![]() ![]() Though most strongly associated with this group, Guy Fawkes masks often pop up in protests and controversial statements against what a group or individual perceives as an overbearing entity. ![]() Their actions generally (though not always) are also taken against forces whom they view as oppressive, making Anonymous a group represented by a symbol rather than a person, much like V. It allows for Anonymous to be associated with the group rather than with an individual person. The most famous among these is Anonymous, a computer hacker group.Īnonymous uses the symbol much as V does in the original text. In addition to the movie adaptation using lighting to achieve similar effects on the mask worn in the feature, some groups have famously taken up the mask as their own symbol, even as many misread and misrepresent the texts. The infamous Guy Fawkes mask of V for Vendetta was one of the most important features of the comic, with David Lloyd's mask, famously altered slightly to reflect what was needed for each scene. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Linda Ashman has written a huge number of books. Below are my favorites… Picture Books by Linda Ashman Begging to be Read Aloud They seem to believe in the good of people and the ability of people to change their minds. Linda Ashman’s books are warm and lively and funny. Learn more about Linda Ashman on her site: From there I discovered that stack of books I mentioned. ![]() That is maybe more than you wanted to know….but that is how I discovered Linda Ashman. This wisdom includes her submission of RAIN! which is a fascinating example of using the controversial illustrator note. On Linda Ashman’s website she generously shares her wisdom with want-to-be-writers like me. Together they tell a story that the words on their own could not. I also love books where the illustrations feel as important as the words. That’s definitely a style that I’m drawn to. What impressed me most was how much story was told with so few words. ![]() It tells the story of a sweet little boy and a grumpy old man and a rainstorm. My love of Linda Ashman started with RAIN! Have you read this one? It’s illustrated by Christian Robinson so I mentioned it in his February Author Study Post as well. Photo from Abby The Librarian Meet Linda Ashman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a middle-aged, debt-ridden father who pleads with God to give him what others have. There is no way out for many of these characters. They are pitiful because they are poor, sick, self-absorbed and mired in hopelessness. ![]() Even the manner in they write and speak and punctuate (!) is pitiful. In his collection of short stories, Tenth of December, George Saunders’s characters would all be worthy of Jake’s deadpan irony. Jake answers: Robert Cohn-the name of another character who is pitiful in his self-absorption, self-delusion and failure. Finally, toward the end of the exchange, Bill Gorton asks Jake to say something pitiful. Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction, and Bill Gorton is razzing him: “Give me irony and pity, irony and pity.” If you want to be a writer, you must be able to generate irony and pity abundantly and with alacrity. In the midst of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, a successful novelist, Bill Gorton, demands that his friend, Jake Barnes-the novel’s narrator-give him “irony and pity” one morning in a friendly repartee. Here, again, are some reflections and questions to guide our discussion: ![]() Thanks, too, to George Saunders, who graciously answered our questions about his book and about the art of fiction. Thanks to those who have already posted questions on the Catholic Book Club page. Today the Catholic Book Club begins its discussion of Tenth of December by George Saunders. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS ![]() Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining. 'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS While Oliver may be a reckless and uncivil rogue, Annis can't help but be drawn towards his wild ways. ' generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of BridgertonĪnnis Wychwood delights in her independence.īeautiful, rich and far too busy for love, she has turned down the advances of many a hopeful suitor.īut when she becomes entangled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she encounters the girl's guardian, the notorious Oliver Carleton. the permanent glister of scandal ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT 'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers. 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! ![]() ![]() Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? He did not resort to the stereotype caricatures that an inferior reader might have attempted in order to play to the gallery. In addition to Henry's narrative voice, I liked the way Slattery realised the Italian characters. Which character – as performed by John Slattery – was your favourite? ![]() The narrator, Frederic Henry, dominates the novel. I read the text alongside the audio and I thought Slattery's reading brought out tones and inflections I might have missed on the page. He negotiates the accents (American, Italian, English, Scottish, Swiss) convincingly. He gets the balance between the hard-bitten laconic tone of the narrative, from the terse war reflections to the suppressed pain at the end. ![]() John Slattery does a fine job narrating Hemingway's classic novel. Would you consider the audio edition of A Farewell to Arms to be better than the print version? ![]() ![]() ![]() The next year, my agent sold my trilogy to Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. In