![]() ![]() His works anticipated such later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers ( The Master Key), wireless telephones ( Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations ( Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of clothes advertising ( Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).īaum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. While continuing his writing, among his final projects he sought to establish a film studio focused on children's films in Los Angeles, California. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, coming out with the first Oz book in 1900. ![]() He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota and he edited and published a newspaper. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema.īorn and raised in upstate New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theater producer and playwright. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. Lyman Frank Baum ( / b ɔː m/ – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. ![]() In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Deborah Harkness's sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. All three seasons of the hit TV series A Discovery of Witches are streaming now on AMC+, Sundance Now and Shudder. Book one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy "a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight ( People). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter and Wendy, named right out of James M. Steven Kagle called "The Veldt" a work "controlled by new standards of belief." Certainly, Bradbury wants it that way his changeling youths, metaphors for the universal desire to escape into technological fantasy, force us to re-imagine our ideas of what children should be. two years old you were shooting people with cap pistols." this bake-oven with murder in the heart." Bradbury links nursery toys to primal hatred and death, reflecting that Wendy and Peter, like most of humanity, are not too young for "death thoughts. Ultimately the veldt rules, as David enters the nursery and "stepped into Africa. Metaphor and Metamorphosisīradbury extends the nursery's metaphor into that of a godlike hunter, as it "caught the telepathic emanations" of the children and "created life to fill their every desire." The children become as obsessed with the nursery as cell phone addicts. ![]() which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep." The metaphor of "house as mother" is intensified in the nursery, whose walls "begin to purr and recede" into an African veldt, complete with lions feeding at a distance upon "some animal." The beasts then move so close that "the yellow of them was in your eyes." The Hadley adults begin to realize that "the house is wife and mother now," and the quite unmotherly nursery is a source of savagery. ![]() Bradbury's chilling tale exalts mechanization over humanity with the Hadley's "Happylife House. ![]() ![]() The chair of the meeting responded by asking: “The John McGahern case? What case is that? I never heard of it.” Feeley, naively, told the story of the fate which had recently befallen McGahern, before the chair “spread out his hands with the palms upwards and, with his eyes on the ceiling, said, ‘It’s all news to me.’”Ī new tranche of correspondence and other materials has recently been added to the McGahern Archive at the James Hardiman Library in the University of Galway. When “any other business” was called for at the crowded meeting, Feeley stood up and asked: “What does the INTO propose to do in the John McGahern case?” Total silence followed. Feeley recounted his memories of the meeting, which was held in the weeks that followed the banning of McGahern’s second novel, The Dark, and the subsequent loss of his job as a teacher in Dublin. ![]() “Dear John,” it opened, “I have been meaning to write you this letter and tell you the following story for some time.” The letter’s author, Pat Feeley, a fellow teacher, had attended an Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) meeting in Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick in 1965. A letter posted to John McGahern in October 1987 was more than an average fan letter. ![]() ![]() So when Payne gets back into town and needs somewhere to stay, I offer him my spare room with one condition: while he's staying with me, I need him to help me become date-able.Īnd while he does that, I can focus on my other plan: ignoring that Payne is the only man I've ever wanted to date. I'm naturally chaotic, make terrible decisions, and scare off potential dates with my "weirdness". Since my career took off, I barely have time to breathe, let alone keep my life in order. ![]() Room payment to be made in meal planning, repairs, and dumb jokes. And not leave his door ajar when he's in compromising positions. When my little brother's best friend offers me a place to stay in exchange for menial duties, I swallow my pride and jump at the offer. There's nothing sadder than moving back to my hometown newly divorced, homeless, and lost for what my next move is. Beau is Payne’s brother’s best friend who he decides to rent a room from. Payne: In search of: room to rent.Must ignore the patheticness of a forty-year-old roommate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Payne is going through the process of getting divorced from his ex after finding out he cheated after 12 years together. Buy a cheap copy of Roommate Arrangement book by Saxon James. Preferably dirt cheap as funds are tight (nonexistent). This book is the first in Saxon’s new series. Must ignore the patheticness of a forty-year-old roommate. ![]() ![]() ![]() For this is a tale of privilege that outlived its age, an idyllic childhood that descended into the hell of the continent's mid-century charnel-house.