![]() ![]() The Very Hungry Caterpillar also lets readers identify different fruits and other foods, and match them with their corresponding colors in Carle's signature multimedia collage illustrations. They delight in turning the flaps and poking their fingers through the holes the ever-munching caterpillar has left behind. Kids love the colorful pictures and the counting game as the foods are listed in sets (one apple, two pears, etc., up to five oranges). It even carries a subtle message that healthy foods - like a leaf - are better for you, while eating too much sugary food could give you a stomachache like the caterpillar gets. The caterpillar eats more and more with each passing day, until it does not feel good. ![]() It teaches kids the days of the week and what food the caterpillar eats, and even offers a little counting lesson. This short story by Eric Carle is filled with moral questions on the topics of self-control, well-being and happiness, and growth and change. ![]() Parents need to know that Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a beloved kids' classic that babies and toddlers adore. ![]() This is quickly fixed, however, by a single green leaf.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Momentary scare when caterpillar experiences a stomachache after overindulging in a variety of foods. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The publisher’s promotion campaign may not match what happened to The Lord of the Rings or The Hunger Games, but the strategy of releasing the trilogy with a steady pace within a less than three-year time frame is apparently aimed to create a similar momentum to entice American readers. Tor released The Three-Body Problem to critical acclaims in November 2014, followed by its sequel The Dark Forest (translated by Joel Martinsen) in August 2015, with the final volume of the trilogy Death’s End (translated by Ken Liu) to be released in August 2016. ![]() Ken Liu, a Chinese-American sf writer who himself swept the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards with his one short story “The Paper Menagerie” (2012), has fine-tuned Liu Cixin’s 刘慈欣 novel with a smooth combination of the original Chinese text’s dynamism and the stylish accuracy and neatness of American sf. The first non-English novel that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, it has stayed on the top of Amazon’s bestselling list in the category of Chinese literature for almost a year. ![]() ![]() Ken Liu’s translation of Santi 三体 (The three-body problem) is a milestone in the history of science fiction (sf). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Miller’s tale, like the later Merchant’s tale featuring the ageing husband January and his young wife (who also, like Alison, cheats on her husband), shines a light on a time when men with financial means could marry women for their beauty, while the women had to marry older men for their money. The story is also resolutely set in the present day (or more or less), rather than thousands of years before. In ‘The Miller’s Tale’, the middle-class carpenter (he has a trade and obviously quite a big house, and is wealthy enough to be able to attract a beautiful and much younger wife), the middle-class student Nicholas, and the middle-class clerk Absolon, all inhabit a social milieu one rung down from the world of the Knight’s tale. What’s more, even comedy can tell us a considerable amount about the social world its characters inhabit. ![]() ![]() The Miller is making a statement about the previous tale: the Knight’s tale, set in ancient Thebes, and boasting a cast of kings and knights and an emphasis on lofty and noble chivalric ideals, is far removed from the Miller’s world of ordinary people, with their sex lives, trades, and – yes indeed – bodily functions (Nicholas’ fart is as great as if it had been a thunderbolt because it cuts through the perceived pomposity of the Knight’s tale). But even if we grant that ‘The Miller’s Tale’ is predominantly ‘just a bit of fun’, this downplays the role that the Miller’s story plays in the context of the storytelling game that is The Canterbury Tales. ![]() ![]() Jackson's husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, wrote in his preface to a posthumous anthology of her work that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements. ![]() In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse." She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pull between them is electric.īook one in The Villains Series is a lesbian romance filled with intrigue, humor, and heart. Much harder is getting her beautiful new boss out of her head. The guileless activist finds it a bit weird being employed by a mystery organization to bring down a corrupt mayor. She’s now living with that choice as she rules a secret corporation catering to the rich and powerful.Įnter Eden Lawless. Nine years ago, aloof, icy Michelle Hastings chose career over love. Cue one awkward farce, a twisty puzzle, and the slowest of slow burns in this opposites-attract, ice queen romance. Tropes: age gap romance, enemies to lovers, ice queen romance, opposites attract romance, workplace romanceĪ naive activist is hired by a corporate villain but doesn’t realize it.Themes: good vs evil, corruption, greed, power, justice, morality, vengeance, women loving women.Available formats: epub, mobi, pdf, paperback. ![]() Publication Dates: Ylva Publishing-JanuAmazon-January 25, 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first asked, 'Do you think it's OK to work for a company that competes with the company you worked for before business school?' The second asked, 'How can I get a mentor?' My heart sank. "A number of men leapt to the microphone and posed thoughtful, big-picture questions like, 'What did you learn at Google that you are applying at Facebook?' and 'How do you run a platform company and ensure stability for your developers?' Then two women rose to the microphone. ![]() Sandberg says that she observed how acutely gender dynamics can play out during a Q&A session at Harvard Business School: It must feel so, so good - like receiving a cosmic flat one every day." The same is true for her husband, Dave Goldberg - even amidst all of her success, she still describes him as more self-confident. It also comes easier for men. Sandberg talks about how even "to this day, I joke that I wish I could spend a few hours feeling as self-confident as my brother. You need to prove yourself throughout your career by taking landmark decisions to be at such position. Reaching at this position is not an easy task. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Sandberg, Sheryl on. Self confidence is at the heart of what it means to lead, take risks and become powerful. Sheryl is better known for her job profile, as she is working as a COO at FaceBook asocial media network that doesn’t need an introduction. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. W INNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before-but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved-that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher-had gone extinct. ![]() ![]() Although they both have very strong feelings for each other, she is convinced that nothing can come out of it. Her eyes flicker between the two colours and is the main reason she wears her Snoda most of the time, to conceal and protect herself.Īlizeh has a complicated relationship with Kamran. Though many descendants of Jinn have evolved to retain a common eye colour of brown, Alizeh's eyes alternate between a familiar brown of burnt umber and a more often piercing shade of ice blue. However due to the fact she is Jinn, her eye colour is different. Despite the hardships she faced during her teenage years following the death of her parents, Alizeh managed to build a life for herself.Īlizeh is a teenage girl with black curly hair and olive skin, much like many of the other residents of Ardunia. 27,068 Ratings 5,327 Reviews published 2022 30 editions Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-fo Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 These Infinite Threads by Tahereh Mafi 4. In the series, Alizeh is shown to be kind, persevering and hardworking. This Woven Kingdom These Infinite Threads Appearance & Personality Personality ![]() She spent most of her childhood training for the role of queen she would eventually assume as an adult. This included her eyes which flickered between colours as well as the ice in her veins. ![]() ![]() ![]() From an early age she began exhibiting traits that marked her as the heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Production notes: This ebook of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published by Global Grey in 2018. This book has 225 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1792. Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. What lead Mary Wollstonecraft to write this book was a 1791 report to the French National Assembly that stated that women should only get a domestic education. She further states that women are completely deserving of the same rights as men and that a failure to give them those rights, undermines the moral foundations of society. Wollstonecraft writes on the foundation of Locke and Hobbes, two political theorists who articulated the theory of the social contract. Written in 1792, the author dicusses the viewpoint that women should not receive a rational education, and argues not only that they should, but also that women are essential to the nation. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is not only a feminist work but also one deeply engaged in politics. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary WollstonecraftĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.Ī Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects is a work of feminist philosophy by Mary Wollstonecraft. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. ![]() They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. ![]() Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. (Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challen.) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature ![]() |