title, I have been bouncing back and forth between his oldest and most recent books, for the stand alone, and randomly with the series. My son often reads these books to me or with me. ![]() With each one I read I am entertained and often challenged. My introduction to Korman’s works, that I have a record of was the 39 Clues back in 2009. And he has published 1 since then and another come out later in 2023. Yes you read that correctly, his hundredth book. I have stated in reviews of several of Korman’s books over the last year: almost a year ago, in the summer of 2022, Korman published his 100th book. ![]() ![]() I believe there have been 11 different editions and formats from a few different publishers. The print editions appear to all currently be out of print but there is an eBook edition available. It was the fourth stand alone story published by Korman and it was his 10th volume published. This story was originally published in 1985 by Scholastic Canada. I absolutely love reading Gordon Korman books, either by myself or with one or more of my children. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are glimpses of abysses below the surfaces of things. Cracks and tears have begun to appear in the fabric of the real. And lives to tell the tale.Īround these three, the uncertain world itself is beginning to tremble and break. ![]() He is a man caught up in the loves and quarrels of the age's goddesses and gods, but dares to have ambitions of his own. Telling the story of Ormus and Vina, he finds that he is also revealing his own truths: his human failings, his immortal longings. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's sometime lover, her "back-door man," the photographer Rai, whose astonishing voice, filled with stories, images, myths, anger, wisdom, humor, and love, is perhaps the book's true hero. ![]() This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Salman Rushdie's most ambitious and accomplished novel, sure to be hailed as his masterpiece.Īt the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. ![]() ![]() In order to try to cure her of the visions, Daire's mother, Jennika, sends Daire to Enchantment, N.M., and the care of a grandmother Daire has never met. On a day that should be full of cake and well wishes, the visions that Daire has experienced for most of her life take a disturbing turn. ![]() ![]() This is Noel's 20th novel and the first in the Soul Seeker series, which is slated to be at least four books long with a new book being released every six months.Īs "Fated" begins, Daire is just reaching her 16th birthday. ![]() "Fated," by New York Times best-selling author Alyson Noel, is the coming-of-age story of Daire Santos. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her Vespa had broken down, and it was raining he "fell in love with her" (1.33) because she was hopeless and helpless. When Cassie was new, Rob found her stranded outside of work.Even though she's a woman, and women are supposed to be terrible cops (at least according to all the male cops), Cassie is a good partner.Now, in the present, Adam Ryan, who goes by Rob so people don't know he was the missing boy in the woods, works for the Murder squad, along with his partner, Cassie Maddox.Peter's wristwatch was found, but neither Peter nor Germaine ever were.Investigators wondered if the blood could have come from a fourth person. ![]() Ryan was also A positive, and so was Germaine (a.k.a. This being the 80s, there was no DNA testing, so they tested the blood's type: A positive.His T-shirt had four parallel tears, but Ryan was uninjured, though in a traumatized and near-catatonic state.When searchers found Adam Ryan, he had bloody socks, and the inside of his shoes were bloody, which means that the shoes were filled with blood when he put them on.Three children-Jamie Rowan, Adam Ryan, and Peter Savage-all age twelve, disappeared in the woods. ![]() ![]() |