![]() ![]() That’s what Bew is very much aware of, and the reason why Citizen Clem exists – to shine a light on the man the public has forgotten. ![]() Even though he was so important to the Labour Party, to winning the war, to rebuilding the country after the war, and, perhaps, rebuilding the world, we don’t remember. We remember the NHS was created, as was the welfare state, and India was granted independence – but not Attlee. We remember Churchill, and Thatcher, and Blair – but not Attlee. When it comes to Clement Attlee and the post-war Labour government, Britain tends to forget. It’s a book which earned an awful lot of praise when it came out – not unfairly, I’ll add, because I really enjoyed reading this. If you don’t know much about Clement Attlee – which is entirely possible – then he was the Prime Minister of the first majority Labour government, from 1945-1951, and was Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill during WW2. Hello! Today, we’re talking about Citizen Clem, a biography of Clement Attlee, written by John Bew. There were those who thought themselves smarter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then you see how, she is using humour to speak of marginalisation, exclusion, racism, hyper-nationalism, of borders. Why so much discussion over a letterbox, even about the word Letterbox, you wonder. The ones who, in fact, had ‘black’ money. A grand aim, in this case, the unearthing of ‘black money’, towards which we were all to bear certain inconveniences - for some, certain ruin - which was not achieved. Not only was it unfair to the weakest, but it did not achieve what it said it set out to. Sabziwallahs, farmers, women workers, workers in unorganized labour, all vulnerable sections of the population, were ruined. In an 8 pm national telecast on November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination would no longer be valid from midnight, four hours after the surprise telecast. It would seem that the English-reading middle class may not have been affected by demonetisation, but the way it was sprung upon us, was shocking. However, for a more public reason, anyway, we Indians were not very much in the mood of buying books in the month Autumn came out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the infamy of the sex content, it’s understandable that IT's controversial sewer scene was left out of the 1990 miniseries and Muschietti’s film, as it would be an extremely difficult scene to adapt for many (obvious) reasons. ![]() Instead, he wrote it as the connecting link between childhood and adulthood, as the Losers Club knew they had to be together again, and described it as “ another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library.” King added that he's aware that, with time, there has been more sensitivity and attention to issues like the underage sex depicted in IT's sewer scene. In 2013, Stephen King (through his office manager Marsha DeFillipo) shared on the message board of his official site what the controversial scene in the sewers represents, and begins by explaining that, at the time, he wasn’t thinking of the sexual aspect of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s no fluke: Bad sex aside, this author has built a reputation as a mordant postmodernist who combines the geeky adventure of Neal Stephenson with the icy wit that Paul Auster was once known for. “Fame,” Kehlmann’s only novel after “Measuring the World,” moved more than 100,000 copies in its first week of release last year in Germany. Kehlmann is the author of 2005’s “Measuring the World,” a vaguely Pynchonesque novel about 19th century mathematicians and explorers that has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and collected a slew of awards. It begins with the narrator musing, “I desired her so much I would have given a year of my life.” Once coitus begins he finds that “my existence split into two halves: a before and an after, for all time.” As the ecstasy continues, the lovers become “so entwined that we could be one body or Siamese twins,” and, quite mysteriously, “we clutch each other as if we were swimming in the Sargasso Sea.”ĭespite a little too much writing like that, “Fame” is not a dismissible book. ![]() Daniel Kehlmann’s novel “Fame” includes what must be one of the most hackneyed sex scenes I’ve read this year. ![]() ![]() One thing we know for sure is that laughter is the best remedy for small and large-scale blues. ![]() I want to show it all, the threads, the fabric, all of it. Medicine we think of as a white coat, but it just looks white because each thread, although it’s a different color, shines with promise and adds to the whole. ![]() It is like taking thread to make a cloth, then taking that cloth and making a garment. That fabric of what we are is what allows us to function as the physicians we can become. ![]() We are what we are because of the millions of tiny incidents in our lives that build up like threads woven into a fabric. ![]() “What is it about our lives that prepare us to be physicians? Is can’t simply be our education, and it had to be there before medicine was our vocation? It happens all around us every day we practice, and I don’t think it will stop when we retire. This is a collection of articles from a scientific medical journal that, for the most part, don’t have a thing to do with science or medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Cotillion, Heyer’s particular brand of Regency music reaches the heights of perfection. Like an audience at a concert that has been performed in other music halls, we are interested in how this new orchestration of a well-known arrangement will compare to the others. We WANT the familiarity of Georgette Heyer’s typical characters, for they play off each other so well. The list of Heyer archetypes goes on and on, but we don’t care. Beautiful but vapid beauty in distress? Check.Long-suffering but pleasantly surprised father? Check.Eccentric, old and tight-fisted uncle? Check.In Cotillion we meet a veritable bevy of the typical Heyer characters: ![]() Heyer’s books is discovering which of her stereotypical characters will court or insult each other in that ironic British upper class way we Heyer fans have come to love. It’s been years since I’ve run across the word “clodpole”, which Georgette Heyer uses to great effect in Cotillion, one of the splendid Regency romance novels that Sourcebooks had brought out and is available for order, including as an E-book, in this link. ![]() ![]() Now he’s going to have to get treated for cancer when all that he wants to do is fit in. Ross Maloy finds out that he has been diagnosed with a rare eye cancer. The story is for young adults and is all about getting through the middle school age years while having to contend with horrible news. He is also the author of the 2020 book titled Wink. ![]() Paramount Pictures’ animated movie is based on the graphic novel. It served as the inspiration for a movie. It tells the tale of a town that has a monster in it that is down on his luck. It was written and illustrated by the author. ![]() In 2013, his graphic novel Monster on the Hill came out from publisher Top Shelf. He is also the creator of the comic strip. Harrell is known for writing and drawing the comic strip “Big Top”, a syndicated strip that ran up until 2007. Rob Harrell is a published author, illustrator and comic strip writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shirah is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman, who finds passion with another soldier. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers she brings to Masada her twin grandsons, rendered mute by their own witness. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father never forgave her for that death. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom comes to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. In 70 C.D., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. ![]() Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet-one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women. ![]() The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune's Daughter, and Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. ![]() ![]() Each of the 10 sonnets created by Queneau has 14 lines, and these are written in strips so that any line can be replaced by another. I was encouraged to look into writing methods such as exquisite corpses (which is also used in art and design) and A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, both from the 60’s.įirst, I looked for different examples in Fashion related to A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau. So, with this idea in mind, I’ve explored several ways to make interactive pieces in paper. But in order to get there, I want to try different interactive forms that could be made in printed/online versions. One of the main things I’m interested on is the creation of an app where you can build your own style in a fast and simple way. ![]() After doing research on different dress-up games for kids, I wanted to focus on the way I would approach my own graphic piece. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the kind of details you remember when your life is about to change. The second copy was softer, and had a dented corner, but was also in pretty good shape. Glossy and flat, possibly never read before. And yet, being a seventh grader, I generally wanted nothing to do with her. ![]() I had lucked out with an incredibly awesome, loving mom. Worse, I was plagued with guilt for not looking forward to this project. I was not looking forward to this project. My mom, who was largely responsible for me being an avid reader, would be reading along with me. The assignment was to read a book along with a parent and discuss it. All the books on the rack came in pairs, which meant fewer selections overall. But I had to choose a new one, and worse than that, I had to pick up two copies of it. It listed to one side, so I made sure to stand on the side it was leaning away from, in order to see the books better. ![]() It was one of those rickety paperback book racks that creak when you turn it. ![]() |