![]() ![]() ![]() Greenblatt makes inspired connections between an entertainment presented to Queen Elizabeth on a visit to the countryside during Shakespeare's boyhood and passages in A Midsummer Night's Dream between his family's secret Catholicism and the ghost that haunts Hamlet between the hanging of a Jewish physician in London and The Merchant of Venice between Shakespeare's own son Hamnet's death and the most famous burial scene in literature."-BOOK JACKET. ![]() "How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life - full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger - could have become the world's greatest playwright. Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt Book Bib ID ![]()
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![]() ![]() What he doesn’t know, however, is that this trip is just the beginning of something much more sinister a tapestry woven before Kirihito even set foot in this small, run-down settlement. ![]() In order to further his studies and settle this endless debate, Kirihito heads to a remote village known as Doggodale in search of Monmow’s source. In fact, the future of his career may rest on proving this theory as fact. Kirihito is convinced the disease is endemic, but Director Tatsugaura insists they’re dealing with a contagious pathogen. Chief among them is a bizarre physical regression, ultimately causing the patient’s features to appear more canine than human. Kirihito Osanai is working with a slew of doctors to unlock the mysteries of Monmow disease, as a patient under their watch suffers from its symptoms. Whether it’s absorbed in one fell swoop or via Vertical’s recent two-volume edition, Ode to Kirihito is one of the finest Tezuka stories available in English. Its original run in Japan was a different matter, with twenty gripping chapters serialized as Kirihito Sanka in Big Comic from 1970-1971. It also may have been the largest bulk volume of manga I consumed prior to Drawn & Quarterly’s release of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life. ![]() If I remember correctly, the original 2006 Vertical edition of Ode to Kirihito was my first true exposure to a dark, somewhat self-contained Osamu Tezuka tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story cuts off abruptly, not giving a reader a feeling of closure for this segment of the storyline making it feel unfinished or missing pages. ![]() There's battles, kidnappings and additional information revealed about the stones, Hel and Odin but they are all teasers, not giving any true solutions to ending the threat once and for all. There's a lot of fast paced action, but very little resolution on the overall story arc, with Orobus. While the whole gang works to prepare for the upcoming battles with Hel, Orobus and her brother's forces, Lily proves valuable to the team with her keen insight and ability to piece information together. Lilly isn't anything he expected but even after her betrayal he feels connected to her. When her brother forces her to plant a bug and gather intel on the guys in the Tower, she knows it's wrong, but does it anyways.įreyr is lonely, even more so after watching his brothers fall in love. Lilly Domenic has been running cons since she was a kid. ![]() ![]() In trying to free herself from the catastrophic destruction of her parents’ marriage, Abby becomes tragically entombed within a fairy tale of her own creation. ![]() There’s a teasing ambiguity to this story which entrances the reader with its swift momentum as well as its chillingly precise psychological and physical details. What follows is the tale of Abby’s self-invention born out of a violent upbringing and a broken home similar to that of Oates’ previous novel THE GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER, but here there is a gothic pallor to the atmosphere steeped in a consciousness so traumatized that Abby can scarcely separate fantasy from fact. Abby’s past is shrouded in secrecy as Willem has never met any of her family and eventually learns that her birth name was entirely different from the one she uses. Willem, who Abby only just married the day before, stays faithfully by her side and hopes to discover the reason why she has such persistently disturbing nightmares. At the start of the book she steps in front of a bus (whether on accident or on purpose is unclear) and is rushed to hospital with a concussion. Abby, the protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent novel of suspense PURSUIT, can barely trust herself. ![]() ![]() The best suspense novels always have a teasing ambiguity about whether you can trust the characters at the centre of their stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() So Chloe makes the outrageous suggestion to strike a bargain and get married. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the home of her mother's godmother, where she meets Ralph. ![]() Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. ![]() and find a wife to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on. Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Also in this series: The Proposal, The Arrangement, The Escape, Only EnchantingĪlso by this author: The Proposal, The Arrangement, The Escape, Only Enchanting, The Heart of Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Miracles, Someone To Love, Someone to Hold, Someone To Honor ![]() ![]() ![]() It remains a viable theory despite powerful attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to discredit it. It may have been these relationships that caused the Times to go to considerable trouble to discredit the “lab leak” theory on the origin of COVID-19. But what underlay its zeal? News Aug5 Business and Finance, Media, Medicine and HealthĪshley Rindsberg, author of The Gray Lady Winked (2021), offers an eye-opening look at the close links between the New York Times and Chinese propaganda media. ![]() ![]() TagThe Gray Lady Winked (book) crowd-of-people-walking-street-wearing-masks-stockpack-adobe-stock Type post Author News Date AugCategorized Business and Finance, Media, Medicine and Health Tagged Ashley Rindsberg, Bari Weiss, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, Lab leak theory (COVID-19), New York Times (and CCP), New York Times (and lab leak), The Gray Lady Winked (book) Why did the New York Times Discredit the Lab Leak Theory? The Times led the way in zealously discrediting the quite reasonable COVID-19 lab leak theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() He mentions that many of his friends and acquaintances were worried about his safety in the wilderness, keeping warm in the winter, the surprise that he would want to live alone without any human companionship and occasionally the envious responses of those who wish that they had a reason to join him. Thoreau has lived for two years and two months in the wilderness and then moved back to "civilized society". ![]() At the time of the novel, the experiment is already completed. Thoreau opens the novel by outlining, in very simple terms, his plan for conducting a two-year experiment where he will live in a cabin away from society near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The essay deals particularly with Thoreau's dislike of slavery and the Mexican-American war. The essay details Thoreau's views on the individual's obligation to his conscience over the laws of the government. "Civil Disobedience" is a short essay that was originally published in 1849 under the title, "Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)". The novel details his journey of self-discovery, his thoughts on carefully managing finances and his musings on society as a whole. Thoreau lived for two years and two months by himself in the woods and set out to live simply and meagerly off of the land and Walden Pond, the body of water that was near his cabin. ![]() The book is a memoir of Thoreau's time living in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() General MacArthur purposes logos within his address to the cadets at West Point Military Academy during the award ceremony for the Thayer Award. Within the speech “Duty, Honor, Country,” MacArthur utilizes the art of rhetoric to instill upon the cadets the importance of those three titular words during their service to the United States of America. As the one receiving this prestigious award, General MacArthur truly exemplified these values as he had acquired the rank of General of the Armed Forces while serving in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. This award is given to an “…outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto, duty, honor, country” (Winston). On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur addressed the cadets at the West Point Military Academy, during the reception for the Thayer Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. ![]() Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. ![]() A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn ![]() ![]() ![]() The Journal is a collection of anecdotes, stories, recollections, and rumors given by a narrator who is also relating his own experiences during the plague. The inscrutability of the plague, and the inability to know how it was spread or how to protect oneself from it, made people frenzied and insane. The shutting up of houses added to the despair, for people could not handle being imprisoned in their houses of death. ![]() Many people could not work and had to endure starvation. Infants nursed at the breasts of their dead mothers, or mothers watched their children die in their arms. In regards to psychological suffering, parents grieved for their dead children and children yearned for their parents. Sometimes the pain was so excruciating that people ran about the streets, crazed and screaming. These swellings would grow so hard and taut that they could not be burst by normal exertions people frantically tried to burst them by stabbing or burning them. ![]() ![]() In regards to physical suffering, Defoe concentrates on the terrible pain of the swellings on the afflicted person's body. Readers cannot help but be affected by the pervasive and continuous examples of despair, pain, and grief. The Journal is rife with stories of human suffering, both physical and psychological. ![]() |