![]() It diminishes the book - the first of his career, for me, which is only an equivocal pleasure. “We live in a world that has practically no appreciation for quality, tradition, or classiness,” he writes early on, and virtually every page thereafter offers some variation on that glum assessment. ![]() Alas, “The Road to Little Dribbling,” his new account of travels around England (often by rail, in fact), has crossed it, the author’s tone for the first time no longer so much curmudgeonly as incurably sour. ![]() Until now, the wonderful American writer Bill Bryson has always stayed on the right side of that line, consistently a nostalgist, never a pessimist. You have to be careful when you look backward. The rails were what made it easier to cast light onto all the injustices of dim and distant places. Of course, it was also a time when 5-year-olds worked in factories. ![]() A simpler era, the feeling went, beer and accents stronger, and people moving only at the pace a horse could take them. In the 1880s, the English experienced an intense collective wistfulness for the period before 1850, which was the year that railroads had finally connected the country. The world is always in decline if you want it to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. ![]() But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. ![]() He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the 37 best books about witches across all genres. Spanning fiction and nonfiction, as well as various genres and cultural traditions, these books about witches and witchcraft are sure to leave you spellbound. ![]() I have created a list of the 37 best books about witches, including some literary classics and recent bestsellers. If you look at the best books about witches from centuries ago until the present day, you’ll see how diverse and powerful these portrayals are. The figure of the witch is not constrained by the dichotomies and rules imposed on individuals by society, however much Medieval and Early Modern European beliefs may have tried to fit her into the box of ‘ugly, evil old woman’. Witches are compelling characters because of their multifaceted natures in myth and folklore.Ī term usually used to refer to women, a witch can be either fearsome or benevolent, beautiful or hideous, depending on who you ask. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also some bold changes in a few of our main characters, and there are other characters, such as Caroline Bingley, who remain the same in their essentials throughout this story. "Sketching Character" is a P&P variation that contains many twists and turns some of these changes are familiar to a JAFF reader and a few are quite original in their execution. What pure happiness I experienced as I was able to actually read some of the most beautiful scenes between Darcy and Elizabeth at Rosings Park and run through the woods in such a captivating manner! Imagine my joy when Pamela Lynne wrote "Sketching Character" and gifted us with plenty of those swoon-worthy scenes in the woods of Rosings Park. I also wished that Andrew Davies would've elaborated on these scenes when he wrote the screenplay for the 1995 BBC version of "Pride & Prejudice." But it was not to be… How did Elizabeth not see Darcy's admiration for her after meeting her there "accidentally" three times? I have pondered that question many times. Ever since I reread "Pride & Prejudice" last year, I have longed to read more about those three mysterious times during Elizabeth's and Darcy's visits to Rosings, where Darcy happened to meet Elizabeth during her early morning rambles… It was a part of P&P that I wished Austen would have written for us with more details in regards to their time spent together. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a Destiel Pride and Prejudice Knotting AU. Will Dean and Cas ever get their act together? Will Sam and Gabriel or Hannah and Charlie beat them to it? ![]() Also the most beautiful and difficult to propose to. But he falls in love with her just the way she is faults and all. Pride and Prejudice 83 A person may be proud without being vain. Pride and Prejudice 91 I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. In the beginning, Bridget overhears Mark Darcy insulting her, prejudicing her against him. Pride and Prejudice 95 Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Dean is the most rebellious and flirtatious omega Castiel has ever come across. Based loosely on Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones, a single British woman in her early thirties, tries to improve her life while also keeping a diary. ![]() It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single alpha in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an omega.Ĭastiel is the most arrogant and irresistible alpha Dean has ever met, and virginal to boot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scientists observed this increase with two different powerful chemotherapy drugs, paclitaxel and carboplatin. Opening the blood-brain barrier led to an approximately four- to six-fold increase in drug concentrations in the human brain, the results showed. ![]() This is the first study to successfully quantify the effect of ultrasound-based blood-brain barrier opening on the concentrations of chemotherapy in the human brain. The results show the treatment is safe and well tolerated, with some patients getting up to six cycles of treatment. The four-minute procedure to open the blood-brain barrier is performed with the patient awake, and patients go home after a few hours. ![]() A major impediment to treating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma has been that the most potent chemotherapy can’t permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach the aggressive brain tumor.īut now Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() London takes this new development seriously. He makes up a story about a secret Communist military base that he has uncovered, complete with blueprints, except that the drawings he sends to London aren’t missiles or weapons but blown-up, zoomed-in schematics of a vacuum cleaner. One day, Wormold decides to make his report a little juicier to keep the attention of M16. The only person Wormold comes clean to is his best friend, a physician and veteran named Dr. Oblivious to her father’s new job, Milly basks in his newfound fortune. He even starts to collect the salaries of assistant agents who don’t exist. Wormold thumbs through the local newspaper, stealing the names of local country club members and using them to create personas. He starts crafting small stories, but gradually, they grow crazier as they start to involve real people. Instead, he decides to fabricate his reports to M16. However, Wormold, now known by his code name 59200/5, does not complete a single mission. Wormold is a terrible fit for the job, but since he is desperate for money, he signs on. One night at the local bar, a man named Hawthorne approaches Wormold offering a position as a spy in Havana for M16, Britain’s Secret Service. She is pious and religious, yet materialistic and superficial, and nothing Wormold does seems to make her happy. Business is slow, his wife has left him, and his 16-year-old daughter, Milly, is difficult and demanding. James Wormold, a middle-aged English vacuum cleaner salesman living in the heart of Havana, Cuba has very little going for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() For me it was pretty obvious who the ghosts were before the big reveal. Could there be more hidden caves in the Pyrenees that have yet to be discovered?Īnyone who knows me will know I love a good ghost story on a dark night and while this one didn’t fail to deliver in the terms of suspense, it didn’t exactly pack a punch or have much of a mystery factor either. Heck it even made me want to visit southern France myself as the author really succeeded in making the area sound exotic not to mention mysterious. I really liked how the author was able to create a really good atmosphere in this, she fully managed to paint a good picture of the time periods and the setting. ![]() ![]() It had a good dark, cold and even a bit eerie feel to it and as night comes early in the winter this was a really good pick. I will say straight off this book was perfect for my snowy getaway to Switzerland in December. The ending was a little confusing and vague though. ![]() ![]() It also determines the crucial role of women in the formation of the modern nation right after its independence. The present paper attempts to explore the way the modern women of Indian society are fighting for their identity, freedom, happiness and rights rather than silently facing suppression and oppression by the hands of the patriarchal society. ![]() By getting out of the shackles of the unhappy marriage, she not only fulfils her own dream of studying further and living life on her own terms but also brings a ray of hope in the life of her mentally handicapped child Riya. Janu or Janaki is symbolic of the "new woman" who is not born to suffer the plight by accepting it as destiny but believes in fighting. The novel begins with the end of marriage of a teenage girl named Janaki (Janu). Jaishree Misra is an eminent contemporary Indian English writer, whose novel Ancient Promises (2000) deals prominently with the condition of women in the contemporary Indian society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists-including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers-and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories. ![]() ![]() As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. Eternal Hero: This is what the phrase hero with a thousand faces describes, the idea being that all mythological heroes are facets or reflections of one. As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation's Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars. But think of it as the literary equivalent of being handed a skeleton keybecause this book unlocks the plot of basically every movie (and most books) ever made. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction. The Hero with a Thousand Faces Summary Joseph Campbell launches into a lengthy blueprint for storytelling, commonly known as the Hero's Journey. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. ![]() |