![]() Howl’s Moving Castle: ”In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. And I’ll tell about Them too, who made us that way.” ![]() I’ll tell you about them in the right place and about Helen and Joris, Adam and Konstam, and Vanessa, the sister Adam wanted to sell as a slave. ![]() The Homeward Bounders: ”Have you heard of the Flying Dutchman? No? Nor of the Wandering Jew? Well, it doesn’t matter. Her stories pull you in from the first paragraph.ĭrowned Ammet: ”People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Wynne Jones had an astounding ability to weave a story. Reading them, I realized that this was a substantial writer. Atheneum published Drowned Ammet and The Spellcoats. But she was an English writer and she had only written four other books at that point, so her books were not easy to find. ![]() It was Cart and Cwidder and I was determined to find everything else she had written. I first read a book by Diana Wynne Jones in 1976. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After terrorists blow up her carriage, it becomes apparent that running away might be the best choice of all - but can they survive the pitfalls of their impossible attraction? ![]() When the irresistible and unreliable Michael O’Toole materializes in her life to enlist her care for another of the abandoned orphans he’s rescued - as he once did for her - Blanche doesn’t know whether to kill him or kiss him. Forced to rely on her men of business to help her make decisions since she has no experience or knowledge of her own, she is at constant odds with the new duke who wishes to marry her for the sake of the estate. ![]() To his dismay, the generous lady he remembers now despises him for deserting her when she needed him most.īlanche has inherited all the wealth and responsibility of a dukedom, even if it is her cousin who wears the title. But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman’s understanding aid. Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke’s granddaughter, Michael - a man of many names but none his own - has wisely kept his distance. An Irish rogue and a duke’s daughter should have nothing in common except trouble. ![]() ![]() In NE I 2 Aristotle remarks that the highest human good is the concern of politics, which is most authoritative (κυριωτάτης) ( NE 1094a26–28), while in Politics I 1 he claims that the city is the most authoritative (κυριωτάτη) of all human communities ( Pol. ![]() The importance of the Priority Argument can be seen most clearly from the beginnings of Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, where Aristotle establishes the primacy of the political for the investigation of the highest human good. ![]() Evidently, this argument is meant to prove the primacy of the city for the realization of the human good. In what follows I shall call this argument the Priority Argument. In Politics I 2, Aristotle argues that the city is naturally prior to the household and the individual in a similar way as the whole body is prior to its organic parts ( Pol. Key words: political priority, political hylomorphism, phusis, nomos This interpretation should enable us to see that, just as his hylomorphism is a middle path between Presocratic materialism and Platonic dualism, Aristotle’s political hylomorphism is a middle path between two radical versions of political naturalism by Antiphon and Plato. ![]() I wish to demonstrate in this article that Aristotle’s argument for the priority of the city in Politics I 2 is supported by his conception of the ontological priority of form (and actuality) over matter (and potentiality). ![]() ![]() Early in the story, raw and frustrated after an encounter with Joel, he joins his dearest friend and his partner in an intimate evening. Tyler’s transformation is equally compelling. Tyler’s love and support are what gets him started, but it’s what’s inside Joel that makes him succeed. The bitter, angry man from the start of the story gradually opens his heart and gains the confidence to embrace life and be the man he wants to be. Told entirely from Tyler’s point of view, it’s wonderful envisioning Joel’s character evolve through Tyler’s eyes. The transformation these men make is inspirational, and combined with the stunningly sensual love scenes, this is one fantastic novel. ![]() The Other Book is an exploration of intimacy, trust, and strength of spirit… and is also some of the sexiest, most creative erotica I’ve ever read. ![]() There’s something in each of Roe Horvat’s stories that centers me and reminds me of what’s truly important in life. ![]() He adds a dimension to Tyler's character which I really enjoyed. Vance Bastian gives a marvelous performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() 4 maja 1868 roku mczyni pracujcy dla braci Casement, wykonawcw robt budowlanych, pooyli tory do rozwijajcego si miasta.Tego samego dnia przybya pierwsza lokomotywa z mieszkacami Cheyenne na pokadzie, ktrzy. Brown: Frontier Lawyer and Jurist Nominated by the Albany County Historical Society Chapter Award. On the other hand, the lawyer is representing clients and performs the work for the satisfaction of their clients’ interests. Brown, wieo przybyy z Cheyenne, zosta wybrany na burmistrza 2 