Magister ludi the glass bead game5/11/2023 This is a ruthless patriarchy where dissidents are summarily disappeared and women are relegated to the domestic sphere of “Home, Husband and Happiness”, a neatly sardonic riff on National Socialism’s Kinder, Küche, Kirche. That web of cultural connections, at once an exquisite structure and a means of entrapment, forms a recurrent motif in Bridget Collins’s ingenious, yet strangely empty and overblown, second fantasy novel for adults.Ĭonflicted and outsiderly, Collins’s protagonists struggle in the net of a dystopian one-party state. Hesitating, he reluctantly breaks through, feeling the “infinitesimal cling of threads on his face”. W hen student Léo Martin first approaches Montverre, an exclusive seat of learning high in the mountains, his path is blocked by a “cobweb.
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Spells pike5/11/2023 Percy's pepper-box The List fired bullets unlike any other creation seen in the show, and Vax's magical knives returned to his hands as soon as he threw them. Meanwhile, his fellows Vex, Vax and Percy all proved keenly skilled with their ranged weaponry in their own rights. Indeed, there is little doubting that he is the physically strongest, tearing through stone and crumpling metal helmets with his strikes. Grog the barbarian would prove a quick candidate for consideration when it comes to deciding the strongest member. Nonetheless, there were some among the team who were deadly all along. Many of the team's members needed to grow into their positions, discovering their true strength along the way. Although the series started with the heroes proving grossly underprepared for the responsibilities ahead of them, Vox Machina eventually proved their position as the Protectors of the Realm by the end of the first season by fighting off dragons, demons and the undead. The midnight library book buy5/11/2023 Nora finds herself surrounded by mist, and she discovers The Midnight Library, where infinite rows of books represent portals into different variations of her life. Nora decides to die, and she overdoses on pills at midnight. After a string of other unfortunate events - fired as a music tutor, reminded of having grown apart from her former best friend Izzy, etc. Both men blame her for dropping out right when they had a chance at a major record deal. She also runs to Ravi, who she was once in a band with along with her brother Joe. Nora is upset and late for work, and she gets fired by her boss, Neil. Nineteen years later, Nora is now a 35-year-old woman who is unhappy in her life.Ī neighbor, Ash, informs her that her cat, Voltaire ("Volts"), has been hit by a car. Elm, when she gets the news about her father's death. She is playing chess with the school librarian, Mrs. The Midnight Library opens with a teenaged Nora Seed, who is smart and a talented swimmer. Nora returns to her original life, except now with less regrets and hope for the future. The Library dissolves as Nora decides to live. She eventually finds a life she's happy in, but in the process she learns that her original life had value. Through these alternate realities, she learns that the paths she'd regretted giving up weren't what she'd thought they would be. The one-paragraph version of this is: Nora Seed is unhappy in her life, tries to kill herself and finds herself at The Midnight Library, where she is able to try out different versions of her life. Madeline miller circe5/10/2023 Helios gives Pasiphaë away in marriage to Minos, the king of Crete. Aeëtes tells her that he knows of some powerful herbs called pharmaka, which grow from the blood of gods. Circe decides to care for him, and the two become close. When he doesn’t earn a prophecy from Helios, she rejects him, too. After the whipping, Circe and Prometheus have a brief conversation during which he tells her that “Not every god need be the same.” Afterwards, Circe goes to her room and cuts her hand, feeling that she has autonomy for the first time. To begin his torment, Prometheus is whipped by a Fury before an eager crowd of other immortals. Rumors circulate that Prometheus is going to be punished by Zeus because he had given humans fire against Zeus’s orders. Both are cruel, so Circe avoids them and prefers to sit at Helios’s feet. Perse and Helios have another daughter, Pasiphaë, and a son, Perses. When Circe was born, Perse was disappointed that her child was a girl. She describes how her mother Perse, a beautiful nymph, enticed Circe’s father Helios, a Titan, to marry her. Circe begins telling her origin story by stating that “the name for what did not exist” when she was born. Book zero to one5/10/2023 This is a combined three-part article that includes: Europeans just react to events as they happen and hope things don’t get worse." Treasury prints “In God We Trust” on the dollar the ECB might as well print “Kick the Can Down the Road” on the euro. The European Central Bank doesn’t stand for anything but improvisation: the U.S. Today the whole Eurozone is in slow-motion crisis, and nobody is in charge. This describes Europe since the early 1970s, when the continent succumbed to undirected bureaucratic drift. An indefinite pessimist looks out onto a bleak future, but he has no idea what to do about it. Even today pessimism still dominates huge parts of the world. "Every culture has a myth of