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![]() ![]() ![]() LORRAINE YORK teaches Canadian literature at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Influenced by feminist literary theory, the workings of literary intertextuality, and the new historiography, York shows how war as a literary device as well as various historical wars, documents of war, and literary war texts inform the novels and stories of Timothy Findley to such an extent that war becomes an integral part of their signifying systems. Not only is Findley's fiction haunted by the spectre of war, it is a compulsive testament to the infinite repetitions of war in our domestic, gender, and class conflicts. In this first full-length study of Timothy Findley, Lorraine York argues that his novels and short stories are part of a system of war texts. ![]() ![]() Same with the women who choose to be sex workers in the book. All of these things are presented in a negative light. There was a lot of stereotyping going on: for example, the man who runs a college gossip site is a greasy-haired man with… gasp!…acne! who lives in his aunt’s basement. ![]() It felt like every time a character was introduced, we would get a detailed description of what they looked like and what they were wearing. I was, however, pretty annoyed throughout this book. I thought the ending was a bit convoluted, but overall it wasn’t too bad. ![]() Detective Ellie Hatcher is on a mission to find out why. These other murders and the original one all seem to be connected. One day, one of his employees is murdered. A business tycoon has an apartment that he allows his employees to use from time to time. ![]() ![]() ![]() With 15 new case studies from well-known illustrators like Jon Klassen, Oliver Jeffers and Beatrice Alemagna and publishers such as Puffin Picture Books, Thames and Hudson and Enchanted Lion Books, this revised edition also includes a brand new chapter devoted to non-fiction, especially the rise of both narrative non-fiction and big books. In 2004, Martin wrote Illustrating Children’s Books, a major guide to the pract. This book covers everything from the change in children's picturebooks over time to a breakdown of the children's publishing industry including, the editorial process, approaching publishers and literary agents and the printing process. Along with colleague Wendy Coates-Smith he founded the graphic arts journal, Line which has been internationally acclaimed as an important contribution to research into illustration and drawing. Aimed at arts and literature students as well as aspiring children's book illustrators and writers. anyone with an interest in design, illustration or simply childrens literature should know about. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers from across the world, it remains essential reading for students and aspiring children's book illustrators and writers. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? Children's Picturebooks, Second Edition is the revised edition of a bestselling title that carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. ![]() ![]() Children's picturebooks are the very first book we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No Orchids for Miss Blandish / The Villain and the Virgin Believe This… You’ll Believe Anything (1975).The Case of the Strangled Starlet / Not So Safe to Be Free (1958).Never Trust a Woman (As:Raymond Marshall) (1957).The Pickup (As: Raymond Marshall) (1955).The Sucker Punch (As: Raymond Marshall) (1954).Mission to Venice (As: Raymond Marshall) (1954).The Things Men Do (As: Raymond Marshall) (1953).The Wary Transgressor (As: Raymond Marshall) (1952).But a Short Time to Live (As: Raymond Marshall) (1951).In a Vain Shadow (As: Raymond Marshall) (1951).Why Pick On Me? (As: Raymond Marshall) (1950).The Paw in the Bottle (As: Raymond Marshall) (1949).Trusted Like the Fox (As: Raymond Marshall) (1948).Blonde’s Requiem (As: Raymond Marshall) (1946).Make the Corpse Walk (As: Raymond Marshall) (1946).Just the Way It Is (As: Raymond Marshall) (1944).The Dead Stay Dumb / Kiss My Fist! (1941).Lady - Here’s Your Wreath (As: Raymond Marshall) (1940). ![]() ![]() ![]() No real issues with 2034 & 2035 in that regard, though. Overall, I got the impression that different translators worked on different chapters without having ever read the whole book, explaining the inconsistencies throughout. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. There are a couple of those instances and having played the game(s) will most likely help you understand what exactly is supposed to go on, but it sometimes really messes with the overall flow. He also finds a lot of enemies, including various mutant animals and The Dark Ones, a new species of humans called Homo Novus. ![]() For example, the characters decide to go to a location called Polis - but it is translated as "Let's go to the police!" which obviously doesn't make any sense in context to the story itself. The first book, Metro 2033, tells the story of his adventures, where he meets several people who will help him, including Bourbon, Hunter, Khan, Mark, Melnik, and several others. The translation is very clunky at its best and even wrong at it's worst. They are all great books, but 2033 has some horrible translation issues and some phrases are inconsistent even within the book from one chapter to another, like a character being identified by carrying a *gun* using his *rifle* one chapter afterwards etc. Originally posted by zombie-flesheater:Yes and no. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pure politics of food aren’t compelling to me-I’m a philistine in that way, or just nosy. As a subject for the mind, food should not be divorced from its sensate existence and our sensuous experience of it… ” But, as Betty Fussell wrote in the piece I also quoted last week, “Whenever food is the subject, like poetry or music or art, we should begin with the concrete and particular reality of the foodstuff, on the plate, in the hand, in the mouth. I appreciated it but not enough: I was and remain interested in how policy determines how we understand nutrition and how corporate power influences food (and by extension, nutrient) availability. The first book I bought when I was becoming interested in the food system over a decade ago was Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle (the penciled price on the inner cover suggests I got it at Book Revue in Huntington for $7). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He seeks the story of Frome’s sorry circumstances in fragments from others but doesn’t get the full explanation until he enlists Frome’s services in driving him to and from the train station. He is immediately intrigued by Ethan Frome: a taciturn “ruin of a man” with lopsided shoulders and a scarred gash on his forehead who was involved in some sort of “smash-up” two decades previously. A stranger comes to town, working on a job connected to a nearby powerhouse that generates electricity. The story is told like Wuthering Heights in miniature, minus its ghosts and children. Its “torrents of light and air” by day and “silver-edged darkness” by night cast a penetrating spotlight over the area, rendering the actions of its inhabitants as crystalline as the flakes that continually coat the ground. It shapes moods, hastens life-altering decisions, and provides the perfect stage for a tragedy that couldn’t happen at any other time of the year. In the remote New England village of Starkfield, winter’s beautiful torpor rules everything. Mostly, though, it’s because of the seasonal setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cora lives in Austin, TX, and on any given day you might find her typing away at her computer, flying to various cities around the world, or just watching Netflix with her kitty Katniss and her dog Sherlock. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages around the world. Cora Carmack is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of New Adult Romance and YA fantasy. But she can always be found on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and her website ***Please note: I am rarely on goodreads, so if you're trying to get a hold of me, the best places to find me are Twitter, Facebook, my blog, Instagram, and via email (coracarmack(at)gmail(dot)com). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, "sexually optimistic" individuals who acquired physical limitations they didn't have ten years before – such as pain that made it harder to lift groceries or exercise – reported having more frequent sex than people who had lower sexual expectations and no such limitations. Participants who were optimistic about their sex lives reported having significantly more frequent and more satisfying sex than those who had lower expectations. ![]() Their findings seem to demonstrate the power of positive thinking. ![]() Researchers then checked in with the participants a decade later. Īs part of the MIDUS (Midlife in the US) study, hundreds of partnered adults ages 45 and up were asked to rate how satisfying they expected their sex lives to be 10 years in the future. To get more stories like this delivered to your in-box, click here to subscribe. This story was adapted from the April 30 edition of NPR Health, a newsletter covering the science of healthy living. ![]() |