![]() ![]() Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.įrom Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen ©1966. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. ![]() I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. A saint does not dissolve the chaos if he did the world would have changed long ago. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. ![]() I think it has something to do with the energy of love. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Showcase, CBC, 1977, for A Little at a Time Notable Book, American Library Association (ALA), 1981, for A Picture Book of Jewish Holidays Best Books selection, New York Public Library, 1983, for Bunny Rabbit Rebus Carter G. ![]() Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council (NSTA/CBC), 1976, for 3D, 2D, 1D Children's Book ![]() ![]() Could you ever imagine? T Two Spencer here is someone in my home. ![]() How long did Frankie say he’s away on business for? Three whole days? Maybe I could stay the weekend, playing house with the ghost of a billionaire. ![]() Peanut-scented steam curls over my cheeks, and Ifish out a lump of chicken breast. I bite my lip as I prod the noodles with my fork. Come back and see what he’s changed around the place. Those other richies could learn a thing or two from Spencer Arnoult–and maybe I’ll have to burgle him again. Sometimes I break into these penthouses and mansions, and there’s so little personality I just want to scream at the off-white walls. His couch is forest green, covered in soft but sturdy fabric and draped with a fleecy cream throw. And now I’m slurping his chicken satay noodles and sitting cross-legged on his couch, wrigglingmy sore ass against the cushions. That square jaw and the thick framed glasses. So I’ve seen his face plenty of times I’ve heard his deep, stilted voice in interviews. ![]() He’s been plastered over the twenty-four news cycle along with all those other Silicon Valley boy wonders, and though he left those roots behind when he came to this city in his mid-thirties, trading in his zip up hoodies for button-down shirts, his bank balance and billion dollar company came with him. And Spencer Arnoult has been in plenty of headlines over the last few years. ![]() It’s impossible not to be aware of them, at least on some level. ![]() ![]() ![]() of Speculation can be read in a single sitting, but there are enough bracing emotional insights in these pages to fill a much longer novel. ![]() With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it, as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. As they confront an array of common catastrophes-a colicky baby, bedbugs, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions-the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, Jenny Offill, Emma Straub, and Rainbow Rowell. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. ![]() It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The work of an author at the top of his game.” –Science Fiction and Fantasy World As the Fallers’ relentless attacks continue, and the fragile human society splinters into civil war, Nigel must uncover the secrets of the Fallers–before he is killed by the very people he has come to save. Yet these same aliens may hold the key to destroying the threat of the Void forever–if Nigel can uncover their secrets. The humans trapped there are afflicted by an alien species of biological mimics–the Fallers–that are intelligent but merciless killers. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers indistinguishable from magic are commonplace. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel–self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. Distinguished by deft plotting, a teeming cast of characters, dazzling scientific speculation, and imagination that brings the truly alien to life, The Abyss Beyond Dreams reveals Hamilton as a storyteller of astonishing ingenuity and power. Hamilton delivers the first of a two-book saga set in his popular Commonwealth universe. Bestselling science fiction master Peter F. ![]() ![]() ![]() And one Valentine's Day they'll never forget. Stars Over Castle Hill is an alternative reality novella of the #1 international bestselling romance On Dublin Street. or is it possible that two souls are meant for one another in any reality? But what if she was thirty instead of twenty-two when they met? How would she have felt about risking her heart then?Īnd even if she was older and wiser and ready to fall madly in love, what if too much had happened to Braden to make him the man that would risk his heart to save hers? If she had never met them where might she have ended up? Joss believes no matter where life may have taken her it would have inevitably led her to Braden. When Joss is asked to write a story about how her life might have turned out if a pivotal moment in it never happened, she thinks of the day she met both Braden and Ellie Carmichael. what if she never met Braden and Ellie Carmichael on that fateful day when she was only twenty-two years old? It's a life Joss never expected to have, and one she's grateful for every day.īut. ![]() Joss and Braden Carmichael are blissfully married living in their townhouse on Dublin Street with their three beautiful children. A paperback compilation of three On Dublin Street series novellas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix's commercialization, and the history of early Linux development. Tozzi explains FOSS's historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities-including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds-and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. A band of revolutionaries, self-described “hackers,” challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences-a revolution to restore software freedom. Description: The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So heavy that none could lay it on another. At the Council at Rivendell, Elrond compares Frodo to Beren: “ But it is a heavy burden. The significance of the couple’s tale continues down the Ages. Within Tolkien’s entire legendarium, Beren and Lúthien are seen as a key story around which many others gravitate. Throughout the book there are several references to the might and valour of Beren, and the beauty of Lúthien, but although the references give a sense of the depth of the mythology of Middle-earth, they seldom go beyond more than a paragraph. In the story, whilst camping at Weathertop, Aragorn sings the tale of Tinúviel:Īragorn then proceeds to give the four hobbits a summary of the story of Beren and Lúthien: how the couple fell in love and both, sadly, died (twice). The first time readers came across Beren and Lúthien was in The Lord of the Rings published in 1954. But, for those unfamiliar with the story, who are Beren and Lúthien? Beren and Lúthien, 2017 What do we know so far? Over the next six months we are going to hear a lot more about Beren and Lúthien as the world gears up towards the publication of the book on the 4th May. ![]() ![]() Posted by Shaun Gunner at 19:13 on 12 February 2017 ![]() |