5/24/2023 0 Comments Ted chiang on arrival![]() ![]() ![]() The Heptapods are alien creatures who don’t experience time linearly but rather simultaneously. We don’t even suspect that the order of events is a mystery until we start learning about a new way to experience time. Humans are hardwired, through our languages, to linear chronological thinking and the movie lets us stay there until it doesn’t. The movie uses our own preconceived notions about how time, particularly story-time, works. We are left to assume that the child of Arrival’s protagonist, Louise Banks, has died and then the forward action of the movie starts. ![]() ![]() The film does not clarify, and I would suggest it actively muddies, the precise location in time of the movie’s opening. The adaptation by Eric Heisserer is faithful to certain intents of Chiang's story but there are plot elements that move the film that are not present in the story. Spoilers ahead.įor me watching the movie didn’t spoil the story (but the reading the story first will ruin one of the good sleights of hand for the movie). With the short story, I fell in love with the idea of where the notion of free will exists in a much larger concept of the universe. I came out of the movie feeling elated at having experienced a more real feeling of how we actually experience time. I loved both the movie and the story but for different reasons. I'll take it both ways, please - Gemma Webster ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments The happiness quest richard yaxley![]() ![]() ![]() Yaxley has been the recipient of an Australia Council grant. This story is about emotions, about how we live our lives in the modern world. His first novel, The Rose Leopard, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2003 ISBN 9781742991993 (Age: Adolescent - Adult) Recommended. In addition, he has published numerous texts for secondary schools. ![]() His 2004 play, 'Heart', was runner-up in the 2004 Queensland Theatre Company's Expressions Program. Yaxley has published widely, including fiction in periodicals such as Island and LINQ, and has written plays for Z-PAC Community Theatre, including 'Jellybeans', which was commended by the 2002 Queensland Premier's Drama Awards. He has lived in Hervey Bay since 1986, and has taught at various secondary schools including Urangan State High School, where he was head of the English Department, and has also written, directed and produced several school musicals. Yaxley also has a Master of Letters (Cultural Studies) from the University of Central Queensland. He attended Rose Bay State High School and Rosney College and attained his BA from the University of Tasmania in 1981. Richard Yaxley spent his childhood in Devonport, Cooee and Hobart. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments My love mix up 1![]() ![]() I totally believe that these two could be friends. No one wants to date the other, no one is jealous or sad that they aren’t the love interest. This is a real friendship between a boy and a girl. Maybe the love that Aoki had for Hashimoto moved from romantic to platonic but it didn’t vanish or fade in any way. When Aoki has a problem, he goes to Hashimoto for advice and vice-versa. ![]() They confide in each other they trust each other, they root for each other’s happiness, help each other out and push each other when needed. The romance between Aoki and Ida is maybe the core of the manga, but the friendship which blossoms between Aoki and Hashimoto is just as important and I found myself looking forward to the scenes between those two more than anything else.Īoki and Hashimoto are friends. In fact, with BL Metamorphosis, this is another story that actually has some astounding female characters. ![]() Maybe the artist picks by the story and has the same tastes as me?Īlthough My Love Mi=-Up! is marketed as BL and that’s certainly a big element of it, it’s not the entire thing. But it’s really the story that had the same vibes. ![]() Turns out, My Love Mix-Up! is illustrated by the same artist as My Love Story so that may have something to do with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is fairly straightforward good versus evil plotting, but readers who stick with it should be impressed by a late-in-the-game twist regarding Ruby. Book Review: Parched The Storm Makers Empty Fridge - WSJ News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and. ![]() Smith’s (The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight) first middle-grade novel is a bit slow to unfold, but it’s easy to root for the twins, especially smart, science-savvy Ruby, who stands by her brother while struggling with her jealousy about his special status. The Storm Makers What if you had the power to control the weatherWhat starts as an ordinary summer turns exciting and perilous for twins Ruby and Simon. Joined by a wise Storm Maker, who has a long history with the chairman, and a scrappy mechanic, who specializes in earthquakes, the twins work together to thwart London’s plan. First, her popular twin, Simon, is revealed to be a Storm Maker (“one of a very small group of people in the world who have the ability to influence the weather”), and she finds out that Rupert London, chairman of the secret Makers of Storms Society, is harnessing Storm Makers to create extreme weather-related disasters-and has Simon in his sights as a successor. ![]() Twelve-year-old Ruby is having a long, hard summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road. ![]() ![]() Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, Published by New American Library, a division of because it's not possible to stop turning the pages." The kind of book that keeps you up, red-eyed with fatigue, until two a.m. Stephen King has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction for the ages. But Flagg's evil plot is not perfect, for he knows naught of Thomas's terrible secret-or Prince Peter's daring plan to escape to claim what is rightfully his. ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A TERROR.Ī tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.Ī kingdom is in turmoil after old King Roland dies and his worthy successor, Prince Peter, is imprisoned by the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Spiral horror manga![]() ![]() The story is centered around a small coastal town, Kurouzu-cho (Black Vortex town), which appears to be plagued by a supernatural force that has a thing for spirals. Except, the proposed director, and the fact that it remains true to it’s monochromatic origins won Ito over. So much so, that the mangaka was reluctant to agree to this iteration of his narrative. Video games, and a live-action film adaptation have fallen short of doing Ito’s work any justice. Adaptation of the narrative, and haunting atmosphere of the manga to other media however, have previously failed to fully capture it’s spookiness. Uzumaki, received massive critical acclaim at the time of it’s release, even going on to be nominated for an Eisner Award. Ito expertly explores the concept of obsession, having himself obsessively studied spiral shapes in the creation of the original manga work. Written and illustrated by acclaimed manga artist (mangaka), Junji Ito, Uzumaki uses a common Japanese symbol menacingly, and attaches it to a mysterious force, which the story’s protagonists must contend with. The artist’s spiral motif themed horror series Uzumaki is set for release on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim later this year. ![]() Legendary horror manga artist, Junji Ito’s most iconic work is getting an animé adaptation that remains true to the mangaka’s gripping style. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The beatles anthology paperback![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A diarist since the age of 9, Wyman first drew upon those sources for his 1990 autobiography, Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock and Roll Band, and his dutifully dry record-keeping approach is also in evidence here. Wyman began collecting memorabilia in 1962 as future proof for his then-baby boy that he'd once been in a rock-and-roll band he reportedly now has 500,000 Stones-related items filling several warehouses. "Mick, Keith and Charlie are forever telling people to check things with me, as I'm the only one who really remembers what happened," writes Wyman, but the band's long-time bassist (he quit in 1993) is less blessed with prodigious recall than with a packrat-archivist mindset. Now, the other two megagroups to come out of England in the '60s, the Rolling Stones and The Who, get the same coffee table treatment.īill Wyman's Rolling With the Stones (DK Publishing, $50) is an astounding collection, with 3,000 photos and illustrations that capture the band's hardscrabble early years under the influence of American blues, r&b and rock-and-roll, and trace its inexorable evolution into a rock institution now celebrating its 40th anniversary. ![]() The Beatles Anthology (published in 1997 and just out in paperback) established a new standard for exhaustively researched, obsessively detailed, copiously illustrated (and appropriately priced) band chronicles. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The long flight home book review![]() ![]() Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Those that do will bring home crucial information. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain's Royal Air Force. ![]() Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. ![]() All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours-a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. ![]() ![]() A quick read full of action and adventure - and an ending you won't see coming - readers will be eager to see just where David's journey takes him next. ![]() ![]() Together, they must travel through time and space and unravel the mystery of the Quantum Flux. Panicked and with nowhere else to turn, David meets a Time Cop named CP, whose mission is to fix whatever is going wrong with David's reality and return him to his original timeline. But as strange as these new realities are, nothing prepared David for time coming to a screeching halt. Andrew has written 2 science fiction novels while he was in college. ![]() The world looks different at every turn and David can hardly keep up. In this episode of Dyslexia Explored, I talked to Andrew Nehring as he shared his dyslexia story and how playing dungeons and dragons as a child helped him write stories for his books. Propelled into a continuously morphing world, every day is a new reality for David: new parents, new school, new rules. This mysterious encounter leaves more questions than answers and triggers a series of alternate realities. Then one rainy day, a dark armored figure appears and sends David's world into chaos. Left reeling after the sudden disappearance of his older brother Morgan, David spends his days making it through middle school, fending off his class bully, and searching for answers in Morgan's past. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Eloise at the plaza book![]() ![]() Eloise Takes a Bawth (2002), posthumously published.Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-ups (1955).The illustrator stated that the image for Eloise was based on one that his mother, Katherine Sturges Dodge, had painted, during the 1930s. ![]() Thompson's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, was often speculated as a possible model for Eloise. The character was developed by the author based on her childhood imaginary friend and alter ego, with a voice in which Thompson spoke throughout her life, according to her biographer, filmmaker Sam Irvin. The series consists of Eloise (1955) and four sequels.Įloise is a young girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her nanny, her pug dog, Weenie, and her turtle, Skipperdee. Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. ![]() |