![]() ![]() sana matauhan na ang mga madlang people ng pilipinas.(sabagay,matauhan man siguro sila,ma realise man siguro nila yung kwento mo, do u think that would matter to them?) hay.kakalungkot isipin. pati yung pagpatay sa ipis.(ang paboritong libro ni judas) galeng talaga! bob ong, keep up the good work. at kahit saan ko tignan, lahat ng isinulat niya ay tama. the kind of book he writes are especially made for us. and i have to admit, he is a very, very good writer. so,i decided to read it, and just to know what kind of book bob ong writes. ![]() there were lots of books there but my eyes caught the title "bakit baliktad magbasa ng libro ang mga pilipino?" it was a weird title. i walk around the house and spotted the bookshelves. ![]() and one hot afternnon,i had nothing to do and i was bored to death. i was like "sino ba yung bob ong na yan?" i never really knew anything about him, until lately. Bob ong? i paid no attention about him though i heard a lot of him(most especially from my cousin). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() One of the things that makes him such a sympathetic protagonist is that, while he's obviously miserable, he never seems bitter and he doesn't wallow in self-pity. Larry Ott's life sucks, and it always has. ![]() Now, two men who once called each other friend are finally forced to confront the painful past they’ve buried for too many years. The men have few reasons to cross paths, and they rarely do - until fate intervenes again.Īnother teenaged girl has disappeared, causing rumors to swirl once again. Silas left home to play college baseball, but now he's Chabot's constable. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence in Chabot, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion, the looks of blame that have shadowed him. The incident shook up the town, including Silas, and the bond the boys shared was irrevocably broken.Īlmost 30 years have passed. Her stepfather tried to have Larry arrested, but no body was found and Larry never confessed. In high school, a girl who lived up the road from Larry had gone to the drive-in movie with him and nobody had seen her again. Yet a special bond developed between them in Chabot, Mississippi. Larry was the child of lower middle-class white parents, Silas the son of a poor, single, black mother - their worlds as different as night and day. Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by circumstance and reunited by tragedy in this resonant new novel from the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed Hell at the Breech. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even Thomas De Quincy – author of the famous Diary of an English Opium Eater – fell for it and later wrote: “…we hear it reported of Dryden and Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better for such a purpose to have eaten opium.”Įating raw or abundant amounts of meat before going to bed seems to have been a short rage among creatives who had read the Public Adviser, but Fuseli himself probably never sinned in it. From 1790 on-wards, a myth, as peculiar as it is persistent, arose around the painting through a nonsense publication in the Public Adviser about the source of Fuseli’s creativity.īefore going to bed, Fuseli would eat raw pork to evoke fierce dreams in himself. The work was immediately copied by other artists and even by cartoonists of the time, who used the work to create a caricature of their political nightmares. With the Nightmare or Incubus, the Swiss-English painter Henry Fuseli hit the bull’s-eye. The WILL presides not in the realm of SLEEP In vain she wills to run, fly, swim, walk, creep In vain to scream with quivering lips she tries,Īnd strain in palsy’d lids her tremulous eyes ![]() ![]() Start in her hands, and struggle in her feet ‘O’er her fair limbs convulsive tremors fleet “The Nightmare” or “Incubus” in the 1781 version by Henry Fuseli ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally translated as The Cost of Discipleship A classic text on nature of Christian discipleship from the celebrated German Lutheran theologian. LibraryThing Review User Review - ajgoddard - LibraryThing. ![]() The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty. While there is much to admire in this scholarly book, this collection of sermons didnt really let me into the heart of its author. What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the government worker? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." "Cheap grace," Bonhoeffer wrote, "is the grace we bestow on ace without discipleship.Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know.It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life." ![]() Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic book on living as a Christian. ![]() ![]() ![]() All Janice has to do is stay away from Khent until the bond dissipates. He won’t stop apologizing even though she’s the one who broke his glasses. Khent from the IT Department is quiet and nerdy, despite the tusks. But when Janice accidentally breaks a co-worker’s nose, she finds herself accidentally mate-bonded to an orc, and under Monster Resources’ scrutiny. Janice knows better than anyone that entanglements with co-workers are risky business. Mate-bonding with a co-worker is against company policy… accidentally or not. You can read this before The Orc from the Office (Claws and Cubicles, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Orc from the Office (Claws and Cubicles, #2) written by Kate Prior which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Orc from the Office (Claws and Cubicles, #2) by Kate Prior ![]() ![]() ![]() Time's Arrow, however, truly reverses chronology. