The handmaid's tale atwood7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction, and a nomination for the Booker Prize.īut while The Handmaid's Tale has gotten tons of praise as a work of science fiction, Atwood has claimed that this book is actually something else completely. The Handmaid's Tale won author Margaret Atwood some seriously major awards, including the 1986 Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Award, the 1987 Arthur C. ![]() In this future, nearly all the women have become infertile, so the few who can still have babies have been rounded up, brainwashed, and assigned to powerful men in a twisted attempt to restore the human race. After all, it takes place in a scary vision of a dystopian future, kind of like Brave New World, 1984, or even The Hunger Games. The Handmaid's Tale, a best-selling book first published in 1985, was marketed as a sci-fi horror story. It could also be classified as science-fiction-and was. Instead, this novel could be classified as terrifying, bleak, and cruel and unusual. Words like perky, saucy, and zany would never be used to describe the contents of Margaret Atwood's most famous work. It brings to mind cute intrigue, friendly gossip, and flirtatious banter, right? ![]() Or a zany romp where various servants compare the goings-on of their employers. Like it might be a saucy recounting of the life 'n' times of a French maid. The title The Handmaid's Tale sounds kind of. Want more deets? We've also got a complete Online Course about The Handmaid's Tale, with three weeks worth of readings and activities to make sure you know your stuff. ![]()
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List of redwall books7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While some complain that where they expected to be a big scene of some sort they were disappointed, their disatisfaction seems to me to often come down to how they've come to expect the books to written and when Brian goes via a different path they're too busy worrying about it not being done their way that they don't enjoy what they get. The characters are developed with a real subtlety that goes beyond Brian's normal skill. The vermin were the most engaging in the series, in my opinion, and while Brian never pretends Antigra or Sawney were ever in any way "goodbeasts", their motives tend not to be purely your standard "greedly warlord followed by greedy army" package. ![]() TT is by far the most orignal book in the serious, beyond the originality of the whole concept of the series itself, and takes a very interesting route. The mix of comedy and drama was perfect for my tastes, too. MtW moved me the most out of all the books and the story had a kind of elegance to it so that there was never really a missable page or a bit that felt like "filler". My favourite is always a toss up between "Martin the Warrior" and "(The) Taggerung". ![]() All about love bell hooks hardcover7/8/2023 ![]() In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. ![]() In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. "The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. ![]() ![]() All About Love: New Visions Bell Hooks € 16.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Wiebe’s ninth novel and his third to concentrate on his Mennonite family and heritage. Sweeter Than All the World demonstrates all these strengths and weaknesses. ![]() While his great strength lies in meticulous research, passion for his subjects, and a powerful narrative sweep, his weaknesses include a leaden moral earnestness, an inability to create believable characters or dialogue, and a streak of sentimentality that undermines whatever serious fictional goal he might set himself. He has a considerable reputation abroad, particularly in Germany, perhaps because of his concentration on native Canadian stories and his German-speaking Mennonite background.īut when critics look carefully at Wiebe’s writing, as opposed to his subject matter, the adjectives that crop up repeatedly are “difficult” and “challenging.” There is little to love in the pages of a Rudy Wiebe novel. He was a founder of the Writers’ Union of Canada. He has won two Governor General’s Awards (for The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973 and A Discovery of Strangers in 1994). ![]() Rudy Wiebe’s status as an important Canadian fiction writer is, to put it politely, puzzling. ![]() Frank miller sparta7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It is beautiful work and pernicious as hell. The armies of all Asia–pledged to crush the impertinent republics of Greece–to make slaves of the only Free Men the world has ever known. In prose worthy of Thea von Harbou, Miller sings of 300 Spartans’ defense of “Reason,” “Justice” and “Law” against “darkness,” “mysticism” and the “stupid” ways of the past: Some panels look like ukiyo-e woodcuts, and Miller demonstrates a fluid line reminiscent of Will Eisner. ![]() Lynn Varley’s goauche-like washes and thick spatters of rain, blood and ash are lovely. In this case, 300 is beautiful with art worthy of a picture book. Sometimes it’s well-hung Spartans toting big spears. His aesthetic is fascist.įascism isn’t all jackboots and Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. After reading 300, Miller’s 1998 account of the Spartans at Thermopylae, I don’t have any doubt: Miller means it. A feeling that maybe Frank Miller’s hypermasculine antiheros and faceless, breast-thrusting women are exactly what they seem, not just sketchy parody. A feeling’s been gnawing deep inside me for a while. ![]() Ten x Ten by Athol McCredie7/7/2023 ![]() A seventh print of Untitled #96 sold for $2.88 million at Christie’s in May 2012. Ming Temple editioned print might set you back 2-4 thousand but a print from the Te Papa gift store is perhaps $30-40Ĭhristie’s New York. How many of you buy photography or even consider it? Cartier Bresson’s work has sky rocketed in price since he died in 2004, New Zealand’s Brian Brake work has seen a big jump in value as have several other prominent NZ photographers. I firmly believe you make your own luck to a