![]() ![]() His latest book The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment dives deep into our history and sets the record straight for the framer’s intent of the second amendment based on thorough research. Thom is a New York Times best selling author of 24 books in print and hosts his own progressive TV and radio show with an audience of over 6.5 million people. ![]() To help us better understand gun violence and its roots in our history, I hopped on the phone with special guest Thom Hartmann. This month (June) is gun violence awareness month and this weekend beginning Jmarks a nation wide weekend of action to bring about awareness of gun violence in america. We have the highest rate of gun violence in the world. 100 people die from gun violence every day in America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Mysterious Benedict Society is action-packed. Just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s nice. Middle grade adventure is especially good, and this book is the most especially good example of the most especially good of the most especially good.Įven just writing about it makes me so happy I can barely type out rational thoughts!!! (Don’t say what else is new. In other words, if everything that sucked so hard about YA didn’t exist. Middle grade is like young adult if young adult wasn’t so dramatic, and didn’t have a million boring/dramatic/unnecessary subplots, and wasn’t legally required under the jurisdiction of the United Nations to contain a romance. ![]() How I feel about middle grade is this: I LOVE IT. Unless you are new here (in which case, welcome and you have made a grave mistake), you know how I feel about middle grade. I’m not saying I have one but I am saying that’s the polite thing to do.Īnyway: THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. ![]() Please read the following sentence as if I am singing it, joyfully:Īlso, I hope you mentally gave me a beautiful singing voice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hyperion Cantos: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion. ![]() The Hollow Man - A Magical Realism novel about a man who's helplessly telepathic, and how he copes with life after his long-time wife passes away and he's forced to deal with the world at large.It had two sequels, titled Hard Freeze and Hard as Nails respectively. who investigates a series of truck hijackings for the mafia. Hardcase - A hard-boiled detective novel about Joe Kurtz, an unlicensed P.I.The Further Adventures of Batman - he contributed " Dying Is Easy Comedy Is Hard", with Edward Bryant.( Simmons was once a middle-school English teacher). He has also written fantasy and horror, and has won awards for best novel of the year in all three categories.Ī common thread throughout all Simmons's novels are references to classic literature, either directly or metaphorically. Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is a Speculative Fiction author, best known for his sprawling and imaginative horror-tinged Science Fiction series, the Hyperion Cantos. ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, collects the 228 best, craziest, and most soul-baring moments from his adventures with musicians, celebrities, and icons while writing cover stories for Rolling Stone and the New York Times. He is also the coauthor of three other New York Times bestsellers-Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, MÖtley CrÜe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell -as well as Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, and Emergency. So if you're looking to turn an ordinary night into a memorable adventure, this is the game for you. From physical challenges to personality tests to secret conspiracies, "Who's Got Game?" has it all. "Who's Got Game?" is engineered to bring out the fun and attractive qualities in every player. Like The Game itself, these cards can be used to break the ice and get to know people-whether strangers or your own partner-in minutes. ![]() Play it for fun, for training, or for a better social lubricator than alcohol. Whether or not you're currently a player or playette, there is more game in this box than in most people's brains. ![]() "Who's Got Game?" adds a new twist to being social and can be played anywhere. ![]() Neil Strauss, seven-time New York Times bestselling author who brought you the international bestselling seduction books The Game and The Rules of the Game is back with one question in mind: "Who's Got Game?" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Packed with literary allusions, meditations on friendship, and historical/geographical tidbits, this book is a bit of an unwieldy read, and its never-ending stream of coincidence, luck, and nice people can get a little wearing (has any Child Protective Services interview ever gone so well with so little paperwork?). She’s determined to find her again, though time and space themselves stand in the way. With the help of a friendly librarian, some clueless but kind foster parents, and a geeky outcast artist, Lottie finds a new life, but she can’t forget her dearest friend. Sales’s story takes an abrupt detour as Lottie travels to suburban Wisconsin in the year 2013, without any clothes, without any clues, and, worst of all, without Kitty. Lottie’s dad is engaged in top-secret scientific research that may help win the war. Ten-year-old Lottie and her best friend, the anagram-obsessed Kitty, certainly do. ![]() Most people don’t believe in time travel,” begins this work of fantasy/sci-fi set in 1940s wartime London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adding to her achievements were an Honorary Golden Lion, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. This includes an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, 2 Emmy Awards, 3 Grammy Awards, and 6 Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for 3 Tony Awards. This 87-year-old actress has received numerous accolades throughout her career, spanning almost eight decades now. ”Julie Andrews”, by John Mathew Smith, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0ĭame Julie Andrews, who was named Julia Elizabeth Wells at birth, was born on October 1, 1935. ![]() She was one of the few surviving actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1920s to 1960s). She was known for classics like “Mary Poppins” (1964), “The Sound of Music” (1965), and “Victor/Victoria” (1982). Julie Andrews is, without a doubt, one of the world’s most famous actresses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her definition, Caruth refers to the distorted powers of recollection that very often only allow the traumatised person to access small fragments, if any at all, of the traumatic event. This is due to a disruption of memories, something that Cathy Caruth alludes to in her definition of trauma in Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by stating that the “response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled, repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena” (Caruth 1996: 11). ![]() The recollection of traumatic memories is often fraught with enormous difficulties for a person affected by trauma. 2.2 Patterns of Defense: Dissociation and Repressionģ.2 Narrative Strategies and Writing Techniquesĥ.1 Involuntary Coping Mechanism and Emotional Defensesĥ.2 Narration as a Way of Coping with TraumaĦ. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was both widely criticized and praised when it first appeared, but now is appreciated as a classic work in its own right, and as a prescient forerunner of the cyberpunk literary genre. It would prove to be Bester's last novel for 19 years. A working title was Hell's My Destination the book was also associated with the name The Burning Spear. It was subsequently serialized in the American Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in four parts, beginning in October 1956. The book remains widely known under that title in the markets in which this edition was circulated. Its first publication was in book form in June 1956 in the United Kingdom, where it was titled Tiger! Tiger!, named after William Blake's 1794 poem " The Tyger", the first verse of which is printed as the first page of the novel. ![]() The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester. ![]() The first installment of The Stars My Destination was cover-featured on the October 1956 issue of Galaxy. ![]() ![]() Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. 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Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() (And by the way, some of the minor characters in the last chapter of Book 3 will become important later in the story).Īs for whether Summer will come to Talon's rescue, I can neither confirm nor deny. And that means the characters involved will make a return. He still has a quest to complete after all, so that storyline is by no means finished. Talon will take on a new role in Books 4-6, then yet another new role in the last 2 books.īut don't worry this is not the last we'll see of the characters from the first act. The cliffhanger ending of Book 3 marks the closure of the first act. The Talon Saga is eight books, but you could make the argument that it has a broader three-act structure. ![]() Heh heh heh! In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Ain't I a stinker?" ![]() My guess is that summer will come to talon's rescue. ![]() |