7/4/2023 0 Comments Author of the worst witchJill Murphy began writing The Worst Witch at the age of 15, while still at school. “Where was my physics homework!?” Together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, this provided much of the material and inspiration for Miss Cackle's Academy in The Worst Witch series. “The nuns didn’t care that I could draw fantastic pictures,” she says. Jill attended the Ursuline High School, Wimbledon, a very strict academic convent which she hated for the first year. Jill loved primary school, where, she says “I could always draw my way out of trouble if we had a tricky history project!” “You can see how my handwriting and drawing improved as time went by.” Jill had made her own enormous library of hand-written and illustrated books while still at primary school. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six, Jill was stapling her own little illustrated storybooks together – her mum kept them all and she still has them today! “It’s great fun to see them all these years later,” she says. Jill was born and brought up in London and says that she can’t remember a time she wasn’t a storyteller/illustrator. Her stay-at-home mother was a "book maniac" and her father was an Irish engineer. Jill grew up a Roman Catholic, but is no longer practising.
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Kay hooper sleeping with fearBoth her old retired army buddy Gordon Skinner and Sheriff Jake Ballard believe she can catch a vicious killer. And a bizarre murder is only the first jarring reminder of how high the stakes really are. Worse yet, with SCU resources stretched thinner than ever before, Riley is alone and without backup, feeling her way through a deadly game of blindman's buff, where no one around her is quite who or what they seem. Now she's awoken to discover that she's got a sexy new man in her life and an unreliable memory, and that the clairvoyant abilities she's always depended on to protect her are MIA. The SCU's expert on the occult, she'd been sent to the beachfront cottage on Opal Island by her enigmatic chief, Noah Bishop, to investigate reports of dangerous occult activity. An ex-army officer, now a federal agent assigned to the Special Crimes Unit, Riley was a chameleon-a clairvoyant who could blend in with her surroundings, be anyone or anything she chose to be. In fact, she barely remembered the previous three weeks. Even more frightening, she didn't remember what happened the night before. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood. In this terrifying novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies. Bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Eat pray love authorThen, shortly after Elias' death, Gilbert felt compelled to dive back into "City of Girls" - "I felt like I got a message from the mothership, saying that the best thing I could possibly do was write this book. She had begun research on "City of Girls" before Elias' illness, but after the diagnosis "couldn't imagine ever caring about this novel again." The problems of New York City showgirls seemed trivial, and Gilbert fully expected to never resume work on the book. You might expect someone famous for exploring her own life through memoir to process the aftermath of loss by writing nonfiction - and it's what Gilbert herself expected. Early last year, Gilbert's romantic partner and longtime best friend, Rayya Elias, died of cancer at the age of 57. "City of Girls" is set in a carelessly glamorous 1940s Manhattan world of showgirls, musicals, ratty theater seats, flirty rayon dresses and youthful exuberance - it's a book whose very lightheartedness pulled her out of deep personal grief. She's walking down a New York street during an animated telephone interview last week, talking about her latest novel. "It saved me," says author Elizabeth Gilbert, best known for the best-selling 2006 memoir "Eat, Pray, Love." Jon’s not sure he wants to go through the nearly debilitating aftereffects of a psychic reading, and he knows that the byproducts of his abilities-being able to shut down anything electronic in the area-will be a pain to deal with. But since Jon can read suspects and immediately tell if they are guilty or not, local police request his help. Neither Jon or Donovan or the rest of the detective team are excited about visiting the structure where repeated unexplained and downright spooky occurrences happen. Psychic detective Jonathan Bane and his bodyguard/lover/anchor Donovan Havili are back in a third quirky, enjoyable mystery that calls them out of Nashville to the murder site of a haunted house. Even with my eyes, it’s going to take some digging to get to the truth. This case is complicated and strange, and absolutely nothing is as it seems at first glance. It’s a four hour drive outside of Nashville, to a place famous for being haunted, so none of us are particularly eager to go.Īnd then we arrive on scene and I see who we’re dealing with and I want nothing more than to turn around and go right back to Nashville. Psy is called in to clear the investigative team, make sure they’re not an accomplice. A corpse-a murder victim-has gone missing during the middle of an investigation, and no one has any clue where it went. I’ve investigated some pretty strange cases in my life, but I have to say this is a first. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Peter gay sigmund freudHis work is often dismissed as misogynistic and his own granddaughter, Sophie Freud, described his theories as outdated. Sophie Freud: While Freud’s notions of female sexuality often ran contrary to the patriarchal tendencies of the Victorian era, he was still very much a man of his time. According to Freud, Horney’s concept of womb envy emerged as a result of her own supposed penis envy. Freud's Response: Freud responded, although indirectly, writing, "We shall not be very greatly surprised if a woman analyst who has not been sufficiently convinced of the intensity of her own wish for a penis also fails to attach proper importance to that factor in her patients" (Freud, 1949).She suggested that it is men who are adversely affected by their inability to bear children, which she referred to as "womb envy." Karen Horney: Freud’s concept of penis envy was criticized in his own time, most notably by psychoanalyst Karen Horney. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better.Īracelis Girmay is the author of three poetry collections, the black maria Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award and Teeth. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness. Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, the black maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. " every loss-she calls them estrangements-is a yearning for connection across time and place her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." - O, The Oprah Magazine 7/4/2023 0 Comments Author a raisin in the sunBennie hopes for tuition money, Walter hopes for the down payment on his liquor store, and Ruth just wants her family to be happy. Ten thousand dollars is coming in the mail, and Lena must decide what to do with it. The family is not affluent enough to provide for another life, so Ruth prepares to abort her child.īut the Youngers have a chance at a new beginning. Toward the beginning of the play, we learn that Ruth is pregnant, which only complicates the family situation. His wife Ruth draws no attention to her own desires, cleaning up after the rest of the family members as well as the houses where she works. Walter works as a chauffeur for a white man, but he dreams of opening a liquor store with his buddies and making more money for his family. For example, socially-progressive Beneatha (Bennie) studies to become a doctor, despite the financial strain it puts on the low-income family. Not only do these characters feel confined by their physical home space, they also feel restricted by the social roles they’ve been assigned. According to our count, that’s five people in a space built for three. Single mother (and grandmother) Lena Younger, her daughter Beneatha, and her son Walter (plus his wife Ruth and their son Travis) squeeze into a run-down two-bedroom apartment. America’s complicated history of racial tension between black Americans and white Americans is ingrained into the Youngers’ everyday lives. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the Younger family is facing its own war against racism in the Chicago slums. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Lamb's tales from shakespeareSo, instead of arias, he turned to arithmetic and computers, and struck it rich as the father of computer-aided design and manufacturing, aka CAD/CAM. But while serving in the Korean War as a gunner in the Air Force, he was in a B-29 bomber crash that left his lungs and vocal cords scarred by chemical fumes. A longtime Bard fan whose parents worked on Shakespeare productions at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Hanratty originally planned to be a professional opera singer. In media interviews, Hanratty – who died in 2019 – explained the twists of fate that led to the gift. Normally locked in a vault, UCI’s folio – a first-edition book of Shakespeare’s plays – was donated to the campus in 1986 by alumnus Patrick Hanratty, a computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who paid $241,000 for the volume in 1983. This 1604 anatomy book represents the growing knowledge of the human body during Shakespeare’s time. Since then, Samuel has been a part of productions such as Heathers: The Musical (The Mitchell Old Company), Three Winters Green (Lambert House Enterprises) and Relative Merits (Lambert House Enterprises). He reprised his role as Andy in the national tour of The 91-Storey Treehouse (CDP Theatre Producers) which was nominated for 'Best Production for Children' at the 2021 Sydney Theatre Awards. Upon graduating, he made his professional stage debut playing Andy in The 78-Storey Treehouse (CDP Theatre Producers), touring nationally in 2018. Samuel studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), graduating from the three-year Bachelor course in 2016. From an early age, he always had a love for performing, predominantly through music. Samuel was born and raised in the coastal town of Port Macquarie on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. 2023 Australian Tour Samuel Welsh - Billy 7/3/2023 0 Comments Andrew greer less is lostWhat do you make of this decision? Have you ever found yourself doing something similarly absurd?ģ. When we meet the character of Freddy, Arthur Less’ soon-to-be-former-lover, he is described as “dreamy, simple, lusty, bookish, harmless, youthful.” It is Freddy’s marriage invitation that Less so studiously avoids - choosing to go on a round-the-world trip simply to avoid having to decline the invitation without a good reason. How do you see Arthur Less in the opening chapters? Do you see him as a hero, as a man deserving of pity, as something else?Ģ. As we soon learn, he’s also a writer less successful than his peers. The novel’s opening line reads: “From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.” Arthur Less, the book’s protagonist, is introduced as nearly 50, with “washed out” blonde hair and “watery” blue eyes. |