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Seth casteel photography5/24/2023 See ball? Hurl oneself into the water like a maniac. That manic enthusiasm and total disregard for dignity. We think the pictures caught everyone’s attention as they highlight why we love dogs (well, why sane people love dogs). Dogs prove to us that if you just jump in, you might have fun along the way. Before meeting me, most of them had never been underwater before and some had never even been swimming. All of the dogs featured in this project chose to participate of their own free will. The water is simply one of the best ways for them to do this. As much as they enjoy these things, dogs have wild instincts and have a need to explore them. Today, in many homes, dogs enjoy a life of luxury - sleeping in bed with us, fancy treats, the pet salon. Buster helped me to realize that many dogs have an incredible connection with the water that goes back thousands of years when dogs were wolves. He’s said of the pictures: "It is one of my life's pursuits to explore the emotion of dogs and is my belief that they have a range of emotions similar to human beings. You can see some of his underwater dogs pictures over on his site. Of a goofy expression us humans would otherwise normally miss. It’s a momentary, instantaneous snapshot in time. So, right off, the main draw here is dogs pulling funny faces. He’s a self-taught photographer with no fancy degrees, he just used patience and a canny idea to create this epic book. Casteel is a dog enthusiast (obviously) with a fondness for swimming pools. Rupi kaur new book5/24/2023 The Sun and her Flowers: SUMMARYĪll in all, Rupi Kaur isn’t just a great illustrator, she is also an amazing writer. I love the simplicity, the clearness and how they emphasize Rupi Kaur‘s words. Last but not least I want to talk about the illustrations. And I could relate to it being in another country at the moment. Sometimes heart breaking, sometimes eye-opening. I also really enjoyed the immigration part because it was a fresh topic. I don’t want to tell too much about the content because I want you all to read and interpret the chapters and poems by yourself but I liked that it was less about heartache, or at least, in another way than Milk and Honey. Poems I could relate to, poems which made me think, poems which made me realize how important it is to love yourself first. I adore flowers and couldn’t live without them and I was excited to see and read how Rupi Kaur would work with them in her poems.Īnd, of course, she did amazing. I liked The Sun And Her Flowers way more.įirst of all, I liked that the book is divided in five chapters: Wilting, Falling, Rooting, Rising and Blooming. When I am back home, I will probably give it another try because I also think that I wasn’t really ready for poetry since it was my first poetry book. I couldn’t relate to the poems and I think my expectations were just too high. As some of you might know, I didn’t really enjoy Rupi Kaur‘s first poetry collection Milk and Honey. Reawakening by Amy Rae Durreson5/24/2023 For nothing in the city of masks is what it seems, from the new friends Raif makes to the dragon he follows-or even himself. With the election of a new duke at stake, Raif struggles to make sense of the challenges he meets in Aliann: a conspiracy of nixies and pirates, selkie refugees in desperate need of a champion, a monster that devours souls, a flirtatious pirate prince, and a machine that could change the world. Now bound to Arden’s side despite his frustration, Raif follows the dragon to the rich and influential lagoon city of Aliann, chasing rumors of the Shadow that once cursed his homeland. Traveling north to wake the dragon Arden, he hopes he has finally found a leader worthy of his loyalty, but Arden turns out to be more of a frivolous annoyance than an almighty spirit lord. Raif has survived them all, but now he finds himself in search of a new purpose. QSFer Amy Rae Durreson has a new MM fantasy book out: The collapsing empire review5/24/2023 In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. It’s a hedge against interstellar war-and, for the empire’s rulers, a system of control. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Faster than light travel is impossible-until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War “John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.” -Joe Hill, author of The Fireman *2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL* *2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL* Asser alfred5/24/2023 His genealogy is traced in the following order. Finally, in the last third of the book, Asser describes his maturing king and how he sought to learn the way of the Church through learning to write and read quotations of saints and scripture, and to carefully budget his wealth into bettering his kingdom and making sure half of his money went into Godly pursuits (giving to the poor, building monasteries and an abbey, etc. In the year of our Lord's incarnation 849, was born Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, at the royal village of Wanating, in Berkshire, which country has its name from the