5/13/2023 0 Comments Indian horse richard![]() ![]() Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he’s led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. Richard Wagamese (1955-2017) was one of Canada’s foremost writers, and one of the leading Indigenous writers in North America. ![]() His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. The following is from Richard Wagameses novel, Indian Horse. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Chekhov play vanya![]() ![]() Captioning is both layered onto and represented in the film: it is, as they say in film studies, both diegetic and non-diegetic. It’s a film that, even in Hamaguchi’s native Japan, is inconceivable without subtitles. ![]() ![]() In addition to Best Picture, “Drive My Car” is nominated for Best International Feature-if it doesn’t win in that category, it’s not clear what the award is for. All these languages, with the crucial addition of Korean Sign Language, are braided throughout (the gorgeous signing by the actress Park Yurim just about breaks your heart). It’s an exquisite Tower of Babel of a film-a thrilling mélange of Japanese, Korean, English, Mandarin, Tagalog, Indonesian, German, and Malaysian. Widely celebrated on last year’s festival circuit, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “ Drive My Car” is the focus of renewed attention owing to its four Academy Award nominations. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Diary of a worm nat the gnat5/13/2023 0 Comments Perfect by rachel joyce reviews![]() ![]() More philosophically, it’s a warning about our search for perfection and control in an imperfect and uncontrollable world.īyron’s story alternates with the present-day narrative of Jim, a middle-aged man severely constrained by obsessive-compulsive disorder. It’s ripe for discussion about social class, gender roles and mental illness. Joyce’s dark, quiet follow-up to her successful debut, “ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” could easily become a book club favorite. And once time has proved itself as mutable and unreliable as anything else man-made, Byron finds the rest of his world going askew. ![]() “Time was what held the world together,” thinks 11-year old Byron Hemmings in Rachel Joyce’s “ Perfect.” “It kept life as it should be.”īut it is 1972, and time is about to change with the first addition of two “leap seconds” designed to align time to Earth’s rotation. ![]() ![]() Having spent his adolescence through the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, he later participated in the country’s liberation from the Soviet Union and contributed as a member in the Communist Party. Kundera had much of his life thrown around by political violence, and his presence in politics had been that much ambiguous. This lightness - of choice, of meaninglessness - torments the main characters in the novel. ![]() We can only go with the flow and pretend that we know what we’re doing. The first chapter introduces Nietzsche’s idea that, since life only happens once, and everything in life subsequently only happens once, it is impossible for us to predict the outcomes of different paths and choose the one that promises the best one. In the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984,) Czech author Milan Kundera establishes a fundamental oxymoron of life: that “weight” is cruel yet bearable, while “lightness” is unbearable. “There is no perfection only life.” - Milan Kundera ![]() Author Milan Kundera’s baffling response to a politically charged 20 th-Century Czechoslovakia. ![]() ![]() If you like Darcy Coates, Jack Ketchum, Robert R. Will he survive long enough to save the child-and his soul? ![]() But helping Lucy means performing the one thing he swore he would never do: an exorcism. Whatever being “marked” means, Jimmy doesn’t care. ![]() The Blackmoor residence rests upon the outskirts of town with a history of magic, mayhem, and death, Jimmy Holiday must decide if the young girl, Lucy, is only ill, or if the haunting of the house and her apparent possession are real.Īfter the house appears to affect him as well with colors of magic dancing before his eyes, rooms warded by a witch, and a ring of power in his voice, Jimmy is met by a transient who tells him he has “the Mark.” A defrocked priest offers to help an old friend with a sick daughter, but he has no idea what truly awaits him in this story of supernatural horror. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The White Nile by Alan Moorehead![]() ![]() Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr with special guests Peter Frampton & Mick Fleetwood)ģ0. Ronnie McDowell with special guest The Jordanaires)Ģ9. Rob Halford with special guests Nikki Sixx & John 5)Ģ5. Stevie Nicks with special guest Waddy Wachtel)ġ1. “What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done for You” (feat. Steven Tyler with special guest Warren Haynes)ĩ. ![]() Ann Wilson with special guest Howard Leese)Ħ. ![]() “Rockstar” (special guest Richie Sambora)ĥ. “This may have been just a God-wink for me to go ahead and do that,” she told Billboard at the time.