6/29/2023 0 Comments Chilling effect by valerie valdes![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dig deeper and you may hear that it’s more than discomfiting, it’s downright presumptuous, even aggressive. Common objections include that it’s confusing, unsettling, and weird, that it breaks suspension of disbelief and forces the reader out of the story rather than drawing them in. Of all the points of view available to writers when choosing how to tell a story, second person seems to be the most maligned. ![]() She doesn’t know you! Why is she trying to put words in your mouth and thoughts in your head? Why is she presuming to control your actions?īut seriously, how did that make you feel? You wonder whether you should stop reading at this point, because you’ve been told how you feel and what you expected in the span of a few sentences, and you’re growing increasingly uncomfortable-angry, even-with these assumptions made by the writer. You didn’t expect the article itself to use this POV, since most articles don’t. You open the SFWA Bulletin to start reading an article about second person point of view (POV), and immediately you’re put off. Note: This article previously appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021. Why Writing Second Person POV Appeals To Marginalized Writers ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Brambly hedge autumn![]() ![]() For instance, one buyer recently purchased a 12-piece set of the Four Seasons collection for just under $200. ![]() Similarly, auction lots of larger sets of this chinaware will bring in higher values. ![]() One buyer bought a particularly well-kept Tea Time teapot for just over $250 on eBay. We have new editions of Autumn Story and the Complete Brambly Hedge publishing in Italian and German. This autumn will see all eight books publish in China, we look forward to introducing the mice to a whole new audience there. There are pieces from this Royal Doulton line that can fetch significantly higher prices for example, the various Brambly Hedge teapots or tea sets with the accompanying tea pots sell for around $200 on average. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. New translated editions of Brambly Hedge continue to arrive at speed. Given the fact that these pieces are so common, they have the smallest values, amounting to individual plates costing collectors around $20, such as with this Autumn cup and saucer set that sold for just over $22 on eBay. Undoubtedly, the Seasons Series is the most abundant one available, with hundreds of people selling their own Winter or Autumn pieces to customers like you. Brambly Hedge Collectibles Value Estimatesīased on current market sales, these china pieces can be worth $20-$100 depending on if they're in mint condition or not and which series the pieces belong to. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Karen collins playing with sound![]() ![]() pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Collins, Karen, 1973– Playing with sound : a theory of interacting with sound and music in video games / Karen Collins. Printed and bound in the United States of America. This book was set in Stone Serif and Stone Sans by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited, Hong Kong. For information, please email or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. ![]() ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Playing with Sound Playing with Sound A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games Karen Collins The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Alice's adventures in wonderland![]() Cohen in his critical biography Lewis Carroll, "until he promised to oblige her. ![]() ![]() "She 'kept going on, going on' at him," explains Morton N. 'We had tea on the bank there,' Carroll recorded in his diary, 'and did not reach Christ Church again till quarter past eight….'" "Seven months later," Gardner continues, "he added to this entry the following note: 'On which occasion I told them the fairy-tale of Alice's adventures underground.'"Īccording to an account written many years later by Alice Liddell, she pestered Carroll-the pseudonym for mathematician and dean Charles Lutwidge Dodgson-to write the story down for her. "The trip," explains Martin Gardner in his The Annotated Alice, "was about three miles, beginning at Folly Bridge, near Oxford, and ending at the village of Godstow. The story of its composition, as Carroll recorded it in the prefatory verses to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, goes something like this: On a warm summer afternoon (July 4, 1862, according to Carroll's diary) the author, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three young Liddell sisters (Lorina Charlotte, age thirteen, Alice Pleasance, age ten, and Edith, age eight), daughters of the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, made a short trip up the Thames River in a rowboat. ![]() Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was not originally written for the general public but for a single child: Alice Pleasance Lid-dell, second daughter of the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Swamp thing len wein![]() ![]() ![]() Book Synopsis Before the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen, Alan Moore made his. Deep in the bayou of Louisiana, far from civilization’s grasp, a shadowed creature seen only in fleeting glimpses roils the black waters…a twisted, vegetative mockery of a man…a Swamp Thing! These are the tales that introduced Alec and Linda Holland, Anton Arcane, Abigail Cable, the Patchwork Man, the Un-Men, plus an appearance by Batman! Collects THE HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 and SWAMP THING #1-13. About the Book Swamp Thing created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Swamp Thing’s early adventures are collected in paperback with SWAMP THING: THE BRONZE AGE VOL. ![]() You can check out the official solicitation info below:Īrt by BERNIE WRIGHTSON and NESTOR REDONDO 1 will feature the first thirteen issues of the ’70s classic, along with House of Secrets #92 – the first appearance of the Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson creation. Courtesy of, we now know a little more about DC’s upcoming Swamp Thing collection, set for release this October. