The good son by you jeong jeong7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a book of mystery, too, but a good portion of it consists of Yu-jin talking to himself, trying to figure out what’s going on. Those encounters are each fraught with tension, and the tension comes from Jeong’s prose, which spares not a single word. When he goes downstairs, he finds his mother dead, and soon he convinces himself that the two of them had fought earlier, her in a rage, him defending himself. He has vague memories of the night before. ![]() ![]() The novel begins with its protagonist, Yu-jin, waking up in his room covered in blood. You-Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son is a precise, meticulously plotted thriller that is occasionally too precise and meticulous for its own good. ![]()
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An old fashioned thanksgiving book7/4/2023 ![]() She doesn’t watch much TV, but she does love "Chopped." Pat lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Pat has one wonderful husband, two delightful daughters and two pampered cats. Her books in print are: SOPHIE’S SQUASH, WHEREVER YOU GO, SHARING THE BREAD, THE QUICKEST KID IN CLARKSVILLE, SOPHIE'S SQUASH GO TO SCHOOL, WIDE-AWAKE BEAR, LORETTA'S GIFT, BE KIND, REMARKABLY YOU, MY BROTHER THE DUCK and WHEN YOU ARE BRAVE. She has 11 picture books available and 12 more that will be coming out in the next few years. ![]() Now, she writes insurance information by day and children’s books by night. Then, she joined an insurance company and edited its newsletter and magazine. Pat started out as a newspaper reporter and wrote about everything from dartball and deer-hunting to diets and decoupage. ![]() ![]() Pat Zietlow Miller knew she wanted to be a writer ever since her seventh-grade English teacher read her paper about square-dancing skirts out loud in class and said: “This is the first time anything a student has written has given me chills.” (Thanks, Mrs. ![]() ![]() As primary source for the hypothesis statement, theories by Freud and the later constructions on psychoanalysis as a tool for interpreting literature have been used, such as the collected works of Kurzweil & Phillips ( Literature and Psychoanalysis). The aim is to view this short story in light of Poe's empirically documented destructive personality, proposing that the message of the story, in itself, is more than simply a tale, but part of a larger contextual idea sprung from the pained soul of the author. ![]() This essay is based on the premise of psychoanalytical literal theory through a perspective of the author-imprint, or the mirroring neural-effect of the author as an external persona - a force influencing, constructing and enforcing traits, intertextual messages and sublime meanings of the subconscious in the primary text material – the short story Imp of the Perverse, published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. 2012 (English) Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits Student thesis Abstract ![]() Mortimer adler's how to read a book7/4/2023 ![]() at Iowa State University his guide asked him what can Gopal term as his major accomplishment? He said that from then onwards he can put ‘Dr.’ behind his name. While attending his training program in 1997 he narrated an interesting anecdote. Gopal Valecha was an Industrial Psychologist and a renowned trainer. We may have more information of things around us but more knowledgeable may be a bit debatable. ![]() Mark Twain once said, “A person who does not read good books is no different from a person who cannot read them.” In this age of information overload where what’s app, blogs, magazines and newspapers are vying to catch the reader’s attention are we more knowledgeable and wiser than our ancestors? Most of us would reply in the affirmative. ![]() Osamu dazai books7/4/2023 ![]() His life story reads like Gothic drama: multiple suicide attempts, usually with a woman indulgences in drugs and alcohol bitter feuds with family and rivals vomit and terror and finally death by his own hand. Human is the most unabashedly autobiographical of Dazai’s works, and for that reason one of the most difficult to stomach. I know I’m the one that’s changing, of course, and I suspect the day I sit down to read No Longer Human and find nothing in it any longer will be the day I no longer see any of myself in it. And yet I’ve come back to that short space again and again, and each time I do, I find something else that simply did not seem to be there before. Oe’s story is epic in detail and unabashedly literary in its language and imagery, while Dazai’s novel is barely two hundred pages and constructed out of language so simple and spare there seems to be no room for further reduction. The two books could not be more dissimilar. ![]() One was Kenzaburo Oe’s The Silent Cry another, most likely the one I have come back to the most, is Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human. ![]() ![]() In the fifteen or so years that I’ve been reading literature from Japan, there are maybe two or three books from that whole oeuvre that I’ve come back to again and again and discovered more in each time. ![]() The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() These included the draw-and-write technique with follow-up interviews, lesson observations with follow-up reflective interviews and an online CEFR proficiency assessment. The project employed a multiple