![]() ![]() ![]() They can hack it, they’ve got nothing to begin with anyway. Listen, leave this Smokey Bear stuff for the local jokels. Says Ballantine: “Don’t give me that Thoreauvian bullshit, man. ![]() These two are an unlikely pair, but their exchanges are very funny. Will Gaitlin considers Ballantine a “degenerate old dog.” When he thinks something, what we see are his actions.Īrt Ballantine, who thinks nature is where you throw your beer cans, wants Gaitlin to come back to civilization before he dies. He’s more interested in the deer in the woods, the shadows. He lets us in on scant information from his past, just scraps here and there. His sole responsibility is a big one-spotting smoke or forest fires from a tower-but it requires minimal human contact. Will Gaitlin is a stone cold stoic, a self-critical ex-teacher who has practically gone feral and carved out a life as a recluse in the woods. “Black Sun” is a gem in that outdoors, masculine vein. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An incredibly personal story, Marbles also examines the lives and work of other famous artists who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent Van Gogh and Sylvia Plath, and in doing so, points to a need for care and balance that is universal. Thus begins a years-long journey in which Ellen struggles to find the right combination of meds, come out to family and friends as bipolar, and understand the link between craziness and creativity. Already an established cartoonist at the time of her diagnosis, Ellen begins taking medications that promise mental stability, but in reality make her foggy, depressed, and at times completely unable to create. “Is mental illness a curse or is it actually a gift?” Ellen Forney explores this question with stunning vulnerability and clarity in Marbles(Gotham), a graphic memoir about her struggle with bipolar disorder. It’s inextricable from who I am and from my creativity for that matter.” ![]() ![]() And, since the story of philosophy is incomplete without mention of the great philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world, he gives a comparative survey of them too. Grayling takes the reader from the world-views and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, and philosophy today. With his characteristic clarity and elegance A. ![]() But since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, first published in 1945, there has been no comprehensive and entertaining, single-volume history of this great intellectual journey. ![]() The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. “An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.” (Lisa Wingate, number one New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours ) Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy best seller Lilac Girls introduced listeners to Caroline Ferriday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then fate steps in to lend a helping hand and a huge, black lady strides up the aisle and comes to the children’s aid. Some of the passengers are less than sympathetic for the poor, sick child and it looks likely that the miserable, Sunday-hating driver will put them off the bus. After so long shut away from the world some sunlight would probably do them all the world of good, but the surviving twin, Carrie, is unwell and starts to throw up in the bus. The three surviving Dollanganger children, freshly escaped from the confines of their grandmother’s attic, are on a bus and headed for sunny Florida. Petals on the Wind picks up the story exactly where Flowers in the Attic left it and once again the story is written in the first person and told from Cathy’s viewpoint. ![]() I also get the impression that the next book in the series, If There Be Thorns, is quite a dark story. I only reviewed it for this site because it is a continuation of the story started in Virginia Andrew’s first novel, Flowers in the Attic. Although I have seen Petals on the Wind categorized as being a ‘gothic horror’, I don’t really consider the book to be a horror novel at all. ![]() |