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![]() ![]() Now, Quincy is doing well-maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. ![]() Despite the media's attempts, they never meet. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them, and, with that, one another. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to-a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. From Goodreads: "Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. ![]() ![]() ![]() That honor belongs primarily to the millions of readers who have incorporated the book into their daily time of devotion. Bush has spoken often of his love of the book.īut it isn’t just the famous names that account for Utmost’s lasting popularity. The association with prominent Evangelical figures would continue through the decades: Jerry Falwell is remembered as a devotee, and George W. Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, started early group meetings by reading from the book. Among the book’s earliest readers were Billy Graham, Bill Bright, and Henrietta Mears. Yet Utmost swiftly won a following among American evangelicals-and not just any following. Its author was an obscure Scottish preacher who had died young-nearly 20 years earlier (this year marks the 100th anniversary of his death)-and who was mostly unknown and unpublished on American soil. ![]() When My Utmost for His Highest first appeared in the United States, in 1935, few could have predicted that the little book of daily readings would become a defining text of American evangelicalism. ![]() ![]() The narrator's mother, a dreamy, drug-addicted recluse the lawyer, Mr. Do you turn the spade over the living heart?"") as well as the terrible (""Who can help me but God Himself Who has already failed and is not?""). Miss MacIntosh, the central figure, a bald headed governess, solid as rock though smashed to pieces inside, stuffed with odd bits of useless knowledge, blighted remembrances she invokes the ordinary (""The life is what counts. ![]() Can one call it an ""extended metaphor""- the narrator representing Illusion haunted by Reality? Or is Miss Young's theme simply the irreality of life? The characters are large, luminous, bizarre, troubling. ![]() It is a hybrid work: a poetic novel which is also somewhat homey, overwhelmingly symbolic yet lyrical, incantatory but also humorous, rather grotesquely so. Miss Young's nominal method is stream of consciousness in her hands, however, it becomes a veritable sea, a floating palimpsest, polyphonic, impressionistic. Something of Virginia Woolf and Carson McCullers and Elinor Wylie is here, and something, too, of Jamesian psychology, Joycean puns, Proustian longueurs. Almost twenty years in the making, and one thousand and one hundred and ninety-eight pages long- twice the size of Dog Years, no less. ![]() You cannot argue away Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: it's just there, like Mount Everest. ![]() ![]() ![]() What, in substance, both the Esquimau wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this-the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: The second part of the phrase does appear in the story, but isolated from "Cthulhu fhtagn" Note that while close, the words "Iä! Iä!" are not used here or anywhere else in the story. He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone-whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong-and hear with frightened expectancy the ceaseless, half-mental calling from underground: “ Cthulhu fhtagn”, “ Cthulhu fhtagn”. I figured that this phrase came from The Call of Cthulhu, but a quick search of the text shows that the phrase doesn't appear exactly that way: There is even an Urban Dictionary definition that mentions this exact quote. For instance, the board game Arkham Horror has the text on the Cultist monster. This phrase reappears in a lot of derivative Cthulhu works. ![]() Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Sometimes a longer version of the phrase comes up as well (untranslated in his stories*): Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (whether or not they've actually read the stories or not): There is a phrase that is pretty commonly known to fans of H.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() In onomatopoeic, rhyming text, Bolling encourages readers to dance in styles including folk dance, classical ballet, breakdancing, and line dancing. The seamless grace of the flamingo’s dance contrasts humorously with Flora’s faltering steps, but by the end of the story, they swoop, plunge and soar together like old ballet partners.Ĭourageous use of white space-several pages contain a solitary waterlily-and a confident animated style are used to good effect in this sweet story of a young girl and her unlikely mentor.ĭancing is one of the most universal elements of cultures the world over. ![]() Illustrator Idle’s prior experience as a DreamWorks animator is evident in the flowing, musical quality of the illustrations one can almost hear the 3/4 beat of a waltz in the background. The occasional simple rectangular fold-down flap cleverly allows each character to reveal a quirky new gesture or change of mood when the story demands. The story of the evolving camaraderie between this unlikely duo is told with humor and compassion through the use of a delicate flowing line and a limited, subtle color palette (mostly pink). ![]() Initially playing hard to get, then gradually warming to her overtures, the flamingo literally takes Flora under his wing and teaches her to dance. Klutzy but endearing Flora (dumpily clad in swimsuit, bathing cap and flippers) and a dancing flamingo are the protagonists of this whimsical, wordless tale, which will have special appeal for budding ballerinas. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We have a tendency to overtrust anything we don’t understand,” Fry says. This book illustrates why good science writers are essential. And, in the case of Facebook and users’ data, “how cheaply we were bought”. But working together, human and AI-machine can be the perfect team.įry makes a convincing case for “the urgent need for algorithmic regulation”, and wants the public to understand the compromises we are making. “We have somehow managed to be simultaneously dismissive” of algorithms, “intimidated by them and in awe of their capabilities”, she argues. ![]() ![]() In one chapter, she explains how a man who nearly followed his satnav off a cliff is similar to the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, and to voters being manipulated by social media. Fry, a mathematician, is a passionate advocate for maths and technology, but keen that we don’t put too much faith in them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her-but was gifted with a mysterious power. Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time.NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE.Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films.IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes as a first-rate novelist.”- San Francisco Chronicle From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() The mans hands were behind his back, the. ![]() It is revealed at the end of the story, however, that Farquhar has, in fact, been hanged and that these imaginings took place in the seconds before his death. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Lyrics I A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. As Farquhar stands on the bridge with a noose around his neck, Bierce leads the reader to believe that the rope breaks and that Farquhar falls into the water below, only to escape to his farm, where he is reunited with his wife. ![]() AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE I A MAN stood upon a railroad bridge in Northern Alabama, looking down. First published in Bierce’s short story collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians in 1891, the story centers on Peyton Farquhar, a southern planter who, while not a Confederate Soldier, is about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is one of the most widely anthologized American short stories and is considered Ambrose Bierce’s best work of short fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drayton never lost hope they would once again reunite and pick up where they left off, but Vann’s stubborn nature and repeated encounters with a heartbreaking world prove to be a challenge. Yet, he’d surrender it all-again-for the only man who’s still ever-present in his heart.Īfter a decade and entirely too much distance between them, Vann is suddenly released back into a world that has been nothing but cruel. He is now a self-made man and developer of one of the most sought after electric exotic automobiles in the world with a fortune greater than that of his birthright. He accepts his fate, a sacrifice for the only man he ever loved and the one person who saw beyond his rough edges.ĭrayton grew up with a trust fund and pre-planned future, but an unexpected encounter one night forces him to abandon everything and start from scratch. Vannguard Shaw has spent the last ten years serving a life sentence and adjusting to the ache of solitude. ![]() A story of two men and the boundless love that forever changed them. ![]() |