![]() The truth is, this essence cannot be captured in one form. Even now, many lifetimes after it was first recorded, people are still trying to capture this essence, which is why it is one of the most translated texts on the planet. What this means is that the truth that lies at the core of the text can only be hinted at or approximated by words. Unfortunately, claiming that one translation is superior to all others betrays a slight misunderstanding the Tao Te Ching, which warns in its very first line against valuing words over what they are meant to convey. Instead of attempting to do this, we would like to offer you your first and possibly most important lesson in Taoism: There is no such thing as a “best” translation of the Tao Te Ching.Ĭertainly, many translations claim to be the best or employ the words of an expert who is quoted, swearing that this version surpasses all others in its clarity. In this description, we are meant to sell you our book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, you are looking for the best one. ![]() If, however, you pick a translation that doesn't resonate with you, it could have almost no effect other than to confuse you and make you feel as if you have wasted your time. The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text that has long been a source of inspiration for people around the world. ![]()
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![]() Of a severely disabled person with multiple sclerosis, a recent convert to Catholicism,Īnd a wife and mother. ![]() Mairs's "On Having Adventures" and "A NecessaryĮnd" deal with issues of joy, disability, and death written from the perspective ![]() Out Loud: On Having Adventures & A Necessary End Audio CD (2004)Įssays Out Loud features two essays written a few years apart and readĪloud by the author. In her unmistakable, vibrant voice, at once nonconformist and devotional, Mairs offers a book not only for progressive Catholics seeking to reimagine their lives of faith, but for all readers hoping to deepen their experience of the holy in the everyday: "God is here." Buy A Dynamic God fromĪn Independent Bookstore | Beacon Press | Barnes & Noble | Amazon Essays ![]() Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith Paperback (2008)Ī Dynamic God explores through beautifully written personal essays the question of why and how Mairs became and remains a Catholic ("despite all odds") what she finds to love in that tradition and more broadly, as she writes, how she experiences the holy in her life and in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() I worked an early shift at a bakery, and I’d ride there on my bike before dawn, the whoosh of the darkness soft and creaturely around me. I was seventeen, I think, eighteen maybe. ![]() Everything seemed connected to everything else, but in ways I didn’t dare try to explain. My brain buzzed and whirred in terrifying ways. I didn’t need to sleep anymore, it seemed. The middle register of experience had abruptly fallen away. Some dark wing was crossing over me that fall. The first time I read Virginia Woolf, it was for extraliterary reasons. In between these modest plot points, Clarissa Dalloway wanders around London, lies down for a rest, and takes note of Big Ben striking out the hours again and again.īut, wait, I am leaving out everything. In the midst of all this, she hears news of a stranger’s violent death. Later, guests pour into her house for the party. She remembers an alluring girl she once kissed. A man she almost married drops by for a visit. In a posh part of London, a middle-aged woman plans a party. The Great War is over, but the memory of its unprecedented destruction still hangs over England. The novel depicts a single day in June from the perspective of a number of characters. In fact, on the surface, it sounds suspiciously dull. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the multitudes it contains. Dalloway” is a remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book. New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. ![]() ![]() Her books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly and Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review). Penelope is an Audie Award Winner and three-time Goodreads Choice Romance of the Year Nominee. Her 2016 smash hit RoomHate debuted at #2 on The New York Times Bestseller list. In 2014, Penelope’s fourth book, Stepbrother Dearest, became the #1 bestselling independently published Kindle ebook of the year on and was credited with igniting an entirely new subgenre of romance. With over 2-million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over thirty novels. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism. ![]() She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. ![]() Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please delight the mind of this sleep-addled, SF-loving mother. How about The Cat in the High Castle? Or Where the Wildlings Are? Although Dr Seuss and Maurice Sendak can be mind-bending enough, I guess, without additional Philip K Dick or George RR Martin … Over to you. ![]() Yu writes that she was inspired by this College Humor post, which includes The Very Deadly Bounty Hunter, a la caterpillar, and Oh, the Times and Places You'll Go! by Dr Who, instead of Seuss. I can't, so I'll comfort myself with imagining the SF-ification of some other children's picture book classics. Goodnight Dune is a much-needed corrective, and I'd buy it if I could. There are too many bowls of mush in my life these days, and not enough devil worms. The Fortune-Hunter by Julia Herbert ISBN 13: 9780860096627 ISBN 10: 0860096629 Paperback England: England: Magna Print Books, 1985, 1985 ISBN-13: 978-0860096627 : You searched for: ISBN (13): 9780860096627 Edit Search New Search Add to Want List Results 1 - 1 of 1. Goodnight Moon seems prone to this kind of treatment – there was a Goodnight iPad which published a few years back, replacing Wise Brown's gently old-fashioned ending with "Goodnight remotes and Netflix streams, Androids, apps and glowing screens, goodnight MacBook