![]() The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. ![]() Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. ![]() Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Journey to the End of the Night is a modernist novel by Louis-Ferdinand Cline, first published in French in 1932 by the Parisian publisher ditions Denol. The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life. ![]()
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![]() He has served as a faculty member and administrator at a number of universities including: Oakwood University, Alabama A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. His writings, consultations, and research have been instrumental in understanding developmental stages in Black males, public policy and its connection to compensatory justice, relationships between Black males and females, infusion of African studies into school curricula, and the impact of hip hop culture on the contemporary American landscape. As a scholar and activist, he is known for his systems-thinking approaches to understanding the impact of racism/white supremacy on the global African community. ![]() Phone: is a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. ![]() Director, Research Professor, Institute for Urban Research ![]() ![]() He was bold enough to counterattack Berlin and not wait for the war to ravage his home. His diplomatic and eloquent letters to President Roosevelt encouraging American support were incredibly insightful and proved to be the right course of action to protect the world from Hitler. He spoke with total authority of “the essential human freedoms: speech, worship, and freedoms from want and fear.” The leadership and courage that Churchill displayed in this year of his life was inspiring. The tactics that Churchill employed truly changed the course of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() I lean toward fiction in my reading taste, but The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson’s captivating and inspiring story about the twists and turns of Winston Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister in 1940, grabbed me from page one. “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.” -Winston Churchill ![]() ![]() That he manages in these pages to sketch such a memorable, seductive character (and, without sentimentality, to describe her death from cancer) is a high achievement, perhaps his highest to date. Several pieces describe his relationship with his mother, who is clearly the source of Sedaris's earthy sense of humor. ![]() In the other essays (some of which originated as NPR broadcasts), Sedaris aims for a subtler sort of comedy. The first concerns Sedaris's childhood nervous compulsions and disorders, the second his later, Northwestern vagabondage. Only two of the pieces in this new collection, ""A Plague of Tics"" and ""c.o.g.,"" match Barrel Fever laugh for laugh. Sedaris is instead an essayist who happens to be very funny. ![]() The memoirs and jeux d'esprit that make up his first book, Barrel Fever, are too personally revealing to be domestic satire, and the writer they reveal is more eccentric-okay, weirder-than most domestic satirists. NPR commentator Sedaris can hardly be called a humorist in the ordinary sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took a long time to learn the right questions to ask.” “To understand how my father became the way he was, I had to learn what happened to him as a little boy. “For my parents, already fully formed in another time and place to which they could never go back, home became the holding pen for the frustrations and unexorcised demons that had nowhere to go in America’s Finest City… In the dark apartment in San Diego, I grew up with the terrified boy who became my father.” It is an engaging story presented in the style of a graphic novel. Based largely on oral history from family members, she has written and illustrated their story, telling the history of Vietnam from 1943-1978 along the way. Thi Bui was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a child in 1978. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir ![]() ![]() ![]() Your lovely poems often feature nature and the world around us. If you could have Christmas dinner with anyone (alive today or person from history) who would it be? Jane Austen What is your favourite story to read at Christmas? The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. There are wonderful stories shared at Christmas time. ![]() Name three things on your Christmas list this year! I don’t really have a Christmas list – I just hope for lots of books!Ĭhristmas is a time of family traditions – what are your best (or worst!) family traditions? Singing! ![]() She won the Smarties Gold Award for her picture book Nice Work, Little Wolf ! and her book The Galloping Ghost was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize and the Portsmouth Children’s Book Award. Hilda’s books include the Rita the Rescuer series, Too Many Hats and Blue Balloons and Rabbit Ears, which was shortlisted for the 2015 CLPE Poetry Award. Hilda Offen is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator with many books in print. Author and illustrator Hilda Offen joins the Calendar! ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() It was an expression of the psychic traditions of the people who created it, and it reflected their understanding of the world. #4 The first art that humans produced was crude and undeveloped, but it was far more than that. But as more scholars were secular scientists rather than monks like Abbé Breuil, some began to question tenets once accepted by the scholarly establishment. ![]() #3 The evolutionary model of man the hunter-warrior has colored most interpretations of Paleolithic art. It is the result of scholarly preconceptions, which are in contrast with the findings of modern gathering-hunting societies. #2 The idea that Paleolithic art was only created by male hunters is not based on any factual evidence. It was a record of their awe at the mystery of life and death, and it indicated that very early in human history, the human will to live found expression through a variety of rituals and myths. #1 The Paleolithic art of the humans of the Paleolithic era was a sacred tradition that was related to the will to live. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI Voice. In selections made and read by the author herself, The Chalice and the Blade presents new scripts for living - based on a more socially, economically, ecologically, personally, and spiritually balanced society rather than on the tension and violence typical of what Eisler calls the dominator model. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]() ![]() But in America, you can either make friends or make profit, and Yvon suddenly seems much more interested in the latter. Trapped in a mansion with as many secrets as rooms, Marlena yearns for escape. Sent to Richmond, Virginia, they arrive at the home of two aunts they've never met before, who tell them that their true last name is Dawson, that their father had fled the family years back-and that now the family is calling in the debt. When a car crash kills their parents, Marlena and Yvon lose not only France, but also their identity. She loved her family she just didn't know what her family actually was. She had a talented artist for a father, a doting mother, and a brother she couldn't be closer to. In this third book of a new related trilogy, witness the birth of the Dollanganger curse as Corrine Foxworth's children learn that family is but destiny by another, crueler name.Īs a young girl in France, Marlena Hunter's life was a fairy tale. Forbidden passions have been the hallmark of the Dollanganger clan since Flowers in the Attic debuted more than forty years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, the author discusses the benefits and enjoyment that can be found in solitude- whether that time alone is spent traveling or in the place you call home. And then I read Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom. I wanted my return to this blog to mean something more. Though I’ve been reading more books than ever before (I’ve finished 38 so far this year) it seemed silly for me to write a post about a new release, a bestseller, a book club choice. I’ve been wanting to restart this blog for the past few months, but if felt insignificant amid all the other changes in my life. ![]() It’s been an exhilarating journey, and I’m now in a place where I’m extremely happy and simply loving life. This year, I quit my job, I traveled solo through Chile and Peru, I moved across the country, I started a new job where I’m mentally stimulated daily, I’ve made amazing new friends, I’ve immersed myself in new experiences. While the end of last year was spent preparing for these changes, 2018 has been about making them happen. In the fall of last year I think I hit my breaking point, and I made a few decisions that have since changed everything. I was unhappy with many aspects of my life- work, relationships, myself and these feelings spiraled out of control on a few occasions. 2017 was a rough year for me, mentally and emotionally. It’s been a year and a half since my last post, and a lot has changed in that time. ![]() |