![]() ![]() I want to take some time to dive deeper into books that stick with me by taking a look at the moments that made me stop and grab a sticky note. That’s where posts like this are going to come in. I could remember the quote and roughly where it was in the book, but I would never be able to find the page number, and it seemed like every time I would look them up online, I would find the quote, but no location so that I could cite the quotes. One of the hardest parts of writing those, at least for me, was finding the quotes that I wanted to use. In May, I graduated with my Bachelors degree from the Language, Literature, and Writing department at my university, which means that I just concluded 16 years of writing book reports and essays. If you’d like to read my spoiler-free review, check out this post. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Warning: This post contains spoilers for V. ![]()
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![]() “Direkit Seed” copyright © 2000 by John Everson “Pumpkin Head” copyright ©1999 by John Everson ![]() “Dead Girl on the Side of the Road” copyright © 2000 by John Everson Originally appeared in Into The Darkness #2 “Cage of Bones” copyright © 1994 by John Everson “Yellow” copyright © 2000 by John Everson ![]() “John Everson has crafted an incredible collection that will surely “move” you in ways you never knew possible from a horror story.”ĭeadly Nightlusts: A Collection of Forbidden MagicĬover art copyright © 2000 by Andrew Shorrockįoil stamp / "endbug" design copyright © 2000 by Colleen Crary Each of his stories is a dark and tantalizing show well worth the price of admission.” John Everson is such a writer, and a very willing guide. What better themes, what greater mysteries can be explored by the arts, by fiction in particular? In the hands of a skilled writer the veil can be lifted, the mystery exposed and experienced vicariously, safely. Some suspenseful, others gently persuasive.” Everson has a clear and sometimes poetic style that lulls and enthralls, drawing you in comfortably only to snap you up. “… a wonderfully nasty little collection of twenty dark, and often erotic, horror tales. Not every writer would be able to convert his most freakish and kinkiest imaginings into neatly plotted narratives as Everson does here… Can you say 'the Stephen King version of American Pie'?” “…John Everson has to be congratulated for having the courage of his nightmares. ![]() Praise for Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions ![]() ![]() ![]() Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in August 2008. In 1990, with the fall of Soviet Communism, his citizenship was restored and four years later he returned to settle in Russia. He settled in Vermont and worked on his great historical cycle The Red Wheel. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1974 his citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from the Soviet Union. The publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Novy Mir in 1962 was followed by publication, in the West, of his novels Cancer Ward and The First Circle. In 1957 he formally rehabilitated, and settled down to teaching and writing, in Ryazan and Moscow. In 1945, however, after making derogatory remarks about Stalin in a letter, he was arrested and summarily sentenced to eight years in forced labour camps, followed by internal exile. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyns classic novel based on his own. In World War II he fought as an artillery officer, attaining the rank of captain. Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalins Gulag. He graduated in Physics and Mathematics from Rostov University and studied Literature by correspondence course at Moscow University. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 and grew up in Rostov-on-Don. ![]() ![]() As he details the rise of progressivism and liberal attacks on human nature, he demonstrates how the idea grew that human nature is not fixed but malleable. He believes America and its founding principles are under a decades-old assault from a progressive agenda. Will begins with an explanation of the principles and beliefs of America’s Founding Fathers and the government they created. ![]() The answers he gives to these questions are well worth considering as he provides a beautiful vision for the future of America that is achieved by retrieving her founding principles. The purpose of Will’s book, he writes, is “to suggest how to think about the enduring questions concerning the proper scope and actual competence of government” (xvii). New York: Hachette Books, 2019.Ĭombine exceptional research, brilliant storytelling, unassailable logic, and a world-class, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and you have George Will’s recent book The Conservative Sensibility. ![]() ![]() Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many flourishing cities of Bronze Age civilization were indeed destroyed by 1177 BC or soon thereafter. This complicated process has no one explanation - and more to the point, no one cause. And in any case, the collapse of civilization among the distinct but interconnected Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians, and Babylonians of the Bronze Age took not a year, he explains, but more like a century. ![]() The title, which seems to have been the result of the publishing industry’s invincible enthusiasm for naming books after years, may soon need an update: as Cline admits, it reflects a convention among scholars about how to label the titular event that has just been revised, and has since been revised back. Cline makes his own case in the book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. What the specialists don’t quite agree on is how it happened. The Bronze Age lasted a long time, from roughly 3300 to 1200 BC - at the end of which, ancient-history specialists agree, civilization collapsed. But of course, his prospects for survival in that era - or indeed anyone’s - depend on which part of it we’re talking about. I’m sure I would not live more than about 48 hours, but it’d be a good 48 hours.” He may give himself too little credit: as he goes on to demonstrate in the hour that follows, he has as thorough an all-around knowledge of life in the Bronze Age as anyone alive in the 21st century. “If I could be reincarnated backwards,” he says in the lecture above, “I would choose to live back then. