![]() ![]() ![]() "He is currently even more forlorn behind metal gates while the building is under construction." "Margaret Mahy and her Lion in the Meadow should be celebrated in this town," she said. The recent consideration of the move was brought about by a letter to mayor Judy Turner by Julie Smith, a receptionist at Whakatāne Intermediate School, who was worried the statue would be forgotten about in the redevelopment and that its current location was not prominent enough. When the library was moved to its current location at Te Kōputu a te Whanga a Toi, some people felt the lion should have gone with it, while others argued that it should stay in the courtyard named after the author. The site was chosen for the statue, and the courtyard it lounges in, because at that time it was at the entrance to Whakatāne's library where many of her books are enjoyed by children. Wellington artist Jonathan Campbell was commissioned by the Molly Morpeth Canaday Trust in recognition that Whakatāne was the birthplace of the much-loved New Zealand children's author. ![]() The lion, a character from Mahy's first published children's book, A Lion in the Meadow (1969), has been in Margaret Mahy Court since 2007. The bronze statue's position has been a sore point with some Whakatāne residents since the relocation of the library to Esplanade Mall in 2012. The Beacon photography department has transposed an image of the lion statue onto the lawn in front of Te Koputu just to see how it looks. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Colthurst diana![]() The Prince of Wales was enjoying a life with Camilla Parker Bowles. ![]() I was nursing a secret and the secret was a dangerous one: The Prince and Princess of Wales were living separate lives. When you were on the subway, you stood back from the platform edge. “I’ve always felt that doing the Diana biography was a royal version of ‘All the President’s Men.’ You saw danger in shadows, you were kind of nervous. ![]() Speaking to TODAY, biographer Morton recalled the stress of writing the book, a process of which Colthurst was a part. How Princess Diana's tell-all biography by Andrew Morton came to be.Diana's biographer Andrew Morton says watching 'The Crown' was like 'seeing a ghost'. ![]() ![]() Born to a respectable landed family, he lived as much as circumstances permitted within a world of books. Although his skeptical account of the early church fathers shocked contemporary reviewers, the work became an instant best seller, changingįorever how historians go about the business of imagining the past. ![]() Proved incapable of resisting barbarian invasion and the spread of militant Christianity. ![]() The civic values that had produced greatness in the first place, and in six imposing volumes titled ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,'' Gibbon recounted how this dominant civilization However powerful Rome may once have appeared, it failed to sustain N the second century of the Christian era,'' Edward Gibbon announced, ''the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth,Īnd the most civilized portion of mankind.'' Few educated readers in 1776 could possibly have missed the irony of Gibbon's opening sentence. Volume Two: Narratives of Civil Government. ![]() Volume One: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764. A study of the intellectual path taken by Edward Gibbon, whose curiosity was unquenchable. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The mist king book 1![]() David shoots his son and the other passengers off-camera. When the fuel runs out, they agree to use the last four bullets in David's gun to kill themselves before the surrounding creatures can get to them. The ending follows David and his son after they manage to escape the market, driving with three other survivors in the direction of Portland. The film shows the residents struggling to adapt to an ever-worsening situation, eventually succumbing to panic and mob violence. ![]() The story, which explores the tensions and moral dilemmas that emerge when people are forced to face an overwhelming threat, is told from the perspective of David, a movie poster painter who's trapped inside the store with his son. The Mist revolves around a group of residents from a small town who take refuge in a supermarket as a deadly mist surrounds the area. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments King Lear by William Shakespeare![]() ![]() An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom-one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play. ![]() Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The fermata book![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong." Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, The Fermata gains little from synopsis. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions-always, in his view, with respect and love. The Fermata Nicholson Baker Vintage, 1994 - Domestic fiction - 303 pages 16 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified A story about. His "Fold-powers" are easier he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. The Fermata is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Babel book kuang![]() Kuang’s Poppy War trilogy is one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of the last few years. Are Robin and his fellow members revolutionaries? Or are they doomed to be powerless witnesses to the march of empire? Sensitive to the injustices wrought by Babel and silver-working, Robin joins the Hermes Society, a secret organization that steals silver and sabotages the expansion of British power from within. Throughout his years of study, Robin hopes to eventually attain the highest knowledge Babel offers: the mysteries of silver-working, a magical process that has helped the British Empire maintain its worldwide dominance for decades. He arrives in an alternate Oxford, England, in 1828 and is thrust into lessons in language so that he might one day join the prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, also known as Babel. When the family of a young boy named Robin Swift dies of cholera, a stern English professor takes him away from China. Norrell, Babel is a methodical, unforgiving examination of the cost of power and the pain of achieving it. A standalone fantasy that takes its cues from The Secret History and Jonathan Strange & Mr. ![]() Kuang’s Babel perfectly employs Oxford as a backdrop for the story of a group of eager students in the middle of a magical war. What dangerous texts might its highest towers and deepest libraries contain? R.F. ![]() ![]() With its hundreds of spires and stone facades, Oxford University looks like a cathedral of knowledge, unassailable and ancient. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments This Christmas by Jeannie Moon![]() ![]() ![]() Yet before Gwen and Taylor can decide exactly where their new relationship is going, life takes a tragic turn, bringing Gwen face to face with the only other woman she’s ever loved. But what happens when she becomes intimate with someone she already loves? Ignoring the warning bells can only work for so long. When she learns that Gwen wants to finally explore the attraction between them, she can’t help but agree. She won’t ever put herself in the position to lose herself in someone else again. Oh, she’s had it before, and it led to the biggest mistake of her life. Taylor Matthews doesn’t believe in love for herself. So, she’ll hold on to her heart as best she can and hope that she and Taylor can keep their friendship when things end. All Gwen can do is remember the lessons she learned when she was young – she can’t trust love to last. But she has no illusions: Taylor isn’t interested in happy ever afters. Realizing she can’t put the djinn back in the bottle, she decides the only thing she can do is give in and finally experience what being with Taylor is like. Emotions that are making it harder and harder to suppress her attraction to her coworker and longtime friend, Taylor Matthews. Going to EJ and Jinx’s wedding has stirred up all kinds of emotions for Gwen Jamison. Embracing the Moon by Jeannie Levig is a contemporary, friends-to-lovers romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet to fans of the book, the movie is a long way from being talismanic, certainly not at the level-sorry, Kurt-that David O. It looks just swell, and it’s generally the opposite of a travesty. At the very least, Hill’s Slaughterhouse-Five is sturdy, intelligent, interestingly cast, and often very affecting. Calling the result “flawless,” he effusively added, “I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.” Upping the ante, he said the only other writer who should feel comparably grateful was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. But Kurt Vonnegut made an exception for George Roy Hill’s 1972 screen version of Slaughterhouse-Five. ![]() Because they’d grown up at their local Rialto, they took movieland’s bungling depredations personally. American novelists used to be notorious for grousing about how Hollywood loused up their books. ![]() ![]() ![]() "O'Hara, a key interpreter of the aesthetics of abstract-expressionism, was a vital presence in New York's dynamic postwar art world, whether as a curator at the Museum of Modem Art, a visionary critic, a lushly original and lyrical poet, or an unflagging, often outrageous socialite." -Donna Seaman, Booklist "Moving in the way that only simple communication can be moving. ![]() |