5/23/2023 0 Comments Angels Cry by J.S. Wayne![]() The tune takes off, opens up, and spills out like a wound begging to be healed as the driving strum and brilliant drumming by Jon Radford propels the tune forward with a forceful optimism that sets the tone and implies that perhaps this journey might not be so dangerous. Opening with the rhythmic anthem, “Cliffs of Dover,” a staccato-pulsed, lyrical pop poem that takes us on an emotional journey through the eyes of a soldier who is wrestling with PTSD, post tour of duty in Iraq. Trapper Schoepp’s newest record, Siren Songs is all of that … and more, ensnaring this listener to lose time, space and eventually a few tears over the course of 12 tracks and 46 minutes. ![]() It has been said that a “ Siren’s Song” is alluring, enchanting, transfixing and ultimately dangerous. Transfixing and Slightly Dangerous Songs To Make You Giddy With Excitement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The audiobook carries us from Jack's work as a senator from Massachusetts, through the fiercely contested 1960 campaign against Nixon, and takes us on to the White House itself.Īn Unfinished Life also discloses for the very first time that Kennedy was far sicker than we ever knew. Here is the gripping story of Jack's transformation from an awkward speaker into a brilliant politician with irresistible charm. ![]() Dallek reveals for the first time the full story of Kennedy's wartime actions and the true details of how Joe was killed, opening the door to Jack's ascendancy. Forced into the shadow of his older brother, Joe, Jack struggled to find a place for himself until World War II, when he became a national hero and launched his career. An Unfinished Life describes the birth of the Kennedy dynasty, the complexity of Jack's early years, and the mixture of adulation and resentment that tangled his relationships with his mother, Rose, and his father, Joseph. ![]() ![]() Dickens died in 1870 and is buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Dickens had ten children with his wife Catherine Hogarth, but their marriage was never happy and Catherine left him after Dickens had an affair with the actress Ellen Ternan. He worked tirelessly, producing a magazine Household Words (later All the Year Round) and cranking out still-famous novels including Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol. He also enjoyed huge popularity in America where he made several reading tours. As we will later learn, his bitterness originates at Christmas time and has warped his perspective of it. As a novelist, Dickens was successful from the start, with the publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, and quickly became the most famous writer in Victorian England for his unforgettable characters, comic ingenuity, and biting social critique. For characters like Fred and Bob Cratchit, Christmas represents the Christian ideal of goodness and moral prosperity, but Scrooge is at his most miserly when Christmas is mentioned. ![]() He left school at age 15, but read voraciously and acquired extensive knowledge through jobs as a law clerk, court reporter, and journalist. ![]() His experience of financial hardship and impoverishment greatly influenced the content of his stories, and his ambition. A Christmas Carol A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. When his father was briefly imprisoned for debt, Charles worked long days at a warehouse. Born to a naval clerk, Dickens moved with his family to London at age 10. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Jan gehl![]() ![]() That was typical - planners were to look after the plan, the architects were to look after the buildings. It's interesting for a bird or eagle. From the helicopter view, it has got wonderful districts with sharp and precise government buildings and residential buildings. However, nobody spent three minutes to think about what Brasilia would look like at the eye level. Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is a great example. From the air it's very interesting. ![]() ![]() They took off in airplane so they could organize the new optics of the big city. Typically on a big model, you push around with the optics until bingo you had something that looks like some wonderful composition. The big change in paradigms happened around 1960. At that time, we had a modernist ideology but we didn't use it very much because we were still adding small units to existing cities. It's only when cities took off and planning really went up in scale and there was a rapid expansion of cities did the modernist principles become applied in practice. That meant that we were able to mass produce big buildings that could fill the whole landscape.Īt the same time, planning took off as a profession. What happened to many cities? What went wrong? In your new book Cities for People, you say that the way cities have been planned and developed dramatically changed over the past few years, much for the worse. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami![]() ![]() Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.Īny changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. 