5/11/2023 0 Comments Space by James A. Michener![]() ![]() ![]() The crucial decision to get into the action right away tells us something about this book that's different from other Michener novels. Instead, he moves to the last days of World War II and the men who had the early vision and professional promise to shape the American program in space. That would have given us a familiar Michener beginning. So he might have opened this novel with a picture of planets and suns hurling through a million miles of emptiness. There is a brooding presence of landscape, a Hardyesque sense of determinism subjecting even the strongest of his people to a fate beyond their control. ![]() Locale, therefore, dominates the action of his story and the development of character, a tendency indicated by the titles of his major novels. Whether his subject is Hawaii, the American West, or Chesapeake Bay, he lays out a virgin land and through a sometimes labored process of accretion fills it with people, customs, and objects. Michener's point of origin is the beginning of things. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Ed brubaker batman run![]() I couldn’t believe my reaction while reading the issue where Two-Face kidnaps Montoya and how much I hated it when Batman shows up. While these characters do pop in, it is, thank goodness, brief. It would be so easy to have Jim Gordon show up in every issue, or Batman, or the thousands of Batman’s villains. What I really like about this series is the unflinching realistic approach it takes with its core characters. ![]() ![]() It totally works, and for a setting like Gotham, where every character has an extended backstory and it feels like every story has been told, this one is incredibly unique. Gotham Central meets all of these. It has a really cool premise too: focus on the street level of Gotham through the eyes of the detectives of the GCPD and do this with a procedural cop-drama lens. Next, the creative team has to do something that hasn’t been done before, and finally, and more unfortunately, it has to get the respect it deserves well after the series has come to an end. It seems like there are a few characteristics that go into a legendary run. Gotham Central, Book 3: On the Freak Beat Gotham Central, Book 2: Jokers and Madmen Gotham Central, Book 1: In the Line of Duty ![]() What to Read (in order): Gotham Central #1-40 ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Ann and serge golon![]() ![]() In the " Anne and Serge Golon" section, you will find the authors' biography, some documents including the petition to support Anne Golon's authors right, links to other Angélique related web sites and places to find the books. My grateful thanks for this I love you all. How could she have guessed that, forty years later, this book would have become a fresco, be famous around the world, have aroused compelling and durable passions, and that it would be featured on a then-unimaginable thing called a website?Ī website that could not have been created without the precious collaboration of Anna and her sister Marysia, Marie-France, Mariann, Steve, Harvey and all the people from the Angélique Internet mailing-list. ![]() In 1955 Anne Golon, assisted by her husband Serge, jotted down the first few lines of a book. It is not entirely imaginary, since it is the birthplace of Angélique de Sancé. It can be found somewhere in the Poitou marshland, at the heart of that wonderful region halfway between the forest and the sea, that is known as the "Green Venice". Do not look for Monteloup on a map of France. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Charley boorman long way down![]() To ensure we maximised their safety, there was sometimes a delay between events taking place and content being posted to the site. However, conditions, in Africa in particular, were unpredictable. Updates, clips and images from the team on the road were posted to the site as the trip progressed. As well as undertaking Long Way Round and Long Way Down, they ran a motorcross team together for years, and Charley took on the Dakar Rally in 2006. As on Long Way Round, they were accompanied by Executive Producers/Directors Russ Malkin and David Alexanian.Įwan McGregor and Charley Boorman are best mates, and passionate motorcyclists. It is a follow-up to the Long Way Round trip in 2004, where the pair rode their motorbikes from London to New York, travelling east across Europe, Russia and the United States. The team arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on 4 August 2007. Leaving on, they travelled through Europe, and then Africa – from Tunisia to South Africa, via countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia - a total of 15,000 miles. ![]() Long Way Down is the most recent motorbike adventure with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Momo 1973![]() ![]() We ship from multiple locations around the United States so you receive your part as quick as possible. ![]() Multiple distribution points ready to serve you! Read about each protection that Extend offers to Redline360 customers! Redline360 offers our customers piece of mind! We have partned with Extend to offer you Extend Product Protection and Extend Shipping Protection. Once your order ships, we will email you a tracking number so you can track your package. Your order is processed Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm PST as soon as it is placed. You will be able to log into our website 24/7 to check on your order at any time. Upon ordering, you will receive an email confirmation of your order along with your invoice. Redline360 is an Authorized Dealer so we only sell authentic and genuine parts and accessories. