![]() ![]() I think using Seussian stories was a great choice, and I'm glad I gave this book a go. Read it if you're a Seuss fan or if you just want to understand basic philosophy. Another great one was the discussion of racism.Īs other reviewers have stated the book can get repetitive, and is best read in small doses, a result of using the same examples to demonstrate similar notions. (Oh, the Thinks You Can Think) ¡Cuántos, cuántos pies (The Foot Book) ¡Feliz cumpleaños (Happy Birthday to You) y Ven a mi casa (Come Over to My House). ![]() Seuss as a framework helped my comprehension. The philosophical principles of consumption and capitalism made so much sense to me, and I think using Dr. My favorite sections were the ones discussing Marxism's views on capitalism with the examples of Gertrude McFuzz and the Sneetches. ![]() I enjoyed that this book doesn't do the typical jargony academic voice that over expands and serves the purpose to assert the author's intelligence over the reader's. Seuss HarperCollins Publishers, Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages 24 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Rather it is a book that explains philosophical theories and lines of though and uses Dr. Seuss's personal beliefs or the secret messages in his children's books. Seuss, not for the die hard philosophy fan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays with the veil of piety and sexual expression. At just twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of king in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular twenty-two year reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her inconceivable rule as a cross-dressing king. Married to her brother, she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. ![]() Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was born into a privileged position of the royal household. ![]() An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Werner, the child soldier, who, having been a bystander, has to decide whether to reach out to save a life Madame Manec, wants to be alive before she dies by risking her life to aid the resistance and make a difference and Marie-Laure, who astutely observes, "what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die," and who, as a child, grasps the inevitability of the world to keep spinning and "not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun," as lives come and go and atrocities are inflicted upon innocent citizens. The characters quickly drew me in, fully realized in pithy, image-full chapters. ![]() For groups, the novel offers a palette of images that spur discussion on what feeling alive means to each of us and where we find our place of respite. The 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist, All the Light We Cannot See, offers the solitary reader an immersion in the tale of two children whose paths collide during WW II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet one lethal competitor, a mysterious cloaked swordsman, invades her dreams, tempting her with forbidden pleasure. SHE'S BOUND TO ANOTHER Desperate to earn her guardians' approval after a life-shattering mistake, young Bettina has no choice but to marry whichever suitor prevails - even though she's lost her heart to another. ![]() The coldly disciplined swordsman has never desired anything for himself - until he beholds Bettina, the sheltered ward of two of the Lore's most fearsome villains. HE WON'T BE DENIED Trehan Daciano, known as the Prince of Shadows, has spent his life serving his people - striking in the night, quietly executing any threat to their realm. Shadow's Claim features Prince Trehan, a ruthless master assassin who will do anything to possess Bettina, his beautiful sorceress mate, even compete for her hand in a blood-sport tournament - to the death. ![]() ![]() Here’s the deal : the crime comics “dream team” of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have been at it for so damn long now - over two decades, in fact - that they’re bound miss on occasion. ![]() Next up : proof that I don’t ignore the comics mainstream entirely, as I take a look at the first volume in the new graphic novel series from the fan-favorite creative team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Really, anything helps and is much appreciated. ![]() I did this last year, so I’m doing it again : in an effort to gin up interest in my Patreon site, I’m posting a selection of reviews that ran on there originally with the brazen goal being to get you, dear reader, to part with a buck (or more, if you wish) per month so that yours truly can find some level of intellectual justification for the sheer amount of time I put into cranking out so much comics criticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the filling stations are the primary venue for social conversation, the places from which we draw emotional sustenance as well as physical. It is exceedingly rare that a person is unable to get at least one replacement lung before his installed pair runs empty on those unfortunate occasions where this has happened-when a person is trapped and unable to move, with no one nearby to assist him-he dies within seconds of his air running out.īut in the normal course of life, our need for air is far from our thoughts, and indeed many would say that satisfying that need is the least important part of going to the filling stations. If a person is careless and lets his air level run too low, he feels the heaviness of his limbs and the growing need for replenishment. Every day we consume two lungs heavy with air every day we remove the empty ones from our chest and replace them with full ones. ![]() This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of life and, as a corollary, the means by which life will one day end.įor most of history, the proposition that we drew life from air was so obvious that there was no need to assert it. It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life.
![]() ![]() ![]() When the youngsters resumed their bout, the officers drove them to their respective homes. But speaking about his novel ‘Mystic River,’ Lehane revealed that while it is not based on a true story, a pivotal sequence in the novel (and, in turn, the film) is loosely inspired by a real experience the writer went through as a child.Īccording to the writer, he was caught up in a physical altercation with another kid, and two officers broke up their fight. The Boston-based writer is no stranger to the big screen, and his novels such as ‘Gone, Baby, Gone’ and ‘ Shutter Island‘ have also been turned into critically acclaimed feature films. It is adapted from the fiction novel of the same name penned by Dennis Lehane. No, ‘Mystic River’ is not based on a true story. ![]() But is this Boston-set neo-noir inspired by any real events or true stories? Here’s what we know in that regard. The story’s sense of realism is amplified by the stellar performances of the lead cast (including Sean Penn, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role). Under the surface of a slow-burn whodunit, it realistically evokes deeply disturbing effects of pain, grief, and resentment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut-a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.īluebeard has always been hands-down the creepiest fairy tale to me. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives-all with hair as red as her own-in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it’s as if, thread by thread, a silken net is tightening around her. Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi. ![]() An invitation-on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting-from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. ![]() ![]() After Lina was given the journal that her mother had kept during her time in Florence as a young woman, Lina refused to talk to Howard about their relationship. At the same time, she was angry because Howard had never been part of her life. Lina was conflicted when she arrived in Italy. It was Lina’s grandmother who told her that Howard was her father. The mother's dying wish was that Lina would go and live with Howard. It was on that same day that Hadley began telling Lina about Howard. Lina identified the day she learned that her mother had incurable, inoperable pancreatic cancer as the worst day of her life. Before her mother's final request, Lina had never heard the name Howard Mercer. ![]() In Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch, Carolina "Lina" Emerson must face the death of her mother, Hadley Emerson, from pancreatic cancer and fulfill her mother's final wish for Lina to meet Howard Mercer in Florence, Italy. ![]() The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Welch, Jenna Evans. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dramatization of The Blazing World played as part of the 2015 CPH STAGE festival to international audiences who gave it a very favourable reception. A modest Danish company being the first in the world to acquire the rights to Siri Hustvedt’s masterpiece was something very special. This production premiered last year, attracting considerable media coverage. Identity, gender and art in thriller packaging are major characteristics of her writing. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages. Siri Hustvedt is a columnist for The New York Times and Psychology Today. But her devious plan is challenged and she is thrown into an existential battle of life and art. Once she has achieved the success she anticipates, Harriet Burden will lower all the masks and step forward to claim her rightful place in the artistic pantheon. ![]() In her quest for vengeance and vindication she conceives an experimental art project: she engages three men to front three solo exhibitions of her own creative work. Harriet Burden has never achieved the recognition from the New York art scene she believes she deserves. Award-winning New York-based author Siri Hustvedt’s latest bestseller The Blazing World is produced for the stage for the first time in the world by the Mungo Park theatre company from Denmark. ![]() |