![]() The book is the perfect opportunity for fans of Middle-earth to enjoy some of Tolkien’s often overlooked yet most creative storytelling. ![]() This definitive collection of works - which had appeared separately, in various formats, between 19 - comes with a brand-new foreword and endmatter, and with a series of detailed pencil illustrations by Alan Lee, in the style of his other award-winning Tolkien work, most recently in The Children of Húrin. Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien’s four novellas (Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and Roverandom) and one book of poems (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) are gathered together for the first time, in a fully illustrated volume. The definitive collection of Tolkien’s classic “fairie” tales, in the vein of The Hobbit, illustrated by Oscar winner Alan Lee ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Ovid naso![]() This text presents a collection of his work.Ī collection of Chinese poetry from the late T’ang dynasty, beginning with the last poems of China’s greatest poet, Tu Fu (AD 712-70), and ending with Li Shang-yin (AD 812-58). ![]() It features poems such as “Amores” and “Cures for Love”.Ĭatullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets. Secondhand book in very good condition.Ī collection of Ovid’s poems that deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. The erotic poems : The amores The art of love Cures for love On facial traetment for ladies. Collection of four books of the Penguin Classics Series: Ovid / The Poems of Catullus / Poems of the Late T’Ang / Six Records of a Floating life. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Crazy by han nolan![]() ![]() With a unique mental state of his own, a bold determination not often seen, and a subtle helplessness about him, Jason makes for a very interesting protagonist. With a wide cast of characters that all touch Jason’s life in different ways, and some gutting scenes that hold nothing back in portrayal, Crazy is a very well handled, very memorable book and a must read. Desolate in his living situation, but starting to act out and becoming more impulsive than he realizes, Jason inadvertently sets into motion a string of events that drastically change his life. Almost a year after his mother’s death, Jason is struggling to keep the secret of his father’s declining mental state a secret. He is determined and strong, but still just a teenage boy with very limited resources. As Jason himself teeters on the edge of insanity, Nolan uncovers the clever coping system he develops for himself and throws him a lifeline in the guise of friendship.Ī wrenching look at what is likely a real life situation for more teens than we realize, Crazy throws into the spotlight the life of Jason. ![]() Both heartbreaking and funny, CRAZY lives up to the intense and compelling characters Han Nolan is praised for. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance as he stumbles along trying not to draw attention to his father’s deteriorating condition. ![]() Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen upon bad times-his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Hornby how to be good![]() ![]() ![]() North London is a place that holds a lot of special memories for me (eternally romanticised in my imagination now that I’m resident in Brisbane, Australia) but it also forms the backdrop for most of Nick Hornby’s novels. The copy I own was a chance find whilst treasure hunting in a second hand bookstore in North London some years ago. This is a favourite book of mine in the sense that I love the writing, but also in the sense of the actual physical book. ![]() Note also that I have been flat out with my work life balance just lately (balance? Huh!) AND I’m packing for a girls’ weekend away (WOOT!) so forgive me for recycling material! On Nick Hornby’s How To Be Good Enid is taking a little bloggy break at the moment, so I thought I’d repost my thoughts on the Good Book here. Awhile back I guest posted for the fabulous Enid Bite’em about Nick Hornby’s How to be Good, one of my very favourite books for a whole host of reasons. There are books that are meaningful at different stages of your life, too – Blyton becomes Atwood Sweet Valley High becomes 50 Shades of Grey (seriously, it’s a continuum). I have so many favourites I’ve never been able to compose any properly reflective Top 5 that sums up my whole history of (avid) reading. Pardon me for giving it a little Kanye there, but it’s hard not to get excited about books. ![]() ![]() God – ‘face to face’ recalls the lines from 1 Corinthians 13:12: ‘For now we see through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known.’ Tennyson later commented of the Pilot in the poem (who we can analyse as a representative of God): ‘The Pilot has been on board all the while, but in the dark I have not seen him.’ This description of seeing ‘the Pilot’ – i.e. He wrote the poem on 2 December 1854 in response to an article in The Times about the battle, and the poem was published in The Examiner a week later. You can listen to Tennyson reading the poem here.Ī meditation on death, written when Tennyson was in old age, ‘Crossing the Bar’ is one of the shortest poems on this list. ![]() ![]() ![]() No list of the best Tennyson poems would be complete without ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, one of his best-known poems the poem is one of the rare instances of a Poet Laureate producing a good poem while in office. