![]() So obviously, it was fairly entertaining.īut it definitely wasn’t one where I immediately wanted to recommend it to everyone I know. That night, when we got to the hotel, I finished up by flashlight after the girls were asleep. After about 30 pages, I thought “Hmm, I’m not sure about this one.”īut then, in the car, when I could no longer stand staring at the back of the driver’s seat any longer, I braved some wicked motion sickness and read for about three hours. Finally, on the airplane last week, I started reading it. Libraries forever).Īnd then, of course, it sat around on my Kindle unread for some three months. I’m definitely Amazon’s target demographic right here. She mentioned the Kindle version was only $2 and so, in a rare fit of spendiness, I bought it (it might actually be the first Kindle book I’ve ever purchased. ![]() ![]() I first heard of it when Modern Mrs Darcy included it on her summer reading guide. The Rosie Project falls into the last category. Occasionally, I write about a book so bad I just need to spew my feelings about it all over the screen.Īnd every once in a while, I read a book that I have such confused emotions about that I need to see what you all think. Usually, when I write about a book here, it’s because I really loved it and want to share it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Arranged chronologically, the 150 poems featured in this stunning collection reflect the immortality of the poetic soul. ![]() Williams is probably the best anthologist in America today. Lawrence, and many more.įrom Lewis Carroll’s \”Jabberywocky\” to Robert Frost’s \”The Road Not Taken\” and from Shakespeare’s sonnets to anonymous classics, this is the ultimate gift for poetry lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished editor and poet in his own right, of whom Robert Lowell wrote in the Sewanee Review: 'Mr. ![]() It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brilliant poets of our own day. Now, discover many of these same works in one gorgeously wrought collection, featuring entries from poets as legendary and beloved as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.H. Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. The last six hundred years in British and American literature have given us some of the most moving and memorable poems in all literature. ![]() A timeless and comprehensive anthology of enduring English language poetry, featuring entries from 150 British and American poets, including Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Edna St. Among his influential anthologies are Master Poems of the English Language, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a critical look at the impact the human ego has had on the environment and the cost we’ll leave to future inhabitants, human or otherwise, to pay. It’s less a story about the end of the world as we know it, as it is a call to liberate ourselves from our own domestication, much like that which S.T. ![]() Read Full Review >īuxton’s story about the collapse of mankind.though based around the extinction of man is not your average zombie story. Hollow Kingdom is a surprising, funny, genre-bending novel, an environmentalist parable crossed with an epic adventure story, difficult to describe and even more difficult to put down. S.T.'s relationship with Dennis achieves pathos and an incredibly earned emotional denouement that I would have never predicted at the start of the novel. ![]() At the heart of the novel is an entertaining adventure story. What makes Hollow Kingdom special is the ease with which Buxton offsets heavy themes with humor. S.T.'s witty commentary is a highlight of the book, though so frequently profane that it resists quotation. The reader will need to possess an appreciation-or, at least, a tolerance-for copious animal puns. If this all sounds very weighty, it's important to emphasize that Hollow Kingdom is an extremely funny, occasionally silly book. In its broadest strokes, Hollow Kingdom is an environmentalist parable. Kira Jane Buxton's debut, Hollow Kingdom, offers a unique, oddly hopeful perspective on the end of human civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the narrator is speaking, the viewer becomes aware that there are two viewpoints at NASA amongst the scientists who launched the probe: One group obviously believes Mars is uninhabited, the other is open to the possibility of indigenous life on the planet. A narrator explains that the purpose of the probe is to determine whether Mars is inhabited. ![]() The first episode starts at the scene of Viking 1 uncrewed probe landing on the surface of the planet Mars in July 1976. The miniseries was directed by Michael Anderson and written by Richard Matheson. The series depicts Mars as having a "thin atmosphere" which humans can breathe, with water-filled canals and desert-like vegetation. It was aired on NBC in January 1980 in three episodes with a total running time of just over four hours (nearly five hours on the DVD version). The series starred Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Bernadette Peters, Roddy McDowall, Fritz Weaver, Barry Morse, and Maria Schell. ![]() The Martian Chronicles is a 1980 television three-episode miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's 1950 book The Martian Chronicles and dealing with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there. American TV series or program The Martian Chronicles ![]() ![]() ![]() And Kurt Elling, a Murphy protegé, said this: “For new people coming to Mark’s table, he is such a potent flavor. Ella Fitzgerald declared him “my equal.” Jon Hendricks dug Murphy. In 1953, Sammy Davis, Jr., hearing Mark Murphy sing at a jam session, invited the young vocalist to join him on stage. His career, then, was that of a cult figure, whose fans were the jazz cognoscenti and, significantly, the other jazz singers. In the late ’fifties, Murphy’s career appeared to be about to take off, as he had minor hits, first with Steve Allen’s “This Could Be the Start of Something Big” and later with a version of “Fly Me to the Moon.” But like other jazz musicians of his generation, he was a victim of the changing landscape of popular music, as Elvis Presley came on the scene and then the Beatles. He studied music and theater at Syracuse University. ![]() As a teenager, he sang in his brother’s dance band, modeling his early vocal style after Nat “King” Cole and Peggy Lee. ![]() He was nonetheless a tremendously influential American jazz singer with a free-wheeling, daringly original approach to his art.īorn into a musical family in Syracuse, New York, Murphy grew up singing in church choirs and took his first piano lessons at the age of seven. ![]() |