![]() ![]() Prayer can take countless forms, but Lamott believes that it all boils down to three essential prayers: Help, Thanks, and Wow. In Help, Thanks, Wow, best-selling author Anne Lamott demystifies prayer, declaring that there are no rules-a higher power can be called anything, and people can believe in any religion they'd like (or none at all) and still pray. * Discover how the three essential prayers help us endure difficult times and continue to move ahead. * Inspirational stories convey Lamott's personal insight and exploration of faith. * Learn what it means to pray, and the life-opening power of prayer, independent of your faith or lack thereof. Understand the thought-provoking ideas behind Help, Thanks, Wow: in 30 minutes is the concise guide to quickly understanding the three simple prayers outlined in Anne Lamott's best-selling book, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. Life is complicated prayer doesn't have to be. ![]()
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![]() Sancho would pioneer a flourishing genre that runs from Ottobah Cugoano in 1787 ( Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species) to Mary Prince in 1831 ( The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave). In the book trade, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782) were probably the first to mobilise English readers against racial discrimination and the horrors of the slave trade. Equiano’s Interesting Narrative is the most famous of these, especially once it was taken up by supporters of the abolition movement, but he was not the first African slave to publish a book in England, or, if we remember Dr Johnson’s manservant, Francis Barber, the first to have some experience of London literary life. ![]() ![]() B lack literature begins with the slave memoirs of the 18th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. This graphic novel succeeds where 'Sherlock Holmes and the Necronomicon' failed. Each story (there are 7 in total) are done in varying artstyles, all of which capture the bleak, isolated hopelessness so common to this literary master many, disturbingly creepy (Mark Stafford). ![]() The Lovecraft Anthology is a fitting primer. Graphic novels like this one are a special treat. Kirkus Reviews online For the reader who wants to find out what Lovecraft is all about. The Lovecraft Anthology is a wonderful adaptation and tribute to Lovecraft, and you can tell Lockwood is a fan of these stories. ![]() Im happy to say that the graphic novel compilation The Lovecraft Anthology, Vol. Publishers Weekly When a graphic novel comes along representing some of Lovecrafts greatest tales, it has a lot to live up to. Praise for The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume I: Its a rich grab bag that brings the eerie and unspeakable to vivid graphic life, and both the newcomer and the seasoned Lovecraft fan will not be disappointed. From the insidious mutations of The Shadow over Innsmouth to the mindbending threat of The Call of Cthulhu, this collection explores themes of insanity, inherited guilt, and arcane ritual to startling effect. Book Synopsis A graphic anthology of tales featuring collaborations between established writers and artists and debut contributors, The Lovecraft Anthology showcases Lovecrafts talent for the macabre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Night Shyamalan, the acclaimed director of The Village and The Sixth Sense. The award-winning designer/writer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear have teamed up to create a book like no other, with an introduction by M. Mythology brings together the best loved comic characters in the world, brought to life by Alex Ross, one of the most astonishing young artists working in the medium today. His heroes–both super and mortal–have weight they exist in space, and that space is affected by them in ways never before seen on the page.” And so here they are, the incomparable cast of the DC Comics universe: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, the Green Lantern, and the rest of the Justice League as you’ve never seen them before. ![]() ![]() Mythology returns, in a newly expanded paperback edition of the book Entertainment Weekly awarded a grade of A, saying: “Alex Ross brings to his work an unparalleled sense of the real. ![]() ![]() It’s interesting to think about how much controversy Jackson raised over the publication of this story, which might be considered fairly tame compared with today’s fiction. The horrible ending is foreshadowed very early, so it is worth going back for a reread to pick up all those subtle clues. Jackson crafts this story extremely well. I think it goes without saying that this story was such a huge influence on various tales of dystopian fiction. Also, it was my first experience as a youngster with the classic “twist” ending which I have grown to love as an adult. It fits my definition of a true horror story in that it demonstrates the cruelty of human beings. Let’s start with the title story, which actually doesn’t turn up until the end. While I was expecting the remaining stories to be of that same vein, I was surprised to learn that they were very different. It was so deliciously creepy and twisted. I would name “The Lottery” as my all-time favorite short