![]() Now comes the sequel, the what-happens-next after the happily-ever-after. ![]() ![]() The novel ends with Justinian and Theodora being acclaimed new rulers of the empire. Swashbuckling, adventurous, brave and sexy, Theodora acted, improvised, endured and bonked her way to the Byzantine court, where she and the future emperor fell deeply in love and married. But in this novelist's hands, she was not depraved so much as born into a particular role, a role that she had the guts and character to transcend. Her jewel-encrusted mosaic portrait stares out to this day from the wall of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, a monument to her power and piety.ĭuffy's Theodora was indeed a child actor and a prostitute. ![]() It is an especially scandalous piece of propaganda, horribly imaginative in the forms of depravity it devised for the empress who was officially known as an endower of churches and saint of the Orthodox church. In the leeringly voyeuristic series of vignettes known as The Secret History, Procopius cast the wife of the sixth-century emperor Justinian as everything from child prostitute to demon in human form. I n her last novel, Theodora, Stella Duffy took a scurrilous account of the Byzantine empress by the Roman historian Procopius and turned it on its head. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The novel won both the big science fiction awards: the Nebula and the Hugo. But if you need more than magic and wonder in your life, as if there is anything else, silly grown-ups, then there is plenty of meaty story in American Gods for you. My daughter, now seven, still asks me when I will teach her how to do magic, and if nothing else it is worth reading just for that. I read American Gods, the story of Shadow and scheming Wednesday, and it made me want to learn coin tricks. It’s only a coin behind your ear, and there it is, as if by magic, the light reflecting hazily from its dull silver sides. Wait, what’s that? There? Don’t be self-conscious. Do you see it? There, there, where? A little piece of wonder, the coin has gone. I rub the coin between the thumb and fingers of my other hand. Do you see it between my thumb and forefinger, cold and silver? Just an ordinary coin a small promise of value a piece of faith in my hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Political and socio-economic, racial and gender distinctions, based upon social class, are reinforced in daily life within society. ![]() In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste ( La Distinction, 1979), Pierre Bourdieu described how those in power define aesthetic concepts like " good taste", with the consequence that the social class of a person tends to predict and in fact determine his or her cultural interests, likes, and dislikes. In sociology, distinction is a social force whereby people use various strategies-consciously or not-to differentiate and distance themselves from others in society, and to assign themselves greater value in the process. In the 18th-century, macaronis distinguished their wealth by excessive mentions of their travels, trendy fashions, and unusually sentimental behavior. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His talent team has worked on such features as Despicable Me, Rio, Gnomeo & Juliet, and Horton Hears a Who-and fully produced Niko: The Journey to Magika and El Americano. Visit her at .ĭavid Campiti is an animation producer and voiceover actor and is CEO of Glass House Graphics/Cutting Edge Animation & Publishing Services. She also coauthors the Goddess Girls and Thunder Girls series with the fantastic Joan Holub. Suzanne Williams is a former elementary school librarian and the author of over seventy books for children, including the award-winning picture books Library Lil (illustrated by Steven Kellogg) and My Dog Never Says Please (illustrated by Tedd Arnold), and several chapter book and middle grade series. About the Book Published: Dec-2010 Formats: Print / eBook / Audio Series: Goddess Girls - 4 Main Genre: Fantasy Time Period: Contemporary Pages: 240 Age. She lives in North Carolina and is online at . The Goddess Girls series by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams puts a modern spin on classic Greek myths Follow the ins and outs of divine social life at Mount. ![]() Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated over 140 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, the New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). ![]() ![]() Heller and Chwast's rich chronicle of well over a century of illustration covers the so-called Golden Age to the current Bronze Age and celebrates illustration - long deemed a second cousin to fine art-as a significant popular art that is often more visible, recognizable, and memorable than "higher arts." Covering illustration from the Industrial Revolution, when printing was made possible for mass consumption, to the digital age, which has transformed publishing into a desktop affair, Heller and Chwast's approach uses two complementary ways of presenting the story of the field: style and form. Illustration: A Visual History, a lively and innovative survey of the art form by the foremost historian of graphic design and a celebrated designer/illustrator, joins the authors' companion volume Graphic Style as an indispensable resource for anyone interested in art, design, and popular culture. Home > Resources > "Illustration: A Visual History," by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast “Illustration: A Visual History,” by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast ![]() ![]() ![]() The first website was almost a decade away, and no one he knew had a personal computer. In the age of the smartphone this may seem obvious, but that story and Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, were