![]() ![]() She calls it her cup of stars because she can see the stars while she drinks her milk.' The waitress nodded, unconvinced, and the mother told the little girl, 'You'll have your milk from your cup of stars tonight when we get home. ![]() 'It has stars in the bottom, and she always drinks her milk from it at home. 'Her little cup,' the mother was explaining, smiling apologetically at the waitress, who was thunderstruck at the thought that the mill's good country milk was not rich enough for the little girl. Indeed yes, Eleanor thought indeed, so do I a cup of stars, of course. “Eleanor looked up, surprised the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.' ![]()
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![]() Conversely, in Whoville, the mayor hears voices, like Abraham, or Moses, or any of the eighteen prophets. Keeping this in mind, makes the kangaroo's actions during the film's climax all the more provocative. ![]() Under Christian dogma, baptismals are conducted to prevent a person's soul from spending an eternity in hell. In this passion play of sorts, the second player: Kangaroo(Carol Burnett) is the embodiment of the religious fanatic who doesn't believe in science. This "children's film" engages the viewer with a fairly sophisticated dialectic between science and religion. Unlike recent animated films like "Cars" and "Happy Feet", in particular, "Horton Hears a Who" deals with the paradox of our being. This time around, Jim Carrey plays Christof(Ed Harris) as a pachyderm named Horton, and Steve Carrell is Truman Burbank(Carrey) as the Mayor of Whoville. Unlike recent animated films like "Horton Hears a Who!" is "The Truman Show" for kids. ![]() "Horton Hears a Who!" is "The Truman Show" for kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kati Horna, Portrait of Leonora Carrington (1960/1987). ![]() New York’s Ruiz-Healy Art is currently presenting “ Kati Horna: In Motion ”-the first devoted exhibition of Horna’s work in the city.Ĭourtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art.īut her strange and beautiful photography may now be drawing new light. This haunting exhibition brings together photographs made from the 1930s into the 1960s and offers a window into Horna’s internal world-one replete with mysticism and loss shaped by a war-torn life. Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories many newly translated from their original French and Spanish is a terrific introduction to her. Kp boken The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington av Leonora Carrington (ISBN 9780997366648) hos. Horna was born Katalin Deutsch in Budapest in 1919 to an upper-class Jewish family ( Horna would marry the artist Jose Horna in Paris in the late 1930s). She lived amid the city’s intelligentsia and was a childhood friend of Robert Capa, studying photography alongside him. The turbulence of the era pulled her throughout the continent.Īs a teenager, she apprenticed herself to the celebrated photographer József Pesci, whose avant-garde imagery bridged advertising and Constructivist aesthetics.īy her twenties, Horna had moved to Berlin, befriending Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, and her compatriot László Moholy-Nagy. In 1933, she went to Paris, enmeshing herself in the Surrealist movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learned Edmund is outraged to learn that he's not going to command the mission. But they're not going to Anuket City alone. Slate, possibly because she's the most stable and educated of the three (Brenner may be stable, but not all that educated, and Caliban may be far more educated, but it's not at all clear he's stable), is in charge of this little group. They're all condemned criminals, but they've been offered pardons and rewards if they can successfully complete a mission to Anuket City, to find a wayto defeat the Clockwork Boys, giant centaur-like creatures apparently made out of machine parts, who are ravaging the countryside and threatening the kingdom that, however questionable their characters, our three criminals are subjects of. Then he got careless and a demon possessed him,and it was exorcised, but not until after he'd killed eight temple nuns. In that capacity, he killed or exorcised, depending on circumstances, demons who had possessed people or animals. ![]() ![]() Slate is a forger and thief, Brenner an assassin, Sir Caliban a former knight-champion of the Dreaming God. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Torn between his new life in Tasmania with Jack and a dying species of butterfly he feels compelled to save, Lawson has to decide where his fate lies.īut fate changes the rules. ![]() But personal and professional differences aside, Lawson is offered a more permanent role in Queensland. Working alongside renowned professor Piers Bonfils isn't easy. Figuring they could combine work and pleasure, Jack and Lawson go on their first vacation together. But then he is offered a two-week research position in tropical Queensland to help determine why the Ulysses butterfly is on the decline. When Jack suggests they take a short trip, Lawson agrees. Lawson's work ensuring the survival of the Tillman Copper is as demanding as ever, and Jack's work with the regeneration of the bushfire-ravaged national park is just as hectic. Jack Brighton and Lawson Gale have been together for six months and are very much in love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the immediacy of a dispatch from the front lines, here are Watkins' firsthand observations and recollections, from combat on the battlefields of Shiloh and Chickamauga to encounters with Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Samuel Rush Watkins was a private in the confederate Army, a twenty-one-year-old Southerner from Tennessee who knew about war but had never experienced it firsthand. Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.Īmong the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer-a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier for four long years in the Confederate army. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1894, President Grover Cleveland defused the holiday by deciding on a new date. While this date caught on in the rest of the world, not so here. ![]() Following violent labor strikes in Chicago in May 1886, climaxing in the Haymarket massacre, American unions chose May 1 to commemorate these events. The reasons for the holiday’s different dates and traditions in the United States and the rest of the world are revealing. In many European countries, this will amount to little more than celebratory parades, but in others - France comes to mind - governments will brace themselves for massive and potentially violent protests over what labor has become. Yet across the globe, in communist and capitalist countries alike, workers will mostly spend the day not working, but instead marking Labor Day. May 1 will be a Monday like any other in the United States, with Americans going about a typical workday. ![]() ![]() The Viola Davis story will encourage readers who have endured similar circumstances. I can only imagine how difficult it was to write. Viola’s achievements are remarkable, and I appreciate her commitment to transparency while sharing her journey from poverty and painful memories to the person we see today. The beginning of her memoir focuses on her childhood and then quickly transitions to overcoming her childhood and establishing a career. Her parents did the best they could do under the circumstances (which was not great), and I don’t think her neglect was from a lack of love as much as it was from a lack of resources. ![]() She suffered substantially because her circumstances included poverty and unfavorable living conditions. Every child deserves warmth, stability, and enough to eat. The beginning of her story is especially traumatic and difficult to read. Through close examination of the most painful memories, deep reflection, and therapy, Viola Davis finds a life worth living. From a life of poverty and hardship during her childhood years in Rhode Island to fame in New York City, Viola Davis is not a quitter. ![]() My Summary of Finding Me:įinding Me is a poignant and compelling memoir by Viola Davis. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. ![]() Genre/Categories: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Self Reflection, Diverse Reads Fans of honest, gritty, reflective, and transparent memoirs will appreciate Finding Me by Viola Davis. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a nice subplot with Radar’s prom date, Angela questioning why she has never been invited to meet Radar’s parents. Q gets distracted when he sees Margo with her boyfriend, Jason. They discuss prom dates, and Ben gets irritated by the fact Radar has a date and he doesn’t. They are both members of the school band. This includes Quentin’s two best friends, Ben and Radar. ![]() Much of this chapter introduces readers to the central characters. It becomes clear that the man committed suicide following a divorce. The kid’s parents call the police, but Margo investigates the “case” in order to find out why he died. Quentin’s instinct is to run away, but Margo is curious and examines the body. The prologue describes the young versions of Margo and Quentin playing in the park. Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. Quentin and his friends, Ben and Radar, plus Margo’s best friend, Lacey, go on a road trip to try and hunt Margo down. Quentin believes this will improve his relationship with Margo, but instead, she disappears. Flash forward to the current day and after years apart she knocks on his window to invite him to help her on a revenge mission. Quentin Jacobsen becomes estranged from his childhood friend due to a traumatic incident. ![]() ![]() Christophe claims that he wants to help Dru, but can she trust him? By the end of book 1, Dru has had a face-to-fact encounter with her dad's killer, has learned that she is a bit more than human, and has been whisked away to a special school where she is to be trained to handle her future powers.īetrayals begins moments after book 1 with Dru and Graves at the New England schola, which is run by the Order. Not long after Graves has a life-changing encounter with a werwulfen, a new guy enters the picture: Christophe, a djamphir who looks like a teen but is actually about 100 years old. Dru and her new Goth-boy friend, Graves (also an orphan), try to make the best of their tattered lives, but the bad guys keep interfering, and Dru really wants to find out who (or what) killed her dad. Mom and Gran are already dead (Mom's death becomes very important as the series continues), so Dru is truly an orphan. When he is killed (in the first pages of book 1), Dru is suddenly on her own. ![]() Strange Angels: As the series begins, the teenage heroine (Dru Anderson) has accompanied her monster-hunting father to a small Dakota town where Dad is on the trail of a big-time bad guy. ![]() ![]() They are considered to be the princes of the werwulfen world. ![]() loup-garou (skinchanger): Having been partially imprinted with werwulfen characteristics, they have super strength and other werwulfen traits (they love raw meat!) but don't get hairy like the werwulfen. ![]() |