He embraces that journey with joy and optimism, even after losing the love of his life and working through that incredible pain. Kennedy was assassinated, being stationed in Paris and briefly living on a kibbutz in the Gaza Strip-and, among other noteworthy experiences, a UFO encounter.įlanders-whose creative endeavors have included appearing in Broadway’s Shenandoah and in the touring production of Annie, as well as albums of trail songs and cowboy tunes like Yondering and Ride Away-spins beautiful prose as he recounts his life’s journey, marveling that although his adventures may have seemed random at the time, he now knows, as he looks back, that they cohere into something like a rich storyline. His journey involves hitchhiking all over the West in the 1960s in the name of adventure, tales of hard labor in Arizona heat, taking an Army physical just ten days before President John F. After an idyllic childhood in the bucolic little Illinois town of Western Springs (home of the namesake great elm), Flanders’s father is transferred to San Francisco, kicking off a time that Flanders spends trying to find himself. Debut author and lifelong actor/singer /songwriter/poet Flanders documents an adventurous life well lived in his sweeping and deeply honest memoir.
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It’s not a currency, something to be earned or denied or bartered for. It’s not like the sea, liable to slip through her fingers if she holds on too tight. Love is not the sharp-edged thing she’s always believed it to be. The love story between Maggie and Wes was achingly tender and heartwarming. I didn’t even expect the romance to be so prominent so I was pleasantly surprised. Fantasy romance is a sub-genre I haven’t delved into much, but if there are more books like this then I need them! The slow-burn, the pining, the mutual YEARNING. There’s just something about how the setting feels–and how easy it is to get lost in.Ģ. There’s a sense of foreboding, of mystery steeped into the story. Atmosphere makes a story compelling, and this 1920s-inspired fantasy world brimming with alchemy and magic swept me away within the first few chapters. A Far Wilder Magic now joins those ranks. When I think of atmospheric fantasy books, The Bear and the Nightingale and The Night Circus are the first ones that come to mind. A village by the sea, an isolated manor on the edge of town, and a hunt through moonlit forests. Here are five reasons why you should pick up this fantasy romance! Thank you Wednesday Books for sending me an ARC!ġ. From the world-building to the prose, I was swept away into an all-consuming atmospheric world of alchemy, mythical hunts, and high stakes. After reading Allison Saft’s A Far Wilder Magic, I’ve developed a newfound hunger for stories steeped in magic and romance. The cat is obviously his own person and that is relayed without making the story too cutesy. The stories about Polar Bear are charmingly told and remind me of the cats found in the Lockridge mystery series. The story follows Amory and Polar Bear (as the naming of the cat goes) through a year of settling in to a life together. It's a story about the bond between a cat and his human that just happens to start at Christmas. The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory isn't really a Christmas story. Amory discovers what it's like to be owned by a cat.and how much he likes it. The cat decides that Amory is who he wants to live with and from the moment Amory finds him staring at him the next morning the die has been cast. The rescue is just for the night.Amory offers to house the poor kitty overnight until someone can come claim him. The cat has obviously been on his own for a good while and someone has injured him. It's about 1977 and the night before Christmas when self-identified dog person and curmudgeon Cleveland Amory finds himself on a mission to help rescue a thin, bedraggled feline from a New York alley.
