![]() ![]() It’s a good story – it always has been – but you’re definitely not going to be surprised. Every element you’d expect shows up at the appropriate time – the witch, the rose, the magic mirror, the father who trades off his daughter, the Beast letting her go, and the final life saving moment. Though the modern touches are lovely – a chat room support group for the unfortunately transformed, the cruel snobbery of a private high school – this is a pretty solidly by the numbers Beauty and the Beast story. And then, I’ll tell you how I became perfectly…beastly.īeastly is a light and sweet modern re-telling of Beauty and the Beast – I think of it kind of like a frosted sugar cookie: perfect if you’re in the mood, a bit too sugary if you’re not. I’ll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and a perfect life. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I’ll tell you. ![]() ![]() Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. ![]() And I’ll stay this way forever – ruined – unless I can break the spell. You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature who walks upright – a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Early readers called her “‘earth mother’ and ‘satanic mistress’” while 21st century readers called her “‘bitch,’ ‘slut,’ and ‘thirty shilling whore’” (Norris 217). Lindsey presents us with a seemingly easy grasp of difficult materials ranging Homer’s Odyssey through Joyce’s own works that precede Ulysses and with the linguistic pyrotechnics of Ulysses itself to contemporary criticism in order to perform a kind of feminist rehabilitation of Molly Bloom.įrom the dawn of Ulysses in 1922, the character of Molly Bloom has been under scrutiny, judged for her actions, implied or explicit, on one particular day. Lindsey Greer’s essay on Penelope in James Joyce’s Ulysses is both lucid and authoritative, a delight to read. The major assignment for this senior seminar on James Joyce was to illuminate something significant in Ulysses drawing on intensive knowledge of Joyce’s works and extensive knowledge of the large critical conversation about Ulysses. The Judgement of “Penelope”: A Day in the Life of Molly Bloom By Lindsey Greer '17 ![]() ![]() When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world… Having escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there… ![]() ![]() Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based.ĭr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S. We recommend parents familiarise themselves with the fantasy books their children read and discuss the stories and themes with them. We believe it contains valuable lessons and themes but it may not be as explicitly Christian as the rest of our range. ![]() ![]() ![]() We read too of St Bernard, magnetic but insufferable, of Adrian IV, the only English Pope and of a surprising number of other compatriots including Richard the Lionheart (behaving abominably in Messina), his sister Queen Joanna of Sicily, and the sinister Walter of the Mill, the only man in history regularly to sign himself Emir and Archbishop. In this, the second volume, John Julius Norwich tells the story of the Kingdom in all its splendour, through the reigns of the grotesquely misnamed William the Bad and the Good to the bastard Tancred desperately struggling to preserve his country's independence. Sixty-four years later to the day, the sun set on the Sicilian Kingdom but its glory lives on in such dazzling monuments as the Palatine Chapel in Palermo or the cathedrals of Monreale and Cefalu. ![]() Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan to an intellectual climate that attracted the artists the artists and scholars of three continents and, to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration unparalleled in Europe. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. ![]() John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a scholarship to the prestigious St Regis School, a cottage in the middle of Hyde Park, a room full of beloved sleuthing novels, and a secret key that gives her access to a whole hidden side of London, Agatha is perfectly poised to solve the mystery of what’s going on. And nothing gets bigger than saving the city of London from some strange goings-on. Meet 13-year-old Agatha Oddly - a bold, determined heroine and the star of this stylish new detective series.Īgatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember - she’s just been waiting for her first big case. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you purchase this test, you will get a 10-question, multiple choice test, an answer key, and a grading/points-earned scale. This comprehension test can be used in a variety of ways – as part of a reading incentive program, as an overall test for books studied in class, or to earn extra credit points. This is my RIF test for The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns by Chris Colfer. ![]() I keep track of the tests taken by students, the comprehension rate for the tests, and the points earned. So I created my own program and tests for books in my library-“RIF” (Reading is Fun) tests. When my school didn’t renew our AR subscription, I was at a loss because earning AR points was a big part of my classroom reading incentive program. ![]() If you are familiar with the Accelerated Reader program, you know that they can be useful tools for monitoring student comprehension. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cover Me is also crammed with rare photos, and obscure trivia, that had us turning the pages non-stop. Made up of 19 individual chapters, each detailing one particular song, the book is chock full of detailed analysis and little known facts. The book, Cover Me, is 240 pages of in-depth research on some of the greatest, and some of the most obscure cover songs ever to be recorded. Music is Padgett’s life, and writing about it, his life’s blood. Padgett is also a senior music publicist for Shore Fire Media, representing clients that include Ben Harper, and Lana Del Rey. If you think he just sits around all day listening to and researching covers, you’d be wrong. ![]() Ten years ago, he founded the blog, Cover Me, which has become the largest, most popular blog on the subject. Padgett is an expert in this particular field. The new book, Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time, by Ray Padgett, takes an in-depth look at some unforgettable music. The fact is, without cover songs, some of the greatest songs ever written, may well have since been forgotten. ![]() ![]() In our experience, most of those people are the ones who have heard local bands play “Mustang Sally,” or “Sweet Home Alabama,” one too many times. Some people hate the very thought of them. ![]() ![]() Yet, even after four months of fear, calculated torture, and hazardous sailing with a degraded crew, Jessie was to face a final horror that would stay with him for the rest of his life. They did not heed the horrors that every day grew more vivid, more inescapable to Jessie. But to the men of the ship a "slave dancer" was necessary to ensure their share of the profit. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship. Fox brings this time to life through Jessies eyes. Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. The Slave Trade Paula Fox is a contemporary writer, but The Slave Dancer is set in 1840, in New Orleans, and on the slave ship The Moonlight. ![]() Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. ![]() ![]() Most of the symposium guests view love as something that’s oriented toward mortal life in some way. By structuring the work around ascending forms of love, Plato argues that immortality, only achievable through philosophy’s continual quest for truth, is the overarching goal of human life, though not every human being will choose to pursue it. ![]() But embedded in the very structure of Plato’s dialogue is a gradual progression from more worldly conceptions of love to more exalted ones-a progression that’s echoed by Diotima’s higher mysteries at the end of Socrates’s speech, when she describes a ladder of progress to immortality. One of the Symposium’s most interesting features is the fact that earthly indulgence-a drinking party characterized by erotic overtones-provides the setting for philosophical contemplation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet a certain dead end is reached in terms of the male writer's use of sf for there is no speculative undoing of the social ills caused by patriarchy. ![]() The novel works well as narrative, and the (anti)hero is undoubtedly appealing, while Morgan's discourse is quite solid. Morgan characterizes Marsalis in this way, presenting him as the monstrous product of military engineering and complicating this monstrosity by making Carl black. Morgan uses in his novel the conventions of the detective thriller, a subgenre which usually narrates how an extremely individualistic man solves a particular case without actually correcting social injustice. Set in the same reality as his 2007 novel Black Man (published as Thirteen or Th1rte3n in the United States). Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country. ![]() Using the framework of masculinity studies, I argue that whereas Morgan launches a thorough attack against patriarchal masculinity through his main character, Carl Marsalis, both author and (anti)hero fail to construct an alternative. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Here I focus instead on the gender issues concerning masculinity raised in Black Man/ Thirteen, a novel by British writer Richard Morgan. The analysis of gender in science fiction tends to focus on women. ![]() |