![]() ![]() ![]() The various birthing stories, whether good or bad were, for me, the highlights of this book.I also enjoyed the depiction of life during the Great Depression, especially for a single woman on her own. It didn't matter if the women were rich or poor, black or white, she helped them all, but also knew when to step back and allow the mothers-to-be to labour in the way they wanted to, despite conventions. ![]() Patience Murphy was an interesting character and I felt I was there at each birth she attended - the author certainly went into realistic detail! Patience's life was not an easy one as she struggled to bring babies into the world without the help of a doctor or modern technology. Although rather slow in places, I quite enjoyed "The Midwife of Hope River". ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’ll show you the top six modern Batman statues to collect. The best Batman statues are modern versions, including the Batman Arkham Knight Statue and the Batman Hush Statue. Bottom Line Up Frontīatman and Robin are a duo from childhood, but Batman took on a new persona in later movies and comic books. I admire him, and I’m going to show you the many opportunities for collecting Batman statues. Batman is one of my favorites because he wasn’t born with superpowers or bitten by spiders.īatman is a true legend, almost a vigilante of justice. Statues are part of my more valuable collections, and I have way too many fandoms, including superheroes. I’ve been collecting model kits, replicas, Funko Pops, figures, and Nenderoids since childhood, some since they began. Sure, I love Batman, but I look at each statue’s materials, quality, scale, and matching potential. Prepare yourself for an unusual suggestion because I don’t collect statues without a purpose. ![]() Batman is a caped hero from Gotham City, and I’ll share his top collectible statues in the best Batman statues guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’d like more ideas on how to do this, then check out Kate’s explanation over at her blog – or just keep reading to see my chain. The link could be by title, theme, plot, character or any other random way that comes to mind. It’s a lot of fun I hope you’ll enjoy it – and join in.Įach month, Kate will nominate a starting book, and it really is as easy as connecting it to the next book that jumps into your head. Recently, the baton has been passed on to Kate at booksaremyfavouriteandbest and I’m really glad that it’s continuing. This literary version was initiated in 2014 by authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman. I was introduced to this idea while watching the 1993 film of the same name, but it actually originated in a short story called ‘Chains’ written by Hungarian writer and poet Frigyes Karinthy back in 1929. This bookish meme was inspired by the idea that everyone is connected to every other person by no more than six points of separation. ![]() Welcome back to Six Degrees of Separation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.Įighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. ![]() Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. It is NO DIFFERENT in content from previous editions of the series.Ĭaleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. This edition of SEDUCED IN THE DARK features a new cover that when combined with the other books in DARK DUET: Platinum Edition series makes a lovely addition to any bookshelf. It contains very disturbing situations, dubious consent, strong language, and graphic violence.**** ****This is a series about captivity in a FICTIONAL and EROTICIZED setting. ![]() ![]() Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism ![]() One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021Ī masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than half the people of Florence died in the epidemic. Parents wouldn't even take care of their sick children.įlorence, Italy of 1348 became like a post-zombie-apocalyptic society, except the dead stayed dead and the living went into hiding. Victims died helplessly while their neighbors watched. Boccaccio tells us that this catastrophe led to the total breakdown of society and that people began to act unnaturally toward each other (I.Intro.6). Replace the flesh-eating zombies with plague victims, and the guns with stories, and there you go. Think of The Decameron as the 14th century The Walking Dead. ![]() Secluding themselves in a country estate, and telling stories to keep their minds happily occupied, the young gentlefolk leave their homes in Florence, hoping to keep the deadly contagion at bay and leave their fears behind, at least for a while. That's the basic plot device of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece, The Decameron, completed around 1352. Voiceover: In a world where a deadly and terrifying plague stalks the city, a group of ten noble ladies and gentlemen flee for their lives. Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron: Book Study Guide Introduction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes Othello such a tragic figure is that it is not that he lacks virtue, but rather, he has too much of it. Othello is a play about a tragic hero whose heroism slowly unravels in a world that is frayed by love, friendship and his obsession with masculine honor (Zerba 2). Poetry comes thus from a controlled representation, and one of these forms of representation is the tragedy in which Shakespeare's Othello is a perfect example because it embodies all of the Aristotelian principles - such as reversal and recognition, the tragic hero and his tragic flaw, and complication and denouement. In trying to understand Aristotle's view on art, it is important to understand that it is "based on an equation of poetry with the process of representation, and not on any accidental quality such as meter" (142). ![]() In the tragic form, imitation is made of a very controlled process where the different elements of action and character lead the spectator to have a certain insight into the meaning of what it is to be human (142). Every form of art (qua imitation) can be compared in terms of the artistic means, object, and manner used in their creation. For Aristotle, what defines tragedy (and all art, in general) is in the way that it is imitation (Golden 142). It is in the Poetics that Aristotle defines the fundamental nature of tragedy. Aristotle's Poetics is the most informative piece of work on the nature of art. ![]() ![]() the thing with feathers, Sweazy-Kulju’s debut novel, is a dark and seething tale of love and the daring spirit.īlair is just sixteen years old and pregnant. They are dark, they are broken, but most of all they are unapologetically human. Her characters are not your average beings with commonplace traits and thoughts. Author Anne Sweazy-Kulju’s ability to transport the reader into a different era and place has the potential to transform you. The sign of a good book is if it has the ability to remove you from your current place and time, and transport you into someone else’s world. Summary Perhaps grief is the price that must be paid for the privilege of love and kinship. ![]() ![]() But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! the thing with feathers Anne Sweazy-Kulju We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() This volume also includes `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', one of the most popular poems ever written in the English language, and `Kubla Khan', which highlight Coleridge's gift for suffusing his strange, haunting and captivating verse with unsurpassed musical and rhythmic qualities. ![]() From sonnets and ballads to elegies and intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridge's life, particularly his prolific early years, which saw the composition of poems such as `Christabel', `The Eolian Harp' and `Frost at Midnight'. Yet, while this literary itinerancy left some to lament his refusal to devote himself to verse, Coleridge remains one of English literature's most enduringly popular poets. Samuel Taylor Coleridges classic poem about a sailor who shot an albatross and the woe that followed him afterwards. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fascinated by, among other subjects, psychology, philosophy and chemistry, his mind roamed extravagantly and without restraint, leading Hazlitt to opine that "there is no subject on which he has not touched, none on which he has rested". The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridges longest major poem and marks the beginning of the romantic movement in British literature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged", Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() Our task is to look, and to listen, and to live well. His other books include Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth, Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized. ![]() Becoming Rooted : One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. In walking toward the harmony way, we honor balance, wholeness, and connection. Becoming Rooted invites us to live out a deeply spiritual relationship with the. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream-otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare-and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. This journey is your personal invitation into a different kind of relationship with nature. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, Randy Woodley, an activist, author, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the Earth. Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. ![]() What does it mean to become rooted in the land? How can we become better relatives to our greatest teacher, the Earth? Becoming Rooted invites us to live out a deeply spiritual relationship with the whole community of creation and with Creator. ![]() |