5/24/2023 0 Comments So this is ever after ft lukens![]() With his eighteenth birthday only three months away, and only Matt in on the secret, Arek embarks on a desperate bid to find a spouse to save his life-starting with his quest companions. Now Arek is stuck as king, a role that comes with a magical catch: choose a spouse by your eighteenth birthday, or wither away into nothing. So now that he’s finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don’t come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next.Īs a temporary safeguard, Arek’s best friend and mage, Matt, convinces him to assume the throne until the true heir can be rescued from her tower. Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this subversive, “delightfully original and whimsical” ( Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive.Īrek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments At Home by Bill Bryson![]() ![]() In Renaissance villas and houses, the drawings rarely define rooms by their function. The most interesting section so far has been only a brief mention of an aspect of "house" design that I keep finding myself pondering over and is a subtext in a current project of mine. This kind of gentle deconstruction of the house, room by room, through history, is interesting even if it does, in its own form, reinforce the functionalist view of the house. and plumb the often odd history of the use of the room and its accompanying embellishments. The book's chapters are based on the rooms of a typical house - kitchen, dining room, etc. ![]() In this case, the territory to be navigated is the house as conceived and formulated in Western Civilization over the last few hundred years. I can't seem to stop buying books that give a thoughtful point of view on the cultural edifice that is a house that are not written by architects, their magazines and especially the architectural academy.īryson has written a number of books, most of whom I would classify as armchair travel lit. I can fully admit to being completely fascinated by opinions, history and thoughts on what we all take for granted as a "house" as expressed by non-architects. After waiting a number of weeks for a copy of At Home by Bill Bryson to make its way off the Holdshelf and into general circulation at the local library, I finally purchased a copy the other day. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments John updike rabbit redux![]() ![]() In Rabbit, Run, set during the twilight of the Eisenhower administration, author John Updike closed with a bit of a cliffhanger, leaving us uncertain whether Rabbit would ever stop running, whether he would return to his wife and child and home and responsibilities, and whether she would take him back if he did. When last we met Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, faded high school basketball star turned aimless young adult, he was doing what he did best: run from his problems. Ten years ago, wouldn’t she have laid them out? Wouldn’t her tongue have cut them down? They’ve told that Janice is running around. The news isn’t all in, a new combination might break it open, this stale peace… ‘Harry, the malice of people surpasses human understanding in my book, and the poor soul has no defenses against it, there she lies and has to listen. A hopeful coldness inside him grows, grips his wrists inside his cuffs. Harry is beginning, here in this cold bar with cactuses in plastic pots on the shelves beneath the mirrors and the little Schlitz spinner doing its polychrome parabola over and over, to feel the world turn. ‘Ten years ago,’ his father needlessly adds. You’ve taken Janice for granted ever since – the time.’ The time he left her. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller![]() ![]() Als Lesedrama und Bühnenstück begeistert es schon seit Generationen Literaturliebhaber. Schillers "Wilhelm Tell" als Hörbuch mit Maximilian Larsen: Friedrich Schillers literarische Umsetzung des Nationalmythos um Wilhelm Tell zählt nicht ohne Grund zu den beliebtesten Klassikern der Weltliteratur. Eine Forderung, die alles ändert: Tell erkennt, wie gefährlich der tyrannische Herrscher ist und beschließt, dessen "teuflischem" Treiben ein Ende zu setzen. ![]() Gessler verlangt von Wilhelm Tell, einen Apfel vom Kopf seines eigenen Sohnes zu schießen. ![]() Doch als er sich weigert, sich vor dem Hut des Reichsvogts zu verbeugen, kommt es zum Eklat. Bei DAV ist "Wilhelm Tell" als grandioses Hörspiel aus dem DRA mit hochkarätigen Sprechern wie Maximilian Larsen erschienen.ĭrama bis zuletzt: Der Apfelschuss und seine Folgen: Während sich immer mehr Schweizer Untertanen gegen die Schreckensherrschaft des Habsburger Reichsvogts Hermann Gessler verschwören und auflehnen, hält der Bergbauer Wilhelm Tell sich zunächst heraus. 1804 uraufgeführt, ist das Stück über den Schweizer Freiheitskämpfer und Nationalhelden inzwischen ein unverzichtbarer und faszinierender Teil der Weltliteratur. "Wilhelm Tell" von Friedrich Schiller - Drama eines Schweizer Nationalhelden: "Wilhelm Tell" ist das letzte Drama, das Friedrich Schiller vor seinem Tod fertigstellte. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact is, Gipsy Moth is one of the world’s most famous small boats. But beneath the surface, her timbers were rotting away, thanks to deck leaks and rainwater. ![]() Spend the money on something worthwhile, like the Cutty Sark.’Ī few weeks later, some vandals did try to set fire to Gipsy Moth, but were thwarted – unlike the Cutty Sark incident, which followed in the summer of 2007.Įven in Greenwich dry dock, Gipsy Moth IV inspired people. When Yachting Monthly launched the campaign to save Gipsy Moth in September 2003, one curmudgeonly correspondent wrote: ‘What Gipsy Moth IV needs is a gallon of paraffin and a box of matches!’ Another said: ‘Not worth preserving… she was built for a stunt with no intention of durability. She is cantankerous and difficult and needs a crew of three – a man to navigate, an elephant to move the tiller and a 3ft 6in chimpanzee with arms 8ft long to get about below and work the gear!’ It would be better if about a third were sawn off. I only own the stern, while my cousin (Lord Dulverton) owns two thirds. Now that I have finished, I don’t know what will become of her. Why save a boat rotting away in dry dock for 37 years that drove her skipper to despair and needs hundreds of thousands of pounds spending on restoration?’ many people have asked.Įven Sir Francis Chichester, the partowner of Gipsy Moth IV, who sailed her solo round the world to a triumphant homecoming, said: ‘She has no sentimental value to me at all. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Harry's books![]() ![]() As I grew older, my mom and I watched Sarah Ferguson tell Oprah that royal life is “ not a fairy tale,” closely followed the aftermath of Princess Diana’s tragic death, and went to a theater to watch Peter Morgan’s dramatization of the aftermath in The Queen. I was born the same year as Harry, and as a small child, I recall hearing my mother’s detailed thoughts on Princess Diana’s wedding dress (“Too poofy”), Prince Charles’s affair with Camilla (“Creepy and sad”), and the royals’ mandatory pantyhose rule (“A fine example for us all”). This habit was thrust upon me at a young age. ![]() But while Harry’s new memoir, Spare, seems likely to sever his relationship with his family for good, it’s bringing me back to my inherited affinity for royals-watching. Like Prince Harry, I have been struggling recently with the question of whether I should reject my birthright. Photo: Jeremy Selwyn - WPA Pool/Getty Images ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Running on Empty by L.B. Simmons![]() I wanted just a hair more volume, I’m 230lbs on a good day (short, fat, and draggy (me, not the board)). Then, around my birthday in March, I started thinking about ways to “get my mini on”…my lovely wife Kathy said “Get it, you’ve been drooling over it all winter, go ahead and order it, for your birthday, for god’s sake order it!” So I did, put in my order for a 6’6” Mini Simmons. I hemmed and hawed, and researched a good portion of the winter while I surfed my short board (10’2” Austin Blunt), and my longboard (11’0” Austin Soul Glide). I looked at the Simmons in the shop, and started talking to Austin about it. It is a beautiful shape, simple, and elegant, and still futuristic looking more than fifty years after conception. My shaper Austin Saunders must have had the same idea, because out of nowhere, there appeared a white, 6’6”, Mini Simmons Planing Hull design over Christmas. ![]() I was interested in learning to ride a shorter board, just to broaden my surfing. ![]() ![]() ![]() An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases ![]() Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. ![]() For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Sisters by danielle steel summary![]() Brilliantly blending humor and heartbreak, she delivers a powerful message about the fragility and the wonder of life. With unerring insight and compassion, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of sisters who are irrevocably woven into the fabric of each other's lives. But as the four women settle in, they are forced to confront the directions of their respective lives. A bustling house is soon filled with eccentric dogs, laughter, tears, friends, men, and the kind of honesty and unconditional love only sisters can provide. The stories are heart-warming, and usually include a little of everything. Suddenly, four sisters who have been fervently pursuing success and their own lives reunite to share one New York brownstone, to support each other and their father, and to pick up the pieces while one sister struggles to heal her shattered body and soul. Her books feature life in general and everything that it can possibly throw at you. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes, and their world is utterly changed. She is very successful in her occupation as a family law attorney and works very hard. On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family's annual gathering. Is the oldest out of the four talented sisters in the Adams family. And Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art. ![]() In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer. ![]() Her sister Tammy has a job producing a hit show on TV. Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion's latest supermodel. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Locke & key joe hill![]() ![]() ![]() Tyler witnesses the whole thing and then has to fight back while his two younger siblings hide.Īfter the funeral for Rendell, the family goes to Lovecraft, Massachusetts to stay at a house called Keyhouse. When Rendell says he doesn’t know what they are talking about, the students murder him. While at their summer home, two disgruntled students that had Rendell as a guidance counselor show up and demand that he give them keys. In this first volume we meet the Locke family Rendell (father), Nina (mother), Tyler (oldest son), Kinsey (middle daughter), and Bode (youngest son). 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez (Illustrator) ![]() Let’s dive in! My Thoughts on Locke & Key, Vol. If you’ve been waiting to check this series out, don’t wait any longer! Go grab Locke & Key, Vol. I think Joe Hill’s books are absolutely incredible! I cannot believe it took me this long to finally check out the Locke & Key series. ![]() |