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King henry v william6/28/2023 ![]() Does this play have a sceptical sub-text which subverts its patriotism? Is Henry’s achievement beset by irony? Has current scepticism distorted a predominantly and proudly nationalistic drama? Henry V demonstrates Shakespeare’s acclaimed ability to bring new complexity to the material that he adapted, so that different eras may find within his work the familiar and the strange, the congenial and the harsh, the sustaining and the challenging. Kenneth Branagh’s film-production reflected the changing valuation. In recent decades the play has attracted increasing critical attention and is now highly controversial. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his ‘band of brothers’ to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be ‘this star of England’. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier’s renowned film. Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare’s history plays. ![]() Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. ![]()
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Doors of stone latest news6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Present-day "interludes" concern his life as an innkeeper, with each present day depicted in a separate book. ![]() The series is framed as the transcription of his three-day-long oral autobiography, where he "trouped, traveled, loved, lost, trusted and was betrayed". In the past, he was a wandering trouper and musician who grew to be a notorious arcanist (or wizard), known as the infamous "Kingkiller". In the present day, Kvothe is a rural innkeeper, living under a pseudonym. ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle tells the life story of a man named Kvothe. The series also contains metafictional stories within stories from varying perspectives that tie to the main plot in various ways. The main plot, making up the majority of the books and concerning the actual details of Kvothe's life, is told in the first person. The book is told in a " story-within-a-story" format: a frame narrative relates the present day in which Kvothe runs an inn under an assumed name and is told in omniscient third person. The series centers on a man named Kvothe, an infamous adventurer and musician telling his life story to a scribe. The books released in the series have sold over 10 million copies. The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, were released in 20. ![]() The Kingkiller Chronicle is a fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Through using their examples, Woodson shows that there are many ways one can participate in a revolution. She refers to these figures-Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Rosa Parks, and Ruby Bridges-by first name to indicate a certain love and familiarity she holds for them. ![]() In this quote, the author alludes to many significant figures in the Civil Rights Movement. ![]() "My fingers curl into fists, automatically This quote is also emblematic of the entire memoir's realistic yet hopeful tone. It began when slavery was ended thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation, alluded to by the author's word choice in this poem, and continued for decades because the abolition of slavery did not end the mistreatment of African Americans. However, as noted in this quote, the fight for African American rights and social respect goes further than the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement is considered to have taken place between 19, meaning Jacqueline is born nearly a decade into the historic period. Brown Girl Dreaming takes place during a crucial time in African American history. ![]()
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School of X by Jaleigh Johnson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() These meteors that make their fiery entrance into the World of Solace are carrying artifacts like watches, music boxes and even books in an unfamiliar language from other worlds encased inside of them. The desperately poor residents of the town wait, hidden and protected, until the last moment possible, then rush out into the fields to scavenge the debris left behind. When we first meet thirteen year old Piper Linny, she is preparing for one of the violent, deadly meteor storms that regularly hits near her home, Scrap Town Number Sixteen. ![]() The Mark of the Dragonfly has to be one of the best middle grade fantasy novels I have read in quite a while, even more so because Johnson takes ideas that we are now well familiar with (and possibly even tired of) and quickly and masterfully blends them into the amazing world she has created, making something that feels new and familiar at the same time, and in the best way possible. The fantastic jacket art for The Mark of the Dragonfly is by Nigel Quarless. The Mark of the Dragonfly is the debut middle grade novel by Jaleigh Johnson, a gamer whose previous work has been tie-in novels set in the Forgotten Realms fiction line. ![]()
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If the Shoe Fits by Sarah Mlynowski6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() She is best known for her New York Times best-selling series Whatever After. After her second novel Fishbowl was published, she moved to New York City to write full-time. ![]() ![]() She used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel Milkrun, which has since been published in 16 countries, selling over 600,000 copies around the globe. Later, she moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She graduated with an Honors degree in English literature from McGill University. Her parents are divorced, and she has one sister, Aviva Mlynowski, and an older stepsister. Sarah Mlynowski is the daughter of the romance writer Elissa Ambrose. Sarah Mlynowski (born January 4, 1977) is a Canadian writer of middle-grade fiction, young adult novels, and adult fiction. Mlynowski at the 2017 Texas Book Festival ![]()
