![]() ![]() ![]() "Stories focusing on betrayal culled from the award-winning NPR series, which features actors reading classic and new short stories at New York City's Symphony Space." - Publishers Weekly, "All of the stories deal with betrayal but in widely varying contexts, giving listeners an eclectic sampling of some excellent short fiction." -Library Journal, "All of the stories deal with betrayal but in widely varying contexts, giving listeners an eclectic sampling of some excellent short fiction." -Library Journal, "All of the stories deal with betrayal but in widely varying contexts, giving listeners an eclectic sampling of some excellent short fiction." -Library Journal, "Stories focusing on betrayal culled from the award-winning NPR series, which features actors reading classic and new short stories at New York City's Symphony Space." - Publishers Weekly, "All of the stories deal with betrayal but in widely varying contexts, giving listeners an eclectic sampling of some excellent short fiction." -Library Journal, "All of the stories deal with betrayal but in widely varying contexts, giving listeners an eclectic sampling of some excellent short fiction." -Library Journal, "Not much else beats the pleasure of a great story read aloud. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I squinted, unable to tell whether I was looking at a topographical map or an extreme close-up of a nutsack. Beneath it was a photo of a 2-ounce black bottle, boldly labeled Sack Spray against a background of subtle undulating lines. ![]() “Your pits aren’t the only place that need deodorant,” a line of ad copy said. A Chicago-based company called Ballsy had developed a pH-balanced scrotal deodorizer made with lavender, aloe vera, green tea, and chamomile. “Just been emailed asking if we’d like to review this-am trying not to be offended,” a fellow WIRED editor wrote in a group channel. The truth is that my search for rebirth began a few months later, with a Slack message about ball deodorant. ![]() I could say it started when I turned 33-my Jesus year, the year I vowed to transcend anxiety and exhaustion and do my most important work, the year I would emerge from my cave of pandemic isolation and early parenthood and couples therapy as the second coming of myself. ![]() ![]() It was the basis for the 2007 movie of the same name from HBO films. ![]() A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary. Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West ![]() ![]() ![]() Caterpillar Letter Sortīeing able to recognize the similarities and differences between letters is an important skill for early readers and writers. Finally, have your students work on their fine motor skills by dropping red and green pom-poms into the holes. Tissue Box CaterpillarĬreate a caterpillar on the top of a tissue box, then poke holes in the caterpillar’s body. This activity helps students engage with the story, learn the days of the week, practice their counting skills, and learn about healthy eating! Kids will be working on their fine motor control while getting creative. ![]() We love how simple this project is, since all you will need are some pipe cleaners and beads and maybe some green card stock. ![]() Yes, it’s been done before, but it’s one of those memorable activities (and keepsakes) that every kid loves. No activity roundup for The Very Hungry Caterpillar would be complete without the classic egg carton caterpillar. ![]() ![]() Tier: At least 7-B, likely High 6-B, possibly far higherĪge: Billions of Years Old (The Deep Ones predate all surface life)Ĭlassification: Father of the Deep Ones, God of the Seas, Possibly a Great Old One Because of his abnormal size and aloof nature, it is unknown whether Dagon is simply a gargantuan Deep One who acts as father of his race, or if he is actually a Great Old One similar to Cthulhu. Dagon is absolutely colossal, described as towering over 30 stories high (an average of 330 feet/100.584 meters). ![]() Often called "Father Dagon" by his followers, he and Mother Hydra rule over the mysterious aquatic race, working towards unknown goals. ![]() ![]() Dagon is the patriarch of the Deep Ones and god to the people of Innsmouth. ![]() ![]() For those counting, the third installment represents the third time the reader has to completely pick up the game pieces that Muir has flipped off the table, and what was cute and quirky the first time has rapidly become exhausting. But, up until Nona I would have argued that it was worth it. ![]() I am not being obtuse this series is really, really confusing. We started at lesbian necromancers in an escape room, jumped to a god walking back a self-lobotomy, and now we are watching a young girl in a dystopian security state do some dog walking. With every new entry, the plot of this series becomes harder to explain. On the other hand, Nona The Ninth reads like a blatant cash grab that uses its saccharin-sweet story to distract from the fact that there feels like there is about 50 pages of content in this 400+ page book. Her incredible prose and outstanding imagination make everything she touches wholly unique. On the one hand, Muir is one of the most talented authors around right now. ![]() Nona The Ninth, the third book in The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, has a complicated existence. I find myself in a difficult position when it comes to picking a score for today’s book. ![]() ![]() ![]() What a relief to play with Catherine Morland and the other youngsters in the shallows.Ĭatherine Morland, the daughter of a rural clergyman, is taken to Bath for the season by family friends, Mr. So let me begin by telling you that two filmatic productions were never at such opposite ends of the Jane Austen gene pool emotionally and spiritually. ![]() This is a lively story of youth, inexperience, and first love played against campy Gothic fiction. ![]() After viewing a pensive Persuasion adaptation last week during The Complete Jane Austen, I was all fired up to be shaken out of my Jane Austen adaptation stupor with a new production of Northanger Abbey. The new ITV/Masterpiece PBS adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey aired on PBS last night. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” ![]() ![]() ![]() He joins the bedraggled group of fellow Solarists on a space station orbiting the only planet of a binary solar system. Solaris begins with the arrival of Kelvin, a scientist-an expert in “Solaristics,” no less. ![]() Lem’s vision of oceanic vitalism likely speaks more cogently to readers today than it did to his audience half a century ago. In 2018 we have begun to grapple, tentatively, with the almost pantheistic notion that Earth’s seas may be alive with a will and logic all their own. ![]() Yet what keeps drawing me back to the original novel is something that eludes adaptation: the trenchant exteriority of the novel’s ultimate protagonist, Solaris itself. Is there a more entrancing account of an encounter with nonhuman sentience than Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris? The reputation of this 1961 masterwork of Polish science fiction, translated from the 1964 French translation into English in 1970, largely depends on various film adaptations, including Tarkovsky’s stunning 1972 reimagining. ![]() ![]() 'Pathway to Freedom' by Patty Fletcher - resuming from Ch. ![]() *LATEST RELEASE: 'Etta's Fishing Ground' - Blaze a trail to the point of no return where love and friendship shift ground to withstand the vagaries of life. My latest weekly BLOG posted on 05/03 - Eva’s Byte #418 - Spoiled Rotten! ![]() *'100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the '60s: Solo "Medalist Winner" in the Autobiography / Biography / Memoir category for the 2018 New Apple Summer eBook Awards for Excellence in May 4 Wizardo': 2021 - American Bookfest Finalist in the genre of novella 2021 Top Shelf Fiction-Novella Runner Up. READING: 'Pathway to Freedom' by Patty Fletcher - resuming from Ch. ![]() May 4 My latest weekly BLOG posted on 05/03 - Eva’s Byte #418 - Spoiled Rotten! WIP: Finished drafting Part 2, Ch. ![]() |