5/30/2023 0 Comments The white people by arthur machen![]() But something happened, and, what’s more unsettling, the girl is in collusion with it. You don’t know, and the girl isn’t specific. Maybe they’re fairies, maybe they’re Roman statues hidden away in the English woods, or maybe they’re her nurse and others using/abusing the girl. (And yes, haha, I get it, funny funny, but even that joke might make for an interesting postcolonial story riffing on this story.) Who or what the White People are is left confused. That part, The Green Book, is written by a girl remembering her encounter with “the White People”. ![]() ![]() Once you get past the standard Machen frame of two Victorian weirdoes talking about “evil” and get into the found manuscript, the story gets weird. While drinking my beer in an empty bar this weekend I read Arthur Machen’s “The White People”. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Francis chan crazy love youtube![]() ![]() ![]() “This current experience has caused me to consider exercising more caution and to develop a team to help me research,” he said in a blog post published to We Are Church on Saturday.Īs previously reported, some expressed concern last month after Todd White posted a photo of Chan embracing White in prayer at “The Send,” an event organized by Lou Engle (who knelt to kiss a Catholic leader’s shoe at Azusa 2016 as an act of “reconciliation”), and featuring speakers such as Benny Hinn, Bill Johnson of Bethel, and Mike Bickle of the International House of Prayer (IHOP). However, Chan did not specify exactly how he plans to “warn and separate from” false teachers as noted in his response, or to “mark and avoid” them in accordance with the Scriptures, and what impact it will have, if any, on speaking at events where others preach another Christ and another gospel. Chan advised that he will still attend “certain events” with the intention of being the “most effective” in bringing Bible teaching where it is lacking, but now with prior research and safeguards. ![]() Speaker and author Francis Chan has responded to concerns surrounding photographs that recently surfaced of Chan with Todd White and Benny Hinn at “The Send,” whose practices and teachings are at odds with biblical orthodoxy. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Clean getaway by nic stone![]() ![]() ![]() I thought this was a tremendously clever plot device to open up communication between the characters. ![]() While I knew of the existence and the use of The Green Book, I have never read about it as part of a fictional story. The Green Book was used as a guide by black people in the United States initially, and then I believe in other countries around the world, seeking safe lodging and amenities during their travels. She tells him that she and his Grandpa had to use this book while traveling together in the 1960s. Once on the road, G-Ma gives Scoob a copy of a book called, The Green Book. It sort of seems G-Ma has a plan, the specifics of which are a mystery to Scoob, however. He doesn't think much of it, just packs a bag and off they go. Now, as far as Dad is concerned, any fun plans he may have had planned for the extended school holiday have been cancelled.īut then, seemingly out of nowhere, G-Ma arrives in a legitimate house on wheels and tells Scoob they are going on a road trip. ![]() Particularly after Scoob got into a little trouble at school just prior to Spring Break. Truth be told, Scoob's Dad has been pretty tough on him lately. She seems to understand him when no one else does and knows exactly the right thing to say in any circumstance. G-Ma is an extra special lady, who Scoob loves spending time with. Clean Getaway follows 11-year old, Scoob, as he goes on an unexpected RV-adventure with his beloved Grandma, who he calls, G-Ma. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Bede's account of the poet caedmon![]() ![]() ![]() Bede didn't get around much-in fact he spent his whole life in the combined monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow in northeastern England-but from these walls he churned out early medieval bestsellers in Latin like The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. We owe Caedmon's Hymn to one man: the Venerable Bede, an awesome dude with an even awesomer name, who wrote it downaround 731. ![]() Drop a tear, sweet readers, for the poetic bulk lost to the ages: for Caedmon's Song and Caedmon's Sonnet and Caedmon's Anglo-Saxon Gangsta Rap (j/k, the Anglo-Saxons didn't do rap). Only in special cases were these poems actually recorded. For the most part, Anglo-Saxon poetry (written in England between 5 C.E.) was oral, meaning that poets sang or recited it (harps optional) instead of writing it down or "publishing" it. The monastery that owned his cows invited him to become a monk as soon as they heard about the miracle.īut even though he spouted poetry pretty regularly after that, this Hymn is the only one that still exists. Pretty good for a night out on the medieval town, right? Unfortunately, as far as surviving works go, this was kind of a one-night stand for Caedmon. And that, folks, is the backstory to the first non-fragment poem in English. Wild night, eighth-century-style: a cowherd goes to a wedding, drinks mead, hits the hay, dreams about an angel, and wakes up on fire with religious poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The text is perfect for a parent and child, or an older and younger child to read together. The older kids read this as well and enjoyed it. It’s on the larger end of the normal board book range, but Baby could still interact. This book is nicely made, sturdy and glossy. As soon as I saw the review at AICL, I wanted this book! Most of the libraries I work at don’t circulate board books, so this was high on my wish list, but it took a while to arrive which is why this and We Sang You Home were not in use sooner. She has a great sense of color and space. Julie Flett is one of my favorite children’s book illustrators. My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Julie Flett. This simple book asks us “What fills your heart with happiness?” and gives many examples of things that might make us happy. Lexile: AD280L ( What does AD mean in Lexile? ) My Heart Fills with Happiness by Monique Gray Smith, illustrations by Julie Flett. