![]() ![]() Much to my pleasant surprise, while I was writing Mastered, the two of the three main characters for book three presented themselves and even started to tell their story. When I wrote Dark Elves I: Taken, I already knew what book two was going to be but I wasn’t sure what came after that. Now that I am an author, I can say for certain that it’s hard not to pick up those strands and go with them. The first book tells that first story but there’s almost always strands of other stories, characters with things to show, waiting for the author to pick them up and write about them. You get to see the world through one character’s viewpoint - okay, sometimes there are other characters too but work with me here - and there’s your introduction. There’s no way you could just visit for one book and never go there again. ![]() ![]() Such epic worlds! Even the ones that are close to reality. Didn’t seem worth it to me.Īs you can probably tell by my favorites, I was, and still am, a fan of fantasy and I don’t think there’s another genre that lends itself so well to multiple books. ![]() There was a time in my life that I wouldn’t bother to pick up a new book if it wasn’t at least part of a trilogy. Lately, my favorites include Laurel K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels books and Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson. I also liked the classics, Tolkien and Frank Herbert. My very favorites - the ones that have stuck in my psyche through the years - were Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series and Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This relationship, including Lydia's smothering love for him, is examined in depth in Lawrence's largely autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers (1913). After Bert nearly died from pneumonia, Lydia devoted herself to him. One of his older brothers, Ernest, died from the skin disease erysipelas, and Lydia sank into grief. The experiment was unsuccessful, and at age 16 he began working as a clerk in a surgical appliance factory. Lawrence's mother, Lydia Beardsall, an intellectually ambitious woman disillusioned with her husband's dead-end job and irresponsible drinking habits, encouraged her children to advance beyond their restrictive environment.īert, a sickly, bookish child, won a scholarship to Nottingham High School in 1898. By the time Bert (as Lawrence was known), the fourth child, was born, the family had settled in Eastwood for good. Lawrence's father, Arthur, was a miner, and the mining boom of the 1870s had taken the family around Nottinghamshire. 11, 1885 in the small coal-mining village of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in central England. The controversial themes for which he is remembered-namely, the celebration of sensuality in an over-intellectualized world-and his relationship with censors sometimes overshadow the work of a master craftsman and profound thinker. Best known for his novels, Lawrence was also an accomplished poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, and travel writer. David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence was one of the most versatile and influential writers in 20th-century literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read the passage from Sophie's paper on Response to Erik of Sweden.Īlthough Queen Elizabeth is polite, she also seems a bit annoyed. In the sentence, the writer describes the central idea. Highborn Elizabethan women lived difficult, suffocating lives with many rules and few choices. Read the sentence from a paper on Elizabethan Women. Which sentence from Response to Erik of Sweden is the best textual evidence for Ethan to use to support his inference? And while we perceive there from that the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. Queen Elizabeth thinks Erik of Sweden is needlessly vain. Read Ethan's inference about Response to Erik of Sweden. ![]() ![]() What’s one of the most surprising facts you’ve come across while researching your poetry? Many of your books celebrate the beauties of nature, especially little-known parts of nature. I remember in grade school a couple friends and I created a "graphic novel" (we called it a cartoon) based on magical versions of ourselves. Read what you love and trying writing in the same style. I would urge young writers to try all different kinds of writing. What would you say to encourage those kids who feel the same drive? Welcome, Joyce! You’ve said that, for you, writing was a compulsion that began as a child. ![]() Sidman is an award-winning poet who won the Newbery Honor for her book of poetry, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, and who was recognized with the NCTE Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry for her lifetime achievements as a children’s poet. Today we have a very special guest on the blog, poet Joyce Sidman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist, though in many ways seemingly commonplace, is a multifaceted woman encompassing a variety of roles such as lover, parent, friend, and breadwinner. The series, for which Weems herself posed as the main subject, is set at a woman’s kitchen table-a domestic stage-revealing intimate moments of her life as the story unfolds. The Kitchen Table Series (1990), for instance, is one of Weems’ most seminal works, and widely considered one of the most important bodies of contemporary photography. Her work is organized into cohesive bodies that function like chapters in a perpetually unfolding narrative, demonstrating her gift as a storyteller. Over the last 30 years of her prolific career, Weems has been consistently ahead of her time and an ongoing presence in contemporary culture. Activism is central to Weems’ practice, which investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Over the course of nearly four decades, Weems has developed a complex body of work employing text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video, but she is most celebrated as a photographer. 