![]() ![]() The protagonist, the Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep, is always at the fringes, pressing those Carter encounters and working the marionette’s strings. It occurs in a dream landscape so the fantastic and bizarre come together to aid and obstruct. This is a journey, and as such the story is fairly linear, moving towards the goal while overcoming obstacles and hurdles. Before we were spoilt by reason.Īnd so our journey begins, with Carter entering his dream after meeting with a fellow dreamer who provides the quote above. We glimpse our far forgotten first youth, when wonder and pleasure lay in all the mystery of days…before we were wise and unhappy. We try to make sense of it, but in our efforts we lose its meaning. As men, we try to remember, but we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. As children, we listen and dream - we think only in half-formed thoughts. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Forever judy![]() “She knows what kids are and she knows what adults are,” says a teenage fan in 1970s archival footage midway through the film, from a snaking bookshop queue of kids eager to meet Blume at the zenith of her career. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Judy Blume Forever” will launch on Amazon Prime Video in the spring - neat timing, with Kelly Fremon Craig’s much-anticipated adaptation of Blume’s most celebrated novel, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” hitting theaters in April. For any viewers who have either forgotten their relationship to Blume’s books or missed the boat in the first place, the doc’s mixture of interviews past and present, gushing talking-head tributes (from younger YA authors and publishers, as well as celebrity admirers like Lena Dunham, Molly Ringwald and Samantha Bee) and brightly visualized readings make for a persuasive reminder. ![]() ![]() Valente touches on some serious intergalactic themes in her latest sci-fi gem, but it’s the humor in her over-the-top prose that keeps the reader engaged … and chuckling. At the end of the day, Valente’s fiction of a high-stakes, sequined Intergalactic Idol ably addresses what it means to be human and what it means to love someone, while being ever-entertaining and, crucially, being the kind of book that makes you want to dance. It takes confidence, skill and talent to craft a tragic disco ball metaphor, and Valente has all three in spades. Valente’s writing here is as strong as anything taught as 'good prose,' although the rock and whimsy will keep it from finding its way into the traditional literary canon anytime soon. That ability to fluidly tie real-world tragedy together with psychedelic hilarity is perhaps Space Opera’s most impressive attribute. Her prose is always quick and engrossing, but the content ranges from a glitzy, sometimes profane satirization of the music industry and its larger-than-life characters, to dead-serious flashbacks and a genuinely moving finale. Although her comedic talents are reminiscent of Douglas Adams at his best, Valente’s palette is far larger. Valente’s delightful sense of humor is the most constant aspect of her prose, it is not the most memorable. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The Soul Trek by Djana Fahry![]() ![]() īack by popular demand and follow-up to Volume I, in which Djana unveils the mystery of esoteric connection with her soul's mate J., in Volume II, she has to travel back in time and against the spinning of the Earth looking for a wormhole in time/space tissue. By moving through the energy grids of Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia and Russia, she has to merge with the spirits of the ancients to heal the romance which never began or ended - compress/expand it as she changes her. ![]() Back by popular demand and follow-up to Volume I, in which Djana unveils the mystery of esoteric connection with her soul's mate J., in Volume II, she has to travel back in time and against the spinning of the Earth looking for a wormhole in time/space tissue. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Braving It by James Campbell![]() ![]() Informative, humorous, and full of a love of nature. The journey would test them, and their relationship, in one of the planet’s most remote places: a land of wolves, musk oxen, Dall sheep, golden eagles, and polar bears.Ĭampbell expertly blends facts on the flora, fauna, and general life in the Alaskan bush with his reflections on being middle-aged, with many adventurous years behind him, as opposed to his daughter, whose quest for adventure has only just begun. It would be their third and most ambitious trip. ![]() So he decided to take Aidan back to Alaska one final time before she left home. ![]() Despite windchills of fifty degrees below zero, father and daughter ventured out daily to track, hunt, and trap.Ĭampbell knew that in traditional Eskimo cultures, some daughters earned a rite of passage usually reserved for young men. James Campbell Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild Kindle Edition by James Campbell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 521 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. She even agreed to return a few months later to help the Korths work their traplines and hunt for caribou and moose. ![]() Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs?īut once there, Aidan embraced the wild. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him. Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments & comp. by Livius Ciocârlie![]() Furthermore, CEEOL allows publishers to reach new audiences and promote the scientific achievements of the Eastern European scientific community to a broader readership. ![]() În 1958 îi încheie studiile filologice la Universitatea din Bucureti i, revenit în oraul natal. Este critic literar, prozator i eseist, laureat al Premiului Naional pentru Literatur. CEEOL offers various services to subscribing institutions and their patrons to make access to its content as easy as possible. Livius Ciocârlie s-a nscut pe 7 octombrie 1935, în Timioara. Currently, CEEOL covers more than 2000 journals and 690.000 articles, over 4500 ebooks and 6000 grey literature document. CEEOL provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. Currently, over 1000 publishers entrust CEEOL with their high-quality journals and e-books. In the rapidly changing digital sphere CEEOL is a reliable source of adjusting expertise trusted by scholars, publishers and librarians. CEEOL is a leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe. ![]() ![]() Lou must force the truth into the light and confront her own demons in order to save another soul before it's too late. But Lou is convinced that the murderer is sitting in one of those red velvet pews-and that Bishop Tate may be protecting the wolf in the flock. Lou's partner, Detective Colin Taggert, thinks her focus on the congregation comes from her distrust of organized religion. But something wicked is lurking among the congregants of this church. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed Mission Ministries, led by Bishop Solomon Tate. But something in the way Washington died doesn't make sense. ![]() At first blush, his death seems unremarkable-heatwave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. After a long Labor Day weekend, seventy-three-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. ![]() ![]() Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise.Elouise Norton is the best new character you'll meet this year."-Lee Child "Hall deserves to be compared to Kathy Reichs or Patricia Cornwell, and it will not be long before she is recognized as every bit as big a crime writing star."- Daily Mail (UK) Los Angeles Homicide Detective Elouise Norton encounters her toughest case yet in City of Saviors, the fourth installment in the critically acclaimed mystery series from author Rachel Howzell Hall. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Starcrossed angelini![]() ![]() She was the Descender, which meant that she was one of the exceedingly few Scions who could go down to the Underworld in her living body and not just as a spirit. Normally, all she had to do was say out loud what she wanted and it just happened. ![]() But for some reason, her usual way of navigating in the Underworld wasn’t working. Helen intended to keep her promise to Zach even if she had to carry him to the Elysian Fields and right up to the banks of the River of Joy herself-broken ribs, wonky leg, and all. Zach had sacrificed himself to help her, and in his final moments, he’d given her the clue that allowed her to kill Automedon and save Lucas and Orion. He was dying in her arms, and she swore that she would make sure that he drank from the River of Joy in the afterlife. She’d just made a promise to her friend Zach. Less than an hour ago, Ares had slit her throat, and although it still hurt when she spoke, cussing made her feel better. Her vocal cords were not completely healed. “Damn it,” she swore to herself, her voice breaking. A quick scan of the horizon showed that there was no one else on the barren plain. Feeling stranded, she limped around in a tight circle. No sane person would dare swim across it. It was a roaring torrent, riddled with icebergs. ![]() Helen could see what she guessed was the River Styx just off to her left. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Deborah feldman memoir![]() ![]() Both the hair and dreams had been hidden beneath her sheitel, the culturally compulsory wig, until she removes it, in the water, in a powerful moment of becoming herself. Moishe secretly secures a gun-how will it go off? Esty quickly finds a coterie of musical, multicultural friends in cosmopolitan Berlin, where her previously hidden dreams, like her natural hair, may now grow. Visually, it is less the story of a woman’s emancipation than a woman in peril, packed with filmic imagery. Esty’s estranged husband, Yanky (Amit Rahav), and his shady, worldly cousin, Moishe (Jeff Wilbusch), pursue, stalk, and threaten her to return. She secretly buys a plane ticket, and flees to, of all the ironic, symbolic places, Berlin, where her mother also fled decades earlier. She bides her time until the perfect moment to sneak away. Esty (Shira Haas) a young, recently married woman, makes a shocking and sudden break from her insular Hasidic world in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For all its Yiddish inflection, Netflix’s 2020 miniseries Unorthodox is plainly a thriller. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Dare me megan abbott series![]() ![]() Collette whips the squad into shape (often by body-shaming them and encouraging eating disorders), and Beth becomes enraged: not because she cares about the squad's well-being, but because her control of them has loosened. Everyone bows to Beth and, in so doing, to me."īeth immediately harbors a disdain for Collette, who cannot be cowed, does away with the position of captain, and axes Beth's booty-shaking routines for tricky physical maneuvers. Though Addy portrays herself as submissive to Beth, she says that all the cheerleaders "owned" the previous coach. The book introduces high schoolers Beth and Addy, whose friendship is thrown into chaos with the arrival of their new cheer coach, Collette. ![]() If the USA Network adaptation follows what happens in the Dare Me book, it's sure to be a bloodbath. ![]() A story of jealousy, obsession, and power, Dare Me explores what happens when cheerleading squad captain Beth and her obedient friend Addy clash with Collette French, the girls' steely and enigmatic new coach. Menacing teen girls is a staple of the thriller genre, and Megan Abbott's novel Dare Me is all about the darker side of the teenage psyche. ![]() |