![]() ![]() There, far from civilization, the women uncover secrets that will change them in ways they never expected. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. They called themselves the Girls of August. ![]() ![]() Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Now they reunite for a startling week of discoveries. Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer.įor fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The paid version is for those who want a more in-depth understanding of color theory, and it includes the full text, the complete set of Albers’s color studies and a large selection of video content. In the spirit of the interactive component of the book, the app makes it very easy to save newly created color studies and share them across social networks. The former includes a feature that allows users to make their own color studies using Albers’s templates and a collection of 250 color swatches. ![]() A basic version is free on the Apple app store, with a more comprehensive version available for $9.99. This beautifully designed digital version interweaves intuitive text with interactive media that nicely illustrate Albers’s theories. ![]() In order to give a larger audience access to Albers’s work, Yale produced the app in time for the book’s 50th anniversary. The complete edition was re-released in 2009 by Yale University Press after being out of print for many years, but with a hefty price tag-it lists at $250. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Austen’s version of “The History of England” rebalanced the insufficiency of attention to female figures in school history books. While the work offered humorous vignettes on English Kings, significant attention is paid to the royal women, such as: ![]() Austen enjoyed embellishing the stories with charades and puns on names. The accounts of English kings and queens contain comically exaggerated opinions about their characters and behavior. and the opinions of Austen’s family and friends.Jane Austen’s history book has very few dates and cites as sources works of fiction such as: George Austen, this work is inscribed with “To Miſs Austen, eldest daughter of the Revd The work is dedicated to Austen’s sister Cassandra with: The title page of Austen’s manuscript reads:īy a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian.” In “The History of England,” Austen mockingly imitates the style of textbook histories of English monarchs, while ridiculing school history books’ pretensions to objectivity. The notebook is today preserved in the British Library collection. Thirteen watercolor miniatures accompany it by her elder sister, Cassandra. The manuscript of thirty-four pages is in Jane Austen’s hand. The work is a humorous work that pokes fun at widely used school history books of the time. “The History of England” by Jane Austen was written when the author was fifteen years old in 1791. ![]() “The History of England” by Jane Austen – Handwritten Manuscript ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewisohn turns the tape back on, and we hear John suggesting that each of them should bring in songs as candidates for the single. Doesn’t that rewrite pretty much everything we thought we knew?” ![]() And you think that John is the one who wanted to break them up but, when you hear this, he isn’t. But no – they’re discussing the next album. “The books have always told us that they knew Abbey Road was their last album and they wanted to go out on an artistic high. ![]() What they talk about is the plan to make another album – and perhaps a single for release in time for Christmas, a commercial strategy going back to the earliest days of Beatlemania. Challenging conventional wisdom … Fab Four writer-historian Mark Lewisohn ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter is looking for something good to emerge out of the ashes. Claire wants to connect with others, but she is not sure how to do that. These three young adults now try to get their bearings in this new post-9/11 world.Įach of these students follows their own unique journey through the horror of the tragedy. He then witnesses the impact of the second plane and the collapse of the towers. ![]() Peter is making a pit-stop at Tower records on his way to school when he gets word. College student Jasper is home alone in Brooklyn sleeping when the planes hit, and it is noon before he finds out what has happened. The novel for young adults follows the story of three students on September 11, 2001, the day the Twin Towers fell in New York City.Ĭlaire, whose apartment is ten blocks away from the World Trade Center, is at her high school when the news breaks. Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan was written in 2009. ![]() ![]() Chapter four is largely about racism (the Great Migration, redlining), the next about workplace misogyny. Oluo introduces a topic in a first-person passage, then spends the chapter offering examples to show how we uphold white male supremacy in various spaces. Oluo considers “the idea of a white man going it alone” as “one of the strongest identifiers of American culture and politics, where cooperation is weakness and others are the enemy-to be stolen from or conquered.” “They would shoot a few interlopers who would then run away and leave the Mormons to the land they had rightfully stolen.” One of those Mormons was the ancestor of the Bundy family, who mounted the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge in 2016. “It was supposed to be a quick ordeal,” Oluo writes. Eventually in Bill’s show, Mormons replaced Natives as the villains, and those Mormons may’ve been based on a group in Utah, who fought a Christian wagon train. ![]() So to start Oluo goes back to Buffalo Bill and his stage show, in which his “scalping of Yellow Hand was an act of justice.” Across the chapter, in a few deft leaps, Oluo ties this fraught narrative of the independent cowboy and the American West to the present. The sovereign right of white men is as pervasive as some of our other national myths-the American Dream, Manifest Destiny-and inextricably linked with them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I had wanted to research some of the ideas about OCD that I’d been offered. The first time that a psychiatrist-or maybe it was a therapist, I don’t know-suggested to me that maybe I was dealing with some OCD, I thought, “That cannot be right, I am nothing like David Sedaris.” Because David Sedaris was the only person I’d ever-he had these essays about his compulsions and his tics from his youth on This American Life, which I used to listen to with my mom in the car.