5/23/2023 0 Comments Mystic River by Dennis Lehane![]() The boys, Jimmy, Dave and Sean, were struck by tragedy in 1975 when Dave was abducted by two men pretending to be cops when really they were child molesters. We follow the lives of three friends growing up in a rundown working-class area of Boston. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. ![]() And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things. ![]() Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. ![]() One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. But then a strange car pulled up their street. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. Reluctantly, Sean Devine confronts the world of violence and pain when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Ireland by frank delaney summary![]() ![]() It’s written in plain language and is very easy to follow. Each chapter opens with a quick explanation of the corresponding episode in The Odyssey, which I personally really enjoyed. Instead, it’s a collection of essays summarizing the 18 episodes of Ulysses and their major themes. It’s also not an annotation, so you won’t find every reference explained. I have seen The Bloomsday Book described as a “novel” online, but it isn’t a novel at all. I picked this book up the same day I bought my first copy of Ulysses since I figured I could use all the help I could get. Harry Blamires’ Bloomsday Book is a tried and true option. If you’re shopping around for just the right guide, I have some suggestions. Googling “ Ulysses reading guide” will provide you with a plethora of options, in online, audio and dead-tree formats. I created Blooms & Barnacles in part because I hope it can be a resource for people who need some help making sense of Ulysses’ tough bits. ![]() It’s not necessary to have a reading guide if you’re reading Ulysses for the first time, but it’s very likely you will encounter references or full passages that are completely inscrutable. It’s a rewarding beast, but it’s nice to have a companion by your side while facing such a beast. ![]() I love Ulysses, but it can be a beast to get through. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The Devil by Philip C. Almond![]() ![]() Of course the ostensible death of the devil did not end human atrocities in the West, but in explaining these we need to consider the lingering effects of the centuries-long demonizing of particular outsider groups, such as the Jews. Belief in, and fear of, these usually invisible, spiritual creatures motivated some of the most heinous crimes against other humans, especially Jews, heretics, and alleged witches. It was, as Philip C. Almond notes in this new biography of the devil, impossible for Christians to imagine a cosmos without the devil until the late seventeenth century, or even later. ![]() ![]() While supernatural beings, such as angels and demons, are now excluded in scientific discourse, they are explicit in Christian scriptures and dominated European debates over the nature of the cosmos well into the Enlightenment. Waite (Department of History, University of New Brunswick)Įven today, popular culture revels in the supernatural, especially its dark sides. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The Tokaido Road by Jilly Traganou![]() ![]() ![]() 02 (Myrdle Court Press, 2010), Global Design History (Routledge, 2011), Design as Future Making (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), Iconic Designs (forthcoming by Bloomsbury), Cartographic Japan (forthcoming by Chicago University Press), and other books. ![]() Traganou has published in the Design and Culture, Design Issues, Journal of Design History, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Larchitecture daujourdhui, and has chapters in Critical Cities Vol. Traganou is the author of The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo And Meiji Japan (Routledge Curzon, 2004), and a co-editor with Miodrag Mitrasinovic of Travel, Space, Architecture (Ashgate, 2009 ). She will be a Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center from September 2014 through June 2015. Jilly Traganou is Associate Professor of Spatial Design Studies at the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Legends and latte![]() ![]() ![]() Our elders and family Taotaomo’na as i mañainå-ta yan familiå-ta Taotaomo’na can be defined in three different ways, each definition depending upon the amount of familiarity or distance between these spirits and living CHamorus. Slowly over time, these spirits have changed from the ante of ancestors to the wily ghosts, devils and demons that play tricks or cause harm to CHamorus today. The connection between CHamorus and these spirits has changed over time, primarily due to cultural changes that came about from Spanish colonization and Christianization. ![]() Guma’ siha (houses) were built, families were raised and tinanom siha (crops) were harvested and planted through harmonious cooperation between CHamorus and the aniti (spirits) of their ancestors. Ancient Chamorros/CHamorus believed the world around them was full of spirits who provided both daily protection and assistance in their tasks, but also created dangers and problems. Taotaomo’na, the people of before, refers to ancestral spirits that inhabited the earth along with the living. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Shatter me book![]() ![]() Read about Jackerman by Southern Hospitality and see the artwork lyrics and similar artists.