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present day, Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson) is paroled after serving 15 years for killing Alex Forrest. Hynes have moved things to Los Angeles (or to cheap soundstages, with some Los Angeles establishing shots) and bifurcated the narrative. ![]() Series developers Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Oh, and no bunnies are harmed in this production of Fatal Attraction, which I’ll leave for you to interpret as a positive or negative. Despite several exceptional performances, this Fatal Attraction can’t find the desired middle ground between voyeuristic thrills and psychological nuance, and despite many enticing options, it can’t plant its flag in any important piece of the zeitgeist. Unfortunately, for all of that certitude, the new ending offers no improvement over Lyne’s ruthlessly efficient original and the bloated journey to get there is rarely more satisfying. ![]() How are you going to get to that ending?” “There’s only one way for something to end,” Alex (Lizzy Caplan) asserts in the eighth and final episode of Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction. Paramount Streaming Loss Widens to $511M as Paramount+ Hits 60M Subs ![]() ![]() A Nintendo Switch port of the game was released on December 10, 2019.īlacksad: Under the Skin is an adventure game that takes place in a three-dimensional game world. It was released on November 14, 2019, although a technical error caused an unfinished version of the game to launch in Europe on November 5. ![]() The project began in late 2016 at the suggestion of Microïds, part of the same media conglomerate that owns Blacksad publisher Dargaud. The game follows John Blacksad as he investigates the suspicious death of a boxing club owner.īlacksad is Pendulo's first game based on a license and its first to use fully 3D graphics. It is an adaptation of the Spanish comic series Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. ![]() Blacksad: Under the Skin is a 2019 adventure video game developed by the Spanish company Pendulo Studios and published by Microïds. ![]() ![]() ![]() It existence has long been accepted, and the biographies of its leading figures are well known.īut this second revolution was something different. The first scientific revolution of the 17th century is familiarly associated with the names of Newton, Hooke, Locke and Descartes, and the almost simultaneous foundations of the Royal Society in London, and the Acadèmie des Sciences in Paris. In effect there is Romantic science in the same sense there is Romantic poetry, and often for the same enduring reasons. The notion of wonder seems to be something that once united them, and can still do so. But I do not believe this was always the case, or that the terms are so mutually exclusive. Romanticism as a cultural force is generally regarded as intensely hostile to science, its ideal of subjectivity eternally opposed to that of scientific objectivity. ![]() ![]() This is my account of the second scientific revolution, which swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and produced a new vision which has rightly been called Romantic science. The Age of Wonder is a relay-race of scientific stories, and they link together to explore a larger historical narrative. ![]() ![]() Over 170 artworks by these and many other artists of the era are illustrated in full color. It also explores the art-historical and social contexts with subjects ranging from black feminism, AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups to the role of museums in the debates of the period and visual art's relation to the Black Arts Movement. The book features substantial essays from Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration, respectively. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling. Williams, Howardina Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. ![]() ![]() How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. ![]() ![]() African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The harvest festival corn maze Truman creates every year has an unwelcome visitor. He now runs an orphanage for problem youths, and is a feeding therapist in his desire to help children deal with their peculiarities. Being different kept him from being adopted till he was fourteen. Truman Johnstone 's ability to discern people's expressions, and decipher if they were lying- made him an outspoken child. They keep their synesthesia secret- that days, months and years appear as color in Verity's mind, and for John, that symphonies play in a Fantasia-style performance of colors and geometric patterns. Orphaned during the Indian raids, she and her brother with Asperger's Syndrome come to live with the key historical figures of the trials-The Putnams. Her flaming red hair and mismatched eyes make her a prime target for accusation of witchcraft. ![]() Verity Montague is a servant in 1692 Salem. ![]() |