![]() ![]() The garden opened in 1891, when Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. “Pendulum” responds both conceptually and materially to this context. Its very presence at the University of Zagreb’s botanical garden is a result of the 2020 earthquake that damaged almost 2,000 buildings across the city, including the Art Pavilion, which had commissioned the exhibition and which remains closed. ![]() Employing various deft framing and display strategies to bring together work across a range of scales-from A6 to 1.5 meters across-made between 20, “Pendulum” addresses local and global catastrophes: earthquakes, forest fires, and the Covid-19 pandemic. She returns to loaded institutional sites-like zoos, cemeteries, botanic gardens, and museum storage units-but also places in which aesthetics are more subtly constructed-nature reserves, managed woodlands, and the private retreat of a Communist dictator. SofijaSilvia’s photography touches upon those tender, knotted moments when care for the more-than-human becomes almost inseparable from a politics of domination and control. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Forests of SilenceĪfter the Shadow Lord's invasion of Deltora, one of the seven Ak-Baba gave the great Diamond from the Belt of Deltora to the Guardian for safe keeping. He eventually told his experience to Josef. The Guardian offered him a chest of gold if he could win a game, but Ranesh refused, since loosing the game would mean forfeiting his freedom to the Guardian. The Shadow Lord's magic created a poisonous mist over the valley that drove away all the animals.Īfter escaping from the pirates that raided his village, Ranesh stumbled into the Valley of the Lost. ![]() The Shadow Lord used Fardeep's desperation to corrupt him and change him into the Guardian in exchange for returning everything he lost. The Deltora Book of MonstersĪfter pirates raided Rithmere, Fardeep, the owner of the Champion Inn, sought refuge in the valley. Doran the Dragonlover mentioned Haven Vale in his book Secrets of Deltora. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of my reviews can also be found on my blog: Elín, Miscellaneous It’s quite literary and while it may not be for everyone because of that, A Fist or a Heart is a unique and indelible story. Overall, A Fist or a Heart is a slim narrative but one that is filled with feeling and beauty above all else. Then we have the characters who made me feel so much empathy I could cry when I reflect on the emotions in me brought out by them and their stories, sorrows, and strengths. The writing in itself is a loving, living, breathing work of art. ![]() It’s no wonder A Fist or a Heart has won literary accolades. The only thing is Elin is beginning to lose her connection with reality at the same time. These two have a connection, but only one remembers how.Įlin and Ellen have much in common, and they begin to share and find that connection. ![]() Elin’s interest is piqued by Ellen Alfsdottir, also a bit of a loner, as well as playwright and daughter of a writer. Imagine my surprise when I picked up A Fist or a Heart, now an award-winning novel set in Iceland.Įlin Jonsdottir, in her early seventies, is living a lonely life in Reykjavik. I recently read The Glass Woman, which was set in Iceland, and lamented wanting to read more books set in Iceland. ![]() ![]() I may one day give this author another go but for now, I am not sure if Alien abduction stories are for me. Overall I thought this book was filled with interesting characters and an even more intriguing universe, but I just did not enjoy the overall plot of this book. His demands mixed with Abby’s will to be independent made for many interesting moments. ![]() Zoran, the male alien lead, was sweet and at many times controlling and jealous. ![]() When it comes to the main characters I was glad that they were both introduced separately before they ever met. She added many details that helped me imagine what Zoran's world was like. I also think that Smith created a world or universe that readers could easily picture themselves in. I have never heard of dragon shifting aliens until I picked up this book, so it was nice to see some fresh ideas. Another thing that I did enjoy was that Smith was able to create some original species for this novel. ![]() ![]() One thing I did enjoy was the fast pace that neither rushed nor slowed down, therefore I was able somewhat enjoy the story. The plot and the characters were just fine, there was nothing in this book that really blew me away or made me want more. Overall I just thought the book was "ok". This was my first Alien abduction book, and I am giving it 2.5 stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harrison lives with her family in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Harrison's newest novel, The Midwife's Touch, was released Februby Open Road Integrated Media and Shanty Cove Books. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Her novels have been translated into thirteen languages and published in more than twenty countries. She is also the author of Song of the River, Cry of the Wind, and Call Down the Stars, which comprise the Storyteller Trilogy, also set in prehistoric North America. A national and international bestseller, and selected by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults in 1991, Mother Earth Father Sky is the first novel in Harrison’s critically acclaimed Ivory Carver Trilogy, which includes My Sister the Moon and Brother Wind. She studied six Native American languages and completed extensive research on culture, geography, archaeology, and anthropology during the nine years she spent writing her first novel, Mother Earth Father Sky, the extraordinary story of a woman’s struggle for survival in the last Ice Age. At age twenty-seven, inspired by the cold Upper Michigan forest that surrounded her home, and the outdoor survival skills she had learned from her father and her husband, Harrison began researching the people who understood best how to live in a harsh environment: the North American native peoples. Sue