One wore blue heather graham5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() You’ll see a lot of opinion pieces saying Lagerfeld had a “complex” legacy. Not a percentage to sniff at, but considering Met Gala attendee and underpants billionaire Kim Kardashian makes more money eating her morning Weet-Bix than I do in a calendar year, the numbers don’t justify the cost of excusing Karl Lagerfeld’s dangerous past. Last year, the Met Gala contributed $US17.4 million to the museum approximately 7 per cent of their overall fundraising income for 2022 according to. But suggesting that celebrities attending an invitation-only event is somehow necessary to benefit society is some real bourgeoisie shit. It will surprise no one to know that I love a museum. Rather, it’s a signature event to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Culture in New York. The “Met” part of Met Gala is not, in fact, short for Met Her on a Monday by Craig David Gala. Now you may be asking, doesn’t this event raise crucial funding for a museum? In a sense, yes. But this year’s theme Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty exemplifies why the Met Gala is looking irrelevancy right in the eye. Previous Met Galas have given us amazing works of art including Cher’s sheer Rob Mackie original, Rihanna’s iconic Guo Pei yellow gown, and Karlie Kloss looking camp right in the eye. It’s Willy Wonka’s golden ticket for people immorally taking Ozempic. All guests are invited at the behest of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. ![]()
0 Comments
Richelle mead5/22/2023 ![]() I started watching when I was very young - I couldn't even guess at an age, just sometime in elementary school. When did you start watching the show? And who was "your Doctor"? ![]() I think my favourite episodes from his era are Trial of a Time Lord and Mark of the Rani. I also made a point of reading up on some of the other Doctors because there's a lot to be learned with compare-and-contrast. I watched every Colin Baker episode and then read up on him as much as I could in order to learn about his perceptions of the character, what it was like during the filming, and how fans have viewed him over the years. How much research did you do for Something Borrowed? Did you find any stories that you took inspiration from? What's your favourite story from the Baker era? Las Vegas and pterodactyls shouldn't work together…but in the Doctor Who universe, of course they can! When the Doctor and Peri arrive, they discover that the citizens are plagued by frequent attacks from mini-pterodactyls. So, I ended up creating Koturia, a world that models its civilisation on our modern Las Vegas. I wanted the challenge of making those ideas work together in a cohesive story. ![]() I therefore tried to think of two really seemingly outlandish ideas I could put together. When I was approached with the project, I was reminded that the Doctor can go pretty much anywhere you can imagine, no matter how crazy it might seem. ![]() Doctor Who reaches planets light-years away but commonly has adventures on Earth, why did you choose to set your story on an alien planet? ![]() Paige toon chasing daisy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. ![]() The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. utterly heart-wrenching' GIOVANNA FLETCHER 'Devoured this in one sitting' COSMOPOLITAN 'An absorbing and emotional read' HEAT. Praise for Paige Toon's novels: 'You'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' MARIAN KEYES 'I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love. THE ONE WE FELL IN LOVE WITH was selected for the Zoella Book Club and Paige Toon's novels have been published across the world. ![]() this time for a man who is prepared to risk his life, and his heart, for the sake of speed, danger and ultimate success. But nothing - and no one - can stop Daisy from falling again. From Brazil to Italy, from Melbourne to Monte Carlo, life passes in a dizzying whirlwind. Grabbing a chance to see the world, Daisy packs her bags and joins the team catering to the world's highest-paid, supercharged racing drivers on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. But life still has to be lived and where better to recover than as far away from home as possible. She's given up on men - and on her own family. Daisy has a secret in her past that she won't even tell her best friend, Holly. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Escape to the summer and feel the warmth of Paige Toon's storytelling Daisy has been dumped, unceremoniously jilted. ![]() Paula allende5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Paula is a prodigious evocation and a hymn to life, written from the heart of the courageous and estimable woman who created The House of the Spirits. ![]() The result is a magical book that carries the reader from tears to laughter, from terror to sensuality and wisdom. Chile, Allende's native land, comes alive as well, with the turbulent history of the military coup of 1973, the following dictatorship and her family's years of exile.Īs an exorcism of death, in these pages Isabel Allende explores the past and questions the gods. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes, and we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. ![]() During hours in the hospital, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious daughter. In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and shortly thereafter fell into a coma. The point of departure for these moving pages is a tragic personal experience. Paula is a soul-baring memoir one reads without drawing a breath, like a novel of suspense. One of the most popular and acclaimed Latin American authors of our century presents this unforgettable memoir, an exquisitely rendered, deeply moving mother-daughter story that doubles as her autobiography. ![]() I am jazz by jessica herthel5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2013, she founded Purple Rainbow Tails, a company in which she fashions rubber mermaid tails to raise money for transgender children. ![]() Jennings is an honorary co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which her parents founded in 2007 to assist transgender youth. Christine Connelly, a member of the board of directors for the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, stated, "She was the first young person who picked up the national spotlight, went on TV and was able to articulate