Air, goodnight gadgets everywhere." Wise Brown's "old lady whispering hush" – anyone else ever found her vaguely creepy? - is transformed into a "bene-gesserit witch whispering 'they tried and died'" who is far creepier, all amid pictures which wonderfully mimic Clement Hurd's. ![]() ![]() ![]() Few modernist writers––indeed, few writers of any period–have had such a pronounced and lasting impact on literary culture. All of her work remains in print, and novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Jacob’s Room are regularly read and discussed both inside and outside the academy. Most notably, her experimental fiction, from her first novel The Voyage Out to the posthumously published Between the Acts, has grown in both popularity and critical renown. Following a period of relative critical neglect following her tragic death in 1941, her body of work has earned her recognition as a groundbreaking feminist thinker, a perceptive literary critic, a formidably creative diarist and correspondent, and as one of the twentieth century’s leading essayists. Virginia Woolf has for many years been seen as a key participant in British literary modernism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This has been a pretty amazing series which has moved from wars between Earth, Mars and the Belt, to intergalactic travel and battles between galactic empires and interdimensional aliens. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, The Expanse series consists of nine awesome novels that navigate the troubles and wars of future humans in both our solar system, and other systems accessed by ancient alien technology. ![]() Corey, Leviathan Falls.įor the last ten years the science fiction genre has been dominated by the impressive and captivating The Expanse series. Publisher: Orbit/Recorded Books (Audiobook – 30 November 2021)įor my last review of 2021 I check out the epic and highly anticipated final book in the iconic The Expanse series by James S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really hope this is still canon to the Archie lore. ![]() *Uncle Chuck is introduced because he left behind a treasure map where he buried a chest that contained Sonic's bronzed baby shoes. ![]() *Snively's first introduction to the Archie Comics universe is him appearing as a ghost in a Christmas Carol parody, meaning that the Christmas Carol parody in this volume is a lore-important story. I think the only notable thing that happens here lore-wise is that they introduce Snively (via Christmas Carol parody) and Uncle Chuck (via mention only, but at least we know he exists at this stage). Just take my word for it when I say that this volume is largely fluff and nothing more, nothing less. I definitely think Volume 1 and Volume 3 are both better collections and this one can probably be skipped, but there is still some fun art in this collection and it's fun reading Sonic's comic in its early days when it's still aimed at younger children and before they started fully depicting the gruesome aftermath of war at the hands of Robotnik and we get named characters dying. This volume collects issues #5-8 of the Archie Sonic run, and so we have a video game tie-in comic (of Sonic Spinball, which wasn't that great of a Sonic game), a Christmas Carol parody, a story where Sonic competes in a parody of the Olympics, and Sonic fighting a robot Urkel.Īnd the puns. ![]() Volume 2 of the Sonic the Hedgehog Archives is a bit more "meh" than the one before it and the one after it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's 100% fun sassy fastpaced urban fantasy.Tori has no problem getting herself into trouble in every book in the Guild Codex series but each one is a complete adventureno cliffhanger endings.THE GUILD CODEX SPELLBOUNDThree Mages and a Margarita (#1)Dark Arts and a Daiquiri (#2)Two Witches and a Whiskey (#3)īroke almost homeless and recently fired. Either I'm exactly the kind of takesnoshit bartender this guild needs or there's a good reason no one else wants to work here.So what's a broke girl to do Take the job of coursewith a pay raise.Note The three mages are definitely sexy but this series isn't a reverse harem. ![]() And the three cocky guys I drenched with a margarita during my trial Yeah they were mages. offered me the jobIt turns out this place isn't a bar. That's the definition of fitting in rightI expected to get thrown out on my ass. Their customers were complete jerks and I was an asshole right back. Those are my official reasons for answering a wanted ad for a skeevylooking bartender gig.It went downhill the moment they asked for a trial shift instead of an interviewto see if I'd mesh with their special clientele. Broke almost homeless and recently fired. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (He also had an uncredited role in “The Winds of War” as the Archbishop of Siena.)īoth minis, which aired in 19-89, respectively, drew multiple Emmy nominations and won several, with “War and Remembrance” nabbing best miniseries. Wouk penned the adapted teleplays himself. ![]() These expansive works, which followed one character, Navy Commander Victor “Pug” Henry, through seemingly every important moment in WWII, were adapted into the highly successful ABC miniseries of the same name. Wouk relied upon his wartime experiences not only for “The Caine Mutiny,” but for his later novels “The Winds of War” (1971) and “War and Remembrance” (1978). That pic, directed by Edward Dmytryk and also starring Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, drew seven Oscar nominations, including those for best picture and screenplay for Stanley Roberts. “The Caine Mutiny,” a 1951 bestseller that won Wouk the Pulitzer Prize, was memorably adapted into the 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, who played the paranoid, mentally unstable captain of a Navy minesweeper whose actions drive his subordinates to mutiny. ![]() Herman Wouk, the author of novels adapted to the big and small screen, including “ The Caine Mutiny,” “Marjorie Morningstar,” “ The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance,” has died. ![]() |