case study design and used multiple data collection tools. ![]() Central to the investigation was a 13-week learning-to-teach picturebook-based course, situated within the framework of socio-constructivism. The participants in the study were second-year student teachers at Avans University of Applied Sciences (NL), and the investigation spanned a period of ten months (August 2017 to May 2018). Taking the English language teaching (ELT) and English proficiency weaknesses of primary teachers in the Netherlands as a starting point, this PhD study explores the contribution a picturebook-based course can make to English teacher education at the primary level. This thesis investigates the use of English picturebooks as a teaching tool in initial (pre-service) primary teacher education in the Netherlands. ![]() The Spells We Cast by Jason June7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Some are even haling it as one of the best super-hero movies ever made. ![]() The film is in pre-production now and won’t be in theaters until July 11, 2025. Gunn’s next project is “Superman: Legacy,” which he wrote and will direct. He now crosses super-hero universes to devote all of his energy to running DC Studios along with his co-studio head Peter Safran. It will be Gunn’s last movie for Marvel for the foreseeable future. ![]() It has been called Marvel’s best movie since “Avengers: Infinity War.” While Marvel’s last film “Ant-Man” and the Wasp: Quantumania” underperformed at the box office, strong early reviews suggest the Guardians will do quite well for Marvel. 134 in 1966, but he continued to vex such Marvel characters as the Hulk, the Avengers, and Adam Warlock (Will Poulter), who is also featured in this film. Wells’ novel was just the jumping off point for the insidious Marvel villain who debuted in The Mighty Thor No. Moreau.” There are several fun film adaptations of the Wells’ novel, including a very weird and daffy one from 1996 featuring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, but I digress. Wells’ seminal 1896 sci-fi/horror classic “The Island of Dr. All of the Guardians return, but this movie delves into the brutal origins of Rocket Raccoon, and features a new big bad known as the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), whose story was comic creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee’s cosmic take on H.G. ![]() River of darkness by rennie airth7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Compelling stuff.’ Robert Goddard, author of the Edgar nominee Beyond Recallįrom Publishers Weekly Starred Review. ![]() ‘An edge of the seat serial killer thriller set against a skillfully evoked backdrop of war wounded England. Airth has balanced savagery and civilization neatly, and given civilization just the barest edge.’ Christopher Dickey, The New York Times Book Review ‘It’s the tactics and terrain, the morale and the characters that make the difference between an average thriller and one as good as this. James, rippled with tension and resonant with historical atmosphere, River of Darkness marks the debut of a powerful new voice in suspense writing. ![]() Helen Blackwell, who introduces him to the new science of criminal psychology, Madden sets out to capture the killer, even as the murderer sets his sights on his next innocent victims.Īs darkly stylish as the best P. The local police dismiss the slaughter as a botched robbery, but Madden detects the signs of a madman at work. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child. As rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. ![]() Opal reyne a soul to heal7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Broken and sleeping, he gets to work on healing the woman. One morning when leaving his cave, a human suddenly crashes into him from the sky. He still lacks humanity and there is much to learn first. She’s wary about him at first, but Delora begins to realise there’s more to him than just a faceless monster.Īfter discovering that humans can be kept as companions, he begins planning for the day he finds his own bride. She didn’t expect that she would wake up from her deadly fall, nor that the person who saved her would be a Duskwalker. Although afraid of her oncoming demise, she accepts it as it would be a worldly escape from her problems. Thrown into the Veil for a crime she committed, Delora was discarded by the world. ![]() The long walk bachman7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() I do not upload pictures of my books but if it is pictures that you need they are only an email request away. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Actually not that bad a copy of a book that is getting reely hard to find in a first printing. ![]() A compilation edition of the first four Bachman Books which were originally published as PBOs with an introduction by King "Why I was Bachman". It has been awhile since I have had one of these in stock especially in a First Printing of the First Omnibus Edition, the true hardcover first. browning to extremities, light tanning to the reverse. The19.95 priced jacket has some light rubbing wear, some edge wear, bit of chipping to the area at the top and heel of the spine. ![]() This copy has some light tanning/soil to the edges of the text block, a group of 5 pages prox have been corner bumped, a wrinkle to the black cloth spine area with no wear to the bright gold inlay. A square solid tight carefully read copy. ![]() |