Richard II by William Shakespeare5/30/2023 It is as though Shakespeare were allowing the man himself, stripped of political power, a chance to achieve a human power which surpasses suffering and becomes self-knowledge. Richard's last speeches are among the most beautiful in the play. Although he keeps reminding those present of his God-given mandate to rule, he seems also to take pleasure in passing on the trials of kingship to his successor. Although occasionally he seems to demonstrate self-pity (Bolingbroke accuses him of this), he also reveals himself to have an acute awareness of the ironies and absurdities in the structure of power in his kingdom. It is only during his deposition and his imprisonment that Richard shows his greatest strength as a dramatic figure. His decisions as a monarch seem irrational and arbitrary he won't listen to the sane advice of old Gaunt, and he insensitively seizes wealth belonging to his noblemen. Shakespeare demonstrates that Richard is perhaps temperamentally not fit for the role which history would have him play. The private tragedy of the play, for Richard, is in his being forced to face this duality. Mowat and Paul Werstine Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 9.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. As a king, Richard is supposedly divine and all powerful as a man, he is an ordinary mortal and prey to his own weaknesses. Richard II Part of Folger Shakespeare Library By William Shakespeare Edited by Dr.
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Remember mia by alexandra burt5/30/2023 Unfortunately, "Little Girl Gone" took a drastic nose-dive after throwing in all these. Independent says that this suspense that constantly builds up should readers hooked but not so far as the last page of the book. She just couldn't remember that she actually does. David, a guy who lives close enough to Estelle's house that he can snoop and criticize her maternal approach from the comfort of his home also has all the means to abduct Mia.Īnd then there's Estelle, who tends to succumb and become weary to the gravities of nurturing her child, may be the one who knows where her baby is. Estelle's husband Jack, whose shadow in the house is rarely cast, could have given in to his known aggression and thirst to control. There are three people that could end up as the culprit of the terrible crime. Flipping through the leaves of "Little Gone Girl," readers will slowly turn into deduction-churning machines. Publisher Harper Collins cites OPRAH, Huffington Post and Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner among those who wanted to pull an all-nighter just to learn the identity of baby Mia's captor and Estelle's reason of shunning the help the police could offer. As her struggle to recall these memories that are key to finding her baby begins, readers will start to find it difficult to put the book down. She, however, clearly remembers that precious little Mia is nowhere to be found. Days following her realization that her child's crib is empty, Estelle meets an accident that cost her one of her ears and most of her memories that led up to the mishap. Now then after books5/30/2023 Our contributions to this great nation cannot be confined to one short month, and your allyship cannot be proven with a few social media posts. Spoiler alert: the 28 days in Black History Month are not enough time to acknowledge this scholarship. Black people have been yelling and writing about the many paths to true equity since before this country was formally founded. But these books contain so many of the answers. The answer I often receive is silence and an averted gaze. But the question I consistently pose to those who claim to support Black people is, “When is the last time you read a book written by a Black person of your own volition?” How do we stop the runaway train that is white supremacy? There’s no one answer-a complex problem needs many solutions. The violent cycle goes: trauma -> invisibilization -> normalization -> repeat. The last few weeks, and really, the last few centuries, have been exhausting for Black Americans. She drives me crazy book review5/30/2023 Scottie is determined to get revenge, and she soon gets the chance during her senior year-in the form of persuading popular cheer captain and homecoming queen Irene Abraham, who is Indian American, to pretend to be her girlfriend. So it hurts all the more when the manipulative, blue-eyed Tally Gibson, “the first and only person ever loved,” dumps her, transfers to Candlehawk Preparatory to play basketball, and returns to beat Scottie’s team. And two, her town, low-key Grandma Earl, Ga., is the object of mockery for richer, hipper neighbor Candlehawk. Certain things are clear in redheaded white high schooler Scottie Zajac’s world: one, the varsity girls’ basketball team, for which she plays shooting guard, doesn’t matter, since they have no real coach, no budget, and no cheerleaders. The trophy husband by lynne graham5/30/2023 Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. " -from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. "The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. Albert camus the myth of sisyphus5/30/2023 He, who knew of the abduction, offered to tell about it on condition that Esopus would give water to the citadel of Corinth. The father was shocked by that disappearance and complained to Sisyphus. Egina, the daughter of Esopus, was carried off by Jupiter. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of According to another tradition, however, he was disposed to If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. Albert Camus: THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS The Myth Of Sisyphus Akwaeke emezi pet5/30/2023 Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times - Time - Buzzfeed - NPR - New York Public Library - Publishers Weekly - School Library JournalĪ genre-defying novel from the award-winning author NPR describes as "like L'Engle.glorious." A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. Description NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME Rosamund hodge5/29/2023 The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.Īs Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. Goodreads Synopsis: Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy/Romance, Fairy-Tale Retellingįormat: Hardcover, checked out from my local library Obstacle on the way5/29/2023 What matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful."
This is not my area of expertise, but there's a great article on the topic by Houston Baker called "Freedom and Apocalypse: A Thematic Approach to Black Expression." Baker says that denied access to their own ancestral mythology, African-Americans had to make use of Christianity's, but that wasn't exactly readily available either: "The black folk on small farms, on large plantations, and in the cities of America, having effectively been isolated from West African culture, were denied meaningful participation in white culture by proscriptive and dehumanizing laws. This is true of African-American apocalypses as well. but everyone in the book seems to think they will. There's a weird sort of utopian optimism that underlies the postapocalyptic story, even, say The Walking Dead, where things go round and round and never get resolved. So many postapocalyptic stories seem bleak, but in the long run cop out on that, probably because of what Claire Curtis says, that "hey provide both the voyeuristic satisfaction of terrible violence and the Robinson Crusoe excitement of starting over again" (6). As a piece of postapocalyptic literature, it's even bleaker than most. Way back in summer 2016, when I taught my class on apocalyptic and postapocalyptic literature, one of the novels I elected to teach was Octavia Butler's Dawn. |