![]() ![]() ![]() Rytisalo tells me that the Me Too movement is prompting “exactly the kinds of conversations that Minna Canth would have wanted us to have.” “Establishing a right doesn’t guarantee forever.” “Rights are never written in stone,” Rytisalo says. ![]() “She believed that girls should have the right to an education…to learn about things like science, nature and the economy,” says Rytisalo, who teaches Finnish language and literature at the upper secondary (high school) level.Īlthough Finland has taken huge steps towards achieving gender equality since Canth’s time, her writing remains relevant. “In many ways was ahead of her time,” says Minna Rytisalo, author of Rouva C (“Mrs C,” published by Gummerus in 2018), a fictionalised account of Canth’s marriage to her former teacher, Johan Ferdinand Canth (1835–79). Author and teacher Minna Rytisalo cautions that “establishing a right doesn’t guarantee it forever,” and says that we can all learn from Minna Canth’s attitude. ![]()
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![]() Some, like the ship's bishop, believe it has always existed. The ship has been traveling through the galaxy for so long in search of a habitable planet that no one really knows the ship's origin. It's told in the first person by Bartolomeo, resident of the upper levels of the generation starship Argonos, which is where the more privileged citizens of the ship reside (government officials, ship crew, etc.), while the bottom levels are reserved for the lower classes. The horrors here are much more psychological than the "slasher in space" feel of the movie, however. Though considering Alien is probably my all-time favorite horror film, and a top two or three science-fiction film ( Blade Runner will always be tops in my book), I may be slightly biased, as this does have a pretty similar feel, in that a seemingly-abandoned alien spaceship is discovered by the crew of a human-occupied ship. I see a lot of mixed reviews here, but to me, Ship of Fools was an extremely eerie and intense hybrid of horror and space opera*. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you plan on reading this book, and don't want to be spoiled, don't read any further.Ĭurse - If Witch was great, then Curse is amazing! I absolutely loved it! Curse picks up a few months after Witch finished, and not a huge amount has happened other than the Cahors Coven has grown in strength and knowledge.Ĭurse is a darker novel compared to Witch, and more action packed. ![]() ![]() Warning! I cannot review the second story in the book without spoiling the first, Witch. From Amazon US.Ĭontinuing my review of this book, with the second story, Curse. The girls will assume their roles in an intergenerational feud beyond their wildest imaginations.and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launced into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents going on around her. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. Wicked: Witch & Curse by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguié (review copy) - Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "But, in fact, a lot of them come from what were considered, at the time, scientific sources." For example, it was quite usual for the encyclopedias of the time to contain reference to strange looking terrestrial-aquatic-hybrid animals and mapmakers just took some poetic license in depicting them. They all look like they were just made up," Van Duzer, a map historian at the Library of Congress, said in a talk about his book. However, many of the ocean’s creatures, including whales, walruses and squid were rarely seen and were considered monsters in medieval and Renaissance times. Many have assumed that these mythical creatures were the results of illustrators having a bit of fun or exerting their imagination in their work. Despite their wild appearance, most of the creatures were based on true encounters with sea animals, shedding light on how mythology and folklore can evolve from real events.Ĭhet Van Duzer's " Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" (British Library, 2013) depict a range of ‘sea monsters’ which cartographers used to illustrate mysterious, unexplored regions of the globe and the possible dangers of seafaring. A recently published book published by the British Library charts the evolution of iconic sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures found on world maps from the 10 th century through to medieval and Renaissance times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hisao was lean and tough and worked methodically, never altering his pace. They drew water from a feeder creek and warmed themselves at a slash pile kept burning by his children-girls in rubber boots, including Hatsue-who dragged branches and brought armfuls of brush to it. His family lived in two canvas tents while they cleared their newly purchased property. When he was eight years old he'd seen the Japanese man trudging along behind his swaybacked white plow horse: a Japanese man who carried a machete at his belt in order to cut down vine maples. Ishmael decided to park at the bottom of the grade beside Gordon Ostrom's mailbox and walk the fifty yards up South