6/29/2023 0 Comments Homer's iliad![]() ![]() The men of this time are presented as far stronger and mightier than those who came after them. Many scholars today believe that, if anything like the Trojan War ever happened, the most feasible historical background for the heroic age of the epics is the Late Bronze Age, about 400 years before the Iliad and Odyssey were first written down. The poems may also preserve memories of an earlier, heroic age. ![]() The story of the judgement of Paris, in other words, is at least contemporary, if not older, than the poems themselves. It's taken for granted that anyone coming to the poems would already have known the details. The story of the origins of the Trojan War, for example, in which Paris, prince of Troy, granted Aphrodite, goddess of love, the golden apple, is alluded to only briefly by Homer. On the right, Helen is approached by three women bringing jewellery and perfume. Aphrodite, last of the three, lifts her dress to show a flash of leg. At the left, Paris awaits the three goddesses. This Etruscan painting from a tomb shows the Judgement of Paris. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Sara Hingle illustration just immediately caught my eye. The stiff upper lip that is just overshone by an arched eyebrow from Lizzy suggesting that all is not what it seems. ![]() The illustration, which seems to be in pencil, captures the look and essence of everything I love about Pride and Prejudice perfectly. Imagine my surprise today when, in Issue 64, I flicked open to a gorgeous picture of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet (based on the BBC Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle drama), both reading and facing in different directions. It’s on beautiful paper (I get weird looks when I say that, but it’s completely true and any other bibliophile will understand) and satisfies my print magazine craving in a way that only a few magazines can. Gorgeous drawings, hilarious articles and anecdotes and pages of funky accessories that I’m not hipster enough to buy but alternative enough to enjoy staring at. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments First time ever peggy seeger![]() ![]() ![]() It was released as a single and became her ‘breakout hit’ when it topped the US singles chart as well as in Australia and Canada, making No.14 in the UK. Numerous other acts later ‘covered’ it but the song’s first major chart appearance came in 1972 when singer Roberta Flack (b.1937) performed the song for her album “Quiet Fire”. Its first appearance came in 1962 when US band The Kingston Trio recorded it for their album “New Frontier”. ![]() It was never released commercially and thus has no chart of sales stats for it. The song, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, was originally recorded by Peggy Seeger in 1957 “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was written by Ewan MacColl (1915-1989), father of Kirsty MacColl, in 1957 and recorded by Margaret ‘Peggy’ Seeger (b.1935), who later married MacColl. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates![]() ![]() In the center of the fray is a beautiful American who was once lover of one of the contenders and who has now returned to the area as a diplomat of sorts. ![]() Brother is pitted against brother and both feel the anger of their once best friend, all seeking to regain power and position in order to save an ancient kingdom. This is a story of intricate and complicated novel built around a Middle Eastern family whose family loyalties are stressed and split and where friendship has turned to disdain and in a case or two, hatred. ![]() One is his birthright, the other his heart’s desire. ![]() But he will not be denied either the throne of his motherland or Roxanne back in his bed. Now she pretends a cold disdain for their once-and still-desperate passion. And then there is Roxanne Gleeson, the one woman whose memory he cannot erase, the lover who once rejected him. Not that his rivals to the throne would be defeated easily. And her… “For Prince Haidar Aal Shalaan, taking the reins of a kingdom in chaos is a matter of honor. Judith’s review of The Sheikh’s Redemption by Olivia Gates. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments In the country we love book![]() ![]() Written with bestselling author Michelle Burford, this memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families likes the author's and on a system that fails them over and over. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven't been told. ![]() In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided (2016) is a memoir by American actress Diane Guerrero (with Michelle Burford ). The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the. ![]() Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family. Download In the Country We Love Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle. Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Our utmost for his highest![]() ![]() We must never overlook opportunities to reflect Christ-even in our daily routines. If the Christian journey is a slow plod, then daily obedience to God in the mundane seasons is key to living for him. Shockingly, she hardly left any sign of her own vital role in the making of one of the most well-known Christian devotionals.Ī common theme throughout My Utmost is perseverance through the ordinary. As a court stenographer, she had kept precise records of her husband’s talks.īiddy published 30 books under her husband’s name posthumously. After his death, his wife Biddy collected his various journals and sermon notes and compiled them. That small book was My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers (and his widow), a Scottish evangelist and army chaplain.Ĭhambers died relatively young while serving in Cairo, Egypt during the First World War. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grade 10 Up–This first graphic novel from an award-winning Israeli illustrator tells the story of Koby Franco, a 20-something cab driver working in Tel Aviv. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Modan has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children's Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times and Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Rutu Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.Įxit Wounds is the North American graphic-novel debut from one of Israel's best-known cartoonists. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself piecing together not only the last few months of his father's life but his entire identity. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man,Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. ![]() ![]() ![]() WardSexy thoughts about Cole fill Anna's dreams. Volume 2 in the Secrets Serials by NY Times Bestselling Author H.M. Or take a chance on something more powerful than he’s ever faced. Or how they will forever alter the course of his destiny. But he isn’t prepared for the shocking discovery her secrets reveal. ![]() Steele is determined not to allow Maren past his carefully guarded defenses, but when she’s in danger, there’s no way he’ll allow anyone else to protect her. Nothing except Maren Scofield, a doctor on a mission, a woman who has gotten under Steele’s skin and threatens to crack that unflappable cool he’s legendary for. His emotions are tightly locked down and nothing can break that icy exterior. government can’t… Steele, a KGI team leader, is an enigma not even his team mates understand. Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background. The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wang qian julie![]() ![]() “My mother went on to do a series of pretty physically damaging and emotionally scarring jobs, the worst of which was working at a sushi processing plant in Lower Manhattan where she essentially stood in ice water for her entire 14-hour shift.” “Very early in our time in the United States, I as a child started wondering why we were here at all, because it seemed far worse day-to-day than what we were dealing with in China,” Wang told Brooklyn Magazine earlier this year. ![]() They were undocumented, though, and for the next several years, they were forced to live in a different kind of shadow - the underground world of undocumented immigrants who work menial jobs and live in fear of being discovered. In 1994, at just 7, Wang moved to New York with her mother to join her father, an English professor who had fled here two years earlier. When Wang’s uncle was 18, he was arrested for criticizing Mao Zedong, casting the rest of her family under the oppressive regime’s long shadow. Her memoir, “Beautiful Country,” begins with events during China’s Cultural Revolution that would influence the entirety of her life. All of our stories start well before we are born, and Qian Julie Wang’s is no exception. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Alan moore superman stories![]() ![]() It doesn’t even matter if we ever fire these missiles or not.There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course. Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. ![]() You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. ![]() Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns. Quotes Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. |