![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later Young would tell how he suffered abuse both at the hands of tribespeople and at the hands of those at the boarding school-abuse that shaped and scarred him. Although at times a fierce warring people, steeped in the worship of spirits and even occasionally practicing ritualistic cannibalism, they also provided a deep sense of identity that remains an indelible element of my character and person.” When he was six he was sent to boarding school, but soon thereafter his family left the mission field and his father returned to Canada where he pastored a series of small churches. He later said, “These became my family and as the first white child and outsider who ever spoke their language, I was granted unusual access into their culture and community. However, he spent most of his younger years in Netherlands New Guinea where his parents served as missionaries among the Dani, a stone-age people group. William Paul Young was born on May 11, 1955, in Grande Prairie, Alberta (Canada). Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron The Shack by William Paul Young ![]()
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![]() ![]() I was willing to set aside my expectations of leveling via growing the perfect beet or using alchemy to concoct a novel pesticide, however, because Oh Great! had an unusually likable cast of characters, and a shocking amount of introspection in its narrator. What it wasn’t, however, was a story about how a protagonist became a power by farming, which was (I admit) what I was hoping for. So when I heard there was a book about a gamer who got reincarnated, not as a powerful wizard or warrior with an obvious path to demigodhood, but as a farmer, I thought ‘okay, that idea has legs if it’s done well.’ The title convinced me, because it was unafraid of its own corniness, and the fact that the art was riffing on Grant Wood’s American Gothic amused my inner artist. ![]() ![]() I’ve read enough in the subgenre that I am no longer as easily delighted as I used to be. The pioneers of the niche paved the way but like urban fantasy with its cookie-cutter snark and college-aged narrators, it’s getting harder and harder for authors be clever and funny in a way that sticks with the reader. LitRPG is a subgenre that revolves around the cleverness of its protagonists and its embrace of tongue-in-cheek humor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She sees marriage as a partnership of equals and resolves to elope to escape such a male dominated society. If this love is anything, it's unscripted.Įmily falls passionately in love with working class Walter, despite fierce opposition from her class conscious father. We're officially off script the moment we meet. Seeking anything other than a life saved isn't on my agenda until a NHL player walks into my hospital with his son. It's part of my career at Hudson Children's Oncology Hospital, but it doesn't make the sting of loss any easier. 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Tamarice is plotting a quest to overthrow the realm's nobility and take charge herself. ![]() Bristal joins their ranks without knowing that one of them has a dark secret. She's descended from an ancient line of immortal sorcerers called elicromancers-a race that has all but died out in her world, but only two remain in Nissera after a bloody civil war. Bristal, a sixteen-year-old kitchen maid, finds herself in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she has magic in her blood. Welcome to Nissera, land of three kingdoms and home to spectacular magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() He went out and hanged himself and then there were none. One shot the other and then there was One. Two little Soldier boys playing with a gun Three little Soldier boys walking in the zoo Ī big bear hugged one and then there were two. ![]() One got into Chancery and then there were four.įour little Soldier boys going out to sea Ī red herring swallowed one and then there were three. 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Last night, we went to see Agatha Christie’s play “ And Then There Were None” at the Repertory East Playhouse in Saugus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is, Eve has had a worse day-one that lingers in her nightmares and the cybernetic implant where her memories used to be. If she's ever had a worse day, Eve can't remember it. Worst of all, she's discovered she can somehow destroy machines with the power of her mind, and a bunch of puritanical fanatics are building a coffin her size because of it. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble-she's too busy looking over her shoulder. On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. ![]() From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline. ![]() ![]() Note It usually jumps 2 times before exploding. Sp: Explodes ad soaks goos on victim's face. (If you want to include this mod into your modpack just add the mod's link to your page and that's fine)Īll of these mobs have many different skills like ramming, exploding, and much more.ĪPI: JAVA AND CREATOR (Hand-coded and Mcreator)ĪLL MODPACK MAKERS AND PLAYERS MUST READ: They are pretty scary too, but fear not! All these zombies have their own weaknesses which you can exploit and defeat with ease! ![]() ![]() This mod adds strong and challenging undead mobs. This mod makes Minecraft very challenging, and the new mobs give you the choice to escape instead of fighting. This mod makes Minecraft very challenging, and the new mobs give you the choice to escape instead of fighting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in this description of a seemingly calm and bucolic task, we can hear hints of the violence and difficulty of the events soon to come, as Joe pries loose the truth of a long and painful story. ![]() They had grown into the unseen wall and it was difficult to pry them loose," Joe tells us. "Small trees had attacked my parents' house at the foundation. The novel opens in Joe's 13th summer - in 1988 - as we see him and his father at work in the garden of their house on the North Dakota reservation. The narrator is an Ojibwe lawyer named Joe Coutts, son of tribal judge Bazil Coutts and tribal clerk Geraldine Coutts. It's her latest novel, and, I would argue, her best so far. Never before has she given us a novel with a single narrative voice so smart, rich and full of surprises as she has in The Round House. ![]() In more than a dozen books of fiction - mostly novel length - that make up a large part of her already large body of work, Erdrich has given us a multitude of narrative voices and stories. The Round House by Louise Erdrich focuses on the rape and assault of Geraldine Coutts.Erdrich is an American writer popularly known for writing books that focus on the Native American culture. Very humane sensitive portrayal of how he dealt with a horrific crime committed against his mother. I've devoted many hours in my life to reading, and among these hours many of them belong to the creations of novelist Louise Erdrich. Beautiful book, kind of a coming of age story about a 13 year old who lives on a reservation. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Round House Author Louise Erdrich ![]() ![]() ![]() off the gold standard in the early 1970s, he severed any connection between the number of dollars and any single resource. If I try creating my own 20s on a printer, I’m counterfeiting the Constitution gives the federal government the exclusive right to create currency.Īs a currency producer, the federal government cannot “run out of money” any more than a scorekeeper at a basketball game can run out of points to award. The federal government (in the U.S.) is a currency producer it has a monopoly on dollar production. Currency users include ordinary people and every level of government below the federal one. ![]() Currency users are bound by the normal household ways of budgeting: expenses can’t get too far ahead of income for too long, or bad things happen. ![]() At its core, it distinguishes between currency producers and currency users. Kelton draws on Modern Monetary Theory, which is an outgrowth of Keynesianism. And if it’s broadly correct, which I think it is, then we have a much larger world of political possibility than we realize. ![]() It’s one of those books that seems counterintuitive until it suddenly clicks, after which it seems obvious. I really can’t recommend it (or time with the kids, for that matter) highly enough. This weekend involved options two and four, with a pen-in-hand reread of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth. My go-tos usually involve silly comedies, time with the kids, an idiosyncratic palette of music or dense political/economic theory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mallarmé was a favorite of both Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, whose own stylistic achievements compared favorably with his. Mallarmé’s firm belief in the self-sufficiency and self-referentiality of literary language, to which his own eccentric, stylistically innovative poetry and prose attested, came to fruition most dramatically in the structuralism and poststructuralism of the 1960s and 1970s in France. The great French poet’s notoriously refined aestheticism and fervent devotion to language led him to expound a view of literature and literary meaning that profoundly influenced the modernist avant-garde from Symbolism through surrealism and on into postmodern cultural theory. ![]() It is no accident that references to the literary ideas and example of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) abound in contemporary literary criticism and theory. ![]() |