![]() ![]() This groundbreaking line and collaboration answers the call for fit and fashion made with uncompromising, high quality materials that allow you to stay cool, warm, stretch, dance, and swag through all your outdoor experiences. ![]() I’m so proud to share that my new 22-piece line with Outdoor Afro, Inc., founded in 2021 debuts today with a collaboration with #REI with whom I have developed a long and trusted relationship since 2010. Outdoor enthusiasts like myself in my community felt that you had to wear “the uniform” in the usual drab colors, and leave your self expression and style at home in order to participate in outdoor activities. See, as I’ve grown and learned from my organization #OutdoorAfro for over a decade, I experienced time and again that stylish outdoor gear to fit curves and proportions well was pretty much non-existent. ![]() Some of y’all know who know me from way back know I have designed and sewed clothes since I was a little girl as my mother taught me, and made my first business of it in my early 20’s, making street wear, bridal gowns, and outdoor gear for my friends. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars-for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.įorty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner's 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. ![]() For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing is included for the sake of shock. There is always something going on with each character. How would you describe your story telling and writing style? Fortunately, this held true to her character. I won’t say that Time’s Forbidden Flower is fact based, but Lily handles her situation the way many others have. When it came time to write Time’s Forbidden Flower, I looked to the stories those people shared and drew upon their experiences. Several people have contacted me, stating that the book uncannily mirrored their lives. I wrote Love’s Forbidden Flower while trying to put myself in those shoes, thinking about what biases I would come across and applying the struggles some homosexuals face while trying to live openly. When the film ended and the man was heartbroken because he refused to act on his emotions, I was angry because the story didn’t go where it so clearly needed to. The entire film I waited for the obvious to happen. ![]() In it, two cousins related via twin sisters, thus making them genetic half-siblings, have a very special attraction. ![]() I had just watched a 1970 counter-culture film called The Buttercup Chain. ![]() Love’s Forbidden Flower was born out of frustration. Your subject matter is very controversial. ![]() ![]() ![]() I remember that I described her as bizarre et cruelle, and added that she reminded me of someone I had once loved. He then later falls in love with Mathilde. Madame de Rênal is kind and gentle, and she truly loves him, but he is forced by circumstances to leave her. ![]() I did my best to explain, while she looked at me with her huge dark eyes. She asked what my book was, and I showed it to her. She told me that French was her second language, Berber being the first, but she sounded pretty near perfect to me. We got chatting, and quickly determined that her English was slightly worse than my French the conversation, which initially had mixed both languages, settled down to being completely francophone. She was small, dark and very pretty in a North African way. She smiled and thanked me, I smiled back. She asked me, in French, if I'd mind helping her put it up on the rack, and I did so. I was alone in the compartment it was one of those old-fashioned carriages which still had compartments.Īt the fifth or sixth stop, the door opened, and a young woman entered carrying a lot of heavy luggage. ![]() ![]() I hadn't picked the book because I was visiting Grenoble, it just worked out that way. I was taking the train from Geneva to Grenoble, one of the most beautiful routes in the world, and I was reading Le Rouge et le Noir for the second time. ![]() ![]() ![]() She did more to link England, the United States, Ireland, and France than four great ambassadors combined.” I think of this whenever I ponder the role booksellers and bookshops can play during this age of political and ecological turbulence. ![]() As André Chamson wrote about you: “Sylvia Beach carried pollen like a bee. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as André Gide, Paul Valéry, and Louis Aragon, among many others, all bought and borrowed books from you, and attended readings and parties at Shakespeare and Company. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, and F. Your bookshop-first on rue Dupuytren, then around the corner on rue de l’Odéon-became a sanctuary for Anglophone and Francophone writers. ![]() Adrienne would be your companion for decades to come. You had also met Adrienne Monnier, one of the first women in France to found her own bookshop. Soulful and fearless, witty and energetic, you’d been active in the women’s suffrage movement, studied French poetry in Paris, and served with the Red Cross in Serbia during the First World War. You were only 32 but had already lived quite a life. I often wonder if, on that first morning, you could ever have imagined how important your story would be. One hundred years ago this month, you opened the shutters of a small bookshop on rue Dupuytren. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Fight club novel![]() I’m wondering if another woman is really what we need” – to, of course, the savage fight scenes, Fight Club is a raw portrait of what happens when male insecurity contorts itself into masculinity-in-overdrive, and an experiment in what men would do without social constraints.