6/7/2023 0 Comments Makoto shinkai tenki no ko![]() ![]() Knowing there to be only one way to return the world to normal, Hina decides to sacrifice her life, and the weather in Tokyo immediately changes for the better. Only Hina, the "sunshine girl," has the power to stop it, giving the citizens of Tokyo a brief respite from the rain and dark clouds. In Weathering With You, Tokyo is inundated by unseasonal, unrelenting rain. In a letter to his fans, Shinkai further elaborated on his views on climate change and how they inform his work. The next Shinkai movie, Weathering With You, was also a hit, further building on the strong environmental themes of his projects. ![]() ![]() ![]() Considered by many as "The New Miyazaki," Makoto Shinkai rose to prominence with the critical and popular success of his 2016 film Your Name, which was praised globally for its animation and imagery, emotional storytelling and brilliant use of magic realism. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Wow no thank you review![]() ![]() This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” -Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror ![]() A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. ![]() Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He steps out of the truck like a dream come true.īut for some crazy reason, this gorgeous mountain man is quite taken with me.įor someone who was hopelessly lost a minute ago,Ĭarrie might be lost, but she’s exactly where she needs to be-in the big tattooed arms of a hot possessive mountain man. There’s no one around to help and if I leave, I’ll probably wind up as a grizzly bear’s dinner.Ī big muscular mountain man to lift my car out of the mud.Īnd just when I’m at my most desperate, one arrives.īig muscles, slick tattoos, and a beard that could make a nun rethink her life choices. How the heck am I going to get there in time? ![]() I’m the maid of honor at my BFF’s mountain retreat wedding and the rehearsal dinner is tomorrow. Which sucks because I have somewhere important to be. Or, it may even be quicksand with the way it’s sucking up my tires. I took one wrong turn on these crazy mountain roads in the middle of an intense rainstorm and now I’m stuck. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Up front bill mauldin 1945![]() ![]() You don't need to be a history buff to understand the cartoons in this WWII classic, but sometimes it helps. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his "If it's big, hit it." 92 illustrations "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived―and died―in it.This taut, lushly illustrated biography―the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin―is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. ![]() Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Civil comes from a middle-class background and she is often shocked by the conditions of her home visits. Shortly after receiving her nursing degree, Civil goes to work for a local clinic, which specializes in reaching the impoverished women in the community. ![]() Inspired by true events, Take My Hand is the story of Civil Townsend, a young woman working for a family planning clinic in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1970s. But there was no denying that my love for those girls was genuine, inadequate and flawed as it may have been.” Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand (278) SYNOPSIS “We were just stumbling our way through a situation that was the biggest event of our entire lives. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Song of myself 1855![]() ![]() His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. Whitman continued expanding and revising Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892.ĭuring the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C. The work was an attempt to reach out to the common person with an American epic. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, was financed with his own money and became well known. He worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. At the age of 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island, and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. His work was controversial in his time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described by some as obscene for its overt sensuality. ![]() ![]() Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American history. (/ˈhwɪtmən/ May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. Walt WhitmanWhitman in 1887BornWalter Whitman Jr.()May 31, 1819West Hills, New York, U.S.DiedMarch 26, 1892() (aged 72)Camden, New Jersey, U.S.Resting placeHarleigh Cemetery Camden, New Jersey U.S.OccupationPoetessayistjournalistSignature American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)įor other uses, see Walt Whitman (disambiguation). ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Allen drury books![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly called the idea behind the novel "promising" but then noted "the book's merit ends with that concept". has failed to respond and the Soviets have consolidated their hold on the atoll. Such plans, however, are frustrated by infighting within the Pentagon, Congress, and elsewhere in the government. ![]() Diplomatic overtures by the United States accomplish nothing, and a military response to this Soviet threat seems necessary. The Soviet Union invades and occupies a sparsely-populated Pacific atoll and proceeds to kill the inhabitants and gradually construct a missile and submarine base. ![]() The novel was published in the United Kingdom as The Destiny Makers in 1988. It is a standalone work set in a different fictional timeline from Drury's 1959 novel Advise and Consent, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Pentagon is a 1986 political novel by Allen Drury which follows the American military bureaucracy as it reacts to a crisis with the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() Follow him on Twitter at rshall or on Facebook. ![]() THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins. Watch Adam Savage Build Barbarella’s Space Rifle in One Dayīased in Seoul, Colin M a rshall writes and broadcas ts on cities, language, and culture. What’s It Like to Fight in 15th Century Armor?: A Surprising Demonstration ![]() What It’s Like to Actually Fight in Medieval Armor How to Get Dressed & Fight in 14th Century Armor: A Reenactment How Well Can You Move in Medieval Armor?: Medievalist Daniel Jaquet Gives It a Try in Real Life How to Make and Wear Medieval Armor: An In-Depth Primer ![]() His enthusiasm and knowledge are evidenced by the wealth of armor-related videos on his Youtube channel, including a series about building his own full suit of armor, a challenge that it was inevitable he would set himself against - a gauntlet, in other words, he both threw down and took up. Savage marvels at these features, but also the visibly painstaking craftsmanship that went into every aspect of these gauntlets’ construction, which he has more than enough experience to understand. ![]() Each of these gauntlets was made in a different style, with details like a fine-meshed chain mail underside (to make it easier to keep a grip on your sword) or even a locking spring catch (to make it impossible to let go of your sword at all). ![]() ![]() ![]() Gophers were the commonest thing on the prairie. When you stepped off the end of the Railroad Bridge you stepped right onto the prairie and there you were – free as the gophers. ![]() The great thing about Saskatoon was the way it ended sharp all around its edge. ![]() We were in a hurry to get out of the city and into the real prairie, where you can climb a fence post and see for about a million miles – that’s how flat the prairie is. It was the spring wind, and the smell of it made us walk faster. But we felt another breath, a gentle one, blowing across the distant wheat fields and smelling like warm sun shining on soft mud. The river was icy with thaw water and, as we crossed over the Railroad Bridge, we could feel a cold breath rising from it. Snowdrifts still clung along the steep banks of the river in the shelter of the cottonwood trees. Spring was late that year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. One May morning my friend Bruce and I went for a hike on the prairie. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Liar by Rob Roberge![]() ![]() ![]() I’d hoped to give him a little breathing room to get his shit together, but as it turned out it just postponed the further spreading of his shit temporarily. On the other hand, he did apparently work on his engine on the floor and counters and proved in various ways that the idea that you can white-knuckle it through your addiction just doesn’t work. On the one hand it went pretty well - the dog survived and the house received no structural damage. The deal was that he’d take care of the dog and pay the utilities but otherwise live in my place rent-free. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Īt a certain point a decade or more back, I turned my house and dog over to a friend while I taught a semester at University of Syracuse and then went off to an artist’s residency. ![]() |