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Oliver Jeffers Signing Copies of 'Here We Are'
Where: Waterstones Putney When: November 11 of 2017 at 4:30 PM. About the makers: Oliver Jeffers: Artist, illustrator, and picture book author from Northern Ireland. His work has been shown in different galleries and cities around the globe, including Lazarides Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His picture books are well known and have been translated into 30 languages; one example of it is The Incredible Book Eating Boy and its sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home. You can visit his site here. Waterstones: It is a British book retailer with more than 200 stores. Tim Waterstone founded it in 1982 with the idea of creating a different bookshop in the UK, thereby he followed the styles he saw in United States, creating store displays with important literary authors and employing highly literate staff. Each store has the purpose to adapt to the local market interests, but they also sell books that are bestsellers around the country so that they can fit into the reader’s demands. They also have prizes (like the Waterstones Children’s Literature award), events (like the one I had the chance to attend to) and Café W, where people can enjoy a coffee while they read their favorite book. Visit their site here.
By Laura Jaramillo Duque8 years ago in Geeks
From Book To Television: 3 Fantasy Series That Would Rock On TV
Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Teen Wolf, and Grimm are just some of the fantasy shows that have become rabidly popular over the past decade and more. In the past we've had Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Charmed, and Angel, all of which were just as addictive as those more current hits. Fans turn to fantasy time and again, and with some shows preparing to air their final season in 2017, television is going to have openings for engaging series that can hold an audience captive. With legions of fans already in place, these three book series would almost guarantee a successful transition to television.
By Rachel Carrington8 years ago in Geeks
The Creator of Paddington Bear Has Passed Away, Aged 91
The creator of the beloved children's character Paddington Bear has tragically passed away at the age of 91. Confirmed by his publisher Harper Collins, Michael Bond passed away at his home on Tuesday, June 27 following a short illness.
By Lewis Jefferies8 years ago in Geeks
Describe in Detail One of the Many Strands of Postmodern Thinking That You Have Explored and Show How It Affects, or Is Inherent in, an Aspect of Your Own Field of Study, or an Aspect of Your Own Country and Culture.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century much European theatre has striven to engage the audience. Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty is one of those attempts; he tries to make the viewer feel and react to the play in the same way that a plague can kill without destroying the organs; in other words, changing the minds of the audience in ways that logic cannot express (2001: 17). The purpose of this essay is to analyse Antonin Artaud’s use of language based on Derrida’s concept of performative language in his radio play To Have Done with the Judgement of God (1988), specifically "Tutuguri: The Rite of the Black Sun" as an opposition to logic. For this I will start with the definition of Derrida’s performative language and logic, and its relation to the Theatre of Cruelty of Antonin Artaud, continue with a brief description of the use of language in "Tutuguri: The Rite of the Black Sun," and finally I will try to understand how Artaud’s use of language in the radio play is an opposition to logic.
By Laura Jaramillo Duque8 years ago in Geeks
A Brand New JRR Tolkien Book Is On Sale - After A 100 Year Wait!
Saddle up Middle Earth fans! It’s time to put away your second breakfast, grab your staffs, blue hats, and pipe weed, and get on down to your local bookseller. Why? Well JRR Tolkien’s new book has been released, a century after it was first conceived. Check out the details below!
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
JK Rowling Has Revealed The Title of Her New Novel — But What Does it Mean?
As anyone with a Twitter account will know, Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is one of the most active celebrities on the site. She’s also one of the sassiest users, clashing with Piers Morgan, Trump supporters, and critics of her politics, leaving you whooping in the wonder of her whip-sharp wordplay.
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
The Vastness and Strangeness of Nature: Death, Loss, and Grief in Thoreau's 'Walden'
A primary resource for all things nature and experience, Thoreau’s 1854 narrative account of living two years alone on Walden Pond, Walden works to challenge the reader’s perspective on nature and to find one’s own narrative in it. Thoreau’s goals in the book seem to teeter on the edge of persuasion, though his eloquent accounts of his experiences leave the reader with no real advice—Thoreau has written a book defining the experience of living simply and naturally as truly his own, and through a particular passage in the book it is apparent that he has greater motives beyond retelling his reclusion into the Walden woods. This particular passage in the middle of the book ties in a possible underlying theme Thoreau was possibly unaware of: the effect of nature on the emotional and physical manifestations of grief. Through careful analysis of the text, it is likely that many of Thoreau’s experiences in the woods are unconscious reactions to the presence of loss, death, and inevitable change in his personal life. Along with the interdependence of nature and experience, another idea arises in Walden, wherein the integration of nature and environment in Thoreau’s writing complicates the underlying theme of his own grief, and grappling in particular with the death of his dear elder brother, John, and later, his father.
By Olivia Cyr8 years ago in Geeks
Who's Really to Blame for the Death of Romeo and Juliet?
The story of Romeo and Juliet is one with many flaws and actions that took place, that lead to many tragic deaths, including the lives of the two young protagonists of the story. Many blame Romeo for the suicides of both himself and Juliet, who couldn’t live without the other. They believe that if Romeo hadn’t reacted to Juliet’s “death” so dramatically, the two could have survived and been together. Although that is an educated belief. However I believe there's someone else who could be blamed for the fate of the young couple, which is Friar Lawrence. The man who seems as if he tried “his best” to make the two a happily wedded couple. He was the one who got the two married in secret, gave Juliet an incredibly powerful potion which allowed her to fake her own death, failed to deliver and important letter to Romeo, and abandoned Juliet when she needed him the most.
By [email protected]8 years ago in Geeks
Of Mice and Meany
The most inconspicuous things can have the most significant meanings. An armless totem and soft mice are symbols that give the reader foresight into the futures of Owen Meany and Lennie Small. The stories Of Mice and Men and A Prayer for Owen Meany follow the lives of the characters, Lennie Small and Owen Meany, and their closest friends, George Milton and Johnny Wheelwright. Both Steinbeck and Irving incorporate the literary devices of symbolism, attributing a deeper meaning to an object, and foreshadowing, subtly hinting to the reader what events will transpire later throughout their books ("Symbolism”, “Foreshadowing – Examples...”). In A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the deaths of both Owen Meany and Lennie Small are foreshadowed by their unusual obsessions with very ordinary objects.
By Almárëa Laurësil8 years ago in Geeks
