![]() ![]() Survivors' reports attest to the experiences of recent immigrants and refugees. ![]() Collaged voices and documents recreate both the correspondence between slave owners and the letters sent home by African Americans enlisted in the US Civil War. The various connotations of the title, taken from a spiritual once sung on the Underground Railroad which smuggled slaves to safety in 19th-century America, resurface throughout the book, binding past and present together. Smith's signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical and wry - turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence. ![]() In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018Īre they so buffered against, if not love's blade ![]()
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![]() ![]() On the other hand, it makes them rare and collectible. This means they occasionally sell for exorbitant values on Amazon and other online retailers. Many omnibuses are sold out and not being reprinted. It’s a great way to check out the all-time stories Marvel editorial have deemed worthy of the vaunted Omnibus status, and if you’re a Marvel Unlimited reader, I also have the links (when available) to MU reading!Ī quick note about the nearly 80 Marvel Omnibus collections before the list begins. Within this post you’ll find a chronological guide to every single Omnibus Marvel Comics has ever released. These enormous collections can often be hard to find, and more damningly, are rarely listed in chronological order. ![]() Factor in the fact that they sound like Jack Kirby’s idea of cosmic public transportation, and it’s hard not to fall in love with the Omnibus. While your standard trade paperback usually contains 6 issues, an Omnibus will collect upwards of 30 issues, giving you full classic stories in one awesomely enormous collection. The Omnibus is undoubtedly the holy grail of comic book collected editions. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Counterparts james joyce![]() ![]() On returning, the chief clerk asks Farrington to take the material to Alleyne’s office immediately, which he does, even though Farrington knows it to be incomplete-he hopes Alleyne won’t notice and he’ll be able to leave and enjoy his night.įarrington returns to his desk and falls into a reverie of hot pubs and plentiful drink, unable to concentrate on his work, increasingly frustrated by how slowly the time is going by. He slinks off to a local pub, quickly drinks a small beer and whiskey, and returns to the office. ![]() The boss, Alleyne, calls Farrington into his office and berates him for being so slow to complete the copying he threatens to report his ineffectiveness if he fails to complete it by the end of the day.Īngry and impatient, Farrington decides to sneak out of the office and have a quick drink before attempting to finish the project. To make matters worse, his boss has a vendetta against him because he overheard Farrington mimic his “North of Ireland” accent. ![]() Farrington, a clerk, longs to leave work and go drinking with his friends, but he must copy out a long and tedious contract before he can go. The story opens at the end of a workday in Dublin. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the third camp are the guys who try to argue you out of using protection and kill the moment. Then there are the heroic-gesture guys, who put on a condom but are way too self-congratulatory about it, like Matthew McConaughey at an awards ceremony. First, there are the normal nice guys who automatically put on a condom because they’re not stupid and don't want to get my hypothetical STIs. In my personal experience, there are four main condom camps. Contrary to popular belief, women are not just sex-bot-cum-dumpsters-we also experience sexual sensitivity. And I’m sick of hearing guys complain about lack of sensation, as if it feels better without a condom only for them. But we shouldn’t have to trick our partners into being safe. (Which is so weird because, hello, there’s actually a cure for pregnancy.) In the past, when a partner of mine has been resistant to condoms, my most effective retort has been to lie and say, “I’m not on birth control.” Say you’re anti-abortion and dudes will straight-up double-bag it. Statistics have shown that straight, young people are more concerned about pregnancy than STIs. It’s like Amy Schumer tells guys in bed: “Trust me, you're gonna want to wear this, I've had a busy month.” But like, why aren’t guys scared of me? I’m the type of girl who passes out at sex parties. It’s confusing that this has become an established dynamic: apparently, the girl is the one who cares about condoms, and the guy is just doing us a favor by wearing one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. ![]() ![]() Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.īutler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Illustrator John Jennings Adapted by Damian Duff Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, in graphic novel format! ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The art of sed![]() ![]() Standard output (also known as stdout) is the output of a command that is usually printed to the shell/console.The processed text is output as standard output – which can continue to be used as a stream or can be sent to a file.It is optional as sed can read from the text being piped to it as a stream.INPUT-FILE is the path to the text file you want to perform the operations on.These commands can also be defined in a file using the -f option.These commands are what you use to tell sed what to do with the incoming text.COMMANDS are a list of commands/operations from the below table, provided as a string.OPTIONS will be a list of options from the below table.Sed is run from the Linux command line/shell and has the following syntax: sed COMMANDS Log files are often jam-packed full of entries that you don’t want to see when you’re chasing an issue – sed is one way you can filter the output from a giant log file to only include the entries you are looking for. Why?