5/13/2023 0 Comments Emily wilson the illiadHe took a part-time job working night shifts at the front desk of a nearby hotel, where he could write between midnight and 5:00 AM. It all started 25 years ago when Sanderson, a practicing Mormon, was an undergraduate student at Brigham Young University just 15 miles away in Provo. But instead of superheroes defending Earth, Sanderson’s warriors, thieves, scholars, and royals are spread across a richly detailed system of planets, from the ash-covered cities of Scadrial to the shattered plains of Roshar-a landscape directly inspired by the sandstone buttes and slot canyons of southeastern Utah. Many of them take place in an interconnected series of worlds called the Cosmere, his ink-and-paper equivalent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is where Sanderson writes bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels. “I built an underground supervillain lair.” Jim Butcher bought a LARPing castle,” he says. Sanderson points to the grand piano, the shelves filled with ammonite fossils, the high walls covered in wood and damask paneling, and his pièce de résistance: a cylindrical aquarium swirling with saltwater fish. We’re 30 feet beneath the surface of northern Utah, in a room that feels like a cross between a five-star hotel lobby and a Bond villain’s secret base. “This is my dream,” Brandon Sanderson says.
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When we spend alone time with God, we also get to know Him better, become more vulnerable with Him, become safe and comfortable with Him, and grow to love Him more. When we spend time alone with any of the titles mentioned above, we get to know them better, we tend to be more vulnerable with them, we become safe and comfortable with them, and we grow to love them more and more. It is in these times where we are most intimate with Him. We desire alone time with a friend or a boyfriend/girlfriend or fiancé, or husband/wife, mother, father, etc. Solitude is important because it is when we are most intimate with God. There is a need for both and that is why there needs to be a balancing act of the two.īonhoeffer states, “Alone you stood before God when he called you, alone you had to answer the call…” (77). The flip side to this is some people desire to be in community way more than they should because we need solitude. Some people desire to be in solitude way more than they should because we need community. I want to focus on the balance between community and solitude as it can be a struggle for people to keep this balance. He then describes in depth different ways to approach solitude. In Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s third chapter he presents the need for balance between community and solitude. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chapter 3 5/13/2023 0 Comments Idol by Kristen CallihanThere are some people in life who know exactly how to push your buttons. We could be everything.Īll we have to do is trust enough to fall. Yet we’re quickly becoming each other’s addiction. Neither of us believes in love or forever. Except nothing about Jax is easy to ignore-not the way he makes me laugh, or that his particular brand of darkness matches mine, or how one look from him melts me faster than butter under a hot sun. An irresistible neighbor who keeps me up while playing guitar naked–spectacularly naked–in his living room.Ĭlearly, avoidance is key. Besides, I never expected he’d be my new neighbor.Īn annoying neighbor who takes great pleasure in reminding me that I owe him ice cream but would happily accept more kisses as payment. Okay, it was a dirty move, but desperate times and all that. And distracted that mint-chip right out of his hands. Still, I might have walked away, but then he smugly dared me to try and take the coveted ice cream. In my defense, I didn’t know he was Jax Blackwood-who expects a legendary rock star to be shopping for groceries? More importantly, a blizzard was coming and he was about to grab the last carton of mint-chocolate chip. The first time I met Jax Blackwood things went a little sideways. But Charles can be quite persusasive-even tender-when he puts his mind to it, and Ellie finds herself slipping under his seductive spell. She tries to keep him at arm’s length, at least until she discovers the man beneath the handsome surface. And so they agree to wed, even though their match appears to have been made somewhere hotter than heaven… Ellie never dreamed she’d marry a stranger, especially one with such a devastating combination of rakish charm and debonair wit. And Ellie needs a husband or her father’s odious fiancée will choose one for her. But Charles must find a bride before his thirtieth birthday or he’ll lose his fortune. When Charles Wycombe, the dashing and incorrigible Earl of Billington, toppled out of a tree and landed at Ellie Lyndon‘s feet, neither suspected that such an inauspicious meeting would lead to marriage. Julio Cortázar, the Argentinian writer, was famous for playing with language in several works.īesides the above, there is a special variation of Nonsense Verses called 颠倒歌 (upside down songs) in Chinese. Morgenstern's " Das Nasobēm" is an imaginary being like the Jabberwock, although less frightful: Abol Tabol is the best collection of nonsense verse in Bengali language.Īmong German nonsense writers, Christian Morgenstern and Ringelnatz are the most widely known, and are both still popular, while Robert Gernhardt is a contemporary example. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg's The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses, by Edward Lear This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. On Indian language Bengali Sukumar Roy is the pioneer of nonsense poems and is very famous for writing children's literature. