![]() It is a window into the shadowy corners of the mind of a man whose very being has shifted into inertia partly due to the dehumanisation he experienced after 18 years of incarceration during the apartheid years. It is a very different novel but also speaks to the theme of the fall from grace of our current government, compared to the values of the struggle days. ![]() It is almost serendipitous that I selected this as my next book to read after The Textures of Silence because it is also partly set in pre-democracy days. As I closed it on the last page all I wanted to do was read it again. The contemplations of this nameless man are profoundly simple yet achingly fashioned with beautiful language. It is perhaps more a novella than a novel with the intensity of 500 pages condensed and concentrated into 108 pages. ![]() How do I even begin to describe this jewel of a novel? Small Things is an almost poetic meditation that documents the musings and reflections of a man who was born in Sophiatown before it was dismantled and now finds himself in his sixties and unable to contend with the demise of principle.The setting is Johannesburg then and now. ![]()
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![]() This book breaks the taboo on prophecy: We're not supposed to talk about a future that doesn't include the powerful states that rule over us today. The Sovereign Individual by Lord William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson (Touchstone, $29). It's both a great history of the space race and a meditation on how to steel yourself to take risks. "What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?" Wolfe asks that question in his classic about the test pilots who became the first astronauts. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (Picador, $17). In the 1960s, everyone expected progress. ![]() It was a controversial best-seller, but nobody argued with the premise. In 1968, Servan-Schreiber predicted relentless economic growth for America he wrote this book to wake up his European audience to the threat of eclipse. The American Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (out of print). We've gotten a lot done since, but New Atlantis is still futuristic, especially for science fiction from 1627. Francis Bacon dreamed of science and technology to make our lives better. ![]() ![]() Today we take for granted what used to exist only in dreams. New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (Wiley, $12). ![]() ![]() ![]() She is best known for her crime fiction but also for her popular plays. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer and playwright. Sayers is much better with people she might recognise as "like us" then with people from other social groups. Some of these characters are further developed in later novels: Bunter, Parker, the Dowager Duchess, Freddy Arbuthnot. The plot is clever, the villain is believable and sadistic, and most of the supporting characters are a delight. ![]() In spite of its awkwardness, Whose Body is worth reading. Over subsequent books, this caricature smooths and deepens into one of the most interesting and attractive detectives in fiction. Lord Peter is here more a bundle of characteristics than a character: a collector of rare books and incunabula, facile with quotations, fluent in French and probably in Latin, a skillful and sensitive pianist who never needs to practise, slightly built but possessed of "curious" strength and speed which he maintains without exercise. "Whose Body" is something of an apprentice work. The Wimsey Papers-The Wartime Letters and Documents of the Wimsey FamilyĬrime, fiction, Lord Peter Wimsey (Fictional character), mystery This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Saturdays at Sea (Castle Glower series, Book 5).Fridays with the Wizards (Castle Glower series, Book 4).Thursdays with the Crown (Castle Glower series, Book 3).Wednesdays in the Tower (Castle Glower series, Book 2).Holidays at the Castle (Castle Glower series, Book 1.5).Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower series, Book 1).Some of the adventurs include traveling to another dimensional world where they bring back Griffins. No one ever knows what the Castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions.Įach book is about a new adventure for the Glower Children. That's because on Tuesdays the Castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. Narrative style: Limited third-person narrative, told from the perspective of Princess Celie.Theme: Magical Castle that changes every Tuesdays, extra dimensional worlds. ![]() ![]() premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017.Ī religion emerged based on the novel see Īfrican American female author (1947-2006)ġ993 Butler, Octavia E (1947-2006). Īn opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi Novemand had its U.S. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. A religion emerged based on the novel see See also 1998 Butler.īothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. ![]() ![]() They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed,” can take root. ![]() The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as he plots and plans, he neglects to ask the most important question: What does Kiera want? He can't think about that too much, though, because once he gets the girl, it'll all sort itself out. With other boys circling Kiera like sharks, Del needs to make his move fast. In exchange, Del just has to get answers to the Pledgers' questions.about sex ed. But Del's not about to lose his dream girl, and that's where fellow pledger Jameer comes in. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and his best friend, Qwan, doesn't believe any girl is worth the long game. ![]() Though he quickly realizes he's inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Del's right behind her. And now, during their junior year, she's finally available. Two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a "real man."ĭel has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. Reynolds)Ĥ starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year! Jackson) "Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!" (Justin A. I couldn't put it down." (Nic Stone) "I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter." (Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first section of Tenant is told from the point of view of Gilbert, a gentleman farmer. This book can be read as a straight-up gothic romance novel – will the mysterious beautiful woman in the rundown mansion marry the gentleman farmer who adores her? But it’s more of a discourse on the perilous position of married women in Victorian England than it is a romance. While Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Brontë) and Wuthering Heights (by Emily Brontë) have remained popular through the years, Anne’s Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are rarely read now, even though they were the most popular of the Brontë books while the sisters were alive. After many years of reading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I finally got around to reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. ![]() ![]() Therefore, “contextual meaning” embedded within the narrative architecture of story images according to rules of steganography can be induced in game players according to Carl Jung’s Compensational process. Images tell both objective and subjective stories on multiple atomic-molecular-universal scales. According to Jung, such QED patterns called archetypes of the unconscious are projected as ubiquitous mediated images that-even on the scale of pixel patterns-have the same narrative architecture, the same dramatic QED structure. The dynamic for achieving at-one-ment or coherence is grounded in the scientific hypothesis that universal reality is quantum electrodynamic (QED). ![]() ![]() The concept behind the development of a Psychecology game (PEG) prototype is that authentic game-play based on the most current cognitive research and the principles of dream analysis identified by Carl Jung can promote individual and collective psychological atonement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ask yourself "Will this promote good discussion?" If the answer is no, prepare to have your post removed. Low effort posts will be subject to removal.Be excellent to each other, and practice good reddiquette.Please flair your posts, but remember that flairs aren't spoiler tags, they're only meant to denote the scope of your discussion.If you see un-tagged spoilers do not hesitate to hit 'report'. (See Spoiler Guidelines below) Exceptions being in threads where the scope of discussion is clear. ![]() Tag your spoilers! - Always tag your spoilers.Widely considered one of the greatest works within the sci-figenre, Dune has been the subject of various film and TV adaptations, including a major motion picture released in 2021. Dune is a landmark science fiction novel first published in 1965 and the first in a 6-book saga penned by author Frank Herbert. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this sweeping fantasy novel, librarian Lazlo Strange is recruited to help save the. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage. Fantastic Young Adult Fantasy: Strange the Dreamer. In this sweeping and breathtaking novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? And who is the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo's dreams? Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. ![]() ![]() The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around-and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past. ![]() |