6/6/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim kingsley![]() ![]() More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy post-war manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. ![]() This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics, with each of whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. ![]() HTML: A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. ![]()
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6/6/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis planet trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() Ransom is a physiology professor of sorts and has found his way kidnapped and forced into a mission to a distant planet. My understanding of the language used is limited I’m only 17 and the Oxford professor language used throughout hit me but I definitely googled and learned hundred of words while reading just the first book alone. I’m relatively young and was never introduced to C.S Lewis as child only seeing the Narnia films occasionally when I was very young so my love for this author didn’t start as a nostalgic type feeling but one day I decided to get back into reading and bought hard back versions of The chronicles of Narnia and it honestly changed me so I decided to read the 2nd most celebrated edition in his library and wow it is brilliant. ![]() Recently bought the 75th anniversary edition of the “Space trilogy” and I’m going to read one book at a time and give some thoughts and opinions. ![]() ![]() Co-producer Molly Smith came to know about the book from one of her six sisters, and she was swayed. The screenwriter, in turn, based the story on Emily Giffin’s eponymous 2004 bestselling book, although she took some creative liberties. Luke Greenfield of ‘The Girl Next Door’ fame directs the movie from a script penned by Jennie Snyder Urman. No, ‘Something Borrowed’ is not based on a true story. Is Something Borrowed Based on A True Story? If you have come to question the story’s credibility, let us delve deeper into the love triangle. The story is fraught with twists and turns (and some heartburns), but you may be eager to know if the story is tethered in reality. ![]() ![]() Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski take up the lead roles in this roving extravaganza of a rom-com. ![]() Following the conjecture, secrets are about to unravel, and friendships have to go through reassessments. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Citizen coke![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Citizen Coke seems to balance academic and popular writing.Was Elmore’s combination of economic and environmental history effective? Does it work?.If you’re familiar with the history of capitalism, did you think that Elmore’s framework was effective compared with other economic histories?.Do you think that non-chronological organization is effective? ![]() Elmore tells the story of Citizen Coke with chapters focused on specific natural resources.Arlt Award in the Humanities (2016) and the Gold Medal for Best Business Commentary of Axiom Business Book Awards (2015). Citizen Coke has won two awards, the Council of Graduate Schools Gustave O. He now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he teachers at Ohio State as an assistant professor of environmental history and is working on his second book, Seed Money: How the Monsanto Company’s Quest for Power Remade Our World. Following graduate school, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley where he wrote most of Citizen Coke. He met the environmental historian Ed Russell during his graduate education at the University of Virginia. Bartow Elmore is an environmental and business historian who was born in Atlanta and developed his love for environmental history partially through his exploration of the natural landscapes of the South. ![]() ![]() ![]() The basis of economics is that we human are fully informed entities making completely rational decisions to maximise our personal interests. Join our ‘Brains Trust’ to get access to hidden bonus episodes: Want to win 48 books? Enter the competition: Grab a copy of Predictably Irrational here: ![]() ‘The hidden forces that shape our decisions’ This is an absolutely phenomenal book with wide-ranging applications. He shows how we are influenced by things like comparisons, arousal, price, ownership and our own expectations. More than that, Dan recognized that we are irrational in very PREDICTABLE ways – we all make the same kinds of mistakes. In many cases, we’re very IRRATIONAL: we make decisions that aren’t in our own best interest. But, as Dan Ariely points out, we’re NOT rational. They use this to form all of their economic theories and models. Economists start with the assumption that all humans are fully informed, rational decision makers. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments The hearing trumpet![]() "The Hearing Trumpet", her most famous piece of writing, was first published in France in 1974. Born in Lancashire to a strict Catholic family, she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in 1942. ![]() Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British born Surrealist painter and writer described, alongside people such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Written in the early 1960s, "The Hearing Trumpet" remains one of the most original and inspirational of all fantastic novels. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess, a joyous and brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. ![]() Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes, endure twisted religious preaching and eat in a canteen overlooked by the mysterious portrait of a leering Abbess. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. ![]() ![]() A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this column, we examine graphic novels, including those that have been targeted by censors, and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms. Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education, an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for Librarians.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet. ![]()
![]() ![]() The narrative moves between past and present to chronicle Talia’s travails-first sent back to Colombia to live with her grandmother as a young girl, and later hitchhiking to Bogotá to meet Mauro-and the lives of Elena and Mauro, revealing the struggles of undocumented migrants and exploring “how people who do horrible things can be victims, and how victims can be people who do horrible things.” Engel’s sharp, unflinching narrative teems with insight and dazzles with a confident, slyly sophisticated structure. But the family is separated when Mauro is deported for driving without a license. ![]() Her parents, Elena and Mauro, fell in love as teenagers and had a child before fleeing from the violence, poverty, and uncertainty of Bogotá and moving to Houston, where “their ears took in English, English, all the time English, and if they heard Spanish, it was with no accent like their own.” After overstaying their visas, they have two more kids including Talia, the youngest, and move to various cities. Talia breaks out of a reformatory for girls in Colombia with a single purpose: to reunite with her family in the U.S. ![]() Engel ( The Veins of the Ocean) delivers an outstanding novel of migration and the Colombian diaspora. To someone who grew up reading the giants of the Latin American Boom generation in translation Vargas Llosa, García Márquez it was surprising that Patricia Engel’s third novel, Infinite Country, was not translated from the Spanish: The book sounds like Edith Grossman but with a borrowed amp and feedback. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Intentions by oscar wilde![]() ![]() The next essay, "Pen, Pencil, and Poison," is a fascinating literary appreciation of the life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a talented painter, art critic, antiquarian, friend of Charles Lamb, and - murderer. What makes art wonderful, he says, is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact, invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment." ![]() In the opening essay, Wilde laments the "decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure." He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power," but also that criticism itself can be raised to an art form possessing these very qualities. ![]() A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted "art for art's sake" against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur's famous wit and wide learning. ![]() ![]() Following the reunion and too many drinks, Val decides to seek revenge on the man who helped wreck her friendship with Addie - and try to find a little solace for herself. ![]() Since the time she turned her back on Addie and escaped Pleasant Ridge, she’s worked to put the past behind her - including a sordid one involving Dan Swansea, their school’s golden boy. ![]() Val, conversely, is just as loud, quirky and brash as ever - and is now a fixture on the news in Chicago, where she’s an on-air weather personality. A successful artist, Addie has made a small fortune painting art for greeting cards and nursed a quiet, ill-fated love affair in the time Valerie has been gone. Though she’s since shed an enormous amount of weight, she’s still guarded and sequestered in her childhood home - empty save her since her parents’ deaths many years before. Needless to say, Addie wasn’t interested in attending. Jennifer Weiner’s Best Friends Forever opens as the ladies, now in their thirties, reunite following a high school reunion. ![]() The two young girls, misfits in their own ways, became fast friends - and stayed together through the teasing and taunts they endured, relying on one another for support. ![]() Life for Addie Downs - overweight, from a weird family - changed dramatically the day Valerie Adler showed up on her small street in Illinois. ![]() |