![]() I can’t be the only one who found Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to be confusing, so I decided to pick up the novel. With the news that Discovery is slowly being pulled out of orbit, and is set to crash, Russia and America join forces, Leonev’s crew allows the three Americans to come aboard, and Leonev sets off for Jupiter. America has the valuable minds of Heywood Floyd, planner of Discovery’s initial flight, Walter Curnow, engineer, and Doctor Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (aka Dr. Set nine years after astronaut David Bowman’s fateful flight to Jupiter, America and Russia are in a race to reach his craft, Discovery, and recover information from its databanks. While 2001 will always get more attention, don’t be too quick to ignore the sequel it deals with the same grand ideas as its predecessor, but it does so with a lot more style. 2001 lays some solid groundwork for a good story, but 2010 makes that story richer. I found the characters more compelling, the story more interesting, and the writing keeps pace. ![]() ![]() 2010 will never have the historical importance of 2001, but there’s a lot to love. ![]() Clarke’s fantastic follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the very first time with the same man as her sister, she explores her mixed emotions through her writing, making this a story which revels in irony and ambiguity.Ī deceptively complex and intelligent story, I Capture the Castle is Smith's first published work and one which will undoubtedly and simultaneously make listeners tut, laugh and reminisce. Despite developing feelings for the younger of the two brothers, Cassandra's beautiful sister, Rose, plots to marry the eldest heir in a desperate attempt to escape the poverty which surrounds her. With the arrival of their new landlords, the impossibly handsome and wealthy American brothers, Neil and Simon Cotton, the Mortmains are roused from their stupor and moved to action. The youngest daughter in a family of impoverished artists, it is her imagination and writing that takes us away from the ramshackle old English castle where they live, and towards an intriguing tale of husband-hunting and light-hearted sibling rivalry. ![]() Exclusively from AudibleIn this coming of age story, Dodie Smith introduces the visionary and eccentric character of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon his abilities as a crack marksman attracted the attention of the officers and he was put in charge of Sniper's Ridge, his job to eliminate the enemy assassins in Anzac Cove. But in 1915, a passage in the bible inspired the devout scout leader and Sunday school teacher to enlist. The son of a country butcher, Stan Savige left school at twelve to become a blacksmith's striker. On this ridge of death, however, Savige's job was to make sure he struck as many of the opposition as possible.' In the flurry of trench warfare, a soldier would rarely be certain he had hit an enemy. But Sniper's Ridge was a different proposition. 'Stan Savige had been on Gallipoli for just two weeks, in the trenches firing at Turks less than 20 metres away. The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to WWII General and the founder of Legacy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe.Īt one degree – the world we are already living in – vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kurtzman’s talents weren’t just limited to humor. Kurtzman would go on to try his hand at additional humor magazines, but none came close to enjoying MAD’s success. Nearly six decades later, MAD is still in production and still carries the tone set by Kurtzman’s initial parodies. It was eventually upsized from a comic book to a magazine format, and all-too-soon, Kurtzman was out as editor after a business dispute with Gaines. MAD mocked comic books, television programs, films, advertising, and everything else that populated the common consciousness. Kurtzman tapped into his own satiric streak and used this new forum first to send up the medium in which he worked, and then, in short order, the rest of American culture. ![]() ![]() Frustrated that others in the EC Comics stable were earning more than he, Kurtzman approached his publisher, William Gaines, who offered the cartoonist the opportunity to come up with another comic book title. Fittingly, MAD was both a way for Kurtzman to exercise his talents. ![]() His most famous creation, MAD, long ago transcended the medium that spawned it, becoming a fixture of American culture and among the most influential sources of comedic humor in the late twentieth century. It’s a funny thing, but as with many of the great cartoonists, Harvey Kurtzman’s work is far better known than the artist who created it. ![]() ![]() ![]() They feel a love deeper than any other, and Companions have personalities more like people than horses. ![]() Roland is a Companion, which are brilliant white horses that bond with a Chosen human who becomes a herald. ![]() Distraught, Talia runs away, knowing that by spending the night alone she will never be welcomed back (in case she had “relations”). She’s told that at thirteen, and with a year of regular periods behind her, she’s now ready to be married off and make more children. ![]() In Talia’s village, men marry several wives who produce tons of children, and in the opening chapter, Talia has been summoned by all her father’s wives. Readers learn that Talia loves books about heralds, and especially Vanyel, the last herald-mage. Basically, it’s a tiny, socially-backward village on the far outskirts of the kingdom of Valdemar, about two weeks by horse. The last mage died centuries before the characters in Arrows of the Queen.Ībout the plot: the protagonist, Talia, is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a “Borderland” of Valdemar. Lackey later wrote more trilogies, taking her series back thousands of years, and I’ll explain the big difference: magic vs. Chronologically, it is not the first book, but it is the first published. While people online argue over where to enter in the Valdemar books, most agree it’s the Arrows Trilogy. Here is a bit about the book: Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey, published in 1987, is the first in the “Arrows Trilogy.” It’s also called the “Original Trilogy” because it’s the first book Lackey published set in the Valdemar kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. ![]() Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. ![]() Writing on the formation and transformation of the ideology of female Jewishness in the ancient world, Zlotnick places her treatment in a broad, comparative, Mediterranean context, bringing in parallels from Greek and Roman sources. The Jewess, in contrast, is bound by stricture. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are defined primarily by what duties they are expected to perform, the course of action that they take. The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. ![]() ![]() Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002ĭigitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Dinah's daughters : gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to late antiquity / Helena Zlotnick ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yang’s work has been critically acclaimed: American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints were both finalists for Young People’s Literature in the National Book Awards-in 20, respectively. If the narrative in Dragon Hoops is to be trusted, it was while he worked on this book that Yang discerned that he should devote himself full time to writing. He was writing graphic novels on the side, in addition to being married and raising four children. Gene Luen Yang was, until 2015, a computer science teacher at a Catholic high school in Oakland, California (Bishop O’Dowd). I wanted to write about it because of how the author handles a historical allegation against a now-deceased basketball coach.įirst, a little background on the author and the book. Dragon Hoopsis a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang that masterfully weaves together a season of Catholic high school basketball with historical vignettes, student stories, and weighty topics such as racism and abuse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now they're dealing with each other's middle school dramas-locker room teasing, cliques, video game battles, bra shopping, and a slew of hilariously awkward moments-until they hopefully switch back! Told in both Jack's and Ellie's voices, The Swap offers a fresh and honest take on tween friendship, all while exploring more serious themes of family, loss, empathy, and what it really means to be yourself. JACK thought girls had it easy-no fights with bullies, no demanding dads, no power plays-but facing mean girls at sleepovers and getting grilled about your period is way harder than taking a hit to the face at sports practice. ELLIE assumed popular guys didn't worry about body image, being perfect, or talking to girls, but acting like you're cool with everything is tougher than it looks. ![]() With one random wish, Jack and Ellie are living life in each other's shoes. ![]() Palacio and Katherine Applegate, as well as of graphic novels such as Click, Invisible Emmie, and Smile. Now a Disney Channel Original Movie, Megan Shull's smart and funny, very readable book The Swap is a great summer reading (or anytime!) choice. ![]() |