Īnd I had been so confused, often, and felt kind of isolated in my experience of that particular mental illness because it didn’t seem adequately captured. Jordan Kisner: I started writing that essay because I wanted to kind of interrogate an experience that I had lived with from very young, maybe the age of 12 or 13, the experience of having obsessive compulsive disorder, but in a way that I did not see reflected in the conversations or media where OCD was mentioned. To celebrate the paperback release of Thin Places, this special episode features Jordan in the interview seat in a conversation with returning guest Lydia Millet. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nabokov quietly lets us know that Lolita cries herself to sleep every night. Being in love is ultimately no excuse for monstrous actions, even if Humbert Humbert insists on his pitiable and helpless thralldom to a middle-school dame sans merci. In our cultural mythology, love doesn’t just conquer all, but it justifies all sorts of bad behavior, too. His renderings of the Klickitat Street adventures became a gateway to imagination and the joy of reading for generations of children. ![]() In fact, the novel offers - among much else - a critique of the privileged status that Western society has accorded to romantic passion since the Middle Ages. Henry and Ribsy (Henry Huggins, 3) by Beverly Cleary Hardcover 15.76 Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover Louis Darling was the very first illustrator to give the world of Beverly Cleary a face. Through the power of Nabokov’s art, the book’s narrator, a middle-aged man fixated on a pubescent girl, does all he can to present himself as the besotted victim in a doomed romance. Consider an example from recent literature: I find Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” funny, complex, beautifully written, endlessly rereadable. In the arts, this can result in near hysteria at the discovery of sexism, racism or exoticism in the masterpieces of earlier ages. Absolutism, whether political, aesthetic or religious, leads to favoring those who conform to our beliefs and condemning everyone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() Human nature dictates that going against crowds is likely to result in social isolation. Reading books is the Better way to avoid Political Agendas Here below in the On Tyranny summary, we will discuss some key points from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the twentieth century. ![]() And in fascist countries, it dominates with its racist ethnic-nationalists and glorified military forces. In communist countries, it dominates with their proletariat class. This can take many forms for instance, the government dominates with its nobility class and dynastic rulers in monarchies. The dominance of government over all aspects of citizens’ lives has been at the heart of these states. That is because Snyder believes that America is now moving toward an authoritarian state, much like those of Germany, Russia, and China have in the past. Many Americans have indeed been shocked at his presidency and its accompanying political climate, but it is Snyder’s goal to show readers how they should expect their political system to operate. As the title suggests, this book was written to address the political climate in America after Trump’s presidential victory. ![]() This is one of the more revealing lines in Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. “You should not be shocked that a state will want to keep the monopoly of power over currency for itself.” ![]() 5.1 Related posts: Detailed Summary of On Tyranny ![]() ![]() The appearance of the cut surface of this dubious delicacy has been likened to the previously described pattern. It is, in fact, a type of terrine, with bits of meat scavenged from various parts of various animals (including the head) usually from a calf or pig. Head cheese, believe it or not, is not cheese and is often not made of the head. sarcoidosis and atypical infections associated with bronchiolitis (e.g. The head cheese sign is considered to be highly specific for hypersensitivity pneumonitis, although it can also be seen in other mixed infiltrative and obstructive processes (e.g. As the mosaic attenuation pattern is caused by airway narrowing/air trapping, these low attenuation areas may only be apparent on expiratory scans. Less frequently, the superposition of a separate infiltrative and obstructive process causes this pattern. Mosaic attenuation pattern (low attenuation)Ī mixed infiltrative (ground-glass opacity) and obstructive (mosaic attenuation) disease process can give rise to the head cheese sign. Ground-glass opacities (high attenuation) ![]() The head cheese sign (more recently termed the three-density pattern refers to a juxtaposition of regions with three (or sometimes more) different densities/regions of different attenuation within the lungs: ![]() |