Harrison grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and graduated summa cum laude from Lake Superior State University with a bachelor of arts degree in English language and literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a man appears, she refuses to believe he is from the 16th century – he says he IS Nicholas. When, after a fight, Robert and Gloria drive away and leave Dougless behind at a church without even her purse, she breaks down in tears on top of a tomb – the tomb of 16th century “rake” Nicholas Stafford. … ( more)ĭougless is on a trip to England with her partner, Robert, and his spoilt-brat daughter, Gloria. It is the epitome of every woman's fantasy" ( Chicago Daily Herald). Hailed worldwide as one of the most romantic novels of all time, A Knight in Shining Armor is "a glorious love story that spans centuries, worlds, and souls. What Dougless never imagined was how strong the chains are that tie them to the past.or the grand adventure that lay before them. Drawn to his side by a bond so sudden and compelling it overshadows reason, Dougless knows that Nicholas is nothing less than a miracle: a man who does not seek to change her, who finds her perfect, fascinating, just as she is. It is Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck.and according to his tombstone he died in 1564. Suddenly, the most extraordinary man appears. New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century! Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. ![]() ![]() Academics use summaries all the time for research papers when they write an abstract, which is essentially a summary of an entire research paper. Summaries appear in many different shapes and forms, including book reports and other school papers. ![]() However, for academic papers and more formal writing, summary writing leans towards factual and clinical. If it’s written for commercial purposes, such as the summaries on Netflix, it might be intentionally alluring and withhold spoilers. The key to summary writing is to stick to the facts do not include opinions, analysis, or bias. A summary example of Hamlet would mention the main plot points like the murder of Polonius, but wouldn’t mention details irrelevant to the plot, like Polonius’s “to thine own self be true” monologue. Summary writing is like a highlight reel, showing only the best parts and ignoring what’s not strictly necessary. Summaries are usually short, from one or two sentences to a paragraph, but if you’re summarizing an enormous work, like all seven Harry Potter books, they can stretch out over pages. Really, a summary is a general term used to describe any writing that briefly explains, or “summarizes,” a larger work like a novel, academic paper, movie, or TV show. But first, let’s look at the big question: What is a summary? ![]() We share some summary examples and list out the steps. In this quick guide, we explain how to write a summary like an expert. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strangely, the colours have strong greens and blues and look like Caribbean art but they are the colours surrounding waterholes or springs that form an oasis. The paintings show ownership, a pictorial deed, in this case of 10 big waterholes in Walmajarri country in the Great Sandy Desert. It was painted in France during the Biennale de Lyon in 2000 and relates to land claim paintings. There is also a huge two-metre by five-metre canvas by sisters Jukuna Mona Chuguna and Ngarta Jinny Bent. There are paintings by Rover Thomas and Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. That means a discount of 20 to 30 per cent on the prices that were being paid before the global credit crunch.īut, as with European art sales, the best paintings hold their value while the middle to lower end drops away.īuyers in the boom were too willing to pay prices that did not reflect real worth.īut Sotheby’s Aboriginal art sale at its Melbourne gallery in Armadale has some standout works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sotheby’s Aboriginal art sale on Monday night is likely to see prices equal those of earlier sales of white-fella art this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And that is definitely the case in ALL episodes of the series. What matters mostly, to me at least, is that the adaptations remain respectful to the style, settings and storytelling of Christie's original creations. Please let me assure you - I am an obsessive Agatha Christie admirer, and I'm perfectly okay with the fact that the series' writers took the liberty to make drastic changes to plot, characters and denouements. It's always "True Agatha Christie lovers will hate it" this, and "the original Christie novel ruined" that. Ah, the eternally recurring and inevitably clichéd pieces of criticism that one encounters in almost every single review of every single instalment in the "Agatha Christie's Marple" series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs their unprecedented upbringing with fresh depth and subtlety, bringing to new light their resilience and the indelible bond of their unique sisterhood.īeginning two days after their premature birth in rural Ontario on May 28, 1934, "the lives of the Dionne quintuplets were inextricably bound with the press," asserts Miller (Caroline: Little House, Revisited), whose headline-style chapter titles reinforce that point in this compelling account. The Dionne Quintuplets became a more popular attraction than Niagara Falls, ogled through one-way screens by sightseers as they splashed in their wading pool at the center of a tourist hotspot known as Quintland. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the five identical babies, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family-and then, in a stunning act of hypocrisy, proceeded to exploit them for the next nine years. Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne mesmerized the globe, defying medical history with every breath they took. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. ![]() ![]() In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world. ![]() |