![]() She rescues Sir Launcelot (ungrateful and, as I always suspected, overrated), but is piqued by his arrogance and resents being called "churl" or "elfspawn". Katherine spirits everyone to Arthurian England, bent on good deeds. "You just got half a wish," says his elder sister. ![]() Mark longs to be on a desert island, and suddenly there's hot sand in every direction. Eager chronicles the gradual steps to comprehending the charm's powers, such as magicking the cat into petulant half-speech ("Idlwidl bixbax. ![]() "What would twice as much as never having to learn fractions be," a bemused Martha grumbles. The charm, worn thin by time, halves desires in unpredictable ways, and demands a variety of complicated sums. Jane notices a coin glinting in a crack in the pavement only when she ill-temperedly wishes a fire would relieve the summer boredom and immediately hears emergency sirens (it's just a half-fire, in a spoilt child's playhouse), does she suspect the coin's remarkable qualities. Arms crammed to the borrowing limit, they pause on strangers' front steps to read from their books, thirsting for adventure. I always loved the opening, full of routine and promise, as the children wander home from the library. ![]() They are bracingly sharp and stubborn: Jane (oldest and bossiest), Mark (only boy), romantic bookworm Katherine and persistent little Martha. ![]() Four children are left to their own devices - their father is dead, their mother drudges on a local paper. We're in middle America during a long hot summer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Each character has their own reasons for wanting the Ivory Key, but the thing that drives them is their determination and resilience. ![]() I wanted to write a story in which characters aren’t bound by fate and instead choose to pursue their dreams. ![]() What do you hope for readers to be thinking when they read your novel? It’s set in a world inspired by ancient India where magic is a physical resource that’s running out, and in order to get more, four estranged royal siblings must go on a quest to find the mythical Ivory Key. THE IVORY KEY is a YA fantasy that I like to call a family drama treasure hunt. In your newest book THE IVORY KEY, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it. I’m currently working on the second book in THE IVORY KEY duology, and I also have a short story in the upcoming paranormal romance anthology ETERNALLY YOURS. What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us? Jane Austen is an author I can always revisit! ![]() Stories give us ways to connect with and understand the world around us, and also provide an escape.īeyond your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite book? Why is storytelling so important for all of us? Susan Dennard is an author I admire and has been a constant source of inspiration for me. Who or what has influenced your writing, and in what way? The importance of finding your community. ![]() ![]() The poet begins by proposing that the elderly should not easily accept their demise (“go gentle”), that they should fight it with vigor and intensity (“Old age should burn and rave at the close of day”). The two lines repeated in this work are “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” A villanelles uses only two rhymes, while repeating two lines throughout the poem, which then appear together at the conclusion of the last stanza. A villanelles is 19 lines long, consisting of five stanzas of three lines each and concluding with a four line stanza. This poem is one of the most famous villanelles every written in the English language. the onset of night, or as it is used here, death. ![]() He urges his father to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” i.e. In “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” poet Dylan Thomas uses nighttime as a metaphor for death, and anguishes over his father’s willing acceptance of it. On "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" ![]() ![]() ![]() We are in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation that you’ve heard Bob discuss. Last week, during Disney’s quarterly investors call, Disney’s CFO Christine McCarthy revealed they would be removing more content from its streaming services, including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Star+ and Hotstar. But to spend on a show and then disappear it six months later is just bad business. We’re all going to have to adjust to that at some point. And look, eternal streaming libraries are not sustainable. The only conclusion is that this is to get out of paying residuals. And in the case of Willow, they own the property outright. This business has become absolutely cruel.īefore you say tax-write off: these shows have already been released and so can’t be a write-off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the news that Disney will be removing over 60 titles, including “Willow” from its streaming services around the world, including Hulu, Star+ and Disney+ on May 26th 2023, John Bickerstaff, a writer on the “Willow” Disney+ series, took to social media to share his thoughts on the removal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wallace’s nemesis in the lab where they’re both graduate students, and described as “cartoonishly evil” by a Goodreads reviewer, Dana is the mean-girl embodiment of white feminism and NOT someone you want to relate to. The exact nature of any race or sex-realted epiphanies I experienced while reading Real Life aren’t very important or interesting (to you), but I’ll hint at one example that demonstrates the subtley of how this novel works, which surprised me, because on the surface it can be quite unsubtle in what it’s trying to do.