decline from some golden age, and almost all peoples throughout history have been pessimists. Buy the book on amazon (opens new window) flashbooks book summary on: Zero To One : Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters The explanation for that did not take place until the end of the story and then it was not very good. A little girl gets sucked down a grate in a laundry room in New York City and so did a full grown man. Of all the animals and insects that live underground, this was all she could fit into the story. This mostly takes place underground and the only animals she mentions, are people, rats, roaches, fish and spiders. I did feel she should have gotten someone like Facklam to help her write the story. There were also some surprises I did not see coming. About half way through the story gets more interesting when they are joined by Rip Red, I liked his character. They said that all Americans have a smell, because we eat so much meat. My wife went to college with some Nigerians. I will say I liked the whole take a bath so they rats don't smell you. I believe it could have been, The writing is good, but there are large holes. I believe that age group will really like the book, but it is not that good for adults. This is for 4th graders through 8th graders. Split tooth tanya tagaq5/10/2023 These boundary-pushing projects will activate the Lindemann Performing Arts Center, a new arts venue located in the heart of Brown’s Perelman Arts District, and designed by REX/Joshua Ramus, with a radical approach to spatial, acoustic, and technical flexibility. The inaugural series, launching in fall 2023 and running through fall 2024, is anchored by six large-scale imaginings and collaborative residencies: Carrie Mae Weems (fall 2023) William Kentridge & The Centre for the Less Good Idea (spring 2024) Tanya Tagaq (spring 2024) Chachi Carvalho (summer 2024) Kym Moore, Professor of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown (fall 2024) and Caridad “La Bruja” De La Luz (fall 2024). Providence, RI, This fall, Brown Arts Institute (BAI), a university-wide arts research enterprise that serves as a campus resource and catalyst for the arts at Brown University, will launch IGNITE, a series of interdisciplinary, collaborative, impactful projects centered around the possibilities of art as a vehicle for societal change. IGNITE Launches in Fall 2023 with October Dedication of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Brown University’s New Hub for Performance and Creative Incubation Inaugural Projects Feature Carrie Mae Weems, William Kentridge & The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Tanya Tagaq, Chachi Carvahlo, Kym Moore, Caridad “La Bruja” De La Luz, and Others Beyond Heaving Bosoms by Sarah Wendell5/10/2023 Are romance novels really candy-coated porn or vehicles by which we understand our sexual and gender politics? Romance novel cover requirements: man titty, camel toe, flowers, long hair, animals, and the O-face The heroine's irresistible Magic Hoo Hoo and the hero's untamable Wang of Mighty Lovin' Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan - the creators of the wildly popular blog Smart Bitches, Trashy Books - have no shame! They look at the good, the bad, and the ugly in the world of romance novels and tackle the hard issues and questions: Meanwhile, romance continues to be the bestselling fiction genre. Let's face it: Not many folks are willing to publicly admit they love romance novels. We have a "special place" where we store them. We wear sunglasses and a baseball hat at the bookstore. La tierra multicolor by Julian May5/9/2023 47,719 work in district K-12 schools and 9,924 work in charter schools. Nearly 1,150,000 students attend publicly funded K-12 schools in Arizona.Īpproximately 910,000 of those students attend one of more than 2000 district public schools, and approximately 240,000 students attend one of more than 700 charter schools in the state.Īrizona is home to 57,643 K-12 teachers currently in the classroom. ! Career & Technical Education District (CTED) is a school district that offers high school career and technical education programs to partner districts The Arizona Department of Education supports 15 county-level education agencies, more than 200 public school districts, over 400 charter holders, andġ4 Career & Technical Education Districts. The mission of the Arizona Department of Education is equity for all students to achieve their full potential.Ī few quick facts about Arizona’s K-12 education system: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall5/9/2023 She'd been trying to tell him for two weeks, but he'd always been too busy with his job tending bar, too distracted with memorizing lines for one of his many auditions. From the look on his face, she supposed the middle of San Diego's crowded annual Tall Ship Festival was not the best place to convey the horrid news. "Did you hear me? I have cancer." Morgan Shaw repeated the dreaded words to her boyfriend Jason, who sat beside her on the sticky metal bench. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, and/or events is purely coincidental Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogues are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the author, MaryLu Tyndall. All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.Īll rights reserved. |