5/23/2023 0 Comments Ethera grave essa hansen![]() It's just as mind-bending as you'd think when the very fabric of existence unravels in this last battle of powerful forces and the wills behind them.”- Wayne Santos, author of The Chimera Code "Some writers have a big finish in which worlds collide, but for Essa Hansen, nothing short of a final confrontation in which universes collide will be fitting for closing the tale of Caiden, Leta, Threi, and Abriss. "Parallel universes pop like champagne bubbles in the fizzy and frenetic final space opera of Hansen’s Graven series.This proves a worthy finale." - Publishers Weekly ![]() It'll tear your heart up in all the best ways.” - Shelly Campbell, author of Under the Lesser Moon Ethera Grave pulls it all together and absolutely nails the landing. ![]() ![]() "Hansen doesn't just build worlds, she engineers fresh universes, weaves depth into incredibly charismatic characters, and balances kick-ass combat scenes with galactic stakes. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments The shaft david schow![]() ROCK BREAKS SCISSORS CUT starts out as a story of three characters, bookstore clerk Melinda, model Jovana, and journalist Gilbert. There are definite associations between Grant’s work and this one, though they are different beasts in the final analysis. Although it is currently available as an eBook, I grabbed my hardcover copy off the shelf and explored the mini-labyrinth for the first time since its original publication in 2003. Haunting Fears: Dark… on Whosoever Meets Her Gaze Shall…Īs I was reading Mira Grant’s novella-length take on psychological experiments and the curative value of horror movies (FINAL GIRLS, reviewed a couple of weeks back), I was put in mind of this small but meaty novel. The World Is Much La… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… To Become The Wicked… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… ![]() ![]() Richard III in the 1… on Traumatic, Dramatic, and Kinda… Michael on Richard III in the 1980s: Warl… 5/23/2023 0 Comments Sarah waters author![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Foreword: Adapting Sarah Waters, Andrew Davies Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of Sarah Waters' Life Introduction: The Popular and Critical Reception of Sarah Waters, Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester, UK) Chapter 1: 'Taking back the night'? Feminism in Sarah Waters' Affinity and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Susan Alice Fischer (CUNY, USA) Chapter 2: Sexing the Labyrinth: Space and Sexuality in Sarah Waters' Affinity, Rebecca Pohl (University of Manchester, UK) Chapter 3: 'You know everything. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Being a dog horowitz![]() ![]() It is this empathic connection that attracts humans to domestic cats (600 million worldwide) and dogs (500 million) rather than iguanas or fish.īut we also know the differences, which range from sociality - descended from pack hunters, dogs are far more gregarious and cooperative than cats - to the senses, with canines relying more on olfaction and felines more on vision. Mammals recognize our emotions, and we recognize theirs. They are also both mammals, which helps them relate to us. They are both predators eager to chase and grab moving objects, which is why they potentially get along so well. They could go at it for hours until they’d plop down, exhausted.ĭogs and cats have more in common than people assume. They would race up and down the stairs of a large student house, surprising each other at every turn their obvious joy was highly contagious. The two of them had played together since they were little, and kept doing so now that they were adult. About once a month, I would take Plexie on my bicycle (I lived in the Netherlands) in a bag with her little head sticking out, to go on a play date with her best friend, a short-legged puppy. ![]() $26.Īs a college student, I had a black-and-white kitty named Plexie. THE LION IN THE LIVING ROOM How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World By Abigail Tucker 241 pp. BEING A DOG Following the Dog Into a World of Smell By Alexandra Horowitz 323 pp. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Good Vibrations by Mike Love![]() The making of "Good Vibrations" was unprecedented for any kind of recording. Instead, the track appeared on the September 1967 release Smiley Smile. It was issued as a standalone single, backed with " Let's Go Away for Awhile", and was to be included on the never-finished album Smile. ![]() ![]() The song was written as it was recorded and in a similar fashion to other compositions from Wilson's Smile period. He used the concept to suggest extrasensory perception, while Love's lyrics were inspired by the nascent Flower Power movement. Īlso produced by Wilson, the title derived from his fascination with cosmic vibrations, as his mother would tell him as a child that dogs sometimes bark at people in response to their "bad vibrations". "Good Vibrations" later became widely acclaimed as one of the finest and most important works of the rock era. ![]() Characterized by its complex soundscapes, episodic structure and subversions of pop music formula, it was the most expensive single ever recorded. It was released as a single on Octoand was an immediate critical and commercial hit, topping record charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. ![]() " Good Vibrations" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys that was composed by Brian Wilson with lyrics by Mike Love. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Perkeros by J.P. Ahonen![]() ![]() “EVERYTHING WILL TAKE MORE TIME THAN EXPECTED, AND WHEN YOU HAVE TO JUGGLE DIFFERENT AREAS OF YOUR LIFE IT BECOMES A TRUE CHALLENGE. Have some sketch books to gather your ideas, sometimes those ideas will help you get something done in the future, sometimes they will note.Music can also be one of the best ways to find yourself in the mindset that you want to find yourself in, however for many people like myself, happy music can make them miserable and sad music can make them happy so have that in mind. Alaren yhteistyn tuloksena syntynyt 'Perkeros' (WSOY, 2013) on huippuhieno sarjakuvaromaani tamperelaisesta heavybndist Perkeroksesta, jonka laulaja-kitaristi Akseli uskoo viel jonakin pivn breikkaavan isosti.Twenty-something guitarist Aksel stutters when he sings, and the latest reviews say he has the voice of a. Exercise can help you get centered in times of chaos as well with meditation, although I should do more of that myself. Buy a cheap copy of Perkeros book by J.P. ![]() Don’t be afraid to kill your darlings, many of the times you’ll have to kill your own projects and get better ideas and do it over and over again.How to connect with your ideal audience.(Click the play button to watch the video interview above)Ĭlick here to watch in a new Tab: In this Episode, You Will Learn: ![]() ![]() Pérez opens with excellent analysis of Irish mythology, as she links the Morgan myth with the Celtic ‘Sovereignty Goddess’ (38) whose destructivity and sexuality were linked with rituals of kingship. To explore the profoundly ambivalent role of Morgan in Arthurian literature, Pérez uses Klein’s concept of the Oresteian mother as offering both the ‘good’ breast of the ‘nurturing’ mother and the ‘bad’ breast of sexual aggressiveness (18). ![]() ![]() Pursuing a subject that has generated such fine work as Lucy Allen Paton’s Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance and Carolyne Larrington’s King Arthur’s Enchantresses, Pérez finds a distinctive voice by making structural use of psychoanalytic theory (particularly that of Melanie Klein) in a survey that ranges from early-medieval Irish mythology to contemporary popular culture.ĭirecting scholars’ eyes beyond the phallocentric Oedipal Complex to the ‘Oresteian Position’ shaped by the ‘Law of the Mother’ (15), Pérez reads Morgan as a transcendent figure who both allures and unnerves ‘male egos’ by combining the roles of ‘Mother’ and ‘Lover’ (14). Pérez systematically investigates the perennial mystery concerning the Morgan who both harms and heals King Arthur, and offers insightful readings of such alleged analogues as the Lady of the Lake, Morgause, and the Loathly Lady. ![]() Presenting Morgan la Fey as the archetype of a number of powerful figures who combine nurturing and sexual roles, Kristina Pérez’s Myth of Morgan la Fey is an engaging study of ambivalent female identity in Arthurian romance. ![]() ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable.
5/22/2023 0 Comments The long call book![]() ![]() A couple of these books are seriously dreadful. Her first series of crime novels features the elderly naturalist, George Palmer-Jones. If a person's not heavily into birds - and Ann isn't - there's not much to do on Hilbre and that was when she started writing. ![]() They were the only residents, there was no mains electricity or water and access to the mainland was at low tide across the shore. Soon after they married, Tim was appointed as warden of Hilbre, a tiny tidal island nature reserve in the Dee Estuary. She was attracted less by the ornithology than the bottle of malt whisky she saw in his rucksack when she showed him his room. While she was cooking in the Bird Observatory on Fair Isle, she met her husband Tim, a visiting ornithologist. After dropping out of university she took a number of temporary jobs - child care officer, women's refuge leader, bird observatory cook, auxiliary coastguard - before going back to college and training to be a probation officer. ![]() Ann's Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in the mysterious, dark, and beautiful Shetland Islands.Īnn grew up in the country, first in Herefordshire, then in North Devon. Ann's DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the well loved detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. Ann is the author of the books behind ITV's VERA, now in it's third series, and the BBC's SHETLAND, which will be aired in December 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() M-theory is an extension of string theory that incorporates branes (membranes into the framework, providing a possible explanation for dark matter and dark energy.The Theory of Everything (TOE is a hypothetical framework that describes all four fundamental forces in nature in a single, unified theory.String theory also predicts the existence of supersymmetry, a symmetry between fermions and bosons which could explain the mass imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe.According to string theory, all forces and particles arise from the same source, the vibrational patterns of strings.String theory suggests the existence of more than three spatial dimensions, potentially as many as 11.String theory proposes that elementary particles are not point-like objects, but rather one-dimensional objects known as strings, which vibrate and oscillate in different frequencies. ![]() String theory is a quantum theory of gravity that unites all of the fundamental forces of nature, including gravity with quantum mechanics. ![]() |