Ok, you’re thinking, I’m beginning to see why ‘sexual comedy’ was thrown about as a term. And, yes, quite a few of the stories have some sort of sexual impetus in them – but my favourite of the book doesn’t really. ‘Nobody Will Laugh’ is one of those things-spiral-out-...
Holocaust Remembrance Readers Guide We Ask a Book Blogger: Favorite Summer Reads August 29, 2013 tags:book bloggers,fantasy novels,middle grade novels,summer reading,YA Novels byrandomactsofreading Each month, we present a panel of book bloggers with a question relating to children’s books and ...
Mountain range, we were in such a hurry. The Japanese soldiers built cement pillboxes and the army wanted us there. So we got in this plane, and they flew us there. Twenty-one at a time. When I got to the island of Buna, there were dead soldiers scattered all over the beach. We ...
Additional note: This also has me reflecting on the daily experiences of people of color, who are harassed, belittled and demeaned in public, in front of their children and colleagues, with an additional threat to their safety. My privilege as a white woman with professional status and resource...
He is the King’s hearth-warden, his Reckoner, and his Remembrancer. Snorri is the King’s right-hand. He advises King Ironfist, helps strategize, and is a total bore. Though the characters do not act normal, the battlefield still runs red with blood. Readers who are not already ...
I could obfuscate the property key to something like _message, but that doesn’t help the problem of remembrance. Instead, I would prefer a specific API for creating validators—one that is recognizable at a glance. My solution is a validator higher-order function defined as follows: function...
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28 ...
Anyone looking for pulpy monsters or robots or nightmarish monsters from bizarre planets will not find a lot of that type of writing in this volume of poems, except perhaps through a cinematic lens or a remembrance of a printed work from years past. There are robots, reminiscent of the autho...
Psalm 78:1 Remembrance of the great deeds of the Lord should serve to strengthen the people’s faith in his power and fidelity. Thus, they will not forget what the Lord has done for their ancestors, which was a blessing for their descendants, and what God has demanded from his covenant ...
He smiled at the remembrance of his strange companion, and then wondered where he was. Ever since they had come together to the doors of the Moat House the younger lad had disappeared, and Dick began to weary for a word with him. About an hour after, mass being somewhat hastily run ...