"Michelle Good's beautiful novel pulled me in and held me close until the last word. She now lives in southern British Columbia. Her poems, short stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada. Good is a writer, retired lawyer and a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.
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Ragtime, and the author behind it, is responsible for one of the most celebrated musicals in America. However, not everyone knows that this musical began as a novel. Ragtime’s moving score and sweeping story captivate the hearts of nearly everyone who sees it. Some consider Ragtime to be the Great American Musical for its portrayal of the cross-section of American life at the turn of the century most exciting, it’s the featured musical for the sixtieth anniversary season at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. It swept the 1998 Tony Awards, nominated for thirteen and winning four-including Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. In the twenty-five years since it was first staged, Ragtime has become a much beloved and produced musical. It is narrated by Zara Hampton-Brown and Lucas Webley. I loved this book, and the audiobook is EPIC!!! Ruining Dahlia is a dark, why choose romance in the Mafia Wars shared world. Recommended for 18+ due to mature language, adult situations, triggers galore, and sensitive content. Ruining Dahlia is a full-length reverse harem novel in the dark and twisted Mafia Wars world. It’s me against them, and only time will tell If I'll be the winner or be destroyed in these cruel and merciless Mafia Wars. But what disturbs me most is that I just might like it. They play a game for keeps, a game where the only rule is that there are no rules. The thing they don't realize is that I'm more than what I seem.Ī dahlia has always bloomed best in the light, and even though everything about this place and these men is shrouded in darkness, I’m determined to thrive…to win. Where Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi now think they own me. New York City, the powerful head of the Cosa Nostra, is my new home. We aren't Butchers in name only, and surely the Rossi family can’t be as bad as the devil that’s been destroying me since I was eight years old. I should know all about how to survive monsters, though I come from a family of them. Novelist Rossiter Worthington Raymond once said, "Life is eternal and love is immortal and death is only a horizon and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." A horizon, by definition, is no more than the range of one's knowledge or. Fearing the Horizon: Death and Fear in The Apology Anonymous Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedo The central argument in Euthyphro implies that the concept of 'good' must be independent of the concept of 'God' such that "God must love that which is good because it is good." Grube argues that the implication of this is that God has no choice. Plato: How God is Good David Traini Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedo However, Socrates of The Republic, with his never-ending search for wisdom. Achilles of The Iliad embodies the conventional idea of the hero: physically strong, warlike, and honor-loving. Join Now Log in Home Literature Essays Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and PhaedoĮuthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedo Essays Physical and Intellectual Excellence in the Republic and the Iliad Anonymous College Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedoīoth The Iliad and The Republic present a form of hero. The future of humankind - and of all life on Earth - is at stake. She also asks us to consider what our new-found power means- how do we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented dangers? Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology - known as CRISPR - and a scientist of worldwide renown. Thanks to it, the dreams of genetic manipulation have become a stark reality- the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, as well as to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings with astonishing accuracy and ease. This book is about the most recent and potentially the most powerful and dangerous of them all. A handful of discoveries have changed the course of human history. But I was willing to let it ride.” He shrugged. She had the feeling he was patronizing her, as if she was a naïve little girl and he was trying to protect her from all the ugliness in the world. Two more wrong-for-each-other people never existed.” “Honey, we were just totally wrong for each other. “I know I said it’s not my business, so feel free to shut me down. Her phone buzzed in her jeans pocket…probably Samantha requesting another update. Candace shoved the wad of popcorn she was holding into her mouth and tried to concentrate. On her flat screen, the cave-dwelling monsters were launching their attack upon the hapless spelunkers. Tearing his gaze away from her suddenly, he took a drink from his beer and focused