5/13/2023 0 Comments Building stories by chris wareThe story "Touch Sensitive" was originally published in the McSweeney's iPad app in September 2011. Some appeared in Ware's Acme Novelty Library #18 (2007), which itself contained material from The New Yorker, Nest, Kramers Ergot, Chicago Reader, Hangar 21 Magazine, and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Portions of Building Stories were previously published. The work took a decade to complete, and was published by Pantheon in 2012. The boxed version of Building Stories was proposed to Pantheon Books in 2006. Ware said he proposed a similar boxed project to Eclipse Comics in 1987, though it was turned down, and had done some smaller-scale single-edition boxed projects while in art school. The parts of the work can be read in any order. It mainly focuses on her time in a three-story brownstone apartment building in Chicago, but also follows her later in her life as a mother. The intricate, multilayered stories pivot around an unnamed female protagonist with a missing lower leg. The work took a decade to complete, and was published by Pantheon Books. The unconventional work is made up of fourteen printed works-cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets and flip books-packaged in a boxed set. 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware Building Storiesīuilding Stories is a 2012 graphic novel by American cartoonist Chris Ware.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Oroonoko onlineThe wives beg their husbands to stop fighting as in Oroonoko’s story, domestic interests compete with the defence of honour. Imoinda's pregnancy brings the narrative to a crisis over the fate of their child: Oroonoko leads a rebellion to secure their liberty, but it fails due to the lack of resolve among the other slaves. Oroonoko's royalty means that he does not suffer the usual hardships of slavery still, he longs for release. The English promise, but never deliver, freedom for Oroonoko and his wife Imoinda. When they arrive in the Caribbean, Oroonoko becomes a paradoxical 'royal slave': the other slaves bow down before him as their king (even though he may have traded some of them into their current slavery) the English, who also recognize his nobility, keep him in an elegant plantation house, guarded and entertained by the novel's narrator. The tale is set primarily in this locale on the northern coast of South America during the 1640s, just before the English surrendered the colony to the Dutch. Prince Oroonoko had befriended the captain when selling slaves to him the prince thought he was a guest on the ship, but the captain saw him as a potential commodity. Oroonoko chronicles the story of the African prince Oroonoko and his beloved wife Imoinda, who are captured by the British and brought to Surinam as slaves. Set in Coramantien on the coast of Africa and in an English colony in Surinam, Oroonoko tells the story of an African prince captured into slavery by an unscrupulous English slave-ship captain. Recent criticism of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko has attempted to untangle its complex web of political and ideological investments, an approach encouraged by the novel's representation of the seventeenth-century English colonial project that in many significant ways has shaped the modern world. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Mouse and the motorcycle seriesRalph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get away from his relatives, who worry about the mice colony being discovered. Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run-down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. Mouse character in the following decade, and a film adaptation of The Mouse and The Motorcycle was produced in 1986. Cleary went on to write two more books featuring the Ralph S. The book was released as a selection of the Weekly Reader Children's Book Club (Intermediate Division) and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1968. The story and characters were inspired both by Cleary's son, who while recovering from a fever played with miniature cars and motorcycles, and by a neighbor who had shown Cleary a small mouse that had been trapped in a bucket. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. 5/12/2023 0 Comments Ypsilon minus by Herbert W. Franke(Adaptive thickenings, which are present at constant locations in everyone from birth, do not obstruct the lumen and represent adaptations to local mechanical forces). As in subsequent lesion types, the changes are more marked in locations of arteries with adaptive intimal thickening. The initial (type I) lesion contains enough atherogenic lipoprotein to elicit an increase in macrophages and formation of scattered macrophage foam cells. In the histological classification, lesions are designated by Roman numerals, which indicate the usual sequence of lesion progression. The Committee on Vascular Lesions also attempted to correlate the appearance of lesions noted in clinical imaging studies with histological lesion types and corresponding clinical syndromes. These, with the earlier definitions of precursor lesions, led to the histological classification of human atherosclerotic lesions found in the second part of this report. This report describes the characteristic components and pathogenic mechanisms of the various advanced atherosclerotic lesions. Customer Service and Ordering InformationĪbstract This report is the continuation of two earlier reports that defined human arterial intima and precursors of advanced atherosclerotic lesions in humans.Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology.Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).Circ: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes.Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB). 5/12/2023 0 Comments Football Sundae by Daryl BannerI was hoping for something fun and entertaining but I received a reminder of how emotionally undeveloped gay men can be. Perhaps one day the world will have truly authentic stories of gay love that is not littered with stereotypes and cheap sexual references. I give the voice actors props for not laughing out loud while reading the text. It was also disappointing of how the “gay” accent slowly crept into the narration. While the world has progressed greatly in the acceptance of GLBTQA issues it seems that the emotional intelligence of the population still needs work. The characters became laughable as the story progressed as well as the language used to describe the main characters interactions. I enjoyed the concept of Football Sundae as a story but found it completely unbelievable as it trapped me in a unrealistic gay man’s fantasy from the Midwest. I typically don’t watch, listen, or pay attention to GLBTQA media or art driven platforms as I find they only represent a small amount of what it means to be human. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Report Card by Andrew ClementsThe plan she hatches to sabotage test scores eventually begins to backfire, and the plot develops steadily around that crisis. She doesn't like the way tests make him feel about himself (dumb) plus, she can do without the stress as teachers prepare students for the state achievement test. What nobody knows because she's kept it a secret is that she is really a genius and has earned those low marks on purpose because of her friend Stephen. Grade 4-7-Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has a problem with grades, and her latest report card, with five D's and one C, proves it. I would have preferred more of a bonding event with Handry at the start of this adventure, because while I enjoyed the story and found the plight of the early colonists engrossing – I didn’t particularly care about any of the characters, throughout, this time around. There is a Prologue that goes on for 9% of the book that doesn’t include the main protagonist, Handry, who I really emotionally identified with in The Expert System’s Brother. REVIEW: I struggled with this one initially, which was something of a disappointment – and not a usual experience with Tchaikovsky’s writing. And for the first time in memory, the Ancients have no wisdom to offer… But there is something new and dangerous in the world, and the beasts of the land are acting against their nature, destroying the towns they once left in peace. I wanted to support her empathy toward birth families, while also gently helping her understand when children have been taken into foster care, the decision to remove a child from their parents would not have been taken lightly. Zoe asked a TON of questions and was horrified to hear some children can’t stay with their birth families. When we were going through the adoption process, we spoke to Zoe a lot about adoption. “Hello! I’m Holly Marlow, parent to both biological and adopted children, and author of various children’s books about foster care and adoption, including ‘ Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn’t Stay With His Birth Mother.’ My husband and I have two amazing children – a 6-year-old biological daughter and a 3-year-old adopted son, who has been part of our family for about 2 years. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links, at no additional cost to you. This site contains affiliate links to products. 5/11/2023 0 Comments The descent book jeff longWith all of Hell's precious resources and territories to be won, a global race ensues. So begins mankind's realization that the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth riddling the continents and seabeds, one inhabited by brutish creatures who resemble the devils and gargoyles of legend. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth.In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old.In Bosnia, Major Elias Branch crash-lands his gunship near a mass grave and is swarmed by pale cannibals terrified of light. In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. 5/11/2023 0 Comments A river of royal blood 2Eva and many secondary characters are brown-skinned while Isa is light brown and some others are lighter skinned.Ī summer trip helps break 18-year-old Meredith Fox out of a haze of mourning. Joy’s writing is exemplary a strong plot, even pacing, and character growth (not only Eva’s) all lead up to an ending that should satisfy even the pickiest readers. Themes of parental disappointment and abuse, sibling bonds, and speciesism are strongly developed and well explored. Chapters alternate between Eva’s first-person perspective and those of Isa and a few other secondary characters (told in the third person). Though she grapples with multiple problems-and further surprises about herself-Eva chooses to focus on the grave injustices her human ancestors have visited on her khimaer people, and she creates a plan of action. New revelations, realizations, and relationships have tempered Eva’s privileged upbringing, shaking her foundations, and her growth is apparent. As Eva continues to struggle with the knowledge that to become queen she must kill Isa-or be killed herself-she also contemplates what it means that both of her parents have lied to her (in very different ways). Picking up where the last book left off, Eva’s on the run from her ruthless queen mother, with her friends, guards, and kidnapped sister and rival heir, Isa, in tow. Princess Eva returns in this follow-up to the duology that started with A River of Royal Blood (2019). |