5/23/2023 0 Comments Half upon a timeLike, we know in terms of the Greeks and Romans that if their godly parents are “equivalent” then their demigod children are siblings, just like if Greek demigods have the “same” godly parent then they are also siblings. This is somewhat backed up even earlier in the first series when we’re told that Percy has earthquake powers because of his father being Poseidon “The Earthshaker” (which is Mycenaean Poseidon) - which could also tie into why Percy generally takes leadership roles, is hopping in and out of the Underworld a lot, and is apparently particularly powerful for even just a Big 3 kid, since all that would line up with Mycenaean Poseidon being generally put at the head of the pantheon and also being a chthonic deity. Half Upon a Time by James Riley In this hilarious fractured fairy tale series from New York Times bestselling. Hes the son of the infamous Jack who stole the magic beans from the giant, and hes. Not to get pedantic (oh who am i kidding that’s most of this blog) but I am genuinely fascinated by the potential applications of the established canon in HoO and TOA that the gods canonically have both historic and regional forms, and can appear as specific versions of those forms and have kids of those specific forms, which influence what powers the kid has/what pantheon they fall under/etc etc (and also the implication that demigods can be born under multiple forms of a singular deity).
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Flat stanley invisible stanleyOriginally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Reign of Iron by James L. NelsonThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Warīelow, you can read our summaries of the sixteen cases in which a major ruling power has been challenged by a major rising power over the past 500 years. “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” The Thucydides’s Trap Case File (below) presents summaries of all sixteen cases, which are featured in Graham Allison's new book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? Using the cases, Allison illustrates how tension between rising and ruling powers has often led to war-while also showing how war was avoided in the four rivalries that did not end in violence. Twelve of these sixteen rivalries ended in war. Reviewing the past five hundred years, the Harvard Thucydides’s Trap Project has identified sixteen cases in which a major rising power has threatened to displace a major ruling power. Stockholm, Sweden: Elbe Dialogue October 2019. His honor demands that he care and protect them. He sees too many parallels to his own childhood trauma with Avery and Chloe. Easton – carries the guilt of failure at losing half his unit in their last engagement. They fall hard for Avery and Chloe and will burn the world down to keep them safe. 3 former military men and 1 German Shepherd with their own damage, take the mother and daughter in. One good deed on a snowy night, changes everything. On the run, living in their car as winter sets in, Avery will do whatever it takes to hide from a monster and keep her daughter safe. The main heroine finds love with all three men as they heal each other and become a family. This sweet and steamy, contemporary romance standalone has references to domestic abuse that may cause triggers. Ninety two dollars and fifty seven cents. Something I vow never to let happen again. And now, I see my five year old daughter’s arm in a cast. Every person who has met my husband thinks he’s the most charming man and would never believe what he does to me behind these four walls. There’s ninety two dollars and fifty seven cents hidden in a Ziploc bag in the lining of the couch along with a double stack of polaroid pictures that might buy me some time. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Trash by Andy MulliganOn the afternoon where he was brutally taken from the police officers and beaten up in their jail station he experienced great adversity. Before this incident had occurred Raphael was described to be a very immature, curious and a childish young boy. For example After the incident where Raphael was taken to the police station and threatened to be killed, he was thought to be a more mature and courageous soul. 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan explores the idea that individuals must overcome adversity in order to grow as for the fact that each of the main characters introduced throughout the novel have gone through a difficult time or hardships in their life that have shaped them to be the people that they are today. This is explored and identified through Raphael and Father Julliard. It explores that an individual's tough and most horrible moments in life, shape them to be the people that they are. The novel uses the characters to introduce the adversities and grief throughout the novel that these characters must overcome in order to grow. 