![]() ![]() As it could be viewed, these times were the hardest and the most “awkward”. Convey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger” (Douglass 56). In that regard, Frederick writes: “I had been at my new home but one week, before Mr. The book is also a confession about the most painful moment of Douglass’s life. Living in the era of the Civil War and the era of suffering, Douglass presented a bright testimony of those abhorrent events. The narration is also about Frederick’s enslaved existence and his escape in 1838. However, his childhood could be described as the most favorable time for him as he lived with his mother and later with his grandmother Betty Bailey. Douglass describes the horrible conditions and brutalities that he had to experience. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the story of the fight for civil fights and racial injustice. ![]()
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By Brandon Sanderson Orion Publishing Co From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, co-author of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in a HB collector's edition. If possible, I would also recommend that you get a Gollancz collector's hardcover. coauthor of Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes Mitosis, a. If you enjoyed "Steelheart" I would definitely suggest you track down a copy. Mitosis is a novelette set between books one and two of The Reckoners. A dynamic setting, compelling and flawed characters, enough plot twists to keep me guessing, and a fun, fast-paced reading experience * Book Side Kicks * Mitosis was everything I expected from such a powerhouse author. 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In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch 2250 likes Like Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Let's examine a few book details that viewers may have missed during the course of the film. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 865,445 ratings, 3.93 average rating, 71,640 reviews Open Preview The Goldfinch Quotes Showing 1-30 of 1,086 I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. Despite the sheer narrative enormity of the source material, the film remains fastidious in that no detail is inconsequential. ![]() At 784 pages, the book is a behemoth of a story to adapt as a singular feature. 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I thought it was a lot of fun, read it real quick and I’m so excited to know the sequel The Undertakers is coming out this year too.Ĭurrently reading Root Magic which is set about 100 years after The Conductors, and this coincidence really makes me want to search out books set in the 2060s or 1760s to stick to my pattern. ![]() ![]() I’ve already read The Conductors which is a historical murder mystery, set in Philadelphia a few years after the Civil War, following a married couple. Some personal recs before I throw tables at you: Edit: There were 81, now 84 books, added 3 to the end I thought Black History Month would be a good time to refresh that post with a list of 84 Speculative Fiction Books by Black Authors – New Releases for 2021. ![]() Last year, as part of r/fantasy‘s post series in support of Black Lives Matter, I posted 2020 SFF New Releases by Black Authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the co-editor of Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity. Jay has been named the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning by the University of Toronto. She also shapes urgent city-building conversations through media and academic platforms. ![]() Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America. In acknowledging that anti-Blackness occurs across all public spaces, the goal for the workshop is the creation of a high-level collective terms of reference for moving forward with dismantling anti-Black racism in the public realm, and a guide for future work in planning safe, equitable and joyful spaces for everyone. The workshop is open to Windsor-based Black community builders and their allies/accomplices interested in learning equity-based placemaking principles and strategies for engaging with the municipality. This virtual workshop is a follow-up to Jay Pitter’s 22 September public keynote “The City’s Broken Promise”. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in the time since Kirk-Raven-Schofield’s second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (KRS), in 1983, several translations of selected portions of the collected fragments of early Greek philosophy into English have appeared: Jonathan Barnes’ Early Greek Philosophy (London 1987), drawn from his revised edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (London 1982), Robin Waterfield’s The First Philosophers (Oxford 2000), and Richard McKirahan’s Philosophy Before Socrates (Indianapolis, Ind. Kirk, originally compiled in 1957 in the wake of the sixth and final edition of Diels-Kranz’s (DK) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Berlin 1951–52). 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And how it originally was going to be called Marvel Age, about the whole Marvel universe, focussing on Reed Richards, Wolverine & Spider-Man, but Marvel editor Tom Brevoort was smart and got him to narrow it down. ![]() He also talked about the Spider-Man: Life Story project, that told the story of Spider-Man as if it had played out in real-time. We all thought it was out in January, but looking on The InterNet it appears to be out mid-December? Just in time to tear through your stocking! Anyway, this was fun to do! No matter how popular I get (very) or conceited (very) I still do enjoy drawing these characters." On his Substack newsletter, he added "I wanted something that felt like my SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY cover, with the blue/red split, and this is what I came up with! I don't have ordering information for it, but if you burst into your comic shop and shout "GIMME THAT ZEE" I think they'll know. ![]() |