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Colonel roosevelt![]() ![]() ![]() Because once readers rediscover the breadth of Roosevelt’s achievements - literary and political - and the warmth of his remarkable personality, and even the failings and contradictions that made him so very human, they’ll be hooked. And thanks to Morris, he will do so again. It might have been rude, but at least it was honest.ĭuring his lifetime, the rugged, optimistic and extraordinary Roosevelt (1858-1919) seemed to represent America better than anybody else. He seemed to gobble life as he went along, and the parts that weren’t to his taste - ideas, books and people as well as breakfast, lunch and dinner - he would spit right out. He was passionately fond of long expeditions to mysterious and remote regions of the world, from Africa to South America, and once there, he shot animals with gleeful abandon lions, elephants, zebras, gazelles, pelicans and crocodiles all fell in the wake of his frenzied trigger-pulls. ![]() He had “a profound enjoyment of anything rocky, slimy, hardscrabble and dangerous,” as Edmund Morris writes in the third and final volume in his splendid biography of Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Bullet in the brain short story![]() “Short stop,” the boy says, “Short’s the best position they is.”Īnders was struck by this phrase. ![]() Despite everything that he has experienced in his life, what he remembers, rather than his marriage, the birth of a child, and his achievements – is playing baseball and a phrase one of the kids said: ![]() As the bullet enters his brain, it fires off all sorts of synapses and moments of his life flash before him. There is a short story by Tobias Wolff called “Bullet in the Brain” about a man named Anders, a book critic, who is shot in the head during a bank robbery gone wrong. And yet, sometimes something – anything – a mere phrase, can arrest the attention and set the mind reeling. Certain facts, certain books, certain entire fields of study leave us unfazed, unstimulated, and generally uninterested. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died. Enhance your purchase With an Epilogue by Miep Giess The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions. Now, sixteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate. Anne Frank: The Biography 2nd edition by Mller, Melissa (2014) Paperback 61.18 Usually ships within 6 to 7 days. Full of revelations, Müller's richly textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting. ![]() UPDATED AND FILLED WITH STRIKING NEW REVELATIONS, THE BESTSELLING, SUPERB BIOGRAPHY THAT HONORS IN FULL A LIFE WE THOUGHT WE KNEW ( NEWSWEEK) Praised as remarkable, meticulous, and long overdue, Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become the human face of the Holocaust. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.I read Mexican Gothic and loved it, even though it's not a genre I typically read - but I loved this one even more! The novel is relationship-driven, with empathy and kindness that brings incredible richness and nuance. Wells' - and so needed! Moreno-Garcia sets the story in the Yucatan and its fraught racial-economic caste conflicts provide a real background to the intimate story she creates around Carlota, Dr. The author of Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, gives us this lush and mysterious tale that is much more than a retelling of H. ![]() Moreno-Garcia keeps the horror lurking just around the corner and the action front and center-take this dark, romantic tale set on the Yucatan peninsula on your next trip to the beach, or your armchair on a dark night. The half-remembered dream of jungles, animal-human hybrids, and Marlon Brando was more than enough background knowledge to fully enjoy this delicious, dreamlike reimagining of H. ![]() ![]() If life is too absurd to matter, one question remains-whether to commit suicide. Part 1, “An Absurd Reasoning,” posits that there is only one truly important philosophical problem: whether life is worth living. The Myth of Sisyphus contains five parts, including three extended essays on absurdity, a short piece on Sisyphus as a tragic hero of the meaningless, and an appendix that critiques Franz Kafka’s Existential novels. ![]() ![]() He criticized existentialists for peering into the abyss of life’s emptiness and backing away in fear, believing it better to stare at absurdity unblinkingly and defiantly. Though he deserves acclaim as a representative of existentialism, a philosophy that grapples with life’s meaninglessness, Camus rejected that term and instead called himself an absurdist. The tragic Greek figure Sisyphus-a rebel whom the gods punish by forcing him to push a boulder up a mountain only to watch it fall back down, over and over forever-symbolizes the absurd human condition. The huge gap between that craving and life’s actual sterility is an absurd condition that can’t be pushed aside but must be faced squarely. ![]() The book’s premise is that humans yearn deeply for something they can never have: the certainty that life is worthwhile and meaningful. ![]() |