![]() ![]() This, she parceled out to her bloggers, who quite faithfully posted the appropriate information on the day they said they would. She asked me for all kinds of materials, from answers to interview questions, to history behind the writing of the novel, to personal information. Maia, of Silver Dagger, did a stellar job. A month of such posts turned out to be too much for me. I can blog, and post on social media, but my universe is small, and I can only annoy my readers/followers so much. The first step was to decide when to do the tour, and how long the tour should last. We decided to do a blog tour with Silver Dagger Book Tours to promote this new release of a much-published book. ![]() ![]() My Lizzie Borden book was re-released under this new imprint, in the Based on a True Story category. My publisher, IFD Publishing, is launching a new line of books, Horror That Happened. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.” “A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.” “Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.” Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.” “A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. is how the body measures itself against the earth.” “The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.” Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.” A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. ![]() “Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. ![]() “ solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.” 30 Great Quotations from Rebecca Solnit on Walking ![]() ![]() ![]() There are several sub-branches of this movement, including vegetarian ecofeminism, spiritual ecofeminism, and materialist ecofeminism. One study has even suggested some men may have internalized aversions toward environmentalism, as it could be perceived as feminine. Research shows women are also more greatly affected by radiation than men. ![]() According to one report from the United Nations, because women worldwide typically hold less monetary wealth and rely on the natural environment more, they are more likely to be displaced by climate change and have to travel farther for resources, like water, as dry seasons extend. Specifically, ecofeminism holds that most environmental issues can be traced back to the global prioritization of qualities deemed masculine (particularly the ones some would regard as toxic, like aggression and domination) and those in power who embody those attributes.Įcofeminism also calls attention to the fact that women are disproportionately affected by environmental issues. Ecofeminism is an ideology and movement that sees climate change, gender equality, and social injustice more broadly as intrinsically related issues, all tied to masculine dominance in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tobias Plieninger, Tobias PlieningerDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel. ![]()
![]() Not only did Cal kill an unarmed enemy just as Anakin did, but the torment of inner conflict then pours from his face as he appears terrified of himself. ![]() However, even with Bode now clearly defeated, Cal fires his blaster again to ensure his former ally's demise. At the end of the battle, Bode's blaster fails, leaving him wide open for Cal to deliver the killing blow. In the final act of Jedi: Survivor, Cal and Bode engage in combat. RELATED: Jedi: Survivor's Gen'Dai Bounty Hunter Could Be Cal Kestis' Biggest Challenge Yet Anakin's inner conflict is clearly visible on his face as he replies, "I shouldn't." However, Palpatine gives the order again, and Anakin beheads his defenseless opponent. Palpatine, observing nearby, then orders Anakin to kill Dooku. ![]() This all but seals his fate as one who would eventually be seduced by the Dark Side of the Force.Īt the end of an arduous battle, a helpless Count Dooku kneels before Anakin with two lightsabers, one red and one blue, surrounding his neck like a pair of scissors. In what is considered one of the most brilliant character development scenes of the Star Wars saga, Anakin Skywalker delivers a devastating killing blow to an unarmed, defeated Count Dooku during the first act of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. ![]() ![]() ![]() (No wonder the rights were also bought, after a fierce bidding war, for a reported $5 million.) The result of half a decade of intensive reporting, it’s a thrilling tale that takes in racial injustice, the emergence of forensic science, and the birth of what would become the FBI. Then there’s his new book, Killers Of The Flower Moon, which follows a series of murders targeting the Osage native American community in 1920s Oklahoma. ![]() This month, Grann is back two-fold: The Lost City Of Z, a film adaptation of Grann’s 2009 book about a maniacally obsessed Amazon explorer, starring Robert Pattinson, Charlie Hunnam, and Sienna Miller, is currently in cinemas. If you don’t know his name, you’ll likely know his work Grann’s 2008 story about a French con artist inspired the 2012 film The Imposter. ![]() A staff writer at the New Yorker, Grann has a reputation for uncovering insane true stories – of murders, frauds, and conspiracies – with stranger-than-fiction twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he and his brother, William, were playing a game of William Tell, his brother shot him in the eye with an arrow causing him to lose an eye. Interestingly enough, in doing a little research on Thurber, it would seem his bad eyesight came about under rather unusual circumstances. He finally started posing as a doctor and was doing examinations himself unnoticed and undetected. Week after week he was called in for examinations and, of course, he went. ![]() However, apparently his paperwork was never processed correctly and he was called back, time and again, to the draft board for examinations - eye exam always occurring at the END of the examination. ![]() My favorite story in this particular set was "Draft Board Nights" in which Thurber relates how he was never drafted as a soldier due to his bad eyesight. (I do think Wodehouse does a better job of painting a picture without using actual words than Thurber does though.) Think American-ized Wodehouse and you're getting awfully close. I always knew I'd like Thurber because I grew up thinking Danny Kaye's performance in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a riot! (My family, btw, did not agree and never understood my fascination.) I wasn't disappointed in my expectations. ![]() This week I wanted to read something lighthearted so I read My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the shadow of Hitler overpowers Joe’s imagination, sending him on an odyssey of revenge (to Greenland Station as a naval technician, in a furiously imaginative sequence) and into retreat from both his celebrity and the surviving people he still loves. The pair dream up, and draw the exploits of, such superheroes as “the Escapist” (a figure resembling “Houdini, but mixed with Robin Hood and a little bit of Albert Schweitzer,” whose sources are revealed in extensive flashbacks that also detail Joe’s training as a magician and escape artist)-and “Kavalier & Clay” become rich and famous. ![]() ![]() A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and Wonder Boys (1994).Ĭzech immigrant Josef Kavalier arrives in Brooklyn in 1939 to stay with his aunt’s family, and sparks are immediately struck between “Joe” (a talented draftsman) and his cousin Sammy Klayman, a hustling go-getter (and hopeful “serious writer”) who dreams of success in the burgeoning new field of newspaper comic strips. ![]() ![]() ![]() It describes how on a cold night Myron found a tiny kitten in the return box at Spencer Public Library in Iowa, and the feline's impact on the library community. ![]() K-Gr 2-This heartwarming picture book is based on the authors' adult title, Dewey (Grand Central, 2008). All rights reserved Review by School Library Journal Review All rights reserved (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. He then proclaims himself a "REAL library cat," which (the story concludes, on a well-worn note) "felt. ![]() "Cute and SMELL-icious, too." And as he joins story hour he thinks, "Wowzy whiskers, this looks fun." Despite being manhandled by some young patrons, the cat confides to his toy mouse that he is determined to help people ("I'm ninety-two percent convinced that that's the reason I'm around") and makes good on his promise by cheering up a sad girl who's reading alone. The narrative becomes overly precious, though, when it ventures inside Dewey's head: " 'Babies are wonderful,' Dewey thought. Animal-loving readers will be charmed by the realistic, closeup depictions of young library patrons and their tender (and sometimes not-so-tender) interactions with Dewey, who is based on a real-life feline adopted by Myron after it was abandoned in the book drop of her Iowa library. This genial if cutesy adaptation of the authors' bestselling Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World gets an energetic boost from James's digitally rendered art. ![]() ![]() ![]() With particular reference to women Ehrenreich and English detail the development of the “helping For a start, medicine has not been a profession for very long physicians had to fight to make it one, as opposed to a concern of the community and of the home. It has its roots, its biases and its historical limits. Modern medicine, as the authors show, is not an objective given that we must accept. Medical establishment is unique to our time and place. ![]() Rather directly, this anecdote demonstrates that our present understanding and experience of the 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women (Doubleday August, 1978), stands at the center of their history.This incident, related in Barbara Ehrenreich’s and Deirdre English’s new book, For Her Own Good It seemed natural for one person to care about another, not to charge for it. They thought it appropriate to pay for the drugs that he supplied, but not for his attention and time. ![]() One of America’s first physicians could not convince his patients that they should pay for his services. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Experts Advice to Womenīy Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English (New York: Doubleday, August 1978) ![]() |