![]() ![]() Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series, and will also add in his Adversary Cycle (In Print and Audio) books as well. Here of the Zombie titles I listened to in February. In an effort to prepare for Zombie Awareness month, I am trying to listen to some titles now to spread the zombie love over the next few months and not take on a horde of Zombie titles in one big chunk. Here is a breakdown of what I listened to.įebruary Audiobooks With Reviews Coming Soon: Overall, I think it was a pretty good month, with some zombies, bizarre changed lands and some of those nutty serial killing types. Not too shabby for this abbreviated month full of winter’s fury. ![]() In February, I listened to 15 Audiobooks for just under 150 hours. So, yes, the blog is starting to pick back up a bit, with fewer, more streamlined reviews, but if I have a groove, it’s slowly starting to come back. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "I was once in a library, and the books about black children were either about their hair or about being enslaved," Eads said. But I also don't want to be enforcing a stereotype or a negative connotation or a demoralizing term.”Įads says in the case of Little House on the Prairie, she might suggest the child next read a book from a Native American perspective.īut a lot of books she just pulls from the shelves. I want them to know the complete history. I want them to know how people treated and talked about people. "Do I just tell the student up-front, 'you're going to come across some words that are inappropriate,' or do I take the book off?” Eads said. ![]() Kate Eads, librarian at Northgate Elementary, says this is just one of the books she struggles with. That’s the ominous first page of "Little House on the Prairie." And they never saw that little house again. ![]() "They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underlying this approach is the search for the visible. It is to elevate image to the level of a category. To speak of the image is often to speak of an object with a set of specific boundaries. (See pages 120-126 of Cultures of Vision) But, it is my contention and it was also Roland Barthes central concern later in his career, that we don’t read images as we might read words on a page. One of the great difficulties which results is that we tend to approach the interpretation of media images as if they can in a literal sense be read. There are many problems with this conversion of media which use visuals and sound into text. Generally, images are studied as if they are texts. The notes below should be used with additional information from Cultures of Vision Barthes uses many different terms and concepts throughout Camera Lucida ![]() ![]() ![]() In this instance, the use of the word “sanctity” highlights Mary's body itself, as the vessel of creation and a site of blessedness, rather than drawing attention to her place in the roster of saints. In a story from the Middle English translation of the Gesta Romanorum, for instance, in which a young woman's supernatural ability to create a shirt from a tiny piece of cloth is moralized as the Incarnation, Mary's womb is described as having undergone “sanctificacion” ( sanctificatio). ![]() ![]() Rather, Middle English saunctite, like the Old French saintete and the still earlier Christian Latin sanctitas, tends to have amore general meaning, suggesting a state of blessedness or a righteous manner of living rather than canonized sainthood in a strict sense. Although medievalists sometimes use the word “sanctity” as a synonym for “sainthood,” people in the later Middle Ages rarely did. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Truth and Fiction in the Nun's Priest's Tale." Bloomfield sees it as a story of how "virtu can outwit fortune." He studies the epic conventions mocked in the tale, and concludes that the tale is about "the subversion of wisdom and its reinstatement."īrody, Saul Nathaniel. 70-82.īloomfield, classifying the NPT as a beast-fable claims it into the category of "wisdom literature"-literature dedicated to teach the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the past. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. "The Wisdom of the Nun's Priest's Tale."Ĭhaucerian Problems and Perspectives. From La Bibliothèque Nationale de France.īloomfield, Morton W. Barthélemy l'Anglais, Le Livre des Propriétés des choses.įrance, L'Anjou, Maine XVe s. Annotated Bibliography for Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale."Ĭoq. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm somebody else.'"Ĭynthia Lennon died Wednesday of cancer. In fact, I was asked many times if I was John's wife, and I had to refuse and say, 'No, no. "So I walked around pregnant for quite a long time, hiding it. the main man in the group, John, was found to be married, then it might take away from that particular success," Cynthia told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1985. They met in art school in 1957 and were married in 1962, just weeks before The Beatles recorded "Love Me Do." But as The Beatles became a sensation, Cynthia had to pretend she wasn't married to John. The two shared a working-class background. In 1985, Cynthia Lennon said that touring with The Beatles was "wonderful," but "all we saw were the inside of hotel rooms, the inside of Cadillacs."īack in the 1960s, when teenage girls in America and England fantasized about romance with their favorite Beatle, Cynthia Powell Lennon held the position so many girls dreamed of - she was married to John. ![]() ![]() ![]() NYC Cop, Barry Sutton, can do nothing but watch as a woman kills herself – driven mad by painfully vivid memories of a life she hasn’t lived. Needless to say, I had high expectations. Before I could read that though, I heard about Recursion, added it to my TBR pile, and managed to get my hands on a copy. And Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter has been on my list for a while. Obscura by Joe Hart was the last ‘really good’ science fiction novel that I’d read (review here). I’m a huge fan of Michael Crichton’s work – his books have always had an incredible mix of science fiction and psychological outlook, making for great stories with great characterization. ![]() I’d been looking for a good science fiction novel for a long time. Does that mean that altering these memories could alter our realities (or the perception of our realities)? ![]() Our lives and we, ourselves, are made of our memories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. Watch Nick Sousanis describe how to “think in comics” at Duke University’s 2019 Neurodiversities Symposium : ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Crystal Cave (1970), we are introduced to Merlin, son of an unmarried Welsh princess named Niniane, whose father is king of South Wales. D., and narrated by Merlin the enchanter, the three books brings to life the man behind the myth, Myrddin Emrys, or Merlinus Ambrosius, or Merlin. Set in Britain in roughly the second half of the fifth century A. ![]() Her starting point was Geoffrey of Monmouth’s semi-mythical History of the Kings of Britain. ![]() The Merlin Trilogy is British romance author Mary Stewart’s take on the familiar Arthurian legends but centering on the life of Merlin rather than Arthur himself. The Merlin Trilogy (published in 1980 by William Morrow and Company Inc., republished in 2004 by Eos, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 10 E. ![]() No other compensation has been received for the reviews posted on Home School Book Review.įor more information e-mail Mary. Reading level: Older teens and adults (not for children!)ĭisclosure: Any books donated for review purposes are in turn donated to a library. (1=nothing objectionable 2=common euphemisms and/or childish slang terms 3=some cursing or profanity 4=a lot of cursing or profanity 5=obscenity and/or vulgarity) Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, republished in 2004 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, when discussing the mythology of heroes, Campbell and Moyers smoothly segue from the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna to Star Wars' mercenary-turned-hero, Han Solo. Based on a six-part PBS television series hosted by Bill Moyers, this classic is especially compelling because of its engaging question-and-answer format, creating an easy, conversational approach to complicated and esoteric topics. Herein lies the power of The Power of Myth, showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. ![]() |