![]() In Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy takes her argument further. The response it generated, with more than 4000 posts on the website, broke all records for the magazine, prompted dozens of follow-up interviews on radio and television, and made it clear that misogyny in the Arab world is an explosive issue, one that engages and often enrages the public. When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?," it provoked a firestorm of controversy. ![]()
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The First Cell by Azra Raza7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Good communication with patients, something that emerges repeatedly from these narratives, is such a rarity apparently all over the world. This is in fact the ability that gets lost as many of us go through medical schooling, and residency training, gradually losing our humanness. ![]() Her stress on differentiating disease from illness is particularly appealing. ![]() And the way she seamlessly weaves seemingly different disconnected human stories into each other, and into the science behind the failure, makes for gripping reading. It is the human factor that makes her struggle against cancer a very personal one for the reader. While Raza has a clear mission, that of advocating a fresh approach to the battle against cancer, and something she has been pursuing for a while despite significant opposition from her own oncology circles, the fact that she chose to embed her scientific pursuit into a very human plot poignantly brings out the urgency of her struggle. I cannot even imagine what Azra Raza must have gone through personally in putting to paper her own extremely private thoughts, and those of the contributors, who found the courage to share their immense pain with unknown readers through this narrative. I found the reading of “The First Cell” unnervingly disturbing, to the point that I had to put the book down periodically to let myself ‘recover’. ![]() Stardust by Neil Gaiman7/6/2023 ![]() The majority of the book takes place seventeen years later, starting around October 1856. ![]() The story begins in late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serialising Oliver Twist. Gaiman has also occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall. In 2007, a film based on the novel was released to generally positive reviews. It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of Wall, which borders the magical land of Faerie. Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre- Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees. ![]() Stardust is a 1999 fantasy novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess. Hardback, Paperback, Audiobook (Read by the author) ![]() Pinkalicious by victoria kann7/6/2023 ![]() How did you come up with the idea for Pinkalicious? Victoria is the co-executive producer of Pinkalicious & Peterrific on PBS Kids. She often hears galloping in the house and wonders if it's Goldilicious or just her Pinkerellas. Recently Victoria's husband, a toy designer, built a tree house for their Princess Pinkerbelles. The Pinkalicious character was inspired by Victoria's real life daughters – two girls with vibrant imaginations who love cupcakes, dress up, playing princess, and all things pink. She wrote and illustrated Goldilicious, Silverlicious, Emeraldalicious, Aqualicious, Peterrific, and is working on several more books about the adventures and antics of Pinkalicious. Victoria co-authored and illustrated the first two books, Pinkalicious, Purplicious as well as the play, Pinkalicious The Musical. Victoria Kann is the award-winning illustrator and author of the picture book series featuring the whimsical and effervescent character, Pinkalicious. ![]() As lay dying book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() A single death provides the author a vehicle for encapsulating a microcosm of life. But by cycling through the perspective of 15 distinct narrators, and employing a stream of consciousness prose that ranges from colloquial to near-incomprehensible, Faulkner takes an at once profound and pedestrian premise and, filtered as it is through the consciousnesses of these very different characters, shows us a veritable kaleidoscope of deep-seated responses to a defining moment a host of lessons can be learned, just as easily as none at all. ![]() His third novel, As I Lay Dying, concerns a relatively simple set of events: the death of the Bundren family matriarch, and their difficult subsequent journey through the countryside to bury her body. ![]() Faulkner was a “Southern” writer, in the vein of Flannery O’Connor, but like O’Connor, his works tend to speak to larger themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Young and old will be enchanted by the magic behind some of the world’s most beloved characters created over the last century by the Walt Disney Animation Studios films and shorts, including Mickey Mouse’s first talkie, Steamboat Willie (1928), films such as Fantasia (1940), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Little Mermaid (1989), The Lion King (1994), Frozen (2013), Moana (2016), Frozen 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Encanto (2021), plus concept artwork from the studio's latest release Strange World (2022).ĭon’t miss the chance to see the artistry behind your favourite characters and stories and how the magic of animation brought them to life. Uncover the magic behind almost 100 years of Walt Disney Animation Studios at Disney: The Magic of Animation, now open at Queensland Museum.Įxplore hundreds of original sketches and artworks from your favourite Disney animated classics and go behind the scenes in this rare opportunity to experience the wonderful creativity and innovation from the world’s most prolific animation studio. ![]() Any way the wind blows simon and baz7/5/2023 ![]() “Beautifully realized and deeply satisfying. The Simon Snow Trilogy was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings-about catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.Īny Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. ![]() ![]() Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. Now, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha must decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means choosing whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages - and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. ![]() Walter wick i spy books7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I did not use real flames in this fireplace. “This spread is called ‘The Blazing Fire’. You may recognize some of these items from other books, too!”-Walter Wick “This is how my prop storage looked around the time I Spy Spooky Night was being made. Changes are always made along the way!”-Walter Wick You'll recognize some scenes from the book, but others didn't make the cut. This is my initial set of drawings (called a storyboard) for what would become I Spy Spooky Night. Before we started any book, Jean and I discussed ideas so we knew what direction we were going in. I did the artwork for all the I Spy books and Jean Marzollo wrote all the riddles. How about a half-decorated picture frame in the set of the “A Blazing Fire,” spread, or an idea in the initial I Spy Spooky Night storyboard that didn’t make it into the final book?īelow, Walter Wick-the award-winning photographer of the New York Times-bestselling I Spy series-gives us a peek behind the scenes of his some of the most iconic photos from I Spy Spooky Night.Ĭheck them out below, and learn more about the reissue of I Spy Spooky Night-complete with new bonus riddles-at /ispyspookynight! Can you spy a broken bone? The word “Boo”? A padlock or “1982”? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So many deep questions and the answers you can only answer for yourself. Is this just a story of a man deeply missing his dead son and fretting over a war that seems to have no end or is this a story that delves deeper into the meaning of grief, loss and so much more. Now this sounds totally extraordinary basis for a novel but Saunders has created a real tour de force of s story that I could leave. Lincoln cannot rest and the spirits of the souls who are laid to rest want to talk and through the course of this one night in February 1862 his son who he mourns is trying to talk to his father but the ghosts of those dead all want to communicate. ![]() Lincoln in the Bardo is a novel set two days after the death of Willie Lincoln the 11-year-old son of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States who died of typhoid and is set on one night 22 February 1862 and Abraham Lincoln visits the grave of his son and the story is set to this one night. Hard to believe that Lincoln in the Bardo is in fact George Saunders first novel, his previous collection of stories as in Tenth of December have won awards and received praise in many quarters. This is probably one of the most unusual books I have read this year, yet it is something unique and a real treasure of a novel one that many have been waiting patiently for. ![]() Big fish novel7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. ![]() Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. ![]() United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. ![]() |