![]() ![]() ![]() Why does Frank dress, speak and act as he does? Children don’t pop out of the womb fully formed, they are a combo of nature and nurture, and he was almost so odd as to seem more like a prop than a person. This book was a very fast read, and utterly charming, and yet so many things about it bugged me after the fact. ![]() The biggest issue: Banning’s son, nine-year-old Frank, who dresses and acts like a character from a 1930s film and proceeds to make Alice’s life a living hell. Banning is working on a new project, and in order to ensure timely delivery, her editor sends young Alice to oil the gears and take care of any issues that arise. Alice is the young editorial assistant who is in over her head at her new job: helping a reclusive writer finish her new novel. It seems like just the sort of book to catch my eye: it involves a writer, it involves oddball characters, it involves a lot of imagination and awkward situations. It’s just so hard sometimes to say why two books could both be three-star reads when they have such different reasons for landing there, but that’s how it is! Especially lately, I’ve been feeling extra dissatisfied with lots of the books I’ve picked up, and Be Frank With Me was no exception. Some books are really nicely planned out but slower to read, and others are really fun but kind of fluffy, and then others are hard to put down but don’t seem all that great in hindsight. I’ve been looking through my old Goodreads reviews and I’ve noticed that my qualifications for a three-star read seem to fluctuate wildly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He knows he can fight his sinful passion by denying his body. For Iyatt, she channels his deceased fianc�e, who asks for their help in a delicate matter.įorced to work together, Iyatt and Haysi soon find themselves drawn to each other.īut that doesn't change what Iyatt thinks of Haysi's job or her views. But Haysi has a gift-she can talk to spirits. Under normal circumstances, Iyatt would've never spoken to a woman like her. ![]() When she isn't swaying her hips for strangers, she can be found in her shop, inking tattoos on harlots. Haysi, a belly dancer, is a shameless hedonist if Iyatt ever saw one. Iyatt leads an ascetic life of a martial arts teacher and fights his demons as best he can. Samurai Iyatt Martenn is a devout man with a history of violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? It’s about compassion, but it shows insensitivity.” It’s about kindness, but it shows arrogance. As the playwright herself puts it, “The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away-a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. ![]() ![]() Margaret Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences-mortality-while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award ![]() ![]() And all competing interpretations, it seemed, predicted the same observable results.īut maybe not. It doesn’t have anything to say about what unseen, or deeply hidden, mechanisms might be responsible for the recipe. That standard approach is often glibly derided as “shut up and calculate,” since all the quantum math does is provide a recipe for calculating the likelihood of different experimental results. But in recent decades, many physicists have found it (or variants of it) preferable to the traditional view of quantum mechanics associated with Danish physicist Niels Bohr. ![]() Many Worlds is a well-known quantum interpretation, originated in the 1950s by American physicist Hugh Everett III. “The theory describes many copies of what we think of as ‘the universe,’ ” Carroll writes, “each slightly different, but each truly real in some sense.” If you want to know where these branches are, he says, “There is no ‘place’ where those branches are hiding they simply exist simultaneously, along with our own, effectively out of contact with it.” ![]() ![]() As each measurement is made, this view of quantum theory insists, additional universes are instantly created. When the measurement is made, the universe splits, branching into two copies, one with the spin up, the other with the spin down. Measuring the spin of an electron, for instance, might yield the result that the spin axis points either up or down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ten “types” are the Perceiver of Pain, the Ostraciser, the Tamer of Terror, the Beholder, the Aggressor, the Tribalist, the Nurturer, the Romancer, the Rescuer and the Kinsman. ‘The Ten Types of Human’ is the result of years of research combining psychology, philosophy and the neuroscience of decision-making in which Dias seeks to explain the factors which led this to happen. ‘The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be’ by Dexter Dias explores the best and worst of human behaviour – how and why people can be utterly selfless and also commit terrible atrocities. Dias is a human rights lawyer and part-time judge who was presented with a case in which a 15-year-old boy died in a young offender institution when three officers restrained him. ![]() ![]() It is a story where their gifts are needed and their character matters.Įarly in the Spring of 2016, I was staying with my best friend, Jared, and his family, before he and I set out to hike a segment of the Appalachian Trail. Through a series of twists and turns Heather and Picket elude the wolves and arrive at a hidden outpost, Cloud Mountain, where they learn their lives are caught up in a much larger, more dangerous story. The Green Ember follows Heather and Picket, two young rabbit siblings, as they race to escape a pack of wolves who have just burned their home and captured their family. I’ll share the strengths of the story that have made me a fan, the four most common criticisms and concerns, and what I think you can expect if you family chooses to dive into the story of The Green Ember. In this review, I’ll share how I discovered the book and how my expectations were set. ![]() ![]() This is apparent from the hundreds of online reviews I’ve read of The Green Ember. The opinion we form of any book is greatly determined by the expectations we bring to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() If I'm going to be reading Level 1 books in the I Can Read! series, I'd much rather pick up a Fancy Nancy or something. I don't think I'll be bothering with any more books about Splat. I'd like to know what the original illustrations are like (since this story is simply based on the creation of the original author). The cats all look super soft and plush, but there's a sort of strange, CGI look to some of them that seems a little hokey. ![]() Based on his name, though, I'm wondering if he falls a lot.) Is he trying to sing flat? Is this a good thing? Why does singing a note make him fall off the mat? Or is the book just trying way too hard to make kids laugh? (This is my first encounter with this character. There really isn't any lesson, and I don't understand what the whole point of the book is. This may be classed as a Level 1 I Can Read! title, and the reading difficulty may be at that level, but the story is so juvenile and childish that I really kind of hated it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. ![]() We are a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. The Dreaming is comprised of multicultural fans of various beliefs, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Attribute artists when possible by name and/or link, and always provide a link when posting news. Discussion encouraged, but please no content manipulation, self-promotion, or spamming. Posts should be authentic and be of good quality about The Sandman and works related to it. 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With the main series having concluded over 20 years ago, this subreddit will frequently contain spoilers about the comic books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. In prison he was given the "silent treatment" for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. About the Author: Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. ![]() ![]() From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation-never before published-of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's "positively beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. ![]() ![]() Hollowell goes above and beyond to create an inclusive cast with some elements integrated into the narrative better than others (everyone’s use of ASL-designated by single quotes around signed dialogue-to communicate with Brooke). The first-person narration amplifies the siblings’ isolation with a palpable fear of Frank and his punishments. Despite each sibling having distinct magical abilities, this element of the story is largely set dressing for a blend of horror and suspense. As Derry learns more about him and her own magical affinity for growing real and imagined plants, Derry will have to decide how far she is willing to go to keep her loved ones safe. When two of them disappear, their protector blames the dense forest surrounding their home. Derry and her siblings-eldest Jane (who is Black) Winnie (who is fat and white) Brooke (fat, Deaf, Mexican American) white twins Elle and Irene (Irene is trans) nonbinary, Mexican American Violet and the youngest, identical Black twins Olivia and London-have fierce bonds among them. White, fat, 16-year-old Derry and her siblings fear Frank even as he reminds them that he took them in when no one-not even their parents-wanted them because of their magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gr 7 Up–Derry lives in a secluded house in the woods with her siblings and their protector, Frank. ![]() |