![]() James has taught English and creative writing at Macalester College since 2007. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University (2006). James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. ![]() Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is a hard story to describe, you have to experience it yourself to truly appreciate it. Not surprisingly, the teams eventually forge an allegiance, but not before Galactus gets in on the action and several betrayals and twists and turns occur. Initially rivals, their retrieval of the icons is kept track of by Krona and Grandmaster in a competition of which team can find them first. ![]() Once they move into each other’s universes, they meet, and the competition is on. The two teams are initially unaware of one another, and are confused when they are tasked to retrieve twelve magical items, found in both universes. The two of them devise a plan to pit the two teams of superheroes against one another, in a game within a game. Kurt Busiek writes and George Pérez illustrates this fun crossover tale in which all your favorites have to work together to save the cosmos!Įvil super scientist Krona (from the DC universe) is desperate to understand how it all began- what came before the Big Bang? In his millennia of searching, he has destroyed planets and civilizations without a second thought, but comes up against his equal when he meets the Grandmaster (from the Marvel universe). ![]() The DC and Marvel Heroes go head to head when their two realities combine, putting both their universes in danger. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got it on video for one of my earlier birthdays as a present from a like-minded older cousin, and have been obsessed with it to a greater or lesser extent since then. The Last Unicorn was a film which was a large part of my childhood. Somewhere between mythology, modernity, and magic, the Last Unicorn has found herself on the road less traveled by. She is forewarned by a forlorn dragon and befuddled by a chatty butterfly her unfamiliar traveling companion will be an exiled demon with a split personality and a penchant for philosophy. In this wonderfully strange adventure, a brave unicorn leaves her solitary life behind, determined to discover if she is the last of her kind. Here you will discover the eighty-five page genesis of Beagle’s masterpiece, his own wry musings upon his early career, charming original illustrations, and tributes from modern fantasy legends Patrick Rothfuss and Carrie Vaughn. Now the Last Unicorn’s fantastical origins are recaptured in this lovely commemorative hardcover. Beagle first imagined his beloved heroine when he was twenty-three, half a decade before she sprang into the world. ![]() ![]() Keckley met Mary Todd Lincoln on the day of Abraham's first inauguration and spent the next 6 years as the personal dressmaker and dresser for the First Lady. Keckley's reknown brought her to the attention of Mary Todd Lincoln, and they immediately formed a strong bond. After purchasing her freedom as an adult, Keckley moved to Washington DC and her sewing talents soon garnered an impressive clientele of affluent legislators. But her status did not protect her from a life of work that began at four years old and included severe abuse from her master's wife. The daughter of a house slave and her master, Keckley was taught to read and write, which was illegal and a rare priviledge. Behind the Scenes tells the story of the rise of Elizabeth Keckley from abused slave to independent business woman to friend of the First Lady of the land during the Civil War.Įlizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) was a slave for more than 40 years and became a reknown seamstress, activist and author. ![]() A former slave who became a successful dressmaker with her own business, became the dresser, dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during Abraham Lincoln's presidential adminstration. ![]() ![]() ![]() The specific details of Defoe's death are unclear, but he passed away in London on April 24, 1731. Defoe's realistic novels gained widespread popularity among the newly emerging middle-class readership of England and were foundational in the development of the novel as a literary form. Defoe later turned his writing efforts toward fiction, publishing Robinson Crusoe in 1719, and following it with a number of other novels, including Moll Flanders. In the early 1700s, he was imprisoned for some of his more controversial political writings. ![]() After some time as a merchant, during which he traveled throughout Europe, he became known for writing political pamphlets in the 1680s and 1690s. At this time, England was not a very tolerant place for non-Anglican Protestants-Defoe was unable to attend Cambridge or Oxford because of his religion, for example. ![]() Daniel Foe was born into a lower-middle class Presbyterian family in London in 1660 (he later added the French-sounding "De" to his last name to sound higher-class). ![]() ![]() ![]() Rory is a sweet, down-to-earth girl, and my daughter and I liked her immediately. Even as I write this, I cannot help giggling as I remember each incident that happens as she asserts and tests her newly acquired independence. The story is about Rory Swenson who upon turning twelve has a wish list of things she is now allowed to do and has wanted to do for so long, such as getting a cell phone, drinking coffee, staying home alone, getting her ears