![]() ![]() The third binder, labelled Story Tools, was of a middling size. I recalled that at one time Truby offered interactive story analysis on his website I think it was free, an amazing offering. I have a lot of Truby-including a series of tapes and his book The Anatomy of Story (which overwhelms me at the first chapter every time I open it). In it were printouts from master story guru John Truby. Another, a thick, heavy binder, was labelled Truby. One was a collection of printouts of writing exercises by the New York agent Donald Maass. This morning, as I was drinking my delicious mug of decaf, I took three black binders down from the top shelf. I am a collector, apparently, a collector of books on writing. This one includes poetry, novels I’m either reading or would like to read, and an embarrassing number of books on writing. In Canada, I have a tall narrow bookcase of books-one of many I have in our house. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fighting gets only worse after the Finnegans (there are six of them) pick up and move to Honolulu. He boxes friends in his front yard, gets into fistfight after fistfight. His life in Southern California in the 1950s and early ‘60s sounds in many ways halcyon, full of beach gear and Volkswagen buses and wharf rats and characters with “PhDs in having fun.” It’s also filled with violence. ![]() … That cracking, fugitive patch is where I come from.” “With me it’s not a matter of packing up or staying on,” he writes, “but rather of being always half poised to flee … to throw myself into some nearby patch of ocean. Surfing, he realizes deep into this sweeping, glorious memoir, is home. Surfing is the through line, the one constant in a peripatetic life. Before he was a celebrated magazine writer (and author of five books), he taught high school in a poor, black part of Cape Town, South Africa tended bar and washed pots on Australia’s Gold Coast worked the freight trains as a brakeman on the Southern Pacific and pumped gas in the San Fernando Valley.īefore, during and after all those careers, in nearly every stage of his life, Finnegan has surfed. William Finnegan is a staff writer at the New Yorker where, for nearly three decades, he’s covered civil wars (in South Sudan and Somalia), tracked narcotraficantes (in Mexico) and embedded with gangs of neo-Nazi teens (in the Antelope Valley). ![]() ![]() ![]() He has taught at the University of East Anglia, where he was Professor of European History, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he was Professor of History and Vice-Master. Evans is Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University, and Provost of Gresham College in the City of London. Taking us into the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets written, he demolishes the wilder claims of postmodern historians, who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history, and explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical perspective on the way we live our lives. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization ![]() ![]() A Darker Shade of Magic, is the most traditional of Schwab’s novels that I’ve read but with enough of her own subtle touches that it easily keeps pace with her previous work while also managing to be one of the most entertaining fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years.Ī Darker Shade of Magic centers on a young man named Kell, the last of a dying breed of magicians called Antari who have the ability to travel between worlds. Both novels set a high bar for what I, as a reader, except from Schwab. ![]() I later listened to the excellent Vicious on audiobook and its genre-bending take on a superpowers that examine some familiar comic book tropes in new and intriguing ways. Schwab was through her middle grade/young adult novel, The Archived (which she published as Victoria Schwab) a novel that is a bit darker and subtler than one would expect given its target audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both celebrations can accordingly be employed for their comic value alone, particularly when festive mockery is involved, including jokes about characters or public figures. They also generally help to create an atmosphere of exuberance, fitting the ethos of comedy. ![]() Both events serve mainly to express happiness in a particular dramatic context, usually celebrating a protagonist's achievement and depicting its results. From this conclusions are drawn about the audience's sympotic-komastic knowledge. The thesis explores the context of relevant scenes, the activities shown, their humour, and the social status of their characters. This thesis looks at the symposium and komos in Aristophanes and the comic fragments from two angles, considering the use of these forms of celebration to help shape a play's plot or to depict characters, and discussing the information found in comedy on some practical sympotic matters. ![]() ![]() The characters were fairly black and white - for or against Alan/Alana. I read CROSSING LINES twice, about four weeks apart, to give myself time to think about this YA novel. I was moved by the article, but didn't think I was qualified to tell the victim's story. He lasted only a few days before he was brutally assaulted by someone who couldn't take the sight of him. I asked him where the idea came from and he said, "I saw a story in a national mag about a male high school teen who went to school in a dress and lipstick. Volponi took on some huge issues for this YA novel. This creates an inner struggle, which culminates in a "choice" at the end of the book. When Adonis is with the girl he likes (Melody) he pretends to be okay with Alan/Alana, when he is with other football players and his family he shows his true colors. ![]() Adonis struggles as his sister and mother are open and welcoming to Alan/Alana while he and his father are uncomfortable around him. He's supported by the members of The Fashion Club (Alan is president) and bullied by football players and others who want him gone. The story's point-of-view is presented by Adonis, a football star who doesn't feel comfortable with Alan/Alana's overt sexuality and could even be considered "homophobic." Alan/Alana divides the kids at the school. Crossing Lines will make some people uncomfortable, and that's a great thing! This new YA novel by the King of Urban Fiction addressed a very difficult, painful issue "forced" on students by Alan/Alana who is gay and a crossdresser. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and her husband live in a house they renovated not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge in Vermont. ![]() Although named for her Dutch grandmother and raised by her Dutch-born father and southern mother, Carla has lived her entire life in the northeast. She started writing as a child - she'd climb trees or hide in her closet to escape her six brothers and sisters. A magna cum laude graduate of Boston University and popular teacher of writing workshops across the country, Carla is known for her unique blend of humor, romance and suspense. ![]() ![]() It's Read More.Ĭarla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 novels. 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Due to the anticipated demand for this lecture, tickets will be released according to this schedule: One such independent watchmaker is Kari Voutilainen.Īt the February 6 meeting of the Horological Society of New York, Voutilainen will discuss his journey from a "one-man show" to a small and totally independent workshop producing incredible mechanical watches.ĭoors open at 6PM ET, lecture to begin at 7PM ET. ![]() ![]() But some watchmakers have done exactly this and have shown remarkable success. Being able to concentrate that expertise with one small team, independent of traditional industry suppliers, is not an easy thing to do. That expertise is usually spread out with a network of suppliers or a large manufacturer. Watch manufacturing has always been a complex endeavor that requires expertise in many different areas. ![]() ![]() ![]() She loves her dog Sunshine dearly, as she named Sunny after her. She usually changes her favorite dragon while she writes and she uses other dragon books to aid her writing. She loves to do live chats on the Scholastic Wings of Fire forum and has a collection of small videos on the Scholastic YouTube channel. ![]() ![]() Tui is very passionate and loving of both her books and FanWings. Tui was also featured on Jeopardy in 2009 as a two-day champion. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, Adam, her sons, Jonah and Elliot, and her dog, Sunshine. Tui received an education at Williams College and then moved to New Jersey. She was named after the Tui bird in New Zealand. ![]() Tui was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and before high school, she lived in Asuncion, Paraguay, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Miami, Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() The police suspect that Ruth's lover, the Comte de la Roche, killed her and stole the ruby, but Poirot does not think that the Comte is guilty. Ruth's maid, Ada Mason, says that she saw a man in Ruth's compartment but could not see who he was. Ruth's father, American millionaire Rufus Van Aldin, and his secretary, Major Knighton, persuade Poirot to take on the case. The famous ruby, "Heart of Fire", which had recently been given to Ruth by her father, is discovered to be missing. The next morning, though, Ruth is found dead in her compartment, a victim of strangulation. On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover. ![]() ![]() So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera. The novel concerns the murder of an American heiress on Le Train Bleu, the titular "Blue Train". The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. ![]() The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]() |