![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleary helped to shape the coming of age of so many for decades, and for that, we owe her a debt of gratitude – and a permanent place on our bookshelves.Ĭleary’s timeless protagonist, Ramona, was a girl who felt so intimately familiar that there were times when I could no longer separate the character in the well-worn pages of the library book from the real-live me. ![]() The follies and triumphs of that “pest” of a girl Ramona are woven into the fabric of our own senses of self and place in the world. That was the summer I met Ramona Quimby, the heroine of “Beezus and Ramona,” “Ramona the Pest,” “Ramona the Brave” and others in a series of novels that author Beverly Cleary, who passed away Thursday, created for a character spun out of her earlier “Henry Huggins” books.Ĭleary’s was a long and rich life, but it is also true that a part of Cleary will live forever – because her words endure in the millions of girls-turned-adults who carry her brilliant words with us. I read and read and it was my form of travel, a portal into what life might offer beyond my little world. Relief came in the form of the summer reading program at the local library, where the air-conditioning slapped my sun-stroked face and books lifted me to other dimensions. The summer after third grade, long, hot, school-free days loomed ahead – I had no camp or planned activities. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Graphic Art of the Harry Potter Films London exhibition poster 1" issue of the Daily Prophet from Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Currently offered props include the Marauder's Map from Prisoner of Azkaban, the " Magic in 3D" issue of The Quibbler from Half-Blood Prince, and the " Harry Potter: Undesirable No. In 2012, the company launched The Printorium, a site for purchasing high quality reproductions of some of MinaLima's graphic props created for the Harry Potter series. Responsible for creating all the graphic design elements for the films, including Quidditch World Cup posters, the Marauder's Map, the Daily Prophet, the Quibbler, and hundreds of boxes and labels for items sold at Honeydukes and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, MinaLima's area at Leavesden Studios has been called "J.K. Quidditch World Cup poster from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Mina has been involved with the Harry Potter franchise since the first film, and Lima since the third film. Though the actual company has only existed since 2010, founders Eduardo Lima and Miraphora Mina have worked together since 2002, and the company's filmography credits work dating back to 1995. ![]() ![]() ![]() She grew up in South Dakota, and her father sexually abused her. ![]() Hick describes her upbringing and how she ended up in the White House. White Houses looks at how their friendship blossoms. She met Eleanor years ago, and she considers herself one of Eleanor’s firmest friends. The protagonist, Lorena Hickok, or “Hick,” is a strong woman who knows how to look after herself. Grieving, First Lady Eleanor needs the comfort of friends and family. The book begins just after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death. She taught creative writing at Yale University once won the National Magazine Award. An acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, Bloom has contributed to many publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times magazine. ![]() The book is very popular with readers and critics alike who praise it for its exploration of female passions and witty sense of humor. White Houses (2017), Amy Bloom’s LGBT historical novel, is a fictional account of Eleanor Roosevelt and her most treasured companion, Lorena Hickok. ![]() ![]() ![]() Focus is on the conscious, deliberate use and arrangement of words.Because literary writing is figurative, it is seldom found in combination with referential writing, which is literal. ![]() As a secondary purpose, literary writing can be found in combination with the expressive or persuasive purpose. ![]() When literary purpose is the primary purpose, the writing should be fictional. Literary writing is usually fictional, and it makes use of figurative or symbolic language. When used as a secondary purpose, the literary purpose enhances the primary purpose through figurative or poetic or playful language and often a sense of human struggle. The reader gains insight to the human condition by understanding the writer's ideas. The writer might comment on human nature or behavior. The focus of the literary purpose is on the words themselves and on a conscious and deliberate arrangement of the words to produce a pleasing or enriching effect.Ī writer often expresses a worldview when using the literary purpose. The literary purpose is used to entertain and to give aesthetic pleasure. When you tell a joke or write a love poem, you are using the literary purpose. When you read a novel or a poem, or when you watch a movie or a TV comedy, or when you listen to a song, you are experiencing the literary purpose. ![]() ![]() Because you’d like to get everyone you can hooked on “Eve.” Trying to say why you love “All About Eve” so much is like attempting to tell a dog person why you like cats. There are deliciously campy supporting characters from Birdie (played fabulously by Thelma Ritter) to producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff). But, in truth, Eve is an habitual liar with no conscience who’ll do anything to benefit her career as an actress (from taking Margo’s roles away from her to seducing the theater critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders). Unless you’ve lived with your head under a rock, you either know the plot of “Eve” or have seen references to it in pop culture (in everything from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to “The Simpsons”).