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![]() ![]() There is a reason for this: King is after something bigger. There is no extended discussion of the “grandfather paradox.” (“What if you killed your grandfather?” “Why on earth would you do that?”) The rules are simple. With that, King dispenses with many of the mechanics of time-travel - and thank God for it. It’s 11:58 a.m., and everything you did on your previous trip has been erased. Two, each time you go back to the past, there is a reset. ![]() ![]() But when you return, no matter how long you’ve stayed in the past - two days, five years, whatever - only two minutes have gone by in the present. And keep walking until you feel your foot fall. Al Templeton, the owner of the diner, explains them to Jake Epping, an English teacher at the local high school. The rules of the rabbit hole into the past are outlined in the first pages of the novel. And John Kennedy, the young senator from Massachusetts, is still alive. The Kennebec Fruit Company isn’t a curio for tourists it sells oranges. “Vertigo” is showing at the outdoor movie theater - on its first run. On the other end is America under Eisenhower. The diner - and the time portal inside it - may last a few more weeks in the footprint of a burned textile mill. An unpopular diner has finally been bought out by L. In his new novel, “11/22/63,” it is a rabbit hole into the past that pops up in Lisbon Falls, a woebegone corner of Maine. ![]() In all of Stephen King’s work there is an admixture of the ordinary and the supernatural - call it the weird quotidian. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Disclosure: Joyce and I have corresponded sporadically over the years, and we got dinner when she was in New York City in 2020.)Ī primary goal of those who adhere to gender-identity ideology is to enact “gender self-identification,” or the idea “that people should count as men or women according to how they feel and what they declare, instead of their biology,” into norm and law. Her bête noire is what she calls gender-identity ideology, which holds that everyone has a “gender identity,” an internal sense of being male or female (or both or neither), that is, in most tellings, innate and immutable, “something like a sexed soul.” When someone’s gender identity conflicts with their body, and/or with how society views their body, that person is transgender. There is a difference between believing in “trans rights” and believing in “gender-identity ideology.” That’s the subtly important distinction that fuels Helen Joyce’s “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” a book that offers an intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight.Īccording to Joyce, a longtime staffer at The Economist, most people “understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full lives, in safety and dignity.” Joyce endorses this idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() TRANS When Ideology Meets Reality By Helen Joyce ![]() ![]() ![]() THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO JERSEY – Gina Rogers (contemporary/hurt-comfort) TELLING JASE – Penny Wilder (contemporary/performance arts) TAKE MY BREATH – Tami Veldura (contemporary/college) TAKE A BREATH – Tam Ames (contemporary/ER) STUCK ON YOU – Anna Birmingham (contemporary/college) STEAMY – Vicktor Alexander (sci-fi/poly m/m/m/m) STAY WITH ME – AJ Jarrett (contemporary/law enforcement) SPY HILL – Dusk Peterson (historical fantasy/alternate universe) SKIN OR SCALE – Jaime Samms (paranormal/fantasy/college) Whether you are an avid M/M romance reader or new to the genre, you are in for a delicious treat. Nearly 150 stories were submitted and published as a ten volume set – as well as an additional special bonus volume with three novel-length stories – titled Love Is Always Write this edition is Volume Nine. The result was an outpouring of creativity that shone a spotlight on the special bond between M/M romance writers and the people who love what they do. The Goodreads M/M Romance Group invited members to choose a photo and pen a letter or story prompt asking for a short M/M romance story inspired by the image authors from the group were encouraged to select a letter or story prompt and write an original tale. ![]() ![]() They are a product of the Love Is Always Write promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and are published as a free gift to you. The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. ![]() ![]() ![]() It strikes me as unrealistic that Melody, with her super intelligence, couldn't communicate better using her low-tech talking board. (I've re-read sections of the book and I think it's Draper's overuse of exclamation points that makes her characters sound inauthentic and corny to me.)ģ. Other things that I think will date this book: MySpace, TiVo, and Nintendo Wii. Now, I still say things are "the bomb," but I'm a lot older than the kids in this book. I've never heard anyone say, "She is tripping," without droppin' the g. an adult's version of what she thinks modern kids sound like). In fact, a lot of dialogue struck me as unrealistic (i.e. Do kids in the year 2010 say "tight" anymore? I think Draper is trying to make Melody sound like an average kid, but to me she sounds like an adult trying to sound like a kid. This line was probably meant to sound poetic but comes off as a failed metaphor to me.