6/12/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare william macbeth![]() What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell.” Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be What thou art promised. ![]() ![]() Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the king, who all-hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail, king that shalt be!’ This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. “They met me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments The society of the spectacle 1973![]() ![]() It is still one of the greatest theoretical examinations of our social-cultural conditions describing in pinpoint accuracy the dreadful corporate globalization sweeping the planet, The spectacle accompanies us throughout our lives via news propaganda, advertising and entertainment, and yes social media,alienating us from ourselves and our desires in order to facilitate the accumulation of capital.įor Debord the spectacle presented itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned, It's sole message is :"What appears is good what is good appears," The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances. While this is superficially satisfying it makes us isolated and lonely individuals. This spectacle has replaced social interaction and human needs. " In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immene accumulation of spectacles," Debord's book begins, "Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." The political consequence of this separation from shared felt experience is key to understanding both how we experience the world and how we can change it. Guy Debord was born on December 28, 1931, in Paris, France, a witer and director who became a leading figure of the French Situationist International In his fascinating book first published in June 1967, the Society of the Spectacle, he argued that to succumbing to alienation caused by capitalism we have let our lives become colonised by an immersive experience. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The unhoneymooners book review![]() ![]() Olive and Ethan have never gotten along, and begrudgingly agree to go on vacation together at the coaxing of Olive’s sister due to it being a non-refundable trip- but there’s a catch. Olive’s sister is perpetually lucky, unlike Olive, and won the entire trip during a honeymoon sweepstakes. The Unhoneymooners follows Olive Torres and Ethan Thomas on an all expense paid vacation to Maui - gifted to them by newlyweds- Olive’s twin sister Ami and Ethan’s brother - who were unable to go on their honeymoon due to food poisoning at their wedding. ![]() ![]() This is the PERFECT beach read, so if you haven’t read it yet, make sure to grab yourself a copy to read this Summer!Ĭhristina Lauren paints a beautiful picture of a luxury resort in a picturesque location - I could almost feel the breeze and smell the sunscreen through the pages. I honestly loved The Unhoneymooners so much that I want to buy a physical copy for my collection- so you KNOW it was a good read. I’ve been really impressed by their selection so far, and have a few books on hold that I can’t wait to read! The Libby app is a library app where you can use your library card to borrow e-books and audio books for FREE. I was REALLY excited to see it added to the Libby app, and placed a hold on it immediately. I had been wanting to read The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren since it was released but never got around to purchasing it. ![]() ![]() ![]() She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Kelly has visited a number of schools and workshops including Stonecoast in Maine, Washington University, Yale, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Brookdale Community College, Brookdale, NJ, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC, the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University, New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, MA, Clarion East at Michigan State University, Clarion West in Seattle, WA, and Clarion South in Brisbane, Australia. She also edited the anthology, Trampoline. ![]() ![]() Grant and Ellen Datlow she edits The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Kelly is an editor for the Online Writing Workshop and has been a reader and judge for various literary awards. It was published in paperback by Harcourt. Her second collection, Magic for Beginners, was a Book Sense pick (and a Best of Book Sense pick) and selected for best of the year lists by Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Capitol Times. ![]() Kelly Link's debut collection, Stranger Things Happen, was a Firecracker nominee, a Village Voice Favorite Book and a Salon Book of the Year - Salon called the collection ".an alchemical mixture of Borges, Raymond Chandler, and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Stories from the collection have won the Nebula, the James Tiptree Jr., and the World Fantasy Awards. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Yen by Anna Jordan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This tale of trapped siblings, 16-year-old Hench and 13-year-old Bobbie (a classic wind up merchant kid brother), is a triumphant mix of pithy, authentic dialogue, Polly Bennett’s extraordinary movement, a roller coaster plot and innovative staging that physically and psychologically limits the unfortunate children. A play inspired by a harrowing news report about two neglected teenage brothers abandoned to live the sort of depraved lifestyle that ends up getting them in the headlines doesn’t exactly sound like fruitful ground for a laugh-out-loud script.īut everything about Anna Jordan’s Yen is done to defy presumptions, injecting the most uncomfortable situations with a savagely dry humour that compels you to feel compassion for these lost boys when what you want to feel is disgust. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments James death comes to pemberley![]() Combining Austen's characters with her own signature excitement and suspense, James has crafted a brilliant crime story. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice. Inspired by a lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen, P.D. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband, George Wickham, has been murdered. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. Fitzwilliam Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency society with a classic murder mystery, James creates a delightful new story that will intrigue any fan of Jane Austen. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. ![]() ![]() James and literary icon Jane Austen - come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Two great literary minds - master of suspense P.D. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The scarlet letter a romance![]() It appears she was untouched by the punishment given by the 18th century puritanically strict Boston. Even amidst this public punishment Hester remained unashamed and undaunted. It is, to those Boston puritans, a violation of their rigorous ethics and moral rectitude. ![]() In accordance with the puritan code of law the sexual liaison of which Hester is guilty is an act of adultery. The puritan public charges her for adultery. Time and again she was harassed and interrogated so that she tells about her lover's name despite this torturous public punishment, Hester Prynne remained silent, remained undefeated and remained superbly dauntless. She was punished to stay on the scaffold in public. It is a love story because Hester did not reveal the name of her loves when she was torturously interrogated to pinpoint her lover's name. The story of the puritanically interpreted liaison between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale is the story of love. ![]() From the side of Arthur Dimmesdale it is somewhat difficult to say the immoral liaison between them is a token of pure love or not, but from the side of Hester Prynne it can be concluded with an air of confidence that so-called liaison is none other than pure love. When she arrived at the New England, she found Arthur Dimmesdale. Probably her marriage with such a bookworm was a source of dissatisfaction. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments פתאום דפיקה בדלת by Etgar Keret![]() ![]() ![]() His second book, Missing Kissinger (געגועיי לקיסינג’ר, Ga’agu’ai le-Kissinger, 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general public. Keret’s first published work was Pipelines (צינורות, Tzinorot, 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out. Missing Kissinger won the 2008 JQ Wingate Prize. The film Jellyfish, a joint venture for Keret and his wife received the Camera d’Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The short film Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep, 1996), which Keret wrote and directed with Ran Tal, won an Israel Film Academy award and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. He holds dual Israeli and Polish citizenship. He is a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, and at Tel Aviv University. ![]() He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and their son, Lev. He studied at Ohel Shem high school, and at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University. He is a third child to parents who survived the Holocaust. Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The recluse william wordsworth![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It may be proper to state whence the Poem, of which The Excursion is a part, derives its Title of The Recluse.-Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. ![]() The Title-page announces that this is only a Portion of a Poem and the Reader must be here apprized that it belongs to the second part of a long and laborious Work, which is to consist of three parts.-The Author will candidly acknowledge that, if the first of these had been completed, and in such a manner as to satisfy his own mind, he should have preferred the natural order of publication, and have given that to the World first but, as the second division of the Work was designed to refer more to passing events, and to an existing state of things, than the others were meant to do, more continuous exertion was naturally bestowed upon it, and greater progress made here than in the rest of the Poem and as this part does not depend upon the preceding, to a degree which will materially injure its own peculiar interest, the Author, complying with the earnest entreaties of some valued Friends, presents the following Pages to the Public. ![]() ![]() ![]() While you wait for The Brothers Hawthorne to come out, try Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s thrilling mystery series, The Naturals.Ī New York Times and USA Today BestsellerĪ Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the YearĪ Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearĪ New York Public Library Best Book for Teens Luckily, Jameson Hawthorne lives for impossible.ĭrawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson-with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune-must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win. Now he must infiltrate London’s most exclusive underground gambling club, which caters to the rich, the powerful, and the aristocratic, and win an impossible game of greatest stakes. ![]() ![]() When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can’t resist the challenge. Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem-efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. ![]() Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher. ![]() |