![]() Despite this shocking turn of events, he’s more worried about the fact that he’s overslept and has now missed a train he needed to catch for work. The protagonist of the novel, Gregor wakes up in his bed to discover he’s been transformed into a gigantic insect, or something resembling a cockroach. The novelįranz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis opens with travelling salesman Gregor Samsa. He delves into what it means to be human, to be perceived as human, and then have those perceptions taken away by no fault of one’s own. Over the rest of the novel, Kafka explores themes of humanity, alienation, family, and responsibility. He struggles briefly with his physiology but struggles for many more pages with his humanity and holding onto the shreds that remain of it. The change is surprising to Gregor but is less worrying than the impossibility of providing for his family. ![]() Gregor Samsa, a man who works hard at a job he hates in order to support his family, wakes up one morning in the body of a giant vermin. It details the shocking transformation of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, into a large cockroach. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Chain of iron james and cordelia![]() ![]() However, when it comes to Chain of Iron, I appear to be in the minority and this review is going to reflect that because I personally found Chain of Iron frustrating, but not really for the reasons everyone else found it frustrating.īut before we get into that, allow me to put a spoiler warning in place. ![]() I tend to be a pretty basic fan, I go with the flow, I ship the popular ships. I needed time to settle my emotions, to properly come to terms with what I felt about this novel, and to calm down enough to convey those thoughts and emotions in a relatively reasonable manner, because I have some controversial things to say about Chain of Iron. But I simply was not ready to do a review earlier than this. ![]() Reader, I am aware that it has been a couple of months since the release of Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare, and a couple of months since I read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and all his imprecise talk about “new politics” and “honesty in government,” is one of the few men who’ve run for President of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves finally just lay back and say it-that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The liberation trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. Now, in The Guns at Last Light, he tells the most dramatic story of all-the titanic battle for Western Europe. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. ![]() #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The way past winter book![]() ![]() Mila is the middle of three sisters who live in the great forest of Eldbjørn in a house with windows made from ice. Told in vivid, often lyrical language, The Way Past Winter portrays a richly imagined world that is rooted in myth, magic and folk tales, while appealing to modern sensibilities and concerns. ![]() This is Hargrave’s third novel for eight- to 12-year-olds and like her award-winning debut, The Girl of Ink & Stars, it features a girl on a quest who will not easily give in. A winter that came and never left.” So begins Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s ode to the frozen north, to sibling love and to the lure of adventure. A winter that arrived so sudden and sharp it stuck birds to branches, and caught the rivers in such a frost their spray froze. “I t was a winter they would tell tales about. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Jia tolentino book![]() ![]() I personally appreciated the fact that these are well researched essays complete with references from other sources, background information and history. There is also some level of self-reflection on the Author’s part, who questions the religiosity she grew up surrounded with in her family and the community and gives her reasons why she is not that keen to officiate things with her long-term boyfriend. The most refreshing thing is that the topics are equally relatable to a non-American and I often found myself having a lot to say after each essay. The author does not shy away from tackling issues affecting the modern day Americans ranging from the internet, to reality TV, to student debt, to drug usage and to fraternity houses in university campuses just to name a few. ![]() ![]() Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino is a collection of 9 essays, which will make you question how society works and if it’s worth it or not to conform to some societal norms and particularly, if you are a woman. Mostly because I was making notes, highlighting excerpts, recording my reviews of the book in three parts for our YouTube Channel and partly, because I took a break from reading for Christmas. ![]() This is probably one of those books I have read for the longest time. Publisher: 4th Estate, an imprint of Harper Collins Publisher, 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins sometime after her first kiss with Jack Skellington on Spiral Hill, with the two now married. ![]() Honestly, this decision is *chef’s kiss.* Image via Elite Daily So not only does this avoid feeling like a retelling of the story we already know, but it gives some much-needed attention to Sally who became overshadowed by Jack’s storyline. Now what makes this new story, which is currently untitled, so exciting is the fact that it’s told from Sally’s perspective. What’s this? What’s this? Why, none other than a new YA novel for a beloved Disney classic of course! Cult classic ( and one of my favorite movies ever) The Nightmare Before Christmas is getting a sequel. Disney Publishing has hired Shea Ernshaw ( The Wicked Deep, Winterwood) to create a YA novel set after the 1993 classic film. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Yoshihiro tatsumi goodbye![]() Yet as David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu have argued in Transcultural Japan the West is preoccupied with conceptual dichotomies and dialectical oppositions and has therefore overlooked the transcultural and transnational elements in Japan that have created a contemporary society with fluid boundaries and innovative cultural formations. What are the implications of Tatsumi’s graphic representation of cross-cultural differences in terms of what Roland Kelts has called ‘transcultural longing’? Gekiga in Japan was a countercultural movement that eventuated in response to the perception of the stereotypical drawing of manga developed by Tezuka Osamu in his mimesis of Walt Disney comics. This paper investigates the intercultural and transcultural implications of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s (辰巳 ヨシヒロ) gekiga (劇画) movement in Japan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, itinerant marionette players were active in this country until the 50s of this century, the activities of the amateur puppeteers covers all three of these phases and the same is true of professional forms of puppet theatre. This division into periods isn`t completely straightforward and is to a certain degree even unsystematic. The phase of the modern professional puppet theatre, meaning, in this country, the period after 1948 The phase of amateur puppeteers in the 1st half of the 20th century The phase of the traditional folk marionettes or, more precisely itinerant puppet players, beginning in the last quarter of the 18th century and finishing at the end of the 19th century The majority of historians divide the history of the Czech puppet theatre into three main phases of development: From Puppet Production in the Middle Ages to Baroque Marionettes ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments How to Be Kinkier by Morpheous![]() ![]() Lord Morpheous hosts an annual event called Morpheous' Bondage Extravaganza (also known as MBE), an annual public display of rope bondage during the Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto. Morpheous gained a B.Ed and an Honours BA in Visual Art with a Minor in English. He is also the founder of Morpheous’ Bondage Extravaganza, an annual rope bondage themed art installation. Morpheous has taught a variety of workshops on rope bondage, the aesthetics of bondage, fetish photography, advanced and beginner BDSM, and workshops catered to professional dominants and submissives. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, at the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, and at the National Archives of Canada. ![]() ![]() Morpheous' work is archived in the Sexual Representation Collection of the University of Toronto's Mark S. He is the author of How to Be Kinky: A Beginner’s Guide to BDSM, How to Be Kinkier: More Adventures in Adult Playtime and Bondage Basics: Naughty Knots and Risque Restraints You Need to Know. Lord Morpheous is a Canadian sex educator, author and photographer based in New York. JSTOR ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. 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