November 2008, when I was 22, my first attempt at NaNoWriMo resulted in my first novel ANGELFIRE. My voracious reading habits started with Goosebumps books, Nancy Drew mysteries, and world history books. If I weren’t an author, I would be a paleontologist or archaeologist, because I love the old things about this world, but instead about heroines who have way more exciting lives than my own. ![]() This struggle sparked an obsession with Ancient Mediterranean civilizations in search of where I came from. My childhood and teen years were well-spent at horse shows and I grew up on a Northern Michigan lake. I struggled with my identity throughout my entire childhood, feeling like I didn’t belong anywhere. ![]() I identify as Mediterranean as my father’s family is Southern French and my mother’s side is a lush blench of Sicilian, North African Algerian-Amazigh, Syrian-Lebanese, and Greek. My cherished ethnicity has blessed me with unique features and a beloved history. I was born in Austin, Texas on August 18, 1986. Her debut novel ANGELFIRE was published when she was just 24 years old. Courtney Moulton was born in Texas and grew up in Michigan, where she spent a lifetime studying ancient civilizations and writing about magic and monsters. ![]() ![]() This dream fills Ozias with foreboding, its three scenes becoming fulfilled in the course of the novel. On the boat, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters. But Ozias is constantly haunted by feeling that he might harm Allan, first after he reads the letter left for him, and then again after they spend the night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man-the ship turning out to be the same on which the old murder took place (the murderer locked his victim in a cabin as the boat filled with water). He becomes a companion to the other Allan Armadale, who throughout the novel never discovers the relationship. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter. The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them.The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. ![]() Thomas by Collins, Wilkie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. ![]() Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. Armadale With Twenty Illustrations By George H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Khomeini's death and the deficiencies of his successor, the intolerance and corruption that has made the regime increasingly authoritarian and cynical, frustration at Iran's economic isolation and the revolution's failure to deliver the just realm it promised has transformed the spirit of the country. They are contending for the soul of a revolutionary Islamic government that terrified the Western establishment and took them to leadership of the Islamic world.īut times have changed. ![]() Years after his death, the shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini still looms over Shi'ite Islam and Iranian politics, the state of the nation fought over by conservatives and radicals. A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.įew historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just about anywhere we look, we see flags, and as Smith explains, they're more than just pieces of cloth they're expressions of human history and culture. In the present, we may find any number of banners displayed around our own neighborhoods: flags hung from porches to announce the arrival of a season or offer a gesture of welcome have become commonplace sights. From as far back as 5,500 years, predynastic Egyptian pottery features images of what Smith calls "vexilloids" (objects functioning as flags) in this case, carved elephants held aloft on poles. Smith is also a conduit into the intriguing lore and cultural complexities underlying flags, from the banners we see today to the standards of the distant past. (Smith coined the term himself, deriving his new word from the Latin word for flag, vexillum.) ![]() Writer Richard Wolkomir travels to Smith's headquarters, just outside Boston, where Smith maintains a collection of thousands of books, pamphlets, documents and some 2,000 flags the world's richest trove of materials on vexillology. Although he was trained as a political scientist, Smith forsook academia in 1970 to devote himself to his Flag Research Center, in Winchester, Massachusetts. What he did know was that he had stuck his hand into a bush and a large spider had run up his arm. ![]() At age five, George Uetz did not know he was arachnophobic. Since his childhood, Whitney Smith has been smitten with flags and the stories they tell. The more they watch spiders in action, the more scientists learn about the abilities of natures master weavers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He stays with an eel fisher's family but, while there is an abundance of food, he suffers from homesickness. The city suffers from food shortages, with more food available in the country. In the 1980s, a middle-aged Jeroen ( Jeroen Krabbé) reminisces about 1944, when his 11-year old self (Smit) and other children were sent by their parents to the countryside to escape the effects of World War II. It deals with the romantic/sexual relationship between an 11-year-old boy (Van Dantzig, portrayed by Maartin Smit) and a Canadian soldier ( Andrew Kelley) during the final months leading up to the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation during World War II. For a Lost Soldier ( Dutch: Voor een Verloren Soldaat) is a 1992 Dutch coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Roeland Kerbosch, based on the autobiographical novel of the same title by ballet dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. ![]() |