maja 1868 roku. Indeed, their entire work can be done inside a law library. The jurist is a legal scholar who studies, analyzes, and comments on the law. It should be noted that although a jurist can be a lawyer, and a lawyer can be a jurist, the two terms are not necessarily interchangeable. An example of this meaning would be a Supreme Court Justice. ![]() Technically, a jurist refers to a noteworthy influential individual such as a judge, a legal scholar, or a lawyer whose skill is so well renowned that the individual has attained such an authority that their writings and arguments are also seen as a source of law too. ![]() In actuality, a jurist is an individual who is an expert and does research on jurisprudence. The literal, simplistic definition of a jurist is a person who happens to be learned in the law, such as a legal scholar or a lawyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Steve Paulson: Your book begins with the news that one day, without warning, the moon blows up and all kinds of catastrophic events follow. You can subscribe to the TTBOOK podcast here. Our conversation aired on Public Radio International’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. I talked with Stephenson about the world-building responsibility of science fiction writers, his dislike of dystopian fiction, and why we need new stories to help us create a better future. He also has plenty to say about human relationships aboard a spacecraft and what our future might look like thousands of years from now. But this isn’t just a manual on how to carry on after the apocalypse. Strictly as an exercise in visionary technology, it’s a virtuoso performance. ![]() In his new science fiction book Seveneves, Stephenson lays out a scenario for how humanity could survive a catastrophic natural disaster. He’s famous not only for his supersized books (the last three clocking in between 850 and 1,050 pages) he’s also made a career of unpacking Big Ideas on everything from modernity and the nature of time to nanotechnology and our genetically-engineered future. There’s nothing pint-sized about Neal Stephenson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not If I Date You First by Krysti Meyer (coming soon!) Of course we rounded out the episode with some recommendations perfect to read this spring. We’re talking grandma cozies to millennial cozies and everything in between. Today I’m sitting down with Krysti Meyer, author & cozy podcaster to break down cozy mysteries for ya. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Let me know what terrible books you have read because of hype. We don’t want to bash these books, rather we want to share why they didn’t work for us. Now before you get defensive we both acknowledge that while these books didn’t work for us, they might be great books for you. Today, Elizabeth and I are going to be sharing books we didn't like. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. ![]() Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. ![]() ![]() She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Esquire magaz CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Do not miss this book.’ Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) won the August Derleth Prize and has been shortlisted for the Kitschies, the British Book Awards, the South Bank Award, and the World Fantasy Award. CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: Gay men in literature, Asceticism in literature, Homosexuality in literature -Citation: Gonzalez, O. ![]() Rather than deprecating his earlier works (such as the Berlin Stories) as closeted gay fictions, we should read them as queer literary texts, rendering Isherwood not only a standard-bearer for gay liberation, but a complex queer thinker, who develops a "misfit" literary aesthetic of ascetic impersonality and queer relationality, before the ascendance of gay publics and politics in our own era, after Stonewall. Rather, we ought to reconsider Isherwood and his legacy as consistently suspicious of identity. The essay argues that Isherwood's Single Man and his American, post-1960s literary persona as a staunch advocate for gay liberation needs to be revisited, given the novel's ambivalence toward the politics of identity, and given Isherwood's aesthetic distrust of the instrumentalization of literature as propaganda. ![]() This article develops the concept of "misfit minorities," drawing on the Christopher Isherwood archive, and focusing on Isherwood's seminal novel, A Single Man, and his autobiographical revision of the Berlin years, Christopher and His Kind. ![]() ![]() "It's shocking, but it shouldn't be, how many groups function like Westboro," she says. ![]() She's also been approached by a much wider audience of people who have definitely picked up the breadcrumb trail, people who were following the Jehovah's Witnesses, fundamentalist and evangelical churches around the world. But I do hope that they will find, in my description of my faith in Westboro unravelling, that they will be able to find things at least to moderate some of their positions, even if they don’t ultimately reject Westboro's ideology entirely." I don’t think that they're going to read the book and all decide to leave. ![]() |