'Trash' by Andy Mulligan explores the idea that individuals must overcome adversity in order to grow. Meanwhile, a mad amoral scientist and his own group, in pursuit of extinct creatures for biotech experiments, have also landed on the mysterious island. Once on the coastal island, the deliverance crew soon links up with an unchastened Levine and locates the hush-hush genetics lab complex used to stock the ill- fated Jurassic Park with triceratops, tyrannosaurs, velociraptors, etc. The party of four is unexpectedly augmented by two children, Kelly Curtis, a 13-year-old "brainer," and Arby Benton, a black computer genius, age 11. Malcolm and engineer Doc Thorne organize a rescue mission whose ranks include mechanical whiz Eddie Carr and Sarah Harding, a biologist doing fieldwork with predatory mammals in East Africa. Aided by state-of- the-art equipment, Levine finds a likely Costa Rican outpostbut quickly comes to grief, having disregarded the warnings of mathematician Ian Malcolm (the sequel's only holdover character). Intrigued by the rumors, Richard Levine, a brilliant but arrogant paleontologist, goes in search of what he hopes will prove a lost world. Six years after the lethal rampage that closed the primordial zoo offshore Costa Rica, there are reports of strange beasts in widely separated Central American venues. Back to a Jurassic Park sideshow for another immensely entertaining adventure, this fashioned from the loose ends of Crichton's 1990 bestseller. Fluke demonstrates why she’s considered the queen of culinary cozies. Mouthwatering recipes and diverting subplots add to the fun. Together with friends and family, including Mike, Hannah sets out to learn the truth, and, as she eliminates one potential killer after another, things begin to look even darker for Lonnie. Obviously, Lonnie can’t investigate, and neither can his partner on the force, Mike, so Hannah’s detecting skills are needed more than ever. The night before the murder, Lonnie took Darcy home from a bar and passed out in her house, where he discovered her dead the next morning. Darcy Hicks, a high school classmate of Michelle’s police detective boyfriend, Lonnie, has been murdered, and the primary suspect is Lonnie. In bestseller Fluke’s pleasing 25th Hannah Swensen mystery (after 2019’s Chocolate Cream Pie Murder), bakery shop owner and amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen cuts short her California vacation and rushes home to Lake Eden, Minn., after receiving an emergency call from her sister, Michelle. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The history of the necronomiconThe book in Evil Dead Rise is presumably still in the apartment complex, as its location was never addressed at the end of the movie. At the end of Evil Dead the book is left lying in the grass, and slams shut on its own. At the end of Army of Darkness, the book is thrown back through the time warp. What's most interesting for the future of the franchise is that all three books remain unaccounted for. The differences in appearance and location of the Necronomicon across the Evil Dead series now make sense - Ash, Mia, and Beth each dealt with a different volume. When he finally finds where it is hidden, he finds not one book but three - two of which he believes to be decoys. At the beginning of Army of Darkness, Bruce Campbell's Ash is transported through time to the Middle Ages, and he hunts for the book to return to present day. This was not the first time the existence of multiple volumes was suggested, however. Related: Evil Dead Rise's New Book & Horrifying Deadite Monster Explained 5/22/2023 0 Comments The blind owl by sadegh hedayatFurther, the article illustrates how in Hedayat and Auster’s pieces the city reigns triumphant as the main characters fall victim to hallucination and isolation, or are left with desperate choices: in Hedayat’s novella murder or acceptance of misery and in Auster’s the sudden disappearance from the city and the plot horizons. The paper builds its argument upon Merlin Coverley’s concept of psychogeography which supports transformation of the city as an integral part of the main characters’ fates. The present article argues that the pictures painted of the two metropolises with their specific cramped urban spaces function as culpable agents influencing Quinn as a New Yorker and Hedayat’s narrator as a resident of Ray. New York City in Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Ray in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl testify to the presence of a wasteland, setting in motion an unavoidable sense of nostalgia, confusion and fragmentation upon the protagonists. But true sanctuary can always be found at a restaurant called The Girl in the Swing, where everything-including lasagna-is served on a waffle, and where the proprietor, Miss Bowzer, offers a willing ear, as well as sage advice. Primrose does warm up to living with him and in his home, despite the eerie noises resembling a hockey game that haunt her in the night. After realizing the impracticality of continuing to pay Miss Perfidy (a mothball-scented elderly lady) an hourly wage to baby-sit her, the town council is able to locate a relative, Uncle Jack, who reluctantly takes Primrose into his care. For all practical purposes, at least for the time being, Primrose is an orphan, and there’s no great clamoring of prospective adopters. Annotation: Primrose Squarp simply knows her parents did not perish at sea during a terrible storm, but try convincing the other residents of Coal Harbour on that score. |