Windswept by Annabel Abbs7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In this powerful and deeply inspiring book, Annabel Abbs uncovers women who refused to conform, who recognised a biological, emotional and artistic need for wilderness, water and desert – and who took the courageous step of walking unpeopled and often forbidding landscapes. But not all women did as they were told, despite the dangers history reveals women for whom rural walking became inspiration, consolation and liberation. ![]() ‘A beautiful and meditative memoir’ Publishers Weeklyįor centuries, the wilds have been male territory, while women sat safely confined at home. ‘A triumph … I felt as though I were being lifted, carried up to peaks’ Charlotte Peacock, author of Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd ‘Moving and memorable’ Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You? The story of extraordinary women who lost their way – their sense of self, their identity, their freedom – and found it again through walking in the wild. ![]()
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Marc andreyko love is love7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The 144-page comic book will also feature an introduction by Andreyko and will be co-published by DC Comics and IDW Publishing.Īmong the comics included in “Love Is Love” is a piece by James Asmus and Ming Doyle as well as one by Steve Orlando and Iain Laurie. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour »Īll the comics included in the book were donated by the writers, artists and editors and all the proceeds will go to Equality Florida and its fund for the victims, survivors and family members affected by the Pulse nightclub massacre. “They should hurt, and we should want to change for the better.” “Events like this shouldn’t be compartmentalized,” Andreyko told the New York Times. “Love Is Love” will include stories that mourn the victims, examine love and celebrate the LGBTQ community. ![]() On June 12, 49 people were killed when a gunman opened fire in Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. Contributing creators include Phil Jimenez, Steve Sadowski, Paul Jenkins, Mike Carey, Matt Wagner, Damon Lindelof, Patton Oswalt, Brandon Peterson, Jesus Saiz, Olivier Coipel and Leinil Yu. ![]() Organized by writer Marc Andreyko, “Love Is Love” will feature more than 100 one- to two-page stories from some of the biggest names in comics. The comic book community is coming together for “Love Is Love,” a comic to honor those killed in June’s Orlando attack. ![]() Fierce fairy tales7/8/2023 ![]() The harp screams to wake up the sleeping giant who chases after Jack and follows him down the giant beanstalk. Jack uses his wit and speed to steal the giant's goose that laid golden eggs to solve his and his mother's money troubles, but returns a second time to steal the giant's magic harp. ![]() He visits an enormous castle and convinces a giantess to take him in and hide him from her husband, a giant that enjoys eating humans. After growing a giant beanstalk from magic beans, a young man named " Jack" climbs the beanstalk and discovers a land above the clouds populated by giants. Arguably the most famous fairy tale to include giants is Jack and the Beanstalk. ![]() Elixir by Elizabeth Jeannel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The depth of the characters and the rich history draws the reader in immediately and doesn’t let go until the very last word. It’s so much more than the novelty of a F/F story with a cross-dressing knight. ![]() ![]() Traitors of the Black Crown is my new favorite fantasy series! I loved this book and I can’t wait for the sequel. ***I received a copy of Traitors of the Black Crown by Cate Pierce pre-publication*** ***I received a copy of Traitors of the Black Crown by Cate Pierce pre-publication*** Traitors of the Black Crown is my new favorite fantasy series! I loved this b A banished knight with more than a few secrets captures the heart of a widowed duchess. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 starsĪ banished knight with more than a few secrets captures the heart of a widowed duchess. ![]() ![]() Wives, Handmaids, Marthas all share this overriding preoccupation with procreation, and in many ways it unites them, even though the relationship between the three groups is inevitably tense. This – occasionally desperate – desire of women to procreate is what the patriarchs of Gilead use as a means to control them, or, more precisely, it is what leads women themselves to cooperate with the state to the exclusion of almost all their previous political and economic rights, solely in return for the possibility of at least some women having children. ![]() ![]() White males in The Handmaid’s Tale react to this with a programme of extreme crisis management in which producing children suddenly becomes society’s overriding priority females, by contrast, display a more visceral and emotional need for children in the novel. One of the most interesting aspects of Atwood’s dystopia is the idea of how a society might react to a massive fall in the birth rate. ‘Give me children, or else I die.’ – This phrase lies at the core of the first epigraph to the novel which is taken from Genesis 30:1-3. ![]() ![]() Typical for Brandon was his depicting of contemporary Jewish, religious life, something Pissarro, also born a Jew, neglected. Still he never uses juxta-posed brushstrokes. His brushstroke is more loose, not rendering small details. The influence of light is mostly clair-obscure wise. But in many of his paintings Brandon uses a lot of browns, blacks and greys. In these works he also depicted every day life. ![]() In several Italian pictures (1856-63ca) his palet is more bright, he renders the influence of light and even sometimes uses blueish shadows, this is before Monet did so in 1869 (R22,CR133). This makes Brandon more a side-figure within the ‘impressionist’ art-movement.īrandon depicted many works on Saint-Brigit of Sweden (1303-73), which betrays a neo-classical influence. For the rest there doesn’t seem to be close contacts with other Impressionists. He was the teacher of Rouart, was befriended with Degas, de Nittis and probably had some contacts with Legros, Morisot and Félix Bracquemond. ![]() Impressionism, the partakers of the expositions: Édouard Brandon (1831-1897)ĭepicting Saint-Brigit, contemporary Italians, Jewish believers and moreīrandon only exhibited at the 1st ‘impressionist’ exposition.
