![]() ![]() At the school, Werner, and other students are traumatized when the commandant of the school infuses the students with Nazi propaganda. When Werner is fourteen he is accepted into the: “National Political Institute of Education #6 at Schulpforta,” a school that is meant to teach teenagers to become brutal Nazis. Werner is an innocent young child constantly bothering the orphanage directress “with some unanswerable query” proving his innocent curiousness to learn more about the world (Doerr 25). Orphaned, Werner grows up with his little sister, Jutta, near a large mining complex in Germany. ![]() ![]() Werner Pfennig loses his childhood innocence and acquires traumatic life experience when he is brainwashed to become a child soldier at a Nazi training school. One of the cruellest ways children lose their innocence is when corrupt governments brainwash them into becoming child soldiers. ![]()
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![]() I’ll be back soon, with more book reviews and writing insights! What was once fun, has started to become tedious. The funny thing is, I never intended to keep posting every day Monday-Friday, but then I started liking having a post go up everyday. ![]() ![]() I want to post on here, because I genuinely am excited to post about a book I loved, or writing tip, or anything. As of right now, I’m constantly scrambling for something to write about and get posted. I don’t want this space to feel like a chore or obligation. I’ll get some books read, some writing done, and come back – but I’ll probably only upload a few times a week, instead of everyday. I don’t want to say I’m “taking a break” or “going on hiatus” but my uploads will probably be more sporadic. So, I’m not going to upload everyday, take away some of the stress that has been piling up. ![]() Now uploading everyday is starting to feel like a chore, rather than something I actually enjoy doing – which is probably why I’m writing up all my posts after midnight just so that they can go up by 10 AM. I was constantly reading books, and wanting to discuss them.īut things have slowed down….a whole lot. When I first started blogging again, I was really enjoying it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We know of her ‘Ailments’, as she dubs her chronic illness, and of her hatred of given names. The first person narration, used throughout the text, lets the reader in on to the narrator’s thoughts, her witty remarks and astrological musings. Drive Your Plow guides the reader through horrific accidents, with language that is fluid and accessible yet tainted with an unusual manner of speaking, leaving us to wonder, for a short while, if this story is situated in the present, and then, whether the narrator is out of her mind. Tokarczuk’s master storytelling paired with Antonia Lloyd-Jones’ excellent translation pause the happenings of the plot to delve into contemplation of mankind and the universe. The newly translated noir novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Man Booker International Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk is an entertaining one, yet it is not your typical mystery page-turner. Our narrator introduces us to an alarming situation in an almost mechanical tone. ![]() ![]() Clifford became an icon in other media as well, including cartoons, a feature film, a musical, stuffed animals, key chains, posters and stickers. (The New York Times reported Clifford’s name originally was meant to be Tiny thankfully Bridwell’s wife encouraged her husband to name the dog Clifford, after one of her childhood imaginary friends.)īridwell wrote and illustrated more than 40 Clifford books that sold more than 120 million copies worldwide. He created the iconic oversized, floppy-eared, bright red dog in 1963 with a book simply titled “Clifford, the Big Red Dog.” The Associated Press reported Bridwell died Dec. Like me, many know him better as the man behind Clifford the Big Red Dog. I had never bothered to search Google for his face.)īut I knew him well by his words, by his art, by his imagination.Īnd by his name, which was on the cover of many of my favorite books. (To be honest, I didn’t know what he looked like before yesterday. I call him “friend” even though I never met him. ![]() This artwork originally appeared in the book “Clifford Takes a Trip” and has been circulating social media after Clifford creator Norman Bridwell died Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In high school in Virginia, he starred in wrestling and cross country.Īt the University of North Carolina in the early 1960s, he wrestled, studied political science, practiced civil rights organizing, and married Sheila Ison of Kentucky. Young Wellstone’s family life was not easy-his father distant, his only brother schizophrenic. His Ukrainian American mother, Minnie, was a school cafeteria worker. His Ukrainian immigrant father, Leo (original surname Wexelstein), worked as a writer for the government. ![]() Wellstone was born on July 21, 1944, in Washington, D.C. Only Wellstone was all of these and one unique thing more before coming to Minnesota he had always lived in the South. Wellstone died in a plane crash while running for a third term.