6/10/2023 0 Comments The name of the windPosts and comments of this sort will be removed and repeat offenders will be banned. Posts and comments of this sort will be removed. ** No circlejerks/complaints about book 3 release. ** No politics, unless they are part of the books. This subreddit is for discussing the books and the world, and showing off fan creations. *** Book cover posts unless it actually has discussion-worthy content. *** Any content unrelated to the series claiming it's "like something in the series". *** Pictures of trees saying it's the Cthaeh (Use /r/CthaehTrees). This consists of the following post types: ** Please don't post low-effort/circlejerk type posts in the sub. ** Be respectful to other people, no bigotry of any kind. Reasons for removals: Look here if your thread was removed, especially if your account is new.įor a more detailed list of the rules please click here. Short Story: How Old Holly Came to Be (published in the Unfettered anthology) Novella: The Lightning Tree (published in the Rogues anthology) This subreddit is dedicated to everything related to The Kingkiller Chronicle, a fantasy trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss, telling the biography of "Kvothe", an adventurer, arcanist and musician.īefore posting your theories, check this thread to see if it's already been discussedĬlick here to display flair next to your name!ĭiscord - Join /r/KingkillerChronicle's official Discord here!īook 2.5: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Hemingway a movable feastReturning home, he briefly worked in Toronto for the Toronto Star before returning to Europe with his first of four wives. In 1918 he joined the Red Cross and experienced the horrors of World War I on the Italian Front where he was badly wounded. Excelling in English at school, he became a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star. Born in Chicago, he was grew up in the prosperous suburb of Oak Park. Įrnest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer of novels and short stories. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel The Sun Also Rises, and the subsequent masterpieces that followed. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Ulysses Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of une generation perdue and T.S. Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Unsouled book 2My writing schedule has been insane so far this year. Honestly, I can't believe it's already almost April. I look forward to seeing you all in space again soon.but first, of course, we have to finish things up in Cradle. I hope you enjoyed it, but thanks for giving it a shot either way! I know it's only been out a couple of days, so most of you probably haven't read it yet, but many of you have. So many of you read the story that we got up to #12 on the Kindle Store, which is insane for any first book. I salute you, brave explorers, boldly going where there are no Amazon reviews to guide you. I know it's a risk checking out a new series, even from an author you like. As I've mentioned before, this is the first series I've started since Unsouled in 2016, and I didn't know how many people would be interested in reading something new that's so different from Cradle.īut tons of you read it, the reviews are better than I expected, and all the discussion on Discord and Reddit has been incredible to see. We really had no idea what to expect from this book launch. A big, planet-sized thank-you to all of you who have already checked out The Captain! 6/9/2023 0 Comments The goldfinch synopsisThe novel opens with the main character, Theo, visiting a museum with his mother. Unfortunately, I knew within the first 50 pages of The Goldfinch that I was in trouble. I expected to love this book, given that it’s marketed as a character-driven saga revolving around a stolen work of art (if you’ve spent even a little time on this blog, you know I love a good art crime). He is alienated, unmoored, and in love-and drawn inexorably by the powers of that painting into a narrowing, dangerous circle.” As an adult, Theo moves easily between the antiques store where he works, the drawing rooms of the rich, and the underworld of art. He is bewildered by his strange new home and, tormented by his longing for his mother, clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that has come into his possession. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a wealthy Park Avenue family. The nail where you fate is liable to catch and snag.”īook Jacket Synopsis: “Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Maybe for someone else, not a dealer, it wouldn’t be an object. “Every dealer and antiquaire recognizes them. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Hemlock grove book reviewPeter has been slightly less interesting as his “turning on a bad moon” issue has progressed not nearly as rapidly or interestingly as it could. Roman as a character is in an interesting place as a character finally while he desperately tries to lose what makes him special while his mom has it taken away from her against her will. As previously stated character rehabilitation has been an important part of this season and I’d even consider it a modest success. And there’s still the issue that even now that there is a mystery worth talking about, there is no break between episodes to actually talk about it.Īnyway … there’s a threesome in this episode! It’s weird that I let myself prattle on about anything other than this for so long. Everything up to his point has been useless repetition. This is the scene that should have marked the beginning of the “men in masks” season-long arc, however, not its midpoint. Keep in mind this is a season in which blood actually spews out a woman’s neck like a fountain) is a mystery befitting a season-long arc. If anything, wouldn’t an ideologically-bent organization want deaths to be grand and make a point rather than covering them up? Still, the unnamed mask men attempting to kill a child, lacking the nerve and then cutting his legs (which was probably the most graphic image of the season for me. The presumably religious order trying to make deaths look like an accident has never made much sense to me. Said “dude in white masks” plot finally reaches a semi-interesting place in episode six – more than halfway through the season. