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Christie tate book6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sara Ball's Flip-a-Feather (Abbeville Kids, $16.95) is a board book for children in the three to five range. Lift off! Ava and her little white kitty are off to space, peeping through windows and behind flaps at all the beauty the cosmos has to offer. In Zoom Space Adventure by Susan Hayes and illustrated by Susanna Rumiz (What on Earth Books, $14.99), die-cuts are used to blast Ava off to her "big space adventure." Once Ava is in her rocket ship, she waits for the final countdown, which happens over the next five (four, three, two, one!) pages. A "Chocolate Furosted" cat donut is fun-a Chocolate Furosted cat donut with bright blue stripes on a bold red background is way more fun. ![]() Each title when dry appears to be filled with white-and-black pages put the plushy plastic books in the water and vibrant colors appear. Mudpuppy's Color Magic Bath Book series includes three waterproof "board" books- Color the Ocean, Cat Donuts and What Color Am I (each $9.99)-that will undoubtedly make bath time entertaining. Fun format surprises in the board books below-color changes, mix and match, flaps and die-cuts-will likely capture the attention and spark the excitement of pre-readers. ![]()
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Machines like me and people like you6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Show how invaluable you are and indispensable to this great plan. Whether provided by aliens or angels and other ingredients of the unfathomable gestalt. AI art with all its constructive truncations and weirdities is simply another art form that readily coheres with weird literature I love, a phenomenon to appreciate when added to human created art, making an even richer mind world for me in my ailing age. I prefer human touchable art to AI art, I prefer human art like my son’s and other artists’ paintings old and new, and art gallery art, and my own photos. Ian McEwans subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human Our outward deeds or our inner lives Could a machine. My single story ‘Dessemination’ project HERE ![]() It’s England in 1982, but a very different 1982 from the one with which most readers are familiar. ![]() “How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” - Walter de la Mare Machines Like Me is the seventeenth novel by award/prize-winning British author, Ian McEwan. ‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Used very good Paperback Condition Very Good ISBN 10 1787331660 ISBN 13 9781787331662 Seller. Machines Like Me: and people like you by McEwan, Ian. McEwans special contribution is not to articulate the challenge of robots but to cleverly embed that challenge in the lives of two people trying to find a way. These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008. Home World of Books Ltd Machines Like Me: and people like you. ![]()
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Pattie boyd6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It's like showing everybody into your most private place." George Harrison's wife, Olivia, who collaborated on the film, said at its release she "almost don't want people to see it. When John Lennon found homeless fan at his door and invited him in: “Are you hungry?”.Watch the moment Paul McCartney sings ‘Yesterday’ so tenderly that even hysterical Beatles fans fall silent. ![]() ![]() Ringo Starr facts: Beatles drummer's age, wife, children, net worth and songs revealed.George Harrison: Living in the Material World was released in 2011 and featured archival footage, home videos and in-depth interviews with people close to the star, including Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector and Pattie Boyd. "So, you know, that's the incredible side of George." "Oh, God," he adds, emotional at the telling of the story. "It's the last words I heard him say," Ringo says, clearly moved at the memory of his final time with George Harrison. Myleene Klass performs Beatles themed lullaby ![]()
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Paternus wrath of gods6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() We ask all users help us create a welcoming environment by reporting posts/comments that do not follow the subreddit rules. Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. ![]() This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. ![]() We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. ![]() r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]()
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The reptile room 19996/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Season & Episodes: Season 1, episodes 3 & 4Īfter the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.įollowing their horrid stay with Count Olaf, the Baudelaire children move in with their herpetologist Uncle Monty in the country. Title & Main Actors: A Series of Unfortunate Events starring Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter. In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the appearance of a person they’d hoped never to see again. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don’t be fooled. ![]() ![]() If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I’m afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. Title & Author: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket ![]()