īorn in 1895, Wilhelm grew up on an island off the Croatian coast, where his family owned a house set amid pine-woods, citrons and oranges. But because he is a sensitive writer, with a novelist's feel for language, he makes of it something more, a wry parable about the ironies of history and mutability of identities in today's Europe. Snyder turns his unhappy, unfulfilled life into a story of suspense, a political romance teetering on the edge of tragicomedy. When he died in Soviet hands in the summer of 1948, the Habsburg dynasty was a footnote in history, and Wilhelm - the third son of a cadet branch of the family - was a footnote to the footnote. Today no one remembers the Archduke Wilhelm, except perhaps the dwindling band of elderly Ukrainian émigrés who knew him better as "Vasily the Embroidered" - from the national costume he wore under his cloak. ![]() There are few historians who possess Timothy Snyder's winning combination of languages, stylish story-telling and analytic insight in The Red Prince, he has produced a gem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tanner, the father of two sons, has ‘unnatural desires’ as they put it, and Jem flames his desire like no-one else has for years. Although Tanner negotiates the indenture for Wallace, he sets his own sights on Bradley. Jem finds his indenture through one of the owners of the shipping company where Neil works, Amos Tanner, who is looking for a worker for one of the other farmers, Dan Wallace, in the inland settlement of Kennet. The only way out seems to be for Jem to sell himself into indentured service for five years to pay off the debt. With two children to support, there’s no way Meg could survive on her own without Neil. Now the creditors are knocking at the door and threatening to send Neil to debtor’s prison. Neil has taken all of their money, and borrowed more, to invest in a failed get-rich-quick scheme. They left over their father’s objections to Meg’s plan to marry Neil Iveson, and it seems daddy may have been right. She’s the only family he has after the two of them left their family in old England and immigrated to pre-revolutionary New England. James ‘Jem’ Bradley would do anything for his sister Meg. This review originally appeared at Speak Its Name. ![]() ![]() ![]() How? You accumulate capital by the creation of surplus value, which is unpaid labour appropriated by employers.Ħ. Commodity sales increase the amount of exchange-value owned by capitalists, yielding profit and thus helping them accumulate capital. Socialist revolution will disabuse them of that.ĥ. Capitalists think capital has magical significance. Like God, capital seems mystical and immutable, but is really only a function of social relationships (Rowan Williams, a Marx fan, disagrees with the God bit). ![]() As Francis Wheen stresses in his biography of Marx, Capital is partly a racy gothic novel, a Frankenstein-like tale of how we created a monster from which we are alienated and which, by means of class struggle, we will slay.Ĥ. This is measured by the amount of labour that goes into making each commodity - such is the Marxist labour theory of value, and the source of what Marx called the fetishism of commodities.ģ. How, you'll be asking, can one measure the difference in value between, say, a 80GB iPod, and a new copy of Capital? It's the exchange value, stupid. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a curse hanging over Aurora’s head that can only be broken with true love’s kiss. Further, she doesn’t seem even the slightest bit frightened. Aurora seems to be the only person who sees her for who she is, not what. ![]() Until she meets Princess Aurora and they become fast friends. Try as she might to make herself fit, it’s clear she never will. The Graces can make people beautiful, but she can only make them ugly. ![]() However, Alyce’s half Vila blood has given her the reputation as the “Dark Grace.” Her magic doesn’t work quite the same. Often for the vanity of the upper echelon. In general, they are capable of using their magic for charms and enchantments. She is, by trade, a Grace - someone whose magical aptitudes put them in roles of service for the Kingdom. Malice follows our anti-hero Alyce (also known as Malyce) as she navigates the sticky waters of Briar’s polite society. You’re not here to hear about my youthful gay panic. ![]() Anyway, let me get into the nitty-gritty. And then we got into the Lara Croft era, and that was enlightening. It’s Pride Month, so you know I had to absolutely go for this queer fairytale retelling! I don’t know a single millennial-gay that didn’t realize they were just a hair on the gay side after crushing on some Disney princesses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Harley Quinn’s popularity only continuing to grow, and Warner Bros. Quinzel’s life as a young woman living in Gotham, whose fate pushes her closer and closer to man who both terrifies and engages her. But Sejic, a writer and artist known for his distinct style and compassionate characterization, utilizes his skills to fully develop Dr. ![]() ![]() Harleen’s story is often secondary to her eventual transformation and the lure of Batman and the Joker. Elements of Mad Love, were later established as the canonical origin for Harley Quinn, and brief snippets of the story were included in Suicide Squad (2016). Harley’s descent into madness has been told before, most notably in The Batman Adventures: Mad Love (1994) a one-shot issue by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, set within the Batman: The Animated Series continuity and later adapted as an episode for the series in 1999. Harleen Quinzel, finds herself stepping into the dual roles of the Joker’s paramour and notorious villain. Stjepan Sejic’s three-issue series Harleen takes a mature look at how a gifted psychiatrist, Dr. This week tackles DC’s Harleen, so be warned, there are spoilers for the first issue below.ĭC Black Label’s latest title debuts today and it’s no laughing matter. Welcome back to The Hollywood Reporter ‘s weekly Comics Watch, a dive into how the latest books from Marvel, DC and beyond could provide fodder for the big screen. ![]() |