pierced, and shaving her legs. Needless to say, we have become instant fans of this new to us author. ![]() And so it was every night as I read Finally by Wendy Mass to my 8 year-old daughter. She and I are lying on her bed, howling with laughter, tears running down our faces. ![]() My husband smiles as he hears the ruckus coming from my daughter’s room. ![]() ![]() ![]() Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, sans the first-person narrative. Truth be told, I am a bit shaken by this. It's ugly, it's disturbing, it's disgusting, but all too real. The image he portrayed in this short novel is as graphic as it can get. Mac Arthur is an unflinching depiction of life in the Philippine urban underworld, and the characters that move within it. In his first books, Bob Ong always spoke with his trademark wit and humor, but here, he takesa very serious tone. While this is not his first work of fiction, Alamat ng Gubat being his debut piece on the genre, Mac Arthur presents a totally different aspect of Bob Ong's writing. I suppose a lot of his avid fans would be surprised with this. What can I say? It's not like any of his previous books. It’s not a touching story but it is very heartbreaking. It takes up a really serious story about four friends and how life sucks because they don’t have enough money. This is, so far, the best Bob Ong book, for me.It’s not funny nor is it scary. I have bought a copy of Bob Ong's latest work, Mac Arthur last Tuesday, I finished it off in around four hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part III: Comparing RED and Active Imaginationġ0 The Concept of Interiority and its Development in Western Europeġ2 Conceptualising a Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imaginationġ3 A Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imagination: Getting Started Preparation of the Body and Directivity by the Analystġ4 A Theoretical Comparison of RED and Active Imagination: Transferential Issues, Narrative Style and Interpretation in the Middle and Final Phase of TreatmentĪppendix: Biographical Details of Robert Desoille Part II: Jung and Desoille – A Historical InvestigationĦ Theoretical Influences on Jung and Desoilleħ Jung and Desoille: Sharing Common ColleaguesĨ Unacknowledged European Imaginative Therapeutic Practitionersĩ Jungians Bridging Differences with Desoillians ![]() ![]() Part I: Active Imagination and the Directed Waking DreamĢ Robert Desoille and the Directed Waking Dream Methodģ Post-Jungian Developments on Active ImaginationĤ Post-Desoillian Developments on the Directed Waking Dream Methodĥ Jungians and the Directed Waking Dream: Orthodox and Unorthodox Perspectives ![]() ![]() Fans of Wright will find what they’re looking for in this collection…” - Publishers Weekly “… begins as a loving naturalist’s ode to the beech tree and branches out to touch a dizzying array of international, transhistorical topics, not least among them what it means to be alive. They say it really doesn’t hurt the tree, all that carving. Takoma Park carved with presidents from Washington to Lincoln in 1865 blownĭown in 1997). Witness tree, graffiti tree, tattoo tree, autograph tree, trysting tree, avenue tree,Īrborglyph, CMT (culturally modified tree), Presidents’ Tree (for the one in ![]() Risen past the window on the second floor I picture being the site of the attack When I pass the house, I see the yew long A botched investigation, contaminatedĮvidence, a cover-up, and so forth. Synthetic was developed in lieu of yew bark.)Ī probable, never-charged patricide. ![]() ![]() Required 2 tons of bark to yield 10 pure grams. Natural source of paclitaxel, but the cancer-fighting compound (The bark of the Pacific yew was discovered to be the ![]() Victim, owner of the emporium, House of a Million Items, was in the shower. Place in the severe old house on Miller Street with its side-yard yew. Warren, RI, brought over on one of Commodore Perry’s black ships by theīotanists Rev. Possibly something no human was meant to see. I think of a witness tree as one that stood its ground, when something happened, ![]() ![]() Why the big build-up for a fight that didn’t happen? These are Bella’s thoughts about Renesmee, during the time when her life was in serious danger from the pregnancy. The title Breaking Dawn is a reference to the beginning of Bella’s vampire life. In the end, it’s Bella that brings about the win for the Cullens. She began as the weakest (at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves) player on the board: the pawn. What are you going to do next? Will you continue with the Twilight universe?īreaking Dawn‘s cover is a metaphor for Bella’s progression throughout the entire saga.Why? Also, that it might be impossible to film. I’ve heard you say that you think Breaking Dawn should be two movies.How do you feel about the Breaking Dawn controversy?.Vampires and pregnancy: when did that idea occur to you? How does that work?. ![]() How different is Breaking Dawn from Forever Dawn? What changed, what stayed the same, and why? Will you ever post extras from Forever Dawn?.What was the other book besides Midsummer Night’s Dream that you said influenced Breaking Dawn?.Why the big build-up for a fight that didn’t happen?.What does the Book I prologue refer to?.This page is thick with explicit spoilers, so I would recommend not reading this if you have not yet read the book but are still planning to. These are the most popular questions that I got while on tour. ![]() |