wood of Berroc, where the box-tree grows most abundantly. So, a good portion of the writing is a chronicle of the various wars, describing neighboring kingdoms, who the invaders were, and each outcome, for about twenty years. From my understanding of the text, the environment surrounding this kingdom was wild and changeable, and Alfred became a king little by little as he led people settled in the area in many different attacks by the "pagans" or foreign invaders who are described as coming in waves every year or so. The writer begins with a stunning genealogy, taken from scripture and continuing with the history with which he would have been familiar, and finishing with King Alfred. Asser hoped to show that Alfred was a God-appointed ruler who cared for his people, in spite of his own infirmities. Assers Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Riding the Universe by Gaby Triana5/24/2023 As a teacher, I’ve gained a whole new level of understanding about the reader’s experience. I’m sure we’ve all experienced this subjectivity of reading, how one person can have a completely different reaction to a book than another. I’ve decided to reblog it here.Ī reader’s experience, even with a shared text, is dependent on so many things, including background knowledge, interest in the subject, interest in reading in general, and engagement in the moment. The post seems to have resonated with people, and I think it’s an important issue now that young people are back in school. I recently revised that presentation for a blog post for in Kid Lit. Each of the presenters was asked to talk about the reader’s experience. I originally delivered a version of this post at the Avon Free Public Library’s Local Author Festival in June. Beyond good and evil frederick5/23/2023 This is not to say that Nietzsche would approve of the societies that his ideas have shaped so profoundly. As Erich Heller put it, Nietzsche has “drawn the fever-chart of an epoch.” So, too, is his enthusiasm for violence, cruelty, and the irrational. Nietzsche’s glorification of power and his contention that “there are altogether no moral facts” are grim signatures of the age. Indeed, as more and more of the political regimes erected under the banner of Marxism repudiate Marx’s ideas, it becomes ever clearer that much of what makes the modern world modern also makes it Nietzschean. And not even Marx has exercised the intellectual and spiritual fascination commanded by his unhappy countryman. Of all nineteenth-century thinkers, perhaps only Karl Marx has surpassed Nietzsche in his influence on the twentieth century. In pursuance of this ideal man becomes a hybrid thing, a brute-spirit, whose cruel mentality exerts a horrible spell upon weaklings. That life is in truth the ultimate attainment of the barbarian, and unfortunately in these days of civilization’s withering it has won a great many adherents. The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. Tao te ching and chuang tzu5/23/2023 Likewise, the style of the text (discussed in more detail below) exists as evidence of an utterly original thinker. In the first case, his text contains copious references to geographical places, ruling families, and other philosophers (namely Confucius and Huizi), which have allowed scholars to (fairly decisively) place him within the fourth century B.C.E. Unlike the cryptic Dao De Jing ( Tao Te Ching), the Zhuangzi as a text offers some valuable clues towards the historicity and identity of Zhuangzi. He is described turning down an official political appointment, preferring to "drag his tail in the mud" instead of slaving away at the behest of a ruler (Chan 1963 Fowler 2005). His biography, written by the historian Sima Qian, states that his personal name was "Zhou" and that he dwelt in Honan province, working in the Lacquer Garden (though the precise meaning of this phrase is presently unknown). Little is known about the historical Zhuangzi. She’s desperate but also picky, hoping to find a husband who will let her have some independence. Anne has to marry by the age of twenty-one or else be sent to live in the country by her eccentric relatives. This brings us to the first novella, Something New, by Stefanie Sloan. Since Anne has to marry before she turns twenty-one, she gets to use it first, with the stipulation that if she does get married, she will pass the sixpence to Cordelia who will pass it on to Ellie who will pass it on to the intensely skeptical Bea. The girls (Bea, Cordelia, Ellie, and Anne) decide to keep it for good luck when they recall the rhyme “Something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new, and a sixpence in her shoe.” This sixpence, they decide, will bring each of them a husband. In 1817, four girls who are attending Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls find a sixpence in the mattress. The novellas are held together by a framing story written by Julia Quinn. Five minutes after reading each story I had already forgotten all about it, but I remembered my enjoyment while reading it. It’s a collection of four novellas, all Regency romances, all remarkably angst-free. Four Weddings and a Sixpence is super comforting. |