![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next! Children and adults alike will giggle with delight as the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size, in this unique picture book about the power of imagination and interactivity will provide read-aloud fun for all ages.īook Synopsis An interactive picture book from the New York Times bestselling Prince of Preschool Great for toddlers, preschoolers, and early readers to learn about cause and effect in a simple and engaging way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I also read a great deal of fantasy when I was younger, but of the two genres, historical fiction has remained my enduring favorite. I was greatly influenced by my mother's taste in books, and it was through her that I was introduced to Regency romance in the form of Georgette Heyer, whose works our local library in Gweru, Zimbabwe, had in abundance. Growing up overseas meant very little television and lots of free time, which I eventually came to spend in reading. ![]() When I was eleven we moved to Zimbabwe, where I lived until I was sixteen, followed by a year in Marin County, California, and a year in Penang, Malaysia (of the two places, Marin County was by far the most foreign to me).Īfter that I attended the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas, and I still reside less than a hour away, in the city of Round Rock, where I am currently homeschooling my three children. I consider myself to have had a high privileged childhood, rich not in money but experiences. I spent most of my first eleven years in that tropical country, with only occasional furloughs in the States. I am the daughter of Christian missionaries, and was born on the beautiful island of Java, Indonesia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He lived between an apartment in the Chelsea district of New York City and a home in Mansfield Hollow, Connecticut. He returned to Texas, where he attended San Antonio College, and later transferred to Southern Connecticut State University where he received degrees in French and history. I knew I would die if I stayed there so I diligently studied the viola, and eventually won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory in Boston." He entered the New England Conservatory of Music but injured his hand, ending his music career. Marshall said: "Beaumont is deep south and swampy and I hated it. The family later moved to Beaumont, Texas. His mother sang in the local church choir. His father worked on the railroad and had a band. ![]() ![]() James Marshall was born in 1942, in San Antonio, Texas, where he grew up on his family's 85-acre farm. professional librarians posthumously awarded him the bi-ennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for "substantial and lasting contribution" to American children's literature. He illustrated books exclusively as James Marshall when he created both text and illustrations he sometimes wrote as Edward Marshall. James Edward Marshall (Octo– Octo 30 years ago ( October 13, 1992)) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, probably best known for the George and Martha series of picture books (1972–1988). American illustrator and writer of children's books (1942-1992) ![]() ![]() ![]() Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. ![]() Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge-on the young woman. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. ![]() The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”- Telegraph (UK) Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, we instead cast aside normative ideas of time and and space to focus on how liberating the concepts of temporality and spatiality can help us imagine and create new futures, communities, and ways of being. We move through time and space in fits & bursts some ways of moving and being are deemed normative or “good” and brought to the forefront, while others might be marginalized and cast aside. Time and space, while often seen as linear and confined concepts, can be stretched, altered, and reconfigured. Location MIT STATA Center: 32 Vassar Street Cambridge MA All sessions will take place on the 1st floor Find it on the map ![]() ![]() ![]() “As an author, it is an honor to have my work in the hands of such passionate, experienced, and thoughtful people. Now, this news has been around for a while. While we’re waiting on Madeline Miller’s next book, there’s some more good news to look forward to: Circe is being adapted as an HBO Max series. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts.īut she won’t be left in peace for long, and it’s for an unexpected visitor, the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. ![]() Published in 2018, Circe is Madeline Miller’s defiant reimagining of the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and the ocean nymph Perse, known in myth as a dangerous sorceress, perhaps the most dangerous woman a man could come across. While it’s up for debate whether Circe or The Song of Achilles is the better book (I am firmly on Team Circe), I’m certain that many readers will agree with me that Madeline Miller is one of the best writers of the last decade. When you buy through these links, I may earn a commission. ![]() A quick note that some of my posts contain affiliate links. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She had small roles in many films, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Scrooge (1970) and Hands of The Ripper (1971). Her published show business memoirs ran to five volumes, and she wrote an acclaimed and bestselling trilogy of books about her childhood, Shoes Were for Sunday, Best Foot Forward and A Toe on the Ladder (1973). In the 1970s and early 1980s, she became a prolific author. She made her film debut in 1949, and had a regular role as Aggie the housekeeper in the radio and television sitcom Life With the Lyons. ![]() She then became a well-known radio actress, featured in many comedy shows such as ITMA (It's That Man Again), the most popular radio show of its day. She began her theatrical career in amateur dramatics. Her brother Tom Weir grew up to become a television host and author. Molly Weir, born Mary Weir, was born and raised in a tenement in Glasgow, Scotland, the eldest of four children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abruptly it would finish in an obscene, deep-throated chuckle, which had an odd quality of knowingness and familiarity, suggesting an intimate awareness of the stark fear of the man walking through the undergrowth below, and a malicious pleasure at the prospect of some inevitable and terrible doom. The low, hoarse laugh would seem unending. Adapted from Robin Maugham’s short story and with stunning black & white photography, The Servant is a thrilling, ingenious and imtemporal British classic. Then, suddenly, I would jump as if a gun had been fired close to me, as the silence was rent by the piercing din of the kookaburra, screeching and screeching from the branches of a tree above, until the menacing sound changed to a mocking laugh. Barrett’s awe-inspiring efficiency cleverly masks his true intentions, ultimately giving way to a suspicious and insidious control where the roles of master and servant are reversed. For these dense forests belonged to the pale ghostly trees and to the strange creatures that were hidden in them. Yet even here in the stillness of the early evening I had a feeling that as a human being I was an intruder in the forest. Berrima, in fact, was merely a little paddock which had been carved out of the wilderness. The Servant is like a nightmarish version of PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster: the benign, discreet and all-knowing servant effectively controlling everything in the life of the feather-headed. “The whole district of Australia where I lived was just a small plot in the immensity of the huge continent whose fringes only had been explored. ![]() ![]() ![]() She even wore the wrong uniform Cordelia Naismith, Betan Expeditionary Force, had been hurried into battle still wearing her old tan Astronomical Survey fatigues. ![]() In the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. The Reader's Chair audio edition won the "Earphones Award" in June 1997 and the "Critics' Choice Romantic Favorites" in February 1998, both from AudioFile. Shards of Honor came in second place for a Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1987 and was nominated for a Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel of 1986. The Reader's Chair audio edition, published in 1996, was read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan.Ĭhronologically, the events of Shards of Honor fall approximately one year before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan the tale describes the circumstances of the meeting of his parents Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith. ![]() The story has also been collected in the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor. The epilogue " Aftermaths" was actually published first, in Baen's Far Frontiers, Volume V, Spring 1986. ![]() Shards of Honor, written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books in 1986, is both the first book published and the first book chronologically of the main sequence of the Vorkosigan Saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scene that is so brutal, so visceral, so unimaginable in the agony it expresses that it literally took my breath away when I first saw it. I’m loath to do what I’m about to do, because it will keep some folks out of the conversation, and because I think that comparisons to other media are often pretty lazy and unoriginal, but have you seen Bone Tomahawk (2015)? If so, all I have to do is refer to that scene and you will know immediately what scene I’m talking about. ![]() ![]() Purposefully and at specific and calculated times, this is an unpleasant book. And it’s not an unendingly unpleasant book, nor is the unpleasantness anything but what you’d expect of masterfully written horror, but at the risk of being considered a repetitive, hack writer…. I mean that in a good way, but holy shit. Okay, so, just to make it clear- this is an unpleasant book. ![]() |