![]() ![]() Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. ![]() Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. In "On Beauty and Being Just" Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues that it is the handmaiden of privilege and that it masks political interests. ![]()
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![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Scary, sickening (in that good way), and touching, this is a novel that will delight both the author's legion of fans and those who finally decide it's time to find out what this guy Koontz is all about.' Booklist (starred review) His new novel finds him still at the top of his game. 'Readers who were wondering how Koontz could possibly follow up his remarkable Jane Hawk series can breathe a sigh of relief. And he's coming after Woody and his mother. A malicious man driven by evil has set a depraved plan into motion. ![]() Woody's fearful suspicions are taking shape. But Woody believes a monstrous evil is behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. Not when his mother Megan tells him she loves him.įor Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. ![]() Not when his father died in a freak accident. ![]() ![]() Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. The chilling, unputdownable new novel from Dean Koontz, the master of suspense.Ī mother, a boy, and a desperate battle against the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the novel's fragmented structure, readers will warm to its endearing characters. While Jack courts Olivia, and Ian and Cecilia try to repair their marriage, Olivia's daughter is forced to decide whether she should marry a man whom she doesn't love Olivia's best friend grows frantic over the disappearance of her husband and Olivia's mother befriends a stroke patient who harbors a secret he would share if he could speak. Olivia's decision makes headlines in The Cedar Cove ChronicleĪnd earns her the admiration of the paper's editor, Jack Griffin, a newcomer to the small Washington town. Sensing that Cecilia and Ian are still in love, Olivia lets her heart guide her decision, and denies their petition. ![]() ![]() Before the young couple was married the year before, Cecilia and Ian signed a prenuptial agreement stating their marriage would last a lifetime, but now, after the tragic death of their infant daughter, the two wish to rescind the agreement. As a family court judge, Olivia Lockhart has dealt with numerous divorce suits but none as peculiar as Cecilia and Ian Randall's. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the expansion of empire and wealth. There’s a delight in taking down powerful people who believed themselves invulnerable to consequences. Set 60 years ago, the novel nonetheless has a number of parallels to our time. In one or two sentences at the end of a chapter, Whitehead can change the book’s whole trajectory. The novel gains force through accumulation and acceleration – brake and gas, gas and brake, until we are far from where we started. The three acts could make satisfying novellas on their own, but they’re better together. What’s our responsibility to the greater social good? The three parts present our options: descent, personal advancement, social progress. “The mistake was to believe he’d become someone else.” Act 3 considers whether a man should step up to help others. We could call this the illusion of advancement we all get suckered into it. Act 2 considers Carney’s upward criminal climb. Act 1 shows how easily a man can step downward into crime. The novel is structured in three instalments, covering a period from 1959 to 1964, each climactically peaking with criminal activity. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sips – never slobbers! He yips – never yaps! And he walks with grace – never races! Gaston fits right in with his poodle sisters. Gaston works the hardest at his lessons on how to be a proper pooch. This is the story of four puppies: Fi-Fi, Foo-Foo, Ooh-La-La, and Gaston. (Inversion does not equal subversion.) PARATEXT Gaston inverts that outcome after discovering the switch, Gaston stays with the family he has already bonded with. In The Ugly Duckling, the beautiful swan finds its ‘rightful’ place among the other swans. ![]() Gaston is a spin on The Ugly Duckling and all those descendent stories for children about a young character accidentally switched at birth into the wrong family. ![]() SETTING OF GASTONįrance, mostly inside a house, also at a park. The plots are not at all similar, but they share the same ideological problems, intending to say one thing, inadvertently saying another. I liken Gaston to another popular contemporary picture book: Drew Daywalt’s The Day The Crayons Quit. ![]() Gaston is a picture book written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated in beautiful naive style by Christian Robinson. ![]() ![]() Smith's irresistible novel explores what happens when life and love lead in different directions. ![]() The question is, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye forever?įull of wisdom, heart, and hope, Jennifer E. In twelve hours, they'll be heading to opposite ends of the country, and they're anxious to resolve things before they go.īut the quiet night they had planned quickly turns into an unexpected adventure, a roller-coaster ride through their past that leads to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations.Īnd as the clock winds down and morning approaches, so does their inevitable goodbye. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love Starring: Talia Ryder,Jordan Fisher,Ayo Edebiri Watch all you want. ![]() On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between 2022 Maturity rating: 7+ 1h 24m Romance Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college no regrets, no broken hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Visitors can scroll through pages from the artist’s sketchbooks on an iPad and view a video about Hatke. ![]() The Wilson Museum exhibition showcases Hatke’s working method, in which picture books and graphic novels begin as sketches with loosely conceptualized characters and locations. “Hatke’s got an impressive gift for capturing the forlorn with little to no words.” “It’s impossible not to instantly empathize with the little, green-eyed goblin who is just minding his own business before his life is upended,” wrote April Spisak in her review of Nobody Likes a Goblin for the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Wilson Museum is highlighting the work of a bestselling author/illustrator/graphic novelist in a new exhibition.īen Hatke: Nobody Likes a Goblin, on display through September 15, features 40 original watercolors from the children’s book and invites viewers of all ages to walk through the story with “Goblin,” from his happy life in the dungeon shared with rats and his best friend Skeleton, to his journey out into the world after adventurers kidnap Skeleton and steal everything they own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?Īmbitiously plotted and laced with dark humor, Rush of Blood is a first-rate suspense novel about the danger of making new friends in seemingly sunny places. Then, a second girl goes missing, in Kent-not far from where any of the couples lives. Buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some unusual kinks and unpleasant vices. But they don't always like what they find. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. ![]() But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. In the standalone novel Rush of Blood, internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham puts a sinister twist on a deceptively innocent topic: the beach vacation. ![]() ![]() Her safety is his duty, yet his heart is not pure. In that dark hour, when the church stripped him of his spouse and his possessions, the princess secretly came to his aid with two emeralds. Ruck has remained chaste for thirteen miserable years, since his wife entered a nunnery, continuing to honor their marital vows. As they flee her enemies, Melanthe’s impossible love for the Green Knight grows. He once desired her, but now his gaze reveals distrust. Protecting her is Ruck d’Angleterre, a chivalrous knight who never wavers-and the only man Melanthe wishes could lift the veil of her disguise. ![]() ![]() Determined to return to England alive and unwed, she hides behind a mask of witchery. With Princess Melanthe di Monteverde widowed, a political marriage would tip the balance of power to any kingdom that possessed her. A princess sparks devotion in a chivalrous knight in this medieval romance by a New York Times–bestselling author who “creates magic” (Lisa Kleypas). ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of those books that I can’t say that I liked or enjoyed because the subject is not one that I consider enjoyable. “Horrified” is the best word that comes to my mind when I try to describe how I felt as I read this. The topics of rape, incest, physical and verbal abuse, illiteracy, and poverty are all brought to the forefront to show the readers exactly what Precious (and the countless people in real life who live like Precious) go through and how tough it is to come out of circumstances like that. ![]() In graphic detail the reader learns about the horrors of Precious’ life. ![]() Remembering how much the movie made me cringe with disgust I braced myself and decided to dive into this book. ![]() I saw the movie Precious, which was based on this book, when it first came out several years ago, but I finally had the opportunity to read the novel when I stumbled across it in my local library. This was a tough read, for more reasons than the subject matter. Push– a word that is used several times in this book and is the term used to encourage the main character, Precious, to continue her efforts in making a better life for herself. In the meantime here’s my review of the book Push by Sapphire. I surprised myself with a trip to the library and picked up a few books and got distracted from the books I started reading a while back. Work, work, work as usual, but I have been reading. ![]() |