![]() ![]() ![]() If the convoluted racial composition of these characters is a challenge to track, that’s the point: Despite the strict demarcations of color that reside in the White imagination, the society that evolves in these pages is peopled by a spectrum of hues. ![]() You don’t read these phrases so much as hear them on the wind. ![]() Sweeping back and forth across the years, her narration shifts nimbly to reflect the tenor of the times - from the shared legends of tribal people to the candid realism of the modern era. Du Bois is the protean quality of Jeffers’s voice. One of the many marvels of The Love Songs of W.E.B. As any honest record of several centuries must, Jeffers’s story traverses a geography of unspeakable horror, but it eventually arrives at a place of hard-won peace. Jeffers has poured a lifetime of experience and research into this epic about the travails of a Black family. Yes, at roughly 800 pages, it is, indeed, a mountain to climb, but the journey is engrossing, and the view from the summit will transform your understanding of America. Du Bois is the kind of book that comes around only once a decade. Whatever must be said to get you to heft this daunting debut novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, I’ll say, because The Love Songs of W.E.B. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Internationally, Locke's political-legal principles continue to have a profound influence on the theory and practice of limited representative government and the protection of basic rights and freedoms under the rule of law. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence. His writings influenced Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American Revolutionaries. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. John Locke FRS ( / l ɒ k/ 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London ![]() ![]() ![]() When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family and her beloved dogs. ![]() 2014) Her books are sold worldwide on KDP and Barnes and Noble Nook in paperback and e-book format. Her books include: Brooklyn Italian: A Memoir of Recipes of Days Gone By (p.2012), In My Mother's Kitchen p 2013), Twinkle and The Little Red Ball p 2014), One Shoe.Two Shoes.What's Ted To Do? (p. She has appeared on Chicago's WGN Lunch Break Show, Author's First Radio Show, The Creative Life with Erin Denk Radio Show, Chicago's Daily Herald Cook of The Week, The Lake County Journal, Fra Noi Italian Magazine and the UA Journal. Always with a message, Twinkle and The Little Red Ball is a wonderful story which will entertain children while teaching them that no matter how different we all look, or where we may come from we can all come together as a team for any good cause. Illustrated by the very talented Amy Houghton from the United Kingdom, this book once again shows the uniqueness of the author. ![]() Her newly published children's book, Twinkle and The Little Red Ball is beautifully written with a section for children to color in the back. Her books, Brooklyn Italian: A Memoir of Recipes of Days Gone By and In My Mother's Kitchen take you back to a simpler time of family traditions, food and remembering. Marotta is an independently published author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ethnic squabbling that still pervades humanity like the common cold. Then there’s an unsettling connection to the contemporary Indian calamity that would have been fresh at the time this was written, the massacre at the Golden Temple of Amritsar, i.e. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a particularly extended fable, including elements of fame culture, divine and awesome natural talent (see also Jesus) bound and hobbled by vested commercial interests, an interface between the modern myths (Klingons, the language of Mordor) and the mystical heritage of the characters, the metaphor of the cataract rending the ground asunder and dragging the unworthy (or too good to be allowed to walk the Earth any longer) down to the chaos and underworld that exists just beneath the surface of human experience, returning a character to the ownership of the gods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Survivors by Eligh: The Federation has been torn apart by an invading alien force, and Spock, now a rebel, has had everything he once cared about ripped from him. ![]() A story set in San Francisco, after the defeat of Nero, but before the Enterprise once again took flight. We put on a pretty poor show, didn’t we?” - Kirk to Spock, Requiem for Methuselah. Reviving Methuselah by kyliselle: “A very old and lonely man. ![]() With My Feet Toward the Stars by kariye: At age five, Spock informs his mother that it is illogical to wish him “sweet dreams” at bedtime because Vulcans do not dream. Because saving the Federation was only the beginning. In the meantime! It’s time to start voting for the next fic we will read! The nominations we have (and feel free to add more I didn’t get any nominations this month) are:Ītlas by Angel_Baby1: Between what was and what will be stands James Tiberius Kirk, in all his fractured patchwork glory. I’ll post the chat later today when more people are awake. To anyone missing the chat from yesterday - sorry! I was in the car on the way back to college all day and set up a queue to post it, but the queue glitched booo. ![]() ![]() But, despite their friendship, the answer was always no – not because they didn't want to help him out, but because it would have been illegal. Why is it that rich people can accumulate so much wealth? Well, one reason is that some investments are simply off-limits if you’re poor.