Plain song novel6/12/2023 ![]() Haruf shows us mean, bullying, abusive behavior, as well as kindness, generosity and decency. The life cycles of horses and cows are as much a part of their existence as the life cycles of people, and affects them just as deeply. ![]() Haruf sings their stories in alternating chapters, using a spare prose that emphasizes the quotidian concerns of rural Colorado, focusing on the land and its centrality to those who make their living from it. In addition, we become privy to the impressions of Guthrie’s two sons Ike (10) and Bobby (9), whose lonely peregrinations around the town enable us to meet some of the other denizens of Holt through the eyes of children. The singers are varied: Tom Guthrie is a high school history teacher whose wife is absent first mentally and then physically Maggie Jones, also a high school teacher, is in love with Tom Victoria Roubideaux is 17, pregnant, and evicted by her mother and Harold and Raymond McPheron are two old bachelor brothers who take in Victoria at Maggie’s request. ![]() The epigraph tells us that “plainsong” is “the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times any simple and unadorned melody or air.” It is definitely in the second sense of meaning that Haruf creates the libretto for Holt, Colorado, a small town in the High Plains east of Denver. ![]()
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Factfulness de hans rosling6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But this attention filter is hard wired to make us care more about dramatic information, which easily leads to a stressful over-dramatic impression of the world.įactfulness is the skill to recognise the common types of stories that tend to get all the attention because they trigger our dramatic instincts. That’s why we all have an attention filter in our heads. There’s too much information for us to process it all. Part is to accept that humans don’t see reality just as it is. 1) REALIZE THAT YOU DON’T SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS. It teaches you how to recognize and avoid the most common ways information gets misinterpreted. It helps you maintain a fact-based worldview. “The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.” - See the book Factfulness »įactfulness is a relaxing habit for critical thinking. ![]() Thorn by anna burke6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You will find the ultimate of Ice Queens in the pages of this novel. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress.Thorn was named to the American Library Association's 2020 Over the Rainbow Fiction Longlist. If you have ever wanted to see what a true Ice Queen is like, look no further than Thorn by Anna Burke. There is only one problem-if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind. My second novel, Thorn, has been described as Frozen meets Beauty and the. Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. Become a patron of Anna Burke today: Get access to exclusive content and. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. ![]() The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan's father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. ![]() Forbidden Magic by Jo Beverley6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Meg bravely sets out to retrieve the family treasure but finds herself fleeing for her life when she is fingered as Sir Arthur's murderer. Could it be the magic of the statue that induces the eccentric earl of Saxonhurst to decide to take his one-eyed maid's suggestion and marry respectable but impoverished Meg? Terrified that her new husband will discover that she used magic, Meg leaves the statue behind, intending to retrieve it later, but it is stolen by the dastardly landlord. Meg decides that she must use the sheelagh-ma-gig, even though it will exact a high price. Meg Gillingham, responsible for four orphaned younger siblings, is down to her last handful of oatmeal when their lecherous landlord, Sir Arthur, threatens to either make her younger sister his mistress or throw the family out on the streets. Beverley's nonpareil Regency-era romance of the season features a vulgar prehistoric stone statue, the sheelagh-ma-gig, which has been used by generations of women to invoke a dangerous magic. ![]() The iliad and the odyssey6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The Gods often sought to remind the humans of their power over them through divine intervention, which not only reinforced their status but also their superiority. Homer reflects that belief in both of his poems. In Greek culture, Gods were revered by the people and were often thanked for every good deed that happened to an individual or to a city. The instances of divine intervention in The Iliad and The Odyssey serve to characterize the status differences between mere mortals and omniscient gods. One commonality in both pieces of literature are the gods who often intervene on behalf of the two heroes and as a result alter the course of their lives. The Odyssey follows the King Odysseus, who only wishes to return home after fighting in that same war. The Iliad showcases Achilles– the strongest soldier fighting for the Achaean army in the Trojan War. Both were written by Homer and both detail the lives of Greek heroes. Perhaps the two most prominent Greek Epics of all time are The Iliad and The Odyssey. ![]() Carmen in the dreamhouse6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() And Carmen often finds herself uttering, “Oh, that’s clearly a ghost.”