5/20/2023 0 Comments Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant![]() ![]() He was known to be a fine swordsman and a still finer shot with the pistol. He lived a happy, care-free life, in the most complete well-being of body and mind. He had been suspected of several love-affairs of a sort calculated to create a good opinion of a youngster. He was in demand in drawing-rooms, sought after for valses, and in men he inspired that smiling hostility which is reserved for vital and attractive rivals. He had a good figure and a good carriage, a sufficient flow of words to pass for wit, a certain natural grace, an air of nobility and pride, a gallant moustache and an eloquent eye, attributes which women like. ![]() His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.Īn orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the saying is. ![]() EnglishClub : Learn English : Reading : Stories : A Coward A Coward ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments The love songs of dubois![]() ![]() ![]() From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women-her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries-that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans-the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers-Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders.Īiley is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Du Bois once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic-an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Water Dancer-that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Pines blake crouch kindle![]() ![]() The Wayward Pines series was picked up by the FOX television network to be a miniseries staring Matt Dillon and Juliette Lewis. This is a great opportunity to discover a series that has created an incredible amount of buzz in the book writing world and Hollywood. Coincidentally (for real), both of the books in his Wayward Pines series are on sale for $2 each at Amazon. If this sounds like your “cup of tea,” I hope you check out the series and give my novella a try. Seriously, the ending to book one in Crouch’s series is THAT GOOD! Even the Amazon description of my book might undermine the twist. ![]() I can’t recommend the series highly enough.įirst Contact is a prequel to his series, and unfortunately contains some spoilers that would ruin the unbelievable, mind-bending twist that unfolds in Crouch’s books. Part apocalyptic and horror-all thriller, Crouch’s thought provoking series is unforgettable. If you haven’t heard of Blake Crouch or Wayward Pines, you’re in for a treat. ![]() Let me explain.īlake Crouch, a talented author I’ve admired for years, asked me to write a novella based on his runaway hit series, Wayward Pines. I know I just hit you with book 2 in The Perseid Collapse Series, but I have one more offering that should interest some of you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The larger significance, we were told, was yet to come: ![]() When Mischel asked a child how she managed to wait so long, she replied: “well you can’t eat a picture.” Janine Zacharia, “ The Bing “Marshmallow Studies”: 50 Years of Continuing Research” at Stanford University (September 24, 2015) And when they imagined that the treats facing them were “just a picture” and were cued to “put a frame around it in your head” they were able to wait for almost 18 minutes. If they focused on their abstract “cool” features (“The marshmallows are puffy and round like cotton balls”), they managed to wait longer than the researchers, watching them through a one-way observation window, could bear. If the children focused on the “hot” qualities of the temptations (e.g., “The marshmallows are sweet, chewy, yummy”), they soon rang the bell to bring the researcher back. This research identified some of the key cognitive skills, strategies, plans and mindsets that enable self-control. Walter Mischel’s pioneering research at Bing in the late 1960s and early 1970s famously explored what enabled preschool-aged children to forgo immediate gratification in exchange for a larger but delayed reward… You’ve maybe heard of Stanford University’s “marshmallow experiment,” right? A child’s future can be predicted, we were told by psychologist Walter Mischel (1930–2018), by whether the child can delay gratification: Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Email ![]() ![]() ![]() The pages within are clean and un-thumbed. ![]() The Family from One End Street was originally published by Frederick Muller in 1937, followed by The Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street in 1956, and Holiday at Dew Drop Inn in 1962. The cover is a little worn at the corners and spine also darkened and slightly grubby.The end block is also a bit darkened particularly along the top edge. Eve Garnett was born in 1900 in Worcestershire. The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett, 1995, Puffin edition, in English. The father is a dustman and the mother a washerwoman, but just because they are poor, the children find greater opportunities for adventure and diversion in the course of their ordinary lives.The book was awarded the Carnegie Medal as a best children's book of 1937, and it stands out among its contemporaries for its lively scene, sure characterization and its fundamental soundness as being true to life." With 31 black and white line drawn illustrations. "This is the story of things as they are, a real-life story of a large lively family. The Family from One End Street and Some of Their Adventures. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Jason segel and kirsten miller![]() The second two chapters were unwritten, so we talked through my ideas. And that she liked it! The original screenplay was planned as part one of a trilogy. It started by me giving that to Kirsten and talking about it to make sure we were on the same page in terms of tone. I had a plot and the tone and quite a bit of dialogue. ![]() I had a completed screenplay, in essence. I’d rather team up with someone who’s amazing at what they do and have something turn out great, than do it alone, out of pride, and have it be less good.Ī. I teamed up with an amazing collaborator, Kirsten Miller. Children get to experience the book however they please, which I think is a cool thing. It’s a collaboration between the words of the author and the images of the reader. The thing about a book is that it is itself a collaboration. Talk about the decision to collaborate with Kirsten Miller, an established and successful kids book author.Ī. ![]() Writing is something I’ve always had when I’ve needed it. The Albert Brookses and the Woody Allens. That’s what you do.” There’s a great tradition of nonstandard leading men who make it by writing. This is right after “Freaks and Geeks.” Judd Apatow, my mentor, said, “What you do right now is you start writing. I was caught in the in-between age where I was suddenly too old to play a kid and too young to play a doctor or a lawyer. I started writing it when I was about 23, when I was in a dry spell acting-wise. Have you always wanted to write a book?Ī. I understand “Nightmares!” began as a screenplay. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments In search of lost time swann's way![]() Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. The title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, became ascendant after D. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past. The novel gained fame in English in translations by C. The most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine", which occurs early in the first volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() This early 20th-century work is his most prominent, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory. In Search of Lost Time ( French: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche ( The Search), is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) at Wikisource ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Princess by jean sasson summary![]() ![]() For the sake of her daughters, she decided that it was time for a woman in her position to speak out about the reality of life for women in her country, whatever their rank. ![]() 'Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. Think of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you. In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese![]() ![]() As played by Sladen Peltier, Forrest Goodluck and Ajuawak Kapashesit at different stages in his life, Saul becomes an against-all-odds hockey star, struggling with whether his gift for Canada’s national sport is a resilient stance in the face of colonization or a sign of assimilating to a dominant culture that will never see him as an equal. The film follows Saul Indian Horse, a witness to and victim of multiple abuses in the residential school system, where his heritage is systematically stripped away. The uncomfortable question that I’m certainly not the first to ask is why Campanelli’s need to direct a story he previously knew nothing about is prioritized over the ambition of numerous Indigenous filmmakers who have been waiting for the opportunity to tell their stories. And I wrote an impassioned six-page email saying why I needed to direct it.” “I was shocked and angered and embarrassed to be a Canadian and not know about this. Campanelli explains his reaction to reading the late Richard Wagamese’s novel and Dennis Foon’s adapted screenplay. ![]() ![]() In the Maclean’s story, director Stephen S. The film, landing in theatres this weekend after premiering at TIFF last fall, grapples with the horrors of Canada’s residential school history and the trauma inflicted on First Nations. ![]() In a story published in Maclean’s last month, a headline declared: “For Indigenous people, ‘Indian Horse’ is much more than a movie.” ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Trees of the emerald sea cosmere![]() Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first book to be published out of the four stand alone novels set in the Cosmere. It is the most successful kickstarter to date. He then decided to publish them himself and announced it to the fans in the form of a kickstarter if you wanted in AND so many of us did. If you didn’t hear, Brandon Sanderson secretly wrote four books in the Cosmere during the no traveling portion of Covid. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? ![]() ![]() But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson ![]() |