![]() ![]() It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. But different men often see the same subject in different lights and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. ![]() ![]() No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. Patrick Henry - Speech to the Virginia Convention ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Under Dawn Walton’s direction, this strong ensemble compellingly conveys the emotional turmoil of a family under pressure, although a too-slack tempo occasionally cushions the punch of the drama. This, Hansberry said, is “a Negro play before it is anything else”.įour visitors to the family’s flat site the domestic situation within wider national and economic perspectives: the young Nigerian student, interrogating notions of identity and moral purpose the well-off, African American student, wondering what ideas have to do with education the fellow dupe, scammed out of savings the white representative of the housing scheme “welcome committee”, sent to buy this unwelcome family out of their hoped-for new home. The main focus, though, is firmly and deliberately on black experience. ![]() As Hansberry once said: “In order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific”, and this drama resonates with other lives similarly cramped by poverty (Irish writer Seán O’Casey’s Dublin-set Juno and the Paycock was a partial influence). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1976 A traditional tailor gets the commission of his life when the new ambassador arrives House Sitter. 1983 (Sector General) MacEwan and Grawlya-Ki are frustrated in their attempts to bring the Federation together. ![]() 1960 (Sector General) Conway gets his first permanent Educator tape, and falls in love with a crablike Melfian. 1959 (Sector General) A melting SRTT and its panicked infant cause chaos. 1960 (Sector General) During the building of Sector General, despised construction worker O'Mara is forced to baby-sit a one-ton orphaned Hudlarian infant. 1972 Why is the polite young man so interested in the old lady? Medic. General and the classification system are detailed and useful. ![]() You know the people involved, it would be riveting. I found the fan writing, mostly about early SFĬonventions, less interesting. He's best know for his Sector General stories, the others here demonstrate Other collections, but some of it I read here for the first time. The short fiction is great - most of it I've seen in (In The White Papers )Ī collection of some of James White's best short fiction, and of hisĮarly fan-writing. ![]() ![]() and, finally, the universality of Tan’s themes’’ (Koenig 82). Even less ebullient reviews acknowledged the fact that Tan’s novel ‘‘strikes deep roots’’ (Pollard 44) and that readers ‘‘cannot help being charmed, however, by the sharpness of observation. With the delicacy of a butterfly she touches on matter that is ineradicable and profound’’ (19). is marvelously alert to the rich ambivalence in her material. From the Times Educational Supplement came the following: ‘‘Amy Tan. Publishers Weekly called the novel ‘‘intensely poetic, startlingly imaginative and moving,’’ describing it as ‘‘on the order of Maxine Hong Kingston’s work, but more accessible, its Oriental orientation an irresistible magnet. ![]() The majority of reviews of The Joy Luck Club were strongly positive. Before the end of its first year, it had been named a selection for both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Quality Paperback Club foreign rights had been sold for Italy, France, Japan, Sweden, and Israel serial rights went to the Atlantic magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and San Francisco Focus and audio rights had been purchased by Dove. ![]() The book was a tremendous critical and commercial success from the beginning. ![]() With the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, in 1988, Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) became a household name. Critical Analysis of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club ![]() ![]() ![]() "On the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse in Paradise Lost". The contents of the book evolved over decades through several published versions: When Gerard Manley Hopkins visited Bridges in mid August 1886, they discussed Bridges' work on the preface. Beeching wanted something to counter the prevailing da-DUM-da-DUM style of reading, that artificially distorted words to fit the regular pattern of the iambic pentameter rhythm. The final section of the book presents a new system of prosody for accentual verse.īridges had been asked by Henry Beeching, his local vicar, to write a preface for an edition of Paradise Lost that Beeching was preparing for sixth-form pupils. A third section deals with 'obsolete mannerisms'. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889, and a final revised edition was published in 1921.īridges begins with a detailed empirical analysis of the blank verse of Paradise Lost, and then examines the changes in Milton's practice in his later poems Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Secondhand Origin Stories by Lee BlauersouthĪngel Radio by A.M. Side character in book one, main character in sequel)** This post is now in a Read More because it’s gotten REALLY LONG. To the first book and leave a note about which book has the main character. ![]() And, as a final note, sometimes the asexual main charactersĪren’t main characters until later in a book series. I’ve labeled books where I know the author is openly ace spectrum and put ** next to books that I know use the word in the book. This post in case they update with things I don’t catch or they have details Iĭidn’t include. I’ll also be linking to the goodreads page for eachīook, so you can check reviews for feedback (it can be tricky, but If you want more details on any of the books, feel free Some of them could beĬonsidered problematic. The definition without using the word - and some don’t. Some of the books have explicit representation - using the words or giving Hence, even though it doesn’t fully fit this blog, it’s going here! I wanted something that had a wide range, could be updated, and could be sharedĮasily. I linked people to sources I used,īut none 100% matched and there are at least four books that could be added. ![]() Requests to know what other books I found. ![]() The list, I found lots of books that didn’t fit my requirements and had lots of Time researching books with asexual main characters and made a list of YA books with explicit rep. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure the first few chapters were somewhat filled with sex scandals and whatnot, but only so few of them, and if you’re a fan of royal histories, I can bet you at least have read about it.īut that is not to say that the book did not worth the time. Now you would think with that kind of title, you would be presented with facts (be it known and not so unknown) of the debauchery that the Royals had participated in the past. ![]() From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck. ![]() Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From Nero’s nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine’s stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ītwood first encountered the story of Marks in Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie. While Jordan is ostensibly conducting research into criminal behaviour, he slowly becomes personally involved in the Marks story and seeks to reconcile his perception of the mild-mannered woman he sees with the murder of which she has been convicted. Īlthough the novel is based on factual events, Atwood constructs a narrative with a fictional doctor, Simon Jordan, who researches the case. McDermott was hanged and Marks was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two servants of the Kinnear household, Grace Marks and James McDermott, were convicted of the crime. The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West. ![]() First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. edition)Īlias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. ![]() ![]() Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.Ĭrack open a bottle of red and have a box of tissues ready. ![]() Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter Shawna (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross), twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Inspired by the books of Armistead Maupin, Netflix Original Limited Series Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City begins a new chapter in the beloved story. Here’s what we can expect when it’s released June 7, per a Netflix press release: The trailer for Netflix’s miniseries adaptation taps directly into that sentiment, showcasing the reunions of characters old and new alike. So any time we get a chance to visit the residents of Anna Madrigal’s abode on Barbary Lane, it feels like coming home. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series is an LGBTQ+ cornerstone, a collection of novels set in a kindly San Francisco that speaks to anyone who’s ever felt out of place. ![]() ![]() ![]() My mother looks like she wants my autograph or something!Īs soon as she spotted me, Mom ran over and bent down beside me. ![]() I must have been even better than I thought. I could tell she was pretty excited about my performance. She was walking so fast, my father couldn't keep up with her. Pretty soon, I saw my mother hurrying in the door. She only gets paid to keep you calm during the day. The teacher tells you to calm down, but at night she doesn't really care. You always get to horse around with the other kids until your parents come pick you up. I love going back to the room after a school program. Even while we were walking back to the room, I was still bowing. I must have bowed about two hundred times. When it was all over, the audience started clapping like crazy. I even used my hands the way the singers on television do. And since I was a very short first grader, I got to stand in the front row where everyone could see me.īoy, I really thought I was hot stuff, too. For example, no matter how old I get, I'll never forget the first time I was in a school program. THERE ARE certain things that happen to you that you never forget. ![]() |