![]() ![]() It was the beginnings of Indigo, with a touch of gray that feels like rain on asphalt, a fresh start. Then I met Ben and I began to see a new shade of blue. ![]() He’d come into this world with a color all his own and we’d been fine, maybe even happy. In a moment of pitch black, I lost everything but the new life growing inside me. Three years ago, the accident warped all the colors. In the beginning, my world was colored with the blue of love and the yellow of a curious place where rules didn’t matter You see colors. There was too much red in that cloud of blue.more It was the beginnings of Indigo, with a touch of gray that feels like rain on asphalt, a fresh start.īut Ben was also hiding something. ![]() Black is chaos, orange is rebellion, and red is deception. I’m a synesthete, which means that I hear and feel emotions in color. In the beginning, my world was colored with the blue of love and the yellow of a curious place where rules didn’t matter, time was just an idea, and loss was something we got to forget. In the beginning, my world was colored wi Enter to win one of three paperback novellas in Kay Kadinger's debut. ![]() Enter to win one of three paperback novellas in Kay Kadinger's debut. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Palacios's warm, earth-toned illustrations of a happy multigenerational family invite readers into the festivities, whether these tradiciones are familiar or new to them." - Horn Book "This pleasant family story conveys strong family bonds and traditions while offering non-Spanish speakers a way to learn some basic vocabulary." - Kirkus Reviews "This lively picture book offers a wonderful way to celebrate and learn about Latino Christmas traditions." - School Library Journal, PRAISE FOR 'TWAS NOCHEBUENA : "A linguistic and visual treat. ![]() The lyrical blend of English and Spanish and vibrant action-packed illustrations make this ideal for read-alouds." - Booklist "Thong's humorous verse follows Clement Moore's strong rhythm without faltering-despite the metrical challenges of working in two languages at once. ![]() PRAISE FOR 'TWAS NOCHEBUENA : "A linguistic and visual treat. ![]() ![]() Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Adapted into the Oscar-winning musical film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in 1964, Pygmalion ![]() The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. ![]() ![]() Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. ![]() ![]() It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds", and "It is the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary only wise men are able to understand them". His narratives are larded with such nuggets of higher toshery as: "Life moves very fast. Coelho's usual plot is the quest in which an ingenuous hero or heroine (usually of the lower orders) discovers the meaning of life. Look for the symbolic meanings of the great religions of the world, he was instructed. Masters of simplicity, all of them.Ĭoelho was, he tells us, directed into the path of fiction by a mysterious old geezer who appeared to him out of the ether on a tourist visit to Dachau. Simplicity has something to do with it among his cited sources are Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and the parables of our Lord. His native Portuguese slips easily into English. ![]() Coelho's first (and biggest) hit, The Alchemist, chronicled a search for the "universal language". ![]() ![]() ![]() Forester was amazed by the result, telling Roald 'I'm bowled over. ![]() Forester (author of the Captain Hornblower series) who asked the young pilot to write down his war experiences for a story he was writing. It was there that he met famous author C.S. Later in the war Roald Dahl was sent to America. Roald wrote about these experiences in his books Boy and Going Solo. Tragically of the 20 men in his squadron, Roald Dahl was one of only three to survive. But being nearly two metres tall he found himself squashed into his fighter plane, knees around his ears and head jutting forward. With the outbreak of the Second World War Roald Dahl joined the RAF. In Africa he learnt to speak Swahili, drove from diamond mines to gold mines, and survived a bout of malaria where his temperature reached 105.5 degrees (that's very high!). He seems incapable of marshalling his thoughts on paper!' After finishing school Roald Dahl, in search of adventure, travelled to East Africa to work for a company called Shell. When he was at school Roald Dahl received terrible reports for his writing - with one teacher actually writing in his report, 'I have never met a boy who so persistently writes the exact opposite of what he means. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Street-hawkers and boulevardiers, women dragging carts of vegetables or herring. The car argued its way through the traffic under the fifty-two Corinthian pillars and wide steps of the new Eglise de la Madeleine, then swung up Boulevard Malesherbes past the dome of Saint Augustin. I feel like I'm in the streets of Paris in the 1900s. In addition to the plot, which turns on high about midway through the book, the writing of Robertson is just beautiful. ![]() The book takes the reader from Paris high society to the pickpockets of Montmartre. ![]() And I thought I really didn't want to read about a woman during the Belle Epoque who starved in her Paris apartment, but the book jacket was misleading. It hints at the intolerably cold and hungry conditions she faces. The book jacket explains the main character Maud is a middle class English woman who goes to Paris to take art lessons. I picked up this book for obvious reasons, set in France, and I wasn't sure at first that I'd like it. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Starr loses her childhood friend, Kahlil, to a police shooting, she’s surprised by her response, reflecting, “I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Which talks were/are important in your family? How does your response reflect your social location?ģ. Starr got two talks growing up: one about the “birds and the bees,” the other about what to do if she got stopped by a cop. Either version of me.” In what places have you felt this same tension? In what ways is this tension particular to people from historically oppressed groups?*Ģ. In the opening scene of Angie Thomas’s novel, The Hate U Give, Starr reflects, “There are just some places where it’s not enough to be me. ![]() ![]() To learn more about the Everything Happens Book Club, click here.ġ. Click here to download a PDF of these discussion questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() While we patiently wait for the show’s return, fans can enjoy reading a wonderful new behind-the-scenes book. Not only was the show renewed for a third season earlier this year, it was also revealed that a fourth season has been confirmed too! Six brand new episodes and another Christmas special are currently filming in Yorkshire, England. ![]() Two seasons of the new All Creatures Great and Small have aired so far, becoming Channel 5’s biggest original drama series since it premiered to wide acclaim in 2020. The cosy period drama follows the heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. PBS and Channel 5’s hit revival series is based on author James Herriot’s much-loved collection of stories. The makers of All Creatures Great and Small have published a wonderful new book for fans. ![]() ![]() Screenwriter Michael Green has adapted the 1937 novel with some new inventions: some people of colour are introduced, and Christie’s intense dislike for her wealthy-hypocrite leftwing character has been dialled down. It is Poirot who interviews suspects, supervises corpse-storage in the ship’s galley freezer cabinet and delivers the final unmasking – and all without the captain insisting that the Egyptian police should possibly get involved. The horrible homicide means that one of the passengers will have to spring into action, and this is of course the amply moustached Hercule Poirot, played by Branagh himself. It’s the classic whodunnit about a murder on a steamer making its way down the river in Egypt with an Anglo-American boatful of waxy-faced cameos aboard. L ong coronavirally delayed, Kenneth Branagh’s latest Agatha Christie movie puffs effortfully into harbour. ![]() ![]() But Harry is a champion of the dead - and the living.įrom the Romanian mausoleum where the undead vampire tests the limits of his bonds, the stage is set for the most horrifying, violent supernatural confrontation ever when Harry Keogh is recruited by the British Secret Service to take on Dragosani. Like Dragosani, Harry is a necroscope who can speak with the dead. His speciality is tearing secrets from the souls of newly dead traitors. ![]() Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead.ĭragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but is in the pay of an ultra-secret Soviet paranormal agency over which he means to gain power for himself with knowledge raped from the dead. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. ![]() The outer limits of horror are unleashed when Harry Keogh is recruited by the E-Branch (E for ESP) of the British Secret Service to combat his own evil counterpart, the deadly Romanian Boris Dragosani. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Harry, his talent works both ways. Harry Keogh is a necroscope - he knows the thoughts of corpses in their graves. ![]() |