![]() She remembers a young black girl she knew who wanted blue eyes, and how, like Claudia MacTeer in the novel, this confession made her really angry. In the Afterword to The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison writes that the novel came out of a childhood conversation she could never forget. Decades after it's publication, it's still a hot topic. ![]() Due to its unflinching portrayal of incest, prostitution, domestic violence, child molestation, and racism, there have been numerous attempts to ban the book from libraries and schools across the United States. It tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl growing up in Morrison's hometown of Lorain, Ohio, after the Great Depression. ![]() The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, published in 1970. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As people who have had a cultivated habit of reading would testify, the quality of the language alone would suffice for a reader to keep going with the book no matter how dreary the content actually is. So I started this one but as I moved across the pages, there was nothing but the vividness of the prose and the quality of Dalrymple’s vocabulary that kept me interested. ![]() This was purportedly a real tale and right from my childhood I wasn’t a big fan of real-time love stories- I didn’t like even the much -acclaimed Prithviraj-Parvathy Malayalam blockbuster- Ennu Ninte Moideen.īut I didn’t have a choice since I didn’t have any other book that I hadn’t read in my shelf. Had it been a work of fiction I could have relied on the imagination of the author to keep me hooked to the narrative with his supposed ‘flights of fancy’ just like I was in love with Marquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera. The blurb of the book indicated something like a fairy-tale romance and since much of the story was supposed to be true, I did not get much interest to pick and read it. I had the chance to borrow a book last month titled White Mughals by Dalrympledespitenot being drawn towards its theme- a Hyderabadi noblewoman drawn romantically to a British Resident braving all cultural and political odds. ![]() ![]() I had read one of his long essays on The Guardian and was very much impressed with his compelling prose and vivid style of narration some years back. I had planned to read historian William Dalrymple for quite a long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But because true horror is never about monsters but instead about how humans behave in response to them, the series places emphasis on how people can come undone by hysteria and delusions. Here’s why.ĭeviating from King’s original 1980 novella, the show borrows its initial premise: A scenic Maine town (“Bridgeville” in the show, “Bridgton” in the novella) is engulfed by a mysterious fog, which obscures a hostile presence feeding on the townspeople. The Mist is the sci-fi television series you need to watch before it leaves Netflix on October 23. But just as fast food goes down cheap and easy, so too does this underseen gem. It’s far from perfect, or even just plain good. This didn’t ultimately pan out, but out of the effort came 10 resoundingly solid episodes of creepy TV, in which stupid, deserving people suffer the consequences of their idiocy. Hey, did you know there was a major streaming adaptation of The Stand with a star-studded cast last year? No? Me neither.īut in 2017, one King adaptation was the now-defunct cable channel Spike’s last shot at network success. Though famed author Stephen King has no problem topping literary best-seller lists, TV and movies based on his works have never achieved quite the same level of success.įor every IT, Carrie, and The Shining (which King has vocally disowned, for what it’s worth), there are many more duds and flubs, from the 2017’s abysmal The Dark Tower to the forgotten Sleepwalkers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rayber, however, intended to raise Tarwater as an atheist, in a purely secular fashion, which did not sit well with Marion. ![]() Tarwater had been born following a car accident which claimed the lives of his unwed mother and grandparents, leaving Rayber the obvious choice for raising Tarwater. ![]() Rayber had originally been tasked with rearing Tarwater, but Marion, living with Rayber at the time, kidnapped the infant to raise him in the backwoods. Tarwater journeys to the city to escape his destiny, and to meet his estranged uncle, Rayber. While Tarwater is drunk, a local black man and friend of Marion’s, Buford Munson, has buried the old man in Christian fashion. Tarwater, who has lived his life doing exactly as he is told, gets drunk instead, and burns his uncle’s house to the ground, believing his uncle’s body to still be inside. But while Tarwater struggles to bury his uncle, a strange voice begins to speak to him in his head, telling him it would be easier to walk away from the expectations of his uncle, and of others, rather than to carry them out. Marion, an extraordinarily religious man who believed himself to be a prophet of God, and brought up Tarwater with the same belief –that he, too, is to be a prophet. When the novel opens, fourteen year-old Francis Marion Tarwater begins to bury his great-uncle, Marion, who has raised him in the backwoods. “The Violent Bear It Away” is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O’Connor, taking place in Tennessee in 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newsmax ratings have come off the highs set last year. ![]() The channel continues to provide live coverage of Trump's rallies and speeches that are no longer automatically carried by Fox News, CNN or MSNBC. Newsmax currently has former "Fox & Friends" weekend co-host Rob Schmitt and Greg Kelly, a one-time correspondent at the channel, as part of its lineup of hosts. Bolling set up a foundation in his son's name to educate parents on the opioid crisis.