![]() ![]() ![]() It’s narrated by a young American poet who goes to Madrid on a fellowship and wastes his time smoking hashish and taking pills and fearing he’s a complete fraud. So brainy, the only way to describe it is to fall back on swear words, like a motherfucker. The intensity of my listening did at least return strangeness to each word, force me to confront it as a sound, and then to recapture the miracle of sound opening or almost opening into sense, and I managed to suspend my disgust. ![]() Here is a sample sentence from this poet’s novel about a poet: But if “poetic” is blurb-speak for “lyrical” or “painterly” or “richly evocative,” then forget it. The former has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the latter tends to cite John Ashberry. Both the author and the narrator are young, accomplished poets. The other expectation for this slim, semi-autobiographical novel is that it will be poetic. ![]() Do you find it “hilarious” ( Electric Literature) when a despondent poet has reason to quote, in casual conversation, a line from W. Accolades for Leaving the Atocha Station-from James Wood in the New Yorker, Lorin Stein in the New York Review of Books, Paul Auster, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Tao Lin, and probably your barber, and the person changing next to you at the gym-call it a funny book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Some accents were better than others, but the students exhibited an ease and confidence I found intimidating. ![]() Regardless of their nationalities, everyone spoke what sounded to me like excellent French. Vacations were recounted, and questions were raised concerning mutual friends with names like Kang and Vlatnya. My school is the Alliance Française, and on the first day of class, I arrived early, watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. I've moved to Paris in order to learn the language. At the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and having to think of myself as what my French textbook calls "a true debutant." After paying my tuition, I was issued a student ID, which allows me a discounted entry fee at movie theaters, puppet shows, and Festyland, a far-flung amusement park that advertises with billboards picturing a cartoon stegosaurus sitting in a canoe and eating what appears to be a ham sandwich. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by the inestimable Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella is a contemporary Cinderella re-telling set in present day Hollywood.Ĥ.8 out of 5 stars with over 1,500 reviews on Amazon! They’ve redesigned the cover to match the sequel. Not only has the book been announced, it’s less than 5 months away, and today we’re revealing the cover and blurb!Īlong with this cover reveal, the first book, Cinder & Ella, is also getting a new look. That’s right people, there’s a whole second book coming! But that’s not all. It may have taken 2 years, but Kelly has finally decided to grant all of those requests, which means: Cinder & Ella is getting a SEQUEL!! ![]() And then it exploded, making it’s way to # 1 on Amazon in all of its categories and even hitting the top 20 on all of Amazon. (Way to go Cinder & Ella!)Īnd nearly every day of the two years since its release, author Kelly Oram has received requests for an epilogue or a short story or something–anything–that would give readers more of their beloved Brian (aka Cinder) & Ella. the cover is so pretty, and there is an awesome giveaway too!!Įxactly two years ago, a little book titled Cinder & Ella made its way onto Amazon. So this is post number 2 for the lovely Kelly Oram! I am so pleased to share Kelly’s new cover for Cinder & Ella and exciting news with you.Keep reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These J & K here are the two inputs and have been kept on the name of the inventor Jack Kilby. It is simply the most used flip flop among all the basic flip flops that we have. The common types of flip flops are as follows:Īmong the above four, only D and J-K flip flops are available in the integrated IC form and have immense applications. Also, we need to define the input-output relationship here. These flip flops use feedback concept to create sequential logic where the previous state affect future states (unlike combinational circuit).Īn essential characteristic of flip flops is that it changes its state whenever there is a positive or negative transition on the control signal. ![]() These are used as one-bit storage elements, clock dividers and also we can make counters, shift registers and storing registers by connecting the flip flops in particular sequences. Flip – flops are one of the most fundamental electronic components. ![]() ![]() While there is much shocking material here-the 1918 lynching and disembowelment of eight-month-pregnant Mary Turner California governor James Rolph Jr.'s 1933 statement that lynching was "a fine lesson for the whole nation"-Dray never lets it dictate the complex social and political story he is telling. Griffith's 1915 Birth of a Nation, Reginald Marsh's famous 1934 antilynching cartoon in the New Yorker, among much else, to supplement his impressive survey of the breadth of lynching in Southern society. He has pulled together a wealth of cultural material, including D.W. Yet Dray ( We Are Not Afraid) also covers the myriad attempts of popular and judicial resistance to lynching, in particular the campaigns led by Ida B. ![]() ![]() Covering the South's resistance to racial equality from Reconstruction and the 1875 Civil Rights Act (which gave rise to the widespread acceptance of public murders) through the mid–20th century, this prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans examines the social background behind the horrific acts. It was not until 1952, as Dray notes, that a full year went by without a reported racial lynching. ![]() Between 18 at least 3,417 African-Americans were lynched in the United States, an average of slightly more than one a week. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Later stephen king![]() ![]() 'The Stand': Stephen King decries comparisons between coronavirus and his pandemic novel Ranked: The very best and worst Stephen King movies ![]() His cash-strapped mom, Tia, and her dirty-cop girlfriend, Liz, take advantage of Jamie’s “gift,” but a more terrifying player emerges when Jamie meets a dead serial bomber inhabited by a haunting darkness that chills the boy’s soul. And they not only can see him, too, but they have to tell him the truth if he asks them a question. Jamie sees dead people, usually hanging out where they passed. ![]() His latest, Jamie Conklin in the new novel “Later” (Hard Case Crime, out Tuesday), is a youngster who has to deal with enemies of the supernatural as well as human persuasion. In the hands of Stephen King, the kids are usually all right – even if their situations always aren’t.įrom Danny Torrance in “The Shining” to the Losers Club of “It,” the bestselling master of horror has written plenty of kid protagonists facing all sorts of terrifying foes over the decades. Watch Video: Goldberg and Kinnear take a stand in Stephen King's pandemic epic ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Nightlife brian hodge![]() Someone gives him a spin as he imitates traditional Korean and break dancing moves. ![]() Hard-core rap and rock blare from the Marshall stacks and the crowd is already wound up.Ī particularly clever man has pulled a swiveling bar stool out onto the dance floor and stretched across it on his belly. Paper products adorn the walls: business cards, tickets, beer coasters, origami figures, sketches. “That’s sort of the idea,” Sam says.ġ0:50 p.m.: S buy our tickets at our first stop, S which is decorated as if a collage artist had gone mad. I reason aloud that even if we consume only one drink at each of the 10 clubs, we won’t be able to walk by the end of the night. Sam reassures me that it is only one subway stop away and the clubs don’t get going until late. It reminds me of college.Īn hour and a half later, I begin to wonder whether we are going to make it to Hongdae at all, let alone to all 10 clubs. ![]() After a few, my skepticism vanishes and my head bobs to the music. As the name implies, the song selection tilts toward the ‘60s and ‘70s.īrian and Sam say Woodstock is an excellent place to begin a long night out: The music is familiar and the beer is cheap. People who aren’t dancing, drinking or scribbling on the tables are scratching request notes to the DJ, who has at least 500 albums and hundreds more CDs at his disposal. It looks as if elementary school students decorated the interior with crayons and white-out sloppy graffiti in Korean and English cover almost every surface. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments The dunwich horror lovecraft![]() ![]() Their haunting, haunted best, and at the same time science at its most His work defiesĬlassification, for it is as much myth as reality-both lore and legend at The absolute limit in supernatural bizarrerie. HeĬombined a factual and accurate scientific knowledge with its extension to In the whole range of fantastic literature, Lovecraft createdĪ new form that is neither pure fancy nor pure science fiction. Pure grue as “In the Vault” and “Pickman’s Model.” ![]() “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” as well as such chilling tales of Whisperer in Darkness,” “The Thing on the Doorstep,” and “The Shadow Out of Time,” and “The Outsider.” Here tooĪre those memorable nouvelles of the Cthulhu Mythos-“The “The Rats in the Walls,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” Writer in the genre are to be found in this initial volume, including suchĬlassic works as the title, story, “The Colour Out of Space,” The finest imaginative tales by the outstanding twentieth-century American Materials, this new Lovecraft edition from Arkham House is the onlyĬompletely authoritative text and supersedes all previous Joshi’s extensive and painstaking collation of extant manuscript H ERE at last is the definitive Lovecraft-theįirst in a three-volume set of the collected macabre fiction that embodies theĪuthor’s own final thoughts and stylistic preferences. And an Introduction by Robert Bloch Dust Jacket Text ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Ann clare lezotte![]() ![]() The universe blessed me with a great rainy day after - so I finished this in one sitting! #middleschoollibrarian #middleschoollibrary #library #librarian #futurereadylibs #iteachlibrary #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram #librariansofinstagram #librariesfollowlibraries #librarylife #librarianlife #schoollibrarian #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #iteach #librarylove #booksbooksbooks #amreading #bibliophile #schoollibrariansrock #bookreview #bookrecommendation #igreads #malibrary #msla #mediaspecialist was very lucky to get my hand on an ARC of this much anticipated sequel thanks to a loan from a dear friend. Both series are historical fiction books about disability, abuse, and personal transformation. ![]() These books are wonderful readalikes to The War that Saved My Life, which is wildly popular in our school. Readers should likely read both books, but Set Me Free stands alone as its own story. ![]() Mary Lambert is one of my favorite characters from 2020, so I'm very happy to revisit her world again. ✅ interesting look at the limits of friendship and the inability to ever fully understand someone else's situation ✅ fascinating look at dDeaf culture and MVSL in particular ✅ weaves together the effects of racism, ableism and colonialism, as well as early feminism ✅ explores marginalized populations in early America Happy pub day to this fabulous sequel to Show Me a Sign! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. ![]() Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours-a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. Rhys Bowen, New York Timesbestselling author of In Farleigh Field, The Tuscan Childand the Royal Spyness novels “Tense, heartwarming and life affirming, The Long Flight Home gives a fresh slant on heroism in WWII.” ![]() |