![]() So Jim instead forgets the past by settling into a cozy domestic present: marriage to earthy Miriam, three children, a quiet life in suburban Shepperton (near England's film studios). ![]() A short stint in the RAF-another attempt at confronting the violence within-is equally unsuccessful. ![]() As a med student at Cambridge he tries to exorcise corpse-filled memories by calmly dissecting a cadaver. The opening chapters return to the horror of the Shanghai bombing and the Lunghua prison-camp worst of all, at war's end, 15-year-old Jim witnesses the torture-murder of a young Chinese prisoner-a monstrosity that will haunt him always. This episodic sequel begins again in Shanghai but quickly moves to England, as narrator ``Jim'' explores sex, marriage, fatherhood, and friendship through the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies. In Empire of the Sun (1984), Ballard turned his searing childhood memories-of prison-camp experiences in WW II Shanghai-into fiercely effective autobiographical fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts OH NO! NOT AGAIN! (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History) (Or at Least My History Grade) by Mac Barnett and Dan Santat Women of Science and Inventions OH NO! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) by Mac Barnett and Dan Santat The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra and Stephen Gammell ![]() Fox and Nancy DavisĪ Black Hole is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano and Michael Carroll More Creations and Inventions ![]() Stars and Holes in the Universeĭot to Dot in the Sky: Stories in the Stars by Joan Marie Galat If you know of any steampunk-themed picturebooks, please let us know. I wanted to find as many picturebooks for our theme as I could. Today, I’m happy to share another set of reading materials for our new theme. Last week, we launched Black Holes and Parallel Universes: Marvels of Science and Speculative Fiction. Iphigene has outdone herself with this beautiful widget she created.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With energy and persistance, the minor Chicago poet insinuated himself among the great and famous and simulated a life of literary stardom. Driven by ambition and narcissism, he began publishing poetry in 1905, participated in the Chicago Renaissance, and continued publishing until two years before his death in 1967. Yeats, to one of Iris’s volumes of poetry-although at the time of publication Yeats had been dead for several years.Īs a child, Iris had emigrated from Italy with his mother, who arrived in Chicago in pursuit of the American dream. “Of poets writing today, there is no greater,”states a preface, signed by W.B. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow Wilson. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures-among them T.S. If poets are “liars by profession,” Sharmel Iris was truly professional. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chasing Spirits also invites you into Nick's haunted past, where a childhood near-death experience, an energetic passion for life, and a love of movies fueled his imagination and curiosity about the afterlife and started him off on his paranormal path. From recording strange voices during his dusk-to-dawn lockdowns at "haunted" places to a face-to-face encounter with a spirit at Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, California, Nick reveals an inside perspective of some of the most mind-blowing incidents caught on camera, a closer look at some of the gadgets and gear used in the show, and the friendly and competitive camaraderie between the Ghost Adventures crew-on the set and off. ![]() "Take a look behind the scenes of the Travel Channel's hit show Ghost Adventures with paranormal investigator Nick Groff as he shares his favorite explorations of the supernatural. ![]() ![]() Love has different facets, and is expressed in different ways. ![]() Sexy scenes pause for conversations about limits and consent because that’s what kink and poly look like. Like real life, their relationships emerge in fits and starts. Instead, the characters work through a number of understandings of what ethical non-monogamy could be and what it might mean to them, with each of the relationships developing at its own pace as they discover what it means to build a family. This story doesn’t follow the formula that I so often see in romance novels, where four people come together as an immediate whole. And now Love Unlimited is here, in all of its messy glory. I thought I was ready to write Love Limits and bring them all together, then stalled out for almost a year before I realized that Zhong and Ash needed their own book, because their relationship was perfect and essential on its own. ![]() It took me a long time to figure out who Dustin and Landon were, and even longer to figure out that they wouldn’t be complete without Zhong and Ash. I wrote Love Language in about a week, an exhilarating flow of words that filled the pages almost like magic. The road to this book has been as long and tumultuous a journey for me as I think it has been for my characters. ![]() ![]() Much like the unpredictability of her narrative styles, Ogawa’s body of work is incredibly diverse, and is scattered across a range of genres. Since then, Ogawa has published more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction, won the Akutagawa Award (a major Japanese literary award), and has had her works translated