Īt one point, when our hero Wallace was wallowing in angst and self-doubt, I found myself frustrated, thinking, “Oh Wallace, why don’t you just stop caring what everyone thinks of you!” I realized, immediately and in horror, that’s exactly what Dana would say. There’s also this article in the Guardian that says so pretty explicitly. Taylor, after following him for several months, I feel confident in saying that he did not write Real Life to educate the likes of me, a 39-and-three-quarters-years-old white Canadian woman, about racism and sex. ![]() So while I acknowlege that Twitter is not real life and I don’t actually know Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Higuchi Tachibana (born March 16, 1976) is a Japanese manga artist known for her works of Gakuen Alice and Portrait of M and N. ![]() ![]() 01 = Alice Academy (Gakuen Alice, #1), Tachibana Higuchi Her current ongoing work is Gakuen Alice. During the serialization of the manga, I think my story telling techniques improved more as I concerned myself with how to catch the attention of the readers, how well one can incorporate what the readers are seeking into the story." After the serialization of the story began, as I got busy, I was so desperate to submit it on time that I feel that the drawings probably haven’t improved much compared to before. "Because I was conscious of the fact that I had started drawing manga in earnest at a later age, I think my progress during the beginning on drawing and storytelling techniques was fast as I frantically tried to absorb everything I could learn about creating manga. Up until then I was studying for the entrance examinations for the Art University, and as part of that, I sometimes drew manga and four-panel strip comics for fun. "I first submitted a manga story a while after I graduated from high school. In year 1996, she first made her debut work in Bessatsu Hana to Yume's 5th issue, entitled 5 Gatsu no Sakura (『5月のサクラ』?).ĭuring an interview with Tokyopop, she gave a detailed account of how she started as a mangaka. Tachibana Higuchi (樋口 橘, HIGUCHI Tachibana), born, is a Japanese manga artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Free education for all children in public schools. It was not until the 1870s that the Marx and Engels’ ideas started to gain a major foothold in Europe. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. The Communist League formed in order to provide a political retaliation against capitalism, and it was this group that commissioned Marx and Engels to write the manifesto. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. However, over the years others have made contributions. Many of communism’s tenets derive from the works of German revolutionary Karl Marx, who (with Friedrich Engels) wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. There is no government or private property or currency, and the wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. ![]() Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ![]() Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. “In the most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rysn decides to travel to to Urithiru with her porter Nikli to meet with Navani to discuss the terms of an expedition to Aimia - she seeks a cure for Chiri-Chiri who has taken ill, Queen Fen seeks an answer to the disappearance of the First Dreams crew, and Navani seeks information about the Oathgate on Akinah. Yalb serves aboard a Thaylen ship at sea as it discovers the First Dreams returning from Aimia without its crew. If the crew cannot uncover the secrets of the hidden island city before the wrath of its ancient guardians falls upon them, the fate of Roshar and the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance." Plot Summary With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani’s quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. Now Rysn’s pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. ![]() "When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn’t fallen into enemy hands. ![]() ![]() Other than that bite mark, my skin was flawless. I pulled it up and traced my fingers along the white jagged scar that marked my belly. I had a t-shirt on and it smelled like him. I awoke sometime later and sat up, fully expecting to be sore or to have stitches all over my body bandages, a cast, something. Of the tall dark man that changed into a werewolf and ripped me to shreds with his teeth. The last thing I thought of before losing consciousness again was the memory of my body lying in the winding road that led to Mt. Please survive,” his voice said aloud this time, and I felt a hand cup my face. ![]() The searing pain that burned on my abdomen threatened to make me go unconscious again. ![]() ‘You are a werewolf and you’re mine.’ My insides turned over at the mental invasion. ![]() That’s when a steely voice broke through my thoughts. I could feel my inner wolf lingering inside me, waiting to break the surface. But there was no denying what I was becoming. ![]() I couldn’t be a werewolf, I just couldn’t. As I lay there going in and out of consciousness, I laughed. To be on the brink of death, waiting for release from the pain, only to wake and find out I was a monster, an impossible thing, an animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The selections in this book have been adapted from two Chinese anthologies that were probably compiled between 300 and 100 BCE: the Chuang-tzu, parts of which were written by the eponymous sage, Master Chuang (c. In that treasury, there is nothing more precious than the wisdom of the ancient Chinese. Well, yes, if hat is defined as the treasury of recorded wisdom that is our common birthright. ![]() “A second book of the Tao? There’s no such thing! What did you do-pull it out of your hat?” ![]() The left to the Tao Te Ching’s right, the yang to its yin, a companion volume and antimanual, The Second Book of the Tao is a great gift to contemporary readers. Alongside each adaptation, Mitchell includes his own brilliant commentary, at once illuminating and complementing the text. Mitchell has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the ancient texts with a thrilling new power, and makes them at once modern, relevant, and timeless. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, renowned scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovative The Second Book of the Tao, which draws from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzu-ssu. The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. ![]() Compiled and adapted from the Chuang-tzu and the Chung Yung, with commentaries The Penguin Press 2009 ![]() |