It’s not a narrative white people are familiar with. It was important for me to write about that, because there were no fictional books about that. If you ask the average American, “Have you heard of the Rape of Nanking…did you know about these war time atrocities?” they say, “No,” because we don’t teach about Asia in American classrooms. It’s been referred to as “The Forgotten Holocaust” because this was a massacre that was not talked about until it was dredged up in the 1980s and ’90s. The occupying Japanese army spent six weeks raping and laughing and mutilating and perpetrating every sort of atrocity on the residents. RFK: Chapter 21, which is the chapter that is “trigger warnings from here to the moon,” is about the 1937 Rape of Nanking.
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I found myself turning the pages quickly with eagerness. The weapons of choice against the ghosts are really interesting to read about: lavendar, iron chains, salt, metal fillings, and rapiers! The events in Combe Carrey Hall are very creepy and the creation of suspense has been done well. It has been intricately put together and the world that Stroud has created is fascinating. The plot of The Screaming Staircase is both clever and interesting. survive the Hall’s legendary Screaming Staircase and Red Room to see another day? After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end, Lucy, Anthony, and their sarcastic colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combe Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. In ‘The Screaming Staircase’, the plucky and talented Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co, a small agency that runs independent of any adult supervision. Many different Detection Agencies have cropped up to handle the dangerous work, and they are in fierce competition for business. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see and eradicate these unnatural foes. Book blurb: A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, and spectres are appearing throughout the city, and they are not exactly friendly. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. And also brewing revenge, which, after 12 years, finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: Not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.” ( The New York Times Book Review)įelix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. I love my little group of dysfunctional idiots, never change. I also think it would be fun to start a drinking game where you take a shot every time Zenitsu starts shouting because you'd be passed out in a heartbeat. I am curious to see how Gotouge is going to continue to top Zenitsu's freak outs because they just get better and better. Really quick, I did like Iguro constantly lying on his stomach, even while subduing Tanjiro, which is reminiscent of snakes and speaks to his specialty as a Hashira. Gotouge has done a good job endearing me to his characters so I have no doubt at least half of the Hashira will be more interesting as time goes on. Going off of that, the Hashira members are pretty uninteresting everyone has one personality trait (aside from Tomioka and Shinobu) but I'm sure they'll be flushed out at some point. Wow, six volumes in and we're finally meeting the highest ranking Demon Corps members? Not bad, not bad. Can we get more tiny Nezuko? Please? I want to see more tiny Nezuko, she's so precious. My scattered thoughts regarding this volume: He just wrote a piece for The New York Times headlined “David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier.” Christopher Leonard joins us now from Kansas City. It’s titled Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. Just last week, the business journalist Christopher Leonard published a major new book examining the business dealings of the Koch brothers. The brothers made their fortune running Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States. The Kochs also backed “right-to-work” efforts, which aim to weaken labor rights and quash union membership. The Koch brothers founded the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity in 2004, which is credited with turning the “tea party” into a full-fledged political movement. David Koch, who was worth some $42 billion, and his brother Charles Koch poured massive amounts of money into right-wing and libertarian causes over the past four decades, including funding climate change denial through conservative think tanks and politicians. We turn now to look at the legacy of billionaire conservative donor David Koch, who died on Friday at the age of 79 from prostate cancer. 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Thankfully they made sure to have it upside down to throw you off the scent. Today you would be forgiven for not recognizing it but, if you are a sci-fi fan buying a novel in the 80s it was probably more obvious. That is the Battlestar Galactica from the 1978 series of the same name. Notice any issues? I don’t mean the overall design, which makes most of the text hard to read, or even the misspelling of the word “interstellar”. Well, the problems with the book start before you even open it. And obviously there are no previous books you need to have read before you read this one. Just having seen the first two episodes of the Next Generation is sufficient to set the scene. This means nothing in the book really depends on events that happened in the show. That is less than a year after the show started. Ghost Ship is the very first published Star Trek: TNG novel. So, finding one that I dislike strongly is significant. I love many of them, and merely “like” nearly all the rest. Suggesting Ghost ship is the worst Star Trek book ever is a little clickbaity, but not as much as you might think. I hate long video intros so please use the timestamps below, or the links in the description, to skip to the good stuff.Īs you may guess from the title, the tone of this review is quite negative. Added to those are some of his own scratched-out design briefs, which nobody had ever seen before now, not even Campbell, and miniatures of the finished, published page. We only get a small fraction of them, but they are enough – a little of Moore writing like this goes a long way, and he never believed in little. We see, as not even the most avid fan would have done before now, many insights into the creative process, as the actual instructions from Moore to Campbell are recreated in all their florid, verbose and vivid glory. Just as the actual From Hell is a metafiction – telling lies about truths, as the creators might have put it – so here too we get several strands of narrative. This volume is his illustrator Eddie Campbell's look at proceedings, and for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input in it, he provides a welter of words for it. While the latter may appear to many to be a great, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack the Ripper, you ain't seen nothing yet. Summary: Not just for a handful of avid fans, this look at the birth and building of a classic graphic novel is a fascinating insight into the art of turning words into pictures.Īlan Moore will always be synonymous with two major books – Watchmen and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders. It takes the blind prophet, Tiresias, to point out his ignorance and to plant the first. But he is blind to the truth about his own life. (Summary by Wikipedia)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . Oedipuss vision and intelligence have made him a great king of Thebeshe solved the riddle of the Sphinx and revitalized the city. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) is a famous play by the great ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles.The play was first performed around 429 BCE and is part of a trilogy of plays which also include Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. LibriVox recording of Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles. Psalm 4:8 reminds us of God's protective care - “In peace I will both lie down and sleep for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.”.Time for Bed sets the stage of routine and feelings of love helping a child to feel safe and relax into sleep. Rest impacts our emotions it actually stabilizes them.Hold your breath and make a wish, then share. You & your child will look forward to these and they will make the read new every time while also teaching them conversation skills. Use the prompts given in the book to make special moments before going to bed.Have your child point to the big animal and then the small or little one to practice size contrast. Use the illustrations to learn big and small.This little book goes beyond too in that you can introduce your child to what baby animals are called such as calf, foal, etc. For toddlers, introduce the animals and the sounds they make.This will make them feel like they are reading too! As your child is able, allow them to finish each phrase with the correct rhyming word.Make the Most of Time for Bed Intellectual |