written on a Hermes 2000 typewriter from the 1930s. His fame as a writer was established by his insight that much of our future would be played out in representative space, the not-there place to which people go when they stare at a computer screen – a realm he called, in the 1982 short story “Burning Chrome”, “cyberspace”. ![]() The American speculative fiction author William Gibson has said that sci-fi writers are “almost always wrong”, but over the course of a dozen acclaimed novels, Gibson himself has proven he has a gift for describing the present in terms of where it’s headed. ![]() It sounds like a satire of the present but it was written, in earnest, in 1967. Take the pulp space opera Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, in which an inept, “babbling” protagonist called Boris Johnson goes to war against a technocratic transnational government. Science fiction writers are made to seem prescient by confirmation bias: with time, almost any imagined future can be said to have come true. ![]() ![]() They are unknowable for what they are in themselves. ![]() In line with Kantian epistemology, these objects, these things, that Einstein refers to are literally everything there is in the universe. ![]() And Païs reports him as saying in his later years: “Science without epistemology is-in so far as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.” The phrase has explicit philosophical import - how we may connect words to things that are not words underlies all 0f human inquiry. Perhaps his most informative was the statement: “A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.” The phrase ‘superpersonal objects’ is important - not supernatural, or spiritual, or divine, one notices. Quips about God and dice aside, his scientific ethos can be associated with a theology as nuanced as the quote used as the title of Païs biography: “Subtle is the Lord but malicious He is not.”Įinstein made only a few explicit comments about religion. Yet I am impressed by his intuitive understanding of the subject and its relevance to his scientific work. Although he had a lifelong interest in philosophy, Einstein had a limited background in the subject, mainly Kant and Plato. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eric and Jamie are usually arguing about something or the other, and Tessa knows this mishap could throw their relationship over the edge. But things go awry when Jamie sleeps with Robert’s daughter Monica, and gets caught by Roland the next morning. Eric running operations, and Jamie and Tessa filling in where needed, although they make business decisions together – at least they did.Įric has a big deal in the works to sell beer on the airline owned by Roland Kendall. Along with middle child Jamie, they made it as a family. At that time her older brother Eric took over the family and the brewery in Boulder, CO their father owned. ![]() Tessa Donovan lost her parents many years ago in a car accident. Beer and smut wrapped up into one book? Along with many laughs and a little mystery, this book is definitely one I can recommend.īefore we discuss let’s do a little set-up. ![]() Mandi: Oh I love Victoria Dahl’s contemporaries and when I heard she had a new series coming out about siblings who own a brewery, it was a double win. Good Girls Don’t by Victoria Dahl (Donovan Brothers Brewery #1) ![]() ![]() I was seeing everything Hendricks was seeing and I’ll tell you, some of it really creeped me out.Įven though it seems initially that the major site of the paranormal activity is located in the cellar, eventually it permeates through the entire house. I was pleasantly surprised, and impressed, by the imagery of the horror elements. They were all fun to get to know, especially Eddie, but we’ll get to him later. I enjoyed Hendricks as a character, as well as her new friends. This is a classic haunted house story, with a well-executed Teen Scream element. It doesn’t take long for the house, and the spirits trapped there, to express their deep-seeded need for vengeance. ![]() While at school, Hendricks is quickly accepted into the popular crowd, even catching the eye of a local heartthrob, at home she is harassed and terrified. Unbeknownst to them, they have inadvertently moved into the most infamous house in Drearford, with a frighteningly violent history. Unfortunately, Steel House, their new home, has other things in mind. Her parents purchase a dilapidated old house to renovate and for her part, Hendricks is hoping to lay low and heal her scarred heart. Hendricks and her family move to Drearford to escape a dark chapter in her young life. ![]() ![]() In 1928 he married Constance Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master (i.e. ![]() His first collection of poems, Beechen Vigil, appeared in 1925. ![]() Auden and helped him to edit Oxford Poetry 1927. In Oxford, Day-Lewis became part of the circle gathered around W. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford. In his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he wrote "As a writer I do not use the hyphen in my surname – a piece of inverted snobbery which has produced rather mixed results".Īfter the death of his mother in 1906, Cecil was brought up in London by his father, with the help of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in County Wexford. His father took on the surname "Day-Lewis" as a combination of his own birth father's ("Day") and adoptive father's ("Lewis") surnames. Some of his family were from England (Hertfordshire and Canterbury). ![]() He was the son of Frank Day-Lewis (died 29 July 1937), Church of Ireland Rector of that parish, and Kathleen Blake (née Squires died 1906). Day-Lewis was born in Ballintubbert, Athy/ Stradbally border, Queen's County (now known as County Laois), Ireland. ![]() |