īeing able to modify text – either from a file or as is it output from an application – is useful. One simple example of where sed can be used is doing a simple find-and-replace for a word in a text document – the text with the words replaced can then be saved to a new file or overwrite the original. The sed ( Stream EDitor) command in Bash/ Linux reads text from a stream or file and performs line-by-line operations on it based on a set of supplied criteria. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The bees laline paull review![]() She nurses the larvae in the Nursery, waits on the bawdy males in the Drones’ Hall and flies as a forager, gathering pollen and nectar. Those unique abilities allow 717 an unprecedented freedom within the hive’s rigid class system. Though the elite bees, the Sages, call her big and ugly, she can speak, she produces royal jelly, and she’s very brave. Its heroine, Flora 717, is born into the worker caste, destined for nothing but the basest drudgery. Set in a honeybee hive, the novel is a parable about the consequences of groupthink. ![]() Laline Paull’s transfixing first novel, “ The Bees,” isn’t explicitly about the real-world problems that threaten their survival, but the story’s inspired imagining of hive life compels one to wonder about the extraordinary complexity and sophistication of these insects - and to care about their fate. Now my thoughts are hovering around bees again, but for a less foreboding reason. ![]() Especially when walking (inevitably barefoot) through a particular Eastern Shore clover patch, I could focus on little else than trying to avoid their sting. ![]() Bees - which is to say, the fear of them - dominated many summers of my childhood. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The Red Line by Walt Gragg![]() I was there for 38 months and I saw a lot of the American plans for the defense of Europe. Well, I actually came up with the idea all the way back in the 1970s when I was in Germany. ![]() In fact, I have so many readers who're saying, "Your book is terrifying me. So, yes, it's both not overly surprising but also quite scary. You just look at them historically and this seems like a logical…I wouldn't say conclusion at this point because it's not finished…but a logical approach they're taking, from their view. Honestly, along the way, since I had served the United States European Command Headquarters in the middle of the first Cold War, I kinda had a decent idea about Russian history, and I suspected even as far back as 1994 that this day might come. Yeah, I actually started writing this thing in 1994, nearly published it in 1997, and finally got someone to buy it in 2014. On the other, it's kind of a scary world with Russia reasserting itself and making you look rather prescient. ![]() On the one hand, it probably raises interest in your novel. You must have mixed feelings about where Russia is on the world stage today vis-a-vis your book. ![]() His debut novel, The Red Line, tells the story of a resurgent Russia invading Germany and sparking World War III. Author Walt Gragg knows all about mixed emotions. Henny Youngman once called mixed emotions watching your mother-in-law drive your Ferrari over a cliff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the vein of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, this gripping thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Wares suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly. In order to uncover secrets and reveal motives, Nora must revisit parts of herself that she’d rather leave buried where they belong: in the past. What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Wares suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted. Wondering not “what happened?” but “what have I done?” she tries to piece together the events of the past weekend. This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of In a Dark, Dark Wood. Forty-eight hours later, Nora wakes up in a hospital bed with the knowledge that someone is dead. In a Dark, Dark Wood by - Chapters 17 24 summary and analysis. But a haunting realization creeps in to the party: they are not alone in the woods. Leonora (Lee to some, Nora to others) is a reclusive writer, but when an old friend unexpectedly invites her to a weekend away in an eerie glass house, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Sometimes the only thing to fear.is yourself. In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware Book PDF SummaryĪ weekend away deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in this suspenseful and compulsive debut psychological thriller. ![]() ![]() "I did not think it was arrogance," Plouffe says. He writes that in the run-up to the campaign for the Illinois Senate seat in 2004, Obama said he felt he could probably do every job on the campaign better than anyone he might hire to do the job. One of Obama's challenges, Plouffe says, was learning to trust his staff enough to handle the mass of details that can overwhelm a campaign. I wasn't sure he had the potential to be a great candidate." ![]() "But as it became clear that he was more serious, and this may happen, I think I began to really feel confident that he had the potential to be a terrific president. ![]() " jumped into this in a very unorthodox way," Plouffe tells Terry Gross. ![]() ![]() Plouffe remembers that when he and David Axelrod, who would become Obama's senior adviser, first met with the junior Senator from Illinois to discuss a run for the presidency, the idea seemed far-fetched. A longtime campaign strategist for the Democratic Party who also managed Obama's 2004 Senate race, Plouffe - who is not serving in the administration - has a new book called The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory. If anyone is qualified to give a behind-the-scenes tour of Barack Obama's run for the White House, it's David Plouffe. ![]() |