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis In all these cases, the separate episodes run forwards. Similarly, the six main sections of Don DeLillo's Underworld take us back in steps from 1992 to 1951, while Harold Pinter's play Betrayal is a study of adultery whose succeeding scenes take us back over the course of some nine years. The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed. Sarah Waters's The Night Watch, for instance, is composed of three sections labelled, in turn, "1947", "1944" and "1941". ![]() Most narratives that run backwards do so in substantial sections of forward narrative. Photograph: Jane Bown Time's Arrow is not the first novel with a reverse chronology, but no other novel has reversed time so conscientiously. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() But the next day, they reunite in the park and get back to playing. When they get home, their parents are shocked and upset. They have so much fun that they lose track of time and accidentally swap their gifts: Daniel grabs Ismail’s keffiyeh, and Ismail takes Daniel’s tallit. One day, they don their scarves and meet on the soccer field, impressing one another with their crafty footwork. ![]() They even coincidentally receive the same birthday presents: a traditional scarf (a tallit for Daniel and keffiyeh for Ismail) and a soccer ball. The book focuses on two children, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, who start as strangers with similarities: they live in the same city and have the same birthday. But children are the same everywhere, and it’s this message that inspired Juan Pablo Iglesias to write “ Daniel and Ismail.” ![]() ![]() Her brother Joe secures an apprenticeship elsewhere in town, leaving Mary with a brief description of the location of a piece of fossil he had discovered about a year earlier in the rock face. Mary is drawn to the cliffs and the prospect of finding the "Giant Croc" bones of legend. Kulling's depiction of the family's poverty and grief over many lost children is powerful, but these details never overshadow Mary's development. In order to address this lack of personal history, Kulling has created a fictionalized account of Anning's childhood, specifically focusing on the scientist's first major fossil discovery at age 12, when she found an ichthyosaurus in the cliffs near her home in Lyme Regis, on the Southern coast of Great Britain. ![]() What cannot be disputed is her contribution to our modern understanding of prehistoric creatures and paleontology. ![]() Gr 4–7-Mary Anning (1799–1847) has been described as the "greatest fossilist the world ever knew." In actuality, there is very little definitively known about Anning's childhood and later life. ![]() ![]() ![]() My photo of Nicki Bluhm below on the right… it looks so lovely in print! And a few roo & lamb (london workshop shoot) The book is so GORGEOUS! You can pre-order your copy HERE. I just got my Tomby Style book in the mail- sent to me by the lovely author Lizzie Garrett Mettler. (Photo below of me in my studio by my photo of nicki bluhm featured in the tomboy style book! ![]() Click on the link below to see the feature (pages 10 & 11) and HERE to read the interview. I was featured in Modern Ink Magazine (below) but ALSO had a huge interview on their blog HERE. ![]() This was certainly the most challenging interview I have ever done. This post on the Bust Magazine blog of Life Magazine’s 1944 sartorialist-esque spread ““Beautiful Girls in New York” (shot by Alfred Aisenstaedt), reminded me of my maternal grandmother Olga – fashion designer, Milliner, and fabulous fashionista! This photograph below, taken somewhere in Russia/Romania, is my favorite of her & my stylish grandfather- the handsome Ramish my interview in Modern Ink magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, “winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize.” If the “prize” is the quantifiable electoral majority, the victory she embraces arose from her campaign’s activation of the “New American Majority - that coalition of people of color, young people and moderate to progressive whites.” Nevertheless, she considers her campaign to be a success. Abrams is not governor of Georgia, and she begins her speeches reminding audiences of this stinging matter of fact. “Our Time Is Now” is not a political memoir or a long-form résumé rather, it is a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory. Eventually the situation was sorted and the woman, Stacey Abrams, cast a historic vote for herself as the first black woman to represent a major political party as a gubernatorial candidate. This woman was educated, prepared and determined to participate in the democratic process. Scores of voters were purged from the rolls and others were forced to wait in lines for hours. Such snafus were rampant, and not just in the state of Georgia. When she arrived, she was refused a ballot because records showed that she had already voted absentee. In 2018, a black woman arrived at her polling place to cast her vote for Stacey Abrams in the Georgia gubernatorial race. ![]() ![]() OUR TIME IS NOW Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America By Stacey Abrams ![]() |