into several different languages. A few years later, she published ‘The Breaking of the Butterfly’ ( Agehacho ga kowareru toki) in 1988, for which she won the Kaien Literary Prize (Benesse). ![]() During her time as a student at Waseda University (Tokyo), Ogawa was introduced to the works of prolific writers such as Kanai Mieko, Ōe Kenzaburō, Haruki Murakami, Paul Aster, and Shibata Moroyuki. ![]() Today, on Yōko Ogawa’s 59th birthday, we’re celebrating the life and works of one of World Literature’s most celebrated authors (and of course, sharing some book recommendations we know you’ll love!) Early Life and Literary Inspirations:īorn in Okayama in 1962, Yōko Ogawa is said to have displayed a penchant for finding beauty in the banal at an early age, though she had not considered a career as a full-time writer until she attended University. Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko) is a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and one of the leading figures in modern Japanese literature. ![]() ![]() So please help me thread the needle so I can continue to work here, please, and do not lose lose my job. At least not in the way that you talk about them. MARTIN: Let me just say, it's so hard to do an interview when you can't talk about half the things in the book. It's so crazy listening to that clip of "Baby Cobra." You know, I don't - I haven't watched that since I was in the editing room. She's with us now from our studios in Culver City, Calif. And Ali Wong is going to tell us how she did it. It's called "Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, And Advice For Living Your Best Life." And it manages to be raunchy, sweet and wise all at the same time. ![]() ![]() She's also written a memoir in the form of essays dedicated to her two young daughters. She was a writer on ABC's "Fresh Off The Boat," costarred on three seasons of that network's "American Housewife." She co-wrote and starred in the Netflix movie "Always Be My Maybe." She had another baby and did another special. MARTIN: And yes, that's one of the few jokes we can actually play on NPR. ![]() In 2016, comedian Ali Wong brought a fresh take to the standup comedy scene in her Netflix special "Baby Cobra." She performed her set while pregnant with her first child and offered pointed views on sex, sexism and life as a woman.ĪLI WONG: And her book is called "Lean In." Well, I don't want to lean in, OK? I want to lie down. ![]() ![]() If you've been keeping up with this series then you know that this is Baden's book. ![]() ![]() It's not just my pre-menopausal hot flashes happening in here, lambs! But I'm telling you it's worth the journey because these guys. I'm telling you right now you need to read these from the start not just because it's a damn good series, but because there is so much from the lore and backstory that won't make any sense to you if you just jump in on this book. I know people are going to tell you that these are stand alone books and that you won't miss much if you don't read them in order, but they are liars. ![]() Alright lambs, just in time for the movie version of the classic, we have Gena Showalter giving u s a grown up version of Disney's The Beauty and the Beast, the twelfth installment in her Lords of the Underworld series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the beloved world of the Lux, a girl pulled into in a world she doesn't understand finds herself confronted by long buried 5(K). ![]() Armentrout brings her trademark drama and intrigue to a new romantic YA science fiction series with The Darkest Star. #1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. In the world of the Lux, secrets thrive, lies shatter, and love is undeniable. Hold on to your hats Ladies Gents, I have a confession to make: I haven't read the Lux series, or anything else by this author. If you are not aware, this is a spin-off from her hugely popular Lux series. ![]() The Darkest Star is the first book of the Origin series by Jennifer L. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<< _The Darkest Star by Jennifer L Armentrout Ebook Epub PDF bvc ![]() ![]() Princess and Goblin you tube Shirley Temple I also learned about this Shirley Temple adaption from Dan MacDonald: Princess and Goblin illustrated by Jesse Wilcox Smith The Princess and Goblin by Project GutenbergĪfter we finished reading the book, my daughters were so excited and interested to watch the Princess and Goblin movie on You Tube:ĭan MacDonald recommends an affordably priced edition illustrated by Jesse Wilcox Smith, available from : Project Gutenberg has a free online edition: They did mention the ending was rather sad, but it is a wonderful story filled with Christian symbolism. This is the edition I read to my kids, and it is available on eBay: The Princess and Goblin I read the sequel to this story, The Princess and Curdie to my children. I read The Princess and Goblin book out loud for free to my children by checking the book out at my public library. Later, Curdie follows the magic thread to her refuge at his own house, and restores her to the king. I was especially intrigued when Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother gives Irene a ring attached to a thread invisible except to herself, which thereafter connects her constantly to home. ![]() I love The Princess and Goblin because Curdie sings to face the goblins, and this reminds me that we as Christians need to sing praise and worship songs to face our fears. ![]() |