![]() ![]() ET) to discuss major themes, motifs, and reactions. This is a shorter book with only five sections, so the plan is to split the book into three parts (about 100 pages each) and meet here at our usual time (Tuesday at 12 p.m. *Remember: While this is a reread, please avoid spoilers in the comments. For that reason, we have decided to continue Roland’s adventures in sequential order since Stephen King calls it The Dark Tower 4.5.Ĭome join us … before the world moves on. The Wind Through The Keyhole was written to chronologically follow Wizard and Glass even though it was released in 2012, long after the 7th novel, The Dark Tower (2004). Roland just misses killing Flagg but managed to gun down Andrew Quick, aka Tick-Tock Man, who was working for Flagg. His newest ka-tet-Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy-are following The Path of the Beam when they encounter Marten, now calling himself Randall Flagg, in a twisted version of Emerald City. In Wizard and Glass, we discovered that Roland had accidentally killed his mother and returned a crystal ball from Maerlyn’s Rainbow to his father. This week, we begin The Wind Through the Keyhole with a major storm and the beginning of another of Roland's stories! Last week, we ended Wizard and Glass in a makeshift Emerald City before Maerlyn's Rainbow trainsported them back onto The Path of the Beam. ![]()
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![]() ![]() EJI has documented 4084 racial terror lynchings in twelve Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 18, which is at least 800 more lynchings in these states than previously reported. We reviewed local newspapers, historical archives, and court records conducted interviews with local historians, survivors, and victims’ descendants and exhaustively examined contemporaneously published reports in African American newspapers. EJI conducted extensive analysis of these data as well as supplemental research and investigation of lynchings in each of the subject states. These sources are widely viewed asthe most comprehensive collection of research data on the subject of lynching in America. ![]() Tolnay provided an invaluable resource, as did the research collected at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. ![]() EJI researchers have documented several hundred more lynchings than the number identified in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. Racial terror lynching was much more prevalent than previously reported. ![]() ![]() But I decided to give the audio book a try. The writing, while beautiful, is just so dense, and takes so much concentration to understand, that I plain ran out of steam each time. I love Faulkner, and had tried to get through reading this book three times, all without success. I may also need to come back to this novel. It captures, without over-doing it, issues of race, class, the American Dream, the South, family, memory, etc., all packed inside a nearly perfect novel that slowly unwinds and unwraps through multiple, unreliable narrators. ![]() ![]() In many ways this novel, for me, belongs next to Moby-Dick or, The Whale, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Great Gatsby, and a handful of other as some of the greatest written art America has ever produced. ![]() However, as novels, I prefer Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!. “That is the substance of remembering-sense, sight, smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel not mind, not thought: there is no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream.” ― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury are probably more important, and perhaps more influential overall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love that the various writers have retained Kipling’s device of authorial intrusion speaking directly to the ‘dear reader’ (albeit in different terminology to those he used himself).Īll in all, it is always wonderful to see timeless classic stories being introduced to contemporary children with modifications that appeal to today’s child without losing any of the flavour of the originals. ![]() With loads of onomatopoeia there will also be much fun to be had with joining in a read-aloud. The pages are alive with the simplistically styled illustrations with minimal text on each, allowing for plenty of perusal time for little ones as each story unfolds. This collection presents six of Kipling’s best: How the Camel got his Hump, How the Whale got his Throat, How the Elephant got his Trunk, How the Rhino got his Skin, How the Leopard got his Spots and Why the Kangaroo Jumps. ![]() The simplified narrative and colourful illustrations will be well-received by little people, who are invariably very engaged with animal stories. Therefore I was rather delighted to have this lovely new revamp of his stories arrive and to note that they are intended for younger children. Astute readers of this blog may have suspected that I have affection for the writing of Rudyard Kipling – yes, very old-fashioned I know – but it is what it is. ![]() ![]() No one argues that food isn’t pleasurable, or even that food doesn’t activate the “reward center” of the brain. Not surprisingly, the food industry has largely dismissed the notion. Many scientists eschew the diagnosis while others embrace it. Yet the psychiatric and the scientific communities have been slow to get on the bandwagon. None other than Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, has