Įve (Anne Baxter) seems to be an innocent young, worshipful fan of the theater and of actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The fake BFF who makes a move on your spouse. (Think of the young employee you’ve mentored who goes after your job. Its wit still sparkles, its camp delights and its story resonates with anyone who’s run up against treachery and deceit. Yet “All About Eve” has aged as well as a fine vintage wine. ![]() But even I have to admit that some of Tinseltown’s “classics” are as out of date as MySpace or your great-grandma’s girdle. Seventy years ago, in October 1950, “All About Eve,” written and directed by Joseph L. ![]() ![]() But, lovers of Oscar Wilde, camp, Bette Davis, and, of course, Thelma Ritter, know: there are Eve obsessives and, well, other people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Constantine's honors include the PEN Translation Prize, the National Translation Award, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, and Greece’s Translators of Literature Prize. Depicting a life of adventure, persecution, paranoia, and brilliant achievement, The Confessions is a landmark work by one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, which was a direct influence upon the work of Proust, Goethe and Tolstoy among others. In his Confessions he relives the first fifty-three years of his radical life with vivid immediacy - from his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood, through the development of his philosophical and political ideas, his struggle against the French authorities and exile from France following the publication of Émile. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment ![]() ![]() ![]() These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more. Here is the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center, 23 issues in all. 7 Ate 9 by Tara Lazar Hachette Book Group 7 Ate 9 By Tara Lazar Illustrated by Ross MacDonald Cover design or artwork by Ross MacDonald 9.99 Format: ebook 9.99 ebook (Enhanced Edition) 9.99 Hardcover 17.99 Also available from: Amazon Apple Books Barnes & Noble Kobo Description 6 has a problem. Exploring events in Nebraska - and far beyond -that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research communities around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information. During the two decades of its existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep into the unexplained. ![]() ![]() The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982. ![]() Told with tongue in cheek language and colorful illustrations, this is a very funny tale. Download Journal of the Fortean Research Center Paperbound Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story Tara Lazar Ross MacDonald Private I tries to assuage 6 who just knows that 7 is coming to get him Why Because 7 8 9, of course Wordplay and over-the-top humor make this satire of old detective stories sophisticated. ![]() ![]() ![]() To convey a sense of Morgan Powers, these are her group Acknowledgments at the end: But like Lemonade, this is a conceptual work so is best appreciated in its entirety. This is a collection in which the whole is greater than its parts, which is not to say the parts don't consist of superb poems, because they do. appreciate thoughts on race and womanhood I enjoyed some of the poems but wished I was more drawn in and connected to others. We need more poets addressing issues of black womanhood. The topics and stories told in these poems were important and reflective. So my opinion will certainly differ from other readers. The way people experience poetry is subjective and personal. It's hard for me to pin point what I didn't enjoy in this poetry collection. However none of the language resonated with me in a emotional way. The poems centered around race and womanhood were thought provoking. I wasn't familiar with some of the references, but the ones I recognized didn't make sense in the context. This book used Beyonce and other pop culture references, in a way that didn't resonate with me. This isn't a rebuke of Beyonce which the title hints at. I thought from the title Beyonce would be used as a launching pad to reference the problematic ways women exist in media. I wanted to love this collection more than I did. Find this and other Reviews at In Tori Lex ![]() ![]() They love to imagine how they appear to others they don’t really know, like those neighbors who wave at them from their beach house every summer. They revel in the bonds of their tight-knit group, though they are no less susceptible than any other family to the ebb and flow of irritation, resentment, jealousy, anger, estrangement and frustration. Maybe that’s because the Whitshanks - Abby and Red and their four adult children, three of whom live within a few miles of their parents - see themselves as special even if they’re not. Warm, charming and emotionally radiant, it surely must be counted as among Tyler’s best. Their leanness was the rawboned kind, not the lithe, athletic slenderness of people in magazine ads, and something a little too sharp in their faces suggested that while they themselves were eating just fine, perhaps their forefathers had not.”Īnd yet this ordinary Baltimore family makes A Spool of Blue Thread the sort of novel that’s hard to disentangle yourself from. And in looks, they were no more than average. None of them could claim exceptional intelligence. ![]() “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks,” she writes. ![]() ![]() $25.95.Īnne Tyler assures us that there’s nothing special about the family around whom she has built her latest novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our hoax was the most fun thing I did in my entire school career, and every time I see Amelia Westlake’s name on the cover of my published book, I want to laugh out loud. Amelia Westlake donated prizes to Trivia Night, she sent postcards from exotic locations, she even entered a painting (depicting a giant question mark) in the final year art exhibition. ![]() We carried on pranking until the end of the year without anyone discovering the truth. It is safe to say our classmates became somewhat obsessed with finding out who Amelia Westlake was. We began small, putting Amelia’s name down on lists for sports teams, graffitiing it on school desks, and accepting birthday party invitations on her behalf. Our aim was to amuse ourselves and, with any luck, our fellow classmates by creating an imaginary student called Amelia Westlake. Amelia Westlake Was Never Here was inspired by a hoax that two friends and I invented in our final year of high school. ![]() |