![]() ![]() Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.įilled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best. ![]() See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. ![]() In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. He has hosted over 180 episodes of QI, and has narrated all seven of the Harry Potter novels. He rose to fame alongside Hugh Laurie in A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which he co-wrote with Laurie) and Jeeves and Wooster, and was unforgettable as General Melchett in Blackadder. In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry gloriously retells the epic myths of the Greek heroes - which will be loved by young and old alike.įew mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a book strong on metaphors, and one of the best is that of the mind as an irrational elephant ridden, but hardly controlled, by a rational rider (this is a re-imagining of Hume’s notion of reason being the slave of the passions). In Haidt’s hands, evolutionary psychology loses the tunnel-vision it acquires from some of its proponents, and opens itself to insights from both sociology and philosophy. However, he is admirably non-reductive in his efforts. This causes him some difficulties: he has a paradoxical sympathy for moral conservatives, whose understanding of their own position tends to be anything but ‘external’ (they see themselves as having pretty much the only right perspective on morality). ![]() His approach, therefore, is necessarily ‘naturalistic’ or ‘external’ – meaning that he is concerned with explaining rather than justifying moral belief. His topic in this book is morality and its impact on politics, and he addresses it, primarily at least, from the perspective of evolutionary psychology – that is, by considering how our moral instincts might have evolved. Jonathan Haidt, although technically a psychologist, has sufficient expertise to write well on topics with relevance to philosophy. SUBSCRIBE NOW Books The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Philip Badger finds The Righteous Mind difficult to believe unqualifiedly. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are several other collections of Van Gogh’s letters, from those specific to a particular time in the artist’s life, like Vincent Van Gogh – Letters from Provence (The illustrated letters), to more comprehensive collections like Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Touchstone), The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Penguin Classics) and Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Bulfinch). ![]() Together, they form an account of the artist’s life and work that is unlike anything we have from other major artists. ![]() Van Gogh wrote hundreds of letters, a number of which contain sketches, or even well developed drawings, that frequently presage his paintings or refer to the circumstances under which they were painted. Though certainly emotionally troubled, Van Gogh was a thoughtful, well read and articulate individual, whose insights, observations and accounts of his personal journey as an artist are illuminating on many levels. ![]() Anyone who has read Dear Theo, the book of Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother, which, in essence, is a kind of autobiography, knows that the popularized image of the artist as an uncouth, irrational, semi-literate wild man, stabbing at the canvas in frantic desperation like a crazed orangutan, couldn’t be further from the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He can’t even sleep on his bed, preferring the unyielding hardness of the floor. He’s more comfortable at the local VA than a party with his peers. When Travis returns home he faces his parents failing marriage, his ex girlfriend hooking up with his brother, and how nothing seems to make sense to him anymore. ![]() His commanding officer suggested strongly that he take the extra time knowing that Travis hadn’t quite recovered from losing his best friend and fellow Marine, Charlie, in an ambush. Travis is on a 30 day leave from Afghanistan. “Something Like Normal” is unique because it is a story told entirely from the male point of view. In some sense, these are classic but more accessible versions of the bildungsroman. The period references that post high school, on the cusp of adulthood time period. I’m using the term “New Adult” which I believe was originally coined by St. This book was recommended to me by Racblog ( ) who knows I’ve been reading more New Adult books. Jane B- Reviews Bloomsbury / Contemporary / New Adult / PTSD 9 Comments JREVIEW: Something Like Normal by Trish Doller ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe, absurdly, is that they were expecting some kind of rescue and didn’t want to bungle it.” Enter brassy Clara (“she was a whirlwind, this woman,” observes Henry) her lover Max his sullen, beautiful sister, Alma and entirely too much gin and time to kill.Ĭheek paints a graphic and sensuous portrait of an fragile marriage embattled well before its time. Maybe it was the Rolls Royce in the driveway. But the night before they are to leave this coastal ghost town, they spot signs of life-signs of a party, no less-and decide to stop in: “They were nervous, for some reason he could tell that she was too. ![]() It’s late September when they arrive, and as the waiter tells them at the one diner they find open that first night, “If you came to get away from it all, you came to the right place.” The newlyweds eat in silence, and are home and in bed by eight o’clock.