![]() ![]() ![]() Their emotions are all properly fleshed out. ![]() The Green Mile is one of Stephen King’s best works. Such a simple sentence but with so much pain and emotion. These were the last words that John Coffey, a huge black man who was sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit, had said before he was executed. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about John Coffey-a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs… Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities over the years working the Mile, but he’s never seen anything like John Coffey-a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk “the Green Mile,” the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain’s electric chair. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks! ![]()
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It seemed obvious to me that friendships made at boarding school would be the most intense, magical, meaningful, and, most important, solid friendships of my lifetime. Over the course of my childhood, I read hundreds of pages on the boarding school experience-and they hadn’t even all been Harry Potter, though the friendship that Harry, Ron, and Hermione cemented during their first year studying the magical arts at Hogwarts wasn’t too far off from what I was expecting from my own boarding school life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pam Conrad's Stonewords (HarperCollins, 1990), Eleanor Cameron's The Court of the Stone Children (Dutton, 1973), Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock (Greenwillow, 1984), and Ursula K. ![]() Is she caricature or character? How and why does she influence the other characters? Also, a love interest between Miranda and the boy across the street occurs with implausible ease. ![]() Readers are never sure whether she is an archetypal figure of pure evil or a strong-willed woman declaring her independence from a narrow, repressive husband. Although the book raises profound philosophic questions and deals with strong passions, its style, characterization, and emotional trajectory do not match its potential. In a page-turning climax, Miranda realizes that only she can save her mother from madness by rescuing Dorothy and changing the past. Her malignant influence soon begins to work on Miranda's mother. In 1904, Lucinda locked her young daughter, Dorothy, in the attic and left her stuffy husband to run away with a lover, and then was killed in a train wreck. She discovers that her new home is haunted by beautiful, angry, abusive Lucinda. Grade 5-9- Moving from New York City to an old house near Boston, Miranda, 14, becomes obsessed with what she sees through the windows of a dollhouse she finds in the attic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Godot’s debut in the United States took place at San Quentin penitentiary in 1957. In fact, it is said to have nearly caused riots across Western Europe (Esslin 2). At its premier, the play shocked its audience as it presented a new type of theatre which used very unconventional methods. ![]() It was written by Samuel Beckett and performed for the first time in Paris on January 5th, 1953. Waiting for Godot is the most well-known play from the Theatre of the Absurd movement. More specifically, it asserts that this tragicomic quality appears most often in the moments where the characters feel as if they lack control over death, time, Godot (standing in for the unrealized), and the self. How can something be both tragic and humorous at the same time? This paper analyzes specific themes throughout the play in an attempt to demonstrate just how accurate Beckett’s description is. At first, this definition seems somewhat impossible. When he did this, he included the subtitle, “A tragicomedy.” This portmanteau suggests that the play blends elements of tragedy and comedy together. “Nothing to be done.”–Estragon “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”–Pozzo “At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on.”–Vladimir “I can’t go on like this.”–Estragon “That’s what you think.”–Vladimirīeckett translated the text of Waiting for Godot from French to English himself. Still from the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s 2009 production of Waiting for Godot ![]() ![]() ![]() Who would have ever thought that working at the Sunshine Angel daycare center would offer such interstellar prestige? She doesn't know what the hell's going on, but a new life awaits on Barath Colony, where she can have any alien bachelor she wants. She should have added a rider about the husband being human. Beryl Bowman's mother always said she'd never get married. ![]() This 'human being' is not the Tiralan match he was looking for. Desperation drives him to try a matching service but due to a freak solar flare and a severely malfunctioning ship AI, things go way off course. ![]() If he fails to find a nest guardian this time, he'll lose his chance to have a mate for all time. Zylar of Kith B'alak is a four-time loser in the annual Choosing. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there’s no way her flesh and blood could actually be a murderer . . . Now Lila has to put away years of resentment and distrust to prove her cousin’s innocence. ![]() She’s soon proven right when Ronnie is suspected of murder, and secrets surrounding her shady cousin and those involved with the winery start piling up. Tita Rosie is thrilled with the return of her prodigal son, but Lila knows that wherever Ronnie goes, trouble follows. But her cousin Ronnie is back in town after ghosting the family fifteen years ago, claiming that his recent purchase of a local winery shows that he’s back on his feet and ready to contribute to the Shady Palms community. And yes, she’s taken the first step in a new romance with her good friend Jae Park. Sure, her new business, the Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. ![]() Manansala's new novel, the next installment of her 'Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries' series: Blackmail and Bibingka. It’s Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. We are thrilled to reveal the cover to Mia P. When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. ![]() ![]() So why did I keep reading! The further I read the easier it was to read, as Michael's attitude and way of life changes. Unfortunately in this case a large part of my energy at the start of the book was spent trying to sort out two alien worlds - the world of the Sidhedark (the fantasy world) and 1980's Hollywood. A common theme in fantasy fiction which when done well connects us to the author's world. My first impressions are that this is about a sulky, spoilt ego-centric American teenager, Michael who is magically transported to another world. If I had read this as a standalone novel I would have been disappointed. But, as this is published as an omnibus, I will review this as though it is two separate books - the expectation raised by the format. ![]() In the afterword he admits that he knew on publication of The Infinity Concerto that it was really half of one long novel. ![]() ![]() This is an omnibus edition of Greg Bear’s 1980’s fantasy duology - his first published book The Infinity Concerto and its sequel The Serpent Mage. Greg Bear is better known as a science fiction writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 90-page Introduction to Vol I of the Lectures is an overview of Hegel’s theory of fine art – if you only read one thing by Hegel on art, read that. The occasional page numbers below refer to this edition. They have been published in two volumes in English as: Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, translated by T.M. You can read the Lectures on Fine Art on (or in German here). It’s worth being aware, by the way, that this work is sometimes known by the alternative title the Philosophy of Fine Art. These were not published by Hegel himself – they are the work of an editor – but with that caveat 1 they form one of philosophy’s most immense and systematic philosophies of art. ![]() These were later compiled from a (now lost) manuscript plus lecture notes by his students and published after his death as the Lectures on Fine Art ( Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik). The other, much more substantial source is a series of lectures Hegel gave between 1818-1829, first in Heidelberg then in Berlin. German speakers can read the original here. Translation from 1894 I think Michael Inwood’s revision is a great ![]() You can read the Philosophy of Mind excerpt on – the piece on art starts on p169. Hegel’s aesthetic theory can be found in two places.įirst there are paragraphs 556–63 of the 1830 edition of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (in its third part, called The Philosophy of Mind, IIIA). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Search Press supports the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC), and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA). This cookie tool will help you understand who is using cookies to collect information from your device, for what purposes they use the information, and how you can control the use of cookies for non-essential activities. ![]() |