ĭolly Parton, ‘Rockstar’ Track Listing (Butterfly Records/Big Machine Label Group)ġ. ![]() Rockstar is Parton’s response to her 2022 induction into the Rock & Roll of Fame. Late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, who died in March, appears on her version of “Free Bird,” which also features posthumous vocals from Ronnie Van Zant. Sting, Steve Perry, Ann Wilson, Kevin Cronin, Michael McDonald, Debbie Harry and Elton John are among the collaborators on Parton’s first rock album.īoth surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney appear on Parton’s cover of “Let It Be,” along with Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton. The country legend also unveiled the LP’s track listing, which can be seen below. The album’s full list of guest contributors has also been confirmed, including several artists who’ve been previously announced. HERE’S DOLLY - (Via Ultimate Classic Rock) Dolly Parton has announced that her upcoming rock album, Rockstar, will arrive on Nov. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Revelations of divine love book![]() She then describes the growth of new religious beliefs, that Jesus is not only the father: he is also the perfect mother, she feels. In an epiphanic moment, she reports breaking through the limitations of human consciousness to attain a transcendent bliss where she was finally able to understand that God is overwhelmingly loving toward her. She examines the prospect of hell, and the meaning behind the religious tradition of divine torture.īut, then Julian reports a breakthrough in these considerations: Revelations of Divine Love in the story of the gospels and the meaning of the Messiah figure in human history. She says that the issue of destiny seems to have a fatalistic component, indicating that God might be in perfect sovereignty over human reality, which only deepens the confusing nature of evil. She elaborates a systematic theology in response to the turmoil of that question. Why does evil exist, if God is purely good, and he made everything, and if apart from God nothing has been made which has been made? These revelations begin with the central question of the Christian academy, the Theodicy. She lays out her discoveries about God (in Greek, apocalypses, which is translated " Revelations"). This is the first book written in English by a woman that we have. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Flickering Hope by Naomi Kinsman![]() Around the same time our school was doing a musical called “Totally Buggy.” There was this character, a ladybug, who had this beautiful jazzy solo. When I was in second grade, my mom took me to see a production of Annie, and I saw this little girl up on stage and she was exuberant and boisterous and I wanted that opportunity to try on a different personality. ![]() Naomi Kinsman: I was a very, very shy child. Patricia Newman: Is there a childhood memory that sticks out in your mind? I spoke to Naomi by telephone to find out more about her creative process. Her devotion to her craft is both inspirational and instructive. Naomi and I are represented by the same literary agency, and our paths frequently cross in the writing world. Tolkien’s Inklings group-to help children find their voices as writers. ![]() She started the Society of Young Inklings about eight years ago-named for C.S. Not only plumbing the depths of creativity for her middle-grade novels, but in teaching children and adults to find their passion for their stories. Naomi Kinsman weaves her life around the creative process. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Novel a time to kill![]() ![]() ![]() While the director’s relish for pushing every button within reach is excessive, you have to shake your head and admire the jaw-dropping effrontery of the attempt. ![]() Still, being anything but bemused at “A Time to Kill’s” antics is as pointless as getting angry at an infant who misbehaves. It’s hard to think of another director who could make Grisham’s pulp fiction look restrained by comparison, but Schumacher manages. Not trusting even the best-selling novel’s instincts, Schumacher and screenwriter Goldsman, determined to squeeze the maximum possible impact out of situations, have made several small but critical changes in the plot, including putting a key closing speech in a different character’s mouth. With full throttle as his cruising speed of choice, Schumacher directs as if nuance were a capital offense. ![]() |