5/14/2023 0 Comments Mrs caliban ingalls![]() So she stays at home, listening to the radio and living out fantasies in her head as she tries to cope with the wreck her life has become (two lost children, very few friends, etc.). I guess I should start at the beginning.ĭorothy Caliban finds herself stuck in a loveless marriage, often at home listening to the radio, cooking dinner and cleaning the house while her husband goes to work every morning and always finds some excuse to “stay late at work.” She knows he’s seeing other women, but feels powerless to do anything about it. Caliban has so many holes in its plot, and possible interpretations for these gaps, that I am not really sure where to start. For such a short story, Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. ![]() ![]() The title of this post was my first thought after reading this wonderful, bewildering, and somewhat depressing novella. ![]()
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5/14/2023 0 Comments Chainsaw man gyo![]() ![]() ![]() It’s here where Denji gets to fulfil the promise he was given, but when he does the dirty deed, he doesn’t get much satisfaction from it. Later, the overall boss Makima orders Aki to take Power and Meowy into his flat. Luckily, his superior Aki comes to rescue the lot. Denji uses his chainsaw powers to break free and eventually defeat this monster, only to be attacked by another devil soon afterwards. However, it was all a set-up to try and get Denji get eaten by a Bat Devil, but this devil also eats Power and Meowy too. ![]() The two are currently looking for Power’s pet cat Meowy, and in exchange, Power will let Denji do something he has always wanted to do – touch a woman’s breasts. He is carrying out his new job as a Devil Hunter, working alongside the fiend Power, a corpse taken over by a devil, who also has the power to make weapons out of her own blood. Last time, we were following Denji, a man who has let a devil take over his body, meaning that he can sprout chainsaws out of his head and arms when he pulls a ripcord coming out of his chest. This pattern continues into the second volume, although there are some other issues too. When reviewing the original volume, my reaction was mixed: there were good action sequences, but the comedy was rather lowbrow. ![]() ![]() I’m expecting my first child any day now, and garlic is not this pregnant lady’s friend currently. ![]() And second, I went way less on the garlic. First, I had no coriander (Someone add that to the shopping list.) so it was omitted. I made a few adjustments, as a home-cook tends to do. ![]() I had a bag of red lentils that were calling from the pantry and this soup seemed like it would hit the spot. Sure, there’s a few tofu and tempeh recipes, but the gist is this….you don’t need a freezer full of fake meats to have a satisfying home cooked vegan meal that is both healthy and as the name suggests, low in fat and calories.Īutumn in New England means a chill in the air and more than a few rainy days. Much like Veganomicon, this book is filled with recipes using real food….beans, rice, vegetables, broth. Her latest release is a collection of low fat, lower calorie vegan whole food recipes that are just begging to be made. ![]() A friend recently alerted me to the latest cookbook offering by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Appetite for Reduction. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Public image ltd johnny rotten![]() ![]() It was usually resentful intelligentsia trying to tear me down. The British being what they are, I had to get over a few things when I started. How do you feel about the process at this point? NOISEY: You’ve been doing interviews for nearly 40 years now. These days he’ll hurl his best epithets from sunny California, because Johnny Rotten is now a U.S. As such, the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten isn’t quite the angry young man who hoisted two upright fingers in the Queen’s direction back in 1977. Then again, you might be surprised: A quarter-century of living in America and untold decades of listening to reggae can change a person irreversibly. extravaganza, entitled fill-in-the-blank style as What the World Needs Now… Famed torch singer Jackie DeShannon would clearly replace the ellipses with “is love” as she did on her soapy 1965 hit, but it seems unlikely that the former Sex Pistol is leaning toward anything quite so maudlin. I did.” The record he’s talking about is the latest Public Image Ltd. Why didn’t I put them on the record? Oh, hello. Lydon belches loudly and says, “Jazz tones. We’re poolside, of course-or at least at a picnic table on a sun deck overlooking a pool. ![]() ![]() John Lydon is alternately sipping a beer and huffing a duke at an undisclosed location in Malibu. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments Philip pullman books![]() ![]() It wasn’t until I’d got halfway through Northern Lights that I realised I was writing a story about leaving childhood behind I hoped this new venture would turn out to let me write realistically about human beings while making up whatever they needed by way of a world to live and breathe and move and work in. The only stories I could write confidently were set in this world at another time ( the Sally Lockhart series, set in the 1870s and 80s), or fairy tales ( Clockwork, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, and so on), or at our own time in another world: the kind of thing that became His Dark Materials. I could probably have written a realistic novel about teaching in the sort of school I was teaching in at the time, but I didn’t want to, probably because I wouldn’t have wanted to read one and because of a combination of timidity and idleness, I knew practically nothing about anything else. ![]() ![]() I didn’t want to write a pure fantasy of the Tolkien sort, unconnected at any point with the real world, because the real world was exactly what fiction ought to be dealing with but I’d always felt ignorant about the real world, whatever and wherever that was. It was like ours, but different, so I could take account of the real-world changes that helped my story, and ignore those that didn’t. To some extent, my story was protected from awkward change because I set it in a world that was not