Dance dance dance haruki5/30/2023 The result seems to have been more in the nature of a chimera, like a physical change, rather than a transformation, like a chemical change. And then there was WW2, where they hurt the ones they loved, who first had to kick the shit out of them and then help them rebuild. I know that as far back as the Meiji Restoration, Japan seemed far more interested in taking the US as a model, perhaps both politically and economically, than any European nation. Third, the incidental details of the story, not the story so much, unless what I am going to say was an entirely contrived part of the story, provided a really fascinating view into the Japanese character as a hybrid of many different aspects of US and Japanese culture. Second, the performer was excellent in his characterization of the different people in the story. By that, since I don’t speak or read Japanese, I mean only that the English prose resulting from his translation was excellent, unaffected, and had a mood and identity consistent with the first person narrator and main character of the story. Dance Dance Dance: Attempting to Infer Cause at Increasing Degrees of Separationĭance Dance Dance was, uh, well, I’m not yet quite sure how to characterize it.
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If you enjoy reading stories about magic, intrigue, faeries, and some romance for good measure, you must check out The Cruel Prince series in order. In order to save her sisters, and even Faerie itself, Jude must risk her life in a dangerous alliance. As she does so Jude becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and deception. To win a place at Court Jude must defy Prince Cardan, youngest son of the High King. Now nearly an adult, Jude desperately wants to belong there despite being human. As children their parents were murdered and they were whisked away to live in the High Court of Faerie. The story begins with Jude and her two sisters. There are a few ways that you can experience The Cruel Prince series in order and this article will let you in on the different ways you can read these books. But you may be wondering where to go from there. The Cruel Prince is the first book in The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black. White of the Moon by Stephen Jones5/30/2023 “I’m going to be showing my AW20 collection in the store – most people don’t know this but I produce two collections a year – and I want everyone who comes to try them on and take lots of selfies. I asked how she knew who I was and she said because she loves fashion (and shopping), and had bought the hat from Dover Street Market.” How are you celebrating your 40th anniversary? ‘My name is…’ and before I could finish she said my name. ‘I have to say you're wearing one of my hats,’ I told her. I saw her walking towards me and I knew who she was but she wasn't so famous then. “I met Rihanna backstage at a Dior show many years ago just after she’d been featured for the first time in American Vogue – Anna Wintour said she had to go to Paris to learn more about the industry. Universal Images Group Rihanna is another collaborator – she’s worn your designs and you worked on her Savage x Fenty SS20 collection. Stephen Jones at the New Romantic Club in 1980. Vendler maintains, in all seriousness: “No century in the evolution of poetry in English ever had 175 poets worth reading.” Whoa! I suppose Vendler would rather I declare a Top Ten, or perhaps just five, as she herself did in her recent scholarly study Last Looks, Last Books. Let’s take a closer look at the most glaring of Helen Vendler’s broad assumptions:ġ. I have no desire to engage a critic in a debate on aesthetic preferences and consequent selection-to each her own-but I cannot let her get away with building her house of cards on falsehoods and innuendo. In her review of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, which I had the pleasure of editing, Helen Vendler seems to have allowed outrage to get the better of her, leading to a number of illogical assertions and haphazard conclusions. He works the crew to the bone at all hours even when there's no need, savagely beats and mutilates them over the smallest mistakes (beat Cranick's arm so savagely it had to be amputated because he apparently didn't tie a knot to his liking, and singled out Zachariah to be flogged seemingly to death because he was old, feeble, black, and Charlotte's friend), and later outright murdered Hollybrass for disagreeing with him. This book contains examples of the following tropes: Eventually Charlotte is caught up in a plot of mutiny against the captain and is forced to question her loyalties and learn about the hardships of life at sea. She befriends the elderly sailor Zachariah, who warns her of the cruelty of the ship's captain, Captain Jaggery. However, she finds that she is the only passenger on the ship, due to the other passengers having been told that the voyage would be too dangerous, and the only female besides. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a Newbery Award-winning young adult novel of historical fiction written by Avi and published in 1990.