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The midnight library book review![]() ![]() The only thing I didn’t quite understand was who gets to have this choice. ![]() “Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.” The Midnight Library is there to help you choose a life that you can stay at after your death. And time in the real world doesn’t change while you’re living all those lives you could’ve had. Think of it as a limbo space between life and death, you’re not quite dead yet but you are also not alive. So, depending on a different choice that Nora could’ve made earlier in her life, she gets to live it in this Midnight Library. After she dies, she enters this world where “spirits” get to live their lives again had they made different choices within it. She was done with life and giving up on everything. ![]() In this book, we follow the story of Nora Seed, who’s depressed and thinks no one loves her. “Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.” ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Hula by Lisa Shea![]() Convincingly portraying the budding sexuality of early adolescence in sometimes shocking situations, Shea re-creates the numinous landscape of childhood in which animals and vegetation possess immanent intelligence and personality. The girls are forced back upon their inner resources and each other for a sense of security. Their mother is whimsical and distant the marriage is disintegrating. Their father, whose mind has been ravaged by war, is given to drunken gunplay and sudden explosions of rage. Set in the early 1960s, nearly all the action takes place in the backyard of the girls' suburban Virginia home, to them a surreal, adventurous place in which they act out their wishes, hopes and dreams, and try to cope-often ritualistically-with family dysfunction. ![]() The lives of two sisters at the crossroads between childhood and adolescence are described in lyrical, hypnotic prose. In her remarkable first novel, Shea hauntingly evokes the spirits and sensations of childhood. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments George rr martin the sworn sword![]() It is a decent use of an hour on a Saturday afternoon. Dunk and Egg are enjoyable characters in their own little way. It isn't a poor plot or horrible characterization or anything like that. absolutely nothing in this novella is worth reviewing. You might ask, why I am writing this entire review to talk about a name rather than actually reviewing the novella itself. He comes up with a good name he likes and I can guarantee that every generation or so along his supposed timeline someone will be using that name or some minor variation of it. But here, I am using the "Grrrr" to refer to his annoying penchant for recycling names. Some might think that "Grrrr" is because of his eternal delaying of whatever the next "real" book might be. That is a later story that someday, perhaps, GRR Martin will actually get around to finishing.Į is a reason why we call him Grrrr Martin. Neither is he Aegon Targaryen who is masquerading as a member of the Knights Watch named Jon Snow. ![]() ![]() Of course, Egg is more properly known as Aegon Targaryen but he is not to be confused with Aegon Targaryen the conqueror of Westeros. ![]() ![]() The Sworn Sword is the second of GRR Martin's novellas following the deeds of Sir Duncan the Tall (more commonly known as Dunk) and Egg. What reading level is The Sworn Sword book? ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan![]() ![]() Mat enters a doorframe ter’angreal to find answers, and is told he must got to Rhuidean. ![]() While exploring Tanchico in Tel’aran’rhiod, Egwene meets the Aiel Wise One Amys, who tells her to come to the Waste for training. Rand uses Callandor to kill every Trolloc and Myrddraal in Tear, and frightens Moiraine by trying to bring a child back to life. Moiraine expresses frustration that Rand will not share his plans with her.Īfter a nighttime visit from the Forsaken Lanfear, Rand finds the Stone under attack from Trollocs. Egwene and Elayne sort out their feelings for Rand Egwene hands him off to Elayne with her blessing. ![]() Mat determines to leave Tear, but finds Rand’s ta’veren pull too strong.Įgwene, Elayne, and Nynaeve interrogate their Black Ajah prisoners and determine that Liandrin and the others have gone to Tanchico. A bubble of evil strikes, causing inanimate objects-Rand’s mirrors, Mat’s playing cards, Perrin’s axe-to turn against their owners. Rands settles in as the new ruler of Tear and begins studying the Prophecies of the Dragon. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Unknown pleasures peter hook![]() And the first thing - once Ian had hopefully gone to that better place in the sky - that me, Bernie and Steve did was almost disown Joy Division, in a really weird, grief-driven way. “That got out very quickly and, by the time we got to Closer, we were very concerned - not particularly about the future of the group - but certainly about Ian’s health. It started to impinge, shall we say, on him, and on the group, of course. The songs were getting better and better. ![]() We were getting better and better reviews. Our songwriting improved very quickly from the normal punk drone that people had. We fought very hard to establish ourselves. This is much better than it should be, as I was dubious about the entire concept. Hook spoke to Rolling Stone last year about Joy Division and the transition into New Order: “Well, Joy Division were on quite a normal trajectory. Saw Peter Hook & The Light at 930 in DC when on tour playing Unknown Pleasures. Tickets for the January & November dates are already on sale. Tickets for the April dates go on sale this Friday 24th September via In addition to our UK & Irish tour dates in January and November, we are pleased to now be adding further shows for April. Tickets for the gig go on sale on Friday 24 September at. ![]() The band will also play an opening set of New Order material. Peter Hook & The Light have announced a tour for 2022 in which they will play both of Joy Division‘s classic albums in their entirety. ![]() |