![]() However, not only is The Vanished Birds a cautionary tale about the rather ominous future that awaits if we don’t change our current situation, environmentally speaking, but also an exploration of how our conception of humanity will also evolve…for the worse. ![]() Simon Jimenez’s debut novel offers a thoughtful glimpse into a distant future, where humanity has not bothered to try and fix the ravage of pollution, greed, and carelessness towards our environment. All of these tied together by the haunting music created by the boy’s flute. A space crew that has lost its purpose and sense of belonging after years of travelling through space, free from the constrains of time. A young boy that falls from the sky and who is destined for greatness, but not yet ready to change the future. An immense array of worlds full of life to discover and resources for soulless corporations to exploit. The descendants of Earthlings inhabit spaceships resembling long vanished birds that once populated the planet. ![]() A fiery heaven all its own.”Ī distant future, where Earth is long gone. Judging by what I hear now-the flute song through my open door-it is most likely something in between. ![]() ![]() “ One day, I will ask what it is he hears, when he hears the notes of music: the infernal, or the celestial. ![]()
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![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. In their introduction Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill's other works, and argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism and to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world. These essays are central to the liberal tradition, but their interpretation and how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious. ![]() They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century, tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty, the basic principles of ethics, the benefits and the costs of representative institutions, and the central importance of gender equality in society. ![]() ‘it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings’ Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. ![]() ![]() But there is also those behind the attack on Simplicity, and they will stop at nothing to get her back. There's Charlie, the journalist and aspiring novelist, and associate Henry,both well-to-do men who are concerned about the state of London's poor. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Dodger saves the life of a young woman, calling herself Simplicity, who escapes from a carriage, he finds himself under unwanted attention from corners both benign and malevolent. And so many people in the rookeries and other low places of London know him. The street-savvy kid known as Dodger is a little more fortunate than most, in that he has lodgings and a man looking after him. The life of a tosher is a hard one, scavenging valuables from the muck of London's sewers. And anyone thinking that this will be a Pratchettian take on Oliver Twist is in for a twist themselves. ![]() Now, four years later, he comes to Victorian London, a setting that seems so much like Ankh-Morpork of the Discworld books. In 2008, Pratchett published the alternate history novel Nation, a good but serious work. Much of Terry Pratchett's output is occupied by his famous Discworld series, but of late, it seems that he is making a comeback to original novels, particularly for younger readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such is the aura of sacredness that attaches to the High Priest of Pathos that dissident views are treated as heresy. ![]() lang, and currently in contention for the most overperformed song in history-and you’ve got yourself a prophet. The haunting title track, featuring backing vocals by the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir, makes you feel like Cohen is in direct communion with God as he proclaims, in the Biblical tongue of his ancestors, “Hineni, hineni/ I’m ready, my Lord.” Add to this the massive success of “Hallelujah”-ignored when first released in the eighties, resurrected by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, and k.d. The posthumous hagiography attests to the power of Cohen’s religious imagery, which arguably reached its peak in his final album, You Want It Darker. ![]() ![]() The former enfant terrible of Canadian arts and letters-erstwhile refuser of Governor General’s awards, ingestor of drugs on Greek islands, recipient of head on unmade beds-has transmogrified, through death, into a holy figure. The description is not hyperbole or metaphor but an accurate assessment of Cohen’s immaculate status in the current zeitgeist. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has a social media following on Twitter and Instagram that tops 114,000, and her third book of essays, Wow, No Thank You, was released last month on the heels of 2017’s bestselling We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Irby, a comedian and author who began the blog bitchesgottaeat in 2009, is known for her blunt candor about her body, her health (emotional and physical), and sex with men and women. “I mean, enjoy the ride until you unfollow me in protest.” She chuckles, musing that her readers and The New Yorker’s might not have previously overlapped. “Not everything I do will be New Yorker quality,” she cautions. 27 edition, but she wants to manage expectations. Her work was published in The New Yorker’s Jan. Samantha Irby is a funny person, but she’ll tell you she’s not a happy one.Įven though her success is growing, she’s nervous about paychecks. ![]() ![]() ![]() From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects when she was six, Lindsay and her mother avoided the dead people haunting their house by hiding out in a mall food court, and on a camping trip, in an effort to rid her daughter of demons, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire. ![]() Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo” - Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A classic 1952 novel about the Pilgrimage of Grace, when King Henry VIII was almost toppled by Northern England's opposition the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Followed by two sequels, Bring Up the Bodies, about the downfall and trial of Anne Boleyn, and The Mirror & the Light, about Thomas Cromwell's final years in Henry's dangerous court. Thomas Cromwell earns King Henry VIII's favor, but what will be the price of his triumph? Winner of the 2009 Booker Prize for Fiction. Henry tells the story of his 36-year reign and six marriages. The King's Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII by Alison Weir. If you like big, romantic historical novels, this one's for you. An entertaining novel narrated by the king himself. The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George. 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![]() ![]() Bone shards come from each child as they come of age. Bone shards power the golem-like constructs that act as guards, spies, and warriors. You see, bone shard magic is what the emperor uses to protect his people from the ancient race that used to enslave the population. But Lin will do whatever it takes to get ahead, even if it means sneaking around the palace to get the information she needs. Instead, her current life is full of competition with Bayan, a young man who is also learning the bone shard magic and may take her place as emperor if he learns it better than her. She doesn’t remember her mother (long since dead), her childhood, or the bond shard magic lessons she’s supposedly been learning from her father the years previous. ![]() Her father–the emperor–said her amnesia is the result of an illness that stole her memories. Lin doesn’t remember much before the day she woke in the room with the chrysanthemum ceiling. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book purports that reading the tarot deck can be a therapeutic experience and, what’s more, the tarot deck has links to Christianity. So you could imagine my cynicism when Brittany Muller’s The Contemplative Tarot crossed my writing desk. ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say, that deck quickly gathered dust - I think its fate was that it was consigned to being placed in one of my parents’ yard sales, though I’m not exactly sure. I quickly realized that if I wanted to get any good at offering any divine interpretations, I would have to memorize what all 78 cards in the deck would mean to have any inkling of how to read into it. I was terrible at telling people’s futures. Well, as it would happen, things didn’t turn out that way. I was excited! Now I could see into the future and tell people what was going to happen to them, and maybe charge a pretty coin for the pleasure. Accompanying this gift was another present: a book on how to read the cards and tell fortunes. When I was a teenager, I got a deck of tarot cards for my birthday. I have a story to tell if people would allow me the indulgence (as usual). ![]() |