![]() This is the love we have of our pets, our children, and our family. The easiest of all loves and the one that we expect of others. I built my mental “love” matrix with each of the quadrants. Though it is not an easy read – it is CS Lewis, after all – I found myself immersed in the analogies and metaphors, relating them to my own life. For, all love comes from God.Īs a life-long student of “love” my thirst was quenched in this very insightful examination of the subject. Lewis begins the book by using an overarching designation among loves as “need love” and “gift love” where he warns us not to be judgmental of either. He examines the joys, pains and complexities of each. ![]() The author, one of my favorites, CS Lewis, breaks down love into four categories: affection, friendship, eros, and charity. The Four Loves by CS Lewis is an exploration of the nature of love. ![]()
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![]() It is one of Neil’s loveliest, most charming stories, and I cried with happiness when I learned I would get to do the adaptation. “I’ve wanted to do an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Chivalry’ ever since he sent a draft of the story to me at about 1 AM via fax machine decades ago. MILWAUKIE, Ore., (March 4, 2021)-Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran, Eisner-award winning team behind Snow, Glass, Apples, team up again to bring the delightfully humorous short-story Chivalry to life as a graphic novel! I sincerely hope it brings joy to people.”Ĭhivalry arrives September 8, 2021, and is available for pre-order now through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and your local comic shop for $19.99.įor more on this news, read the official Dark Horse press release below. I wear my art on my sleeve throughout, bringing Golden Age illustration styles and Illuminated Manuscript studies to the work. ![]() “It is one of Neil’s loveliest, most charming stories, and I cried with happiness when I learned I would get to do the adaptation. “I’ve wanted to do an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry ever since he sent a draft of the story to me at about 1 AM via fax machine decades ago,” Doran said in a press release sent to AIPT. ![]() This chance purchase sets her off on an epic adventure when she begins receiving visits from an ancient knight who lures her with ancient relics in hope for winning the cup. ![]() Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!Īn elderly British widow buys what turns out to be the Holy Grail from a second-hand shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Racine owed everything to Molière, but he wrote perfect theatre - together they form an equilateral triangle. ![]() ![]() It was this difference in artistic and political position that gave rise to the legendary conflict regarding L'École des femmes. L'École des femmes made Molière the master of classical comedy. He says that L'École des femmes is the manifesto of classical comedy at its best, and adds that romantic theatre - Victor Hugo - is the death of classical comedy. I have just directed Marion de Lorme, which is set in the 17th century, the time when classical theatre was born … with Corneille the father of classical tragedy. Lacan’s texts about L'École des femmes are among the finest I’ve ever read. " Bernard Noël, in a meeting with his public, admitted that he was extremely pessimistic and added, ‘if there is anything that can save the world, it is diction …’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. To RSVP for this event use this link: bit.ly/gnbookclub2022īooks can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog ( ), through LINK+ (), or as an ebook through Hoopla (). The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM on Zoom. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind! ![]() Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2022 season! We will enjoy celebrated classics, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson had unsuccessfully applied to work at the larger English-language daily called The San Juan Star which novelist William J. ![]() Thompson himself travelled from New York to San Juan in 1960 to write for an ill-fated sports newspaper on the island of Puerto Rico. Set in the late 1950s, the novel encompasses a tangled love story involving jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust among the Americans who staff the newspaper. