5/30/2023 0 Comments The buddha in the attic![]() ![]() ![]() A fourth and fifth chapter describe the numerous babies born to the Japanese women and the way these children try to fit into the American culture. A second scene of significance included in the novel is the women’s first night with their husbands.Ī third chapter describes the treatment the Japanese receive from the white people for whom they work. Their first disappointment comes when they arrive in America to learn that the husbands to whom they were promised were not the attractive, financially secure men they advertised themselves to be. They first travel to America by boat as picture wives. The book is composed of eight different significant scenes in the lives of this group of women. They are sent to live in interment camps. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, the American dream turns into a nightmare as the Japanese are forced to leave behind the things for which they have worked so hard. They work hard beside their husbands to make a place for themselves in America. The novel “The Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka follows the lives of a group of young women as they travel by boat to America. The image of a laughing Buddha left behind in an attic symbolizes the experiences of several Japanese women and their families in early twentieth century America. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Incubus dreams![]() ![]() Aquinas further asserted that a demon could use semen lost during a wet dream so a man could be at one and the same time a virgin and a father. Also, aiding in this theory was the idea that demons were able to change their sex at will. Thomas Aquinas insisted that demons were sterile therefore the only way the incubus could impregnate a woman was by receiving the semen from a succubus who had received from a man. In some legends, incubi and succubi were said not to be different genders of the same demonic species but the same demon able to change their sex the idea being that a succubus would be able to sleep with a man and collect his semen, and then transform into an incubus and use that seed on women. Guazzo described the incubus in his "compendium Maleficarum (1608)Īs the incubus can assume either a male of a female shape sometimes he appears as a full-grown man, sometimes as a satyr and if it is a woman who has been received as a witch, he generally assumes the form of a rank goat. ![]() In modern psychological usage, the term has been applied to the type of nightmare that gives one the feeling of a heavy weight or oppression on the chest and stomach. ![]() The word incubo translates into "I lie on top". ![]() The word is derived from the Latin preposition in, which in this case means on top of, and cubo, which is Latin for "I lie". ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Jeff vandermeer trilogy![]() ![]() And, where the historical myth of the Western is now being eaten away by national guilt over the treatment of Native Americans, the zombie story provides us with the undead, a new category of nonhuman humans who can be mowed down without a twinge of conscience. What is a zombie saga like “The Walking Dead,” if not a Western? Its premise replaces the civilization that makes our lives soft and easy with that most tenacious of American dreams: the frontier, where settlers get to reinvent society from the ground up and prove their worth in feats of manly valor. ![]() This is postapocalyptic fiction, a genre that, for all its lamentation over the loss of the world we live in now, often runs on a current of nostalgia for an earlier age. It’s essential that their home, a place they call the Balcony Cliffs, be unidentifiable from above, because their unnamed city is intermittently terrorized by a ravenous giant bear named Mord, and Mord can fly. Her lover and partner, Wick, remains holed up in their booby-trapped, warrenlike refuge, a former apartment building disguised as a midden. ![]() ![]() Rachel, the twenty-eight-year-old narrator of Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel, “Borne,” lives in a harrowed, poisoned, semi-ruined city, where she scavenges scraps of food and tradeable detritus from the wreckage, a dangerous enterprise in a landscape haunted by the similarly desperate. “Borne” brings an acute intimacy to the tropes of genre fiction. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Fables by Arnold Lobel![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. From the author-illustrator behind beloved Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel, comes a collection of humorous, silly fables that will delight readers young and old. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. To his illustrating credit, he had a Caldecott Medal book - Fables (1981) - and two Caldecott Honor Books-his own Frog and Toad are Friends (1971) and Hildilids Night by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972). We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. During his distinguished career Arnold Lobel wrote and/or illustrated over 70 books for children. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Midnight kiss by robyn carr![]() ![]() ![]() But it is a season of miracles, and maybe, just maybe, it’s time to banish the ghosts and open his heart.Midnight ConfessionsIn Virgin River, holiday kisses don’t end with Christmas - there’s still the inaugural New Year’s Eve party at Jack’s Bar to attend. As Marcie pushes her way into his reclusive life, she discovers a sweet soul beneath a rough exterior.Ian doesn’t know what to make of the determined young widow who forces him to look into his painful past and the uncertain future. Since then, Marcie’s letters to Ian have gone unanswered.Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and finds a man as wounded emotionally as Bobby was physically. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him.Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby’s shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series.Ī Virgin River Christmas Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Little men alcott![]() ![]() He, he is just becoming the symbol of the Paralympic movement. My You Little Ripper moment in the past 24 hours happened on the water, not in the water, it's not the Dolphins, happened on the water, and it's Curtis McGrath. Kurt, we're getting down to the pointy end of the Paralympics now, the penultimate day of action, but before we preview what is ahead, let's get reflective. We as always are broadcasting from Wurundjeri Country. Kurt Fearnley: I don't believe you at all, Georgie. ![]() Georgie Tunny: I'm Georgie Tunny, ABC sports reporter and official timekeeper here at You Little Ripper, so if we go over 45, Kurt Fearnley, I'm gonna have to pull the plug. But what sport could he be turning his hand to next? And if you thought a 30 minute podcast was good, we're probably gonna go 45, so strap yourself in kids. I'm Kurt Fearnley, former Paralympian, and on today's show, Dylan Alcott, we spoke with him before what may be his last Paralympic tennis match. ![]() Kurt Fearnley: Hi and welcome to You Little Ripper. ![]() ![]() ![]() The house burns to the ground due to Nick's actions (killing him), but Allida, her son and Hunt end up living happily in the country. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.Ī frenzied gun battle and fist fight in their home, featuring the destruction of several large aquariums, replete with shattered glass, gushing water and floundering fish may be the most memorable (and most often imitated) scene in the film. experiment perilous by margaret carpenter. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their town house, cutting off all contact with the outside world. ![]() Shortly afterwards, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Experiment Perilous: The Bug Jack Barron PapersNorman Spinrad. Screenwriter: Warren Duff (Novel: Margaret Carpenter). Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died while visiting her brother for tea. Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish DispersionJane Margaret Strickland, Balance Sheet. Experiment Perilous is a film directed by Jacques Tourneur with Hedy Lamarr, George Brent. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida, both of whom she effectively raised. ![]() ![]() Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney), when she turns to him for reassurance during a torrential downpour. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Frank comic jim woodring![]() He speaks with a calm assurance, even when delving into the more troubling aspects of his life (such as the alcoholism of his twenties and the unsettling, often terrifying visions that began in childhood and have continued into adulthood), and answers questions about the practical and spiritual aspects of his work with equal regard. A conversation with Jim Woodring contains none of these. There are also the false starts, thoughts begun but never brought to fruition. Interviews are typically peppered with ums and uhs, the fillers and hesitations that characterize extemporaneous speech. ![]() Features “The Mind of a Worldly Man Is Like a Fly”: A Jim Woodring Interview ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The city we became cover![]() ![]() ![]() A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all. New York City? She's got five.īut every city also has a dark side. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. Her most recent story collection received near universal praise. 'Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold'įive New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. Her Broken Earth trilogy swept the Hugo Awards for three consecutive years. ![]() 'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation.Jemisin seems able to do just about everything' 'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Dance of the thieves![]() ![]() Kazi and Jase’s meet-cute is a meet-slam (her knife at his throat), and, of course, while chained together by kidnappers and deceiving each other incessantly, they fall in love. There are ongoing, possibly rogue, threats to their home, city, and trade arena. Tor’s Watch is politically unrecognized by the other kingdoms, and although the Ballengers refuse to demarcate their borders, they’re fiercely territorial. The war criminal may be hiding at Tor’s Watch, where the ancient Ballenger Dynasty is newly led by 19-year-old Jase Ballenger. ![]() One soldier is 17-year-old Kazi, formerly “an invisible street rat” of Venda, who honed her consummate thieving skills after her mother was kidnapped into (probable) sex slavery. Six years after the war described in The Beauty of Darkness (2016), the queen of Venda sends three top soldiers to hunt down a war criminal. An elite soldier and the head of an unacknowledged dynasty fall in love while telling each other lie after lie. ![]() |