Īmong successful Minnesota politicians there have been orators ( Hubert Humphrey and Floyd Olson) Easterners (Norm Coleman, Rudy Boschwitz, and George Latimer) professorial types ( Eugene McCarthy and Don Fraser) and Jews (Coleman and Boschwitz). ![]() He inspired a passionate following, in Minnesota and among liberals nationwide. Paul Wellstone once described himself by saying, “I’m short, I’m Jewish, and I’m a liberal.” He was also a Southerner, a college professor, and a rural community organizer who became a two-term U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Disch praised these novels for powerfully evoking the "gasp of wonder was the Asimovian grail." The trilogy, based on stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942-50, not only set the standard for all "future histories" to follow but also helped secure Asimov's status as a genre giant: "for five decades his was the voice to which science fiction came down in the end" (Clute & Nicholls, 58). ![]() Critic and fellow science fiction writer Thomas M. Winner of a special 1966 Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series"-an award even Asimov believed had been created solely to honor Tolkien's Lord of the Rings-this epic saga transposes Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire into a futuristic key. Octavo, original dark blue cloth, red cloth, and light blue boards, original dust jackets.įirst editions, first issues, preceding the first collected edition by over a decade, of "one of the most influential works of modern science fiction" (Chronology of American Literature). 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Season 3 of the series, premiering stateside on PBS this week after airing on Channel 5 in the UK, follows through on that farewell hint. ![]() Hall (Anna Madeley), the beating heart of Skeldale House, looks on with a knowing, concerned stare. ![]() But at the tail end of a heartwarming Christmas special, the final moments signaled something else that lay ahead: a warplane flying overhead as Mrs. With longtime crushes James (Nicholas Ralph) and Helen (Rachel Shenton) newly engaged and a deepening sense of trust between brothers Siegfried (Samuel West) and Tristan (Callum Woodhouse), it seemed like “ All Creatures Great and Small” was settling into a new chapter of evolving happiness for all involved. When last we left Darrowby, there was cause for celebration. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading how Decker journeys from hitting rock bottom to finding ultimate redemption is nothing short of rewarding.”- Associated Press Pick up THE FIX, and you won’t put it down until you reach the end. “Crackling with tension…Reads at a breakneck pace…Bestselling author David Baldacci delivers a thrill ride, as always. “Decker is one of the most unusual detectives any novelist has dreamed up…a master class on the bestseller….Highly entertaining.”- Washington Post “A compelling puzzler…Baldacci is a truly gifted storyteller, and this novel is a perfect “fix” for the thriller aficionado.”- Associated Press on The Fix It’s a theme he has explored before, but it still has potency and relevance.”- Associated Press on The Fallen ![]() He demonstrates why these small towns are worth saving. ![]() “Baldacci is a wonderful storyteller, and he incorporates wonderful characters into baffling conspiracies….He takes on small-town America, capturing both good and bad elements. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012, she, her husband, and three boys moved from New York City to Los Angeles, where Yalof Schwartz continued to freelance, traveling between coasts, seeking, unsuccessfully, a sense of equilibrium. Not long ago, she was in the center of her own storm-juggling a demanding career at a glossy women’s magazine with family, life, and the hectic everyday. “I want to take meditation from the esoteric to the accessible.” Indeed, Unplug, which opened in 2014, is a welcoming place where anyone can drop in, sit down, take a deep breath, and-just maybe-find not only one’s self but life balance. “I want everyone to meditate,” says Yalof Schwartz, CEO and founder of Unplug Meditation studio in West Los Angeles. She just wants to make the one you have better. Suze Yalof Schwartz doesn’t want to change your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like “Hush, Hush” you might be interested in Twilight because both books feature doomed paranormal high school romances. Having published over seventy titles, Meyer is extremely prolific but the Twilight Saga is her most well-known collection of works and the series was adapted into a multiple-film motion picture series starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. “Twilight” is the first book in the Twilight Saga by New York Times Bestselling author, Stephenie Meyer. Little does Elise know that her new husband has a curse, one that the Viking princess has a choice to break at a very high cost. Her suitor is Legion Grey, and while Elise wants to hate him her attraction to him is also undeniable. Princess Elise is forced into an arranged marriage by her uncle, the fae king. “Curse of Shadow and Thorns” can be considered a retelling of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast. ![]() “Curse of Shadow and Thorns” is the first book in the Broken Kingdoms series which consists of a total of seven books. Andrews, is a five-series author with a legacy of combining steamy young adult romance with dramatic fantasy-world plots. ![]() |