![]() ![]() In this beautiful book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis explores jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating–for individuals, communities, and nations. “In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This strip ran in Penthouse featuring Embleton art from 1972 to 1980. ![]() Embleton continued to produce historic comics (like 'Wrath of the Gods', 'Roger's Rangers', 'Marco Polo'), his favorite, sometimes side-tracking to science-fiction ('Stingray', ' Captain Scarlet').ġ972: Painted 'Wicked Wanda' for Penthouse magazine (writer: Frederic Mullally). At the same time, he developed an interest in oil painting, eventually combining techniques in ' Wulf the Briton', his first painted strip, which appeared in 1957. His work spans the crucial two decades of adventure-strip development in the UK when comic strips and comicbooks were moving away from the static pre-WW2 format to a more dynamic, cinema-influenced American style.Ī very productive artist, Ron Embleton contributed comics to several magazines, coming up with weekly serials such as 'Forgotten City', 'Black Dagger' and 'Into Strange Lands'. He is known to comic buffs of his early work as "Ron", which is how he signed his early work.Įmbleton began drawing for comics at the age of 17 in 1947 and left the field some 30 years later to concentrate on pure illustration. ![]() ![]() I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". ![]() It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. ![]() ![]() The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. ![]() ![]() Tyler and the Narrator then realize that they love fighting, because it makes them feel alive and “real.” One day, Tyler convinces the Narrator to hit him as hard as he can reluctantly, the Narrator does so. With nowhere else to go, he calls Tyler, who allows the Narrator to crash at his house for a while. When the Narrator returns home, he finds that his condominium has exploded. The Narrator takes a vacation and, on a beach, he meets a strange man named Tyler Durden, who gives the Narrator his phone number. Marla explains that she goes to the support groups because she wants to feel “close to death.” But soon, another “faker” begins attending the groups: a woman named Marla Singer. The support groups allow the Narrator to express strong emotions and sleep well. ![]() ![]() Bored with his corporate, consumerist lifestyle, he starts attending cancer support groups, despite the fact that he doesn’t have cancer. Some time before, the Narrator develops insomnia. The novel is told almost entirely in flashbacks. The novel begins with an unnamed Narrator sitting on the top floor of a skyscraper that’s about to explode, with a man named Tyler Durden pointing a gun into his mouth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then the fourth issue was a tie-in with the Original Sin crossover event Marvel is doing this summer that affects almost every character and it felt like it came out of left field with no relation to what came before. Yes, it is part of a larger story arc, but it was missing the beginning-middle-end of a good story. ![]() The second and third issue were both good issues that felt like they went together, but the third issue does not stand-up by itself because it relies a lot on what happened in the first two issues and what it was setting up for the later issues. The first issue felt like the ending to The Superior Spider-Man instead of the beginning of a new series. ![]() There were too many pieces to the story and they didn’t fit together well. This story did not feel planned out like Dan Slott’s stories normally do, but my guess is those problems were editorially mandated. This story arc will be remembered for introducing the new character “Silk,” but it won’t be remembered for the story itself. ![]() ![]() The theme this year is: I Love Books! The program will encourage you to make reading a part of your day, in a variety of settings. Sign-ups for our Adult and Young Adult Summer Reading Programs also started June 18. Everyone can join, no matter how busy you are this summer. Read whatever you want, whenever you want. All reading levels and abilities are welcome to join. Be ready for September and avoid the summer slide. This is for children ages birth to 13 years old. Visit the library online at Registration for Goodall Library's Summer Reading Club, a free, fun, and non-competitive reading club, began June 18. Goodall Library is located at 952 Main St. Join for a book discussion led by Anna Rockwell at the Goodall Memorial Library, 952 Main St., Sanford, at 6:30 p.m. Borrow them from your library and read one or both. ![]() READ ME gets everyone reading the same books this summer. Non-Fiction: "Settled in the Wild" by Susan Hand Shetterly ".the familiar, the secret, the e our shared environment as we've never seen it before." We asked Maine's own Paul Doiron, author of the popular Mike Bowditch series, to pick one non-fiction and one fiction book.