…The Kirkus Review, while reviewing Lesley’s brilliant collection of short stories, described it as one thatheralds a new voice with certain staying power.Thisstaying poweris something that has continued to resonate within me anytime I read Lesley Nneka Arimah. That she decided to give her c...
To the film’s credit, it sticks fairly faithfully to the major plot points of original, ancient poem (or at least the version I read of it way back when), but hacks out anything we didn’t need to know to keep things less labyrinthine than they otherwise might be. The usual filmmakin...
TheChronicles of Prydainis a children’s fantasy adventure series set in a medieval imaginary world. Its easy dialogue, storybook humor, caricatures of Tolkien characters, and often predictable story grant it entrance to the children’s fantasy genre, but Alexander added a special depth to his nar...
1英语翻译1.She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf and think for a few stupid days that I liked it.2.“how dare you say ‘aim’s’ to me!I’ve taught you better than that.”3.and if I go around saying ‘it isn’t’ and ‘they aren’t,’ the guys are...
And the ink is faded, and the parchment is charred by the heat from a fire in an old library where it used to be kept. So it's not always easy to make out the words. Thus it is that many scholars of England, America, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries, with microscope and ...
The new straight walled cartridge functions in the AR-15 platform and, pushing a .452″ 250gr bullet at 2,200 feet per second (2,686 ft-lbs of energy), delivers the bone crushing performance out of an easy to handle semi-auto rifle just like Colonel Cooper originally envisioned. ...