![]() “ applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel.A fun, contemporary adventure that cares about who we are as humans, especially when faced with remarkable events.” ![]() “ is perhaps as honest a look as we will ever get into the phenomenon of cyberfame, and Green balances this careful introspection with a plotline that is both fun and mysterious, puzzling and compelling… Green quickly proves himself adept not only at playing into our anxiety and love/hate relationship with social media, but also at driving suspense, world-building and a true love for science fiction.” Here are a few reviews if your mind isn't quite made up! If you want the audio book, you can find it on Audible and Libro.fm. And yes, I'm pretty dang proud of those numbers. It's got 4.5 on Amazon, 4.5 on Goodreads, and 4.7 on Audible. If you're looking for the second book, it's here! And while the mystery keeps getting weirder, her relationship with her fame and the people she loves.well those things keep getting worse. It's a story about a young woman who uncovers a mystery and it draws her into public eye, a place where she, it turns out, desperately wanted to be. Since I published "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing" I feel like it's somehow only gotten more relevant. ![]() ![]() Hey! You're probably here from TikTok, thanks for coming by. ![]() The V Unit by Max Vos7/7/2023 ![]() (*)The 1Ku list pricing shown is for BUDGETARY USE ONLY, shown in United States dollars (FOB USA per unit for the stated volume), and is subject to change. (**) Displayed Buy Now Price and Price Range is based on small quantity orders. See our Ordering FAQs for answers to questions about online orders, payment options and more. The wafer lots are processed to our in-house Class S flow to yield circuits usable in stringent military and space applications. These op amps remain stable while driving capacitive loads up to 10,000pF. The inputs can be driven beyond the supplies without damage or phase reversal of the output. With 110dB of supply rejection, the RH1499 maintains its performance over a supply range of 4.5V to 36V. ![]() When used as a unity-gain buffer in front of single supply 12-bit A-to-D converters, the RH1499 is guaranteed to add less than 1LSB of error even in single 5V supply systems. ![]() ![]() The resulting guaranteed common mode rejection is much better than other rail-to-rail input op amps. Using a patented technique, the input stages of the RH1499 are trimmed, one at the negative supply and the other at the positive supply. The RH1499 is designed to maximize input dynamic range by delivering precision performance over the full supply voltage. ![]() The RH1499 is a quad, rail-to-rail input and output precision C-Load ™ op amp with a 10MHz gain-bandwidth product and a 6V/μs slew rate. ![]() Weird tales 1928 the call of cthulhu7/7/2023 ![]() I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things-in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor. But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ![]() We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ![]() T he most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ![]() The vanishing half goodreads7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a reflection on the conditional aspirations of the white middle class, once you've entered this milieu, there are certain expectations, invisible rules, codes of conduct, and when children dare to want to be themselves and be someone that doesn't fit into that conventional idea of success, many parents will try everything they can to manipulate, entice or bribe them into fulfilling those expectations. About the many ways one can lose oneself. ![]() I thought initially it was a novel about 'passing', something similar to Nella Larsen's novel Passing (1929) that I read last year, a subject that at the time of Larsen's book, there were literally hundreds of books coming out about the subject.īut Brit Bennett's novel, rather than focus just on 'passing' looks at all the ways people hide things about themselves, keep secrets and the impact that has not just on themselves but on others around them. I think this is one of the most popular reads of 2020 and it's also on the Dublin Literary Award longlist 2021 a recognition of the votes of libraries and readers from around the world. ![]() |