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there was a way to reconcile shit at home, she’d find it, and reconcile that shit. That said, Juliet Crowe, the woman who ran the place, made an art of making pressure seem like no pressure. There was food, clean beds, and a huge TV. They could get a decent meal, sleep in a clean bed, take a shower and catch up on their reality programs. Mostly, it was a no-pressure place for kids who couldn’t hack home so they wouldn’t be on the streets. He headed to King’s Shelter, a safe place for runaway kids. He ignored the call, started up his truck, and embarked on the only other item on his agenda that day. ![]() He climbed into his truck as his phone rang again. Trendy, like there was a fucking tiki bar, for fuck’s sake.Īs the years had gone by and the new edged out some of the old, Fortnum’s had become the bastion of old-school cool on South Broadway in Denver.Īnd Dutch hoped like hell the millennials-of which he was one, but he wasn’t a fan of his membership-got bored with Broadway and returned it to the freaks and geeks and antiquers and gays and hip cats and hipper pussycats who knew true cool came from a vintage clothing shop, not a Free People catalog. A spot that even five blocks away was considered a score in an area that had grown popular over the years, to the point all the good shit was smushed in with all the trendy shit. And right then, he walked the five blocks to his vehicle huddling into his leather cut. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Adrian tchaikovsky dogs of war![]() ![]() The book uses multiple POVs from doctors to lawyers to all kinds of bioforms in order to explore topics such as the role of artificial intelligence in society (there is a history of robotics too), responsibility and guilt, what exactly we humans define as humanity, the ethics of conflict resolution and the manufacturing of sentient biological life. It is also about what the engineers designed him to be and be capable of and what he actually is and is capable of. He is the leader of one of the first few multi-form squads, meaning teams that consist of more than one kind of animal/bioform. He combines canine senses with sentience, human DNA and then also got cybernetically integrated weapons systems. ![]() This book, then, is about Rex, a dog-like bioform engineered for war. It is also clear that the author doesn't consider animals to be "just animals" but sees them on the same level as humans if not even one above. ![]() Only recently I read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time and it is clear from these two books that the author has a wonderful sense of bringing the thoughts and feelings of animals (sorry, bioforms) to life. ![]() I finished this late last night (has been a while since I stayed up so late to finish a book) but had to seriously ponder how to write this review. ![]() ![]() The essays in this magnificent volume examine a variety of aspects of Boswell's interpretation of events in the development of sexuality from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, including a Roman emperor's love letters to another man suspicions of sodomy among medieval monks, knights, and crusaders and thegender-bending visions of Christian saints and mystics. Twenty-five years later, the aftershocks still reverberate." The Boswell Thesis" brings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. ![]() ![]() Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell's "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality." Arguing that neither the Bible nor the Christian tradition was nearly as hostile to homoeroticism as was generally thought, its initial publication sent shock waves through university classrooms, gay communities, and religious congregations. ![]() ![]() Add to that the live-action Ghost of 2017, and more Ghosties on the way. ![]() The impact of the work of Masamune Shirow has been immense in animé and manga: Ghost In the Shell alone led to not one but two classic movies, two outstanding TV series (plus a third, the Arise series), and spin-off movies. Shirow's art is marked by futuristic, cyber-punk settings, fabulous, often eccentric designs, elaborate mecha (such as tanks and mobile suits), attractive warrior women and detailed storytelling (accompanied by his famous, sometimes arcane notes). Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and animé - his works have been the basis of several important franchises, with Ghost In the Shell the most famous. Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. ![]() ![]() This is a study of the Ghost In the Shell comic by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The giver lowry![]() Helen died of cancer in 1962, but Lowry and her brother still share a close relationship. ![]() She has an older sister named Helen, and a younger brother called Jon. : 24 Initially, Lowry's parents named her "Cena" for her Norwegian grandmother, but upon hearing the news, her grandmother telegraphed and instructed Lowry's parents that the child should have an American name. : xi Her maternal grandfather, Merkel Landis, a banker, created the Christmas Club savings program in 1910. Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. The Giver, which is common in the curriculum in some schools, has been prohibited in others. ![]() Many of her books have been challenged or even banned in some schools and libraries. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. ![]() ![]() She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. Lois Ann Lowry ( / ˈ l aʊər i/ née Hammersberg March 20, 1937) is an American writer. ![]() |