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Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Sandman by Neil Gaiman![]() Once he does this, he can restore the balance of dreams for humanity and rebuild both his world, known as “The Dreaming,” and ours. When he finally escapes 70 years later into a 1990s era U.K., he must retrieve his tools and rebuild his kingdom. In the simplest terms, “The Sandman” is the story of the titular Lord of Dreams (Tom Sturridge), accidentally captured by Sir Roderick Burgess (Charles Dance) while on a mission to remove a Nightmare, Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), who is feeding on the horrors of the Great War. And Netflix’s “The Sandman,” like the graphic novel, is far more than your average superhero production. ![]() Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson. The Sandman, as imagined by Neil Gaiman, is an iconic run of graphic novels that is rightfully held. The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Unlike the graphic novel, the televisual medium is very unforgiving of these sorts of cameos, which today feel endless. The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. Netflix’s snatching up of “The Sandman” from DC Comics does sever the series from Batman, Green Lantern and other DC heroes. The result is a show that is startingly faithful to the comic in tone and visuals but which alters it just enough to build a consistent linear narrative around which digressions can orbit. ![]() Having him on board granted the series’ writers license to translate to the screen as they saw fit Gaiman himself is co-credited with writing the series premiere. But Gaiman’s involvement seems to have been the key to Netflix’s artistic success. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Rapunzel by Rachel Isadora![]() ![]() Illustrations illustrations Index no index present Intended audience 006-008 LC call number PZ8. Language eng Summary Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch Member ofĬataloging source DLC Rapunzel Isadora, Rachel Dewey number 5) Writing prompt - what is the element of. 4) Writing prompt - who is the evil character in the story. ![]() 3) Writing prompt - who is the good character in the story. Included in this zip file is: 1) A multiple choice question page - answers included. Label Rapunzel Title Rapunzel Statement of responsibility written by the Brothers Grimm retold and illustrated by Rachel Isadora Creator This lesson is to go with Rachel Isadora's Rapunzel. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Jacqueline woodson red at the bone![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. I used to say I’d be a teacher or a lawyer or a hairdresser when I grew up but even as I said these things, I knew what made me happiest was writing. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives-even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony- a celebration that ultimately never took place. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.Īs the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In another flashback, a young Andy and his girlfriend Victoria "Vicky" Tomlinson talk to a doctor in a clinical trial, who explains to them that they will be injected with the experimental chemical drug Lot-6, which secretly gives them supernatural powers: Andy gains telepathy, and Vicky obtains telekinesis. ![]() In a flashback, baby Charlene "Charlie" McGee sits in her crib, spontaneously setting the room ablaze with her pyrokinesis power and sending her father Andrew "Andy" McGee into a panic. Armstrong was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress, but it was rescinded due to controversy over her young age. The film was panned by critics, with many deeming it to be inferior to the original 1984 film, and grossed $15 million worldwide against a $12 million budget. It is produced by Jason Blum and Akiva Goldsman under their Blumhouse Productions and Weed Road Pictures banners, respectively, alongside BoulderLight Pictures and Night Platform.įirestarter was released in the United States on May 13, 2022, by Universal Pictures simultaneously theatrically and through streaming on Peacock. The film stars Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, Michael Greyeyes, and Gloria Reuben. Firestarter is a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Keith Thomas, from a screenplay by Scott Teems, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, and a remake of the 1984 film of the same name. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The midnight library book review![]() ![]() ![]() If she finds a life she is truly happy in, she will stay in that life, but Nora only has a set amount of time before she dies and the library disappears. ![]() The Midnight Library is full of books that will bring Nora to lives she could have lived had she made different choices. However, before Nora dies, she enters what she comes to know as the Midnight Library. Nora feels no one needs her, so one night, she decides to commit suicide. She has fallen on hard times and has been having panic attacks and mental health problems for years. Nora, a 35 year-old woman living in Bedford, England, feels she has lost all purpose. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig is a fantasy novel about a library full of alternate lives, and it is one of the most realistic books I have read. Imagine deciding to die and then finding yourself in a magical library filled with stories of lives you could have lived. ![]() |