Ģ. If a snowflake is melting in your hands, you've touched it. The phrase "untouched in my hands" really bothers me. Many people love love love this book, so I'm going to skip the praise for now (you can read plenty of it elsewhere) and go straight to criticism:ġ. ![]() ![]() Instead of demonstrations that show how the author paints, The Landscape Painter’s Workbook includes 10 skill-building workshop exercises to help you work through essential lessons on your own. ![]() An in-depth review of variation, movement, and active negative space, with illustrations that diagram the action in each example. A full chapter details this special practice, which helps maintain harmony by organizing colors into a limited number of groups. ![]() How does the picture format-horizontal, vertical, or square-affect the composition? What are the pros and cons of each? Explore this special type of compositional study, which identifies the underlying shapes and patterns of a composition. What are the three aspects of color contrast that guide a painting’s strategy? ![]() Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative and beautifully illustrated volume leads you step by step through his approach to the genre, from establishing a composition using basic shapes to applying time-tested color strategies, with all-new lessons, practical exercises, and special topics, including: The Landscape Painter’s Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the third most printed book after Bible and Gone With the Wind. This book is not only one of the most favorite children’s books, but also one of the most popular philosophy books. ![]() Inspired by his experiences in the Sahara, Antoine published a children’s fable for adults called Le Petit Prince or the Little Prince in 1943. On the fourth day in the desert, a Bedouin found them and saved their lives with a native dehydration treatment. They were far away from habitation and only had a few fruits and a day’s supply of liquids.ĭehydrated in the arid Sahara, Antoine began to see mirages and hallucinated vividly. He was stranded in the desert with his navigator. On one of his flights from Paris to Saigon in 1935, Antoine’s plane crashed in Sahara. ![]() He served as a pilot in the French army, flew for commercial airline companies and also in leisure. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French writer, aviator, and a unique philosopher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Octavia Butler: Telling My Stories" is an exhibit currently at the Huntington Library, in the Pasadena suburb of San Marino, Calif. "They don't call it that," she corrected him firmly "somebody probably made that up.") When she died in 2006, she was lauded as a pioneer, an icon and one of America's best writers. ("You have a Genius Grant," Charlie Rose said in a 2000 interview. ![]() Octavia Estelle Butler became one of the world's premier science fiction writers, the first black female science fiction writer to reach national prominence, and the only writer in her genre to receive a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. First: "Geez, I can write a better story than that!" And second: "Somebody got paid for writing that story!" If they could, she decided, then she could, too.Įventually she did exactly that. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her. Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. (c) Patti Perret/The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens A lifelong bibliophile, she considered libraries sacred spaces. ![]() ![]() A leisurely run in the Ocala National Forest turns their R & R into a mission. The campground, Dad T's, is a gay soldier's wet dream for R & R, but the Dogs barely have a chance to enjoy all it offers when everything they about the supernaturals that inhabit the world is turned upside-down. None of them are happy and none of them want or need "rest and relaxation", but they have no choice. What should have been standard operating procedure between the Mad Dogs and the Council turns into a mission like none other they had been sent on before.to save Markus and Brian.Īfter rescuing Markus and Brian from the clutches of the sadistic councilwoman Shanna Crystal, the Mad Dogs are forced on R & R. Finally bonded to the rest of the pack, there is only one last step to make him an official Mad Dog: meet the Council representatives. Routine training for the Mad Dogs turns out to be anything but routine for Brian Hay. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or read it in a comforting voice and lull a little one to sleep. I mean, I bet you can read this in a sinister voice and end up with eerie story perfect for a scary story time. There’s something Lynchian about the imagery (in fact the rabbits remind me of the strange human-sized bunnies in Lynch’s Inland Empire) with the rather dead-eyed toddler rabbit (being carried by mom at first, and then later a father who joins them on their nocturnal stroll) looking in windows at other animals engaging in mundane activities that somehow seem mysterious and otherworldly in Miyakoshi’s hands. Although I find this cozy and comforting overall, I have to admit I find its surreal dream-like quality a bit creepy on another level. Originally published in Japan in 2015, this moody, beautiful import shows an anthropomorphic rabbit family walking home at night. The Way Home in the Night, illustrated and written by Akiko Miyakoshi, published by Kids Can Press, ISBN: 978-1-77138-663-0, to be released April 4, 2017. ![]() |