5/24/2023 0 Comments Leena krohn collected fictionand Australia, but also from Norway, Germany, and Finland-not to mention my new anthology, The Bestiary (here’s a link to a fun excerpt over at Tor.com: ), which in addition to work from Cat Valente and China Miéville features work from Serbia, the Philippines, Iran, Sweden, and elsewhere. As someone who unfortunately only reads in English, I want to make sure my creative world is as cosmopolitan and modern as possible, and sometimes translations are the only way to have a more complete view of world fiction. So in addition to fiction in English from overseas, it’s important to promote and fund translations. Everywhere, too, this impulse or way of thinking about the world is different - sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes in vastly different ways. One thing about fantastical fiction that I like is it’s a universal condition - you find examples from all over the world of writers expressing themselves through the fantastical because sometimes there’s no other way to get across a unique idea or perspective.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Liddell hart shermanDuring this time he wrote a several booklets on infantry drill and training, which came to the attention of General Sir Ivor Maxse. Transferred to be Adjutant to Volunteer units in Stoud and Cambridge, he spent a great deal of time training new units. The experiences he suffered on the Western Front profoundly affected him for the rest of his life. His battalion was nearly wiped out on the first day of the offensive, a part of the 60,000 casualties suffered in the heaviest single day's loss in British history. He was hit three times without serious injury before being badly gassed and sent out of the line on July 18, 1916. He returned to the front for a third time in 1916, in time to participate in the Battle of the Somme. Liddell Hart's front line experience was relatively brief, confined to two short spells in the autumn and winter of 1915, being sent home from the front after suffering concussive injuries from a shell burst. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Liddell Hart volunteered to become an officer in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. As a child he was fascinated by aviation. The Harts were farmers from Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. His mother's side of the family, the Liddells, came from Liddellsdale, on the border with Scotland, and were associated with the South-Western Railway. Born in Paris, as the son of an English Methodist minister, Liddell Hart received his formal academic education at St Paul's School in London and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 'The fell spirit of the Borgias' was said to be sweeping across the land and as the panic reached fever pitch, so the race to find the definitive test began. For in the 19th century, criminal poisoning was terrifyingly easy, yet almost impossible to prove - a situation that resulted in no end of mischief. So began a chain of events that would grip the entire nation. His suspicions raised, the doctor contacted Michael Faraday at his laboratory in Woolwich. But all was not as it seemed that morning.When the local doctor was summoned several hours later he found four women suffering from severe vomiting and stomach pains whilst the master of the house was delirious with pain. In the large ten bedroom farmhouse, the maid Sophia Taylor began preparing breakfast while, at the cottage down the track, Mary Higgins came down to set the fire. Īll was quiet in the Bodle home in Plumstead village on the morning of 2 November 1833. His suspicions raised, the doctor contacted Michael. All was quiet in the Bodle home in Plumstead village on the morning of 2 November 1833. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Cthulhu dagonFor Lovecraft, this is an oft cited problem by critics and fans alike. Written in the first person, so as to keep the reader guessing at the veracity of the narrator’s profoundly surreal claims, Dagon sacrifices its shot at an effective ending with its final lines. And while it doesn’t leave one with chills or impending nightmares, thanks largely to its campy purple ending, there is a kernel at the heart of Dagon that functions as true, distilled cosmic horror. It’s a fantastic piece of strange fiction, blending history and popular science with hallucinatory nightmare imagery. Part confession, part suicide note, the short story details a nameless narrator's traumatic experience in the Pacific ocean during the first world war. Lovecraft in 1917 and first published two years later by The Vagrant, is often credited the first of the Providence author’s Cthulhu Mythos building blocks. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Jane harper the lost manHis two brothers, Bub and Nathan, can only assume that he was forced to abandon his vehicle but when they find it functional, full of fuel and a healthy stock of supplies almost ten kilometers away they cannot understand his behavior. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects.Ĭameron Bright had been missing for several days when his body is finally found at the stockman’s grave, a remote spot miles from the road on the edge of his vast property. While Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Sea Shapes by Suse MacDonald50 Entertaining Shape Books For Preschool Learners 1) Circle Under Berry by Carter Higgins Thank you for supporting this small family business. If you click a link on this site and buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. I research, test, recommend, and select only the best products for my readers. These are all great books that have helped my daughter learn more about geometric concepts such as size, color, and fine motor skills.