![]() ![]() Le Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century. Ĭonsidered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus' philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus' rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. The Stranger gained popularity among anti-Nazi circles following its focus in Jean-Paul Sartre's 1947 article "Explication de L'Étranger ". It began being published in English from 1946, first in the United Kingdom, where its title was changed to avoid confusion with the translation of Maria Kuncewiczowa's novel of the same name after being published in the United States, the novella retained its original name, and the British-American difference in titles has persisted in subsequent editions. Published during the Nazi occupation of France, it went on sale without censorship or omission by the Propaganda-Staffel. The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on May 19, 1942, by Gallimard, under its original title it appeared in bookstores from that June but was restricted to an initial 4,400 copies, so few that it could not be a bestseller. ![]() Camus completed the initial manuscript by May 1941, with revisions were suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau and later adopted in the final version. ![]()
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Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything. Alien meets Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station?only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. ![]() ![]() Her big movie break came playing Saraya Knight (aka Paige) in the 2019 wrestling film Fighting With My Family. In 2018, she starred in BBC1's spy thriller The Little Drummer Girl. All the films that I know, that I love doing, are about me getting in there and going in guns blazing, but I couldn’t in this one because ultimately, at that time, it wouldn't happen."įlorence Pugh starred in ITV dram Marcella in 2016 and appeared in the acclaimed film Lady Macbeth that same year. "So to me, it was more about biting my own tongue. 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(Image credit: Netflix) The Wonder cast - Florence Pugh as Lib Wrightįlorence Pugh, 26, is playing English nurse Lib. ![]() Florence Pugh taking direction while filming The Wonder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable – which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.” “In every important way we are such secrets from one another, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. 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When you’re trying to work on something and it’s not going anywhere, you can go to school and there’s a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.” Marilynne Robinson Quotes from Gilead “Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it’s also an incredible stimulus. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on harmful behaviours and their consequences. ![]() The bottom line is that your addiction is their profit, so they might as well tell you that they don’t care whether it’s good or bad for you.Ĭlear observation, proven problems and the promise of a methodology to correct the situation!Īs in many areas, awareness remains the basis for change. 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Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. ![]() ![]() With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. “An exceptionally beautiful book about loneliness, labor, and survival.“-Carmen Maria Machadoīefore there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. ![]() ![]() ![]() A New York Times Notable book! One of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2022! Winner of Canada Reads 2023! ![]() ![]() ![]() The eating habits of Greeks, specifically those from Crete, are the basis of what we now know as the Mediterranean diet. Now that I am a mother, I use this secret weapon of lathera to teach my children to love vegetables, which they eat happily (for the most part). ![]() Eaten as a main course with three to four servings of vegetables, typical lathera dishes include green beans, peas, okra, eggplant and zucchini cooked or roasted in olive oil and fresh tomato with various herbs. Lathera dishes are considered the hallmark of Greek summer cuisine and a reason Greek people have such high consumption of vegetables. The okra dish is known as bamies, one of the dishes we call lathera, meaning cooked in olive oil. That’s the secret of Greek cooking: Vegetables are transformed into crave-worthy dishes. Who would have thought a bunch of kids would willingly eat okra? It was tiny, sun-dried okra roasted in tomato sauce and olive oil, which we ate happily with a big chunk of feta and fresh sourdough bread. The sea really makes you hungry! One day there was okra, but not as you may imagine. Eating was an important part of the day after all that swimming, we couldn’t wait to eat. ![]() Every day was the same: We spent all morning on the beach, went home, ate, took a nap and then went to the beach again. Some of the most vivid childhood memories I have about food are from the summers I spent in Greece. ![]() ![]() "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content-fascinating though that is-but its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions. ![]() ![]() Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. : Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth. John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them priests, bishops, and even saints-when it was first published twenty-five years ago. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition." -Michel Foucault Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswells Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. ![]() ![]() Tyson goes back and forth between wanting to go back to his old home and learning to love the place he’s in now with Nandy’s family. As a person of color, I can truly say that I saw myself in the characters and I’m sure others will too. To Nandy, the action seems “ghetto” and she’s embarrassed by it, but the love of hair is something that is cherished within the community. For instance, Tyson has a friend from his old neighborhood come and braid his hair on the porch. The book also does a great job of showcasing things that the black community cares about. I love how this book realistically conveys what it may look like for a black man to grow up in a low-income and abusive household. Although they were once closer than peas in a pod, time and distance has put a bridge between them that the reader gets to see them cross together. Tyson is trying to find a place to call home after moving in with Nandy’s family due to the unfortunate death of his family. ![]() Nandy is headstrong but struggles to accept who she is behind closed doors. ![]() ![]() This story contains swapping perspectives from the main characters Nandy and Tyson. Grandison! If you’re looking for a book that deals with romance, black-led love, and the struggle of coming from two completely different worlds, then this is the book for you. Let’s get into this wonderful read, “A Love Hate Thing” by Whitney D. ![]() |