on the movie again. What did that mean? Apparently, he wasn’t going to elaborate. “Missed you?” he asked, giving her shoulder a few teasing taps. I’d have gone in to see you sooner if I’d known you…I mean, that you…” That warmed her all over, rendered her momentarily speechless. It was damn sure the most pleasant surprise I’ve gotten in a while.” “I couldn’t believe it when you walked into my parlor the other day. His teeth were perfectly straight, even and dazzling against his olive complexion. He grinned, and she could’ve sunk five inches into the couch for the way she melted. Co-creator of both Judge Anderson and The Kleggs, Bolland’s highly detailed style unfortunately precluded him from doing many sequential strips - although he found the time to pencil both Camelot 3000 and Batman: The Killing Joke for DC Comics.Ĭam Kennedy is another hugely popular 2000 AD artist, having illustrated many Judge Dredd strips and co-created luckless wannabe creator Kenny Who? and the Taxidermist. Perhaps the most popular 2000 AD artist of all time, Brian Bolland’s clean-line style and meticulous attention to detail ensure that his artwork on strips including Dan Dare, Future Shocks, Judge Dredd and Walter the Wobot looks as fresh today as it did when first published. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence. His creations include Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Ace Trucking, Al’s Baby, Button Man and Mean Machine. John Wagner has been scripting for 2000 AD for more years than he cares to remember. Jazz, like jazz music itself, is composed of multiple voices and every character is either crazy or lying about something. What kind of mayhem? The kind that only the Jazz Age can provide: cheating spouses and wayward women and knives and guns and illegitimate children and a lovesick parrot. Fifty-year-old Joe Trace shoots his eighteen-year-old girlfriend dead, and Joe's wife, Violet, bum-rushes her corpse at the funeral and tries to cut her face. Imagine if skirts today were two feet shorter than skirts a decade ago. Hemlines alone rose two feet in the span of a decade. The Jazz Age was the sexiest, most provocative era since the toga parties of Ancient Rome, and people of the time were super shocked. Because what Morrison does in Jazz is to give a sense of both the scandal of jazz music and its historical context. No offense, Shmooper, but until you read Jazz and wander down the seductive streets of Harlem circa 1926 with Toni Morrison as your guide, your Jazz Age education is totally lacking. Maybe you've even seen the Ken Burns documentary. Maybe you think you know the Jazz Age: You've been to a couple of Great Gatsby-themed parties, you wore a sweet pair of two-toned shoes or some long pearls, and you've listened to a couple of old Louis Armstrong songs. The characterizations in the book are all excellent. Watership Down works as an epic adventure story because it is an epic adventure for the rabbits. The story is told from a lapine narrative frame, so Adams presents the world from their point of view and their sense of morality. For the most part, the rabbits do feel and act like real rabbits. Richard Adams does an amazing job bringing this admittedly odd concept to life. Once they establish their new home, they must fight off the Efrafan rabbits and find more female rabbits to ensure the future of the warren. Watership Down is a story about a group of rabbits trying to reach the safety of a hill called Watership Down. I came away impressed with the book, but not for the reasons I’d expected. I finally decided to try it when the Mythgard Academy podcast selected it as the next offering in its free podcast series. Naturally, I was a bit puzzled, but also intrigued. This is a book for adults about a bunch of cute little bunny rabbits. I have a lot of friends who adore Richard Adams’ Watership Down. I’m going to quote Jennie Melamed at this point in my review, because I think her words are vitally important to how the reader approaches this novel. Girls from a very young age are primed for a world where their opinions are not worth anything and they must, at all times, be willing to accept the ‘shalt nots’, the laws of the ancestors. The premise of Gather the Daughters is based around an isolated island cult, where the menfolk reign supreme. I can honestly say I have never read anything quite like it…. As I have never read either of these, I decided the time was now right to jump in and introduce myself to this genre. It has been compared to many books, including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Emma Cline’s The Girls, books recently termed #CULTLit. I have had a copy of this novel for some time now, but for some reason the subject matter kept me from picking it up. Just published by Tinder Press, it is described as ‘dark and energetic, compulsively readable’. Gather The Daughters is the debut novel from Jennie Melamed. ‘EVERY SUMMER, THE GIRLS RUN WILD. THEY KNOW IT COULD BE THEIR LAST’. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview. |