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Knuffle bunny bookThe toddler exuberantly exclaims, "Knuffle Bunny!!!" - her first words. The three run back to the laundromat, and after several tries, Mo finds the toy among the wet laundry, and claims hero status. Cheryl, Trixie's mother, immediately understands that Knuffle Bunny is missing. Despite his plea of, "Now, please don't get fussy," she gives it her all, bawling and going "boneless." They both arrive home unhappy. Because she cannot talk, Trixie cannot explain to Mo why she is upset. But on the return home, she realizes that her stuffed rabbit, Knuffle Bunny, has been left behind. For the toddler, loading and putting money into the machine evokes wide-eyed pleasure. Trixie Willems steps lively as she and her father, Mo Willems, walk down the block, through the park, past the school, to the laundromat. The series' protagonist, Trixie, is named after Willems's real-life child. The Knuffle Bunny Series has sold more than 750,000 copies. The story spawned an animated short film and a musical play, as well as two sequels. Released by Hyperion Books in 2004, Knuffle Bunny received the 2005 Caldecott Honor. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale ( pronounced k-nuffle ) is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Mo Willems. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Enemy Women by Paulette JilesBut before long the stakes are raised, and Adair herself is accused of espionage. Although Squire Colley, a justice of the peace, has maintained neutrality in the conflict, his family does not escape the militia's wrath - their home is burned, their possessions stolen, and Colley himself is arrested for "disloyalty" and taken away.Ĭolley's 18-year-old daughter, Adair, joins her sisters, who set out on foot to find their jailed father and demand his release. Three years into the war, the Union militia is burning homes throughout the eastern Ozarks in retaliation against the families whose men fought for the Confederacy. Set in war-torn Missouri during the Civil War, Enemy Women is a timeless story of a heroine who perseveres as the world around her crumbles. Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers It is the ‘King’s highway’ along which everyone can travel to discover the truth of unconscious processes for themselves. By identifying its mechanisms, Freud also shed new light on the workings of the unconscious and its powerful role in human life.įreud called dream interpretation the ‘royal road’ to the unconscious. The book represents Freud’s first major attempt to set out his theory of a dynamic unconscious, created in childhood, which operates continuously in every human mind.įor Freud, dreaming is a mental activity that follows its own logic. Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams was one of the most important books of the 20th century.įirst published in 1900, it provides a groundbreaking theory of dreams and an innovative method for interpreting them that captivates readers to this day. Title page of the first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams. When I was a child, my father and I read together every night before bed. This is a fantastic collection, perfect for parents and kids to share together, an activity that seems to have been lost with the advent of tablets, smartphones and the endless slew of video games available. Seeing as how these books are really meant for kids, they are broken down in each book into sections based on story content, whether the stories are scary, involve jump scares, have humor, include death as a main component, unexplained mysterious happenings, urban legends, those kinds of things. I’m not sure what stories they include or from which books they pulled them from BUT, I’m hoping for a good and FUN film that takes me back to the days without cares like going back and reading these books again did. There is actually a movie being made from them, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark being released in August of this year. I’m sure there are many from my generation, Generation X, that remember these books. Collecting stories from folklore and urban legend, Alvin Schwartz retells these tales with his own flare and, at times, even adding a hint of comic relief to the darkness swirling in the mind as you peruse the pages. This is a collection of three books from my childhood, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981), More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984) and Scary Stories 3 More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991). Perlin's energetic exploration of this world is mostly confined to America, with a few British detours, but the questions he asks are profound and wide-ranging. Internships have spread to virtually every industry and almost every country, while internship-related businesses and campus career offices also proliferate, hawking internships, organizing internship fairs." build the human genome, deliver the weather report on TV. shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, Congressional offices and Hollywood studios. His preface offers an overview: "Interns. As Ross Perlin puts it in this timely and clear-sighted book, the first on the internship boom, "In much of the developed world, the subtle, relentless pressure to do an internship is now simply part of being young." Yet strikingly, almost everyone involved in the controversy seems to agree on one thing: that a few days' vaguely defined work as an intern is now a crucial early building block for a desirable, decades-long white-collar career. |