![]() ![]() Perhaps a major caution or just fyi that I'd like to add to this book, though, which keeps me from wanting to rate it higher is that not all of the book is quite what I'd expected-I'd gone into the book expecting information on the history of colors, which there definitely was, but the book was really more properly half history, half travelogue. The purple chapter, right at the end of the book, was especially interesting to me because I'd known that snails were used for Roman dyes for a long time, and I really enjoyed learning about the process here. I think my favorite chapters were probably green, indigo (which has also always been one of my favorite materials to dye with), and purple. ![]() ![]() It's arranged thematically by color, which chapters for all the colors of the rainbow as well as brown, black, and white. I definitely learned quite a bit about the history of dyes and similar materials from this book. Show More appreciated them then and having read a book several years ago about the history of (in particular) the red cochineal dye, I was really excited when I learned about this book a while ago. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Foxes by Suki Fleet![]() As Danny discovers more about Micky, he realizes that what Micky needs saving from is the one thing Danny can’t help him fight against. ![]() Micky is troubled, fragile, and Danny feels a desperate need to protect him-from what, he doesn’t know. By day he lives in an abandoned swimming pool and fixes electrical devices to trade for supplies, but by night, alone, he hunts sharks-a reckless search for dangerous men who prey on the vulnerable.Ī chance meeting with an American boy selling himself on the streets throws this lonely existence into disarray. But Danny finds interaction difficult and must keep his world small in order to survive. When Dashiel’s body is found dumped on an East London wasteland, his best friend Danny sets out to find the killer. ![]() Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | DreamspinnerĢ016 Rainbow Award Winner – Best Gay Young Adult ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Untold tales spider man omnibus![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Written by Kurt Busiek, Roger Stern, Glenn Greenberg, and Tom DeFalco.Īrt by Paul Lee, Neil Vokes, Terese Nielsen, Alexi Taylor, Greg Loudon, Ken Meyer, Jr., John Romita, Sr., Al Milgrom, Pat Olliffe, Al Vey, Pam Eklund, Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding, Dick Giordano, Al Williamson, Scott Hanna, Bob McLeod, Mike Allred, Joe Sinnott, Tom Lyle, Jay Geldhof, and Robert Jones. Octopus, the Vulture, Sandman and more classic characters - along with some new ones like Batwing and Bluebird - on his way to becoming Marvel's premiere super hero! Swing along with Spidey during a series of untold gems in which he encounters the likes of the Human Torch, Dr. Join acclaimed tale-spinner Kurt Busiek as he weaves an intricate web of "lost" stories from Peter Parker's earliest days as the Amazing Spider-Man! Untold Tales Of Spider-man Omnibus by Kurt Busiek ISBN-13: 9781302928612 Author (s): Kurt Busiek Subject: Graphic novels: superheroes & super-villains Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA Imprint: Marvel - US Publication Date: 25-05-2021 Format: h/b Availability: In stock £94. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments A tale of the wide awake princess![]() ![]() Just when all seems lost, something pretty convenient happens. Just when one is ready for her to return home with an eligible prince for Gwen, something stops her. ![]() Annie goes on a fairly straightforward quest, there and back again, and various obstacles arise in her path. ![]() The plot line is structured similarly to that in Baker’s The Frog Princess. Spotting these little extras thrown into the story is a lot of fun. ![]() For example, Annie wanders into the home of the witch from “Hansel and Gretel,” though her personality is not what one might expect. Of course, the reader soon discovers that Annie is remarkable in her own way all her talents have been earned through hard work, and she has the biggest heart in the kingdom. To start, Annie is not Sleeping Beauty, but her ordinary sister, “blessed” to never have the benefits of magically-enhanced beauty, or embroidery, or poetry. Review: The Wide-Awake Princess is a cute, creative tale that turns a number of fairy-tales on their heads. But first, she needs to figure out who her true love is. Determined to see her family again, Annie embarks on quest to find Gwen’s true love so he can break the spell. When Gwen falls into her enchanted sleep, the rest of the castle household surprisingly sleeps, as well, and only Annie is left awake. So when Annie was born, there was only one fairy, and she gave Annie the gift of being unable to be touched by magic. Summary: Princess Annie’s older sister Gwen was cursed at her christening to prick on finger on a spindle on her sixteenth birthday and sleep for one hundred years. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments 80's jon bon jovi![]() 'Honest to God, I did not,' laughs the singer. This year Bon Jovi and the band have more shows to perform with 15 concerts in the South and Midwest in April, which are expected to be the first leg of a 2022 tour. When Jon Bon Jovi decided, in March last year, to call his next record 2020, he couldnt have known what he was setting himself up for. 'These songs mean a lot': Bon Jovi continues rocking on “I came here to add my voice of thanks to Jon and (his wife) Dorothea for giving so much of your lives to house the homeless and feeding the hungry, training the jobless and reminding us all that underneath our differences, we’re not so different after all,” Clinton said. His Soul Foundation has provided grant funding for almost 1,000 units of “affordable and supportive” housing in 11 different states.