![]() ![]() The Wastelands were vast and magnificent. Spring was having to claw its way free of winter’s greedy clutches so that Temsevar could bask in an all too brief season of warmth and growth. ![]() The air still carried a biting chill, even in the heat of the day and the distant peaks kept their mantle of snow and ice, tinged with crimson by the light of the huge red sun. The long cold winter was over, but in the barren Wastelands, spring was always slow to come. It was late afternoon and his breath misted slightly in the air. He spat in the dirt and narrowed his eyes as he looked past the file of wagons, ponies and people. This man had been alone, half-mad and no threat to the caravan, but others might even now be following the same path that they had taken from the road and for the same reason they had taken it: others who were scouts for brigands, bandits or bigger caravans than his own. The Fated Sky is free to download until 9 FebruaryĬaer sat on his pony looking at the dead body on the ground and wondering if he should send more scouts back towards the road, almost a day’s trek behind the caravan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While the story presents a number of unique ideas and themes, it also contains reoccurring themes from Asimov’s other works. Isaac Asimov’s ‘ I, Robot‘ is an iconic piece of science fiction literature and the source of inspiration for a lot of modern media, such as films and video games. At its core, ‘ I, Robot‘ serves as a reminder of the power of technology and its potential impact on humanity. He examines both the advantages and disadvantages of such a partnership and poses questions about the implications of technology on society. Through these stories, Asimov explores the idea of robots as potential partners in humanity’s future. The stories revolve around the three laws of robotics, which were created by Asimov in this book and which now form the basis for robotics and artificial intelligence in most science fiction. Isaac Asimov’s ‘ I, Robot‘ is a collection of nine short stories that explore the possibilities of robot-human interaction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film’s story is driven by long stretches of emotionally charged dialogue and slow, contemplative scenes in relative silence. After Elf’s most recent suicide attempt, her family rallies around her in a last-ditch attempt to motivate her to continue living. ![]() The rest of the family is made up of a steadfast mother, Lottie a clever, no-nonsense aunt Tina and Yoli’s teenage daughter Nora, who is predictably sardonic yet surprisingly wise. Like her father, who died by suicide, Elf struggles with suicidal ideation. Content warning: The plot of All My Puny Sorrows contains discussions of suicide.Īll My Puny Sorrows - a daunting adaptation of Miriam Toews’ 2014 award-winning novel with the same name, directed by Toronto International Film Festival regular Michael McGowan - premiered at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre on September 11.Īt first glance, the film is a cleaner, more surgical adaptation of the free-flowing verse and slow desperation of the original novel for the big screen.įor just over 100 minutes, audiences are immersed in the lives of the Von Riesen family, made up of sisters Yoli, a struggling writer going through a difficult divorce, and Elf, an acclaimed concert pianist who suffers from severe depression. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:amberbrownisnotc0000danz:epub:4ba38351-eb1e-4bd7-b902-5691beef1bcf Foldoutcount 0 Identifier amberbrownisnotc0000danz Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9969r794 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0399225099 Lccn 92034678 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19169 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:01:33 Associated-names Ross, Tony, ill Boxid IA40064115 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a powerful look at what happens to people who go to war and return to the surreality of real life, public buses, timecards, pubs and families who cannot understand the adrenaline rush of danger. This isn’t a classic “Band of Brothers” tale of blood, bravery and comradeship under fire. As he puts it, years into an occupation that was supposed to last only months, “There’s no right in this country, there’s just wrong and wronger.” ![]() Even the most cynical is hopelessly naïve. ![]() And in that time soldiers, contractors, engineers, doctors and government officials and billions of dollars in vacuum-sealed packs are pinned down by an insurgency their leaders failed to anticipate.