![]() She is the author of Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (2003) and Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry (1984). Yale) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California–Davis. ![]() The Norton Anthology of Poetry PDF About the Author It will improve your life in ways that you do not expect. ![]() I take it on every business trip and just dig into it every night, for reading one poem, then it is light’s out…….I Love it, it’s the best.Īnd your know, every day I read a poem out of this book, I quietly thank that English Professor, who is not part of my life anymore, for connecting me with an important and necessary part of life. Not just full of poems, from throughout history, but also an excellent explanation, of what I have come to call the “architecture” of poetry. ![]() Then found this book, which has been a total feast of beautiful poetry. ![]() But I did not mind, as that was the exact instant in my entire life that I did finally “get” how to read poetry.īut you know, that education was exactly what I needed to fully join the western literature tradition. Will point out that one morning, the professor was so insistent that I “get” Keat’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” that I missed my Amtrak for work. ![]()
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![]() Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the third installment of the New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he’s willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City – whatever the cost? ![]() With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning, and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.Īs Clary uncovers more about her family’s past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985, and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). ![]() To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters – never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hanson shares how we can hardwire our brain and inner resources for greater happiness, peace, and well-being, and what we can do to grow the good in our brain in order to function from our highest potential and get the most out of life. He explains how his simple, 4-step program, HEAL, blends neuroscience and practical psychology to grow greater mindfulness, emotional balance, and well-being in a way that creates powerful and lasting change in the body, particularly the brain.ĭr. He joins us today to discuss the new neuroscience of awakening and how internalizing our beneficial experiences helps us to better deal with the challenges of life. Hanson is Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, and has been an invited speaker at Google, NASA, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. Today, on Higher Energy, we are joined by special guest Rick Hanson Ph.D., who is a neuropsychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and a New York Times best-selling author that has written and taught about the essential inner skills of personal well-being, psychological growth, and contemplative practice – as well as relationships, family life, and raising children.ĭr. ![]() ![]() The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly 's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. ![]() In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. It was praised for its plot and character development. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. ![]() The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Honeymoon for One takes place in Canada and England, and I could hear the different accents, especially in the way Robin speaks, which definitely added to the pleasure of reading. The majority of books I read are set in the United States and I always forget how much I love when one isn’t. Fighting for what you want and deserve doesn’t seem to come naturally to many of us, and Robin and Neve’s journeys will probably sound familiar to more than a few readers. They’re not perfect, they make mistakes, they cling to their denial, and I couldn’t help but root for them, I wanted to see them both (and the people around them) happy, I wanted them to get a break and feel loved and understood. Rachel Bowdler doesn’t make things easy for her characters. On the other hand, Neve’s stubbornness made me want to shake her repeatedly yet her fears are entirely understandable. She’s extremely sweet and funny and quirky and I’m sure she’ll live in my mind for a while. I was wrong and she grew on me, bad puns and all. She felt whiny and gullible and a pushover. ![]()
![]() In it, two characters discuss a biological weapon called ‘Wuhan-400.’ Called the “perfect weapon,” it afflicts only human beings and no other living creature can carry the microorganism. ![]() ![]() The second excerpt features dialogue from Koontz’s novel. In the first excerpt, a sentence is highlighted saying, “In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe.” The excerpt also says the illness will vanish, reappear in 2030, and then “disappear completely”. The post shows the cover of the book along with two excerpts. A Facebook post on Februclaims the 1981 novel The Eyes of Darkness by Koontz forecast the outbreak. ![]() Bislig∆known - THE STATEMENT A series of social media posts are claiming a 1981 novel written by best-selling US author Dean Koontz predicted the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak in 2019-2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is perfect for kids, parents and teachers looking for ideal role models for the youth of today to look up to and to see exactly what makes a true hero. Most of this heroes aren’t famous, but have done great things, like saving their brothers or sisters from a fire, fought against prejudice in school or helped raise money for a small African community. Barron, Barron uses a hiking trail as a metaphor for heroes like Wilma Rudolph, Anne Frank, Stephen Hawking and others. Barron Synopsis: In The Hero’s Trail by T.A. Rocky Mountain National Park: A 100 Year Perspective was written with John Fielder and Enos Mills. The Great Tree of Avalon was originally published under the title Child of the Dark Prophecy. The Dragon of Avalon was originally titled Merlin’s Dragon. A Wizard’s Wings was originally published as The Wings of Merlin. The Mirror of Fate was originally published as The Mirror of Merlin. The Raging Fires was originally published as The Fires of Merlin. The Seven Songs was originally titled The Seven Songs of Merlin. Notes: The Lost Years was originally published as The Lost Years of Merlin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not a major issue you might think, but people in Prospera are just not supposed to have them – their lives and wellbeing are monitored, after all. However, Proctor has recently been having vivid dreams, a recurrence of something he had when younger but thought he had grown out of. He has a nice home, is earning good money and is in a job that he likes and that he is good at. He is in the 8th year of a 15-year marriage contract with Elise, who is the daughter of Calliste Baird, Prospera’s CEO of the board of directors. It is his job to ferry people to the Nursery, easing their journey as much as possible – or occasionally enforcing the trip. The narrative is focussed upon Proctor Bennett who works for the Department of Social Contracts. Then the person travels, usually by choice, via ferry to the island known as The Nursery where they retire themselves. ![]() The Ferryman is set on the archipelago of Prospera – a kind of elitist gated community where rich people live long lives in health, wealth and prosperity until their monitors, embedded in their forearms, fall below 10%. It’s been seven years since the last of Justin’s vampiric Passage Trilogy, The City of Mirrors – was published. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this construction reduces the last 30 years of Mary’s life, after her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death, into a final chapter and coda. The organizational effect is compelling, as it allows the biographer and reader to consider all the elements of her experiences that certainly or potentially contributed to the creation of her still-resonant work of early science fiction. ![]() ![]() Configuring her text in this way, Sampson provides a strong narrative arc for her subject and pulls her reader into a rich account of Mary’s rather unstable early existence. Sampson divides the biography into two sections: Mary’s life before and during the publication of Frankenstein, entitled “The Instruments of Life” and the much shorter “Borne Away By the Waves,” which covers the period afterward. This structure serves as one of the biography’s strongest features, while also creating what this reviewer sees as a potential source of limitation. Sampson divides the biography into two sections: Mary’s life before and during the publication of Frankenstein, entitled “The Instruments of Life” and the much shorter “Borne Away By the Waves,” which covers the period afterward.Īs her subtitle suggests, Sampson frames her biography of Mary Shelley around this novel, viewing it as a watershed moment in the author’s life and career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A depiction of small town life with all its comforts and its terrors, this memoir speaks to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in America. This is a cautionary, wise, and celebratory tale about what it’s like to be different in America-both the good and the bad. The town responds in radically different ways to the couple’s presence, from prayer vigils on the village green to a feature article in the family section of the local newspaper. Mixing humor with memorable prose, Blum recounts how a quiet, conservative town in an impoverished stretch of Appalachia reacts as she and a local woman, Connie, fall in love, move in together, and determine to live their life together openly and truthfully. Blum, author of the critically acclaimed novel Amnesty, now tells the story of her own life and her decision to be out, loud, and pregnant. This is a funny, moving story about life in a small town, from the point of view of a pregnant lesbian. ![]() |