Paul Getty Museum co-curators Scott Allan and Mary Morton believe their new exhibit, The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, belongs in Los Angeles. If you’ve seen the scenes with Russell Crowe clad in armor and fighting to the death before crowds of bloodthirsty Romans, then you’ve seen “Pollice Verso” come to life. Tuesdays through Fridays and Sundays, 10 a.m. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Road, Los Angeles. The exhibit, featuring works from the 19th-century French artist's entire career, is up through Sept. Before Ridley Scott began filming his 2002 Oscar-winning blockbuster “Gladiator,” he was shown Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1872 painting “Pollice Verso.” It was meant to inspire - as well as to instruct- the director. In fact, Austen’s novels contain game-theoretic insights not yet superseded by modern social science.īefore going into Austen’s theoretical contributions, let me briefly introduce how game theory is used in economics.įor most of its history, economics concentrated on the analysis of what it calls “perfectly competitive” markets: markets with a multitude of buyers and a multitude of sellers, with no single firm having any influence over market prices.īut even back in the 19th century, economists realized how imperfect markets were becoming. But Austen’s novels, written in the early 1800s, anticipated by more than a century the most fundamental game-theoretic concepts, including the emphasis on choice, the theory of utility, and the theoretical analysis of strategic thinking. This popular and beloved writer used little mathematics or economics. I have published mathematical economics papers in journals such as the “Journal of Economic Theory.” But my latest book is built around the theoretical insights of Jane Austen. Probably the best-known game theorist is John Nash, who received the Nobel Prize in economics and was featured in the movie “A Beautiful Mind.” I’m a specialist in game theory, the mathematical analysis of strategic thinking. Economist Michael Chwe has written a book called “Jane Austen: Game Theorist.” Do you need more of a reason to read this post? Video from Michael Chwe’s YouTube channel. Due to this, I was apprehensive about reading it so early on in my exploration into Trans Studies, but it seemed too important to wait. I’ve since seen Black on Both Sides recommended on Instagram and included on several Trans reading lists, most of which describe the writing as “dense”. It caught my attention at the time I took a picture of it (like I do all books that appeal to me) and filed it away in my mind for later reading. I first came across Black on Both Sides in the (academic) books section of the gallery shop attached to the Kiss My Genders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2019. But when they do connect, it’s magic – not to mention a holly jolly payday.Ĭhristmas music has a wavelength entirely its own, shared by an overwhelming majority of its most recognizable classics: a sublime yearning that’s at once profoundly saddening and deeply comforting. Some succeed, as with these modern Christmas classics others, which just dropped this year, have yet to prove their mistletoe mettle. And with each passing year, more than a few contemporary artists try their hand at crafting a new seasonal standard, something sweet and melancholy that lingers in the pine-scented air for as long as it takes you to finish a candy cane (without chewing, that is). People have been singing about Christmas almost as long as it’s been celebrated. The things that make Christmas songs great - whether carols, old pop standards or newer enduring hits - are most of the same things that make pop great in general: emotional connection, universal relatability, unshakeable catchiness. There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more impatient every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening national security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.īehind the Russian cyberattacks that may have thrown the 2016 election behind the Sony hack behind mysterious power outages around the world and the disappearance of thousands of personnel records from poorly guarded government servers are the traces of a new and powerful weapon, one that has the potential to remake global conflict like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb. His first novel Praise (1992) won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the regional prize for best first book in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. revelation of life in the slow lane of drugs and sex and alcohol.' - "The Weekend Australian"Īndrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, and now lives in Victoria. 'McGahan's book is a bracing slap in the face to conventional platitudes and hypocrisies.' - "The Australian" 'Praise is one of those books that takes a hefty bite out of a piece of subject matter, chews it to a pulp and then spits it out.' - Peter Craven 'A tour de force. A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. "Praise" is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. There’s so much depth and different elements to the plot in Daughter of Smoke & Bone. One day Marou is confronted by a mythical “angel” and her whole world changes. Though she’s not too sure what they’re used for and Brimstone is mysterious as to what he uses them for. She goes on errands across the world collecting different artefacts and most importantly, teeth from different markets. Karou lives with her father-figure Brimstone whose looked after her for as long as she can remember. Little do they know that these creatures are real and a lot of the stories Karou tells are real. Karou fills her days drawing in her sketchbook everything around her, filling the pages with these people and creatures that fascinate those around her. Pin me to Pinterest!ĭaughter of Smoke & Bone is the first book in the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series which focuses on Karou and her exploration of where she came from and how truly important she is to stop a war that’s lasted thousands of years between two mythical factions in another world. So when I saw the incredible deal to get all three books in the series on Amazon for £5, I jumped at the opportunity and picked them up. I think if you’re a fan of YA fantasy, you’ll likely have heard of Laini Taylor and the Daughter of Smoke & Bone book. |