large extent!! Create what the public perceive as collectible and unique, sometimes its the mundane, sometimes it is pure genius. ![]() ![]() ![]() These photographers that reach the heady heights all have agents, most have studied fine art and more importantly perhaps they have stuck with their craft and believed in themselves, success comes from hard work and good luck. I notice too that some of the names that were on the top of this list several years ago have dropped off of it as newer artists such as the afore-mentioned photographer Peter Lik gain recognition. Whereas Peter Lik from Australia’s top priced work is $1,000,000. Our top-selling Photographer is Fiona Partington with a suite of work that sold for $64.728. Scroll down for the latest auction prices from Art + Object. ![]() Photography as art is gaining momentum in New Zealand, albeit slowly – however there is still a huge gap between our top earning photographers and the rest of the world. ![]() The looking glass wars full book7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Alyss is shocked by the book's contents and refuses to speak to Dodgson ever again. The book's prologue tells of Reverend Charles Dodgson showing Alice Liddell (who claims her name to be spelled 'Alyss') the manuscript for Alice's Adventures Underground. Template:Citation needed The theme of this book is loss of innocence. Carroll's novel is said to have been inspired by the images, ideas, and names related by Alice to the author, whom she had requested to make a book of her personal history. The premise of the book is that Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland was fiction, but that the character Alice is real, as, indeed, is the world of Wonderland. The Looking Glass Wars is thus supposedly a faithful recording of this story. He later went to a playing card collector who claimed to have the cards missing from the deck and told him the story of the Looking Glass Wars. The images on these cards resembled Wonderland characters, while the cards themselves seemed to be illuminated by an unusual glow. In interviews and in the warning at the beginning of the book, Beddor claims he wrote the book after seeing an incomplete deck of cards as part of a display of ancient playing cards at the British Museum. ![]() The piano teacher by janice yk lee7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt like I was walking with Claire as she becomes familiar with her new home. It is easy to visualize the center with its European, classical style building and yet, not far away, the local market with its narrow alley ways and frenetic activity amid smoky stalls and clamorous noise. ![]() Written with exquisite detail as to location, the reader can immerse themselves into the environs of Hong Kong. Trudy has numerous connections with the Hong Kong community and has a tremendous emotional impact on Will. Will’s importance is slowly revealed when the reader is taken back to 1941 and the beginning of his passionate affair with Trudy Liang, a young, spoiled Eurasion. With the use of flashback mode and differing points of view, we see the growth in the characters and how the war deeply affects them all. ![]() The story then goes back and forth from 1941 to 1953 as the characters are introduced in preparation for possible invasion by the Japanese. The Chen family and Will Truesdale figure prominently in this novel from the beginning to the end. When the Chen family invites Claire and her husband to a party, she meets Will Truesdale, the Chen chauffer. Show More Chen family to teach Locket Chen the piano. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I certainly didn't see THAT ending coming!! The Last Time I Lied was engaging from beginning to end, keeping me guessing until the final pages. ![]() You have written the perfect Summer Thriller. And as history begins to repeat itself and three girls go missing again, Emma must face threats from both man and nature in order to uncover all the buried secrets-including what really happened all those years ago. Already haunted by surfacing memories, Emma is suddenly plagued by a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca, and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian apparently left behind about the camp's twisted origins. Yet, it is immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. They catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale-and when Francesca implores Emma to return to the camp as a painting counselor, Emma sees an opportunity to find closure and move on. Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings. The last she-and anyone-saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips. ![]() Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. ![]() LoveSick by Jake Coburn7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake’s second novel, LoveSick (Dutton, Sept. Realistic, slang-filled dialogue and short, crisp narrative passages create a minimalist world of frenetic gang warfare, substance abuse, and wild parties that become nightmares.” School Library Journal writes, “Coburn's brief sentences and often-raw gang slang create a cadence and reflect the movement of the novel through four suspenseful days.” ![]() Booklist writes, “The staccato rhythm of Coburn's prose is the best part of this tale of Manhattan prep-school gangsters. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, it is Jake’s unique writing style that has captured reviewers. While Prep has drawn critical comparisons to S.E. Prep was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and a Junior Library Guild selection, and is currently being made into a movie by Paramount-MTV Films and Benderspink. Jake’s first novel, Prep (Dutton, 2003), is based on his teenage years, where he witnessed New York’s privileged offspring form some of the city’s most vicious street gangs. In 2000, he graduated from Brown University magna cum laude with a degree in Modern Culture and Media. He grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and attended several different prep schools. Jake Coburn was born in New York City in 1978. ![]() |