īack when he was a young man with little cash, the author asked his rich friends if he could get involved in their business deals. A Wall Street Journal article confirmed this, noting that 10 percent of the population own 90 percent of all the shares in the United States. The same goes for athletes, musicians and, of course, investors. ![]() Yep, 10 percent of actors earn 90 percent of the money. Think about Hollywood stars, and then think how many actors are waiting tables between gigs. Maybe you've heard of the 80-20 rule, which states that 80 percent of our success comes from 20 percent of our efforts? Well, that might be true for overall success – but for money, the rule is 90-10, because when it comes down to it, 10 percent of people have 90 percent of the money. ![]() ![]() ![]() Links: GOODREADS | FACEBOOK | AMAZON | B&N An unlikely union, Aaron soon learns that great strengths can exist within small packages, while Madeleine learns that love and light can exist in the darkest of places. ![]() ![]() Despite his resistance, Aaron’s father ‘gifts’ him with a petite, brunette woman he can’t refuse.Ī bond forged in conspiracy and deceit, Aaron struggles to save Maddy by teaching her to survive in the world in which he’d been raised. Wanting nothing to do with the slaves kept at the Estate, Aaron refuses to take part in the deeper depravities of his father. Seemingly dangerous and uncaring, Aaron manages the business operations of his father’s estate. On the night of her first solo performance, Maddy accepts the admiration of a stranger and finds herself captive in a cruel and twisted power struggle between a sadistic father and his son, Aaron. Sheltered and naïve, she remains hidden behind her music, a protection from the world around her. Madeleine Clark was raised to become a concert cellist. She becomes the one thing that could set the son free. ![]() Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine. Synopsis: She was meant to be his destruction…Ī pawn played in a perilous game between father and son… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing like the future of humanity envisioned in the Star Treks and Star Wars of the world! The known universe is ruled by a feudal aristocratic empire, where planets are divided among noble houses. Considered seminal to science fiction, Frank Herbert’s Dune was published in 1965 and is the story of Paul Atreides, the heir to the noble House Atreides surviving political machinations and the destruction of his House on the inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.ĭune is set in a future far, far away where humans have built a society devoid of artificial intelligence – no computers, no phones, no robots. You can see what makes Dune an Oscar contender – a story that’s been nearly impossible to translate to screen, the technical prowess of the movie from Hans Zimmer’s inimitable music to Director and Writer Denis Villeneuve’s vision for the saga. Sahil’s tl dr Come for the science fiction, stay for the spectacle. And more so if you go in expecting half the story, for the time of one! ![]() ![]() Paul Atreides of House Atreides, Dune 2021įair warning – spoilers ahead! If you’ve not seen Dune, bookmark this page, watch the movie and come back to finish your read.Īdi’s tl dr Dune’s a spectacle, one that gets better on the second watch. ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to. As with Forster, this dramatically reduced the liberating force of the works. James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. ![]() Throughout his life he was a vigorous and outspoken campaigner against racism, but was generally secretive and closeted about his sexual life in public, and took no part in gay rights campaigns. He travelled extensively in Europe, and settled for many years in France, and an implied or express comparison between Europe and the United States can frequently be found in his writing. As a young teenager, Baldwin also became a preacher, and the oratorical style he then used influenced the prose he went on to write, in both essays and fiction. James Baldwin (1924–87), an illegitimate child, was brought up in Harlem in New York, where his father was a Christian minister. ![]() ![]() On the positive side, for those who like to see some actual fantasy in their fantasy, the Elric books are satisfyingly stuffed with gods, elementals, other planes of existence, time travel, demons, sorcerers and dragons. Elric as a character is interesting as a concept but not always interesting to read about, as there is a lot of repetition in the text about his state of mind. The stories move episodically from action point to action point, making for predictable tension arcs, and are communicated through language that is barely adequate and never beautiful. Moorcock’s writing is competent, but a bit bland and sometimes feels rushed. Much of what I said there also goes for this volume. For a fuller introduction of Moorcock’s Elric stories, I’d like to refer you to my review of the first volume: Elric of Melnibone, the Elric Saga, Vol. ![]() |