įiction: "River Talk" by CB Anderson ".not just recognizable but relatable.the ways people in Maine actually live, now, today." ![]() SANFORD - READ ME is a statewide summer reading program created by the Maine Humanities Council in partnership with the Maine State Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The focus is on the struggles within the descendants of those who followed Nafai. The central conflict between Nafai and Elemak is represented in their descendants, but takes a back seat in this book. All of the characters from the previous novels (except Shedemei) are long dead. ![]() The last book in the Homecoming saga marks a departure from the style and storyline of the previous four. Heeding the dreams below, Shedemei has decided to return to Earth. After hundreds of years, the Oversoul still has not achieved its original purpose: to find the Keeper of Earth, the central intelligence that alone can repair the Oversoul's damaged counterpart at Harmony.īut now, the Keeper has once again begun to spread its influence. After hundreds of years, the descendants of Nafai and Elemak have built cities and towns - yet never forgetting the enmity between the two brothers. The series is a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon.įive centuries after the conclusion of Earthfall, there is only one original colonist from Harmony: Shedemei, who now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster (a device that links her to the Oversoul). Earthborn (1995) is a science fiction book by American writer Orson Scott Card, the concluding fifth book of the Homecoming Saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was interesting, especially to see a different side to Tristan - one in which he is not so caught up in Cecile, and had to be a bit darker, with more of an edge. ![]() The romance was always a major draw for me in this series, and Cecile and Tristan are so close and so perfect for each other, that I was wondering where their relationship could develop from there, but the author manages to take it to the next level, and develop them even further. I found this an intense read, but perfectly balanced in it's drama and the resolution for the characters. The cliffhanger in the second book was pretty dramatic, so finally getting a resolution and finding out more about the trolls and magic in this world was so satisfying. ![]() The third book in this fantastic trilogy maintains the excitement and suspense that I've loved about this series since the beginning. ![]() Both Cécile and Tristan have debts, and they will be forced to pay them at a cost far greater than they had ever imagined. Cécile and Tristan have accomplished the impossible, but their greatest challenge remains: defeating the evil they have unleashed upon the world.Īs they scramble for a way to protect the people of the Isle and liberate the trolls from their tyrant king, Cécile and Tristan must battle those who’d see them dead. ![]() ![]() This is a great study that touches on many needs felt by modern Christian women. These studies are listed in random order. 21 Best Bible Studies for Christian Women I receive a small commission in exchange for your referral. I want the truth I’m learning to impact my parenting, marriage, friendships, attitudes and more. I love to “go deep” in Bible studies, but I don’t just want knowledge for knowledge’s sake. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I owe a special debt to Tobias Picker's version of The Encantadas… whenever, in the writing, memory failed me, listening to the piece operated as a sort of Proustian mnemonic, transporting me back to the Marianas and the Carolines.Īfter the premier of Picker’s An American Tragedy, Sacks wrote to Picker: Picker’s music was a constant inspiration to Sacks, as he wrote in the preface to his book Island of the Color Blind: I have watched him as he sits almost motionless for hours, orchestrating one of his études for piano at his computer… Picker writes in every mode-the dreamy and tranquil no less than the violent and stormy-and moves from one mood to another with consummate ease. but when he is composing or playing the piano or conducting, his tics disappear. Tobias Picker, the distinguished composer, also has Tourette’s. Picker would become one of the subjects of Sack’s book Musicophilia. Tobias Picker and Oliver Sacks’ respective artistic and scientific interests cross-polinated: Picker was fascinated by Sacks’ exhaustive empathy, winsome quirks, and whirring intellect, while Sacks was riveted by Picker’s preternatural focus, innovative musicianship, and Tourette Syndrome. Soon, however, Picker and Sacks would become close friends ( Read More). Picker, whose Tourette's went undiagnosed until he was in his thirties, was initially interested in Sacks' opinion of his symptoms. ![]() Picker met Oliver Sacks at a dinner party in 1994. ![]() |