![]() ![]() He is woefully lonely until he meets a girl whose name is never known. Jose is a man for whom the stories of the dead and the living are jumbled, intertwined. ![]() ![]() The book is centered around Senhor Jose, a man whose first name is the only name known out of any character in the book. It was published in 1997 by Caminho Publishing in Portugal, originally in the Portuguese language. Written by Julian Frank, Dash Wang, Wilson Cho, noor khalil and other people who wish to remain anonymousĪll the Names, originally titled Todos os Nomes, is a novel written by the author Jose Saramago. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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![]() I knew immediately there wasn’t going to be any skimming. A few paragraphs later, “the wheat field had done it again, stolen the afternoon.” Everything is alive, unpredictable, sometimes whimsical and other times sinister, and often very bizarre. ![]() Early in the story, the main character walks through a field and passes an “array of plant-vertebrate combinations,” including droopy-eared rabbits, which she douses with her watering can. Her newest novel, “Gingerbread,” is no exception. Her sentences are like grabbing onto the tail of a vibrant, living creature without knowing what you’ll find at the other end. Helen Oyeyemi doesn’t allow her readers such laziness. I find myself skimming sentences, paragraphs, entire pages without missing a single important morsel. ![]() Even when the characters act believably out of character and the plot twists in a satisfying way, all too often I can predict the next step. I have a recurring disappointment with modern novels. ![]() ![]() She has observed orangutans in the rain forest of Borneo, visited trance healers and dens of black magic, and cooked with women on fires all over the world. In 1986, Rita sold her possessions and became a nomad, living in a Zapotec village in Mexico, sleeping with sea lions on the Galapagos Islands, and residing everywhere from thatched huts to regal palaces. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in cultures all over the globe. ![]() Booklist At the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. Gelman doesnt just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, bing emotionally involved in the peoples lives. Book Synopsis The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world. About the Book Now in paperback, this memoir with a cult following shows how Gelman redesigned her life to fit her dreams and discovered the value of trust, the rewards of risk, and the magic of serendipity as a modern-day nomad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ross was an idealist and he believed that something that is anonymous can’t be tracked. But as the story developed I started to turn towards the authorities. He actually lived a simple low-key life.Īs Silk Road grew more governmental agencies were tasked to take it down.Īt the beginning I was routing for the guy. ![]() He paid more to blackmailers and hackers then he spent on himself. He spent very little of the money he earned. Some interesting facts: the amount of BTC (Bitcoin) seized in 2013 today is valued around 600 million dollars. I like these stories and I always try to imagine how he could’ve gotten away with it. After a few years of successful operations it was taken down by the authorities. Silk Road was the biggest drug selling website on the net. ![]() What can we learn from his biggest mistake? ![]() ![]() ![]() He is cited as one of the best historical novelists in Japan.Ī breathtaking fictionalization of the life of one of the world's greatest warriors and renaissance men. ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Cultural Order of Merit in 1960 (the highest award for a man of letters in Japan), the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Mainichi Art Award just before his death from cancer in 1962. His other books also serve similar purposes and, although most of his novels are not original works, he created a huge amount of work and a renewed interest in the past. As an example, the original manuscript of Taiko is 15 volumes Yoshikawa took up to retell it in a more accessible tone, and reduced it to only two volumes. He was mainly influenced by classics such as The Tale of the Heike, Tale of Genji, Outlaws of the Marsh, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many of which he retold in his own style. ![]() Among his best-known novels, most are revisions of older classics. In 1960, he received the Order of Cultural Merit.Įiji Yoshikawa ( 吉川 英治, Aug– September 7, 1962) was a Japanese historical novelist. Yoshikawa is well-known for his work as a Japanese historical fiction novelist, and a number of re-makes have been spawned off his work. ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, they move on north where they meet others. With Clay and Alice, he travels to his home in Malden. Tom McCourt: a middle-aged, gay man from Malden, Massachusetts, Tom teams up with Clay in the initial chaos created by the Pulse.Clay heads north with a group of survivors and tries to find his son, Johnny. Clayton Riddell: a graphic artist separated from his family in Boston as the Pulse destroys civilization.Civilization crumbles as the Pulse's victims – dubbed "phone crazies" or simply "phoners" – attack each other or any unaltered people in view. As he prepares to celebrate, somebody, somewhere, triggers " The Pulse," a signal sent out over the global cell phone network that instantly turns all cell phone users into bloodthirsty, homicidal creatures. Clayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine who is estranged from his wife, Sharon, and his young son, Johnny, has landed a graphic novel deal in Boston. ![]() ![]() However, when describing Oroonoko she suggests that the colour of his skin is a hindrance to how attractive he is by saying that “the whole proportion and air of his face was so noble, and exactly formed, that, bating his colour, there could be nothing more agreeable and handsome” (Behn 206). ![]() The narrator suggests that contrary to popular belief there can be beautiful women that are black. When describing the purchasing of a group of slaves from a ship the narrator says “you are obliged to be contented with your lot” (Behn 205) as if the slaves are no longer humans as they were described to be on the previous page but just a commodity an indistinguishable group of black imported workers. But then the narrator begins to sound stereotypically racist, perhaps more in line with the popular attitudes towards slavery at the time. The narrator begins by talking about slaves in the most positive way saying that the slave owners “caress them as friends, and not to treat them as slaves” (Behn 205) and refers to the slaves as people which is not a concept that was at all embraced at the time. It is a strange interpretation of the viewpoint of an abolitionist. Generally hailed as an anti-slavery text, Oroonoko does not maintain that message consistently. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is at odds with itself in terms of its portrayal of slaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used and continue to use to craft their stories. Lovecraft, which frequently features in his Cthulhu Mythos tales. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. The Necronomicon (Greek: ) is a fictional book of magic invented by H. ![]() ![]() Special Note: Kickstarter recently disabled remote embedding for images on project pages, so embedding code doesn't work on project pages (yet) - just everywhere else. The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Michaud, Chuck Morgan, Michael James Oetting, and Joan C. Hammann, Franklin Hummel, Friday Jones, Robert Mac McLaughlin, Marc A. Here are a few quick snippits of code you can use to embed your personalized widget on your website, in your blog, and even on your favorite forum.īBCode for forums Copy BBCode NecronomiCon: 5th Edition The Cthulhu Mythos Convention August 17-19, 2001 Providence, Rhode Island at the Marriott Guests of Honor Convention Committee Members David S. Help your backers reach your daily goals and help others see how you're doing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9-12)Ī magnificently creepy fantasy pits a bright, bored little girl against a soul-eating horror that inhabits the reality right next door.Ĭoraline’s parents are loving, but really too busy to play with her, so she amuses herself by exploring her family’s new flat. A well-wrought slice of rural Depression life. She portrays the struggle for survival without sentimentality. Crofford's spare prose evokes a vivid sense of time and place. The tension between illiterate Mama, clinging to their Tennessee past, and determined Talmadge, looking to a future in medicine, is particularly effective. Papa's anger and frustration, older sister Roseanne's piety, and Dwight's hostility are all skillfully drawn. When little sister Missy is stricken with polio, the family recognizes that another move, this time to Memphis, will benefit Missy and be good for them all. ![]() Handicapped by a club foot, and his ``hillbilly'' background, Talmadge wins acceptance from his peers and the right to stay in school in the face of opposition from his mother and resentful older brother Dwight. In 1935, sixth-grader Talmadge McLinn (see also Stories from the Blue Road, 1982) and his family, having lost their Tennessee farm, are working on an Arkansas cotton plantation. ![]() |