Leaves of grass 18555/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Whitman himself warned his readers that he was not merely the affectionate, easy friend they might suppose, and in this volume-illustrated with images from an anniversary exhibition at the Library-Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the Library's renowned Henry W. Today, 150 years after its first appearance, Leaves of Grass remains disturbingly honest and demanding, unique, and inimitable. ![]() Nothing in the earlier writings of the thirty-six-year-old former Long Island schoolteacher, who himself received only six years of formal education, had suggested that he was capable of the revolutionary style or of the radically unorthodox combination of spiritual, sexual, and political sensibilities that make Leaves of Grass as much a prophetic teaching as a pioneering literary work. Walt Whitman's publication of Leaves of Grass, on July 4, 1855, stands as one of the more improbable achievements in American literary history. ![]()
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Kitchen confidential audible5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Long streams of invective, description, drugs, people flash past, creating a visual animated queue. His full bodied, pleasant voice, warmed like honey, wry amusement always present, reads quickly almost not bothering to take a breath. And if I thought it breathtaking before, well, he really has to be heard to be believed. ![]() His recent, sad departure from this world prompted me to read the book again but this time literally in his own voice as he is also the narrator. He remained an hero throughout the years to come. I bought copies for family members, bored anyone who'd listen with excerpts and advice from the book, then started on a succession of other cook's tales, but none was as funny, scary, evocative as that by Bourdain. Two days later I bought and read Kitchen Confidential, and was totally blown away. Or "The invasion of Normandy every day of the week." I first heard of author, Anthony Bourdain, in a review discussion of his exposé of behind the scenes restaurant life on BBC Radio Four over twenty years ago. Your body is not a temple it's an amusement ride. ![]() A Health Unto His Majesty by Jean Plaidy5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In the 1950's she used the pseudonyms: Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate. In 1941, she began signing her novels with her maiden name: Eleanor Burford, later she created her first and most prolific pseudonym: Jean Plaidy. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities. George Percival Hibbert, was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. ![]() 312386 Jean Plaidy(Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert)(1906 - 1993) aka Eleanor Burford, Philippa Carr, Elbur Ford, Victoria Holt, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, Ellalice Tate Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs. ![]() The pages are tanned, tight to the spine, supple and free of any markings. The second book in the Stuart Saga series. A Health Unto His Majesty by Jean Plaidy, Fawcett Crest, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973, 288 pp. ![]() What it means to be human joanna bourke5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Her review of the past two hundred years - from diagnosed phobias to the media's role in creating new ones - prompts strikingly original observations about the mind and worldview of the "long twentieth century." Blending sociocultural analysis with psychology, philosophy, and popular science, this beautifully written and exhaustively researched book offers an authoritative look at one of humankind's most basic emotions.īook Synopsis Fear - the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian Joanna Bourke helps us understand the landscape of fear we now navigate. In America, each day is color-coded for the level of threat newspapers fill with gloomy news of climate crisis and the radio and TV bleat with Amber alerts, car crashes, and the war wounded. About the Book Whether we like it or not, an atmosphere of fear pervades modern culture. ![]() The temple of fortuna elodie harper5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love, yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. To be truly free, she will need to be as ruthless as he is. (ePUB) Download The Temple of Fortuna BY : Elodie Harper. She longs for her sisterhood of friends-the women she was forced to leave behind-and worse, finds herself pursued by the cruel and vindictive man who once owned her. Play tracks and discovery playlists tagged temple on SoundCloud desktop and mobile. ![]() ![]() At night in the home he bought for her, the house with the golden door, Amara's dreams are haunted by her past. ght not know as well as she once thought. Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the Wolf Den, the city's most notorious brothel, but now her survival depends on the affections of her patron: a man she mi. The second installment in the acclaimed Wolf Den Trilogy, which reimagines the lives of women long overlooked. The House with the Golden Door (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]() Night Film by Marisha Pessl5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. ![]() When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven - "A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril."- Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep-and doesn't wake up. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long before the animated AKIRA was released in 1988, the manga version held sway as one of the most complex cyberpunk visual narratives ever created. Halfway around the world, roughly contemporaneous with Blade Runner’s release, was the debut of another cyberpunk classic, a Japanese manga that was serialized in Young Magazine ( Yangu Magajin) from December 20, 1982, until June 25, 1990: Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s manga powerhouse, AKIRA. ![]() ![]() It is no exaggeration to say that Blade Runner has come to serve as a sort of touchstone for what has come to be associated with the terms “cyberpunk” and “posthumanism,” anticipating to an uncanny degree the numerous issues explored by science fiction novels, films, manga, and anime that have followed in its wake. Despite an initially lukewarm reception by critics and audiences when it was first released in June 1982, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has gone on to become one of the most influential cyberpunk films of all time. ![]() The hellbound heart book series5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When Kara finds out that Detective Simmons, the same psychic police officer that took Olivia's fang, is still active she resolves to find out more about what he's up to. Bierce, Sid, and other new spirit friends ultimately find themselves as part of a quest to save a human life, rescue another spirit from oblivion, and discover the identity of the "others." Show bookĭamien, Kara's old vampire flame, has gone missing, and with Olivia hospitalized it's up to Kara and Raymond to find him and save him from whatever danger he's gotten himself into. ![]() Bierce and his friend also become aware of the presence of mysterious "others" who are spirits who never held human form. ![]() In partnership with an old friend, a Buddhist priest named "Sid" who has inhabited the spirit world for 25 centuries, he reluctantly involves himself in the matters of still living people. Against his intentions, Bierce becomes caught up in the unsolved mystery of his new haunt. Here he meets new spirits who reside in this version of the afterlife, a middle place between life and the ultimate destination. Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret that makes it appropriate for haunting. ![]() The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting. ![]() JET Ambushed by J.E. Vassar5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean she seemed absolutely furious didn’t she? Perhaps she’s hiding something or maybe she just really doesn’t like Maia and is all too eager to pounce on anything he does and find fault with it. I don’t really understand what that was all about tbh. Do you buy that as her reasoning? Or do you think she was making a scene for another reason? So much political muck! Let’s start with Princess Sheveän, who seemed so very outraged at the idea of the late emperor’s body being ‘desecrated’. so without further ado – to the q&a and don’t spare the horses: The questions will be posted weekly in a Goodreads group page, and will also be tweeted out weekly from the account using the hashtag #TheGoblinEmperor, as well as the standard #wyrdandwonder tag. Lisa at DeerGeekPlace is hosting the readalong. Week 4: Wednesday 27th May, Chapters 27 to End (part 4 & 5).Week 3: Wednesday 20th May, Chapters 18 through 26 (part 3).Week 2: Wednesday 13th May, Chapters 10 through 17 (end of part 2).Week 1: Wednesday 6th May, Chapters 1 through 9. ![]() As always, beware of spoilers which will be lurking and I hope you’ll join in with the discussion if this is a book you’ve already read. The details of Wyrd and Wonder are here and the readalong details are here. This is part of the Wyrd and Wonder event taking place during the month of May. Today is the second week in the readalong for the Goblin Emperor. ![]() Chosen by villains eva chase5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Her latest feature, A Nightmare Wakes, explores the personal turmoil of writer Mary Shelley. ![]() But as far as guests go, this week we are joined by the phenomenal writer and director Nora Unkel. This episode begins with a very important announcement from our host April Wolfe about the future of Switchblade Sisters. ![]() And lastly, Gillian reveals a conspiracy theory about To Die For that involves witchcraft.You can see I Blame Society on VOD February 12thPlease call in to leave your message for the finale episode: 81Also, please consider financially supporting our show by becoming a Maximum Fun member at /joinIf you haven’t seen To Die For – move it!With Katie Walsh and Gillian Wallace Horvat. She also talks about her friendship with To Die For screenwriter Buck Henry and how they became lunch buddies. Gillian elaborates on how gatekeepers and the invisible barriers to the film industry inspired her film. Gillian begins the discussion by drawing parallels between the two movies, both about psychotic women who do not let anyone get in the way of their desires. Rarely has a movie chosen by a guest better fit with their own work than with this film and Gillian’s latest, I Blame Society. She sits down with host Katie Walsh to discuss Gus Van Sant’s classic, To Die For. This week we are joined by the wonderful writer, director, producer, and actor Gillian Wallace Horvat. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |