![]() I’m celebrating.īatgirl #35 - Babs’ OOTD No. These women have come together to share the beauty and wonder of comic books. Gail Simone and Babs Tarr in one panel? I wish I had been able to go and see it in person! (though I would have gone completely bananas trying to figure out which Batgirl cosplay to wear.) Positive reinforcement of what we like to see can only mean that we get to see more of it, right? life-affirming! Let’s celebrate when our favorite companies do something right. I think it’s important to have a moment where we don’t ruin our own enjoyment of things just because a few people in the industry have made some bad choices.Ĭomic books can be crazy amazing. I think it’s important to celebrate the victories. Today I want it to mean: I think there should be a POSITIVE counter for stuff DC Comics (and heck, Marvel too) did. ![]() ![]() However, one quote that my friend Abby Dark-Star likes to share is “be the change you want to see.” That can mean different things of course- be a force for good, share your good fortune with others, etc. ![]() ![]() DC Comics has a long standing history of doing stupid (and sexist) stuff. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Gill gives us a marvelous book that is engaging and thoughtful about what constitutes beauty and why we need it."-Lee Trepanier, The Russell Kirk Center And, as Gill shows, this view had a huge impact on the development of natural religion, moral sense theory, aesthetics, and environmentalism.Ĭombining captivating historical details and flashes of humor, A Philosophy of Beauty not only rediscovers and illuminates a fascinating philosopher but also offers an inspiring reflection about the role beauty can play in our lives. ![]() But Shaftesbury argued that nature, religion, virtue, and art can all be truly beautiful, and that cherishing and cultivating beauty is what makes life worth living. In A Philosophy of Beauty, Michael Gill presents an engaging account of how Shaftesbury’s thought profoundly shaped modern ideas of nature, religion, morality, and art-and why, despite its long neglect, it remains compelling today.īefore Shaftesbury’s magnum opus, Charactersticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), it was common to see wilderness as ugly, to associate religion with fear and morality with unpleasant restriction, and to dismiss art as trivial or even corrupting. At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in English. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Season Two is based on Dead Lions, the second in Herron’s series of Slough House novels, and focuses on Lamb’s investigation of the death of a former officer. ![]() Of course, you wouldn’t have a series if the misfits weren’t frequently embroiled in the grander machinations of the intelligence community. Led by the “colorful” Jackson Lamb, the Slow Horses are often left doing administrative donkeywork nobody else thinks is worth doing. It focuses, once again, on the staff members of Slough House, the closest thing MI5 has to purgatory for disgraced intelligence officers. The show’s second season, which returns to Apple TV+ on December 2nd, carries on in that vein, albeit with less of the show’s trademark humor. ![]() Mixed with a shot or two of black comedy, and it made for a surprisingly gripping package I felt compelled to rave about back in April. What viewers found, however, was a low-stakes spy drama with the sort of pulpy, throwback thrills that you rarely see in our more self-serious age. It was yet another Apple TV hit whose marketing hadn’t done well enough to connect with audiences, relying instead on word of mouth. Slow Horses was something of a slow-burning surprise when its first season launched back in April. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted in this it will be retained that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. Some have asked what I got to eat if I did not feel lonesome if I was not afraid and the like. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s your favorite thing about writing? Is there a “best” part of the process? Does anyone have her shopping list? Send it to me!!! I’ll read anything she writes, even her shopping list. I read a little of everything, but I am addicted to Ilona Andrews. What kind of books do you enjoy reading? Do you have a favorite author, series, book? Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Chloe Neill, Shannon Mayer, Jim Butcher ![]() I couldn’t resist asking her about gardening and her inspiration for a character as unique as Nell! In advance of the novel’s release, I had a chance to ask author Faith Hunter some questions. The Soulwood series details the adventures of PsyLED Agent Nell Ingram, a bewitching woman who draws power from deep within the Earth. The latest novel in the Soulwood series, Circle of the Moon, is available on February 26 from Ace Mass Market Original. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through him he became involved in London's high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became business manager of Irving's Lyceum Theater, a post he held for 27 years. In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. His interest in theater led to a lifelong friendship with the English actor Henry Irving. In 1876, while he was employed as a civil servant in Dublin, he wrote theater reviews for The Dublin Mail, a newspaper partly owned by fellow horror writer J. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on "Sensationalism in Fiction and Society". After his recovery, he became a normal young man even excelling as an athlete at Trinity College, Dublin (1864–70), from which he was graduated with honors in mathematics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Genre Blindness: Most of the main characters, with a healthy dose of It's Probably Nothing and Arbitrary Skepticism thrown in.Follow the Leader: The Blackstone Chronicles, a Serial Novel, was published less than a year after Stephen King's Serial Novel The Green Mile became a runaway success.Exactly Exty Years Ago: The prologue to nearly every Saul book is a scene from 20, 30, 50, or 100 years ago explaining the origins of the evil to follow (the prologue is often even labelled "X Years Ago").Evilutionary Biologist: The God Project, Creature and Brainchild.that when you have a scary scene, it broadens the scope of possibilities if you have children involved." ![]() Creepy Child: That Other Wiki quotes Saul as saying "I always find.Boarding School of Horrors: The Devil's Labyrinth and Punish the Sinners.Abandoned Hospital: The Blackstone Chronicles.Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope (1997).In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief (1997).Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame (1997).The man has an official website, which can be reached here. Therefore many tropes apply to all his novels, frequently in the same context every time. repetitive, especially in his earlier works. ![]() John Saul (born February 25, 1942) is an American author from California, specializing in suspense and horror novels akin to Dean Koontz and Stephen King.Ī lot of Saul's books tend to be a little. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the lights go out, the revelers realize that someone' s idea of a party game just may be murder. And it looks like someone' s idea of a party game is murder A beautiful and mysterious transfer student is throwing an exclusive costume party for Halloween. ![]() Now the guests trick-or-treating has turned to terror. But when the lights came back on, there was a boy on the floor with a knife in his back. ![]() That' s to be expected at the Halloween party. The party was well under way when the lights went out. The inside showed a coffin with the inscription 'reserved for You' - perfect for an al-night Halloween party in an old house on Fear Street. The invitation arrived in a black-borderred envelope and was delivered by the beautiful and mysterious transfer student. FEAR STREET - WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has opened up important new avenues for Salem scholarship." -Bernard Rosenthal, editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt "Tragic and fascinating. She displays the same sharp intelligence and eclectic interests that distinguish her body of work." -Publishers Weekly (Most Anticipated Books of the Fall) "Schiff has beautifully combined remarkable story telling with historical accuracy and insight. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard University "A vivid picture of 1692 Massachusetts brings the Salem trials to life." -Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express News "Schiff's books are based on serious scholarly research, yet they're conveyed in bright, accessible prose. ![]() ![]() " The Witches is as close as we will ever come to understanding what happened in and around Salem in 1692. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the real lesson is that politics is framed in terms of group identity rather than a language of common citizenship, the best intentions in the world cannot prevent a slide into anarchy. ![]() ![]() Wolpert is right in arguing that the British state needed to manage its responsibilities better. Nor has there been a single post-colonial society that has escaped large-scale violence once the problem of representation has been framed in communal terms. You go for simple one person, one vote and the threat of majoritarianism looms you give minorities veto power or proportionally high representation and you set up a politics of majoritarian backlash.Įver since the negotiations of 1905, there was no credible solution to this conundrum. The blunt truth is that once the question of representation is framed in terms of minorities and majorities, there is no stable solution to what counts as adequate power sharing. Second, India's Partition needs to be put in a comparative perspective. Even if each of the characters in this drama had great integrity, you could have still ended up with disaster. Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britains decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. The snap judgements of hindsight do little to advance our understanding of how complex this process of nation building was. ![]() |