Burns milkman6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Milkman is a novel set in the Belfast of the uneasy 1970s but the city, like the lead protagonist, is never named. It can only mean enlightenment.”īurns is the teacher and we are the students. “Your unease, even your temporary unhingement in the face of this sunset is encouraging. The amazed, bewildered, unsettled class discovers that the sky is pink, lemon, mauve and orange-red. She takes them to the window overlooking the city and demands that they look at the sky, really look at it, and tell her what they see. “Why all the fancy footwork when all he need say is that the sky is blue?” someone cries and a chant begins: “Le ciel est blue! Le ciel est blue!” until the teacher’s calm unnerves everyone and the chanting stops. The author had been describing the sky in French with a bevy of trying metaphors and finally the class mutinies. There’s a moment about a third of the way through Anna Burns’s Milkman when the un-named narrator is in an adult education French class who rebel against the difficult novel their teacher has assigned as homework. ![]()
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Koshchei the deathless hellboy6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() To ensure that Rasputin's spirit would always be safe, Baba Yaga placed half of it within the roots of Yggdrasil, the world tree. She told the monk that the fates had chosen him to be their agent of change, father of the new millennium. In 1895, prior to the downfall of the Romanov's rule in Russia, Baba Yaga contacted a young Grigori Rasputin. She appeared in the 2019 film Hellboy, portrayed by Emma Tate and Troy James. Baba Yaga was a legendary witch of Russian folklore that lived inside a chicken leg house, and counted dead men's fingers. Based on the Russian folklore character of the same name, the character was created by Mike Mignola. ![]() ![]() Baba Yaga is a fictional supervillain in the comic book series Hellboy. ![]() Gone To Be Snakes Now by Neal Bell6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() “Course Ah knowed it! That’s how come Ah done it.” He slapped his leg with his hand and almost rolled on the ground in his mirth. “Sykes, what you throw dat whip on me like dat? You know it would skeer me–looks just like a snake, an’ you knows how skeered Ah is of snakes.” She lifted her eyes to the door and saw him standing there bent over with laughter at her fright. Then she saw that it was the big bull whip her husband liked to carry when he drove. It softened her knees and dried her mouth so that it was a full minute before she could cry out or move. Just then something long, round, limp and black fell upon her shoulders and slithered to the floor beside her. She squatted in the kitchen floor beside the great pile of clothes, sorting them into small heaps according to color, and humming a song in a mournful key, but wondering through it all where Sykes, her husband, had gone with her horse and buckboard. It was so much neater than a number of bundles lying around. A great hamper in the bedroom held the clothes that she brought home. Sunday night after church, she sorted them and put the white things to soak. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things. But she was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours by this time. ![]() It was eleven o’clock of a Spring night in Florida. ![]() Still Life by Melissa Milgrom6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Milgrom has in Still Life opened up a whole world to readers." - Chicago Tribune " literate, fascinating history." - People "Hilarious but respectful." - Washington Post "Engrossing." - New Yorker " delightful debut. ![]() ![]() Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, Milgrom takes us deep into the world of taxidermy and reveals its uncanny appeal. She even picks up a scalpel and stuffs her own squirrel. Milgrom tags along with a Canadian bear trapper and three-time World Taxidermy Champion as he re-creates an extinct Irish elk using DNA studies and Paleolithic cave art for reference. Into this subculture of intensely passionate animal lovers ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose trek stretches from the family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an English sculptor preserves the animals for Damien Hirst’s most disturbing artwork. Yet few realize that behind these "stuffed" animals is a world of intrepid hunterexplorers, eccentric naturalists, and museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Taxidermy is everywhere these days-from hip restaurants to posh clothing stores. ![]() ![]() The printed book, according to Ginzburg, created internal conflict within Menocchio and his traditional oral culture and also allowed him the ability to articulate his ideas and beliefs. The accounts of witnesses, neighbors, and contemporaries of Menocchio’s, as well as his own testimony, reveal a puzzling and obscure worldview set against the backdrop of two events that helped shape the modern world: the printing revolution and the Reformation. The two trial transcripts for Menocchio’s heresy, dated 15, tell the story of an ordinary and well-liked man by contemporary standards with extraordinary ideas