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga ![]() ![]() ![]() The statuette had a long and bloody history that apparently ended in Hong Kong O'Shaughnessy and Thursby, hired by Gutman to acquire the bird for him, had decided to keep it for themselves and had taken it there. Gutman, who tells him a fascinating story about the provenance of the black bird - the Maltese Falcon. Business is booming for Sam Spade: the next day he finds himself with yet another client, a Mr. She tries to cut herself in on the deal, since she knows where the bird is. ![]() Once more the trail leads back to Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Spade soon finds himself with another client: a foppish man named Joel Cairo, who eventually offers him $5,000 to locate a statuette of a valuable black bird. Spade is skeptical, but agrees to help her by tracking down Thursby's killer. After telling him that her name is actually Brigid O'Shaughnessy, she informs him that Thursby was Archer's killer. Spade starts to hunt for his partner's killer, beginning with his mysterious client, Miss Wonderly. Shortly afterward, Thursby is also murdered, and Spade becomes the prime suspect in both crimes. Archer agrees to follow the man whom the sister is supposed to be traveling with, Floyd Thursby, and in the process, Archer is murdered. Private detective Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired by a beautiful client who calls herself "Miss Wonderly" to find her sister. The Maltese Falcon Cover Artist: not identified ![]() ![]() I noticed particularly,” she thinks, narrating her own life in the third person. She remembers an innocent question he once asked her in a café: “ When were you the happiest? Something she should have seen then, something about the look on his face, the way the air changed in that moment.” The memory induces an assault on her senses. When the narrator finally realizes her husband’s infidelity, it is only after she reconsiders a handful of disparate interactions. Our most intimate relationships are subject to atmospheric shifts that we don’t know so much as feel on the level of the body. Offill’s form, whereby narrative proceeds as a series of intimations, teaches us that destabilizing change doesn’t appear as discrete signs, but rather hangs in the air. How did her husband’s infidelity, the protagonist wonders, go unnoticed? “I am not very observant,” she thinks, but the truth is that there wasn’t much to observe. ![]() ![]() of Speculation, a troubled marriage triggers a crisis in perception. Jenny Offill’s Weather tracks its protagonist’s emotional unraveling over fears of everything from fascism to climate change. ![]() In Weather, Jenny Offill explores how our sense that society is on the cusp of disaster takes hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Overcoming the wilds is just the first step in his journey the society of Elatra is incredibly hostile to humans, having just come off of a devastating war that left over half the population dead, and getting the locals to trust the last human in existence is a struggle in and of itself. On the third, he began to notice a worrying trend. ![]() Armed with nothing but a sword and the clothes on his back, he sets out on his the first day, and almost dies. His moment of heroism results in being torn away from everyone he knew and loved, kidnapped by an unknown force that leaves him with a note in his pocket stating: "Good luck."Īfter being thrown into the wilderness of Elatra, a hostile fantasy world ruled by levels, stats, progression, and bizarre video game logic, he finds himself entirely out of his depth. Rob didn't think of himself as anyone special, but when a pitch-black portal tried to wrap his best friend in chains, he stepped up without thinking and found himself ensnared instead. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At Bob Cratchit’s house Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, who is very ill, but full of spirit. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge his clerk, Bob Cratchit’s family. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past, taking Scrooge to see himself as an unhappy child and a young man more in love with money than his fiancé. When Scrooge gets home, he is visited by the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley – and then by three ghosts! They are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. One cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is unkind to the people who work for him, then refuses to give to charity, and then is rude to his nephew when he invites him to spend Christmas with him. A Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Duration: about 17 hours (16:40:43) Publishing date: Unabridged Copyright Year: 2014. ![]() Secrets are exposed and lives are changed forever in Keeping 13: Part Two, the second part of the explosive sequel to the bestselling audiobook, Binding 13. Based in Ireland, the Boys of Tommen series is bound to captivate and lure you into the world of rugby, love, and teenage heartbreak. With his best friend, Gibsie, by his side, Johnny embarks on his quest of exposing the secrets surrounding the girl who haunts his every waking hour. Friendship, first love, rising fame, horrifying secrets, and pain all fuel together as two teenagers from the opposite side of the tracks collide in Keeping 13, the concluding story for Johnny and Shannon. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes. ![]() Summary Friendship, first love, rising fame, horrifying secrets, and pain all fuel together as two teenagers from the opposite side of the tracks collide in Keeping 13: Part two, the concluding story for Johnny and Shannon.Following a devastating injury that has left him side-lined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny is struggling to hold onto his dreams. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! 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