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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.
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Rainbows end vinge6/27/2023 It's been a couple of months since I read it, but I seem to recall Mr. Rabbit is of continually bragging about his skills, abilities, and general awesomeness, self-deprecating humor seems a bit out of character. Rabbit is uncertain, this particular letter transposition is rather interesting.Īn unintentional letter transposition is pretty much unimaginable, should Mr. Rabbit is aware of the distinction, however, is a bit less clear. His use of the incorrect term is almost certainly deliberate. Given the level of vocabulary Vernor Vinge demonstrates throughout his writings, it seems unlikely that he is unaware of the distinction between viola and voilà. However, there are plenty of people who unintentionally misuse viola, or who pronounce it incorrectly (e.g. I know a couple of people who use "viola" in real life as an intentionally (and arguably) humorous substitute for "voilà", and I know that they are fully aware of the differences. "Viola!" may be a bit of a cheesy word play joke.Ī viola is a stringed instrument, but because the spelling is so similar to the French word voilà, it is sometimes used as a substitute, either intentionally as self-deprecating humor (implying that the speaker chooses to use the wrong, but similar-sounding word, as a sort of pun), or unintentionally (which may imply that the speaker learned the word through reading, rather than hearing it in use, as the letter transposition is much easier to miss while reading printed text than it would be in hearing the word properly pronounced).
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Empire of the bay peter c newman6/27/2023 Between the polar- opposite regimes of these two, Newman tracks HBC's expansion into the Arctic, the subsequent decline of the mainstay fur trade, and the boardroom battles that resulted in the shift of HBC's legal domicile from London to Winnipeg on the 300th anniversary of its founding. Among them are the rascally, self-serving Donald Alexander Smith, a longtime governor of HBC, as well as Kenneth (Lord) Thomson, the miserly heir to a newspaper/petroleum fortune who gained control of ``The Bay'' (as it's known up north) in 1979. As before, the author again focuses on larger-than-life personalities who played major roles in the corporate drama. Here, Newman covers the 120-odd years through mid- 1991, during which HBC devolved into the Dominion's largest department-store chain. helped shape Canadian history as a royally chartered (in 1670) instrument of British empire. The final volume in Newman's three-part engrossing and epic record (1985, 1987) of how the Hudson's Bay Co.
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These paintings, particularly the now- iconic image that appears on its cover, have become as beloved as the story they accompany,” said HarperCollins deputy publishing director Chris Smith. “Like many young readers, I was enthralled by his charming and evocative illustrations that accompanied The Hobbit. While the works have been collected in books such as Christopher Tolkien’s Pictures by JRR Tolkien, and Wayne G Hammond and Christina Scull’s JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, and were shown in exhibitions in 2018, the Tolkien estate has now granted HarperCollins rights to publish a new edition of The Lord of the Rings, in which the images accompany the text they were created to illustrate for the first time. Photograph: terencecaven/Tolkien Estate/Harper Collinsīut he went on to create a range of drawings, illustrations, maps and sketches as he told the story of Frodo and Sam’s quest, many as pictorial aids as he wrote his expansive story, and some for his own pleasure.
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My great aunt arizona by gloria houston6/26/2023 She goes with us in our minds.'' Readers will be among the many touched by this very special relative. Though her great-aunt died at the age of 93, Houston concludes that she ``travels with me and with those of us whose lives she touched. For 57 years, Arizona hugged her students, and ``taught them words and numbers, and about the faraway places they would visit someday.'' Lamb's bustling paintings-with glowing characters straight out of Laura Ingalls Wilder-convey the timeless beauty of the region, as well as Arizona's warmth and charisma. in the Blue Ridge Mountains.'' Arizona and her younger brother attended a one-room school, helped tap the maple trees in spring and ``caught tadpoles in the creek.'' Later, she went away to school, and returned to teach in the same schoolhouse where she herself learned. Age Level: 6-9 Reading Level: Independent Reader Reading SOS Tips from experts on how to help your children with reading and writing at home. You can use them, but you dont have to use them. My Great-Aunt Arizona Gloria Houston Arizona Houston Hughes, an Appalachian girl who dreams of seeing the world, grows up to become a teacher who inspires generations of schoolchildren. Note: These craft ideas are just suggestions. In spare yet stirring prose, she recounts the life of her great-aunt Arizona, who ``was born in a log cabin her papa built. Synopsis: In a tribute to her great-aunt Arizona, a teacher for fifty-seven years, the author recalls Arizonas exuberant lifestyle and the zest for learning that she instilled in generations of her students. The author of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Littlejim again demonstrates her skill as a graceful, affecting storyteller.