1953 Portland, OR lives and works in Syracuse, NY) is widely renowned as one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. ![]() ![]() When the Pueblo tribe in New Mexico rebelled in 1680, the fleeing Spaniards abandoned their steeds. In the sixteenth century, the first conquistadors in Mexico had brought horses from Spain. The Comanche had a four-legged creature to thank for this transformation. “In exchange for meaningless promises of allegiance to Mexico (of which Texas was still a part) several Parker family heads were each given grants of 4600 acres.” This was prime real estate-heavily timbered, with meadowlands, springs, creeks, and plenty of fish and fowl. “The deal they were offered seemed almost too good to be true,” writes Gwynne. The saga begins in 1833 when 30 oxcarts carried "an extended family of religious, enterprising transplanted easterners known to their neighbors as the Parker Clan” from Illinois to Texas. In Quanah Parker, Gwynne has found the perfect vehicle for telling that story. But while this is a non-fiction book about war, it is equally a book about two nations trying to control their destinies by whatever means necessary. ![]() Gwynne, the former executive editor of Texas Monthly, details the atrocities perpetrated by each side in living color to do otherwise would be dishonest. ![]() In truth, the forty-year battle between the Comanche and the white man for control of the Great Plains and Texas was not so antiseptic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. This sixth volume in The Flash by Geoff Johns series collects Final Rogues' Revenge #1-3, The Rebirth #1-6, and Blackest The Flash #1-3, featuring art by Scott Kolins ( Blue Beetle, Avengers ) and Ethan Van Sciver ( Green Lantern, New X-Men ). Now continue the unforgettable experience that Johns created during his tenure in these amazing tales of the Flash-the Scarlet Speedster. Writer Geoff Johns took over The Flash in the early 2000s and redefined the comic book icon for a new generation. Someone is trying to recreate the accident that gave Barry his speed powers! But there's a purpose to his return that no one could have guessed, and it has to do with a bizarre murder in a Central City crime lab. Every hero in the DC Universe is overjoyed, save for Barry himself. It's a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war - but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it?īarry Allen's heroic death defending the universe from a cosmic crisis made him a legend, and now another crisis has brought him back to life. ![]() Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. ![]() ![]() When Barry Allen awakens at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the disease that took his mom’s life, Adam’s dropped out of university and returned home to Doha to tell his dad and sister. While this is Adam and Zayneb’s love story, it’s so much more. When they meet in Heathrow Airport, Adam notices that Zayneb’s journal is like his own, but fails to point it out until well after they’ve reached their destination of Doha, Qatar. Alternating between Adam and Zayneb’s points-of-view, Love from A to Z is written in a journal-like narrative, each entry headlined by a relevant marvel or oddity. They each got the idea years and continents apart from a book called The Marvels of Creation and the Oddities of Existence. People see marvels and oddities every day, but Adam and Zayneb write them down in their own journals. 52 “Love From A to Z” Is A Journal Like Narrative Headlined By A Relevant Marvel Or Oddity ![]() ![]() In addition to filmmaking, Waters also works as a visual artist across media such as installation, photography and sculpture. ![]() ![]() In 2015, the British Film Institute celebrated Waters with a retrospective honoring his five decades in filmmaking. The 1988 film Hairspray became a runaway success, eventually being adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical. ![]() After he found more commercial success with the 1981 hit Polyester, Waters still retained the tongue-in-cheek outrageousness that made him such a cult favorite. His Trash Trilogy ( Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living) pushed the boundaries of conventional propriety and film censorship. Early films celebrate the notion of camp-particularly within the genres of exploitation comedy and transgressive cult films-presenting exaggerated characters in outrageous situations, with hyperbolic dialogue and alliterated character names. Born in Baltimore, his work draws inspiration from the city’s culture and landscape, and his early film works were all shot in and around the city, including his first short film, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964), which was produced for just $30. An uncompromising cultural force and the so-called “Pope of Trash”, Waters bridges the gap between high and low art with a lively counterculture aesthetic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The one person she trusts is the family factotum, Dogger the gardener, a shell-shocked war comrade of her father the Colonel. ![]() Hewitt doesn’t believe her, of course, and she is forced to solve the crime between making trips to her attic sanctum, poisoning her sister Ophelia’s lipstick and ignoring her sister Daphne, who always has her nose in a book. When Inspector Hewitt arrests her father, Flavia decides that her confession will save him. Creeping out to the cucumber patch below her window to see more, she finds a man who breathes out the word “Vale,” then expires. Then young Flavia awakens in the dead of night to hear her taciturn father, who normally saves his passion for his stamp collection, arguing with someone. First the cook finds a dead snipe with a stamp jammed on its beak on the doorstep. A precocious 11-year-old chemist confesses to murder.īuckshaw, the de Luce ancestral home, is in a bit of an uproar. ![]() |