![]() Events play out leaving most of the main characters either dead or dying, victims of various forms and degrees of obsession. To that end they throw her into a dungeon and leave her there under the care of the thuggish Bosola. The Duchess of the title remarries beneath her station and her two brothers, at least one of whom is clearly mad, become obsessed with saving her from herself along with the family name. While the family in the latter pull together to protect each other and direct all their revenge towards outsiders, the D’Aragona family in John Webster’s play spend their whole time trying to rip their bonds apart. This latter was one of the gorier moments in Creation Theatre’s latest piece to go online which, for much of the rest of the time was relatively rather restrained – relative to Titus Andronicus, that is. To go from one murderous revenge tragedy set in Italy (yesterday’s Titus Andronicus) to another murderous revenge tragedy set in Italy, The Duchess Of Malfi, might seem ever so slightly negative and depressing but I can come away thinking that things could be worse in our present real scenario – at least there’s nobody trying to hack off a limb or stick a fork in my eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Experiencing The Christopher Boy’s Communion, Chatroom and The Picture Of Dorian Gray over the last few days has certainly shown that being human can be a rotten business. To the background of the world seemingly going to hell in a handcart, I seem to have spent quite a bit of time peering into the darker side of life recently. ![]()
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A quirky and heartfelt coming-of-age story about a teen girl with bipolar II who signs her failed magician father up to perform his legendary but failed illusion on live TV in order to make enough money to pay for the medications they need-from the author of Symptoms of Being Human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. 41 editions Claire Danner Crispin, mother of four young childr Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand 3. ![]() ![]() “The queen of beach reads” ( New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. 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If app designers can coax people to spend more time and money on a smartphone game, perhaps policy experts can also encourage people to save more for retirement or donate to more charities. “Irresistible traces the rise of addictive behaviors, examining where they begin, who designs them, the psychological tricks that make them so compelling, and how to minimize dangerous behavioral addiction as well as harnessing the same science for beneficial ends. ![]() Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked ![]() ![]() ![]() Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina’s footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out―for her and possibly for the world. ![]() Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. ![]() ![]() Dunstable was aware that he was fifth business in life of Boy, but he was also the fifth business in lives of Paul, Leola and Mary. We all are stars in our own life but we act as fifth business for too many people than we notice. ![]() I quite enjoyed the concept of fifth business and how it is true for most of us. If I were to ever write a book, this would be the type of book I will write. My vocabulary is not bad, but Robertson Davies had quite a grasp on language and it was a pleasant learning experience. As I am not a native English speaker(I am from India), I had to use dictionary more often than I had like to admit. ![]() The writing was so eloquent, the words so carefully chosen, the characters were believable and their actions justified. After reading The Fifth Business, I couldn't have used my money in a better way. Say it fate or some random clicks or anything but somehow suggestion about The Deptford trilogy popped up on Amazon and after reading a bit about it I decided to buy the whole trilogy. I have never heard of the writer or any of his previous works. Fifth Business was one of those books about which you have no idea. ![]() ![]() What happens in the latest book, The Treehouse Library? ![]() I very much enjoying coming back to the characters each book, I really know them well at this point! Having said that, I've really enjoyed introducing Milo as a new main character as it lets me explore bookwandering in a different way, but Tilly and Oskar are back in The Treehouse Library too!Ģ. ![]() I was thinking about Anne of Green Gables and what I would say to her and it all sort of developed from there! What was the original inspiration for the Pages & Co series? Do you enjoy coming back to the characters for each book?Ī jumble of all sorts of things but in particular my relationship with books and reading and libraries - I've always been a huge reader, and I worked as a school librarian for nearly five years so I'm a big believer in the power of books and imagination, children's books in particular. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “In the Kabbalah, the structure of human faculties takes the form of a tree with a right-hand side and a left-hand side humanity’s task is to integrate them, both laterally and vertically.39 Specifically it is held that the mind is made up of two faculties: wisdom (chochmah) on the right, which receives the Gestalt of situations in a single flash, and understanding (binah), opposite it on the left, which builds them up in a replicable, step-by-step way. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World But it is the left hemisphere’s process of apprehending the world that gives rise to the very idea of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ – a false dichotomy.” ![]() The one that is thought (on unclear grounds) to do it best is said to be objective, and that in turn is taken to be the truth. This presupposes that there is an ‘us and them’ about the world: something ‘in here’, trying to copy as well as it can something ‘out there’, and usually not doing it well. As with science, the vice is that of trying to avoid (what we call) the subjective by asserting (what we call) the objective. Thus there is such a thing as reasoned truth, just as there is such a thing as scientific truth but both are inseparable from the humanity that gives rise to them, both are provisional and uncertain. “And it is one of the messages of this book that imagination is not an impediment, but, on the contrary, a necessity for true knowledge of the world, for true understanding, and for that neglected goal of human life, wisdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Sholem Secunde/Chaim Tauber musical melodrama directed by Joseph Seiden features half a dozen diverse tunes, 1939 NYC location shots, and a cast of Yiddish stage veterans. ![]() Yiddish NY Der Lebediker Yosem Q&A Session moderated by Eve Sicular. ![]() This project is supported in part by the David Shneer New Yiddish Culture Grant of Yiddishkayt's Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship. Watch/Listen to Farlangen (Longing) video performed by Natalia Zukerman, arranged by Eve Sicular, adapted from Henech Kon's 1937 The Dybbuk soundtrack with one key gender pronoun choice. Watch the Symposium video archive and find Culture Panel speaker Eve Sicular at 2:32:25. Queer Jews: A 20th Anniversary Symposium in Memory of David Shneer Sunday, with bandleader/film scholar Eve Sicular on The Yiddish Celluloid Closet. ![]() |