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Papa Is a Poet by Natalie S. Bober6/27/2023 ![]() My approach to studying the 50 states involves what as Charlotte Mason coined, living books. However, studying and learning about New Hampshire, or any state, is more than memorizing its state rock and main agricultural crop. The Sopranos best-tv-show-ever argument into pretty much any conversation.īut back to the subject at hand, New Hampshire! A New England state known for its beautiful landscapes and political pride whose state motto, live free or die, was written by Revolutionary War hero John Stark. And two, I can find a way to sneak the Breaking Bad vs. One, I can find a tv reference in about anything. ![]() This really has nothing to do with the blog post, but to simply show you two things. ![]() ![]() In the final season of Breaking Bad, avoiding capture from the DEA, Walter White ends up in New Hampshire. ![]()
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How to be filthy rich in rising asia6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() This time the conceit is that it’s a self-help book, but a peculiarly specific one. How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (my favourite book title in quite a while) is another second person novel. If you couldn’t every page would have another irritation. ![]() The use of the second person in Reluctant led to a few clumsy moments where the narrator had to say things that normally would be covered by descriptive text, but most of the time Hamid pulled it off and the result was a clever and engaging novel which read like a thriller but which glittered with intelligence and insight. One point I picked out specifically in my 2009 review was that you had to simply accept the narrative device embrace its artificiality. Reluctant was a timely book, dealing with issues of radicalisation and globalisation, but what really made it stand out was Hamid’s unusual stylistic choice – the entire book was written in the second person, the reader taking the place of an unnamed American sitting in a cafe with the narrator. Mohsin Hamid came to international attention with his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid ![]()
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The marvels brian selznick book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() What 13-year-old Joseph finds is a home that is seemingly locked in the previous century, as well as a mystery about the house, his American-born and seemingly eccentric uncle and their family history. Joseph’s parents are living abroad, and he may have done something to be expelled. Red-headed Joseph Jervis is running away from his boarding school to the London home of his estranged uncle, Albert Nightingale. The second story is set in 1990 and told in about 200 pages of prose. The red-headed Marcus Marvel marries an actress, and they continue their family in the theater business through the next generations until, in 1900, there is a son who isn’t quite cut out for acting. When Billy returns to London, he gets work behind the scenes at the Royal Theatre.Ībout 10 years after Billy’s return, a baby is left on his doorstep, and he rears him in the theater business. Twelve-year-old Billy Marvel and his dog, Tar, were the only survivors of a shipwreck that also killed Billy’s older brother in 1766. One story, told through about 400 pages of illustrations, is about several generations of the Marvel family, who were involved in the theater business. Two stories merge in Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator Brian Selznick’s recent novel, “The Marvels.” “ THE MARVELS ,” by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $32.99, 650 pages (ages 10 and up) ![]()
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The trials of morrigan crow nevermoor 16/27/2023 ![]() It's there that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organisation: the Wundrous Society. ![]() ![]() Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on Eventide.īut as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Winner of the Dymocks and QBD Children's Book of the Year 2018 and a New York Times bestseller, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is the first in an enchanting series for fantasy fans of all ages ![]() A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination. ![]()
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Gretchen felker martin manhunt6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes that’s a neutral thing, and sometimes it’s unfortunately a dangerous sort of collaborator kind of thing. Fran sort of embodies the part of me that wants to be invisible as a trans woman, that wants to conform and disappear into the world around me and not have to deal with any harassment or legal consequences of being a woman in the way that I am. GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN: I’d say it’s pretty psychologically straightforward where they come from. SARAH NEILSON: How did you come up with the three main characters, and what do you like most about them? Shondaland spoke with Felker-Martin about imagining characters of varying trans experiences, the transgressive and transformative aspects of horror, state and interpersonal violence, and how her work as a film critic informs her fiction. LaTanya McQueen Takes on Plantation Weddings. ![]() Tananarive Due on Her Horror Novel 'The Between'. ![]() |