![]() If you’re unfamiliar with book or movie, here’s the gist: After the death of her parents, the resilient Flora Poste must find relatives who will put her up. The movie is a faithful adaptation of a delightful book that also never explains the mysteries of the nasty thing in the woodshed, nor the wrong done to Robert Poste. To both my delight and disappointment, all my expectations were met. I’d only seen the 1995 movie starring Kate Beckinsale as “Robert Poste’s child,” but it was a wonderful experience and I hoped reading the book would prove the movie to be a faithful adaptation and would also explain the mystery that never gets explained in the movie. Some oblique reference to “something nasty in the woodshed” must have burrowed it‘s way into my subconscious at some point, which re-awakened my long dormant resolve “I really must read that sometime.” For some reason, Cold Comfort Farm had been preying on my mind recently. ![]()
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I f you had told me even six months ago that there was going to be a film of The Faraway Tree books, I would have been delighted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL20794787W Page_number_confidence 96.07 Pages 358 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200812150704 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 726 Scandate 20200805023059 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781783296293 Tts_version 4. Urn:lcp:crimsonpeakoffic0000hold:epub:20906e0e-cb48-43e3-af2b-6cbf6846a512 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier crimsonpeakoffic0000hold Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2b94b856 Invoice 1652 Isbn 1783296291ĩ781783296293 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18439 Openlibrary_edition Learn more about Crimson Peak in the NILRC Academic Shared Digital Collection. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:09:05 Associated-names Toro, Guillermo del, 1964- Robbins, Matthew Boxid IA1902108 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() They seem more like the building type.ĭ - Draupnir: I think it would be cool to have a bracelet like Draupnir. The gods probably invented it, the god of gold that is because they were golden chessmen. He died because Frigg asked everything not to hurt him except mistletoe, then Loki, disguised as an old woman found out it was unsafe, then made an arrow out of mistletoe, gave it to Balder's blind brother, then Loki helped Hod shoot Balder, and Balder died.Ĭ - Chess and Chessmen: Almost everybody plays chess, the gods that is, and I didn't know that chess was made back then. ![]() The wear archer clothes and stuff.ī - Balder: The God of Light (is he the God of Light? Maybe he's just goodness. There's lots of elves there with bows, and they have long blonde hair and pointy years. The English ABCs of D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths (with one addition and some subtractions) by Miloš & Brontë*:Ī - Alfheim: It's the place where the elves live. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, if the circle represents a setting sun and the shooters’ outstretched arms are a horizontal cloud, who else could it be? It looks like a Robert McGinnis effort to me, but nossir, I will not make wild and spurious claims without some anonymous internet user to back me up. Thanks to Jim Gardner for providing this Soft Touch cover that I had never seen before. Perhaps a reader who still has functioning synapses could remind us all. There are at least four versions of this particular cover, but even all that repetition can’t make me think of a scene from the book that involves a birthday cake, let alone one that is dripping blood. Update (): Yikes! Steve Scott was … um … how do I say this? … wrong. Steve Scott says that Shine says this was done by Robert McGinnis. ![]() Update (): I never would have thought it. Many of these “double” covers were drawn by William Schmidt, but I can’t confirm this one. Lazy artist? Editor’s goof? Intentional pattern breaking? Alas, we shall never know. ![]() This cover is obviously a member of the Travis McGee “double” series, where a reasonably large main illustration at the bottom is paired with a smaller related companion illustration in the upper left, like this one, but in this case there is no companion illustration. Cover Artist: Robert McGinnis William SchmidtĬurious. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn the science of stage fright and how to overcome it in this animated short. The American Society for Suicide Prevention and the National Institute of Health have resources if you or someone you know if facing depression or contemplating suicide. It’s a good resource to find out more about some of the philosophers that Nora refers to as she tries out different lives. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy shares peer-reviewed information that is understandable to a lay person. I recommend reading the book before the guide. Note that this guide, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. While I read this book in the winter, I can imagine reading it and contemplating life in a summer setting such as sitting atop a mountain peak with a backpacking partner or relaxing by river with a buddy or staring into a campfire with a good friend. This quick-to-read novel gives you a chance to philosophize about your life, the path not taken and the meaning of life. ![]() While the outcome is predictable, the forays into philosophy are relatable and offer good jumping off points whether to general philosophical ideas or to personal introspection. The dialogue flows naturally and the characters come to life. The Midnight Library was my introduction to Matt Haig and I thoroughly enjoy his writing. ![]() ![]() Plenty of references to “when I was in the Navy” and “When I was in command of xxx submarine” (oh get over yourself!). Whilst the story itself was interesting, I still had difficulty with the way of writing. This book looks bigger than it really is – the last 200 pages being appendices…. ![]() Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Lost in China’s long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Most records of their journeys were destroyed. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. Its mission was “to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas” & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. On, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. ![]() 1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies ![]() ![]() As a result, Cassandra narrates from both inside and outside of her culture. Since she tried to shape what happened to her city in foretelling its destruction, she was not only ignored but also left out of the decision-making process. As she awaits her death, she reflects on her city and civilization and the sequence of events that led up to the war and happenings during the war. She is in front of the Mycenaean palace with her servant and her sons. When the novel switches perspective, Cassandra is a prisoner of war and is awaiting her execution. ![]() The opening and closing passages take place in present-day Greece, and the third-person narrator muses that this is the spot upon which the mythical Cassandra stood. German Democratic Republic (GDR) critics, however, gave the novel mixed reviews when it was first published in German.Įxcept for the opening and closing passages, Cassandra is a first-person interior monologue. The novel appealed to readers in East Germany, where reprints quickly sold out, and in West Germany, where the novel remained on the best-seller list for a year. Narrated by Cassandra, the novel is a reflection on her life, on Troy, and on the long war that leads to Troy’s destruction. Cassandra is a retelling of Homer’s prophetess and the last moments before her execution by the Greeks. Shortly thereafter, the draft was reworked and published in 1983 with Jan Van Heurck’s English translation appearing in 1984. ![]() ![]() Cassandra was the fifth and final lecture of a series Christa Wolf (1929–2011) presented in 1982. ![]() ![]() ![]() On such vexed issues as the role of ideas in the "rise of the middle class" he provides a new and realistic approach linking intellectual and social history. ![]() In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant. The stage was set for the revolutionary crisis and the rise of Romanticism. In the works of Rousseau, Kant and Goethe, there was discernible a new inner voice, and an awareness of individual uniqueness which had eluded their more self-confident predecessors. Yet by the 1760s, this optimism about man and society had almost evaporated. Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. ![]() |