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Reborn by mark millar![]() Greg Capullo, recently completing an epic run with Scott Snyder on Batman, returns to the independent side of comic book publishing at Image that started his career years ago as the artist for McFarlane’s Spawn. The Dark Lands we’re immersed in a colorful fantasy world with a hero’s journey. ![]() Reborn, is more Excalibur meets Dungeons & Dragons and Conan The Barbarian meets Willow, than it is a story of what might happen when you die. From Kick-Ass‘ Spider-Man fantasy to Kingsmen‘s James Bond/Nick Fury spy stories, the genre gets inverted in Millar’s world. Millar’s strength always at the base is taking a genre and re-presenting it to the comic book masses. These master storytellers comment on aging, the afterlife, superheroes and large scale fantasy in a way that only Millar can. ![]() There is lots to love in Reborn, Mark Millar’s highly anticipated team up with Batman artist Greg Capullo. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Elif shafak 3 daughters of eve![]() Peri finds a little space in her life about God. One is the sinner and the other is believer. Here she meets an Iranian girl, Shirin and an American girl, Mona. In the second phase of her teenage, she takes admission in Oxford University. She always moves on in haphazard path way. ![]() So this is her childhood time when she grows up in Turkey but does not find a spiritual relation with God. Her parents have different views about God and religion. But she is unable to understand fully about God because her mother is too religious whereas father is too secular. ![]() In her childhood, she is taught about religion from her parents. Whereas the title talks about three characters of the book referring to them as “The Sinner, The Believer and The Confused.” These are three girls studying together at Oxford, all being totally different from each other.Įlif Shafak draws three phases of Peri’s life her childhood, teenage and adulthood. The whole story of this book revolves around the protagonist character Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife who has always been confused when it comes to matters related to religion. This is the most interesting book which touches everyone’s soul. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The secret to a bigger life![]() ![]() These informal discussions sparked the creative inspiration behind many of Grazer’s movies and TV shows, including Splash, 24, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Arrested Development, 8 Mile, J. ![]() From scientists to spies, and adventurers to business leaders, Grazer has met with anyone willing to answer his questions for a few hours. Date: ApAverage Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 62 Description and Reviews From The Publisher:įrom Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly “curiosity conversations” that have inspired Grazer to create some of America’s favorite and iconic movies and television shows-from 24 to A Beautiful Mind.įor decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly “curiosity conversation” with an accomplished stranger. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman Format: Paperback, 320pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her renowned introduction to The Second Sex, de Beauvoir points out the fundamental asymmetry of the terms “masculine” and “feminine.” Masculinity is considered to be the “absolute human type,” the norm or standard of humanity. This idea resounds in de Beauvoir’s famous statement: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” Influenced by Sartrean existentialism, Marxism, Psychoanaysis and Hegel, she argued that the objectification of woman permeates human history and informs the whole of Western philosophical thought. In highlighting this subordination, the book explains ,1 in characteristic existentialist fashion how the “essence” of woman was in fact created - at economic, social, political, religious levels by historical developments representing the interests of men. ![]() Whereas man has been enabled to transcend and control his environment, always furthering the domain of his physical and intellectual conquests, woman has remained imprisoned within ” immanence” remaining a slave within the circle of duties imposed by her maternal and reproductive functions. Simone de Beauvoir‘s The Second Sex (1949) can be said to have inaugurated the second wave of feminism, with its central argument that throughout history, across cultures, woman has always occupied a secondary position in relation to man, being relegated to the position of the “other”, that which is adjectival to the substantial subjectivity and the existential activity of man. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Thick & Thin by Charlie Cochet![]() ![]() PregnancyĮndometrial thickness is important in pregnancy. During this secretory phase, endometrial thickness is at its greatest and can reach 16 mm. At this phase, the endometrium begins to thicken and may measure between 5–7 mm.Īs the cycle progresses and moves towards ovulation, the endometrium grows thicker, up to about 11 mm.Ībout 14 days into a person’s cycle, hormones trigger the release of an egg. The first half of the proliferative phase starts around day 6 to 14 of a person’s cycle, or the time between the end of one menstrual cycle, when bleeding stops, and before ovulation. In imaging tests of young females who have not yet begun menstruating, the endometrium is present but smaller than it will be later in life.Īccording to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the endometrium is at its thinnest during menstruation, when it usually measures between 2–4 millimeters (mm) in thickness. The normal thickness of the endometrium changes throughout a person’s life, from childhood, through to sexual maturity, fertile years, and after menopause. ![]() ![]() Share on Pinterest A healthcare provider may measure the thickness of the endometrium with an ultrasound. ![]() |