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![]() ![]() Mysterious continued visions, dark family secrets, and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. But the seemingly proper girls of Spence reveal various sexualities, passions, and hopes that strain the seams of their strict Victorian education. With corsets, deportment lessons, and rules, Spence Academy shapes prim young ladies. ![]() Such constraint seems the goal of Gemma’s proper finishing school as well. Would revelation of her own strange mental powers cause more scandal than her mother’s outré death? A sexy but suspicious young man has followed Gemma from India, and cryptically warns her to muffle her visions. In a terrifying vision, she sees her mother attacked by a vile supernatural force. ![]() Had Gemma but known what occult horrors would await her, would she still have wanted to leave India? Sixteen-year-old Gemma is sent to her long-desired London when her mother commits suicide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Itself to her and her home island of Lesbos, to the point where our words forįemale same-sex eros have come from her. Relationships with women, and a whole long history of legend has attached Like all "portraits," it is an artist's conception, as there are no known true portraits of her.Ī certain amount of lurid attention, because a few of her poems seem to beĪddressed romantically to women, she was believed to have had close ![]() One appealing thing about the ChristianĬoncept of eternal life is the chance to visit the eternal library and read all Between library burnings by religiousįundamentalists, collateral damages from political wars, the intentionalįorgetting of “pagan” writings during the Middle Ages, and the ravages of timeĪnd decay, we now have only a small fraction In fact, the loss of so much of the writings of theĪncient world is depressing. Moments of beauty shining through, but most of what she wrote is gone forever.Īnd that is achingly sad. Through the collection, I was struck with a tremendous sense of loss. Thus create a sense of space and absence. Greek and English presented in a way to illustrate the layout of the page, and ![]() Her poetry, alas), by a translator with a keen ear for poetry, with both the ![]() What’s not to like? All of Sappho’s known fragments (which is all we have of This hardback in excellent shape at a library sale, I snapped it up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vivian and Jane are able to laugh at the ways in which they’ve been disenfranchised by the system they work in as black women-they share anecdotes about complicated and challenging family dynamics, and trade stories about everyday abuses, racism, and misogyny. Vivian deals with her high stress job by maintaining a healthy sense of humor and relying on her closest friend from law school, Jane, an academic and fellow survivor of childhood abuse. Vivian has a special relationship with her clients-as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse herself, she understands exactly how the system treats black and brown girls in need of help. The novel begins with Vivian, a Black/Latina established legal advocate lawyer living in New York City, who seeks to free her victimized and mentally ill clients from the cycle of hospitalization and incarceration. Post-Traumatic seeks to prove Sehgal wrong by structuring its narrative around the lingering effects of childhood sexual abuse. ![]() The trauma plot entered the literary vernacular recently with literary critic Parul Sehgal’s piece, The Case Against the Trauma Plot, which posits that writers have become overly dependent on using a traumatic backstory to prop up an underdeveloped narrative. Johnson’s debut novel, Post-Traumatic, offers a unique version of of the very en vogue trauma plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the affixed envelope is written, "FOR MILO, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME." Inside is one genuine turnpike tollbooth, a map, assorted coins for paying tolls, a book of rules, and this curious assurance: "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded." The map is filled with unfamiliar places, so he selects a destination at random: Dictionopolis. "And worst of all," he muses dejectedly as he walks home from school, "there's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." Back in his bedroom, he comes upon an enormous package. ![]() Glum and bored with his life, Milo thinks everything is pointless, too much trouble, and a waste of time, especially the process of seeking knowledge. It didn't win the 1962 Newbery-The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare did-but it, along with the picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (which did win the Caldecott Medal in 1963), has the place of honor in my children's book-loving heart. I first read it when I was in seventh grade and have revisited it scores of times since then. ![]() "There once was a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself - not just sometimes, but always." So begins my number one favorite children's fiction book of all time. ![]() ![]() When Amaterasu opens these letters, she is forced to unlock her memories of a painful past, slowly revealing to the reader a complicated web of history, cultural mores, and human emotions that are difficult to confront. ![]() One winter morning she opens her door to a grossly disfigured man claiming to be Hideo, who brings a box of letters as proof. Unable to heal from this terrible loss, Amaterasu and her husband, Kenzo, soon immigrated to the United States.