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The dispossessed book cover5/21/2023 Yet administrative work must be done, and the institutions in place to do that work have become more bureaucratic with each generation. On Anarres, society is anarchistic and government no longer exists. They are not failed experiments, but they are not entirely successful either-owing to human nature-and Le Guin shows us the best and worth of both, all the while commenting on humanity and present-day social organization. Yet both are dysfunctional, have strayed from whatever utopian ideals may have founded them. Both are superior to the contemporary government of Earth, which at this stage has just barely managed to avoid destroying Earth's biome. Each feels that the other is an aberration. The success of The Dispossessed lies in Le Guin’s presentation of two distinct visions of utopia. Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom5/21/2023 But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible, and the more Parker learns about what really happened-both with Scott, and her dad-the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem. She has enough on her mind already, like trying out for the track team (that's right, her eyes don't work but her legs still do), doling out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates, and giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn't cried since her dad's death three months ago. When Scott suddenly reappears in her life after being gone for years, Parker knows there's only one way to react-shun him so hard it hurts. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. In the tradition of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school. Ogden nash custard the dragon5/21/2023 In the seventh stanza, the poet used an incorrect spelling as a poetic device such as ‘winda’ instead of ‘window’ that rhymes with Belinda’s name in the previous line. Also he has repetitively used the word ‘little’ in the first stanza to emphasize that everything in Belinda’s house including her pets were little in size. One such simile was “mouth like a fireplace”. Can you, with your partner, list some more such poetic devices used in the poem?Īnswer: The poet has extensively used similes across the poem. For example “Clashed his tail like iron in a dungeon” – the poetic device here is a simile. The poet has employed many poetic devices in the poem. Despite being a dragon, a tickling could disturb him and this showed his cowardice on which everyone laughed. So, Belinda tickled the dragon unmerciful as it worked a lot on him. “Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful…” Why?Īnswer: Tickling always works on people, who are a little softer. Compared to them, Custard cried asking for a nice and safe cage, which is why it is called a coward. Ink and Blink are described as so brave that they could chase lions down the stairs and Mustard was as brave as a tiger in rage. Belinda was as brave as a barrel of bears. It is called a ‘cowardly dragon’ because everybody else in the house was brave. Why did Custard cry for a nice safe cage? Why is the dragon called “cowardly dragon”?Īnswer: Custard cried for a nice, safe cage because it was a coward. Daredevil man without fear frank miller5/21/2023 Typhoid Mary is there if you know where to look for her. You get Stick, Elektra, the Fixer, and the Kingpin, of course. It's mostly a great character study, low on the superheroics and stronger on the training, the action, and characters. It is a wonderful exploration of Matt Murdock's character, of how his days being bullied on the school yard lead to his time in law school lead to his return to the city and, on the very last page, his first appearance in costume. But before that, each issue feels like it stands on its own, though they blend together well, overall, to tell what is basically "Daredevil: Year Zero." It's Miller going back to his classic run on the character and retelling Daredevil's origin story, with lots of tips of the hat to his own work and style on the series. That really shows in the last couple of issues, where desperate scrambles for page fillers result in a couple of odd essays from Miller and Romita. The series had started out as an original graphic novel before being split into a five issue miniseries. While my memory for some of the details of that run are a little sketchy now, I still recognized moments and people he was writing to help set up the material in his stories from a decade earlier. This is the first time I've read the book since reading Miller's classic "Daredevil" run. □ #theemotionthesaurus #embraceyourweird #booksonwriting #booksonwritingfiction #writingresource #doyouwanttodatemyavatar #theguild #webseries #feliciaday #mmorpg #angelaackerman #beccapuglisi #positivevibes #beingyourself #beingyoubeingtrue #followyourdreams #writinganovel #fictionwriter #booksigningpen #booksigningdreams #lamypen #fountainpen #lamyfountainpen #girlgamer #mmorpgĪ post shared by Author Ally Aldridge on at 1:21am PST □ I am a fan of since her staring role in The Guild a funny web series you must watch, especially if you ever played MMORPG. □ Have you read The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi or Embrace Your Weird by Felica Day. I keep fantasising that this will be my book signing pen □. I also wanted a ‘nice pen’ and he choose this gorgeous sunshine yellow Lamy fountain pen. My husband bought me these books for Christmas from my wish list. Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts,” Florian Illies shows us, by contrast, it was a year of tremendous cultural activity. In his absorbing non-fiction narrative, “1913. Wedged between two catastrophes - the sinking of the Titanic and the outbreak of the First World War - it served mostly as a stopgap. Until now, the year 1913 has received little attention. Might this have been the reason he invented twelve-tone music? The composer Arnold Schoenberg also was horror-stricken by anything having to do with the number thirteen. On New Year’s day1913, Franz Kafka imagined himself being decapitated and blamed it on the unlucky number. At least that was the case a hundred years ago. Those who fear the number thirteen are probably a bit unnerved this year. Ghost rider ennis5/21/2023 Again I wish I could get that 2 hours back from my life. In the end, no amount of great acting could have saved this crap. Nick Cage acted pretty well in it, though, but the other actors weren't much to watch, except for the black guy who appears in the first scene (dont know his name). I then thought to myself "is this ever going to end?" Basically, at that point it got boring. Anyway,about 45 minutes into this I was getting really bored and actually thought we had entered the three hour mark!!. I thought Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance would be enjoyable because I enjoyed Transformers in 3D also, with all of its special effects, but I appreciated more about the cartoon transformers. I guess if you don't like the story you just cannot like ANY movie really. But the actually movie, well, wasn't very interesting, just a bunch of noise and flames and explosions. Well, the previews certainly looked great. Book conversations with friends5/21/2023 The language is a bit old (the book was published in 1981), but the strategies are great. Top pick for people who struggle to read social cues.Top pick for the core basics of making conversation.Top pick for growing authentic connectionsĪutism and other social learning difficulties.Top pick for navigating sensitive topics in-person and online.Top pick for dealing with confrontations.Top pick for learning fundamental negotiation skills.Top pick for dealing with tough conversations.Top pick to help build communication skills.Top pick for more meaningful conversations.Top pick for taking your skills to the next level.Top pick if small talk makes you nervous.Top pick for bite-sized business-focused tips. Top pick for listening skills and empathy.Top pick for talking to someone you’re attracted to.Top pick for improving your social life.To help you choose, here are my 21 top picks for different areas. Poirot the death of lord edgware5/20/2023 AGATHA CHRISTIE - LORD EDGWARE DIES (published in the U.S. Overall, the dust wrapper is a clean example with minimal fading to the spine, with the publisher's printed price of 7/6net present to the spine. There are some closed tears to the extremities, with hairline creases to the front panel. The light restoration is of the highest quality, and is only partial, as small chips have been left un-touched at the spine tips, giving the dust wrapper a more natural look. The dust wrapper is a very good example with some very subtle restoration to a small area at the base of the spine affecting a couple of letters of the crime club, also to a very small area of the spine tip, not affecting any of the lettering. Internally, there is foxing to the page block with sporadic foxing to some of the inner pages. HARDBACK - A very good book with clean red cloth boards that show minor soiling to the upper corner of the front panel, with light fading to a small area of the spine tips. |