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This changes everything book6/26/2023 You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it - it just requires breaking every rule in the "free-market" playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies and reclaiming our democracies. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change Forget everything you think you know about global warming.
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Outlander book after drums of autumn6/26/2023 Two hundred years later in Boston, Brianna Randall discovers a danger to her parents and must make a critical decision.Īuthor Diana Gabaldon never forgets that at its core, Outlander is a love story. In 1767, Jamie and Claire Fraser settle in the wilderness of North Carolina and build a home with the help of their foster son Fergus and stepdaughter Marsali, Jamie’s nephew Ian, and formerly indentured Scots from Ardsmuir Prison. The major differences between the book and the fourth season of the television series. After an adorable spoiler kitten, some discussion of the book in depth, andģ. A relatively spoiler-free piece about the book in general Ģ. Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
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Beloved vintage morrison6/26/2023 “I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don’t have any answers to,” Toni Morrison told The Paris Review in 1993. Her forewords offer to demystify the creation of these worlds. For me, navigating Morrison’s fictional worlds-awash with smells, colors, textures, flowers, and foliage-is much like traveling to a new city or country where my own feeling of foreignness is palpable. My specific attraction to her forewords, I suspect, emanates from the contrast they draw with her novels, which construct imaginative universes so whole and total in their details, signs, and inhabitants that I frequently find them overwhelming. Recently, in preparing to visit an exhibition of Toni Morrison’s process papers, “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory,” on view at Princeton University Library, I became fascinated with Morrison’s forewords to her novels-succinct yet highly technical exegeses of her creative muses, opening sentences, archival practices, and historical and psychological preoccupations. HOWEVER UNLIKELY a place to begin one’s critical investigations, I have always read the forewords of novels eagerly, with a hope that the writer will let slip crucial details about their sources of inspiration and creative process.
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Enclave by Ann Aguirre6/25/2023 I've read a few YA dystopians where rape came into play, but I have never encountered the subject treated as cavalier by an author and the main character. Enclave is a YA dystopian novel about an incredibly dark world. All that keeps ringing in my mind when I look at the cover of this book are quotes from the main character on the subject of rape. Generally, following the timeline of the book makes for a better review, but since I am so utterly horrified by the last third of the book I can't stomach talking about things like sewer systems, night vision, bad name choices, and human nature. I thought for a little bit about how to review this book, if I should go over all the weird mistakes and struggles with the world building chronologically or if I should just jump in at what bothered me most and work backwards.
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Ohio di stephen markley6/25/2023 Markley’s novel is alternately disturbing and gorgeous, providing a broad view of the anxieties of a post-9/11 Middle America and the complexities of the humans who navigate them. As the night progresses, the long-buried truth behind a horrifying town legend takes shape, offering a window into the raw forces that shape the town and its residents. There’s Bill Ashcraft, who drives into town to deliver a package to a familiar recipient Stacey Moore, a doctoral candidate who’s sucked into the mystery of her former lover’s disappearance veteran Dan Eaton, who returns from Afghanistan with a prosthetic eyeball and emotional wounds and Tina Ross, who confronts a violent part of her past. Over the course of one night-interlaced with high school flashbacks-the four settle old scores and uncover some of the town’s nefarious secrets. Once a bastion of steel-mill industry, New Canaan has been corroded by economic downturn and opiates it’s pervaded by a sense of disillusionment shared by the four, whose rudderless adult lives pale alongside the blinding lights of their adolescence. Una América bastante diferente a la que estamos acostumbrados a ver en las películas o series de televisión. La editorial Alianza ha publicado su novela 'Ohio',una novela que traslada al lector a la América profunda y rural. In Markley’s standout debut novel (following nonfiction works Publish This Book and Tales of Iceland), four former high school classmates return to their Ohio hometown to make amends. Stephen Markleyes un autor y periodista estadounidense. |