Ĭharlotte Doyle, a thirteen-year-old girl brought up in upper-class society in 19th century England, leaves her boarding school at the beginning of summer in order to return to her family in America, voyaging aboard the ship The Seahawk. Penguin Post by Debi Gliori5/30/2023 Everyone is busy, what with sorting and delivering mail, doing the shopping and sitting on the soon-to-be-hatched egg. The main character is so cute, the pictures so humorous and the story so endearing, that I have reread it several times, smiling each time! Milo is the youngest in a family of penguin post penguins, running a very busy polar post office. Longer Version I honestly don’t often read picture books where I want to read them again and again, but this one I do. Why I like this book: For the humour and vibrant illustrations and because I have a soft spot for penguins. Milo’s not sure how he feels about this, but bringing packages to his neighbors turns out to be more fun than Milo thought, and then a big surprise at the end of his route becomes the best delivery of all. Opening and brief synopsis: Milo is the youngest in a long line of Penguin Post penguins. Themes/Topics: the arrival of a young sibling. Suitable for: Preschool – Kindergarten (ages 3-6) Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books, 2002, Fiction Faith ringgold tar beach art5/30/2023 She has written and illustrated 17 children’s books. Then later those quilts would be photographed and included in published articles or books further widening the audience to read her stories. Eventually, people did take notice and an audience grew for her stories. She was not able to get her stories published, but when she put them on the quilt and hung it in a gallery, people could see it. įaith Ringgold began writing stories on the quilts as a way of getting her stories out there. She hosts a new podcast A Series of Dysfunctional Events set to launch on October 1. My guest for this episode is a quilter and fellow podcaster Myrtle. Tar Beach is perhaps her best-known quilt and book. Faith Ringgold is an accomplished painter, quilter, author and illustrator. Underdog broadway5/30/2023 Booth, whose talent for store thievery is more finely developed than his card game, needs Lincoln to rejoin the hustle, but Lincoln wants none of it, having sworn off after watching a friend and crew member shot dead in the street, the victim of one too many swindles.Īs the brothers parry and thrust, each scoring little victories here and there, the play’s title takes on a shifting meaning – a topdog one minute could well be the underdog the next. For Booth, escape is all tied up in Three-card Monte, the street con that his brother once mastered for money and renown. With the brothers subsisting on Lincoln’s meager salary and Booth’s shoplifting skills, dreams for a better life come hard. (Too fantastical? New York’s Coney Island had a “Shoot the Freak” attraction as late as 2010.) Heritage and destiny – to say nothing of humor and drama – collide in this bizarre display that works as both metaphor and reality. In perhaps the most audacious and risky example of Parks’ pointed, go-for-broke sense of humor, the playwright has Lincoln working as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator – in whiteface – at a local arcade, where customers pay to portray the historical Booth and reenact a certain pivotal moment at Ford’s Theatre. Abdul-Mateen II, Hawkins (Photo by Marc J. Richard d wolff understanding socialism5/30/2023 “Ok boomer!” I think to myself, yet my conversational partner was a woman of no more than 30 years old.Īt a time when a majority of young people have a negative view of capitalism and a more positive view of socialism, hearing this refrain coming from a millennial was startling. “I suppose it depends on how you define it…” I began, attempting to use the same argumentative techniques as Wolff does in the pamphlet dangling between my fingers.Īs we discussed, it was clear that this person had totally swallowed the anti-communism pill and proceeded to blather the same tired arguments made by baby boomer parents and their generational ilk. I chuckled a bit, having heard this refrain from InfoWars or Turning Point warriors for years. “Socialism Sucks!” This blatant invective was hurled at me while I stood on a DC metro train reading Richard Wolff’s new book Understanding Socialism. Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen5/29/2023 Lakshmi, the Hindu provider of fortune and prosperity. Mazu, the Chinese deity who safely guides travelers home. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess whose love overcame mortality. Not often, anyway.)įrom the beloved author and artist behind Bad Girls Throughout History comes this lushly illustrated book of goddesses from around the world. (but I’m not a heathen who tears books apart. The book is so god damn beautiful that I wish I could tear every page and frame them. Have you ever had a book that you can’t stop staring at because it’s so beautiful? Last week, I received Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower You, written and illustrated by Ann Shen. |