“It was only that one small little part and they took it out of context. AHS librarian Vicki Bertolino sums up the review committee’s decision: The review committee rightly decided that it was inappropriate to remove the book from the schools curriculum based on the complaint of one parent. It’s a fine adventure, I think, with some sensible social points, and perhaps some good jokes and characters - but it’s very gentle stuff. On the other hand I’m impressed that this parent has managed to find sex and violence in Neverwhere that everyone else had somehow missed - including the entire city of Chicago, when they made Neverwhere the book that was read by adults and children alike all through the city in Spring 2011?s ONE BOOK ONE CHICAGO program.īut mostly I feel sorry for anyone excited enough by the banning to go to Neverwhere in search of “R-Rated” action. I’m obviously disappointed that the parent in question didn’t talk to the teacher or accept the teacher’s offer of an alternative book for her daughter, and has instead worked to stop anyone else’s children reading a book that’s been in the school system successfully for almost a decade. for Teachers, Parents, and School Officials.Resources for Authors of Banned and Challenged Books.
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The name is, however, entirely fitting for the ivory statue in the story, because it means ‘she who is milky white’ in ancient Greek (it’s related to words like lactic and galaxy and even, ultimately, latte, all of which mean ‘milk’).Īnd the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea (if we choose to call her that) is one that is laden with meaning and significance. Indeed, according to the twentieth-century classical scholar Meyer Reinhold, it was only in the eighteenth century when Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a play about the Pygmalion myth that the name Galatea began to be associated with the sculpture. No slouch, even though it is rumored that "of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill". So, naturally, someone beat me to it: John Stuart Mill. I was so convinced I stumbled on something so profoundly original that I had been working on writing it myself. I listen to a lot of ranting and philosophizing, but I have never heard anyone express this point before. Not on the news, not in books, not on social media. I've been pondering something of Great Importance to me for a couple years now, a thought that, for me, is very profound, but which I have never read anywhere else. It turns out this is just a chapter of a book I was planning to read, "The Righteous Mind".Īs I read it, I encountered a passage that made my breath stop, and nearly my heart. If only he didn’t keep on letting her.When a chancellor’s death is linked with an unidentified victim found in the pleasure quarter, Wei-wei and Gao become an unlikely team as they chase down a crime that involves the magistrate, generals, perhaps even the Emperor himself. If only she didn’t keep on seeking him out for help. He’s so far beneath Lady Bai that it would be laughable to have any designs on her. When her older brother is tasked with investigating a high-profile assassination, he turns to his bookish and clever younger sister for assistance.Gao is a scoundrel and hired enforcer with a shady reputation who serves as Wei-wei’s link to the streets. She’s always been the forgotten daughter between two favored sons. A cross-class romance and murder mystery that reaches from the gutters of the Tang Dynasty capital to the imperial palace.Impetuous and well-educated, Lady Bai Wei-wei is filled with knowledge, but with no where to use it. Morgan Llywelyn has written a rich, historically accurate, and passionate novel of divided Ireland - and of one brave woman who is Ireland herself. The story of her life is the story of Ireland's fight for solidarity and survival-but it's also the story of Grania's growing ability to love and be strong at the same time. But Grania, aided by Tigernan, her faithful (and secretly adoring) lieutenant, has no choice but to fight back. For even as Grania rises as her clan's unofficial head and breadwinner and learns to love a man, she enters a lifelong struggle against the English forces of Queen Elizabeth - her nemesis and alter ego.Įlizabeth intends to destroy Grania's piracy and shipping empire-and so subjugate Ireland once and for all. Grania (Gaelic for Grace) is no ordinary female. From Morgan Llywelyn, bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century novels, comes the story of a magnificent, sixteenth-century heroine whose spirit and passion are the spirit and passion of Ireland itself. Here is an extraordinary novel about real-life Irish chieftain Grace O Malley. Grania is the basis of the new Broadway muscial The Pirate Queen. Though Amis never meant it to be a sociological document, it was fated to be "required reading on university Sociology courses" in the United States for a while (McDermott 20). By February 1956, only a little more than two years after its initial publication, Lucky Jim was already "into its sixteenth impression, a success story rarely equaled in contemporary fiction" (Wilson 68). The same source tells of attempts made at purchasing the radio adaptation and film rights of the novel by such well-known corporations as the BBC and famed directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein, and John and Roy Boulting before the year 1954 had come to an end (101-02). It was positively reviewed by such eminent scholars as Sean O'Faolain, Walter Allen, John Betjeman, Anthony Powell, and Edmund Fuller (Keulks 102). Of course, the general response was favorable. When Lucky Jim first appeared in 1954, it received varied responses from different classes of readers and critics. He finds one and the crocodile tricks him into get close enough to grab the elephants small puggish nose. He wanted to know what the crocodile ate and noone would tell him so he went to find a crocodile to ask. There was once a child elephant who was full of "'satiable curtiosity" and asked questions all of the time, which got him spanked by his parents, uncles, aunts, etc. We also learn that the elephant didn't always have a long nose. So the djinn gives him a humph, which is later called a hump so as not to hurt the camels feelings. One day a desert djinn shows up and the other desert animals tells him that the camel won't help and the djinn goes to talk to him and the camel just keeps replying "humph" to everything the djinn says to him. In "How the Camel Got his Hump" we learn about when the world was "still new and all" and how the animals all worked, except the camel, who when asked to help in the desert, would reply with a "humph" and walk away. At the end of each short story is a silly poem about the story. They all involve animals and explains (not seriously) what made them the way they are. Just So Stories is a collection of short stories that are silly, fun to read, and very imaginative. Standing no more than 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, the figure "Like wet sandpaper," Bartlett subsequently tellsĬoleman. The skin is hairless and peach-colored and appears to have a The creature is thin, with long spindly arms and legs, and large handsĪnd feet. Neck, is the size of the rest of its body. Two orange marbles." Its watermelon-shaped head, resting at the top of a thin Light, its two large, round, glassy, lidless eyes shining brightly "like The figure slowly turns its head and stares into the Shine on it and he realizes it's nothing he's ever seen before. At first he thinks the image is a dog or a cat until his headlights Spots something creeping along a low wall of loose stones on the left side Bartlett, who's behind the wheel of a Volkswagen, Three 17-year-olds, Bill Bartlett, Mike Mazzocca and Andy Brodie, are driving To describe what allegedly transpired, we turn to theīook "Creatures of the Outer Edge," penned by cryptozoologists Know-It-All, Friends were recently telling me about the ghost storiesĪt John Stone's Inn in Ashland, but wasn't there a report of a UFO in this areaĪ while back? - T.W., Westborough Methinks you're referring to the mysterious Dover Demon, You know she is intelligent, yet she knows that she has no chance against the superior intellect of Dr. Then you look at the cast - Jody Foster managed to play a vulnerable yet strong female (IMPORTANT) lead. But most movie freaks and geeks will agree with me that the story is probably one of the best adaptations from book to screen ever. By all means, Thomas Harris is a brilliant writer - if you've read any of the books you will know this. There are a few things TSOTL had going for it that counted in its favor. To the best of my knowledge, it was a flop at the box office. However, there was an attempt at a screen adaptation of Red Dragon a few years before TSOTL, called MANHUNTER. It was also the second movie adaptation - wait just a damn moment, you might be saying to me, Red Dragon was the first book but it was made after the TSOTL movie was so successful. Today, most thrillers and police procedurals gets measured against it.įor this review, I will refer to TSOTL as the story, because I'm going to talk about the book, movie, facts, fiction and some of my own opinions. And believe me, my friends, important it was. Many years from now, historians will look back on this story and wonder why it was so important. |