Like the young heroes of dime novelist Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales, Franklin essentially pulls himself up by his bootstraps. This was the second governor who had done me the honor to take notice of me which, to a poor boy like me, was very pleasing. Franklin hopes that other young men will be inspired by all of these characteristics. He commits himself fully to his endeavors, even if the work that is required is arduous and/or monotonous. From his earliest days Franklin sees writing as key to his future. Writing is a way to put one's ideas into the world, to shape one's own identity and destiny. Second, he will primarily gain his reputation through writing: writing articles under the penname "Silence Dogood," publishing pieces on politics and science, writing the Autobiography, and more. He knows that unfettered independence is not ideal: instruction and advice from one's betters is useful for advancement. Before Franklin can become a great man he needs to learn from other great men. First, he is willing to take direction and constructive criticism. In this quote Franklin demonstrates several important characteristics of his personality that will lend themselves to his future success. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I saw the justice of his remark, and thence grew more attentive to the manner in writing, and determined to endeavor at improvement.
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If you like what you hear and learn, tell others about it and share and post the link to the show. Soul is black spirituality and experiential wisdom. Take the time to review the show on iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. In Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America, Frederick Douglas Opie attempts to understand the formation and transformation of soul food in African-America culture.Opie argues that Soul is the style of rural folk culture. A few questions we’ll unpack on this show: what is soul food - and is it gentrifying? How do major historical events like the Civil Rights Movement influence food? And what feelings arise when you find a food from your homeland in an unfamiliar place?įollow the Fred Opie show and the content Fred shares on his website, Twitter and Facebook. On this episode of Meant To Be Eaten, Fred Opie, professor of foodways and history at Babson College and author of the book Hogs and Hominy joins Adedoyin Teriba, a professor of architectural history at Pratt, to discuss soul food and the spread of African-American culture and food across the globe. Note: A podcast in which Fred Opie makes contributions to the story. There was nothing open and, after working all night, the comics gang was starving. NYC became paralyzed, midtown a ghost town. A massive blizzard hit late Friday night. The place had no kitchen, so they'd send out for sandwiches, until. "In The Great Comic Book Heroes, Feiffer tells of a group of writers and artists who camped in an unfurnished Manhattan space to crank out a 68-page comic over a weekend in 1941. He did a deep dive on his Twitter feed about that weekend and even figured out exactly what comic book it was they were all working on and where to find it online. Snow plays a part, and, since it's snowing like crazy today (18" of wet snow expected.), this comes to mind. Written by none other than Jules Feiffer, it was, for me and many others, our first exposure to these 1930s, 40s and 50s comic book stories and their creators. The Great Comic Book Heroes is one of the first books to approach the golden age of comic books with an affectionate and scholarly eye. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves and soon grows to love her new wolf family. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness. To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. The survival theme makes it a good pick for readers of other wilderness stories such as My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, or Island of the Blue Dolphins. Julie of the Wolves is a staple in the canon of children’s literature and the first in the Julie trilogy. This edition, perfect for classroom or home use, includes John Schoenherr’s original scratchboard illustrations throughout, as well as extra materials such as an introduction written by Jean Craighead George’s children, the author’s Newbery acceptance speech, selections from her field notebooks, a discussion guide, and a further reading guide. She finds herself caught between the traditional Eskimo ways and the modern ways of the whites. Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey acoss the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra. Jean Craighead George’s Newbery Medal–winning classic about an Eskimo girl lost on the Alaskan tundra now features bonus content. For she is Miyax of the Eskimos-but Julie of the Wolves. The French had really outdone themselves at the previous World's Fair by showcasing the Eiffel Tower in 1889, and now something even more spectacular was wanted. Note: parents, this picture book is longer than most.Ī mere ten months before the start of the 1893 World's Fair, the planners were still looking for a star attraction. If you’re looking for a chapter book on the Ferris Wheel, read The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson. JK.īut to the book review: it’s a fun one that you and the kids will enjoy! Good narrative full of all the interesting facts the kiddos will be asking about and colorful illustrations to top it off! Here!”Īnd that is how I ended up with the book.īut maybe next time … it won’t be unintentional. I read/skimmed over most of it already anyways. I just thought it was so cool that she’d wanted to also read this random book. “What! Where did you find that? I’ve been wanting to read that one,” I say very excitedly. We were wrapping up at the bookstore and I asked her what she’d found, when I saw this book poking out from her little stash. It was an honest-to-goodness unintentional theft. Now, being the book lover that I am, you might think it was all part of my diabolical plan from the start, but it really wasn’t. I kinda, sorta, maybe, perhaps… stole this book from my friend! □ The heroine: Lazarus – as a young child, she was the only one left alive in a city decimated by the horseman Pestilence. Humankind is set to perish, and not even the horsemen can stop Death from fulfilling his final task. But Death’s attraction to her is undeniable, and try though she might, Lazarus cannot stay away from that ancient, beautiful being and his dark embrace. A hopeless task, made all the worse by the bad blood between her and Thanatos. When Lazarus crosses paths with the three other horsemen, an unthinkable situation leads to a terrible deal: seduce Death, save the world. And the longer she tries to stop him from his killing spree, the stronger the desire becomes. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. She is the one soul Death doesn’t recognize. But Lazarus has her own extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed-not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is a woman left alive and standing. And then, of course, there’s the one I’m all too familiar with. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth–Pestilence, War, Famine, Death–four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. So he would not look at them.įrom Paul, Bowles’s 1949 novel The Sheltering Sky. I like the passage Bowles shows here that to be human is to invest an aesthetic (and simultaneously anesthetic) viewpoint into one’s daily life-and that to invest in this viewpoint is to calculate psychic and emotional costs and payoffs. They were there, and they should have pleased his eye, but he did not have the strength to relate them, either to each other or to himself, he could not bring them into any focus beyond the visual. He did not want to face the intense sky, too blue to be real, above his head, the ribbed pink canyon walls that lay on all sides in the distance, the pyramidal town itself on its rocks, or the dark spots of oasis below. In its interior aspect, 'The Sheltering Sky' is an allegory of the spiritual adventure of the fully conscious person into modern experience. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force. In this external aspect the novel is, therefore, an account of startling adventure. Reduced to its plot essentials, 'The Sheltering Sky' is a sort of existential update on Rudolph Valentineos old chestnut, 'The Sheik. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. The author sets the mood for the book through the character of Port, who broods upon. He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. He was somewhere, he had come back through the vast regions from nowhere there was certitude of an infinite sadness at the core of his consciousness, but the sadness was reassuring, because it alone was familiar. As he walked along the hot road toward the walls of Bou Noura he kept his head down, seeing nothing but the dust and the thousands of small sharp stones. It’s not based on any of the Mcdonald books, the pacing is off, and the jokes are lame. I randomly got a hankering to read another book from that dusty old collection after re-watching Fletch Lives (1989) while volunteering at the local video store. I thought, “Wow, that was great! I can’t wait to read another one.” I set the collection on the shelf where the dust jacket did its job collecting dust.įlash forward to July 2022. Fletch is a jerk, but usually only to other jerks. It’s mostly fast-paced back-and-forth dialogue full of wit and snarkiness. As with most books turned into films, the original 1974 book was much better. I thought it was great and hunted down a used copy of a collection of three of Gregory Mcdonald’s Fletch books. In 2005-ish, I watched Fletch (1985) for the first time. But very recently two films opened back to back and I felt like it was my duty to see them both in one weekend. Hello folks, I like going to the movies yet seldom go. Reviewer: Well, The White Queen is something of a departure for Philippa Gregory because, over the course of six novels (from The Other Boleyn Girl, through The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance and The Other Queen), she has made Tudor history her own. Although the novel charts Elizabeth’s rise, in the main, it also offers Philippa Gregory to put her spin on what she thinks happened to the two young princes (which is one of those historical conundrums that has foxed historians for hundreds of years). She already had kids by her first husband (who was killed in battle) but with Edward went on to have Richard and Edward, who are the infamous ‘princes in the tower’ and Elizabeth of York, who married Henry VII, which makes her Henry VIII’s Mum. So, Elizabeth and Edward married in secret and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn’t go down too well. Melusina is a goddess (I think she was the inspiration for Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Little Mermaid’). She was also a divorced commoner, the daughter of a witch and supposedly the descendant of Melusina. She was a Lancastrian and Edward a Yorkist. This particular novel is about (and narrated by) Elizabeth Woodville, who was the wife of Edward IV. The White Queen is the first part of a new trilogy about the Plantagenets. Reviewer: Although it’s much too complicated for a peasant like you, I’ll try and explain. I know that you’ve finished reading Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen. How are you getting on with the new Philippa Gregory novel, The White Queen? The Book KRISHNA, the Man and His Philosophy has become rare. Arjuna would have immediately retorted, “What are you saying? Why on earth should I surrender to you?” Arjuna would have really been hurt, but he was not. And Arjuna would have been hurt if Krishna’s “I” were as petty as yours. Hence he has the courage to tell Arjuna, “Give up everything else and come to my feet.” If it were the same “I” as yours – a prisoner of the body – it would be impossible for him to say a thing like this. When you say “I” it means the one imprisoned inside your body, but when Krishna says it he means that which permeates the whole cosmos. The difficulty is that Krishna has to use the same linguistic “I” as you do, but there is a tremendous difference in connotation between his “I” and yours. And what he says in this siddha state, in this ultimate state of mind, may seem to you to be egoistic, but it is not. He is a siddha, an adept, an accomplished performer of all life’s arts. |
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