story in high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since reviewing We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I have been wanting to read more of her work. While on vacation, I decided to take with me this collection of short stories by the incomparable Shirley Jackson. ![]() ![]() In Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Daniel Justice, a writer and scholar from the Cherokee Nation, points out the all-too-common disparity between the stories Indigenous writers tell about ourselves, and the stories others have told about us. For one thing, the settler literary preoccupation with land as either a mighty adversary or a seductive mystery suggests a desire for domination that is not reflected in our works, except maybe in parody. It’s simply not adequate to measure our writing-inspired and informed by lived experiences-by Northrop Frye’s tidy summaries of the “Canadian” aesthetic. ![]() ![]() Critics who don’t engage with cultural context may do more harm than good when reviewing outside of their wheelhouse. Indigenous literatures continue to claim space in this territory, but the realm of critics and tastemakers remains predominantly white. The bulk of this writing has traditionally centred around literature that the dominant culture considers valuable, interpreted by voices deemed worthy of the task. Canadian literary criticism is made up of stories we tell ourselves about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. ![]() ![]() The appearance of an elegantly mysterious, brooding admirer at one of her performances strikes Thea with an overwhelming desire to resolve a man who turns out is actually two, brothers who look similar, hidden in romantic shadows and deep secrets. As she tries to settle into her new life and avoid associations with the past history of her sister with the campus, Thea is pushed rapidly into preparing for major recitals and the prospects of college romances. Thea learns that this sister mysteriously died while at Princeton, leaving a hole in her parent’s lives about which they refuse to speak.īraving the discomfort that the unfamiliarity of the Princeton campus brings with its upper class American culture and distant memories of the embarrassing unsolved crime involving the elder Slavin daughter, Thea turns full focus to her piano/music studies and the strange draw a course in Greek mythology and its professor holds for her. Compounding the normal cultural shocks of studying abroad in an unfamiliar land, Thea discovers that she has chosen to accept an opportunity from the same school her older sister attended years past, an era mired in family secrets. ![]() ![]() Talented pianist and bright student Thea Slavin leaves the familiar confines of family and her Bulgarian homeland for the opportunity of study at prestigious Princeton University in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is clearly written by an emigrant from Russia who hates EVERYTHING about Russia. I feel about this book the way I felt about The Bronze Horseman. ![]() Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. ![]() Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own–as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen’s understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. ![]() ![]() ![]() First was that global health and development were being held back by a lack of access to affordable energy: 860 million people still have no access to electricity-which raises the question how to produce this electricity. Two important facts emerged from the funded work of the Gates Foundation. So why has Bill Gates become passionate about climate change and now sees it as the greatest threat to humanity? It all starts with his work with his wife Melinda at the Gates Foundation which was originally focused on global health, development and US education. When it is Bill Gates a leader of the tech revolution and it is about climate change, then it becomes a phenomenon. ![]() When one of the richest men in the world writes a book, people usually take notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The set of entries on Aristotle in this site addresses this situation by proceeding in three tiers. The long history of interpretation and appropriation of Aristotelian texts and themes-spanning over two millennia and comprising philosophers working within a variety of religious and secular traditions-has rendered even basic points of interpretation controversial. In all these areas, Aristotle's theories have provided illumination, met with resistance, sparked debate, and generally stimulated the sustained interest of an abiding readership.īecause of its wide range and its remoteness in time, Aristotle's philosophy defies easy encapsulation. His extant writings span a wide range of disciplines, from logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, through ethics, political theory, aesthetics and rhetoric, and into such primarily non-philosophical fields as empirical biology, where he excelled at detailed plant and animal observation and taxonomy. A prodigious researcher and writer, Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive. Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen, non-antiquarian interest. ![]() Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. ![]() |