her perspective and point of view with such innocence." Her parents noted that Jennings was clear on being female as soon as she could speak. Jennings received national attention in 2007 when an interview with Barbara Walters aired on 20/20, which led to other high-profile interviews and appearances. Jennings is one of the youngest publicly documented people to be identified as transgender. Jazz Jennings (born October 6, 2000) is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. ![]() Fallout by todd strasser5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Thus, I not only worried along with everyone else in our country about the very real possibility of a nuclear World War III, but I worried about trying to survive in our shelter as well. The book is part memoir and part speculative fiction, rooted in my experience as a twelve-year-old boy living through the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when our family was the only one in town with a bomb shelter. We caught up with Strasser to chat about the book, his distinguished career, and his latest project.Ĭan you tell us more about your latest book, Fallout? ![]() School Library Journal calls it “a well-written, compelling story with an interesting twist on how history might have turned out.” Publisher Candlewick has even developed a discussion guide for the book that has direct correlations to the Common Core. ![]() His latest YA book Fallout (Candlewick, 2013) has received rave reviews from many outlets, including The Wall Street Journal. Todd Strasser has been on the children’s and YA literature scene for more than 30 years. Always an Original: SLJ Talks to ‘Fallout’ Author Todd Strasser ![]() ![]() “Best Witchcraft is Geometry,” Emily Dickinson would later write. Sister and brother alike were taken with her poised erudition and her Uranian handsomeness - her flat, full lips and dark eyes were not exactly masculine, her unchiseled oval face and low forehead not exactly feminine. ![]() Poised and serious at twenty, dressed in black for the sister who had just died in childbirth and who had been her maternal figure since their parents’ death, Susan cast a double enchantment on Emily and Austin Dickinson. ![]() She entered Dickinson’s life in the summer of 1850, which the poet would later remember as the season “when love first began, on the step at the front door, and under the Evergreens.” Susan Gilbert had settled in Amherst, to be near her sister, after graduating from the Utica Female Academy - one of a handful of academically rigorous educational institutions available to women at the time. I devote more than one hundred pages of Figuring to their beautiful, heartbreaking, unclassifiable relationship that fomented some of the greatest, most original and paradigm-shifting poetry humanity has ever produced. Throughout the poet’s life, Susan would be her muse, her mentor, her primary reader and editor, her fiercest lifelong attachment, her “Only Woman in the World.” ![]() Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886) met the person who became her first love and remained her greatest - an orphaned mathematician-in-training by the name of Susan Gilbert, nine days her junior. ![]() Gödel's Theorem by Torkel Franzén5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a lot of symbols in IGT! What should I read if I want something shortish but reliable that will just give me some headline news without all the hard work?Īs so often, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good place to start: the entry on Kurt Gödel by Juliette Kennedy gives a brisk account of the incompleteness theorems, and then there is of course lots more in the entry specifically on Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems by Panu Raatikainen (though there a quite a few symbols there too). ![]() But better, check out the Teach Yourself Logic Guide for suggestions for elementary logical reading.Ģ. I suppose you could try reading IGT and filling in logical background (from Wikipedia, for example) on a need-to-know basis. But you don’t need very much background: a reading knowledge of standard logical symbolism, the idea of a formal system for first-order logic, the ideas of soundness and completeness, the idea of a formal axiomatized theory … I am afraid that you do need some logical background to tackle my book (and likewise for most alternative presentations). What do I need to know before I can read IGT? So here are some suggestions, for different kinds of audiences.ġ. I’m sometimes asked for recommendations about what to read before or after IGT - or indeed, what to read instead of tackling IGT if you are looking for something less weighty, or alternatively looking for something more like a conventional mathematical text. ![]() ![]() ![]() The road begins in the heart of the eastern quadrant called Munchkin Country in the Land of Oz. The road is first introduced in the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ![]() Within a short time, she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City her Silver Shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow roadbed. There were several roads nearby, but it did not take Dorothy long to find the one paved with yellow bricks. The following is an excerpt from the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy sets off to see the Wizard: In the original story and in later films based on it such as The Wiz (1978), Dorothy Gale must find the road before embarking on her journey, as the tornado did not deposit her farmhouse directly in front of it as in the 1939 film. ![]() In the novel's first edition the road is mostly referred to as the "Road of Yellow Bricks". The road's most notable depiction is in the classic 1939 MGM musical film The Wizard of Oz, loosely based on Baum's first Oz book. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913). ![]() The yellow brick road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Road paved with yellow bricks, leading to its destination- Emerald City Dorothy and her companions befriend the Cowardly Lion, while traveling on the yellow brick road-illustration by W. ![]() Gilead oprah's book club a novel5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father-an ardent pacifist-and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. “Quietly powerful moving.” O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading) ![]() ![]() NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION. ![]() |