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses, by Edward Lear. The best-known Dutch Nonsense poet is Cees Buddingh'. Russian nonsense poets include Daniil Kharms and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, particularly his work under the pseudonym Kozma Prutkov, and some French exponents are Charles Cros and Robert Desnos. More contemporary examples of nonsense verse include the Vogon poetry from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the 1972 song " Prisencolinensinainciusol" by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano. 5/12/2023 0 Comments St thomas summaMost probably his family was of ministerial class his familiar connection with (being son of the count) the Bollstädt noble family is almost certainly mere conjecture by 15th century hagiographers. Albert was probably born in Lauingen (now in Bavaria), since he called himself 'Albert of Lauingen', but this might simply be a family name. Two later sources say that Albert was about 87 on his death, which has led 1193 to be commonly given as the date of Albert's birth, but this information does not have enough evidence to be confirmed. It seems likely that Albert was born sometime before 1200, given well-attested evidence that he was aged over 80 on his death in 1280. The Catholic Church distinguishes him as one of the 37 Doctors of the Church. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. Later canonized as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and, late in his life, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name. 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop. The ice was just a few inches thick on the ground, so there was no danger of falling through. In winter we went sledding on a not-very-steep hill and skating on ice which the fire department made by flooding an area near the school when the temperature was below freezing. About the only time we needed to be driven anywhere was Saturday or Sunday afternoon, to go to a movie in a nearby town. We spent a lot of time playing at each other's houses. My friends and I walked or rode our bikes all over town. A few steps from our neatly mowed yard were wild strawberries, milkweed, Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot), and vast numbers of other "weeds" whose names I never knew, all changing with the seasons. This was like living in the city and the country at the same time. We had fields on both sides, and I walked to school on a well-traveled path that was a shortcut through them. Although our neighborhood was divided into city blocks with paved streets and sidewalks, there were only two houses on our street. I grew up in a very small town, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Tide Knot by Helen DunmoreIt's a haunting, beautifully written book which creates a totally believable parallel world. George and Harold link up in kindergarten to reduce a quartet of vicious bullies to giggling. "Helen Dunmore is an exceptional and versatile writer and she writes with a restrained, sensual grace." Observer Cut to five years previous, in a prequel to the whole series. "Helen Dunmore may have a few drowned readers on her conscience, so enticing and believable is the underwater world she creates in Ingo." Telegraph "The electric thrill of swimming with dolphins, of racing along currents, and of leaving the world of reason and caution behind are described with glorious intensity." Amanda Craig, The Times "Ingo has a haunting, dangerous beauty all of its own." Philip Ardagh, Guardian "This is a wonderful fantasy story." Jan Winter, Inis The Tide Knot is the dramatic and spellbinding sequel to Helen Dunmores critically acclaimed Ingo. "Like the ocean itself, this book is deep and strange and marvellous." Nial MacMonagle, The Irish Times "Dunmore's graceful style is what makes the unbelievable believable." The Independent on Sunday 5/12/2023 0 Comments Virgin river booksWe have appearances by Mike, Preacher, and Paige. The main couple (Vanni and Paul sucked) but Carr decides to force in romances for a friend of Paul and Vanni’s and then we have too focus on Jack and Mel, and then we have Walter and a retired Hollywood actress, and I know I am blanking on someone else. Carr doesn’t write steamy love scenes (in my opinion) but it was great to read how Marcie and Ian finally get together. I just had a great time watching Marcie and Ian bounce off of each other before they finally let go and just got together. He is angry and no longer in the Marines. Ian’s life since being injured hasn’t been great. When she gets to the wilds of Virgin River and realizes it won’t be smooth going, she refuses to go home, she vows to stay and make sure that Ian comes back to the land of the living. “A Virgin River Christmas” has widow Marcie Sullivan tracking down Ian Buchanan. We have appearances by my nemesis Jack and his wife Mel, and of course Paige and Preacher and others. Seeing how the small town comes together to celebrate Christmas together was really good too. I honestly loved the character of Marcie and I enjoyed how she and Ian get together. This book follows Marcie Sullivan as she tries to find the man (Ian Buchanan) who saved her now dead husband who is holed up in Virgin River. A great installment in the series before it started going a bit downhill for me. 'From traumatized, trench-bound British soldiers caught up in the carnage of the First World War, birdwatching and botany offered solace. ' Manages what might have seemed impossible: to find a new perspective on the Great War' - Mark Smith * Glasgow Herald * Moving, strangely life-affirming' - Clive Aslet * Country Life * 'Makes an important contribution to the literature by studying the British soldiers' relationship with Nature. ' Wonderful, beautifully written and often deeply moving' - Lawrence James * The Times * This book, which recounts the lives of our frontline soldiers from the ground up, is a truly wondrous and original work with an appeal far beyond military history' - Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Express Christmas Books * 'In Where Poppies Blow, the nature writer, historian and farmer presents us with a beautiful and meticulous account of soldiers' relationship with nature. 'What makes Where Poppies Blow so freshly moving is the picture it paints of the reverence, love and kindness the natural world can engender, even in the most hellish conditions as Philip Gosse of the Royal Army Medical Corps called it, "medicine for the mind and solace for the soul"' - Melissa Harrison * Financial Times * |