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After witnessing a number of strange events-Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!-Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.Īnd thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon's hilarious send-up of Twilight. Second, there was a vampire part of him-which I assumed was wildly out of his control-that wanted me dead. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. About three things I was absolutely certain. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886.Spielmann also noted the “French flatness” of Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott. Peter Henry Emerson, “Ricking the Reed,” photograph from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads by P.H. Like the Lady herself, Waterhouse turns away from an art of the cloistered life and towards an art that engages with optical effects. Whereas the early PRB were inspired by the bright jewel tones and minute details of medieval illustrated manuscripts and tapestries, Waterhouse took his inspiration from the plein air (open air) methods of the Impressionists, replacing jewel tones for the atmospheric silvers and greens of a cool English day. The Lady’s tapestry, which drapes over the boat, seems to further highlight the difference between Waterhouse and the PRB. Whereas Millais’s reeds maintain their physical integrity and rich detail when viewed up close, Waterhouse’s reeds lose some of their convincing illusionism and dissolve into obvious brushstrokes (even more apparent when you see the paintings in person!). Convincing illusionism in reeds (detail, left), Sir John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52, oil on canvas, 762 x 1118 mm (Tate Britain, London) and more evident brushstrokes in reeds (detail, right) John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888, oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm (Tate Britain, London)We can see the difference if we compare the reeds of Millais’s Ophelia (left) with that of Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (right), positioned in analogous parts of the composition. If you’ve ever worn the same clothes day and night for weeks, you’ll know how amazing it feels when you make your skin silky and smooth again, and how happy you can be just cutting your fingernails and scrubbing the dirt out of your hands and feet with good soap that smells like roses and then putting on clean clothes and brushing your CLEAN hair and letting it dry all soft and whispery-sounding in the sun.ĭaisy is with Piper and Boys separates from them. The fun cousins having, the games they played and the teasing.Ĭousins do all that sort of things and they are lovely.ĭaisy is new so she takes some time to adjust but cousins make her comfortable.Įdmund makes her more than comfortable tbh. What I liked the most is first few chapters of the book before the War starts. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. He also wrote an autobiography, "Open," which became a best-seller and won several awards.Īgassi retired from professional tennis in 2006 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011. Off the court, Agassi was known for his philanthropy and established the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education which aims to improve education for disadvantaged youth in the United States. He won the Australian Open four times, the US Open twice, and the French Open and Wimbledon once each.Īgassi was also a member of the United States Davis Cup team and helped lead the team to victory in 1990, 1992, and 1995. He was known for his aggressive playing style, powerful serve, and ability to play on all surfaces.Īgassi won a total of 60 career titles, including eight Grand Slam singles championships. Andre Agassi's professional tennis career spanned over two decades, from 1986 to 2006. In an era when pretty, nasal sopranos were in style (Madonna, Belinda Carlyle, Susanna Hoffs), Hindi was a revelation. A song that people played to make themselves seem profound and deep and maybe worth a tumble.Ī post shared by E. I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR by U2. Cool boys I flirted with would claim to have seen them in a tiny club they weren’t old enough to have gotten into. R.E.M was on the college rock scene and hadn’t made it to the stratosphere. David Byrne was in his big suit mode and I adored him as a poet/prophet/rock star/strange angel. It is also the most important song in Family of Liars - it comes up several times in the book. This song made us nostalgic for our own young selves, our own summers, even as they were happening. It inspired me to wear extra bright blue eyeliner.ĭON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) by Simple Minds. We were Americans and this song seemed so edgy and British. We didn’t know what it meant but it felt deep. This song was playing everywhere, all the time. WISHING WELL by Terrance Trent Darby, aka Sananda Maitreya. We wanted to hate her, but we couldn’t look away. Pure happiness - a song for driving with the windows down. We couldn’t even believe it.įAITH by George Michael. Here’s the list - and a bit of what these songs meant to me and my friends when I first heard them, much like what they mean to the characters in Family of Liars. Cosmologists calculate the curve and complete the figure by employing a potent arsenal of instruments and methodologies. The eye of astrophysics reaches a great deal farther now. Our destiny, if only we could know it, might provide some reason for why we’re here. Apocalypse, doomsday, Judgment Day - all this, for theologians, provides a way of thinking about the meaning or purpose of existence. Eliot: “not with a bang but a whimper.” Traditional speculation about the end times, the end of days, comes from religion, where it is called eschatology. “Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice.” She gives Robert Frost his due. How does it all end? For that matter, does it all end, or can we keep on in our merry way indefinitely? In “The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking),” Mack, a theoretical cosmologist at North Carolina State University, attempts to answer what might seem the most remote of scientific questions. The denouement, presumably tens of billions of years away, remains comparatively mysterious. Many books have been written about our cosmic origins: the creation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago the Big Bang and all that followed. Not to give anything away, but “in about five billion years, the sun will swell to its red giant phase, engulf the orbit of Mercury and perhaps Venus, and leave the Earth a charred, lifeless, magma-covered rock.” That’s how Katie Mack starts her story. THE END OF EVERYTHING (Astrophysically Speaking) By Katie Mack Since then, the field of metaphor studies within the larger discipline of cognitive linguistics has increasingly developed, with several annual academic conferences, scholarly societies, and research labs contributing to the subject area. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.Ĭonceptual metaphor, and a detailed examination of the underlying processes, was first extensively explored in this book. Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. 1980 book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By Regardless of what it reminds the reader of, the reviews on Amazon and GoodReads all share the same belief that I do - That is, The Alien Club is an extremely entertaining, thought provoking journey. Some have compared the narration to Stand by Me, while others have said it reminds them of The Wonder Years. A popular TV series on today that some readers have said reminds them of The Alien Club, is Stranger Things. The Alien Club takes the fantasia from The Goonies and combines it with the stark realities of Lord of the Flies. The book has several unintended serious themes that underline the story, setting and subplots - Death, drugs, sexuality, peer pressure, child abuse and even your first love to name a few. Recommended reading level is 13 years of age or older. This book is NOT (I'm a parent of 3) meant for a young child. Though the book may be thrown in to the "Coming of Age" genre, the book is actually rather mature in it's scope and context and can be enjoyed by an adult reader. The Alien Club follows the path forged by a ten-year-old boy, blindly clawing his way through the confusing, frightening and utterly fascinating life afforded him, via a magical neighborhood situated in suburbia USA, during the summer of 1979. The characters are very well developed and very likeable. Also didn't think hockey would play that much of a role in the storyline.īut even apart from the hockey theme I thought the story was quite realistic. It seemed very authentic to me and you can tell the author put some effort into gathering information about the game rather than just making up her own version just to be able to use the hockey theme. Being a former hockey player myself probably made me love it as much as i did. But once the little reporter sheds her black and gray clothes in favor of a sexy red dress, Luc sees that there is more to Jane than originally meets the eye. The last thing he needs is a smart-mouthed, pain-in-the-backside reporter digging into his past and getting in his way. For as long as he can remember, Luc has been single-minded about his career. But if he thinks he’s going to make her life miserable, he’d better think again. Luc has made his feelings about parasite reporters-and Jane-perfectly clear. By night, she’s a writer, secretly creating the scandalous adventures of “Honey Pie”, the magazine series that has all the men talking. By day, she’s a reporter covering the raucous Seattle Chinooks hockey team-especially their notorious goalie Luc Martineau. A little tired of going out on blind dates with men who drive vans with sofas in the back, Jane Alcott is living the Single Girl existence in the big city. |