![]() ![]() Their partnership is outstanding, the intimate combination of classical guitar and mezzo-soprano created an entirely new twist to the concert recital" "Lita and Paul gave a virtuoso performance of Lorca’s Canciones Españolas Antiguas. ![]() The recitation in "Los Mozos de Monleon " was every bit as passionate and restrained as the singing. ![]() "Outstanding and mesmerising", wrote the poet Marius Kociejowski, after their Clapham Omnibus Theatre Salon Season performance. A collection of traditional Spanish songsĪ recital by Lita Manners (mezzo-soprano) and Paul Thomas (classical guitar)Ĭanciones Españolas Antiguas is a collection of traditional Spanish songs collated and arranged by the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca during his musicological travels round Spain with Manuel de Falla.įollowing a sellout concert at the Chelsea Arts Club, Lita and Paul have performed to critical acclaim at venues across London and beyond : ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even though it did not answer the central What is Life About? question, it did made me ponder something perhaps even more interesting: Can a healthy individual truly envy a "vegetable?" R.I.P. It bothered me a little that the editor of French Elle magazine, rich and powerful as he was, still alludes to and rubs in our faces his superiority, his nouveau riche lifestyle (cars, trips, experiences.). Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and. The tale this man tells is one of robbed mobility, but not of robbed dignity. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I feel some (but not complete) pity for Mr. ![]() ![]() This is no beauty pertaining to a person trapped. Bauby finds personal beauty, even if he cannot do anything with it but blink it in code to his nurse since he is absolutely paralyzed.īut this is no Anne Frank, however. It is, however, testament of the prognosis which questions the central Meaning of Life question. Prognosis: Man may be inspired & find beauty even at his own death bed.īut there is a question even Bauby asks himself: Does all of this a novel make? ![]() ![]() ![]() Borrowing her Midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit America’s national parks.Īmerica the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generation’s funniest writers. ![]() But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who only decide to go the desert to see what having problems feels like? ![]() Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before you too, are itching to take off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her language skills, however, allow her to glean information and mingle with the country's reserved and cautious intelligentsia. " 'What was truth once may no longer be truth after many months or years.' " Indeed, providing an accurate representation of Burmese life proves daunting, as Larkin encounters a nation bristling with informants and paranoia. " 'Truth is true only within a certain period of time,' " she quotes a regime spokesman saying after a 1988 uprising. The first takes place during the British colonial days, while the latter two, Larkin argues, more closely reflect the situation there today. The author, an American journalist fluent in Burmese, writing under a pseudonym, notes that there's a joke in Burma (now Myanmar) that Orwell wrote not one novel about the country, but three: Burmese Days ![]() ![]() ![]() I can see this book benefitting many people in their daily lives, and I'm sure they'll go on to recommend it to their friends.-Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperorīill Irvine does it again: he uses ancient Stoicism, updated with modern findings from psychological research, to challenge us to become better human beings.-Massimo Pigliucci, author of How to Be a StoicĮvery startup founder knows that startups, no matter how successful they appear from the outside, are actually beset with setbacks. The Stoic Challenge is a beautifully engaging account of how to approach life with a particular gem of Stoic wisdom as your guide. Not only can we overcome these obstacles?we can benefit from them, too. ![]() The result is Irvine's surprisingly simple, updated "Stoic test strategy," which teaches us how to dramatically alter our emotional response to life's stumbling blocks. ![]() The Stoic Challenge uniquely combines insights from ancient Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses of modern living to its significant crises. In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. About the Book "The ultimate mental fitness program" (David Heinemeier Hansson, coauthor of Rework), The Stoic Challenge teaches us how to respond to the challenges of our increasingly unpredictable age. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Stephanie Plum and Ranger get too close for comfort, vice cop Joe Morelli (her on-again, off-again boyfriend) steps in. And now, the two are working together to find a killer, rescue a missing child, and stop a lunatic from raising the body count. Ranger needs Stephanie for more reasons than he can say. The action turns deadly serious, and Stephanie goes from hunting skips to hunting a murderer. ![]() The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious connection to dark and dangerous Carlos Manoso. ![]() While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her. Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet! ![]() ![]() ![]() The structure in the book is very different to how it was portrayed in the 2010 movie. The voyage is from the Lone Islands, to Dragon Island, to Deathwater Island, to Coriakin’s Island, to Dark Island, to Ramandu Islands before going to the end of the world. Caspian is on a quest to search for the lost seven lords of Narnia and to reach the world’s end. ![]() They end up in the sea and are rescued by King Caspian X and his crew aboard the Dawn Treader ship. They soon get transported back into the world of Narnia via a picture in a bedroom. In this story, it is set a year after ‘Prince Caspian’ and features Edmund and Lucy with their odious cousin Eustace. From knowing the book so well, I could tell there were structural differences from the book to the movie which was interesting. I eventually saw the movie version of ‘Dawn Treader’ years later in 2010. I had the ‘Dawn Treader’ book as well as the ‘LLW’ book as presents for my baptism in March 2001, given to me by friends and family. I’d seen the BBC version of ‘Dawn Treader’ before I read the book. This gripping book is divided into 16 chapters. Lewis, although it was third book that he wrote in the series. ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’ is the fifth book of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ by C.S. ![]() Please feel free to comment on my review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, as her first book, Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events, published in 1994, shows, she was similarly interested in how globalized media events were experienced on a personal level. From the beginning of her career, Wark was interested in the role that media played in an increasingly globalized world and the path forward for critical theory at the end of the Cold War. In the fifteen years since its publication, the civic, media, and entertainment worlds have gone through enormous changes, from the further mainstreaming of reactionary politics to the near total financialization of culture, making the analysis presented in Gamer Theory even more valuable today than it was at the time of its writing.īorn in Newcastle, Wark studied communications and media theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and received her PhD from Murdoch University in Western Australia. ![]() Built on a foundation of digital and networked logistical control, gamespace cannot be escaped, and we all must play by its rules whether we like it or not. 1 In the text, Wark argues that our world, the overdeveloped world, has adopted the language and often the structure of games, and can now be understood as a “gamespace” that stretches its influence across the entire planet. Published in 2007, McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory was one of the first monograph-length critical examinations of how video games have shaped, and been shaped, by contemporary political and economic culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Rachel’s father fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the city’s brutal Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector: her father’s apprentice, Logan-the boy she declared her love to and who turned her down two years before. ![]() While they bend like reeds to the will of their male Protectors, she uses hers for sparring practice. While the other girls in the walled city-state of Baalboden learn to sew and dance, Rachel Adams learns to track and hunt. Go and get this book today! My copy is going on my favourites shelf. ![]() There is a sure way of telling if you truly love an author’s style of writing – when you continue to read their four page acknowledgements at the end of the book, where they thank people who you don’t know or care about, just because you can’t believe the story is really over. Inventing excuses to make time to read, I devoured this book from the opening sentence “ The weight of their pity is like a stone tied around my neck…” to the breathtaking end and was left wanting more. ![]() I LOVED this book! Fast paced, brimming with action, a strong, feisty female protagonist and a dragon that puts all the dragons that came before to shame. ![]() ![]() Jake Lassiter, the fictional Miami Dolphins linebacker turned two-fisted attorney, has committed his final caper. But that’s what I did, I gave up a partnership in a national law firm to become a freelance writer.” – Paul Levine I don’t even mind getting dirty as long as the stains come out.” Read on to find out: LAWYER-TURNED-WRITER PAUL LEVINE RETIRES HIS LINEBACKER-TURNED-ATTORNEY CHARACTER JAKE LASSITER “I violated the number one rule: don’t give up your day job. I’m just an ex-jock wading through the muck of the so-called justice system. ![]() I know what you’re thinking: Why is The Florida Bar publicizing a lawyer – fictional or not – who’s been flirting with disbarment for decades? A lawyer who’s said: “I’m not one of those lonely warriors of the courtroom, righting wrongs wherever I find them. ![]() ![]() Today, I’m turning over the blog to The Florida Bar News where Senior Editor Jim Nash has written an expansive piece on the checkered past of Jake Lassiter just as he makes his final appearance in “Early Grave.” ![]() |