Īrticles about Mom with big ass gets fucked by son in car Jackerman. Southern Hospitality Scene 2 DH Richie Calhoun. 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King Giphy Perhaps one of the most sympathetic backstabbers in a young adult literature is Charlie Khan, Veras best friend and the. Other books that have received this award include Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi and Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. Charlie Kahn from Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. Printz Honor Book (for Excellence in Young Adult Literature). Raising questions not only about life, but issues such as peer pressure as well, it lends itself well to discussion and would be a good book club selection. But as the heap grows, the items they request of each other grow more demanding and brutal.Ī dark story, with themes similar to those found in Lord of the Flies, Nothing is recommended for readers high school aged and up. Determined to prove to him, and themselves, that life has meaning, they begin to gather items of significance to build a heap of meaning in the abandoned sawmill. When Pierre Anthon declares that life has no meaning and leaves school to live in a plum tree, his classmates beliefs are shaken to the core. Nothing by Janne Teller (translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken) ![]() Writing Workshop Winter 2023: Landscape & Memory. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Book on the sackler family![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The brothers bequeathed to their heirs a laudable tradition of benevolence, and an immense fortune with which to indulge it. Mortimer died in 2010, and Raymond died earlier this year. The art scholar Thomas Lawton once likened the eldest brother, Arthur, to “a modern Medici.” Before Arthur’s death, in 1987, he advised his children, “Leave the world a better place than when you entered it.” The Sacklers have endowed professorships and underwritten medical research. The Brooklyn-born brothers Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, all physicians, donated lavishly during their lifetimes to an astounding range of institutions, many of which today bear the family name: the Sackler Gallery, in Washington the Sackler Museum, at Harvard the Sackler Center for Arts Education, at the Guggenheim the Sackler Wing at the Louvre and Sackler institutes and facilities at Columbia, Oxford, and a dozen other universities. The space, which opened in 1978 and is known as the Sackler Wing, is also itself a monument, to one of America’s great philanthropic dynasties. The north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vast, airy enclosure featuring a banked wall of glass and the Temple of Dendur, a sandstone monument that was constructed beside the Nile two millennia ago and transported to the Met, brick by brick, as a gift from the Egyptian government. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Elysium by jennifer marie brissett![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, it becomes apparent that the book is about a love shared by a collection of souls. A skyborne spot of green light, a wandering elk, bursts of computer code, an owl on the hunt, and a sorrowful gathering of friends and lovers, are but some elements within a panoply of leitmotifs persisting across the novel’s repeated narrative dissonances. Initially set in a seemingly contemporary, English-speaking, multicultural metropolis (implied but never explicitly stated to be New York), the book for the first several chapters seems naught save a series of vignettes of the inhabitants’ love lives, albeit interrupted by bizarre incongruities. Brissett explores something altogether different. Maybe that’s fair, but Elysium, unlike Stephenson’s oeuvre, is not the thrill of seeing new possibilities in the technologies, economics, or knowledge that make up (or might one day make up) what humanity calls “progress.” So although there is a futuristic setting and casual reference to advanced technologies, these are very much incidental to the story. It came up under the category of “readers who enjoyed Neal Stephenson also bought…” in the Amazon recommendations list. ![]() ![]() I bought Jennifer Marie Brissett‘s Elysium as a download for my Kindle on a lark early this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() What emerges is a portrait of a well-meaning girl and her good-natured parents, and a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up. Years later, Jennifer remembers these scenes with candor and humor. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig, published in 2004, is a memoir about the author’s experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and. ![]() Her parents nipped her religious obsession in the bud early on, but as her teen years went by, her natural tendency toward the extreme led her down different paths of adolescent agony and mortification. While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow them perfectly. Jennifer's childhood mania was the result of her then undiagnosed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder joining forces with her Hebrew studies. The same fumes compelled Jennifer to wash her hands for 30 minutes before dinner. When her father found the washing machine crammed with everything from her sneakers to her barrettes, 12-year-old Jennifer Traig had a simple explanation: Theyd been tainted by the pork fumes emanating from the kitchen and had to be cleansed. ![]() |