![]() ![]() Lewis Carroll had migraines, and some people think his vision could go a little strange like this, too - the inspiration for a shrinking Alice, perhaps?ģ. ![]() Otherwise known as Todd's Syndrome, this medical condition occurs mostly in children, and makes you feel like objects (including your body) are appearing bigger or smaller than usual. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is an actual thing Carroll based his book character on the real-life Alice Liddell, the young daughter of a family friend (who most definitely had brown hair, as we've seen the photographs).Ģ. ![]() ![]() Alice isn't blonde, after allĬontrary to most films and illustrations, Alice is probably a brunette. Think Alice in Wonderland and many of us immediately recall images of grinning Cheshire cats, rabbits running late and a Mad Hatter's tea party.īut here are some things you may not know about Lewis Carroll's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.Īnd yes, many of them are as weird and wonderful as what goes on in his classic books. 10 crazy things you need to know about Alice in WonderlandĪuthor: Sophie Offord Alice might be a character that everyone knows, but you can still find lots of incredible facts about the world of Lewis Carroll. ![]()
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A heavy mist has descended over sixth-century Britain, a bleak country inhabited by mutually antagonistic Saxons and Britons. ![]() ![]() At the time Lord Stanbridge doesn’t realize that the young woman he is having sex with is a well-brought up young lady not a prostitute. The rape is carried out by Lord Stanbridge who is trying to prove he is not a homosexual. He is intelligent, logical and the confidant of all - the keeper of secrets.This story begins with Eleanor Chivenham being drugged by her brother who arranges her rape. Nicholas is seen throughout this series of books as the obvious leader. Some were titled, some were not, some were outgoing some were shy and bookish. They span a wide variety of backgrounds and personalities. ![]() The Rogues were not bullies themselves, however they certainly got into their share of scrapes in their school days. ![]() He formed this group to fight against the bullying that was notorious at boarding school. Nicholas Delaney formed the “Rogues” while away at school. ![]() An Arranged Marriage - the first book in the “Company of Rogues” series - tells the story of the leader of this group of men, or "Company of Rogues", as they are called. ![]() ![]() ![]() These livelihoods are filled with family values, hardscrabble survival, loyal friendships, and desire for education, yet rife with the racism, miscegenation laws, and misogyny that plague the systems of patriarchy and white supremacy. In this fictionalized but true Appalachian tale, many struggle for literacy and yearn for news of the outside world, while others fearfully hang on to the only lives they've known. The lack of infrastructure in difficult terrain has kept the descendants of early settlers regionally isolated, causing Appalachia to be one of the last places in America to obtain modern living standards. ![]() One hundred years after the first large public library was erected in Boston, while library buildings were popping up all over the country, in 1952 Appalachia, books were still carried on horseback across narrow footpaths into hollers, up hillsides, and along high ridges. Yet, The Book Woman's Daughter stands alone as a simple, sweet story layered with the dark, complicated issues which still haunt Appalachia today. For readers who loved Kim Michelle Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, this sequel offers another visit to the hills of Eastern Kentucky, only one generation after the WPA implemented the Packhorse Librarian Project. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her delivery of this particular criticism ranks among the most withering. Hooks was by no means the first to have a problem with Friedan's white-girl-problems worldview. According to hooks, Friedan had written myopically, as though women of other races and classes-those who, she argued, were most victimized by sexist oppression-simply didn't exist. ![]() In 1984, black feminist theorist bell hooks introduced her own book, From Margin to Center, with a searing indictment of The Feminine Mystique: Though Friedan's book had spawned what came to be known as the second-wave feminist movement, it focused on what wasn't a universal female problem but rather a problem endured only by white, upper- and middle-class mothers and wives. According to the aforementioned thinkers and philosophers, Betty Friedan's 1963 book is a courageous text with a noble goal, but. So, lest we get too rosy remembering the achievements of The Feminine Mystique, let's review in further detail some of those bubble-bursting, parade-raining criticisms. Like any beloved, much-studied text, secular or sacred, The Feminine Mystique deserves to be read critically in order to be understood fully. 