![]() One of our most distinguished poets, ADRIENNE RICH was born in Baltimore in 1929. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. ![]() The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed in its many variations on all women everywhere. "In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark book, concerns both experience and institution. ![]() Motherhood as Experience and Institution. ![]()
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![]() Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. ![]() At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. ![]() Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. ![]() Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Ĭatherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. From Marissa Meyer, the #1 New York Times –bestselling story of Wonderland's most notorious villain: the Queen of Hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() But here we learn more about her (Palombo takes a somewhat feminist angle), how she’s well educated, clever, high spirited, and loyal to her friend. ![]() ![]() Told from Katrina’s PoV, she sounds just how you’d think she would: a little spoiled as the only daughter of a rich landowner. Palombo takes these basic details and fleshes them out. On All Hallow’s Eve, Ichabod disappears and it’s speculated that he has run into the ghostly Hessian and met a grisly fate. But we learn he’s got a superstitious streak and believes the local tale of the Headless Horseman. You probably know the story already: Ichabod Crane is the new schoolteacher in Sleepy Hollow, and he’s got his eye on the lovely heiress Katrina. ![]() Alyssa Palombo attempts to re-tell this American classic in her recent THE SPELLBOOK OF KATRINA VAN TASSEL, while retaining the setting details and characters, but giving it a modern twist. You’ve probably seen the silly Disney cartoon, but the original story has an ambiance and mystery about it that is enhanced by its brevity and style. If you’ve never read the original Washington Irving short “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” you should (it’s easy to find a free version online…but be sure to have a dictionary on hand, it’s not necessarily an easy read). ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical dynastic realm. He explains “the nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. ![]() It is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. As a modernist theorist, Benedict Anderson defines the nation as an “imagined political community”. The concepts of nations and nationalism emerged in the late 18th century. He explains his arguments with the decreasing importance of religious communities and dynasties, the developments following the printing revolution (print-capitalism, as he named it), standardization of the language, lexicographical revolution and so on.īenedict Anderson and Imagined Communities ![]() Anderson sees the nation as an “imagined political community”. ![]() He brought a new definition to the concepts of nations and nationalism by emphasizing cultural veins that appeared in the late 18th century. In 1983, Benedict Anderson published his most influential book, Imagined Communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He moved to the United States as a teenager. Will she survive the hardships of the long journey and the various dangers along the way? Based on the author's own childhood memories and filled with adventure and suspense, Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight's best-loved novel and a huge best-seller, famously adapted into a 1943 Hollywood movie - is a timeless classic and one of the greatest dog stories ever written.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Knight, Eric: - Eric Knight was born in 1897 in Yorkshire, England, the countryside that was the background for Lassie Come-Home. Undeterred by the distance and driven by instinctive love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and embarks on an epic journey to be reunited with her young master Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate in Scotland. Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. Presented here with illustrations by Gary Blythe and an extra section for young readers. Lassie Come-Home is one of the best-loved dog stories in the world. Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - Survival Stories ![]() Contributor(s): Knight, Eric (Author), Blythe, Gary (Illustrator)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of Twisted I’ll admit that I was really missing Drew’s voice, so I was ecstatic that the epilogue was entirely from his point of view. ![]() Kate became a real character whose resolve and will is thoroughly challenged – we see her at the lowest of lows and I admire how well she deals with it all. We get glimpses of where she grew up and answers to why she was with Billy for so many years. We learn more about who Kate was in Greenville, Ohio before she went to New York City. First, it’s told from Kate’s point of view, which I personally enjoyed, since she was still a mystery to me at the end of Tangled. Going from Tangled to Twisted, I can understand if many readers were upset. To put it into words – Twisted was a punch to the stomach, a slap in the face to all the implied happily-ever-afters employed in typical romance novels. While I was prepared for some drama, I was unprepared for this much angst. The conflict stems from a massive misunderstanding and unsurprisingly, these two proud characters don’t communicate well. Twisted takes place two years later and things are going so well until suddenly they aren’t. ![]() But really, it was only a matter of time before Drew stuck his foot in his mouth because, come on, he’s Drew Evans. Tangled left off with Drew Evans and Kate Brooks blissfully happy both professionally and personally. Published: March 25th 2014 by Gallery Books ![]() ![]() But let me call you back in fifteen years and maybe your answer will be different. But how many of them are classics? How many of them are memorable? How many could you tell to the person on the street and get a spark of recognition in return? For now, none. Oh, there are tons of books where kids go to space, sure. Where are the books about kids in space that have remained within the public consciousness? Fact of the matter is, there aren’t any. The kind we blasted into in the 1960s and then never returned to. ![]() What’s that? You can’t think of any significant children’s books that took place in space? Would The Little Prince count? I guess so, but that’s not really the kind of space I mean. Now just pluck out for me the ones that took place in outer space. ![]() The ones that encouraged you to consider the world around you. The ones you still think about sometimes. Think about the books you read when you were a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, it was all so engrossing that when the creatures did finally show up, I was a bit disorientated. The social politics of this escape from humanity style set up are immediately apparent and entirely recognisable, each power play and misstep detailed by Kate with insight and humour. Through her perspective we get to see the place and its people with unflattering clarity. Her and her husband are the last to arrive at their new home in a super high tech version of an off-grid community and it means she's the proverbial outsider. But it takes very little time for her to get you on side. When you first meet Kate Holland she's a neurotic mess and her voice is annoying enough that if I hadn't known people were going to die excitingly awful deaths sometime soon, I might have put the book down. Despite the horror framework, the real strength of this book is not in the monsters, but in the character development. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution - and threatening Fabletown's carefully nurtured secrecy. Fables is an American comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics Vertigo imprint. ![]() When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Fables was the recipient of the 2003 Eisner Award for Best New Series, and Best Serialized Story. The series featured a menagerie of famous fairy tale characters and their adventures in the modern world of New York City. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. Fables is an ongoing comic book series by Bill Willingham published under DC's Vertigo imprint then in DC Black Label in its revival run from 2022. Cover by James Jean.įor the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition! When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Art by Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha and Craig T. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you've been reading the Cedar Ridge series, you know that Jacob Kincaid, twin of Hudson Kincaid (hero of book 2, My Kind of Wonderful) left Cedar Ridge after a huge fight with his twin the day they graduated from high school and they haven't spoken since. until they realize the only true home they have is with each other. ![]() Something about Jacob's dark intensity makes her want to tease-and tempt-him beyond measure. She's broke, intermittently seasick, and fighting a serious attraction to the brooding, dishy, I'm-too-sexy-for-myself guy who's now claiming her dock. But what he discovers is a gorgeous woman living on a boat at his dock. All he needs to scrub away his painful past is fresh mountain air, a lakeside cabin, and quiet solitude. After an overseas mission goes wrong, Army Special Forces officer Jacob Kincaid knows where he must go to make things right: back home to the tiny town of Cedar Ridge, Colorado. ![]() |