![]() ![]() We follow her along her journey into the past and present in search of clues. I would also say it’s a mystery read, with the main character chasing down answers to one big question. Although this series is a fantasy romance, the romance was not strong in the first book. Ruby Red is the first book in the series, and I give it a full five star review. ![]() I’m a bit jealous because it’s been turned into a television show in Germany, and I would definitely watch it if it were in English. The author is from Germany, and this series has been translated into many languages. It’s a hard subject to write about, and I applaud Kerstin Gier for how well it was done. After getting to the end, I thought over the entire story and did not really find any time traveling mistakes. Although I usually don’t like to read or watch anything having to do with time travel because I almost always find a mistake in the plot, this one was different. This series is based in London and is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Gwen. My daughter read the first book in the series, and then she continuously told me I should read it. I was curious to see what kind of story had captivated her attention so I took her recommendation and dived in. ![]() I will admit to reading this trilogy in less than a week, and I highly recommend it to both adults and teens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He heard the commotion, heard Bartimaeus’ cries for mercy, and also heard the nasty response of the crowd. ![]() The crowd of people with Jesus reacted by shushing Bartimaeus, sternly telling him to be quiet! But Jesus stopped walking. Jesus was walking on the road with a crowd of people when Bartimaeus heard Jesus was passing by.īartimaeus cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” ( Mark 10:47, NIV). The end of Mark 10 tells the story of Bartimaeus, who was blind and sat by the roadside asking for support from passersby. I began to condemn myself … but then I remembered Jesus handling a similar situation. My daughter was hurt, and I felt like a failure as a mom. I cringed inside and sighed, feeling disappointed in myself. Her shoulders sagged, her face grew long, and her eyes filled with tears. I could see it written all over her face. ![]() Quick, thoughtless words flew out of my mouth and hurt my daughter. Get up he is calling you.’” Mark 10:49 (ESV) “And Jesus stopped and said, ‘Call him.’ And they called the blind man, saying to him, ‘Take heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By ascribing to the mutability of the past, Lewis sidesteps the dispute among various branches of Christianity over whether prevenient grace (the grace that pursues us prior to conversion) is both irresistible and salvific. Read thusly, the novel is a working out of Lewis’s belief that God can change the past-that grace can reach back into our histories and retell our story. The theological reading in this article finds textual support for rereading Part One of the novel as depicting Orual, by grace, unknowingly performing Psyche’s labors. Part Two of the novel contains a series of visionary labors which Lewis borrows from Lucius Apuleius but recasts as feats achieved jointly by Orual and Psyche. By transposing the myth of Psyche into the mystery genre, Lewis prepares the reader for Orual’s unreliability as a narrator and lures the reader into the novel’s theological depths. Till We Have Faces is profitably read at three levels: for its surface story, as a crime drama, and as an exploration of the theological mystery of grace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions-a history of the soul." Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely given the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Financial Times - Kirkus Reviews ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ![]() ![]() Spring Creek Cave (SCC) was excavated by George Frison and crew in the 1950’s (Frison 1965). (A visit to the latter is recommended.) Spring Creek and Daugherty Caves are suggested to have been seasonal campsites for mobile hunters. Just a few kilometers to the south is Daugherty Cave (Frison 1968), which housed similar cultural deposits, while approximately 27 kilometers to the north is the Medicine Lodge Creek site, with extensive occupation and impressive rock art. While the mountains are fairly gradual and receive more precipitation, the basin has been likened to an arid, Great Basin-like environment. Such ecotones provided a larger variety of animal and plant resources for ancient peoples than the neighboring environments. ![]() ![]() Setting : Spring Creek Cave is located high in the cliffs on the western edge of Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, in a narrow, environmental transition zone between the mountains and the Big Horn Basin to the west. The addition of some hypothetical attachments and a little experimenting could help explain the ancient weapons kit. The Spring Creek Cave atlatl is a small, curious device. In The Atlatl, volume 27, number 2, pages 3-5 Reproducing the Atlatl from Spring Creek Cave, Wyoming ![]() ![]() ![]() Yemania and Ochix face the wrath of both their peoples. But Metzi has no idea what the goddess has in store … Metzi, Ahkin’s treacherous sister, has seized control of the empire with the aid of the malevolent goddess known as the Obsidian Butterfly. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed.Īs the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this deadly game of worlds ending. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime-the star demons who thirst for human blood. ![]() When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. The Seventh Sun faces destruction as Mayana and Ahkin race to save their world in the finale to this “compulsively readable” series (Rachel A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn more about its proprietor (.oh, and learn where the name "Futility Closet" came from also)! Enjoy.ġ) Most folks I interview here are math bloggers, but your blog "Futility Closet" is different and hard-to-define. Futility Closet is a collection of entertaining. Futility Closet is not a math blog per se,īut does have its share of math content (and puzzles and chess problems also), and it was great fun for me to The blog run by Greg Ross is absolutely awesome and the trivia, puzzles, and oddities never disappoint. On the Web for geeky types! Despite it's relatively simple, plain presentation, it's become a daily stop for 1000's of readers. Today! If the name "Greg Ross" doesn't immediately ring a bell, you might still know hisīlog " Futility Closet," one of the most consistently entertaining blogs " An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements." -Futility Closet ![]() ![]() ![]() Except for the name change and the fact that production had moved to the U.K., at first it was pretty hard to tell the difference - which didn’t escape the notice of Charteris. Regardless of the date of his first literary appearance, The Falcon was first brought to the screen in a 1941 RKO film, as a replacement for its popular series of B-movies featuring Leslie Charteris’ The Saint, which had starred actor George Sanders and been shot in the United States. ![]() ![]() And, like Boston Blackie, despite his murky origins, he enjoyed a long, lucrative and convoluted career in film, radio and television, even as his occupation and his actual name were changed from medium to medium. Or he was GAY STANHOPE FALCON, a sort of freelance adventurer and troubleshooter, definitely on the hard-boiled side, created by Michael Arlen (real name Dikran Kouyoumdjian) in a 1940 short story.Įither way, The Falcon was a man who made his living “keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous entreprises,” according to Otto Penzler’s Detectionary. Huff) in 1936 and originally appearing in a series of novels and at least one short story. He was either MICHAEL WINGATE, a shadowy figure who took on the underworld with the aid of his friend Sarge, avoiding the police because they tended to blame him for their unsolved crimes, created by Drexel Drake (real name Charles H. THE FALCON was the nom de guerre of a true man of mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent.īut the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society - and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the 20th century as mechanized warfare and mass death. The First World War created the modern world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The intricacies of the war between the Muslim Sultan (who takes a disliked and ambitious Christian mistress) and the subsequent rulers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella provide a sweeping tour de force of the country wide battles to secure both family and royal possession and lineage for Spain. ![]() When Kate finds a strange piece of paper with ancient writing in the walls of the Alhambra Palace we are whisked to the second story of Blessing - a young companion taken from the Sahara desert to live with Prince Mohammed (Momo) the son of the present Sultan and his wife. She is in contact with her twin sister Jess and Kate's son who weirdly seems to live with Jess and for whom it seems Kate has a rather dislocated attachment. Here we meet Kate Fordham who has escaped to work as a waitress in Granada and become known as Anna Maria. There are many novels with to threads linking the past, often through a modern heartbroken character and a series of coincidences that cross the time divide. I have not visited it myself, but the author brings to life this UNESCO World Heritage Site through superb descriptions and a historical context that takes us right back to the Moorish reign across the country. ![]() A place in many hearts, could have been an alternative title for this excellent novel that takes as it's base the beautiful Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. ![]() |