ours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Masks are required for all attendees, regardless of vaccination status.Third Place Books requires attendees to provide proof of vaccination for all in-person events this season, or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 48 hours of the event date.The first 25 attendees to purchase VIP tickets will receive personalized copies of All My Rage. This event will not include a public signing. Book-bundled tickets come with a signed copy of the event's featured book.This event will take place on the Main Stage at our Lake Forest Park store. ![]() Willow Wilson, author of The Bird King and co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms Marvel. Third Place Books is proud to welcome Sabaa Tahir, the New York Times bestselling author of the Ember in the Ashes series, for a conversation about All My Rage, a "gorgeous meditation on grief and love and the possibilities each of us have for redemption" (Nicola Yoon). Willow Wilson at Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park! ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Greek mythology stephen fry![]() ![]() The Greeks created gods that were in their image warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate, but vengeful. Fry does a wonderful job conveying the beginning of existence and then moves through the development of the world with the Titans, the Olympian gods, the nymphs, the lesser gods, and all other divine beings. ![]() Stephen Fry has compiled the core myths from Greek mythology, beginning with the cosmogony or creation of the universe with the protogenoi or primordial god Chaos who was quickly followed by Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the depths), Erebus (darkness), Nyx (night), Hemera (day), and Aether (light). Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry is his first book in his Greek Mythology series. Fry has managed to retell the Greek myths in a somewhat linear way, and he has added his own flair and enjoyable writing style to these well-loved stories. ![]() Mythos begins with the beginning of the universe and then retells the myths of all of the gods and goddesses you should know in Greek mythology in a really engaging, and entertaining way. If you want to get into Greek Mythology but you are not sure where to start, then Mythos by Stephen Fry is the perfect book for you. Mythos: (Ancient Greek Mythology Book for Adults, Modern Telling of Classical Greek Myths Book) (Stephen Fry's Greek Myths, 1) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Getting things done book review![]() This part of the book explains the mental processes from David Allen’s point of view. Some of the teachings in the books have merit, but following it blindly has shown to hurt productivity to numerous people, as system is robust and highly inefficient in order to maintain. ![]() We moved away from it’s teachings and decided to “ Quit GTD“, as it didn’t prove any factual based evidence to support it’s claims. While it defined a frame work for numerous people to start their productivity journey, we at Alpha Efficiency aren’t convinced in it’s efficiency. Numerous people will claim this book to be productivity bible and will appear to behave in cult like manner in their propagation of the GTD legacy. ![]() It allows you to assemble tight plans and enhance your productivity, if you have clear tasks. ![]() This methodology appeals to the geek culture on the internet, and especially to the programers, due it’s structural and logarithmical approach. This time around we are going to review Getting Things Done. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The ghost in you brubaker![]() ![]() ![]() Phillips added: "It’s only taken 40 years, but the Reckless books have helped me find my rhythm drawing comics. ![]() When a movie scream queen asks her to prove the mansion she’s renovating isn’t haunted, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery of one of Hollywood’s most infamous murder houses…a place with many dark secrets-some of which might just kill her. In The Ghost in You, it’s the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town-so this time, Anna has to tackle the job on her own. This is one strange mystery that Anna finds herself in the middle of." And it's a case that lets me dive back into some of my own obsessions, like famous crime scene houses and TV horror hosts of the '60s and '70s. "After watching Anna grow over the first three books in the Recklessseries, I couldn't stop thinking about doing a book with her as the lead, working her own case. "The reaction to me and Sean switching to original graphic novels has been amazing, and it's pushed us creatively, too," said Brubaker. It will land on shelves this April from Image Comics and join Reckless, Friend of the Devil, and Destroy All Monsters in this original graphic novel series. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' bestselling Reckless books just won't quit, as the award winning crime noir masters bring us yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless in The Ghost in You. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the guys take on the reasonable stance of waiting around while Harper scuttles between them. However, I became increasingly frustrated as Harper yo-yoed back and forth between Brandon and Chase, never able to make up her mind and stick to it as she was apparently so deeply in love with both. Although I admit I didn’t really ‘get’ the sudden and incredibly intense attraction the two guys feel for Harper, but it was a decent enough love-triangle based story. Taking Chances started off as a reasonable read. ![]() Brandon and Chase feel the same way about Harper and she must choose between the pair, but even when she does end up with Brandon, she can’t stop thinking about Chase. She hits it off with roommate, Bree immediately and through her meets Brandon and Chase, two housemates Harper finds herself falling in love with. Now eighteen, Harper is leaving behind her secluded life to start a new life at college. ![]() Harper hasn’t had the most conventional of upbringings, raised solely by her marine father, who is distant and has always made it quite clear he wishes Harper wasn’t there. ![]() This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]() |