Now the group from the first ward must stick together to survive, and they learn how to cope as a group with the doctor's wife as the leader. Eventually the quarantine burns down and the blind internees escape into the city, finding that the whole world has turned blind. Inside this quarantine, the situation quickly turns dire as their supplies begin to run low and the criminal element takes over, demanding sex for food. Informed by the ministry of health that they must vacate their house and move to a quarantine, the doctor's wife decides to join her husband even though she is not blind herself. It is at this point that the narrative begins to follow the doctor at the clinic and his wife. The first blind man goes to an ophthamology clinic–everyone there is eventually struck blind. Then a wave of spontaneous blindness follows. Not long after, the car thief goes blind while trying to hide the car. Once he has the blind man home, he proceeds to steal the first blind man's car. Confused and scared, a crowd gathers, their frustration forgotten, and one man offers to drive him home. José Saramago's Blindness starts out with one man spontaneously going blind in the middle of rush hour.
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I am at a strange point in life where I am constantly reexamining what I’ve always known and what I’ve always liked. Little by little, her intuition molded into understanding which bloomed into sweet devotion–an acceptance of the pursuit, so to say. Though she was lost, she found beauty in the discord and followed the rocky path upstream with grace. She reflects on being young and feeling compelled to follow the invisible and enticing forces of the natural world. Her first essay, “Upstream,” is my favorite. Upstream is a beautiful love letter by Oliver dedicated to the influences that shaped her–the natural environment, literary figures, and her home town. I even want “I ❤️ Mary Oliver” tattooed across my chest! That’s how much I admire her. This is the first piece by Mary Oliver I’ve read, and I will surely read more. I feel like I’m standing beside her in the sunlight, watching the foxes, walking in the cold creek water, or breathing in the ocean’s salty air while fishing. Her attention to detail is exquisite and endlessly captivating. Oliver writes like a true artist–each page is expertly sculpted and sprinkled with profound detail. Questions and answers are binded in 175 pages, provoking philosophical thought about ourselves and our place in this world. Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver is the missing clue to an adventurer’s quest. He gets a Writer-At-Large then Music Editor gig at Vibe. Bye bye, Black bird.ġ996: Sacha writes for Vibe, Rolling Stone and Spin. Ten issues in, Sacha and childhood friend have a falling out. And towards the end, in 1991, music.ġ992: Beat Down, America’s first hip hop newspaper, is launched by Sacha and a childhood friend. ‘PK,’ a local subway scrawler with some inter-borough celebrity, handed the young boy a very juiced-up Pilot magic marker.ġ988: Inspired by a the International Graffiti Times (a rag published by aerosol legend Phase 2 and David Schmidlap), Sacha would put together Graphic Scenes & X-plicit Language-a zine dedicated to, yep, graf. Then.ġ980: Sacha was blessed by an elder with an instrument of destruction that would forever change his life. During the school week, young Sacha spent his post three o’clock days playing stickball and skelly. blocks away from the infamous Rock Steady Park). Their Philadelphia, PA-reared, filmmaking/Emmy Award-winning pop-dukes, Horace, was already living up in NYC at the time (100th Street & Central Park West, to be exact. Sachy-Sach, his sister Dominiqe, and their artistically inclined, Haitian-born mom-dukes, Monart, moved to Astoria, Queens, NY from Silver Springs, MD in the summer of 1977. Sacha Jenkins-much like rap great KRS-One-is hip hip. Markiet explains that there is “quite a wealth” of finished but unpublished poems in the Silverstein archives. Fans have indeed been loyal-and enthusiastic-over the decades: almost 29 years after its original release, A Light in the Attic continues to be one of HarperCollins’s top-selling children’s books and has sold more than five million copies in North America. “Even though this is not an anniversary year for A Light in the Attic, Shel’s family wanted to publish this edition now, to thank fans and give them 12 new poems and some new artwork,” says Markiet. Silverstein’s family also encouraged the release of the Special Edition. “We included never-before published poems in that book, and got an amazing response from fans, who were just over the moon to read new Shel poems,” Markiet says. The success of the publisher’s 30th-anniversary edition of Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in 2004 was one incentive for releasing the new edition of A Light in the Attic. Antonia Markiet, senior executive editor of HarperCollins Children’s Books, joined the company in 1973 and worked with Silverstein for a number of years. That said, his conclusion wraps his primary subject neatly, and contains a clever observation: “To believe that the truth is ‘mine’ is to believe it does not exist.†But, as Rindsberg himself says – it does. In the final chapter, he veers from the comfortable pattern of exposition, explanation, and argument that he sets in previous chapters, and settles on some acute commentary that admittedly has little to do with his central thesis. By the end of the book, the reader is left with a veritable rogue’s gallery of journalistic malfeasants, each of whom were summarily blinded by either their political convictions, personal ambitions, or both – and either obscured the truth or outright lied to the Times’s enormous audience. In each case, Rindsberg succinctly explains the historical circumstances before describing the paper’s mendacity and the employees responsible. The Gray Lady Winked spends each chapter focusing on a different impactful period in the history of the New York Times, and thus the history of the United States. Along the way they get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily), and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins. Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular magic, and silly business. Irish Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl’s younger brothers, return in their third and most bizarre adventure yet. The boys and their new troll best friend escape and go on the run. The third Fowl Twins adventure, a spinoff of the blockbuster Artemis Fowl series. Unfortunately for the troll, he is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins-scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature-are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. With all the hallmarks that made the Artemis Fowl series so popular, this hilarious spinoff adventure stars Artemis' younger brothers, along with a nefarious nobleman, a shadowy nun, and a fairy intern, and a maverick troll. It shows Captain America’s freezing and subsequent defrosting in the modern day.ĪVENGERS DISASSEMBLED - Brian Bendis & David Finch The Steve Rogers EraĬaptain America: Winter Soldier V1 - Ed Brubaker & Steve EptingĬaptain America: Winter Soldier V2 - Ed Brubaker & Steve Epting Can be read at any time but sits here for the sake of chronology.Ĭaptain America: Man Out of Time - Mark Waid & Jorge MolinaĪnother mini-series not unlike Waid’s Superman: Birthright. THE MARVEL’S PROJECT - Ed Brubaker & Steve EptingĪn 8-issue mini-series showing the origins of Captain America and other silver-age heroes. The events are included in the order they should be read to fully appreciate what’s going on. The only thing that complicates matters is that Captain America is one of those tent pole characters that gets dragged into every major event storyline and is often impacted by the fallout. Even then it’s not too difficult as the books didn’t really impact each other so you can just read them in the order shown. It’s fairly straight forward until the end, where two books were coming out alongside each other. This is a large undertaking as the story went on for years, over several volumes and various titles in 25 trade paperbacks and five omnibus. This reading list only focuses on Ed Brubaker’s run, which defines the characters for this generation. 'A tragic and comic account of living with schizophrenia. Filer has an ear for the dark comedy of life, and Matthew is a charismatic lead character who draws you in even as his world falls apart' - The Obeserver Magazine 'A compelling story of grief, madness and loss. 'Poignant, funny and harrowing' - The Daily Express 'I found it dark, touching, sweet and funny and beautifully written.one of the best books about mental illness.' - Jo Brand 'A deeply moving (but also funny) first novel' - Kate Saunders, The Times 'Bittersweet and wonderfully etched.perceptive and moving' - The Daily Telegraph you're going to love it' - The Daily Mail 'Nathan Filer is following in the footsteps of Mark Haddon's genre-setting The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. The writing is so accomplished it's hard to believe it's a debut - it's clearly the work of a major new talent' - S J Watson Ambitious and exquisitely realised, it's by turns shocking, harrowing and heartrending. 'The simple prose is spot-on as the plain, honest voice of a teenager.smart eye for human foibles.a poignant, moving story that well deserves its Costa win' - Independent 'Authentic, funny and hauntingly sad' - The Sunday Times passages that have a sort of simple poetry' - The Guardian astonishingly sure-footed.' - Rose Tremain 'Exceptionally moving without being sentimental - we're very much hoping there will be more from this writer. By the time her older brother was capable of getting into serious trouble as an independent-minded black man in the American South, they were shipped back to their mother, who was as ready as she would ever be. But the pivot of the book is her mother-first called lady, then mother and finally mom-who sent Angelou and her brother to live with their grandmother when Angelou was 3. And wickedness abounds, for Angelou had a knack for picking bad men. True to her style, the writing cuts to the chase with compression and simplicity, and there in the background is a calypso smoothness, flurries and showers of musicality between the moments of wickedness. Angelou ( Letters to My Daughter, 2008, etc.) has given us the opportunity to read much of her life, but here she unveils her relationship with her mother for the first time. and a heady romance at its heart' Sunday Express'A deliciously dark confection of a novel' Ruth Hogan 352 pp. As she finds herself dragged into the blackest heart of the city, little does she know that something more depraved than she could ever imagine is lurking.'Carlin can tell a good story' Observer'Contains lovely, lyrical writing. But whispers from her past slowly begin to poison her new existence, and lure her into the most sinister of investigations. When a chance encounter thrusts Hester into the beguiling world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape these slums by any means possible. Down murky alleyways, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and London's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. Neuware - 'We have no need to protect ourselves from the bad sort because WE are the bad sort. |