spoken out in favor of the diagnosis. There’s been a lot of heat about food addiction, but little light. ![]() ![]() But even if you ate the box over several sittings, you might still suffer from its more controversial cousin-Food Addiction, not yet included in the DSM-V. Now that the holidays have come and gone, it’s time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Did I really need to eat the whole box of chocolates?” If you did it in one sitting, you may suffer from Binge Eating Disorder, a newly-sanctioned psychiatric diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V by the American Psychiatric Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the number of volunteers increasing daily, actions soon expanded to kneel-ins at churches, sit-ins at the library, and a march on the county building to register voters. King spoke to black citizens about the philosophy of nonviolence and its methods, and extended appeals for volunteers at the end of the mass meetings. On 3 April the desegregation campaign was launched with a series of mass meetings, direct actions, lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall, and a boycott of downtown merchants. ![]() ![]() The campaign was originally scheduled to begin in early March 1963, but was postponed until 2 April when the relatively moderate Albert Boutwell defeated Birmingham’s segregationist commissioner of public safety, Eugene “Bull ” Connor, in a run-off mayoral election. As ACMHR founder Fred Shuttlesworth stated in the group’s “Birmingham Manifesto, ” the campaign was “a moral witness to give our community a chance to survive ” (ACMHR, 3 April 1963). In April 1963 King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s existing local movement, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season, the second biggest shopping season of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() In "The Next in Line," a woman becomes convinced that she'll never leave the small, Mexican town she's traveled to on vacation. "Uncle Einar" and "Homecoming" concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. ![]() The October Country collects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. The Illustrated Man-the more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradbury's classic collection The Martian Chronicles-contains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technology-in "The Veldt" and "The Rocket Man"-and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in "The Visitor." Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradbury's stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. ![]() In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print ![]() ![]() ![]() Chair of the judges professor Jonathan Ashmore said: "Six degrees is not just a great read, written in an original way, but also provides a good overview of the latest science on this highly topical issue. The book saw off strong competition from shortlisted authors including the 1994 winner Steve Jones for Coral, J Craig Venter for A Life Decoded and Ian Stewart for Why Beauty is Truth. The book is for a popular audience, and of course it hasn't been peer-reviewed, so to get this accolade from one of the most distinguished scientific bodies in the world means a lot." "It's not just an accolade for me," he added, "but also for the work of the climate scientists on whose shoulders my writing rests. ![]() Speaking after the ceremony at the Royal Society, Lynas said he was delighted with his prize, "not least because the bookmaker William Hill judged my book the least likely to win. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What the Sierra contains within its boundaries is a statement not only about the physical beauty of North America, but an accounting of how this nation wants and chooses to see itself. As Percival Everett notes in his timely introduction : “What the images here do is suggest the complicated formation, not of the geology and topography, but of concept. This version, however, imagines something grander via artist Cole Sternberg’s re-visualization and design. Muir’s heartfelt and often humorous descriptions of his first summer spent in the Sierra will captivate and inspire long-time fans and novice naturalists alike. My First Summer in the Sierra is Muir’s account of his adventures and observations while working as a shepherd in the Yosemite Valley, which, as a direct result of Muir’s writings and activism, later became Yosemite National Park. This is a reissue of John Muir’s beloved adventure in the Sierra, re-visualized by artist Cole Sternberg in an effort to question, encourage, and inspire naturalists of our times.Ĭonsidered one of the patron saints of 20th-century environmental activity, John Muir’s appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It became an instant bestseller, launching an extraordinary publishing career that spanned almost five decades and over thirty children's books. She left school at sixteen and attended Chelsea, Croydon and Camberwell Schools of Art, writing her first novel, The Worst Witch, when she was just eighteen. Jill Murphy is one of the UK's most treasured author-illustrators and was the creator of many bestselling books for children, including the Bear Family picture books Peace at Last, Whatever Next! and Just One of Those Days which together have sold over four million copies worldwide.īorn and raised in London, Jill spent her childhood writing and illustrating stories. ![]() |