Ĭheck out these entertaining book lists below! So, I decided to put together a list of her favorite shape picture books for preschoolers. She loves identify shapes in her free time and also enjoys playing with various shaped toys. My preschooler LOVES learning through play.Īnd one of her favorite play activities lately has been exploring shapes. Here are the top 50 shape books for preschoolers that are sure to get your little ones engaged and excited about learning. These books usually have bright, vibrant pictures and simple text that teach kids about the various characteristics of different geometrical forms. Shape books are a great way to introduce preschool kids to basic geometric concepts. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Death in her hands book reviewIs like watching someone play a choose your own adventure mystery game. It begins to lead her out of her habits and to a few new places. So long story short Vesta finds a note in the woods and it shakes things up in her life. Any time I searched the book on the computer to see what it was about etc, I’d search “ Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh” and basically anything I clicked on said: there was a note, quoted the note, then said and by the way there was no body. Here is her dead body.” The note is the big selling point, you know? It’s the thing you’ll know as soon as you start reading the book, or maybe you already knew those first lines from the publisher’s website, or some other preview, or what you’ve heard about it. Things seemed to have been going well for her for a while - she had her dog and some daily or weekly rituals she enjoyed - until she found that infamous note in the woods: “Her name was Magda. Vesta Gul’s unfaithful, controlling, renowned-scientist husband died, so she decided to pack up and almost completely start a new life. It’s about a recently widowed 72 year old named Vesta Gul and her dog Charlie. Death in Her Hands is Ottessa Moshfegh’s fifth book. His research appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents. He worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. These are the `damned,` by which the late Charles Ford meant all the wide range of mysteries that are ignored by orthodox science or explained away improperly. How can we answer reports of strange animals, disappearances of men from open sight, curious structures in the snow, talents like teleportation and telekinesis?` How can we account for all the inexplicable astronomical observations that have been made in the past? What is the explanation of falls of frogs, falls of fishes, falls of seagulls, which have been recorded from time to time? `Did beings from outer space visit earth in the past … are the various objects seen in the sky evidences of their visits? Todd is the co-founder and president of Populus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming how we learn, work and live so that all people have the opportunity to live a fulfilling life. at Harvard, where he spent a decade as a professor. And he ended up finishing a degree in psychology at Weber State University before going on to earn a master’s and a Ph.D. He was born in Ogden, Utah, where he became a college dropout. This podcast is for you today.īrilliant Miller My guest is Dr Todd Ross. If you are ready to be, do have and give more. But I’ve also had the good fortune to learn directly from many of the world’s leading teachers. As the son of self-made billionaires, I’ve seen the high price some people pay for success and I’ve learned that money really can’t buy happiness. You’re not going to be good at it.īrilliant Miller Hi, I’m brilliant. So now suddenly you’re doing it for a reason that you think you should, but it’s not aligned to anything that matters to you. Todd Rose When do you ever half-ass anything you care about, you don’t, you just don’t. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Spill zone book 3Can she risk her life in the spill zone to get what this "collector" wants?The illustrations are quite amazing! Every frame supports the fast paced story, the creepiness, the danger and consequences that can happen if things go wrong while poking around. But, when a collector of her pictures tracks her down and gives her an offer she can't refuse - an offer that can possibly help her sister who hasn't spoken since the incident. However, she has quickly made rules for herself in order to get in and out of the spill zone safely - remain anonymous and unseen, never get off her motorbike, to stay on the main roads and never touch anything! Are just a few of her strict rules. It's how she makes a living to support herself and her little sister. She has been going back to her hometown whenever she can to take photographs of what happened and what is there now - eerie talking cats, a form of electricity that glows and can chase after you and zombies that whisper warnings. Going into the zone is illegal and forbidden. SPILL ZONE is an epic start to an intriguing and story!Addison wasn't home when the 'spill' happened and no one knows exactly how or why it happened and no one goes back to try to figure it out. An unexplained 'spill', creepy zombie-like puppet people, odd creatures and a creepy rag doll who seems to know it all. |