Īll three hope to do some good. Mostly the film follows three British soldiers who fought together in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and then, for three entirely different reasons, keep returning there over the course of several years. Nor, despite its title, is it exactly a tale of foreign occupation, though “Occupation” does take a long, disturbing look at the chaos, corruption and mayhem that choked the American-led reconstruction effort. “Occupation,” a British look at the Iraq war on BBC America on Sunday, is one of the best television depictions yet of that conflict, and it isn’t even a straightforward war story. War movies focus on friendship because it’s the one steadfast reward of combat and perhaps the only consolation. ![]() ![]() In his late 70s, before he died at 78, he slept naked with his grandniece when she was in her late teens. But he was also obsessed with his own celibacy. Afterward, Martin Luther King told All India Radio that he'd decided to adopt Gandhi's method of civil disobedience as his own. ![]() So curators hauled in two cots, and the American civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King, spent the night next to Gandhi's vacant mattress. I am going to stay here, because I am getting vibrations of Gandhi,' " recalls curator Usha Thakkar. But he said, 'I am not going anywhere else. In an austere top-floor room where Gandhi's mattress and shoes still lay, King said he could feel "vibrations" of the Mahatma, or great soul. The house, called Mani Bhavan, where the Indian leader taught followers to spin their own fabric and where he launched satyagraha - his movement for truth and nonviolent resistance - had been converted into a museum. ![]() It was 1959, 11 years after Gandhi's death. visited the villa in Mumbai, India, where Mohandas Gandhi stayed in the 1920s, he had a special request: He wanted to spend the night in Gandhi's bedroom. Indian spiritual and political leader Mohandas Gandhi circa 1935. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on the latest research in history, virology, epidemiology, psychology, and economics, Laura Spinney narrates a catastrophe that changed humanity for decades to come. ![]() Through the point of view of those who lived through it, she shows how the flu was shaped by the interaction of the virus with the humans it encountered and how this devastating natural experiment put both the vulnerability and the ingenuity of mankind to the test. Nevertheless, it exists in our memory as a mere footnote to World War IIn Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of this overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. With a death toll between fifty and one hundred million people across the globe, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides the "Angels & Demons" and " Illuminati" designs, the title of the book is also presented as an ambigram on the hardcover book jacket, and on the inside cover of the paperback versions. The book contains several ambigrams created by real-life typographer John Langdon. A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009. Ancient history, architecture, and symbology are also heavily referenced throughout the book. Angels & Demons shares many stylistic literary elements with its sequels, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who recurs as the protagonist of Brown's subsequent novels. ![]() Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery- thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She begins to hate school and pretends she has a sore throat or a stomach ache so she can stay at home. Trish hopes she can make a fresh start but things get worse and she is bullied and called names like dumbo. On her grandparents farm in Michigan she feels safe and loved but the refuge doesn’t last, when her grandparents die, her family move to a new city. She is very good at drawing but everything else is a challenge for her and she starts to believe she is dumb. She battles to make columns of numbers in maths. The letters seem to wriggle and refuse to form words she can read. ![]() It gets worse – by the time she is in Grade 3 she is pretending to read, and feeling desperate that she can’t. When she gets to grade 1 she is puzzled that the other children move on to other readers while she stays stuck on the beginning reader. Trisha’s wonderful grandfather takes a book and pours honey over it, telling her that knowledge is sweet, but to get to the sweetness, she has to read through the book. In this story a little girl grows up with huge excitement about learning to read. ![]() ![]() Snug Harbor, in which the adventures of Wallace McLellan are set, draws much of its inspiration from Jamestown, and it’s honestly a delight to return to this piece of cosy small town America in the latest Wallace the Brave collection, Are We Lost Yet? ![]() If you’ve forgotten what that’s like, and honestly, it’s a hard thing to do hang onto (though not possible), then one way to get it back, at least for the time it takes to read 171 pages of comic strips is to dive into a Wallace the Brave collection, a love letter to the surreal innocence and fun of childhood by Will Henry (the pen name of William Henry Wilson, whose own growing up took place in the town of Jamestown, Rhode Island. One of them is that sense of carefree abandonment that comes with a loving childhood and secure family home – no matter how awful the world around us might be, and for this reviewer there were bullies everywhere 24/7 from kindergarten through to the final year of high school, you can take refuge in the endless possibilities and wonder of being a kid. There’s a lot of things we gain on our headlong rush to adulthood – increased self-choice, that special someone (hopefully), personal and career fulfillment all of them mostly good and wonderful things – but there are some very precious things we lose. ![]() |