![]() ![]() Hard to believe that the man who started out with Flight of the Dodo and Chowder has figured out how one goes about writing and illustrating modern day classics. It is rare to find a picture book this easy to love on sight, but author/illustrator Peter Brown is beginning to perfect his form. I am no cataloger, nor do I particularly mind it when they attribute terms of this sort to picture books, but anyone can see that this is a pretty amusing way to describe a book about a tiger with issues with civilization. The very first one reads, “Self-actualization (Psychology)”. Now scroll down until you find the Library of Congress subject headings for this title. ![]() It’s the green one opposite the title page at the beginning of the book. Find yourself a copy of the picture book Mr. ![]() Here’s a fun exercise to liven up a gloomy day. ![]()
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![]() Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain-a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. ![]() In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the golden age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. ![]() ![]() ![]() And on the Plains of Ilium, a scholic named Thomas Hockenberry observes what appear to be the gods of the Greek pantheon - Zeus, Ares, Apollo, Athena, and literally hundreds more - as they preside over the bloody spectacle of the Trojan War, a once familiar conflict that will evolve - and escalate - in unexpected ways. In Jupiter space, a pair of Moravecs - partially organic robots with an affinity for Proust and Shakespeare - agree to investigate a quantum anomaly recently discovered on the surface of Mars. The intertwined narratives that comprise the novel take place nearly 2,500 years from now, in the "post-human" universe of "The Ninth of Av." On Earth, the eloi-like remnants of the "old style" human race pursue painless, pointless existences, largely unaware of the history of their species, or of the nature and geography of the planet they inhabit. A work of epic scope, audacious intelligence, and imaginative grandeur, it is the opening movement of a projected two-volume sequence, and is an authentic masterpiece in its own right. Ilium is Dan Simmons' first full-length science fiction novel since The Rise of Endymion in 1997. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I get a phone call, ‘They’re gonna offer you a role on “Breaking Bad,” ‘ ” Odenkirk, 59, told veteran shock jock Howard Stern on his Sirius XM radio show ![]() The Emmy-nominated “Better Call Saul” star has revealed that he actually went bankrupt before landing the acclaimed role on the award-winning Bryan Cranston drama. Rhea Seehorn: ‘Better Call Saul’ finale gave ‘hope, love, redemption’īefore Bob Odenkirk starred as Saul Goodman on AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” he was breaking his piggy bank just to stay afloat. Josh Johnson of ‘The Daily Show’ tells Jalen Rose why couch surfing is goodīob Odenkirk hits the gym to beef up for ‘more action’ movies How Bob Odenkirk drives the dramedy in new AMC series ‘Lucky Hank’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t even taste the cupcakes we made at our last Cupcake meeting, never mind smell them cooking. I could smell! I’d been suffering from a terrible cold for the past week, and my nose had been totally stuffed up. It had been so freezing cold for the past week that I’d been walking around like a mummy in layers and layers of clothes (sleeping in socks and long flannel pj’s), and to leave my cocoon of blankets this morning would be unbearable.īut then I noticed something. But I dreaded getting out of bed, even though it was a Saturday. I snuggled deep under my covers and wiggled my toes in their fluffy pink socks. ![]() The Cupcake Club was coming over pretty early this morning to work out the kinks in a new recipe we were creating for a holiday boutique we were participating in, and I was looking forward to it. My alarm went off and I hit snooze, even though I was already more than half awake. ![]() ![]() The story opens with the entrance of a minstrel, a troubadour returning home after long years of wandering the far corners of the earth, playing old tunes on his lute and driving a battered Volkswagen bus (what else?) named Madame Schumann-Heink. ![]() ![]() Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. And frankly (in my fanboy opinion), Peter S Beagle is just as good, if not better, than the two authors I mentioned above.Īvicenna, California. ![]() Beagle is so terribly underrated and why his urban fantasy set on a California campus among Medieval re-enactment societies is not as well known as the works of Neil Gaiman or Charles de Lint, who will both use the same literary devices of introducing creatures from a mythical past into an ordinary modern setting. Imagine my surprise when I checked the actual publishing date and noticed the almost twenty year gap! This low output (barring a few short stories and non-fiction) might explain in part why Mr. I read somewhere that "The Folk of the Air" comes after "The Last Unicorn" in his catalogue, so in my mind the action was set somewhere at the tail end of the sixties. ![]() This is an excellent summary of the novel Peter S Beagle took so many years to write. They were playing with time and magic, but time is tricky and magic is dangerous! ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of numerous articles and books including My Beloved Brontosaurus, When Dinosaurs Ruled, Prehistoric Predators and Skeleton Keys. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, right in the center of dinosaur country, she chases tales of vanished lives from museum collections to remote badlands. Riley Black has been a fossil fanatic since the time she was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Riley about how this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, creating space for mammals to seize the evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries and the million years after the impact. ![]() ![]() Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, science writer Riley Black takes us through what happened in the days, years, centuries, and million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that set the stage for the world as we now know it. Read The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Rake, Matthew, lexile & reading level: 1000, (ISBN: 9781467791151). Buy The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black from Boffins Books in Perth, Australia. More than half of known species, including the dinosaurs, vanished seemingly overnight. Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. ![]() ![]() ![]() With his unsettling, deadpan humor and heartbreaking honesty, Willis weaves in and out of multiple roles throughout the novel - he is Generic Asian Man Number Three, Special Guest Star, Kung Fu Guy, and even Kung Fu Dad. And the only quasi-protagonist that an Asian man can ever be is Kung Fu Guy. ![]() He is tired of being Dead Asian Man or Generic Asian Man. Imprisoned in perpetual poverty and tired racial tropes by systemic causes and by himself (hence the Chinatown-gates-turned-prison on the cover), protagonist Willis Wu is desperate to finally be just that - a protagonist. Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown” is not only beautifully moving but also mounts a shockingly explicit political criticism of U.S. Just like its exterior, this book is beautiful and jarring at once. There is something oddly magnetic about seeing a familiar Chinatown gate, estranged by its uncanny merging with another familiar symbol - the prison. A purposefully distressed red cover is simultaneously reminiscent of a red packet, a newspaper cover, and a playbill.At the center is a small Chinatown gate the interior area of the gate frames are filled by what resembles a prison or a birdcage. “Interior Chinatown” is that kind of book. You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes, you can take one look at a book and know it’s going to be good. ![]() ![]() From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, Ty Seidule believes that American history demands a reckoning. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed. In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. LEE AND ME: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule.more Enter for a chance to win 1 of 20 paperback copies of ROBERT E. LEE AND ME: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stanley recounts the provenance of this picture that had been viewed by a number of military officers, possibly including Sir Douglas Haig, the commander-in-chief of British Empire armies in France, before it settled in the archives. For surely these boys look like typical Anzacs given to larrikin pranks-innocents abroad. The photo of some grinning Australian soldiers in slouch hats that graces the cover of Peter Stanley's book Bad Characters not only provides an apt departure point for his story of 'indiscipline' in the first AIF, but also suggests the challenge he faces in rendering the 'dark side' of the story of Australians at war. ![]() Peter Stanley, Bad Characters: sex, crime, mutiny, murder and the Australian Imperial Force, Pier 9, Sydney, 2010, 288 pages ISBN 978 1 74196 480 6. ![]() |