5/19/2023 0 Comments Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson![]() ![]() Lisa’s mother took this lightly, she saw her daughter’s experience as nothing but a mental illness. It’s probably-’ ‘Clearly a sign, Lisa,’ my mother has come up behind me and grips my shoulders, ‘that you need Prozac’” (Robinson 3). When she doesn’t answer, I find myself babbling. Lisa tries to tell her mother about her experience with the crows, “‘Did you hear the crows earlier?’ I say. The first individual that takes her spirituality wrongly is her mother. ![]() This is evident through her family seeing her gifts as an illness, her reluctance to share for fear of being stigmatized, and her continual self-doubt of her gifts which endangers herself and others.įirst, Lisa is surrounded by individuals that see her spirituality as a mental illness because of colonialism and assimilation of residential schools on Haisla culture. In the novel Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson develops the theme of loss of native culture through the struggles Lisamarie faces with the normalcy of her spiritual gifts because of colonialism from residential schools on Haisla culture. ![]() When one is surrounded by constant incredulity from the people in their life it can lead to a lack of conviction and self-doubt. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments The myth of sisyphus book![]() ![]() His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. The work should be seen in relation to other works by Camus: the novel The Stranger ('42), the play Caligula ('45), & especially the essay The Rebel ('51) which was completed prior to his death in '60 in a car accident.Īlbert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. The essay concludes, "The struggle itself.is enough to fill a man's heart. The final chapter compares the absurdity of life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. ![]() ![]() It requires revolt." He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? He answers: "No. In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: our futile search for meaning, unity & clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of god & eternity. An English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in '55. ![]() It comprises about 120 pages & was published originally in '42 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe. The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Dilla Time by Dan Charnas![]() ![]() He also offers playlists so readers can hear how Dilla transformed songs and how, eventually, his approach took over hip-hop in the late 1990s. To explain Dilla’s groundbreaking approach to rhythm, the author uses graphics to approximate conventional rhythms and contrasts them with the hip-hop producer’s method of slowing some elements while accelerating others. ![]() An ambitious, dynamic biography of J Dilla, who may be the most influential hip-hop artist known by the least number of people.Ī professor at NYU/Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music best known for his chronicle of the business of hip-hop, The Big Payback, Charnas uses myriad storytelling techniques to make his case for the importance of James Dewitt Yancey (1974-2006), aka J Dilla. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments More of milly molly mandy![]() ![]() ![]() Storytelling (in the voice of an oral narrator).I believe Joyce Lankester Brisley was a better draughtswoman than she was a prose stylist, but in the end, her greatest strengths were: The illustrations were done by the author herself. The Milly Molly Mandy series has been reprinted in various formats and some of those are now colour illustrations - sometimes in pastels, sometimes in the limited palette of 1950s and 60s. The black and white line drawings do look like a colouring-in book. ![]() My mother’s version features illustrations with coloured-pencil scribbles. I was ten years old and started making maps for my own made-up stories. I may have been too old by the time I encountered my mother’s book. Even now, I open a Milly Molly Mandy book and I want to go back to that village. There is something so unbearably hygge about that little village. I never got into them myself, but I did fall in love with the endpaper hand drawn map. ![]() I’m not sure how popular these stories are among the contemporary audience, but I can say for sure, Milly Molly Mandy entertained at least two generations of children. Milly Molly Mandy is in fact the great-grandmother of today’s child readers. Milly Molly Mandy remains one of my mother’s favourite books, but even then it was old. Hairspray Character Teaser - Penny Pingleton ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once.’ The New York Times Book Review How to Be Good is a story for our times a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. Maybe children democratized beautiful, single women ![]() Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children. And truly beautiful women do not, traditionally, go out with him. And it has to be said that Angie’s long blond hair and big blue eyes, are not irrelevant to his sudden reas*sessment of his attitude toward children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn’t really want any children. Hornby was greeted with standing ovations from The New Yorker Hornby has established himself as a maestro of the male confessional to Time Hornby demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing to The New York Times Book Review Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you’ll find yourself nodding and smiling to GQ funny, compulsive, and contemporary. Nick Hornby’s cult fiction debut, the New York Times Notable High Fidelity, was a national bestseller in the United States, and a 1 bestseller in England. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Black top wasteland![]() ![]() ![]() 'A delicious slice of country gothic wrapped in smart, hard, contemporary neo noir.' - Adrian McKinty ![]() Executed with such relentless power and heart.' - Mail on Sunday 'The action sequences are superb, the dialogue wouldn't shame Elmore Leonard, and Bug's experiences recall Walter Mosley at his most powerful.fantastic.' - Sunday Times Trust me, this guy is gonna be a big name someday.' - Steve Cavanagh 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. 'A complex and moving take on radical tension and self-destructive masculinity, with blistering action sequences and car chases that fairly roar off the page, this is undoubtedly one of the summer's standout reads.' - The Guardian Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature.' - Dennis Lehane ' Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir. 'I loved Blacktop Wasteland.' - Stephen King 'Sensationally good-new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Jesus feminist by sarah bessey![]() ![]() The beginning chapters focus on Jesus and Paul’s attitude to women. There were three things I particularly loved about this book: I love the way Sarah Bessey has reclaimed feminism as something that is not only something that is compatible with being a Christian, but something that flows naturally, logically, out of belonging to Jesus. ![]() ![]() This book very gently blows all those associations away, and concentrates on how God sees women, and how that should shape our response. So many people associate feminism with anger, a rejection of femininity, and wanting to dominate women. What’s a Jesus-feminist, and should I be one? These are the questions this book seeks to answer.Ī Jesus feminist is neatly defined as follows (with a summary that I totally nicked from Sarah Bessey’s website…): ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Book a fall of marigolds![]() She does her work well and is friends with her roommate, but never goes out, never pursues other friendships, has no future plans. She moved to Ellis Island to work and hasn’t set foot in Manhattan since. But she lost him in the Triangle Factory Shirtwaist Fire. Their relationship had never progressed beyond mutual attraction, but she felt certain they were going to know each other better. Some months earlier she had worked in Manhattan and encountered a man named Edward every day on the elevator. ![]() Clara is in her own in-between place as well. Immigrants who come in are kept on the island for a time if they have been exposed to any kind of contagious disease. She describes it as something of an in-between place. ![]() ![]() In A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, Clara Woods is a nurse on Ellis Island in September of 1911. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments The Fallen by Celia Thomson![]() ![]() At times in the Fallen, she definitely was those things, but she even admits that to herself and doesn't understand why she's being that way. One thing a lot of people were complaining about is that Chloe herself was rather moody and immature. In the book you get to see a lot more of Chloe struggling with the changes she's facing. Sure, it wasn't exactly like the TV Series, but it was pretty similar. Review: Overall, it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting based on those reviews. Well, the other day I saw it at my local book store and couldn't resist. However, the reviews I read there were rather negative, and I put off buying it. Naturally, I went to Amazon to order the books so I could find out how the story would end. ![]() ![]() Well, the show ended on a huge cliff-hanger and it drove me crazy. Why I read it:Well, last year I watched the show, The Nine Lives of Chloe King on Netflix and really enjoyed it! I was super interested in the story and didn't realize until I watched the last episode that it had been cancelled. ![]() ![]() ![]() R&B Top Ten Hit, was covered by the Beatles and Humble Pie. "You Better Move On" is perhaps Alexander's best-known song, covered by the Rolling Stones, the Hollies, George Jones & Johnny Paycheck and Mink DeVille. ![]() Released on Nashville's Dot Records, the song became a soul/R&B chart hit, and laid the foundation for the modern recording studio FAME. ![]() (Phillips is the brother of music pioneer Sam Phillips).Ī year later, Alexander cut "You Better Move On" at a former tobacco warehouse-turned-recording studio in Muscle Shoals. Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, Alexander recorded his first single, "Sally Sue Brown", under the name of June Alexander (short for Junior), which was released in 1960 on Jud Phillips' Judd Records. CareerĪlexander was born in Sheffield, Alabama. Jason Ankeny, music critic for Allmusic, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and that, though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries." Alexander wrote songs publicized by such stars as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Tina Turner and Jerry Lee Lewis. Arthur Alexander (June 9, 1993) was an American country songwriter and soul singer. ![]() |