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Live alone and like it book6/9/2023 ![]() Imagine a friend who you think is a little bossy, but you know is usually right and who you are sure has your best interests at heart and will do her level best to help you get up and get back on the right path when life has knocked you sideways. I think that the thing I loved most about this book was the voice. It would slip easily into a handbag, and it would be a lovely gift for the right person. ![]() It is witty, warm and wise and its new incarnation, as a little hardback book with a cute pink cover, feels wonderfully right. This book was written for an earlier generation, back in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() When I saw that pairing of publisher and title my first thought was that this was probably an interesting but worthy tract from the late sixties or early seventies, somewhere around the time that Virago was first born! ![]()
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Teach Me by R.A. Nelson6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Mann suddenly dumped Carolina, and while there is a resolution, I don't think the characters grew any more from their experiences.Ī tall and awkward good girl Carolina "Nine" Livingston fills her high school career with science courses in hopes that she will one day work for NASA. Mann was using Carolina if their friendship/bond would have been solidified more. I think it would have been more believable, and I wouldn't have felt so much that Mr. One minute the two are talking about Emily Dickinson, and then the next they are professing their love for one another? I think the author could have stretched out the relationship much more. While I found the book interesting, I thought that the progression of the plot was a bit weak. ![]() Her obsession stems from the fact that Mann can never truly admit why he suddenly broke things off with her. At first she is in denial, and then she resorts to tactics that are far more creepier than any stalker story I've ever heard. Mann is indeed getting married.to another woman. While the two are making plans that involve living together, and possibly even marriage, Carolina is shocked when it is revealed that Mr. Apparently, the feelings are mutual and the two consummate the relationship when Carolina turns 18. Carolina is a senior who falls fast and hard for her new English teacher, Mr. ![]()
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Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 consort (after Empress Zhen) when she gave birth to a male heir, Zaichun. And started her life in Emperor Xianfeng’s court as one of a great many concubines, so many that they were grouped into eight ranks, with Cixi assigned to the sixth rank.Ĭixi rose to Xianfeng’s No. She was born into a medieval nation, just two years before, a world away, Victoria assumed the throne in Great Britain. ![]() That’s probably because they operated within acceptable and understandable European parameters.Ĭixi, by contrast, maneuvered in the mysterious world of 19 th-century China, a place often seen by European eyes as, at best, weird, and, at worst, wicked, unnatural, sensual and corrupt. In terms of historical reputation, those women had their gender working against them but somehow found ways to be loved or, at least, respected. As a world leader, Empress Dowager Cixi hasn’t had good press, nothing like, say, Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria. ![]()
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Euripides medeia6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Medea managed to trick Pelias' daughters into killing him by promising that, if they did, she could restore him to his youth. In Iolocus, she and Jason hatched a plot to steal rulership from the king, Pelias. While she and Jason were fleeing Clochis by boat, Medea killed her brother so that those pursuing them would have to stop and bury his body. Aphrodite, goddess of love, made Medea fall in love with Jason and then help him to steal the Golden Fleece. ![]() The Golden Fleece was guarded by a dragon in Medea's homeland, the Island of Clochis. In the midst of her lamentations, the Nurse recounts how Jason left his homeland, Iolocus, in a ship called the Argo to find a treasure called the Golden Fleece. Medea's Nurse bemoans Medea's fate-she has been abandoned with her two young children by her husband, Jason, who has married the Princess, daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. The tragedy of Medea begins in medias res (in the middle of things). ![]()
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![]() ![]() She was sentenced to life in prison without parole on March 27, 2001, and served her sentence at Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1996, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, nurse Kristen Gilbert injected poison into six of her patients, killing four of them. She was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on March 24, 1873. In the United Kingdom during the early 1870s, Mary Ann Cotton murdered 21 people by poison, including three of her husbands, her mother, a lover, a friend, and 12 children, 11 of whom were her own. Avoiding the death penalty because of her gender, she was sentenced to life in prison on May 17, 1955, and remained in prison until she died 10 years later, in 1965. She received the nickname "The Giggling Granny" because she seemed to giggle when she confessed to the murders. ![]() It covered four cases of women throughout history who committed murders using poison.īetween 19, Nannie Doss fatally poisoned four of her husbands, two of her kids, her mother, one of her mothers-in-law, and two of her grandsons. ![]() A 52-minute-long TV film narrated by Marsha Crenshaw served as the basic pilot to Deadly Women. ![]() |