įormer President Clinton recognized the rocker's efforts to help others at the Soul Foundation's 10th anniversary in 2016. In addition to music, the rocker is a philanthropist. ![]() Professionally, I've survived trends that have come and gone." Bon Jovi's philanthropy work: 'There are those who advocate, and those who do' “I've been through enough hurting and healing to be here. "Let me tell you, I've earned this gray hair,” the rock legend told USA TODAY in the2020 interview. ![]() ![]() Bon Jovi has since sold more than 130 million albums and is one of the few rock bands that can still fill arenas and stadiums around the world. ![]() ![]() When Reyna eventually learns that her parents have split up, her loyalties shift, and she feels compelled to side with one over the other. ![]() ![]() She explains the cord is an invisible link between Reyna and their mother and that they will always be connected no matter the distance between them. To help her feel better, her sister Mago shows her the spot in their yard where Reyna’s umbilical cord is buried. Still, Reyna feels her parents’ absence deeply. Mago, her 11-year-old sister, acts as mother to Reyna and their brother Carlos. Reyna’s hardships continue, as Evila is a cruel, selfish, and violent woman. Confused and feeling replaced, Grande longs for her father to save her as her mother exits and re-enters her life. Reyna awaits her mother’s return and starts to forget her father when her mother does return, she is accompanied by a new baby. ![]() Eventually, he sends for Reyna’s mother to join him Reyna and her siblings live with their grandmother Evila. Her father leaves the family behind when she is two, hoping to save money and return to Mexico and live in his dream home. ![]() The first part tells of Reyna’s early childhood in an impoverished Mexican village. The Distance Between Us is divided into two parts. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the Underground Man, Russian romantics are better than the French and German for their grounding in reality and traditional values. If he's very conscious of his misery, then it's pleasurable. Once he's in the mire of suffering, he alternates between being a hero and being miserable. Next, we hear about his attacks of the sublime and beautiful (the aesthetic pleasures and awe-inspiring elements of our world) which lead him to misery. The result? He can't be or become anything. Why? Because there are no primary causes (no basic motives he can justify). ![]() (This means he's too aware and too analytical.) This leads to inertia (the inability to act or change). Ready? First, the Underground Man is hyper-conscious. Key terms are italicized, and definitions in parentheses. ![]() But if you're good with the basic tenets and want to jump right to the analysis, feel free. We're going to give you the quick and dirty here in what we hope to be a delightful 60-seconds of reading. The Underground Man goes through a ton of arguments in Notes, each one building on the last. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Untelling by Tayari Jones![]() I’m moving in to “American Marriage” next. She missed the subtleness of the characters and made all the women, save our protagonist, sound like Harriet Winslow from “Family Matters” and all the men sound unintelligent and brut, even though they were clearly written differently. Joness novel Leaving Atlanta (Warner Books, 2002) was a debut fiction winner of the Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, and The Untelling (Warner Books, 2005) won a. The voice actress hurt this audiobook by flattening all of the characters into two personalities. I bought the audiobook because I thought I didn’t connect to the book the first time because my life was a little chaotic then and I couldn’t slow down to the pace of the story. Named one of TIMEs 10 Best Fiction Books of 2018, An American Marriage. This story lumbered in its pace and was less visual than her other work but it’s still Tayari, so it’s the difference between amazing and good. Jones other novels include Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and Silver Sparrow. I fell in love with Tayari Jones’s work after reading “Silver Sparrow” and couldn’t wait to pick up her next piece of literature. I actually bought the paperback of this book about 9 years ago. I’m a Tayari fan but this audio was a little eh. When Aria Jackson was nine, a car accident killed her father and baby sister, forever destroying her familys secure middle-class life. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Brotherhood novel star wars![]() ![]() The story, which details “that business on Cato Nemoidia” that Obi-Wan refers to in Revenge of the Sith is the story of Obi-Wan and the newly-knighted Anakin Skywalker right on the verge of becoming the men we see in The Clone Wars. This sentiment of “I can’t believe this is real” carried me right through Mike Chen’s Brotherhood, and I mean that in the best way possible. I’m actually getting new stories with my fave. ![]() ![]() Even with the evidence right in front of me, I have a hard time believing that this is actually happening. With the prequel era as my favourite Star Wars era, and Obi-Wan Kenobi as my all-time favourite character, it’s been something of an interesting experience this year. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's hard to imagine that any reader wouldn't eagerly turn the page and start right in on the ''Testament of Sister Lucrezia,'' which will doubtless explain how a smart girl from a rich family wound up with an indecent tattoo and a faked disease in a convent far from her home. The second shock, revealed when the younger sister tears open the dead woman's shift ''in a single rip until the corpse was revealed naked on the bed,'' is a tattooed line that thickens, ''rounding itself out from a tail into the body of a snake, silver green in color.'' This serpent curls down the nun's torso until, ''at the point where the snake's body became its head, instead of the reptilian skull was the softer, rounder shape of a man's face: the head thrown back, the eyes closed as if in rapture and the tongue, snake-long still, darting out from his mouth downward toward the opening of Sister Lucrezia's sex.'' ![]() As they remove her habit, the sisters are astonished to discover that the tumor, from which the dying woman suffered mightily in her last days, is actually a pig's bladder, purposefully secreted beneath the cloth to simulate evidence of a disease Sister Lucrezia did not have. Two nuns are assigned the task of preparing for burial the corpse of Sister Lucrezia, who, after 30 years of seclusion, piety and prayer, has died from a tumor on her breast. SARAH DUNANT'S seventh novel opens on a hot summer day in 1528, inside a convent east of Florence. ![]() |