魔戒首部曲:魔戒現身 by J.R.R. Tolkien6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This has caused him to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature-or, more precisely, of high fantasy. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. ![]() ![]() Between 19, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda and, within it, Middle-earth. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.Īfter Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. ![]() He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.įrom 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈ r uː l ˈ t ɒ l k iː n/, ROOL TOL-keen 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. ![]()
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Superman smashes the klan6/10/2023 ![]() They kidnap Tommy, attack the Daily Planet, and even threaten the local YMCA. The Klan targets the Lee family, beginning a string of terrorist attacks. While the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. She's awkward, quiet, and self-conscious of how she looks different from the kids around her, so she sticks to watching people instead of talking to them. Tommy adjusts quickly to the fast pace of their new neighborhood, befriending Jimmy Olsen and joining the club baseball team, while his younger sister Roberta feels out of place when she fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. ![]() ![]() Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman! ![]() ![]() The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. ![]() Fallen crest high6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() He sailed to Cornwall to see it for himself, and met the author, and three months later they were married. She published her first novel when she was 24, and her descriptions of Cornwall captivated an army major named Frederick Browning. She and her sister loved to explore the coast, and she wrote about it in many of her books and stories. ![]() Her parents bought a summer home in Cornwall when du Maurier was a teenager, and she felt a strong affinity for the place. “All I can remember … is someone who looked at me with a sort of disapproving irritation, a queer unexplained hostility.” ![]() “I can’t remember once being held by her, feeling her arms round me, sitting on her lap,” she told a friend. Her mother, as du Maurier remembered her, was a cold woman. Her father was a successful actor-manager, and he was frequently unfaithful. Her parents were wealthy, but bohemian, theater people. It’s the birthday of English novelist Daphne du Maurier, born in London (1907). “Bad News Good News” by Marjorie Saiser from I Have Nothing to Say About Fire. ![]() Cathy raven book6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s the difference in your voices, please?Ĭatherine: There’s a big difference in the voices and the most important thing I want to tell writers, especially those of you that have to explain technical information and you need an encyclopedic type of voice. So, let’s talk about that voice right from the start I’ve read your more, how should we say, science-y work and I’ve read this beautiful book. ![]() And I read that section three times to locate how you get the readers buy-in and acceptance of this utterly radical act and utterly prevent us from saying, “What?” And instead, we say to ourselves, “Oh yes, of course, you read him The Little Prince. All this happens by page five in the book. You pull out a copy of the classic book, The Little Prince, and you read to the fox. And here’s the part that made tears shoot into my eyes when I first read it. And one day, a mangy fox shows up and continues to show up around the same time each day. You built yourself a tiny cottage in an isolated part of Montana from which you taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. I’m so happy to be here and you’re very welcome to my time. ![]() The warmth of other suns6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. ![]() Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYįrom 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA’s space exploration division has long since been shut down after a few fatal and high-profile accidents, and private companies have stepped in to fill that niche. ![]() To boil the book down to its premise, The Last Astronaut is a story about an alien object that is on course to enter Earth’s atmosphere. I thought that The Last Astronaut would be such a book, and it was… to an extent. The kind where the characters have to rely on good, old-fashioned science and hack-job engineering to get out of a jam. I’ve a bit of a soft spot for hard sci-fi stories. Out of time and options, NASA turns to its last living astronaut – Commander Sally Jansen, who must lead a team of raw recruits on a mission to make First Contact.īut as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival – against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse. A huge alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. ![]() ![]() Saxon James made me do a total 180 on this story and one of her lead characters, which, I must say, impresses the hell out of me.Īs many reviews have acknowledged, this plot relies heavily on the miscommunication that occurs (over and over) between college boys and polar opposites, Felix and Marshall. Where hopefully I can steal his heart too. So I decide to take matters into my own hands.Ī total do-over. The one who doesn’t feel worthy of being treated like anything other than a one-night stand. Including my virginity.īut the more I try to gain his attention, the more I see the real him. Which is a real problem when I want to give him everything. Confident, adorable, and completely outspoken. The sparky little spitfire is everything I’m not. That’s how long it took for Felix Andrews to steal my heart. His bedroom door is always open, I find his underwear on the laundry floor, and he has this whole bashful sweetheart thing going on that I just … can’t … stand.īut the most completely, horribly irritating thing about him, is that he’s totally my type.Īnd my friends won’t stop setting us up on blind dates. ![]() ![]() He leaves cupboards ajar and puts empty milk cartons back in the fridge. ![]() Except, when he shows up as my new roommate, I can’t escape him, and he’s just as irritating as I thought he’d be. Luckily I have no plans to see the giant teddy bear again. ![]() That’s how long it takes for Marshall Harrows to end up on my bad side. Thousands of students on this campus, and I keep being set up with the roommate I can’t stand. ![]() Richard pryor pryor convictions6/8/2023 ![]() He won Grammys for his groundbreaking, irreverent concert albums “Bicentennial Nigger” and “That Nigger’s Crazy.” And in 1974, he received a writing Emmy for a Lily Tomlin television special. Pryor worked as an actor and writer as well as a stand-up comic throughout the 1970s and into the ‘80s. Yet he somehow - often miraculously, it seemed - continued on, even after being diagnosed in 1986 with multiple sclerosis, a disease that robbed him of his trademark physical presence. Pryor had a history both bizarre and grim: self-inflicted burns (1980), a heart attack (1990) and marathon drug and alcohol use (that he finally kicked in the 1990s). ![]() Comedian Keenen Ivory Wayans once said: “Richard Pryor is the groundbreaker.” He “showed us that you can be black and have a black voice and be successful.” ![]() The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Esseilte and Branwen grow into teenagers together, and soon Esseilte confides in her cousin that she has a crush on Morholt, her uncle. Esseilte, the daughter of the Irish Queen Mairenn, has had a servant since birth-Branwen, the dark-haired illegitimate daughter of Queen Mairenn's brother Morholt. ![]() The novel opens with a description of the relationship between Branwen and her cousin and confidante, Esseilte. The novel focuses not only on the love story but also on the complicated political and religious undertones of the period, which shaped the lives of these two lovers. Esseilte's cousin Branwen narrates the tale, experiencing both the meeting of the fated couple and their nefarious and tragic plot to be together, despite the pain they cause each other. Set in 6th-century Ireland during the period of Celtic language and Druid religions, Diana L Paxson’s fantasy-romance novel The White Raven is a retelling of the classic story of Tristan and Isolde, though Paxson uses the characters' Celtic names, Drustan and Esseilte. ![]() The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan6/8/2023 ![]() In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Here is a book that is a must for any follower of history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.Ī Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() A compelling tale of courage and heroism, glow and tragedy, The Longest Day painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany.įor this new edition of The Longest Day, the original photographs used in the first 1959 edition have been reassembled and painstakingly reproduced, and the text has been freshly reset. Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the classic story of the invasion of Normandy, and a book that endures as a masterpiece of living history. The unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II - now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. ![]() |