![]() ![]() ![]() While the simplest selections a game of (Winnie the) Pooh Sticks or making a loom for wild weaving with found natural objects are easily grasped, some of the more complex projects such as the one-string guitar or sun clock need much more instruction than provided. The projects are clearly ranked from one stick to three, with the three-stick projects requiring an adult's supervision. Almost every idea is given both a full-color photograph and a page of instructions, so the book works best as inspiration. Here, they've collected dozens of activities, games, and crafts that use sticks as their basic ingredient for fun. "The stick is perhaps the best-loved toy of all time, the starting point for endless adventures," note Schofield and Danks (Make it Wild!: 101 Things to Make and Do Outdoors) in their opening chapter. ![]()
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![]() (My boy Gen is the one complaining.) Art by Emily B. Somehow Costis finds himself fighting beside the king to discover who is friend and who is foe in the king’s own court. ![]() ![]() An unfortunate encounter, however, soon lands Costis in the most unexpected and undesired position possible-personal guard to the king himself. Book 3: The King of AttoliaĬostis is just one of the many Attolians reluctant to accept their new king. In the midst of so many threats and intrigue, two characters find themselves facing a force they never reckoned with, more terrifying than any war: love. Old and new characters tell their stories as Gen suffers an incapacitating loss, the queen of Eddis declares war, and the queen of Attolia stalls the enemy Medes. Rather than punish him for his audacious crime, however, the magus (king’s advisor) recruits Gen for a journey across unfriendly lands to a secret location where, if he is to reclaim his freedom, the thief must steal from the gods themselves. Gen is in prison because he stole the king’s signet ring-a task only an expert thief could accomplish. ![]() ![]() Pinker claims these fears are non sequiturs, and that the blank slate view of human nature would actually be a greater threat if it were true. Much of the book is dedicated to examining fears of the social and political consequences of his view of human nature: the ghost in the machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology).the noble savage (people are born good and corrupted by society)- romanticism.the blank slate (the mind has no innate traits)- empiricism. ![]() Pinker argues that modern science has challenged three "linked dogmas" that constitute the dominant view of human nature in intellectual life: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the grandmother’s encouragement Wasik comes to believe he’s been cursed and the only way to alleviate this condition is to “sacrifice” his seven year old daughter by leaving her at a rural Temple where she’s subjected to the most brutal treatment and forced into slave labour under the guise of spiritual servitude. Her conservative old grandmother comes to live with them and shortly after this her father Wasik is falsely accused of embezzling money from the government and allegations of political corruption. She lives in a comfortable middle class home with her doting parents Wasik who works for the treasury department and Ismae who is a former model. “Praise Song for the Butterflies” is the story of Abeo Kata who is raised in the fictional West African location of Port Masi, Ukemby. ![]() McFadden is an American writer who has published several well regarded novels and a number of romance novels under the name Geneva Holliday, but she hasn’t been widely reviewed in the UK and this is the first of her novels that I’ve read. ![]() One of the things I enjoy most about following the Women’s Prize for Fiction each year is that it always brings to my attention a number of books I might not have come across otherwise and almost certainly wouldn’t have read. ![]() ![]() We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. \”Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father–also a writer–in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: This twenty-fifth anniversary edition will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.įor a quarter century, more than a million readers–scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities–have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. An essential volume for generations of writers young and old, Bird by Bird is a modern classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started 40 years earlier.Īs a lifelong O’Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O’Hara’s past, but also her father’s and her own. ![]() A staggering memoir from New York Times best-selling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet, featuring exclusive archival audio from literary and art world legends, living and dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Zhao stated that "there's no other woman in Chinese history who had a rise through the harem as iconic as hers. ![]() Iron Widow, Zhao's debut novel, was released on September 21, 2021. Rock the Boat, the children's imprint of Oneworld Publications, acquired the UK rights in May 2021. In March 2020, Xiran Jay Zhao signed a two-book deal with Penguin Teen Canada for a reimagining of the rise of Wu Zetian, empress of China during the late 600s. ![]() It won the 2021 BSFA Award for "Best Book for Younger Readers" and has been nominated for two 2022 Locus Awards and the 2022 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Iron Widow is a New York Times Best Seller as of July 2022, the book has remained on the list for 34 weeks. The novel is a mecha reimagining of the rise of the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian set in the nation of Huaxia, a futuristic reinterpretation of Medieval China. Iron Widow is a 2021 Canadian YA science fantasy novel by Xiran Jay Zhao. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sullivan's diaries, for example, are visual feasts.- Bay Area ReporterĪn important HIV/AIDS history as well as important as a gay and trans history.- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Given how many contemporary trans narratives are rooted in trauma, their choice to foreground trans pleasure and sensuality is celebratory, even radical.- Jeremy Lybarger, The New Yorker He lives and works in Philadelphia and is the author of BLACK DOG DRINKING FROM AN OUTDOOR POOL (forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). In 2015, Ozma received a BFA in Community Arts from California College of the Arts in Oakland. Zach Ozma is a poet, potter, and social practice artist. His short films have screened at San Francisco Transgender Film Festival and Trans Stellar Film Festival. He holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from Mills College. ![]() Sullivan left 8.4 cubic feet of archival material from his life and studies to the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, of which he was a founding member.Įllis Martin works with digital derivatives in the interstice of art and archive. ![]() The first publicly gay trans man to medically transition, Lou meticulously journaled his experiences (romantic, lascivious, challenging, quotidian, poetic, political). Sullivan began writing his life in diaries as an adolescent and continued until his death from AIDS complications. San Francisco, 1991) was a writer, activist, typesetter, trans historian and ground breaking queer activist. ![]() ![]() In Animal Farm, Raskatov also incorporates his own allusions to Russia’s fraught political history. In 2010, he adapted the literary masterpiece A Dog’s Heart, creating a compelling and fiery musical piece that was unlike any other. ![]() Raskatov himself is no stranger to adapting fiction to opera. In Alexander Raskatov, the perfect composer for his dream project was found. “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others” – the world news keeps offering up subtle variations on the same theme.ĭamiano Michieletto had always dreamt of adapting Animal Farm, with its powerful characterisations and surprising twists and turns, for the opera stage. The warning in Orwell’s political satire remains relevant today. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a contemporaneous cautionary parable, highlighting how easy it was for the Russian revolution to degenerate into Stalin’s violent dictatorship. ![]() ![]() Next, how on earth would I be able to criticize, even constructively, the work of a writer I admired as much as I admire Louise? A total pro who’d written fifteen novels in fifteen years, each one selling more than the previous, each one proclaimed as “the best yet”? And how would I do it without making the utterly charming and thoroughly professional Louise Penny hate me forever? Number one, about the number of people would gladly murder me in order to be one of Louise’s first readers and get their hands on this novel that wouldn’t be widely available for more than six more months. ![]() I remember feeling several things, as I opened up the manuscript of A Better Man and started reading. By the time we were publishing the tenth and eleventh book in the series, I was getting more and more involved in the work behind the scenes, but it wasn’t until we published A Better Man, the fifteenth book in the series, that I became Louise’s lead editor. I read each Gamache book as it came in and counted myself as a fan. We all thought it was wonderful, but we had no idea where we were headed-to the top of the bestseller lists and the heights of popularity in crime fiction. ![]() I was working at Minotaur Books in 2004 when Still Life was sent in on submission, and in 2006 when we published it, and I remember the excitement over a series that started out modestly but inspired crazy passionate fans even with that first book. ![]() |