![]() ![]() Hold back that criticism in your throat-if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Bambi (1942) makes the story cough up the ubiquitous happy ending: the forest (somehow) grows back there’s a baby to celebrate a patriarchy is romantically restored. Salten’s book originally ends ambiguously, depicting a bleak life in the woods for its animal denizens and their enemy, humans. Disney transformed much of the book, adding Thumper’s little piece of advice, to wheedle out a silver lining. The movie is adapted from the novel, Bambi, a Life in the Woods by the Jewish Austro-Hungarian author and critic Felix Salten. The origins of the phrase are somewhat murky, but its media proliferation begins with Disney’s Bambi in 1942. ![]() The only negativity that is countenanced is fatalistic or conservative. There is perhaps no more American expression than “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” The political versions of this aphorism range from the barbaric dictate that you should never criticize unless you have a prepackaged “solution” to a spectrum of more generalized affirmational delusions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Steinbeck had me at this first sentence and drew me in with his ensemble of oddball characters–Henri the painter who has been building a boat for seven years Lee Chong, the grocer whose emporium has a little bit of everything from every when Doc, the marine biologist who collects marine life for research, and functions as a kind of doctor for the bodies and souls on the Row Dora, the madam of the Bear Flag Restaurant where sailors and others could get far more than a sandwich from her girls Mr. “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” Summary: Steinbeck’s Depression-era narrative of the residents of Cannery Row, eking out an existence on society’s margins, and forming an unlikely community in the process. ![]() New York: Penguin Books, 1992 (originally published 1945). ![]() ![]() With no one else to help, Ruby knows that it’s her choice to make another change for herself in Ten Cents a Dance (2009) by Christine Fletcher. Soon Ruby realizes that the unsavory aspects of her work are starting to stick to her as much as the stink of pickled pig’s feet used to. Soon, Ruby is making more money than she could have imagined. With no other choices, Ruby immerses herself into the world of taxi dancing and learns the fine art of drawing extra gifts in the form of meals, clothes and even cash from her clients. But teaching dancing is the last thing on the clients’ minds when Ruby begins working as a taxi dancer. When a local legend and all-around tough guy suggests that Ruby could use her talents as a dance teacher to earn some real dough, Ruby jumps at the offer. Leave it to Ruby and her fiery temper to lose a sweet spot slicing bacon and end up working in Pig’s Feet. But working in the factory just about kills her. ![]() Ruby doesn’t mind dropping out of school. ![]() Chicago, 1941: When her mother becomes too sick to work, Ruby Jacinski knows it’s her responsibility to look after the family and make sure money is coming in. ![]() ![]() I expect a number of people owe her more like 22 cents, but that’s neither here nor there. “Everybody in America owes me a dollar who read Infinite Jest.” ![]() As though my contribution to literature is that I fucked him a couple times in the early 90s,” Karr responded. “Sometimes people go on and on about David Foster Wallace. But one of the highlights for me was when Dunham asked Karr about something I’ve often wondered: whether she’s at all irritated by the fact that she is so often described and introduced in relation to David Foster Wallace-whom she once dated-despite the fact that she is herself a major writer. Lena Dunham recently interviewed the great memoirist, poet, and “lefty ho” Mary Karr for Lenny, and the entire interview is a treat, mostly because Karr is such a wise-cracking wise woman. ![]() ![]() His frequent use of primary sources as well as fictional literary works gives the work an ethereal nature. Pye's message and intention provides the reader with a refreshing view of the connection between time and place. Grey the waters of the North Sea may be but Pye has successfully dyed them with a multitude of rich colors., From a new perspective on the Vikings to an examination of information as a form of currency, Pye's book offers an engaging and enlightening look at a little understood time and place., Historian Pye excels at painting a unique portrait of the political, economic, and cultural transformation that has occurred on the shores of the North Sea. ![]() It is the measure of Pye's achievement that he can breathe life into the traders of seventh-century Frisia or the beguines of late-medieval Flanders as well as into his more celebrated subjects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then in July of 1850, the second French revolution (lasting only 3 days) erupted. They provide clues about his process, which initially was somewhat scattered and interrupted by other projects. Fortunately, many of his notes and the original manuscript for the novel were never lost. His early efforts languished for a couple of years. He wanted to write a novel that would depict the church as a sacred work of art, condemn society’s indifference to its plight, and encourage its preservation. Hugo worried that they were falling into ruin. After the French revolution, Notre Dame and other gothic monuments were neglected. Several years prior, Hugo became aware of the cathedral’s alarming condition. ![]() In 1831, a young Victor Hugo enjoyed publication of his first smash hit, Notre-Dame de Paris, known by anglophones as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. First page of Victor Hugo’s manuscript for the Hunchback of Notre Dame, circa 1830. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently undertaking archaeological research in Vietnam and the Philippines, and writing books on ancient human migration throughout world prehistory, from 2 million years ago to recent millennia. Peter Bellwood (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating 60 ratings published 2004 6 editions. First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by. Peter Bellwood’s most popular book is First Migrants. Peter Bellwood has 20 books on Goodreads with 1351 ratings. His books have been translated into Japanese (3 times), French, Russian, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. Peter Bellwood’s most popular book is First Migrants. He is the author or editor of First Migrants (2013) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Volume 1: Prehistory (co-edited with Immanuel Ness, 2013) First Farmers (2005) Southeast Asia: from Prehistory to History (co-edited with Ian Glover, 2004) Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis (co-edited with Colin Renfrew, 2002) Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (2nd edition 1997/2007) The Austronesians (co-edited 1995) The Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People (2nd edition 1987) and Man’s Conquest of the Pacific: The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania (1978). In 1973 he moved to the Australian National University. ![]() 'First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies' offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom (PhD 1980), and commenced his lecturing career at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1967. Imprint Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University. ![]() ![]() Wharton’s Starkfield.' Readers of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911) can hardly fail to be moved by the. 'Ethan Frome' is to me above all else a judgment on that system which fails to redeem such villages as Mrs. 'after all, the tragedy unveiled to us is social rather than personal. ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Whartons novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like her main character, Sinclair lives in Bend, Oregon, where she is currently working on the next installment in the series. Jools Sinclair is the author of the 44 series, which has been downloaded by more than half a million readers. Sit back, read, and relax, it was all good. Jools is an absolute delight, and we had an amazing conversation. I am happy to report that none of that was worth worrying over. ![]() What if she thought I was getting too personal, what if she hated the questions, what if she would regret doing this, what if ………. ![]() When I found out that she would actually sit down and do an interview with me, I was so nervous. I discovered her 44 series from a friend (thanks Win) and now I am a major fan. I am going to have to admit that I am such a SQUEE girl when it comes to this author. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was nice to see the crazy professor from the view of someone very close to him (can you tell I’m trying very hard not to spoiler anything?). I prefer my villains to be just a bit more of a dark grey than a stark black. I liked that in The Slither Sisters the bad guys got a bit more background. It has a lot of adventure, jumping through gates, the heroes finding themselves in sticky situations. In The Slither Sisters the action picks up immediately, making it a much more satisfying read than its predecessor. When reading the first book in the series, Professor Gargoyle, I was entertained but not very thrilled. In the second book, The Slither Sisters, there are appearing more gates into another dimension where monsters lurk, and it’s up to Robert and his friends to save the town. Haunted mansions, sneaky mind-controlled children, demons and crazy professors, the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series has it all. ![]() Goodreads | Author | Publisher | Amazon Paperback | Book Depository Published January 15th 2013 by Quirk Books Series: Tales from Lovecraft Middleschool #2 ![]() |