Īt the time of release, viewers questioned whether Fincher critiques or glorifies this. From the early scenes of the main character at a testicular cancer support group – where a distraught Meat Loaf cries “we’re still men!” – to other lines like “we’re a generation of men raised by women. The film is about the fragility of masculinity, men’s mental health, and the way the two are interlocked. That doesn’t mean that when David Fincher made Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel into the brilliantly sick and twisted cult classic it is, he wasn’t thinking about these things. There are terms that we use a lot these days that we didn’t back in 1999, when the film Fight Club was made. ![]() ![]() What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? So, it's not going to be one of those titles that immediately spring to mind when a friend asks for a recommendation. Still, it's not the kind of book you'll find yourself listening to over and over. It's definitely worth the recommendation and is by far better than most other books out there in this genre. I would certainly recommend this book to a friend but must admit that this would be a title I would rec only if I've run out of more interesting titles. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not? The narrator can really make or brake a book and Crisden made this book~! I think if Crisden didn't narrate this, the story wouldn't have been so good. The chapters are really really long though.so that is a plus. After like chapter 7 the story really gets going.but since there are only 10 chapters, this is a problem I think. It doesn't take away from the story though. so I am wonder if this was wrote like this or just edited out. When the truth comes out about Parker, they never say what the letter say. ![]() When Parker comes on the scene, I felt an instant connection with him, but I knew something fishy was going on with him. ![]() I like how the beginning history of the band is told, and quickly jumps to present day. I got so confused at the beginning but then I soon realize Jake is reading from his blog, about his band. This was a great romance and quite funny after like chapter 6! Serious. ![]() ![]() Her evil brother shares the power, and while Dweia has been teaching Althalus the secrets of The Book, the ancient God has been using the dark magic of his own Book to rewrite history. For when Althalus leaves the House at the End of the World, much wiser but not a day older than when he'd first entered it, thousands of years have gone by.īut Dweia is not the only one able to manipulate time. She must be: for in no time at all, she has stolen his heart. She is Dweia, sister to The Gods and a greater thief even than Althalus. On his way to steal The Book from the House at the End of the World, Althalus is confronted by a cat-a cat with eyes like emeralds, the voice of a woman, and the powers of a goddess. ![]() Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus, unrepentant rogue and scoundrel, who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness. He is, as all men know, a thief, a liar, an occasional murderer, an outrageous braggart, and a man devoid of even the slightest hint of honor. It would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff of legend. With The Redemption of Althalus, the authors of the Belgariad and Malloreon sagas created a thrilling stand-alone epic-boldly written and brilliantly imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() David and Leigh Eddings were mythmakers and world builders of the first order. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments The lady of the rivers![]() Exiled from court in disgrace, Jacquetta and Richard soon have their first child, Elizabeth. Returning to England, they marry in secret before the king can remarry her to someone else. She and the Duke's handsome squire Richard Woodville realize that they have fallen in love and become lovers. ![]() ![]() He later dies and leaves Jacquetta a wealthy widow at 20. On their wedding night, however, the Duke explains that he wishes to keep her a virgin so that she may use the powers of her family in their purest form in his alchemical experiments seeking the ability to turn iron into gold. Three years later at age 17, Jacquetta is given in marriage to John, Duke of Bedford, the uncle to King Henry VI and the English regent in France. Jacquetta befriends Joan of Arc, who is a prisoner at her uncle's castle, but later watches in horror as Joan is burned at the stake by the English-backed church. Plot įourteen-year-old Jacquetta, whose noble family claims descendance from the water goddess Melusine, learns the secrets of her inherited powers from her great-aunt Jehanne, the Demoiselle of Luxembourg. The novel serves as a prequel to Gregory's The White Queen (2009), the story of Elizabeth's reign as Queen consort of England. ![]() The story is narrated by Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville, and covers the reign of the Lancastrian King Henry VI. The Lady of the Rivers is a 2011 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Alisa childers another gospel![]() ![]() In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. until God rescued her, helping her to rebuild her faith, one solid brick at a time. After everything she had ever believed about God, Jesus, and the Bible had been picked apart, she found herself at the brink of despair. Another Gospel? describes the intellectual journey Alisa took over several years as she wrestled with a series of questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith. All that was deeply challenged when she met a progressive pastor, who called himself a hopeful agnostic. ![]() She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. ![]() She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. Alisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity. ![]() Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. "This may be the most influential book you will read this year." -Lee Strobel, bestselling author of The Case for Miracles A Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. ![]() |