![]() He piques our interest by putting us right there in the middle of the last few moments of Holston’s life. ![]() In this first sentence of Wool, Howey creates tension by juxtaposing the impending death of Holston and the joy of the little children. The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death he could hear them squealing as only happy children do. When you’re writing about a world that’s foreign to the reader, you also have to begin immersing them in that world without alienating them. You have to start the story and literally set the tone. You have to create tension and pique the reader’s interest. ![]() There’s a lot of pressure on a first sentence. Few have done this better than Hugh Howey in Wool, the first book in the Silo series. ![]() One of the things I admire most about dystopian and fantasy novels is the author’s ability to create a whole other world. ![]()
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![]() (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Manchester, CT: Knowledge, Ideas and Trends, Inc., 1997, 659 pp., $45.95 paper. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1999, 290 pp., $35.00 hardcover.įrom the Realm of the Ancestors: An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas edited by Joan Marler. Edited and supplemented by Miriam Robbins Dexter. The Living Goddesses by Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas. 18.) Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997, 404 pp., $52.00 paperback. ![]() Edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Karlene Jones-Bley. The Kurgan Culture and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe: Selected Articles from 1952-1993 by Marija Gimbutas. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() "I tried to give the thumbs up and it felt like I had a 1,000-pound weight on my hand," LeGrand told Newsweek during a recent interview. As they rolled him away from the field and into a tunnel at the stadium, someone from the Rutgers staff told LeGrand to give the crowd a thumbs up to let them know he'd be ok. He still couldn't move anything in his body, though. "At that point I thought I would be ok," he recalls. It's like new life had been breathed into him. The sudden, upward jolt allowed LeGrand to get a gasp of air. Then, they lifted the hefty player straight up into the air so they could place him on a gurney. While this was happening, paramedics rolled LeGrand onto his side so they could place a backboard underneath him. "I closed my eyes and said "God, take me at ease."" "I was laying on the ground and I couldn't move, and now I have to pray," LeGrand remembers. ![]() His collegiate coach at Rutgers, Greg Schiano, knelt by LeGrand's side and told his defensive tackle, "E, you have to pray right now." He spoke through gasped breath again: "I can't breathe." Although he said it as loud as he could, it came out as only a whisper. ![]() ![]() When paramedics asked if he was ok, he could only say one thing. He was wide awake, but he couldn't move and he couldn't breathe. ![]() An awkward collision on a routine play left Eric LeGrand motionless on the turf at MetLife Stadium 10 years ago in New Jersey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ transplants, from racial segregation to the perceived “electability” of women for political office, from bottled water to “cancel culture,” we routinely copy others, lie about what we believe, cling to tribes, and silence others. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains’ misunderstanding of what we think others believe. The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its most recent release was The Snow Queen & the Princess, released on 16 February 2023. ![]() The films from the series gave the studio the entrance into the film industry that has been recently noted by the animation industry. The company's main art technique is CGI animation that is used for their flagship series, The Snow Queen. In August 2022, the company changed its name to Voronezh Animation Studio. Originally founded under the name InlayFilm, it rebranded as Wizart Animation in 2012. ![]() The studio was formed in 2007 from a company specializing in software development, multimedia and software localization. The studio specializes in the production of animated feature films, television shows and their distribution and promotion in the domestic and international markets. Voronezh Animation Studio (formerly known as Wizart Animation) is a Russian animation film, short film and television studio based in Voronezh. ![]() ![]() Maybe not quite as exciting as the I Survived stories, these books are nevertheless well-written, for the most part, by well-known and skilled children’s writers of the time, and the stories are compelling and informative. ![]() Each book tells the story of an historical event in American or world history told through the eyes of a child. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 19 by Grosset & Dunlap. I haven’t read any of these books, but they should be a good fit for fans of the I Survived series. Each book gives short, true adventure stories about kids facing shark attacks, plane crashes, tornadoes, fires, blizzards, and more. Real Kids, Real Adventures is a series of several volumes by Deborah Morris, published by Broadman and Holman. So, if you’re a fan of the I Survived series, here are a few other books that you might like: ![]() I haven’t read any of the books in this series, but they seem to be quite popular. Some of the books feature true stories of young survivors, and others are historical fiction. Scholastic has published a series of books by Lauren Tarshis about boys who survived great disasters. ![]() For the month of July, I’m planning a series of posts about readalikes: what to read (or what to suggest to your favorite child reader) when you’ve read all of your favorite author’s books or all of the books of a certain genre that you know of, and you don’t know what to read next. ![]() ![]() ![]() But to shut me from the light of the sky and the sight of the fields and flowers to chain my feet so that I can never again ride with the soldiers nor climb the hills to make me breathe foul damp darkness and keep from me everything that brings me back to the love of god when your wickedness and foolishness tempt me to hate Him:all this is worse than the furnace in the bible that was heated seven times. Bread has no sorrow for me, and water no affliction. It is not the bread and water I fear: I can live on bread:when have I asked for more? It is no hardship to drink water if the water be clean. You think that life is nothing but not being stone dead. ![]() You promised me my life but you lied (indignant exclamations). Yes:they told me you were fools (the word gives great offence), and that I was not to listen to your fine words nor trust your charity. ![]() (She rushes to the table snatches up the paper and tears it into fragments) Light your fire:do you think I dread it as much as the life of a rat in a hole? My voices were right. JOAN: (rising in consternation and terrible anger) Perpetual imprisonment! Am I not then to be set free? Give me that writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, I would recommend this book and have a look at one man's experience growing up around logging in short bursts of time. Some of the stories were riveting and at these times I couldn't put the book down and others, though good weren't as exciting. He moves back and forth between working various logging jobs and moving to Vancouver and being involved in street life and staying in various rooming houses/hotels along Granville Street and drinking up a storm and dallying in smoking pot. He is an aspiring poet who does do some writing but never seems to get anything off the ground, until this book, I guess. It is a book of short stories about various intervals in the writers life. Surprise, surprise, it was one of the better books that I've read in the past while. ![]() I believed this book to be out of my reading realm as it was about bush and logging stories and I really don't have much interest in that type of genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. Anne's ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days. ![]() ![]() Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. ![]() ![]() In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman-injured by a powerful man-is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Punished for Poseidon’s actions, Medusa is forever transformed. ![]() Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge-on the young woman. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene’s temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. ![]() ![]() The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”- Telegraph (UK) ![]() |