![]() ![]() ![]() As she did not have any morphine with her, she decided to place the King’s letter on the young Kikuyu’s chest and tell him that a letter from a king “will do away with all pain.” It worked, and from that day onward the King’s “miracle-working” letter became part of her medicine stock. When inspecting her land one day, she found a young man from the Kikuyu tribe whose leg had been crushed under a felled tree. “Barua a Soldani” means “letter from a King.” It is a story about a letter Karen Blixen received from Danish King Christian X as thanks for a lion-skin she had sent him. But there was so much more to one of Kenya’s most famous authors than ‘Out of Africa’.Īs part of our women’s month celebration, we looked into the life and work of this fascinating woman, and found so much more than a wealthy baroness who had a love affair with (and in) Africa. This is probably the first thing most people think about when they hear the name Karen Blixen. “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” WORDS by KATARINA MANCAMA | IMAGES SUPPLIED by CHRISTIE FYNN MORGAN ![]()
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![]() What was it about journalism that appealed to you? Was it the wildness, the freedom? You became a journalist who specialized, as you put it, in stories about women who are too much. GARCIA-NAVARRO: You talk about, in the book, always wanting to have a sense of adventure. I think that the women's movement really told my generation that we could be the protagonists in our own lives. And the title is basically saying, you know, the rules that my mother and her mother had to follow did not apply to me. And I got to marry the woman I fell in love with. LEVY: Well, I mean, I think that I wanted to be a writer, and I got to do that. GARCIA-NAVARRO: The book is, as I said, called "The Rules Do Not Apply." So I want to take us back to the old Ariel Levy. Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and she joins us now. The book goes on to detail the contours of those losses and how to get to the other side. In the last few months, I have lost my son, my spouse and my house. ![]() ![]() She writes, (reading) for the first time I can remember, I cannot locate my competent self. Ariel Levy's memoir "The Rules Do Not Apply" begins with a litany of tragedy. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Ringworld by larry niven![]() ![]() ![]() Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource. Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. ![]() The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. Laurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld(Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Sunflower house by eve bunting![]() ![]() KCC.B.4 I know the last number I say is the number of objects, even if I arrange them differently. ![]() I know a number represents an amount of objects. ![]() Read the terms and conditions for more details. By entering this giveaway you will be added to the email lists of the participating bloggers. The winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to respond to claim their prize or else another winner will be chosen. Kids love dinosaurs!!Īnd dont forget, theres still time to enter our giveaway! Three lucky people are going to win a $100 gift card to their choice of: Amazon, Hobby Lobby, Christian Books, or Rainbow Resources. Hang tight! Ive still got 4 more days of freebies in my 10 day series! Tomorrow Ill be bring you adorable dinosaur themed plans. Lots of skills are practiced in these pages! There were lots of awesome freebies included in this weeks lessons. Cobb’s Kinder Corner: Kindergarten Science Lesson on the Leaves of Plants ![]() ![]() ![]() Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) taught himself to paint as a child, before enrolling for evening classes at the Lambeth School of Art as a teenager. Dealer Notesįirst edition, third trade issue. The books, which have not been offered on the market for the best part of a century, contain some of Rackham’s best-known series of illustrations. See also our other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham on our website! These books are being sold on behalf of a client who inherited them from his grandfather, the original owner of the collection. (Spine slightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, boards slightly bowed, upper hinge cracking). ![]() (A few light spots and marks.) Original russet-brown cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt and with design after Rackham, spine lettered in gilt, dark-brown endpapers, front free endpaper with ‘Map of Peter Pan’s Kensington Gardens’ after Rackham, all edges brown. Wood-engraved vignette and further decoration on title, and 2 wood-engraved illustrations and one letterpress diagram in the text, all after Rackham. Colour-printed frontispiece and 49 colour-printed plates after Rackham, all mounted on dark-brown paper and with tissue guards bearing printed captions. ![]() AN ‘ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE’ WHICH BECAME ‘THE OUTSTANDING CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOK OF 1906 – AND MAINTAINED ITS HOLD FOR MANY LATER CHRISTMASES’ ![]() ![]() The book starts out using Newtonian physics, and only towards the end introduces relativistic principles. The only real issue that I had involves the order in which some of the information is presented. Her prose is full of funny turns of phrase ("The plasma rolls and churns like a hyper hurricane of heat, light, sound, and motion."), and she has a way of making even difficult thought experiments easily comprehensible. It's not the only - or even the primary - criterion that I use when evaluating children's books, but I get a special thrill when I see a book and think "You know, I would really have enjoyed this book as a child." A Black Hole Is Not a Hole gave me that feeling, reminding me of the first time I picked up Our Universe or The Cartoon Guide to Physics, a pair of books that loom large in my memories of growing up.Ĭarolyn Cinami DeCristofano's book does an excellent job of taking a difficult concept and making it accessible for younger readers. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Pornified by Pamela Paul![]() ![]() It was a gift from a friend, that i dearly treasure. To start, I wear a purple stone on a leather thong around my neck. it's never exactly the same, but it's always similar. Searching my dream database for the keyword "thong", sure enough, it can be found in dreams. Posted at the International Institute for Dream Research (IIDR) website is a dream interpretation, " Mysteries of Dallas" that partly focuses on "panties" as a feminine plot device for fetishistic desire. I listened with amusement to the ideas that were being discussed, while at the same time biting my tongue. The girl's conversation carried on for a while. "What could it mean?" As the one girl who had the dream leaned over to take a book from a lower shelf, her " thong" became visible to the public and myself. The one girl was looking for a book that would explain the dream she had about a "guy she barely knows". They are carrying on a conversation, which to my initial surprise was about dreams. Three young girls about 19 or 20 who appeared to be friends walk up to the section I was browsing. One evening a while back I was at a well frequented book store. ![]() Sexual Fetishism -or- The Erotic Mise en Scene of Visual Culture ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments The turning by francine prose![]() Monkey." And it was a children's musical, and it was way off Broadway. I took my granddaughter, who's nine at the time, but she was about four or five, to a play that was very much like "Mr. ![]() SIMON: A remark from your grandchild inspired this story? Thanks so much for being with us.įRANCINE PROSE: Thanks for having me on the show. She's the former president of the PEN American Center and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College and joins us from New York. Monkey" is the new book by Francine Prose, who's the author of 21 novels, including a scad of bestsellers. Francine Prose's his new novel is the backstage story of a threadbare musical made from a shopworn children's book that's performed by a ragged group of actors in a remote-from-Broadway theater that will soon be rubble below condos beneath Manhattan's High Line. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments The locked room ruth galloway![]() ![]() ![]() 'This is Griffiths on top form' Mail on Sunday When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer. Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. ![]() Happily, the house next door is rented by a nice woman called Zoe, who they become friendly with while standing on their doorsteps clapping for carers. Ruth and her daughter are locked down in their cottage, attempting to continue with work and home-schooling. Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963. ![]() 'INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India Knightįorensic archaeologist Dr Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. 'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times But can they find the killer despite lockdown? **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**įorensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Graced by Amanda Pillar![]() Winning the Aurealis for Bloodlines was amazing, too. But so was working on the numerous anthologies I’ve been lucky enough to edit. The moment I signed the contract for my first novel with my former publisher was pretty special. What has been the best publishing experience of your career so far? I am also working on a soon-to-be announced charity anthology featuring a range of exciting international authors.Ģ. ![]() Side note: the character’s job is way cooler. The fourth book also had an archaeologist character, in response to my many author friends and readers wanting to see my day job expressed in fiction. I am currently working on the fifth book in the Heaven’s Heart series – a paranormal romance series featuring, angels, gods, demons and plenty of action and adventure. Tell us about your recent publications/projects? Her first solo anthology, Bloodstones, was published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2012 and was followed by the sequel, Bloodlines in 2015.Īmanda is the author of the Graced Series, the Heaven’s Heart series, and co-author (with K.V Adair) of the Moonlit Hills series.ġ. A manda has had numerous short stories published and has co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices (2008), Grants Pass (2009), The Phantom Queen Awakes (2010), Scenes from the Second Storey (2010), Ishtar (2011) and Damnation and Dames (2012). ![]() Amanda Pillar is an USA Today Bestselling author and award-winning editor who lives in Australia. ![]() |