5/13/2023 0 Comments The Kojiki by Ō no Yasumaro![]() ![]() Its engraving reads: 左京四條四坊従四位下勲五等太朝臣安萬侶以癸亥 年七月六日卒之 養老七年十二月十五日乙巳 Who died in 6th day of the 7th month of 7th year of Yōrō the 15th day of 12th month Ki no Tomi" Yasumaro appears in the video game Toukiden: The Age of Demons as a mitama (a soul of a hero from Japanese history). On Januthe grave of Ō no Yasumaro was unearthed in a tea plantation in Konose Ward of Nara City. ![]() Yasumaro became clan head in 716, and died in 723. Yasumaro most probably also played an active role in compiling the Nihon Shoki, which was finished in 720. lieutenant was finished the following year in 712. Empress Genmei (r 707-721) charged Yasumaro with the duty of writing the Kojiki in 711 using the differing clan chronicles and native myths. He is most famous for compiling and editing, with the assistance of Hieda no Are, the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history. He may have been the son of Ō no Honji (多 品治), a participant in the Jinshin War of 672.Īugust 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Munch knausgaard![]() ![]() ![]() Doig agrees with this, and talks about how painting can be a struggle to know what’s going to keep you excited, and why it is essential to approach a painting with a kind of innocence and openness: “Things come about by surprise.” ![]() He feels that in literature as well as in art, there is a struggle to break down and build up to make things new for yourself. ![]() And then it kind of opens up if you keep looking at it,” Knausgård says. “I always go in with emotions – I have no other way to approach paintings. Moreover, Knausgård finds it interesting that Munch repeated his paintings throughout his life – doing paintings that he had done at age 22 at the age of 74. Later, Knausgård continues, Munch had some kind of mental breakdown, and also became an alcoholic: “He’s really almost dissolved as a person.” After this, Munch seemed to stop painting his inner landscapes. As an example, he painted his sister’s deathbed over and over again. Knausgård talks about Munch’s personal life and the many losses he experienced at an early age: “He couldn’t trust the world.” Painting, Knausgård feels, was a way for Munch to connect to the world. how both painters hide things in their work. Knausgård feels that Doig’s paintings are similar to Munch’s, and Doig describes the ways in which there are references to Munch in his paintings – e.g. “I’m still shaking after walking around in the exhibition,” Doig says of Knausgård’s ‘Edvard Munch’ exhibition in connection to which the writer and painter talk about their fascination with the Norwegian painter. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Hailey baldwin justin bieber![]() Now she’s his wife … but these lingering feelings and insecurities won’t go away. Now imagine that the guy is head over heels for his most famous love … and then, just months after their final breakup, proposes to the other. ![]() Especially if you’re not really friends to begin with … and one of you ends up marrying him. It can also be a source of deep bitterness. “And,” the source characterized, “it’s been up and down ever since.” Justin Bieber kisses his wife, Hailey Baldwin Bieber, after shaving his awful mustache but threatening its inglorious return.ĭating the same guy can be fun, and a source of bonding that can form the basis of a lifelong friendship. ![]() “They got married very young and didn’t know what they were getting into,” the insider noted. ![]() Hailey Baldwin Bieber took to Instagram to share this photo from her wedding to Justin Bieber, and they both look beautiful.Īn inside source opened up to RadarOnline about Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Bieber’s … issues. It turns out that this would-be power couple has suffered from major insecurities from the start. Now, some fans are seeing signs - and not for the first time - of possible marital issues for the Biebers. The fallout from the drama seemed to even overshadow Justin Bieber’s birthday this month. ![]() A complex, one-sided feud erupted a few weeks ago between Selena Gomez and Hailey Baldwin. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The double jose saramago![]() Saramago tells the story of the awkwardly named professor Tertuliano Máximo Afonso who one day, while viewing a banal video a colleague has recommended, discovers that one of the minor actors in it is his identical, if younger, twin (the original Portuguese title literally translates as The Duplicated Man). ![]() His new novel, The Double, continues this echoing tradition. Whether a different version of Christ's Passion (The Gospel According to Jesus Christ) or another account of the universal scourge (Blindness), Saramago has found in these primordial narratives fodder for his own fictional world. José Saramago is obviously fond of rewriting old tales. It is one of the most complex, most retold, richest of our fables. ![]() The double has many names its mirroring quality is echoed in the Greek legends of Narcissus, of the Dioscuri, of the Androgyne. ![]() Made in our own image, the double can incarnate our evil acts (as in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey