5/12/2023 0 Comments Packing for mars book![]() The book focuses on the peculiarities and triumphs of human exploration in the extreme environment of space, and the perhaps even stranger environment of space simulations. ![]() ![]() Little victories and lesser-known surreal stories about space exploration garner her attention and respect. In the Prologue, Roach contends that humans are more vulnerable and unpredictable than machines. For author Mary Roach, exploring space is as much a psychological, physiological, and social feat as it is an engineering one. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void details in 16 chapters that space travel is no easy task. Norton & Company Kindle edition of the original title. In 2022, Roach published an adaptation geared for a younger audience entitled Packing for Mars for Kids. ![]() By describing humanity’s attempts to explore and survive in extreme environments, Roach celebrates how ingenuity and absurdity coexist to achieve the monumental and the mundane. Roach’s thesis is that space travel reveals just as much about human nature as it does about the cosmos. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Fences by august wilson sparknotes![]() ![]() For example, the problem of adultery starts with Troy he desires Alberta to get away from the responsibility of marriage. Considering that Troy is the main character in the story, much of the problems with relationships in the play involve Troy. We find throughout the play that Troy cheated on Rose and impregnated another character in the play, Alberta both Troy and Alberta are the biological parents of Raynell. Troy is married to Rose together they have three children: Lyons, Cory, and Raynell. ![]() ![]() Wilson centers the themes of the play on eight characters, one of which is the main character of the play, Troy Maxson. August Wilson's 'Fences' is a 1983 play that represents an exploration of the African-American experience, examining and evaluating race relations and various related themes. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Kate quinn the huntress![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up in post-war Boston, 17-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. ![]() When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted.īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. From the author of the New York Times and USA Today best-selling novel The Alice Network comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Amari and night brothers![]() ![]() But if she doesn’t stick it out and pass the tryouts, she may never find out what happened to Quinton. ![]() ![]() No matter how hard she tries, Amari can’t seem to escape their intense doubt and scrutiny-especially once her supernaturally enhanced talent is deemed “illegal.” With an evil magician threatening the supernatural world and her own classmates thinking she’s an enemy, Amari has never felt more alone. Now she must compete for a spot against kids who’ve known about magic their whole lives. When not writing, he can be found eating too many sweets and exploring country roads to see where they lead. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton-if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real. Amari and the Night Brothers is his debut middle grade novel. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. Amari and the Night Brothers is the first book in the Supernatural Investigations trilogy by B.B. It’s an inventive, fast-paced adventure fantasy. I highly recommend reading the novel before you dive into this analysis. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Alston is an excellent mentor text for how to interweave backstory, using multiple techniques, without slowing down the story one bit.NOTE: this blog post has spoilers. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Spinning silver cover![]() ![]() Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty-until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss. ![]() With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. ![]() ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library.NAMED ONE OF PASTE ’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE.“One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Steal like an artist journal![]() ![]() Pro and con charts- What Excites You?/What Drains You? ![]() ![]() Illustrated creative exercises- Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. There are lists to fill in- Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. It combines Austin Kleon’s unique and compelling ideas with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in your artistic journey. From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! comes an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Marlon james trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His most recent novel, 2014's A Brief History of Seven Killings, explores several decades of Jamaican history and political instability through the perspectives of many narrators. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, is about a slave woman's revolt in a Jamaican plantation in the early 19th century. ![]() His first novel, John Crow's Devil - which was rejected 70 times before being accepted for publication - tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. James has taught English and creative writing at Macalester College since 2007. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University (2006). James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Cho nam joo books![]() Citizenship is only available to those deemed worthy enough, and even having citizen parents is insufficient for this lofty rank. The town is divided into citizens, L2s, and Sahas. The benefits of this progress, though, are not equally spread. Saha, Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (trans) (WW Norton, Simon & Schuster, September 2022) The smallest, strangest country, which went by the name of Town. The country that did not belong to any international organization or regional union. The country is entirely run by seven ministers lording over the puppet Parliament, who never revealed their identities, much less engaged with the public. The Town is run by totally anonymous ministers whose draconian rule maintains a strict social order, though with the promise of constant progress and unmatched social stability. ![]() ![]() ![]() The city has seen unprecedented economic growth and now claims to be the richest nation on earth. The story is set in a city-state only known as “Town” which 30 years previous had declared its independence after being purchased by a mysterious if not unfamiliar Chaebol-esque mega-corporation. Set in a disturbing dystopia, Saha, Korean author Cho Nam-joo’s latest work following the wildly successful Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, tells the story of the bottom rung of a dark society. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Booked to Die by John Dunning![]() The following year, he received a nomination for the same honor for the novel Deadline.ĭunning first won the Nero Award for the novel Booked to Die and received a nomination in the “Best Novel” category for the 1993 Anthony Award. In 1982, Dunning got his first Edgar Award nomination, “Best Paperback Original”, for the book Looking for Ginger North. His first novel, Booked to Die featuring Cliff Janeway was released the same year. ![]() He later returned to writing novels in 1992 after the urging of fellow authors. In 1984, he stopped writing due to trouble with his publishers and opened a store selling rare and second-hand books. In 1970, he took up writing novels after quitting the newspaper. He later moved to Denver, Colorado in 1964 where he worked at a horse racing track as a stable hand before getting a job at The Denver Post. Born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, Dunning moved to Charleston, South Carolina, his father’s hometown at the age of three. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Wittig the straight mind![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although she moved to the United States in 1976, it was Judith Butler's reading (and critique) of her work in Gender Trouble (1990) that brought Wittig to the attention of academic feminist circles throughout North America, the UK and Australasia. With her subsequent novels and theoretical essays functioning alongside her radical politics, she was foundational in the development of post-Beauvoirian French Feminist philosophy, a movement which she would come to epitomise alongside the better-known figures of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and He1ene Cixous. Monique Wittig burst onto the French literary scene in 1964 with the publication of her first novel, L'opoponax, at the age of 29, for which she was awarded the Prix Medicis, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France. ![]() |