about religion and the cosmos. The story of Menocchio emerged from the Inquisitorial documents housed in the archives of the Curia Arcivescovile in Udine, the Friulian region of Italy. ![]() ![]() The book tells the story of an obscure miller names Menocchio. In this new edition, the relevancy of The Cheese and the Worms is reaffirmed in the scholarship. Set to celebrate its fortieth anniversary next year, the monograph persists as one of the earliest and most influential examples of microhistory. First published in Italian in 1976, Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms has now been published in more than twenty languages. ![]() The bottoms joe lansdale6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “We are huge fans of Frailty so we were beyond thrilled to find out that Paxton has wanted this to be his next directorial project for some time. “We’ve been obsessed with The Bottoms since we first read it,” says Paradise City’s Nicholas Shumaker. Paradise City recently co-financed and co-produced Jim Mickle’s Sundance pic Cold In July which was also based on a book by Lansdale. With a story and script this good, we have a chance to make a bonafide classic. The screenwriter Brent Hanley and I have been looking to team up again, since Frailty and when we read Joe’s book The Bottoms, we knew we had hit pay dirt. “His stories and characters are vivid, original and indelible. “I have been a big fan of Joe Lansdale’s writing since the Hap And Leonard novels,” Paxton says. ![]() Related: Berlin: Memento Films International Builds Paradise City Label Staffs Up In London ![]() The way of kings book 26/4/2023 ![]() Dalinar believes he is tasked with uniting the high princes. ![]() Kaladin often converses with a spren named Syl, who seems to follow him around.ĭuring Highstorms, Dalinar has visions in which he sees the Knights Radiant through the eyes of those around them. He joins Bridge Four and eventually becomes their leader. Kaladin, trained in medicine, is enslaved as a bridgeman for Sadeas’s army. Before his death, the king told his brother, Dalinar, to use an ancient book called The Way of Kings. This act brings on the War of Reckoning between the Alethi and the Parshendi. Szeth is a Surgebinder and has a Shardblade. ![]() ![]() He did not want to kill the man but was forced to. Szeth is a Shin, and his masters are the Parshendi. Szeth, the Assassin in White, kills King Gavilar Kholin of Alethkar. Thousands of years pass without another Desolation. The nine use this to their advantage and break the Oathpact abandoning Talen, the one who died, to torment. Usually, they die and then are reborn to fight again. He finds that this time, nine of the ten have survived. ![]() He arrives at a meeting place where he and the other Heralds (leaders of the Knights Radiant) gather after battles. Kalak picks his way across a field in the aftermath of the Desolation, a battle he has repeatedly fought and died in for centuries. If you are looking for more in-depth details and definitions please visit this recap at Off-Planet Books. ![]() First person murakami6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. ![]() He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ![]() The witchery isabelle6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() We ordered bread for the table but wished we hadn't. My friends all said their food was fine but there was no raving. ![]() ![]() The halibut was fine but the tarte tatin was delicious and certainly the best part of my meal. I ordered the haggis as a starter, halibut as a main and my husband and I shared the tarte tatin. There was absolutely no interaction throughout the whole evening. Service was ok but I couldn't for the life of me pick out our. The setting is lovely but somehow it just fell short of being an amazing dining experience. Visited for dinner mid week and booked a table for 4 in the secret garden. 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Clark6/3/2023 ![]() As the Chair of the Integrated Care System Health Inequalities Network, he is working across places to raise awareness and build the capacity and capability in the system to tackle health inequalities.Īde is Co-Chair for the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Network of NHS England and NHS Improvement and was awarded an MBE for services to Global Health policy. In Bradford District and Craven, he is working with organisations, community partnerships and primary care networks to embed a population health management approach to reduce health inequalities and develop the district inequalities action plan alongside public health colleagues and system partners to address the wider determinants of health. ![]() Sohail is passionate about system working and harnessing the power of communities. ![]() He holds the fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, membership of the Royal College of Physicians, MSc in diabetes and an executive MBA. He is also a GP partner in Bradford City and a GP with special interest in diabetes. Sohail has been working in the NHS since 2003 and has previously worked as the Clinical Chair of Bradford City Clinical Commissioning Group and Clinical Director of Community Services in Salford Royal Foundation Trust. ![]() |