'Anger Boiled Up, and Betty Friedan Was There': 'Feminine Mystique' at 50 ![]() ![]() But there is also a grandeur and dignity. ![]() There is death, pain, and sadness here, illness, human interference and disaster. Review Quotes George continues to write, with astounding intimacy, about the wolves she introduced in the Newbery-winning Julie of the Wolves. Dont miss any of the books in Jean Craighead Georges groundbreaking series: Julie of the Wolves, Julie, and Julies Wolf Pack. Jean Craighead Georges research and first-hand observation form this engrossing epic tale thats sure to draw readers into the fascinating world of wolves. ![]() The strength of Kapus leadership will determine not just the well-being of the pack but its very survival. He must protect his wolves from the threats of famine and disease and, at the same time, defend himself from bitter rivals, both inside and outside the pack, who are waiting for their chance to overthrow him. Fearless but inexperienced Kapu is now the new leader of the pack. In this thrilling adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra, Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own. Book Synopsis The acclaimed final book in the trilogy that begins with the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves. ![]() About the Book Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A few weeks of dealing with the insensitive, sadistic and imperious Miranda leave our heroine on the verge of abdicating, but before long she’s joining her colleagues in “the classic Runway Paranoid Turnaround. A junior assistantship to the editor of the world’s top fashion magazine (“The job a million girls would die for”) provides endless fodder for a one-note but on-the-money kiss-and-tell debut.Īndy, or, as her boss from hell calls her: “Ahn-dre-ah,” harbors dreams of writing for The New Yorker, but her luck runs out-or runs high, depending on your priorities-when her first job interview lands her at Runway magazine, beholden to Miranda Priestly, “solely responsible for anticipating her needs and accommodating them.” Intelligent, sarcastic and without a smidgen of interest in fashion, Andrea quickly learns the Runway culture, from the necessity of being tall, emaciated, slavish, and half-naked in winter to the perks of town cars, shopping bags filled with designer duds, and the promise of any job after one year of servitude. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like zits.Īnd my friends' bodies were also changing in noticeable-but different-ways. I can't say for sure when my body changed things up. ![]() My body cannot execute a perfect aerial cartwheel but recovers quickly when an attempt to do so results in an epic face-smash in front of a gym full of bendy, twisty, perky CHEER TEAM!!! wannabes. My body makes me an excellent cross-country runner but a terrible gymnast. I mean, my body has been with me my entire life, and yet it barely crossed my mind because it just, you know, did the stuff bodies are supposed to do. When you're healthy and everything is functioning properly, your body is pretty easy to ignore. I've never given much thought to my body. But am I doomed to be a late bloomer? Or will I bloom sometime in between? ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they endure the dangers surrounding them and discover the power of both love and sacrifice. ![]() ![]() Mariam and Laila are born a generation apart but are brought together by war and fate. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love-a stunning accomplishment. ![]() Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives-the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness-are inextricable from the history playing out around them. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. From the Publisher: After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. ![]() ![]() ![]() These idioms are of the extragrammatical variety (and may be analysed as having double subject deletion). Perry's 2009 album Have Guitar, Will Travel.Īs mentioned, the template is known as a snowclone. The Three Stooges' 1959 film Have Rocket, Will Travel and Joe Love, Will Travel, Bo Diddley's 1960 album Have Guitar Will Travel, Novel Have Space Suit-Will Travel,Richard Berry's 1959 song Have Television show Have Gun – Will Travel, Robert A. Variants of the snowclone were used in the titles of the 1957 Western [Partridge, Eric (1992).Ī Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Possibly around 1900, in The Times of London. ![]() Seekers goes back considerably earlier, dating to at least the 1920s, The use of variations of this template by job The actor was "ready to go any place any time" and to be "dressedĬlassy" upon arrival. ![]() In short advertisements placed by actors in Variety, indicating that Hope explained that "Have tuxedo, will travel" was a stock phrase used Travel" is the title of the book Have Tux, Will Travel, a 1954 The earliest known literary mention of the template "Have X, will There is perhaps an earlier source than the one referred to by Bob Hope in his 1954 biography, though it might not have the same form as the now well-known snowclone. ![]() |