![]() ![]() ![]() And, if you think the library is only about books, read on. With a small but mighty staff and tight quarters, this gem is the heart of the community, where children, teens, and adults can find something that appeals to each of them. But we continue to celebrate libraries in general and the North Valley Public Library (NVPL) in Stevensville, in particular. National Library Week - with the theme “There’s More to the Story” - concluded on April 29. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered.” It is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books… A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. White, famed for “Charlotte’s Web” and “Stuart Little,” once wrote that a library is “a place to go if you want to sit and think. ![]()
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![]() ![]() LIT HUB Most Anticipated Books of the YearĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Best Books of September THE WASHINGTON POST Best Books of September One of THE ATLANTIC’s 20 Best Books of the Year LOS ANGELES TIMES Most Anticipated Books of the Fall PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Top Ten Books of the Year With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. ![]() ![]() As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?Īssembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. Go to college, get an education, start a career. A blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)Ĭome of age in the credit crunch. “Slim in the hand, but its impact is massive.”-Ali Smith "Mind-bending and utterly original."-Brandon Taylor “The electrifying fiction debut that has been called ‘a modern Mrs. FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION. ![]() ![]() (The manuscript, Rossetti said, was “soaked through and through… a dreadful smell – partly no doubt the disinfectants”.)įor modern readers, accustomed to the legend of Siddal as the “meek, unconscious dove” (as Rossetti called her, after Tennyson), it is a jolt to find that this much-fed-upon face could actually talk back – and that, behind the “sweet lips” so fetishised by Rossetti, were pointed teeth. “This is her picture as she was,” he writes firmly in the first line of “The Portrait”, one of the poems he tucked into Siddal’s coffin, under her hair, after her death from an overdose of laudanum in 1862, aged 32 then scandalously exhumed seven years later for publication. ![]() Rossetti, unsurprisingly, didn’t see it that way. The girl in his paintings is “Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim / Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright / Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.” In Christina’s sonnet, that reverence becomes vampiric: “He feeds upon her face by day and night.” Yet the artist sees only what he wants. A year earlier, Ford Madox Brown had come to see Rossetti at his studio, where “he showed me a drawer full of ‘Guggums’ God knows how many… it is like a monomania with him”. ![]() ![]() “One face looks out from all his canvases,” wrote Christina Rossetti in her 1856 sonnet “In the Artist’s Studio”, around the time her brother Dante Gabriel was obsessively drawing Elizabeth Siddal, or “Guggum”, as he called her. ![]() ![]() Chief 4, and Mobile Hospital were dispatched. Engines 20, 2, and 11, Ladders 4 and 2, Rescue Squad 2, Batt. Flames topped the roof of the doomed plant as eight firefighters disengaged the clutches to raise the heavy doors by hand… A Captain of Ladder 8 put in a second alarm at once. With the fallen utility pole having cut all neighborhood power, the electrically operated doors wouldn’t open. ![]() The most urgent problem for the first due companies was getting out of their firehouse. The 75-year-old brick plant was fully sprinklered, but these could hardly cope with 12 tons of flaming gasoline, producing unusual miniature “tornadoes” from fire visible to onlookers… At 6:36 p.m., men at Station 3 had radioed in the fire alarm (Engines 3, 1, and 12, Fireboat 1, High Pressure 1, Ladders 8 and 1, Batt. The tanker had ruptured… Instantly, either from friction sparks or hot wires downed with a corner utility pole, the gasoline ignited flashing a wall of fire up the side of the building and through windows on four floors. when “a 6,500-gallon gasoline tanker overturned rounding the corner of 1 st and Florida Streets, rolling to rest against the office windows of the 6 story Jewett & Sherman Food Processing Plant. ![]() ![]() On a Milwaukee, Wisconsin fifth alarm fire started around 6:35 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this particular trial makes no sense at all. Most are frivolous, nothing more than chasing a fast buck and hoping to settle out of court. ![]() Most of these musical plagiarism trials are ridiculous. Imagine that, lawyered-up parasites sucking on the royalties of a guy who died way back in 1984 - descendants of legend who themselves have never written nor produced anything of value - now accusing the young English pop star of creative theft. They’re accusing him of musical plagiarism for allegedly copycatting/stealing the tone, style, and notes co-penned nearly half a century ago by the late great R&B legend. They’re suing singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for copyright infraction. The Marvin Gaye (estate)-Ed Sheeran legal case should never have gone to trial.ĭo these people even listen to music? Seriously, that’s the question I’d like to ask the leeches fanged into Marvin Gaye’s estate. Posted by Nolan Dalla on in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 0 comments ![]() Message to Ed Sheeran: Countersue the Marvin Gaye Estate Parasites ![]() ![]() This same sort of thing happened with Total Recall’s ending, which not only littered the film with clues hinting at it all being a dream, but also had one scene that laid out a carefully crafted alternate hypothesis. ![]() Dick adaptation that includes one scene of dialogue that makes you question everything. That’s right folks! We’ve got another Phillip K. Before he’s fully secured in what could generously be called a “cell,” prison warden Gideon (Tim Blake Nelson) describes this futuristic incarceration experience as follows: It comes from the moment where John Anderton is about to become imprisoned, like all the perps he put away through Precrime. However, there’s one scene in particular that has made fans of the 2002 neo-noir blockbuster question this reality ever since the film’s release. What’s described above sounds like a pretty solid Steven Spielberg ending, right? Minority Report feels like it wraps up rather nicely, with the sense of justice prevailing and family reuniting being something that this legendary director seems to love to land on when he can. (Image credit: Dreamworks/20th Century Studios) The Minority Report Scene That Spawned Two Interpretations ![]() ![]() The first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, presented here, was illustrated by Denslow. Denslow was a poster designer, illustrator, and cartoonist who had worked for a number of magazines and newspapers over the years. ![]() ![]() Baum published Mother Goose in Prose in 1897 and Father Goose: His Book in 1899, the latter in cooperation with Chicago artist William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915). He began his career as an author after his mother-in-law reportedly encouraged him to write down the nursery rhymes he had told his sons over the years. Frank Baum (1856-1919), was a financially struggling businessman and father of four children living in Chicago. The book's evocative use of the forces of nature in its plots, its invitation to children of all ages to look for the element of wonder in the world around them, and its memorable set of characters, including Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and Glinda the Good Witch, had a powerful effect on the American imagination. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, is the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy an immediate success upon publication. ![]() ![]() Only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess. Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children: Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is (usually) worse than her bite and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle, is alarmingly adept at chasing squirrels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, she glimpses a world beyond her mother’s Victorian sensibilities-a world of opulent ballrooms, scandalous flirtation, and whispered conversation.īut as war approaches, the palaces of Russia are transformed. Olga’s only escape from the seclusion of Alexander Palace comes from her aunt, who takes pity on her and her sister Tatiana, inviting them to grand tea parties amid the shadow court of Saint Petersburg. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother’s ill health, their brother Alexei’s secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. This sweeping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Woman Before Wallis takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the last Tsar. ![]() ![]() A Night In Imperial Russia Featuring Bryn Turnbull, Sarah Penner, & Kate Quinn Moderated by Alka Joshi CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Explaining the meaning of life is not the usual job description of a professor of cognitive science,” he writes-before gamely proceeding to answer that very question from a variety of stances, all resting on the assumption that life is best endowed with meaning if only we remember our Enlightenment ideals. “Why should I live?” So asked one of the author’s students. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, 2011, etc.). ![]() So writes eternal optimist Pinker (Psychology/Harvard Univ. The bomb? The plague? Trump? Not to worry things are getting better. ![]() |