White Man, a survey of the national sound in all its permutations, blues, bluegrass, gospel, jazz, burlesque, C&W, R&B, rock and rockabilly in so many mutant and mongrelized strains that “genre” loses all meaning. As, Lowe implies, it probably should. ...
When a second guest is brutally killed and then a third, there’s no doubt and the guests fearfully turn on each other. They are locked in a house with a murderer picking them off one-by-one. Kyra, her best friend Chase Hawthorn, and Tarek must survive the night and find the killer,...
to resist evil no matter what: “In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. […] To do anything less is to be less than a man.” Heroism lies in action; standing apart from the action is cowardice. However, understanding the underlyingmeaningof...
If we think for a moment about that slight transition to what scientists are –the pursuers –that means they seek, obtain, or employ measures to accomplish a goal, course of action, or even hobby. When considering the meaning of this word, the expectation that a pursuit happens over a p...
The community she finds redefines her understanding of the meaning of belonging, but the relief she feels at finding it resonated with personal experiences of my own. Young people can expect to go through rough patches and sometimes feel utterly alone and misunderstood (that’s called hormones, ...
Repetition, then, is not just valuable for how it can allow a writer to control the meaning of sentences. It also can help a writer to affect the feel of those sentences. Other Helpful Repetition Resources Wikipedia entry on repetition: A pretty basic discussion of repetition as a device. ...
with failure meaning death for both his dream avatar and his real self. And… well, yeah, you guessed it. You read the title, there’s no beating around the bush. The special item is boxers. This videogame comes with an item that you are supposed to put against your genitals. I love...
TheRituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners, by Margaret Visser. I read this ages ago and it was fascinating reading. Check out the reviewsat Goodreads.There’s a (probably) sweet and juicy apple on the cover. ...
But no, in this novel the story begins just after that. How to survive? What gives meaning to life? It is the search for meaning what defines the story. “Waldek” is a heartbreaking and intense historical thriller.” And, just in case, I’ve also readWaldek, and here ismy own revi...
Meaning it’s an adjective that can be applied to anything with that ‘return-to-again-and-again-for-more-and-more’ quality? So you can have ‘literary’ science fiction, ‘literary’ horror—wasn’t House of Leaves saddled with this for a while, as if it needed that adjective to be...