She started writing and speaking as a public speaker after high school at the United States Air Force. Cast fell in love with the mythology and quarter horses at a time back when she lived in Oklahoma. Her partner is a Clan Wallace Chieftain named Seoras Wallace, whom she met while doing serious research on her novel, ‘ The Avenger.’ Cast writes about her current relationship with a historian from Scotland. Cast got married three times, and she had to divorce all of them. The exciting part of her life is her marriage. In Tulsa, her daughter was a student at the University of Tulsa. Before this, she lived in Tulsa, where she was an English teacher in a high school. She spent her childhood days both in Oklahoma and Illinois. Cast, also known as Phyllis Christine Cast, was born on April 30 th, 1960, in Midwest. Publication Order of Short Story Collections.Publication Order of Time Raiders Books.Publication Order of Tales Of A New World Books.
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Virgil has Somnus cause Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas's ship, to fall asleep while steering the ship at night. Somnus makes a brief appearance in Virgil's Aeneid. In the first courts and entrances of Hell Sorrows and vengeful Cares on couches lie : There sad Old Age abides, Diseases pale, And Fear, and Hunger, temptress to all crime Want, base and vile, and, two dread shapes to see, Bondage and Death : then Sleep, Death's next of kin Virgil įollowing the Greek tradition, Virgil makes Sleep and Death brothers, and locates their dwellings next to each other, near the entrance of the underworld: According to Hesiod, Sleep, along with Death, live in the underworld, while in the Homeric tradition, although "the land of dreams" was located on the road to the underworld, near the great world-encircling river Oceanus, nearby the city of Cimmerians, Sleep himself lived on the island of Lemnos. In the Greek tradition, Hypnos (Sleep) was the brother of Thanatos (Death), and the son of Nyx (Night). Ovid named three of the sons of Somnus: Morpheus, who appears in human guise, Icelos / Phobetor, who appears as beasts, and Phantasos, who appears as inanimate objects. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death ( Mors), and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand' sons, the Somnia ('dream shapes'), who appear in dreams 'mimicking many forms'. In Roman mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. The Somnia, which included Morpheus, Icelos, and Phantasos Somnus and Mors, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death by John William Waterhouse There they discover a place in need of TLC. To escape the pressures of Tinseltown, the two women head to Olivia’s cabin in the wilds of Northern California. It’s not just her professional specialty, though-it’s also one way to avoid focusing on building a life of her own. Life coach Olivia Han is devoted to “adulting” boot camp therapy. So does an uncompromising stranger determined to start Chase at square one and help her pull her future into focus. But handsome superstar Spencer Rome has her back. She’s been written off as a Hollywood casualty by almost everyone, including her own mother. USA Today bestselling author Liz Talley’s emotional and heart-lifting novel about facing the past, unconditional love, and a woman on the verge of a breakthrough.Īfter another all-night bender, one more failed stint at rehab, and a parole violation, self-destructive actress Chase London has to deal with her demons. Third, while living life as Black women may produce certain commonalities of outlook, the diversity of class, region, age, and sexual orientation shaping individual Black women's lives has resulted in different expressions of these common themes. Second, the definition assumes that Black women possess a unique standpoint on, or perspective of, their experiences and that there will be certain commonalities of perception shared by Black women as a group. Proposition is that other groups in the field act as merely transcribers, whereas Black women are the actual authors. First, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality(1966) and Karl Manheim in Ideology and Utopia (1936) similarly argue that the definition implies that the overall content of the thought and the historical and factual circumstances of Black women are inseparable. There are several arguments in support of this definition. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment is a 1990 book by Patricia Hill Collins.īlack feminist thought is a field of knowledge that is focused on the perspectives and experiences of Black women.
She especially dislikes her encounters with another fifth-grader named Josh, who sometimes calls her a freak. She often alienates others by stating annoying or hurtful facts she thinks will help them.Ĭaitlin dreads the chaos of recess. Brook’s instructions, but the girl’s black-and-white thinking makes it hard for her to grasp the nuances of human behavior. Brook continues to urge Caitlin to make friends by using her manners and being nice to others. She’s coached her on how to interpret people’s feelings by reading their facial expressions and looking them in the eye. Brook, has always helped Caitlin deal with her Tantrum Rage Meltdowns (TRMs). She narrates this account of her growth and search for closure in the aftermath of tragedy.Ĭaitlin’s school counselor, Mrs. Because of her Asperger’s, it is difficult for Caitlin to understand her dad’s emotions or express her own. Dad frequently breaks down crying at home. Two teens shot Devon, another student and a teacher at Devon’s middle school. As the story begins, her beloved older brother, Devon, has recently died. She lost her mom to cancer some years earlier. Caitlin is a bright fifth-grader and skilled artist with Asperger’s syndrome. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.įind a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins. And it’s not just a game of win or lose…it’s life or death. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eBut becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eIn every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. No, seriously, read the story behind the novels, and it will explain a lot of the premise behind this wonderful novel. U003cpu003eNew York Times Bestseller * New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Best Book of the Yearu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eFans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood will devour Three Dark Crowns, the first book in a dark and inventive fantasy series about three sisters who must fight to the death to become queen. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare BlakeThree Dark Crowns is a wonderfully twisted and brutal fantasy deeply rooted in bees despite bees never being involved in the book. She is able to reveal truths through the words and actions of her characters. It's an unfolding, complete with human dignity and flaws.Įlizabeth Strout is a remarkable writer. Don't expect a beginning, a middle, and an end. The book is a character study, not only of Olive but also of the community in which she lives. She appears (even if only briefly) in every chapter. The character Olive Kitteridge is the unifying factor. I didn't know any of that when I started the book but it became apparent to me about maybe five chapters in that this was not a typical narrative. Although Olive Kitteridge claims to be a novel, it is really a collection of short stories (apparently published in different places over the previous years and then grouped together for publication). However, several of my book peeps on Twitter recently encouraged me to pick it up so I did. Life was busy and messy when the book was originally released and it slipped by me. So, yeah, I'm way late to the party and no good explanation for that. history-from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation-democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Įver since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. |