![]() ![]() Kipling hated his foster home, which he later referred to as the “House of Desolation”.Īt 12 he was sent to boarding school in Devon. The colourful sights and sounds – and freedoms- of India were sorely missed. When he was only five, Kipling and his sister, Alice, were taken back to England and left with foster parents in Southsea, where he attended a small private school. His father was an artist, who also taught at the city’s School of Art. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, during the ‘British Raj’, the era when the subcontinent of India was part of the British Empire. During the 20th century, generations of children were tucked into bed with readings of highly imaginative and wildly improbably explanations such as how the elephant got his trunk. He wrote them down for publication as the Just So Stories in 1902, just three years after the tragic death of the daughter for whom they had first been invented. For more information email Kipling told his children gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. A high-quality version of this image can be purchased from British Library Images Online. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We’re now reaping the benefits of this foresight. I started cutting them up and putting them in the dehydrator. We usually have more zucchini at our disposal than we can handle and that was the case this past summer, too. I’m still intrigued and open minded on this matter. I would love to hear from other’s experience with dust mulching, though. I’m not sure I’m sold on the idea of dust mulching, because we live in an area that can get pretty windy and I don’t want my valuable topsoil blowing away. I’ve been a big mulcher in the past, mostly with grass clippings, though. Steve Solomon is a big proponent of dust mulching. ![]() One big idea learned in this book is that capillary action within the soil will draw the water in from much further than I thought possible.Īnother idea discussed is mulching. In order to reduce or eliminate water usage, plant spacing is paramount. Not only is that bad for the plants, but it is also water intensive. I have this problem with always wanting to maximize value or return, and so I squeeze in as many plants as I can into a given space. Plant spacing has always been a problem for me in my gardening. I wanted to share the link with you and offer a few thoughts. ![]() In searching for more books written by Eliot Coleman and Steve Solomon, I came across this link to a copy of the book on Scribd. ![]() ![]() She coproduced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Greywas selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.Į L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World” and Publishers Weekly’s "Person of the Year.” Fifty Shades of Greystayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. ![]() E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. ![]() ![]() ![]() This allows the reader to hear first hand from each character exposing their true thoughts. The novel is also written in first person with sections from both Clegg and Miranda’s point of view. The Collector is no exception. The novel involves two characters, Clegg and Miranda, who represent two completely opposite personalities, which lead the reader to two different paths into the human mind. ![]() ![]() After many years of reading, I’ve come to realize that we read literature because it gives us insights into the human condition and the human mind and the more we can learn about the human condition, the more we can learn about ourselves. Reading literature is such a core part of education, no matter what the subject may be. Everything we read in school is intentional. By the end of the novel and numerous discussions about the assigned literature, I always come to realize my teacher’s reasoning behind the assignment. The Collector is probably the strangest novel I’ve ever read which then had me thinking about all of the different novels that I’ve been assigned to read throughout my years in school. I’ve found myself many times wondering why teachers assign us to read certain novels. If you have not read The Collector, you can read a summary of it here. After reading the novel The Collector by John Fowles in my college writing class, many questions came to my mind about the text. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, born on 24 January 1776, was the youngest of three children, of whom the second died in infancy. In 1767 he married his cousin, Lovisa Albertina Doerffer (1748–96). ![]() His father, Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann (1736–97), was a barrister in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), as well as a poet and amateur musician who played the viola da gamba. Hoffmann's ancestors, both maternal and paternal, were jurists. Hoffmann's stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. Jurist, author, composer, music critic, artistĮrnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. ![]() Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empireīerlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in.Īhmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." - Entertainment WeeklyĪ marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York.Ĭhava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. “An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, I often joke with my students that many of them don’t know the meanings of their names, but because I’ve studied classics and ancient languages, I tend to know what people’s names mean.Īnd what’s strange is that, even though they don’t know the meaning of their names, and maybe their parents don’t even know the meanings of their names, they nevertheless often manifest the meanings of their names. So, when I was asked again more recently whether I’d write a book on black consciousness, I said yes - because, you know, sometimes life is paradoxical. There are a lot of conceptual tools in the book that I’ve developed in the years since, and they afford a certain elegance to the argument. I was originally asked to write this book in the 1990s - and I’m glad I didn’t. How did the idea for your book - exploring black consciousness through the lens of existentialism and meaning-making - come about? ![]() ![]() ![]() Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.Ī years-long #1 New York Times bestseller, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Best Book for Reluctant Readers, and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or "wallflowers" of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. UK/Australian Edition, Film Tie-In, Paperback, 231 pages. ![]() Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Paperback) Published September 1st 2012 by Simon & Schuster Ltd. ![]() ![]() Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. First dates, family drama, and new friends. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and what it means. Now a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. A summary of Part 4 in Stephen Chboskys The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From this anthropological-materialist perspective, I address from the second chapter onwards the film figures-directors, actors, characters-and films that most concerned Benjamin. This project dates back to Benjamin’s anthropological texts from the early 1920s and was central to texts such as One-Way Street, the Surrealism essay and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.’ The reconfiguration of aesthetics as aisthēsis that takes place in the latter text is analysed as forming part of this project, in which Benjamin is concerned with the transformation of the human body according to its interaction with technology. However, I will try to argue that they form part of the same philosophical and political project as his ‘anthropological materialism.’ Thus, these writings sought, first, to analyse the transformation of the human senses brought about by the appearance of film technology and secondly, to envisage the possibility of undoing the alienation of the senses in modernity through that very same technology in order to, eventually, create a collective body (Kollectivleib) out of the audience. His writings on film are dispersed among essays, notes and letters and may appear at first sight to be an incoherent collection of thoughts on film. This thesis examines Walter Benjamin’s film aesthetics within the framework of his ‘anthropological-materialist’ project. ![]() ![]() ![]() This one is a bit hit/miss so it will also be mentioned in the things I wasn’t a fan of, and that is the romance. I am still not sure who is my fav of the three here. I loved that we got to see the events unfold from these POVs and I love that each of the three characters is written well and that I was looking forward to them. ![]() From haunted Calvin, to shy Grace, to Steph who is kick-ass in sports but is unsure about many other things. We have 4 different POVs and while I wasn’t a fan of one of them (more on that in the next part about things I wasn’t a fan of), I really loved the other POVs. I love the cover, it is so scary and terrifying and I love that the title is mentioned x times on the cover to fit with the times one has to call her in this book! I will talk more about it later in my review, we are first starting with the good. ![]() I mean, there were one or two moments that I was scared a bit, but nothing more. But, right from the bat I have to mention that I found this one very tame and so not scary. I just LOVE LOVE Bloody Mary stories and I was hyped to get started. So, of course I had to sign up for this tour, hello? The book has been on my must read for some time now. I received this book from The Book Terminal/publisher/author in exchange for an honest review. ![]() |