5/13/2023 0 Comments Kimi no na wa ghibli![]() ![]() The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, for instance, features a high school girl going through adolescence while flitting back and forth in time. We follow Taki’s journey to find Mitsuha in spite of the improbability of it all, only to discover a gasp-inducing plot twist.ĭirector Mamoru Hosada is no stranger to wholesome family-oriented or coming-of-age films with a magical twist. The two regularly swap bodies, discovering more about each other as they go through the other’s daily routine, and cultivating feelings somewhere along the way. ![]() Kimi no Na wa follows the lives of Mitsuha and Taki in modern Japan, as their fates are mysteriously entwined-literally. It was the first anime film to surpass the classic Spirited Away in box office earnings (for a time), and it also won several international awards. And more often than not, love prevails.īut among his repertoire of films, his 2016 film Kimi no Na wa, or Your Name, is probably his biggest success to date. There’s usually some sort of fantastical element to it. ![]() A lot of them are love stories between couples separated by obstacles and insurmountable distances. His films usually share a few common themes. Director Makoto Shinkai is a veteran in this category. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eliot for liking what he likes, by the way.įirst, obviously, I read Les Fleurs du mal in translation. And yet I’m here because of a very silly thing I’m doing concerning a poem I like, so we might as well see what’s going on here. The first being that I know like six words of French and the other being that I don’t really like poetry. The two main hurdles to this are minor, I admit. And so many guns! Anyway, this bit is brought you by me being way the hell out of my comfort zone and not really knowing how to talk properly about French poetry. I’d never heard of a Bordeaux-bong before but those French hillbillies know how to party. Oh hell yes who is down for some 19 th century French poetry!? Word bitch I know you love it, Baudelaire is all up in your face right now! *Fireworks, explosions, and a rippin’ guitar version of La Marseillaise* FRANCE! Huh? Oh, sorry, I just came back from a parallel dimension where the French have the same stereotypes applied to them as the United States and it was weird. Poetry * Charles Baudelaire * Edgy French Poems * 1857 Synopsis ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz![]() And it follows in all the products that he demanded - you know, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right drinks, the right food, the right restaurants. When Sean Connery turned around and asked for a cocktail shaken but not stirred, it was cool to have that precision, that sort of absolute perfection in taste. ![]() On Bond's precise tastes, and why they were seen as cool '50s and '60s, when the books were written and were thriving, and nowadays where so many perceptions have changed. one of the interesting things is trying to bridge this astonishing gap between the. And perhaps some of the attitudes in the books were cooler then - even the violence, maybe, these days we think twice about. ![]() and I don't think many people would admire that these days. James Bond smoked I think about 20 to 30 cigarettes a day. The first one that springs to mind is probably smoking. ![]() On the ways in which Bond isn't so cool anymore ![]() ![]() ![]() ***Contains spoilers for the ending of Part 1***After the discussions with the temple master and head priest ended, Myne won the right to be treated as a noble with the role of a blue-robed shrine maiden apprentice.Work in the temple began and Myne could read books in the long-awaited temple library.However, there were many problems in the temple, such as adapting to the class system and dealing with the problem children assigned to her as attendants. ![]() If you want to get the updates about latest chapters, lets create an account and add Ascendance of a Bookworm ~I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian~ Part 2 「I'll Become a Shrine Maiden for Books!」 to your bookmark. ![]() ![]() Ascendance of a Bookworm ~I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian~ Part 2 「I'll Become a Shrine Maiden for Books!」 has 50 translated chapters and translations of other chapters are in progress. You are reading Ascendance of a Bookworm ~I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian~ Part 2 「I'll Become a Shrine Maiden for Books!」 manga, one of the most popular manga covering in Drama, Fantasy, Shounen, Slice of life genres, written by Suzuka, Miya Kazuki at MangaBuddy, a top manga site to offering for read manga online free. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 3 Kindle Edition by Miya Kazuki (Author), You Shiina (Illustrator), quof (Translator) & 0 more Format: Kindle Edition 4. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The inferno by dante alighieri![]() ![]() Of the three sections, however, it is the lot of the souls in the Inferno that has had, by far, the greatest resonance with readers and artists. Although it recounts an actual physical journey, The Divine Comedy is also an allegory of the soul’s progress through sin (hell), penitence (purgatory), and redemption (paradise), the last being the joyful ending promised in the title. ![]() In naming his lifework Comedy, Dante employs an understanding of the word that means a narrative with a happy ending, unrelated to humor. Later, he is reunited with his beloved, Beatrice, who guides him up to purgatory, and then to Paradise, where, in a moment of ecstasy, Dante glimpses God. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts- Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. ![]() ![]() “Retreat” (2,500 words) is out in in Constellations anthology Vol. “Last Day of Freedom” was previously published in Funemployment Vol. “Last Day of Freedom” (6,000 words), “The Revolutionaries” (1,000 words), and “Timeshare” (3,500 words) were accepted for publication in Bewildering Stories. Had already received a few critiques of this draft from CPs.ĭrafted micros: “Control,” “Change,” and “Friend.”ĭrafted “Conversations: The Maid” (3k), a story in two parts, written from the perspectives of both characters. Reread “The Toy Soldier” second draft (13k) and planned edits. Reread “Fault” second draft (20k) and identified some problems sent this out to CPs awaiting reviews. ![]() The story is good some segments need rewrites a new critique partner pointed out a problem with the ending. Had received a few partial or complete critiques from critique partners. ![]() Reread “Growing Pains” third draft (27k) and planned revisions. ![]() ![]() Short stories: from Narrative mag: “With or Without the Dog” by Isabelle Stillman “A Common Story” by Ivan Goncharov (novel excerpt) from 3am mag: “The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing” by Nicholas Rombes (novel excerpt) “Summer Job” by Cassandra Moss Catapult: CNF: “Why Advertising Feels Like A Form of Urban Noise Pollution” by Alex Manley Kenyon Review: “Make and Model” by Sophia Emmons-Bell from The New Yorker: “Symbols and Signs” by Vladimir Nabokov (1948). ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Finding home sloane kennedy![]() ![]() How the hell am I supposed to come back from that? I can’t. I didn’t just lose my legs in that godforsaken desert, I lost the man I used to be… the man I should’ve been. One year later finds the seemingly unflappable wildlife veterinarian settling into what’s supposed to be the quiet life of contentment he’s always wanted.īut there’s nothing quiet about the arrival of the gorgeous but very bitter ex-soldier who seems intent on destroying what’s left of his life after losing his legs to an IED. It’s who I have to be.įor Sawyer Brower, the picture-perfect town of Pelican Bay was just supposed to be another place to take refuge for a few months before moving on. ![]() ![]() Hiding and running, that’s what I’m good at. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments A different mirror![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
5/11/2023 0 Comments Maybe this time by jennifer crusie![]() ![]() The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. ![]() She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Strangers in their own land book![]() ![]() ![]() They are also separated by an empathy wall-a barrier that prevents them from achieving a deep understanding of the other side. People on the opposite sides of the political divide are not just separated by political beliefs. In Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, sociologist Arlie Hochschild seeks to understand the social, cultural, and emotional forces driving right-wing politics, in an effort to move past the partisan divide and approach American politics from a position of empathy for those on the right. ![]() 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Strangers In Their Own Land ![]() |