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Ben hur a tale of the christ book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() So I got a copy of the original Ben-Hur to compare the versions. ![]() It succeeds in that aim, although it feels oddly unbalanced. This modernization, written by Wallace’s great-great-granddaughter, aims to make the story accessible to today’s readers. But without the touch of the man some call the Messiah, Ben-Hur’s mother and sister, now lepers, will die.īen-Hur by Lew Wallace is one of the all-time best-selling novels, never out of print since it was first published in 1880. And yes, to triumph over the vicious Messala in a chariot race. But instead of dying chained to an oar, he survives to become the adopted son of a noble Roman, reclaim his fortune, to find his mother and sister, and find true love. This accident leads to the Jewish Judah Ben-Hur’s betrayal by his Roman friend, Messala his mother and sister are dragged away, and he’s sent to the galleys. As a Roman procurator rides through Jerusalem, a loose tile falls from a rooftop and hits him. ![]() Cobalt blue marathi5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() If the former is visibly feisty, the latter, having sacrificed her dreams for her family, secretly lusts after matinee idol Nagarjuna. Anuja roams around with her friends – a motorcycle-hopping Fathima and a nameless Christian nun. Of course, she wears her hair short and her underarms are unwaxed. A hockey player with zero culinary skills, she ticks all things quintessential of a lesbian stereotype in Indian films. It is somewhere there, we are told, to whom Tanay would echo his fears and desires.Īnuja is Tanay’s elder sister. ![]() Living with his orthodox parents, the youngster’s best friend appears to be a tortoise named ‘Pablo Neruda’ in the water lily pond. Tanay (Neelay Mehendale), a budding writer, is a soft-natured collegian. Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue (based on his Marathi novel by the same name) works around this fascinating premise, but only to minimal impact. The man is everything the family is not – liberal, uncommunicative, and attractive. Enter a young paying guest – an artist – aloof in demeanor and imposing to the eyes. An outdoorsy young woman analyzing her pursuits. A curious gay man exploring his sexuality. A Marathi family that is far away from their roots. ![]() Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The Friends' Migration ( Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture) The Cavaliers and Indentured Servants ( Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture) The Exodus of the English Puritans ( Pilgrims and Puritans influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture) ![]() The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book: ![]() Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture." Four folkways The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the political culture of the modern United States. 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Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. ![]() More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. ![]() “When a film is not a document, it is a dream. ![]() Strange Victory by Ernest R. May5/24/2023 ![]() Ultimately he arrivesĪt a much different conclusion from the conventional view : He demonstrates very convincingly that the German Armedįorces were actually inferior militarily to the French, argues that theįrench military leadership was really quite competent, and asserts thatįrench moral had turned fairly positive by the late 1930s and was no longerĪs defeatist as it had been in the early 30s. ("relâchement"), most people around the worldĪgreed that France's defeat owed something to lackĮrnest May marshals a tremendous amount of evidence to refute this facileĮxplanation. Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the satelliteįrench government of 1940-44, ascribed France'sĭefeat to "moral laxness." Though not everyone would People must have had no stomach for fighting. Not only in modern weaponry but in an understanding Three conclusions were thought obvious.įirst, Germany must have had crushing superiority, In June 1940, and for a long time thereafter, theįact of France's rapid defeat seemed to speak for ![]() For over fifty years, Bloch's conclusions haveĬarried great weight in our understanding of what happened. Understand why it was that France collapsed so quickly when attacked by ![]() Taking as his starting point the famous 1944 essay, Strange Defeat,īy the French historian Marc Bloch, Ernest May sets out in this book to ![]() Jonathan hillman big wig5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() He lives near Minneapolis, MN with his two cats. His debut picture book “Big Wig” is out now, and his second picture book “The Wishing Machine” is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in Fall 2023. His work has been featured in Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Jonathan Hillman is a graduate of Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) program, where he won the Walden Pond Press Award for Excellence in Middle Grade Fiction. You can also find her poetry and short works at POETRY, Yellow Medicine Review, The Under Review, Rock & Sling and OUR SHADOWS HAVE CLAWS anthology with Algonquin and forthcoming RELIT with HarperCollins. She now teaches at Hamline’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and serves as the coordinator for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop’s mentorship program. ![]() Ari grew up in Minneapolis and took classes in the Loft’s program as a teenager and young adult and received her MFAC from Hamline. When the child puts on his wig called Wig he becomes B. ![]() Big Wig follows a child dressing in drag to compete in a neighborhood contest. Her debut YA hybrid prose and poetry novel “SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD” was released March 28th, 2023 and has already received three starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and BCCB and was selected as a JLG Gold Standard Selection. Jonathan Hillman, a Menomonie native who now lives in Minneapolis, wrote Big Wig, a children’s book that has received national accolades. For Children’s Book Week, Ari and Jon will read and talk a little bit about writing for young people & what books do!Īri Tison is a Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) poet and author. ![]() Heavy kiese laymon sparknotes5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() A young Laymon must weather frustrated attempts to put these experiences into words under the tutelage of a beloved but abusive parent. To treat this awareness as a source of authority, Laymon must also navigate the prevailing conclusion that his body is trying to destroy him, either due to the body’s mere existence in a white supremacist nation bent on obliterating African American men, or through the acts of self-harm, addiction, and negation the body manifests in order to counter its expectation of powerlessness. Crucially, Heavy positions somatic awareness as a reference-point for generating the language to discuss trauma, failed love, and injustice. What is weight? In Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon suggests that it depends on whether you see excess or abundance flesh or a body baggage, or the story of a young man navigating a fractured relationship with his mother and his country. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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