![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:isbn:006074832X Scandate 20111123230319 Scanner . Neal Stephenson is probably my favorite living author, but making it through the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (which is really three books in one) was like taking a cross-continental flight through a turbid storm with only momentary glimpses of clear sky. O元8495W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.46 Pages 966 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:3894808454 ![]() OL24952872M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:36:10 Boxid IA108815 Boxid_2 CH102601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution. ![]() © Guillermo Calvo Mahé Manizales, 2023 all rights reserved. I wonder how I’ll see this side of Roger this time. Only that generation of emotion and visions and interweaving realities seems essential. Now that I’ve been exposed to poetry and even written some, although I’m still not always sure just what it is only that meter, rhyme, alliteration, consonance, metaphor, simile and allegory sometimes but not always play a part. I’m rereading it now that I’m a bit wiser. I wonder if Zelazny realized it was a poem. I hadn’t realized that, in large part, it was an epic poem.Īt the time, I’d not yet come to understand poetry. It was sort of interesting but hard to grasp. ![]() I first read Roger Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness over a half century ago. ![]() ![]() Yet Robert Arthur was actually quite a prolific genre short story writer. In the 1960s the popular anthologies were expanded by Random House to include a number of "Alfred Hitchcock" anthologies for young readers, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Spellbinders in Suspense (1967). These anthologies were attributed to Alfred Hitchcock, who had nothing to do with the books aside from lending his name to the series. His other great achievement is ghost-editing a number of excellent anthologies for Random House from 1957 to 1971. ![]() ![]() Robert Arthur is known primarily as the creator and author of ten of the early books for the Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series of books first published in 1964. Gold, H.L., editor, Galaxy Science Fiction, Galaxy Publishing Corporation, May 1955. Arthur, Robert, "The Aggravation of Elmer" ![]() ![]() ![]() There's tons more on the site, be sure to browse around & share your finds. ![]() Hopefully you enjoy it! I don't see it on the reading materials list, but I think it deserves a link. The website is Hungarian, but most things have an English translation. It's huge there's tons of different masters & important figures, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese & Vietnamese figures, as well as Westerners, with a short biography & some of their works (lots of amazing PDF's, & other pretty cool things Merton's has some of his photography & poetry). While looking for an electronic copy, I stumbled across a pretty amazing collection of eastern thought & works, including buddhism, taoism & zen. This was Merton’s favorite among his own books. I definitely recommend it the link above is the full PDF. My Thomas Merton was one of those labor of love projects that had gestated for 35 years. ![]() It's an awesome translation of select passages of the Chuang Tzu really concise & powerful, very poetic. Chuang Tzu, living almost 2500 years ago, was what we might today term a monk. I've been really enjoying Thomas Merton's Way of Chuang Tzu. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers - and two very dangerous men - came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. The Innocent Man By: John Grisham Bleachers By: John Grisham Publishers Summary Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. The chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.įor six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes, each other. The narrator is a farm boy names Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that’s never been painted. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering the words that were seldom heard. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The hill people and the Mexicans arrives on the same day. ![]() Religion - Study, history & religious textsĪntiquity, Specialist & Rare Books (Other Quality) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Creature Commandos brings a well-known DC’s team into the spotlight If you’re interested in more, stay with us.Įditor’s Note: This post is regularly updated to provide you with the latest updates regarding the upcoming DCU projects. Now that we’ve covered the gist of what the Creature Commandos animated series is, it’s time to analyze it in more detail. We can expect the voices of the upcoming series to appear in the live-action projects in the new DCU since Gunn and Safran want to create an “interconnected universe” with actors that people can truly connect with. The release date is so far unknown, but it was revealed that the series would arrive on Max sometime in 2024, and it’s at the stage where the cast is being selected. ![]() Creature Commandos is a seven-episode animated series that follows a great but under-represented team of superheroes active during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want an appreciation of the ways our normally functioning brains can be a liability, this is a great book. He presents the extremely complicated workings of the brain in a way that is understandable, relatable and fun. To me, Dean Burnett is the Brian Cox of neuroscience. **Editor's note: please listen to the book before testing this conclusion.įrom the hugely popular Guardian science blogger, a surprising, funny and mind-bending examination of how and why the brain sabotages our behavior. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this audiobook is for anyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to. ![]() ![]() Along the way he explains the human brain's imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do and experience. In The Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett tours our mysterious and mischievous grey (and white) matter. And alcohol can actually improve your memory.** Conspiracy theories and superstitions are the inevitable effects of a healthy brain. Why can you recognize that woman, from that thing.but can't remember her name?Īnd why, after your last break-up, did you find yourself in the fetal position on the sofa for days, moving only to wipe the snot and tears haphazardly from your face? Here's why: the idiot brain.įor something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganized. Why do you lose arguments with people who know MUCH LESS than you? ![]() ![]() Jack on the other hand, was not as darling as I had hoped he would be. I liked the writing, I liked the setting, and I liked Ella. I really debated what I should rate this book. But these guys are such sweethearts they are bound to win their women over. Too bad things aren’t quite the same as described in those letters. Journey to Fort Gibson with Ella as she goes with a heart full of hope for a new life with the man in her letters. What could it hurt to just write and find out more about the man? This particular night there was one ad that sounded authentic enough to write back. ![]() She would read ads from men wanting a mail-order bride and they would laugh at them together. Her sister had a way of cheering her up though. He really hoped this one would agree to come out and marry him.Įlla Davis just had another suitor propose publicly….only not to her. Out of all the letters he received there was one that seemed to stick out. ![]() His friends thought it was a bad idea, so he kept it to himself. Jack Warner has sent for a mail-order bride. The Officer and the Southerner by Rose Gordon ![]() ![]() Zilpha is forced to make a bargain which pulls in her into a web of lust, intrigue, and dubious decisions. ![]() Her luck takes a rotten turn when a mysterious man from her past appears with an impossible demand. Zilpha is a peasant desperate to pay off her debts. ![]() He must to put an end to imbalance before darkness rises again. But when he stumbles upon a beast killing a mortal, he knows his birthright won't be denied. Instead of ruling the immortals he takes up residence in a seaport city to study the ways of mortals. Tor Lir is determined to ignore his birthright. įrom the international bestselling author of The Four Worlds comes a rich, magical adventure-with a touch of fairy tale and a twist of mystery. ![]() From the international bestselling author of The Four Worlds comes a rich, magical adventure-with a touch of fairy tale and a twist of mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shades of Milk and Honey has a plot familiar to fans of Austen-Jane Ellsworth, an unmarried woman of twenty-eight, is an intelligent woman of accomplishment who, now being an “old maid” (although she still hopes), focuses more on making sure that her younger sister, Melody, whose main accomplishment is her stunning beauty, is settled with a proper gentleman. ![]() But when I consulted Twitter, Mary Robinette Kowal herself suggested her book first, so I kind of had to-although, admittedly, I was looking for an excuse. ![]() Rearranging and redecorating my room at home has managed to clear most of the burnout out (oddly enough), and I thought I’d read Evening’s Empire or Love in a Fallen City, two other books I’d picked up at the same time, before picking up Shades of Milk and Honey. When I encountered Shades of Milk and Honey at my local library, I just had to pick it up, despite my fantasy burnout. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal ![]() |