![]() ![]() ![]() Not so much to get into the character, but because it (like its spiritual sequel Flash: Rebirth) streamlines years of messy comic book continuity. So while I have seen (in slack-jawed amusement at its sheer badness) DC’s hilariously tragic attempt to bring Green Lantern to the big screen, I don’t really have any investment in the character.īut Green Lantern: Rebirth kept popping up over and over again as a good recommendation. As an Air Force brat, I only find this twentieth century archetype interesting when it’s played by Tom Cruise and set to the musical stylings of Berlin. Firstly, because it means that Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern for those unfortunate enough not to grow up on a steady diet of the DC animated universe, is a cocky, fearless pilot. But the Green Lantern approach to fear has always left me a little cool. I mean, space police, power rings, the fact that John Stewart is awesome, these are all things I get. I’ll be honest: I don’t particularly get Green Lantern as a concept. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Kingsolver was seven years old, her father, a physician, took the family to the former Republic of Congo in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ![]() Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1955 and grew up in Carlisle in rural Kentucky. ![]() In 2000, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change." She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, for The Lacuna and the National Humanities Medal. Each of her books published since 1993 have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Her most famous works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in Africa in her early childhood. ![]() Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We visit the birthplace of humanity we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. This is the past as we've never seen it before. A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times Otherlands, Thomas Halliday ( paperback Jan 2023) £10.99 ![]() ![]() When Tanner Scott’s family moved from California to Utah three years ago, he was forced to push his bisexual identity back into the closet. My December 2020 Reading List: What to Read & What to Skip Favorite Books of the Month: Overall it was a great month for reading!Ĭheck out what I thought of these romance books and see what you might want to add to your TBR list. I also dived into a few new sub-genres which I hope to more of in the coming year. I fell in love with several, and I also found a few to be so-so.Ī number of books I read were new releases but a few were throw backs from the past. I tried to carve out more time over the holidays to just sit and read (watching Bridgerton aside), so I did crank out a number of books this month. ![]() That’s why every month I share with you my reading list with my recommendations for books to read and which books you should skip. There are SO many romance books available, so why waste your time reading a mediocre book? It’s my goal here at She Reads Romance Books to help fellow romance book junkies find the best romance books worth reading. I blame the new Netflix TV series, Bridgerton, for failing to meet my goal as I was binge watching the episodes when I could have been reading! (If you haven’t yet checked it out, it’s definitely worth watching as is reading Julia Quinn’s, The Duke and I). I almost met my goal of reading 150 books this year but was just 4 books shy. ![]() ![]() December brought my romance book reading for 2020 to a close. ![]() ![]() ![]() Painting, Latvian- 20th century- Exhibitions. Buy The Age of Symbolism in Latvia by Dace Lamberga from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 25. Painting, Latvian- 19th century- Exhibitions. Subject headings Symbolism (Art movement)- Latvia- Exhibitions. Janis Rozentāls Vilhelms Purvītis Johann Walter Aleksandrs Romans Pēteris Krastinš Jēkabs Belzēns Rūdolfs Pērle Ādams Alksnis Teodors Ūders Rihards Zarinš Alice Dmitrijew. ![]() The age of symbolism in Latvia / Dace Lamberga 19, 2010 and Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg, Dec. ![]() NotesĬatalog of an exhibition held at Hôtel de ville, Brussels, June 10-Sept. She is equally concerned with the natural world, and animals have become increasingly important in her recent imagery. Uniform series Publications du Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg 12. Musée national d'histoire et d'art (Luxembourg) Parallel title L'âge du symbolisme en Lettonie = The age of symbolism in Latvia / sous la direction de Dace Lamberga.Ĭinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana, c2010. ![]() ![]() In no other case does Eros so clearly betray the core of his being, his purpose of making one out of more than one but when he has achieved this in the proverbial way through the love of two human beings, he refuses to go further. When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves, and do not even need the child they have in common to make them happy. Sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals. This English translation was published in 1961.) ![]() Paragraph numbers apply to this excerpt, not the original Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930Įxcerpts from Digitized Original at the Internet ![]() ![]() ![]() Oliver Twist runs into the usual problems of films based on Dickens - it's episodic and long (130 minutes). Here he's the villain who does the right thing, recalling the decent Nazi officer who helped the utterly wasted Szpilman to live because he appreciated his playing. ![]() The, er, twist here has to do with Oliver's brutal, eventually insane pickpocket mentor, Fagin, an infamously Anti-Semitic character, more than once imagined through blatantly anti-Semitic filters, with hook nose and bent body to reflect his depraved and ugly soul. In part, this is because he's so frail and pale and broken - vulnerability and victimization make him sympathetic, of course, as does his stubborn faith in human goodness. ![]() Still, in Roman Polanski's film of Dickens' saga, Oliver is mostly adorable. This OLIVER TWIST is nothing like the 1968 musical no one is happy to be poor and dirty, and ongoing lack of hope makes street kids more desperate and crude than cute. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad's mesmerising repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls "an astonishing performance." ![]() Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilised life and a poignant yearning for peace. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. "Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls." Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kurt Wallander is already a known entity to many there are several adaptations for TV and radio, the most recently notable being Kenneth Branaugh’s take on the role as part of the BBC’s Wallander. Wallander is forced to attempt to solve a mystery with almost no leads, while also trying to prevent suspicion about the refugees from escalating into mass violence. At the same time, he is dealing with an incredibly vicious double murder of an elderly couple, and freshly-sparked tensions between local refugee camps and Swedish citizens. Kurt Wallander is a detective whose personal life is crumbling around him. ![]() ![]() Quick Review: Absolutely read this it’s dark and chilling and atmospheric, with many appreciable touches of messy reality and has a fairly satisfying finish. Read this book for: realistic police procedure, beautiful prose, strong atmosphere, straightforward plot, minimalist writing, Scandanavian/Nordic Noir ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is frightening to lose control of your body in any way. All I have left are a few weak memories, and now it is too late for their boy. I am sorry it took so long to find myself and understand how much I loved them. I wish I had not had to see my mother die slowly of cancer in the little hospital in Eldora, so ruined by life she could no longer suck water from a small ice cube. I wish I could tell him I am sorry, sorry he died before his time and before we could know each other as adults. That's what the doctor says, you know, 'Keep doing something.' But it's just stuttering a lot of times."īook Excerpt: 'Losing My Mind' Following is an excerpt from Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio: My father would have been ninety-one this year. Trying to put things together in the hope that this will keep things going. And maybe go out of here and say, 'You know, doesn't look like there's anything wrong with him.' And, of course, you don't see it." "I'm exercising my mind four to five hours a day trying to keep it going, thinking about things. ![]() |