Ĭarmen and Val met in 2011. A prober of anxieties with a standup comedy practice, Marne writes more straightforwardly realist short stories and nonfiction essays. ![]() ![]() Val, whose primary craft is the coming-of-age tale, is working on a YA novel about teenage lesbian suffragettes set in 1913 Philadelphia. Carmen is known around the house as “big tall vampire lady.”Įven though Carmen is 5’ 8”, she towers over her wife Val Howlett, and their partner, Marne Litfin. Carmen Maria Machado’s first short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties-an inventory of the monstrous that includes fabulist L aw & Order fanfiction and a ribbon cloaking an unspeakable secret-developed a broad cult following. The three of them live in a tall, old Victorian home. ![]() Diagnosis the new york times6/11/2023 ![]() However, little is known about vaccination coverage among PLWDH.ĭata from the New York State HIV surveillance registry were matched with the New York City Citywide Immunization Registry and New York State Immunization Information System. PLWDH were an early priority group for vaccine eligibility, in part because of elevated COVID-19 risks. ![]() CDC considers PLWDH who have a low CD4 cell count or who are not receiving HIV treatment to be at elevated risk for severe COVID-19–associated outcomes ( 2).ĬOVID-19 vaccines have been shown to be effective against symptomatic infection and hospitalization in New York, including during the period when the B.1.617.2 (Delta) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron) variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, predominated ( 3, 4). per capita rate of persons living with diagnosed HIV infection (PLWDH), † and population-level analyses adjusting for age, sex, and region have shown that PLWDH are more likely to be hospitalized for and to experience an in-hospital death from COVID-19 than are those not known to be PLWDH ( 1). ![]() ![]() ![]() During March 1, 2020–October 26, 2021, approximately 2,500,000 COVID-19 cases and 58,000 COVID-19–associated deaths occurred in the state of New York.* New York has the highest U.S. ![]() Boccaccio the decameron6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() He studied at the University of Naples from 1330-13, pursuing all the while his humanistic interests of poetry and scholarship. In the end, Boccaccio managed to convince his father that a banker’s life was not for him, but only on the condition that he study canon law. That said, his father’s position as a financial advisor at the Angevin court of Naples gave Boccaccio access to the aristocratic and literary circles of the city.Ī Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse, 1916 (Wikimedia Commons) Even at a young age, Boccaccio found a passion for poetry that spurred him to resist his father’s efforts to make him a banker. He was finally recognized by his father shortly before 1320, and was given a good Latin education before being sent to Naples to apprentice at the prominent Bardi banking house at the age of 13. The date of his birth, 1313, is an approximation, and it remains disputed whether he was born in Florence or in the nearby town of Certaldo. Giovanni Boccaccio, poet, writer, erstwhile banker and lawyer, was the illegitimate son of a prominent Tuscan merchant. ![]() Star wars soule6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Once again, fans are told that the Sith bleed Kyber crystals to turn them red. ![]() It feels like this series may flesh out things that the novel Ahsoka does not fully touch upon. Though the art style is not really my forte, I am intrigued by the premise. Although it's weird now to think that right after that scene Vader uses the Force on Sidious, who then uses Force Lightning on him. It almost looks like the scene itself is revised, but I suppose it's just the panels skipping over certain parts. It begins right from the end of Revenge of the Sith, with Vader having learned about Padme's death after waking up in the suit. ![]() This first issue isn't particularly bombastic, but I get that this is setting up the series. I remember hearing that the full title would be Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, but it seems to simply be titled Darth Vader here, with the arc title being The Chosen One, which I found surprising. It could've been called Vader Begins, or even "Vader: Year One" as Charles Soule has referred to it. ![]() When I first heard about this series, I found it ridiculous that the series wouldn't have a title different from Kieron Gillen's Darth Vader series. ![]() In between two kingdoms6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Jaouad was born in New York City to a Muslim father from Tunisia and a Catholic mother from Switzerland. In December 2021, Jaouad announced her cancer had returned and that she had undergone a second bone marrow transplant. Her Emmy Award-winning column, "Life, Interrupted" was part of the New York Times Well blog. She survived and has written and spoken extensively about her medical experiences. When Jaouad was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia in 2011, doctors said she had only a 35% chance of surviving. ![]() Her 2021 memoir Between Two Kingdoms was a New York Times Best Seller. She is the author of the "Life, Interrupted" column in The New York Times and has also written for Vogue, Glamour, NPR's All Things Considered and Women's Health. Suleika Jaouad ( / s uː ˈ l eɪ k ə dʒ ə ˈ w ɑː d/ soo- LAY-kə jə- WAHD Arabic: سليكة جواد) is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker. ![]() |