6/12/2023 0 Comments A handful of dust book![]() This ‘handful of dust’ which the mysterious and elusive speaker of Eliot’s lines threatens to brandish aloft is often interpreted, then, as a reference to human mortality: we are all ultimately destined to return to nothing more than ‘a handful of dust’. ![]() At Anglican church burials, the words ‘earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust’ mark the return of the human body to that state from which, the Bible tells us, it originally came: Genesis 3:19 has God telling Adam, ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.’ This opening section is titled ‘The Burial of the Dead’, a reference to the Burial Service text from the Book of Common Prayer. ![]() ![]() It’s worth remembering that this line appears in the first part of the five-part poem. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Cassandra peterson books![]() Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. ![]() While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. ![]() ![]() ![]() The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells-told by the bombshell herself. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim by kingsley amis![]() ![]() ![]() was his portrayal of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim-the anti-hero James Dixon, who savaged the pretensions of academia, as Amis had himself sometimes clashed with academia when he was a lecturer at Swansea. In his 2010 obituary of Ian Carmichael, Guardian contributor Dennis Barker wrote: "One of his most characteristic and memorable sorties. When the film premiered in the United States a year later, Howard Thompson of The New York Times described Ian Carmichael as "an English answer to Jerry Lewis": "let's fervently hope this stale attempt at mirth, furiously sliding back and forth from leaden coyness to plain custard-pie confusion, doesn't mean the end of all the sly, civilized fun we've come to expect from the British specialists." ![]() The film critic writing for The Times, gave the film a mixed review after the UK premiere in September 1957, stating that the film, "carries over enough gusto from the original to be funnier than the usual run of British comedies, without managing to avoid lapses into incoherence through pressing the Joke too far." Longhurst - Professor HutchinsonĪccording to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957. 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But it would have been better left to an autobiographer to tell, someone who could emphasize the important parts, locate them in the spirit of the times, or at the very least draw out broader thoughts from his subject. Then again, I also think there's tons that's interesting about Woz. I'm telling you, he's an absolutely excellent guy, but such good-naturedness doesn't leave a lot of room for conflict. There is something to possibly be said about the fact that maybe Woz's life is a bit dull for this sort of thing. And I tried a new project for the science fair.), which I believe Woz still is, at heart. Every page reads like an excited little boy who just came home from school (And then I built this project. I'd love to have him as a friend, family member, coworker (I said the opposite of Jobs when reading his biography). Steve Wozniak is a brilliant man, a kind man, a wonderful man. Edit: To give this a bit more depth, let me explain. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments A modern fairy tale holly black![]() ![]() After her mother's boyfriend and guitarist, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother under the enchantment of Nephamael (a knight of the Unseelie Court) her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house in New Jersey to stay. The book begins in Philadelphia, at a gig her mother's band Stepping Razor is playing in a seedy bar in Philadelphia. ![]() Tithe follows the story of sixteen-year-old American, Kaye Fierch, a young nomad who tours the country with her mother's rock band. Tithe was one of five finalists for the annual Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in children's literature. The novel is set on the Jersey Shore and Black calls it "suburban fantasy, as opposed to urban fantasy". Sequels- Valiant (2005) and Ironside (2007)-completed a trilogy that is sometimes called Modern Tale of Faerie, the subtitle of volume two. It was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster, who recommended it for "ages 12 up". Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale is a young-adult fantasy novel written by Holly Black. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Fateful by claudia gray![]() I came to care for Alec and Tess a lot and I really liked the added minor characters as well. I really liked the characters in this book, even the 'nasty' ones, our 'villains', because they are all really well developed and they come across as realistic and believable, keeping into account that this all is happening in 1912. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.ģ.5 stars for this wonderful titanic-retelling. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() But his absence has put a serious crimp in her sex life. ![]() He is out of prison and out of Charley's life, as per her wishes and several perfectly timed death threats. ![]() In the meantime, the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, has been cleared of all charges. The more they refute the woman's story, the more Charley believes it. She quickly realizes something is amiss when everyone the woman knows swears she's insane. But when a woman shows up on her doorstep convinced someone is trying to kill her, Charley has to force herself to rise above. And since Charley's last case went so awry, she has taken a couple months off to wallow in the wonders of self-pity. The fourth in Darynda Jones' fun and sexy New York Times bestselling paranormal series: "If you enjoy Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, you will certainly enjoy Charley Davidson!" -Suspense Magazine Sometimes being the grim reaper really is that. ![]() ![]() “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, “no one ever so completely performed it.” Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author’s previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time. Although the book was first published in October of 1940 by Charles Scribners Sons, in New York, this particular book was published in Philadelphia by The Blakiston Company. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo’s last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. Hemingway first started writing For Whom the Bell Tolls in Cuba and later finished it in Sun Valley, Idaho. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight”, For Whom the Bell Tolls. ![]() ![]() In 1937, Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. ![]() |