![]() ![]() Boon was moved to Veldwezelt at the outbreak of World War II in May 1940 in order to defend the Albert Canal. In September 1939, Boon was mobilised and stationed as a soldier in Gooik and Tessenderlo. Three years later, their son Jo was born. During evenings and weekends he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon had to abandon his studies due to lack of funds. He was expelled from school for possession of forbidden books. Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a car painter. Although he was still very young during the First World War, memories of a German soldier shooting a prisoner would end up in later autobiographical work. He was born in 1912 as Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium, the oldest son in a working-class family. The birth-house of Boon, 2022, missing its commemorative plaque ![]()
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Man Made Language by Dale Spender![]() ![]() She is co-originator of the database WIKED (Women's International Knowledge Encyclopedia and Data) and founding editor of the Athen Dale Spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. She started lecturing at James Cook University in 1974, before going to live for a while in London and publishing the book Man Made Language in 1980. In the later half of the 1960s she also taught English Literature at Dapto High School. In her youthful days she was a Miss Kodak girl. ![]() She attended the Burwood Girls High School, in Sydney. The eldest of three, she has a younger sister Lynne, and a much younger brother Graeme. Spender was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, a niece of the crime writer Jean Spender (1901–70). Dale Spender (born 1943) is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Roadside picnic novel![]() Just as the citizens of New York City never paid any attention to the ants in Antz, the aliens seemed not to notice the existence of the citizens of Harmont (the town next to the Zone). The wheels have tracked mud from some godforsaken swamp…and, of course, there are the remains of the campfire, apple cores, candy wrappers, tins, bottles, someone's handkerchief, someone's penknife, old ragged newspapers, coins, wilted flowersįorm another meadow…" Yes, it's as if the aliens just made a brief rest stop and then took off, leaving the insignificant denizens of the area to sort through their trash. ![]() And what do they see? An oil spill, a gasoline puddle, old spark plugs and oil filters strewn about…Scattered rags, burnt-out bulbs, someone has dropped a monkey wrench. The animals, birds, and insects that were watching the whole night in horror crawl out of their shelters. A car pulls off the road into the meadow and unloads young men, bottles, picnic baskets, girls, transistor radios, cameras…A fire is lit, tents are pitched, music is played. Imagine: a forest, a country road, a meadow. ![]() Here, one character presents his hypothesis about the Visit: "A picnic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, I am not going to do that this isn’t high school. Then the content begins to blend together if I don’t stop in between every story. The formatting to discuss each story takes time. Unfortunately, trying to blog about it is hard. At roughly ~300 pages, this isn’t very long nor are many of these stories. This is composed of 26 stories (see table of contents). In any case, I went with this collection instead. I am trying to remember why I had that idea because as I research it, everyone calls it creepy. I also have the impression that it isn’t that scary. I’m also not that excited by We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the book or the movie. Of course, the Lottery is a commentary on society, and I wanted more of that. ![]() ![]() It was so well written and charming, but it also felt like a commentary on society intentionally or not. I decided to allow myself to deviate from the plan (oh no!) and read Jackson’s first autobiography, Life Among Savages. I originally planned to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, also by Shirley Jackson. I am reading this for Totathon 2019 as a “book” that I read and then watch the adaption of. Introductory thoughts 10/10/19 ( Jump to Table Contents) ![]() ![]() ![]() On discovering a series of villages, each burned to ashes, with their young girls kidnapped, Vasya determines to free the girls and stop the bandits. Understanding the dangers of journeying alone as a woman, Vasya disguises herself as a man as she rides through the freezing countryside of ancient Rus' (the word Russia didn't come into common use till the 17th century). Leaving the safety of the forest she begins her new life as a traveler, exploring Russia far beyond the boundaries of her childhood home. Set in medieval Russia, the story stars Vasilisa Petrovna (Vasya), who's on the run after having been accused of witchcraft following the violent deaths of her father and stepmother.įinding brief refuge in the fir grove home of one Morozko, a morally ambiguous frost-demon, Vasya soon aches for adventure. " The Girl in the Tower," the second installment of her Winternight trilogy, begins where "The Bear and the Nightingale" left off. After the critical success of 2017's " The Bear and the Nightingale," Katherine Arden of Austin, Texas, is back again with another elegantly crafted world that melds folklore and fantasy, with a splash of historical fiction for good measure. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The problem with pain by cs lewis![]() To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.Ĭlive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing Nietzsche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience the third with ascetic ideals-not only in religion but also in the academy.Įcce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsche's review of his life and works. ![]() The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term "good" has widely different meanings in each. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. ![]() Masterful translations of the great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments September fair by jess lourey![]() In between sampling fried nut-goodies-on-a-stick, swooning over Neil Diamond in the fair amphitheater and e-mailing her latest fella, Johnny Leeson, Mira cultivates several suspects: the president of the State Fair Association, the official Milkfed Mary chaperone, the marketing director of Bovine Productivity Management and a vegan protester of animal cruelty. Berns and Battle Lake mayor Kennie Rogers. Her busybody antics are both abetted and thwarted by rambunctious 84-year-old Mrs. ![]() Already on hand to cover the fair for the Battle Lake Weekly, Mira James ( August Moon, 2008, etc.) snoops around the fairgrounds to find out who wanted the teen dead. She’s been fatally poisoned with cyanide. Two minutes later, the lights come back on, but Milkfed Mary doesn’t. ![]() The 54th Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, is having her likeness sculpted in butter when the lights go out and the tourists panic. Dairy cows and a dead beauty queen on exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Lethal white book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. “I seen a kid killed.… He strangled it, up by the horse.” The fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series from the international bestselling author Robert Galbraith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess. In a year's time, the prince will choose his bride from among the village girls. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her village the home of the future princess. Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life. In this first book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri finds herself a sudden participant in a contest to find the next princess of the realm. ![]() |