īolling is the highest-profile former Fox News personality to join Newsmax, a conservative news channel that saw its ratings surge late last year as its hosts were strident advocates of former President Trump. Just after his Fox News departure was announced, Bolling learned that his 19-year-old son Eric Chase had died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and the opioid fentanyl. Bolling was cut loose from Fox News in September 2017 following an investigation into a HuffPost report that he used his cellphone to send unsolicited pictures of male genitalia to current and former female colleagues at the network. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magee's study should however not merely be reviewed but also read for it is thorough, lucid and wide-ranging.a substantial work.' Times Higher Education Supplement Magee moves with confidence and ability among the connecting structures of philosophy, the history of ideas, the arts, and human psychology.' Diane Collinson, Philosophically Quarterly ![]() ![]() `an ambitious book and, on the whole, a highly readable one. It deserves to be well read.surpass(es) all current English-language treatments of Schopenhauer.' David Cartwright, Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch ![]() `This is a book of many virtues and vices.The book reads well. this new edition will consolidate the book's standing as the definitive study of Schopenhauer. For this new edition Bryan Magee has added three new chapters and made many minor revisions andĬorrections throughout. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists. This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. Contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, an exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a range of thinkers and artists. ![]() ![]() ![]() She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. ![]() Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. ![]() Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). ![]() ![]() They are Real, they are likable, they are not cliched even for young ages.Wilson weaves terrific stories that hook you in and keep you hooked throughout.I feel no time is wasted. "N.D Wilson is one of those authors that just NAILS the characters. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room. For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. ![]() ![]() Wilson, author of Leepike Ridge and 100 Cupboards, returns with an action-packed adventure that will captivate fans of both Percy Jackson and Indiana Jones with lost civilizations, ancient secrets, and buried treasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heat level: Scorching hot, emotional, explicit scenes * "When Taron looped the heavy metal collar around the slender neck and closed the padlock, his body throbbed with the excitement of knowing he owned this boy.Was it wrong? Yes, yes it was.Was it so, so good? Definitely." Themes: prepping, alternative lifestyles, disability, crime, loneliness, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fish out of water, opposites attract, abduction, Stockholm syndrome, family issues One that isn't right, yet tempts him every time Colin's pretty eyes glare at him from the cage. It's only when he finds out the city boy is gay that an altogether different option arises. Colin doesn't deserve death for setting foot on Taron's land, but keeping him isn't optimal either. The last thing Taron needs is a nuisance of a captive. He deals with his problems on his own, but the night he needs to dispose of an enemy, he ends up with a witness to his crime. But what seems like his worst nightmare might just prove to be a path to the kind of freedom Colin never knew existed. ![]() What he doesn't realize is that it's the last time he has a choice.He ends up taking a detour into the darkest pit of horror, abducted by a silent, imposing man with a blood-stained axe. On impulse, he decides to take a different route. ![]() Like every other weekend, Colin is on his way home from university, but he's taunted by the notion that he never takes risks in life and always follows the beaten path. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can change the shape of the world in which we live. ![]() The show is in its 3rd season and Pomichter, himself, has interviewed more than 500 creators about upcoming and ongoing projects ranging from books to movies. With 6 books in print, e-book, and audio book formats, Pomichter founded and hosts the Hangin With Web Show talk show series, and helps showcase the work of other independent and small press authors, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and creators of all kinds. Soon after the overwhelming success of his first book series, "The Lucky Marks series," Pomichter teamed up with friend and first-time author William DuPree and the duo penned "Yesterday's Tomorrow," a full-length Near-Future dystopian speculative fiction story set in the days following a devastating nuclear attack on U.S. ![]() Pomichter joined the writing staff at The Hometown News LLC, which is read along Florida’s Central East coast, where he penned more than 400 byline stories. His poem, “Coming of Age,” was featured in the anthology, “An Eternity of Beauty.”įollowing a college internship with The Florida Today newspaper, G.W. Army Infantry veteran who began writing at an early age and published poems in anthologies in his early 20s. He is a graduate of Florida Air Academy & the Eastern Florida State College President's Cup winner, as well as a U.S. Pomichter is and award winning author and novelist, most recently recognized with a 2018 "Spacie Award" for BEST NOVELIST in 2018. ![]() |