Beach Drive, keeping his DeSoto well out of the road while he convinced Hisao Imada to accept a ride from him. Ishmael knew he would not ask for help, in part because San Piedro people never did, in part because such was his character. Hisao Imada was small enough most of the time, but he looked even smaller bundled up in his winter clothes, his hat pulled low and his scarf across his chin so that only his mouth, nose, and eyes showed. ![]() Ishmael recognized it as the Willys station wagon that belonged to Fujiko and Hisao Imada in fact, Hisao was working with a shovel at its rear right wheel, which had dropped into the roadside drainage ditch. At the intersection of Center Valley Road and South Beach Drive Ishmael spied, ahead of him in the bend, a car that had failed to negotiate the grade as it coiled around a grove of snow-hung cedars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Stephanie Kip Rostan, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. The plot unfolds in fairly predictable ways, but the sensation-saturated world that Swain describes gives the story fresh interest. Basil knows astonishing secrets, like how to recreate the smell of chocolate, and his friends, called Analogs, are part of an underworld that challenges the corporate hegemony more profoundly than Thalia’s fellow hackers ever dreamed. Thalia privately acknowledges the necessity, but she’s reluctant to be sent away for “inpatient treatment”-she’s just met a boy, and he makes her tremble in an equally forbidden way. Since the sensation of hunger was declared to be eradicated decades earlier, and all nutritional needs are met with Synthamil, the atavistic rumbling of her stomach makes her a target for mental and genetic reprogramming. ![]() Swain No Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 4.69 Paperback 4.69 - 4.79 Select Condition Like New 4.79 Very Good 4.69 Good - Acceptable Unavailable New Unavailable See All 2 Editions from 4.19 Selected Format: Paperback Condition: Like New 4. Thalia has no compunction about hacking and sabotaging the corporation that makes her privileges possible, but she does feel shame about one thing-she’s hungry. Swain Romance Books > Romantic Fantasy Books Hungry by H.A. Thalia Apple, 17, is a child of privilege in a marketing/surveillance-bombarded, corporate-controlled world. ![]() ![]() A chapter on sustainable food consumption has been added. Amid the array of YA dystopian romance available, Swain ( Josie Griffin Is Not a Vampire) stands out for sheer clamor. Recommendations on physical activity are included and interaction with physical activity has been taken into account for the individual nutrient recommendations wherever appropriate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You certainly won’t forget who wrote the story if you can hear it read by Leonard Nimoy, surely the most distinctive sci-fi narrator of our time, in the video just above. They don’t remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably ‘The Last Question.'” Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they ‘think’ I may have written, and tell them where to find it. This sort of thing endears any story to any writer.” But it also had, and continues to have, “the strangest effect on my readers. “For one thing I got the idea all at once and didn’t have to fiddle with it and I wrote it in white-heat and scarcely had to change a word. “Why is it my favorite?” Asimov later wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publication date 1981 Topics Selznick, David O. The book, a commercial and cultural phenomenon, sold a million copies during its first month in print. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:08:36 Associated-names Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) Boxid IA40016709 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Selznick bought Gone With the Wind for 50,000. ![]() ![]() The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. ![]() Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. The play is set primarily in Scotland, and follows the character of Macbeth, a bold Scottish general, as he becomes power-hungry and demented with political ambition. Shakespeare penned the play during the reign of James V1, who was a patron of the playwright’s acting company. ![]() William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599-1606. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Five years after the release of "Fast Forward", Greenfield produced a second major body of work about the self-esteem crisis amongst American women, entitled "Girl Culture". A subsequent grant from National Geographic provided financial support toward her debut monograph, "Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood" (Knopf 1997). Greenfield's undergraduate thesis helped kick start her career as an intern for National Geographic Magazine. Her senior thesis photography project on the French aristocracy was called "Survivors of the French Revolution". While an undergraduate, she studied overseas in several countries with the International Honors Program, a division of SIT Study Abroad. Greenfield graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual and environmental studies. ![]() |