īy the end of their first awkward week of marriage, Effie wants to go home early, and Henry, defeated, assents. Henry “had never been north of Atlanta, and he had never seen the ocean.” Effie hadn’t understood what “off-season” meant when describing the bustling vacation spot of her childhood. Young Henry and Effie from tiny Signal Creek, Georgia, are on a two-week honeymoon in Cape May, New Jersey, where Effie’s uncle has a summer home. In Chip Cheek’s debut novel, Cape May, the year is 1957. ![]() ![]() And Abby, in return, gives him so much more than just her heart in return. and he loves every light and dark part of her. Although the twenty two year old handsome lone Biker Jake has also had brutal heartbreaking childhood traumas too, he sees Abby, he gets Abby, he helps Abby, he heals a part of Abby meant for only him. because, underneath her mistrust, mental scars, emotional hang-ups and hatred at being touched, is a damaged young woman crying out to be understood, to be helped and to be loved. ![]() Abby is homeless, a run-away and has suffered more misery in her seventeen years of life than any one person should and she's got the emotional and physical scars to prove it. But weaved through it all is beautiful love story where two damaged people find each other, recognize the other's pain, heal one another. It's not an easy listen - there's conflict, violence, tragic child abuse (threatened but not sexual), rape and an assumption that led to four years of heartbreak. ![]() ![]() this book is every bit as brilliant as my fellow Reviewers have said it is and it absolutely drew me in from the Prologue, kept me riveted hanging on to every one of its unpredictable Chapters and left me floored and sated by the end of the Epilogue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One jumped off into the pool and then there were only 4. ![]() You can find her books and more information on this great illustrator atĪppropriate grade levels: Appropriate for children in preschool to 1st grade.ģ Line Summary : A nursery rhyme about five little speckled frogs that were sitting on a speckled log and they were eating bugs. Nikki graciously sent me a copy of this book to review. ![]() I just love sitting and singing the song with my little ones and showing them the book as I showcase this great song for a new generation! I think it would have been more creative to add them jumping in differently. The only thing I wish was that Nikki would have made a different drawing each time a frog jumped into the pool (where it was nice and cool !) rather than reusing the same one each time. I loved their long pink tongues when they were catching bugs. The frogs on the page pop out at you as in a collage scene. Nikki took a simple kids song and created a splashing good time! Her illustrations are simple, yet fun. I would love to review it! Yes I have some personal attachment to the song When I saw that Nikki had illustrated the song in a book, my hand shot up and hollered ME, ME. Whenever I hear the song Five Little Speckled Frogs I immediately go back to when I was a kid and my Daddy would play it on his guitar and I would sing along. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a warm haze the sultry light Is absorbed, not refracted, by grey stone. Now the light falls Across the open field, leaving the deep lane Shuttered with branches, dark in the afternoon, Where you lean against a bank while a van passes, And the deep lane insists on the direction Into the village, in the elctric heat Hypnotised. Houses live and die: there is a time for building And a time for living and for generation And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. ![]() In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. ![]() ![]() ![]() The teacher who strives to build Bible literacy needs to stay put. We teachers are prone to wander, particularly when our primary text is a difficult one. Good teaching will necessarily involve the use of cross-references, but not at the expense of the primary text. ![]() She will have discovered that the text at hand is worthy of forty undistracted minutes of the group’s time, that those forty minutes will probably not be enough time to resolve her questions on that text alone. She will want to linger there, as she should. ![]() Have you ever settled in to hear a teaching on a key text, only to have the teacher read through the passage briefly before spending forty minutes ricocheting around the entire Bible? A student who has spent a week parsing a chapter of Ephesians will not be satisfied if the teacher uses the key text merely as a launch pad. Knowing that they will think critically about my teaching holds me accountable to avoid seven common teaching pitfalls. My hope is that by giving Bible study participants homework, it will challenge their thinking enough that by the time they hear me teach, they won’t just take my word for it. Teaching a passage of Scripture to those who have studied it is far more demanding than teaching one to those who have not. ![]() ![]() “There’s a lot of work that’s gone into the planning of this. It’s largely dependent on how well Shadow and Bone does, according to the showrunner. It’s not confirmed that Netflix is making the series. The creators went in a different direction with the story, but we did learn a lot about Kaz, Inej, Jesper, Wylan, Nina, and Matthias.Īccording to a report from Entertainment Weekly, Eric Heisserer, the showrunner of Shadow and Bone, confirmed Six of Crows is in development. There are a lot of people, myself included, who thought the Six of Crows stories were going to happen in Shadow and Bone season 2. So, what’s the latest on Six of Crows? We shared everything we know about the potential spinoff so far. There are two other Grishaverse books, King of Scars and Rule of Wolves. It’s the first book of the duology followed by Crooked Kingdom. ![]() It’s the fourth book of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse, following the Shadow and Bone trilogy. Well, as it turns out, there’s been a new development about season 3 and a potential Six of Crows spinoff. As fans start finishing the new season of the Netflix original, they’re asking what’s next for Alina, Mal, the Darkling, and of course, the Crows in Shadow and Bone season 3. ![]() Shadow and Bone season 2 is now on Netflix, as of Thursday, March 16, 2023. ![]() |