ĭecades later, Kenzo is dead, and Amaterasu is alone except for the alcohol that has become her companion she speaks little English, and prefers not to learn. Yuko most certainly perished, as did Hideo, Amaterasu’s cherished grandson. On August 9, 1945, Amaterasu Takahashi was late in meeting her daughter, Yuko, in Nagasaki’s Catholic cathedral her tardiness saved her life, as the atomic bomb known as Fat Boy was dropped on the city at 11:01 a.m. ![]() ![]() I loved watching the budding relationships develop between Nesta and Cassian and Elain and Azriel. And when she gets back to the Night Court, things get better from there. Feyre’s time in the Spring Court is one of my favorite parts purely because of how much of a cunning badass she is. I did love all of the individual character and character relationship development. However, the quality of the worldbuilding was consistent with the first two books, and the end wrapped up the story arc of this section of the series quite well. This just didn’t grip me as much as ACOMAF. ![]() Some sections were too slow, some were too fast, and some plot points just felt out of place. But the pacing of A Court of Wings and Ruin felt off. ![]() Surprisingly, ACOMAF was better, which is almost unheard of because the second book in a series almost always ends up being the weakest. ![]() ![]() The only chance at defeating the invading King’s limitless, Cauldron-fueled powers is to unite the seven courts and mount a resistance. But despite the information she collects, the threat to her home is still imminent. A Court of Wings and Ruin wraps up the first story arc within the A Court of Thorns and Roses universe, and while I did not love it as much as A Court of Mist and Fury, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.Īfter her sisters were betrayed by Tamlin and Made fae, Feyre is back in the Spring Court, determined to gather intel about his alliance with the King of Hybern. ![]() ![]() When the original film of her mother was projected onto her (Kim's) life-mask, it was a perfect fit because of the similar bone structure between mother and daughter. With advancements in life-mask creation, the detail of Kim's head turned out to be much more lifelike than the one created 40 years ago from her mother's face. ![]() When Madame Leota had to be re-created for the Nightmare Before Christmas Holiday overlay at Disneyland, Kim stood in for her mother. Leota’s actual higher-pitched voice can be heard at the end of the attraction, where she acted and spoke for herself as Little Leota, the ethereal bridal figure that repeats "Hurry Back.” Kim said that when she went on the attraction with her children, she would always point to "Grandma" at the end of the ride. ![]() Most touching part of the discussion was hearing Kim talk about her mother, whose voice as Madame Leota was dubbed by actress Eleanor Audley. She truly does resemble her mother (the original Madame Leota, Imagineer Leota Toombs). Kim showed up in full face makeup as Madame Leota, with her blond hair teased out appropriately. The first discussion had Tony Baxter, Kim Irvine, and Jason Surrell (Imagineer and author of The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies). ![]() ![]() BACKSTORY (August 9, 2009): Two panel discussions occurred to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Mansion one held at the Grand Californian Hotel and one held during the dinner served over in California Adventure. ![]() ![]() Mademoiselle Reisz's piano performance stirs Edna deeply, awakening her capacity for passion and engendering the process of personal discovery that Edna undertakes - almost accidentally - that summer.Īnother Grand Isle vacationer is the young and charming Robert Lebrun. Although Mademoiselle Reisz offends almost everyone with her brutal assessments of others, she likes Edna, and they become friends. In contrast to Madame Ratignolle's character is Mademoiselle Reisz, a brilliant pianist also vacationing on Grand Isle. Madame Ratignolle is the epitome of a "mother-woman," gladly sacrificing a distinct personal identity to devote her entire being to the care of her children, husband, and household. Also staying at the pension is the Ratignolle family Madame Ratignolle is a close friend of Edna's, although their philosophies and attitudes toward child rearing differ fundamentally. They are staying at a pension, a sort of boarding house where each family has their own cottage but eat together in a main dining hall. Edna, her husband Léonce, and their two children are vacationing for the summer on Grand Isle, an island just off the Louisiana shore near New Orleans. ![]() Her devotion to that purpose causes friction with her friends and family, and also conflicts with the dominant values of her time.Įdna Pontellier's story takes place in 1890s Louisiana, within the upper-class Creole society. The Awakening explores one woman's desire to find and live fully within her true self. ![]() ![]() ![]() He mentions a remarkable man named Kurtz, who runs the Company's Inner Station deep in the jungle. While at the Company's Outer Station, Marlow meets the Company's Chief Accountant. In particular, he sees a French warship firing into a forest for no discernible reason and comes upon a grove where exploited black laborers wander off to die. The Company headquarters is strangely ominous, and on his voyage to Africa he witnesses waste, incompetence, negligence, and brutality so extreme that it would be absurd if it weren't so awful. ![]() First he travels to the European city he describes as a " whited sepulcher" to visit the Company headquarters, and then to Africa and up the Congo to assume command of his ship. With the help of his well-connected aunt, Marlow gets a job as pilot on a steamship on the Congo River in Africa for a European business outfit called the Company. Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo. The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England. ![]() |