and in Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ), or kindly take our place in order to perform a seemingly impossible task (in Charles Nodier's "The Legend of Sister Beatrice" and in the magical "Chienniang", one of the many stories in the eighth-century Chinese collection T'aip'ing Kwangchi). ![]() ![]() Maali's childhood is therefore defined by these conflicts. His parents have a tumultuous marriage and are constantly fighting. Maali Almeida grows up with his father and mother, Dada and Amma, in a house in Bambalapitiya, a neighborhood of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The following summary relies upon a linear, streamlined mode of explanation. The author takes creative and inventive liberties with point of view, structure, form, and conventional notions of the novelistic plot line throughout. ![]() ![]() However, because the novel is a work of magical realism, the narrative setting is also defined by the main character Maali's journeys in the Afterlife, a realm referred to as the In Between throughout the novel. The novel is set in 1980s Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shehan Karunatilaka's novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is written from the protagonist Maali Almeida's second person point of view. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Karunatilaka, Shehan. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Range by epstein![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps, Epstein would argue, you’ve already made your life far easier-precisely by procrastinating and dabbling around.Ĭommenting upon this, Amanda Ripley, author of The Smartest Kids in the World, adds a few further recommendations: Especially if you are young and/or clueless as to what your next career move should be. Regardless of what you think, read Epstein’s Range and face his arguments. ![]() However, the author of Range, David Epstein, believes the opposite: the ones who succeed are actually the ones who’ve refused to specialize and are able to see things from a broader perspective. On the face of it, the time of polymaths is long gone: there are very few Da Vincis, Michelangelos, and Galileos around, and even fewer of them command the same respect these people did back in their own days. If you want to succeed in this wicked modern world of ours, he says, you need to have something much more than a certain specialty. Have you ever heard that old adage “Jack of all trades, master of none”? How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Concentr8 by william sutcliffe![]() ![]() Ridiculous and to be honest just annoying. Things we learn about the academy for example and the mother in particular felt There were certain parts that felt overĮxaggerated to the point it was too much, just seemed a little ridiculous. The first half – well probably over half in all honesty – felt like it was ![]() He just wants to play football with his mates back home…Ī book of two halves one of which I definitely preferred to the other. No while this seems wonderful for his art mad younger sister and his guitar playing older brother Sam has no interest in being an artist, or a musician or an actor. ![]() Sam’s not really sure what his dad does, he’s never actually stopped to ask, but when he sells his company and the family are suddenly rich Sam’s mum decides they have to move, and so they leave Stevenage behind, instead moving to a house in Hampstead, and with the new home comes a new school, the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Wide Open by Larry Bjornson![]() Acceptance, however, has a condition-cruel intolerance. Surrounded by a tight circle of friends, Will is confident he understands his world. Violence seems a certainty.įor young Will Merritt, though, Abilene is his first real home. In its Texastown district, recently hired marshal, Wild Bill Hickok, the West's most famous gunman, struggles to control streets teeming with thousands of drunken, restive cowboys. As the shipping point for immense numbers of cattle driven north from Texas, Abilene is an exotic boomtown. ![]() Saturated in greed and easy money, it is a place in which good and evil are so evenly matched that no one knows which will triumph. Abilene is a town like no other, the first of its kind. Winner of the Kansas Notable Book Award from the State Library of Kansas Based on actual events, this is the epic story of 1871 Abilene, Kansas.Deep in the vast vacancy of the wilderness prairie, a tiny ferocious speck of humanity is famous and infamous throughout the world. Winner of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western First Novel ![]() Winner of the Forward National Literature Award for historical fiction ![]() ![]() Winner of the Western Writers Of America Spur Award ![]() ![]() ![]() I gave 5 Stars, without rounding up, to these book that were published this year:ĭigging Deep, Digging Deep 1, by Jay Hogan They still have to make sense, connect with me emotionally, and tell a good story. If you have been reading my reviews, both here and on my own blog, you’ll know I like quirky–books that do things a little differently than the status quo. This year I read approximately 200 stories/books, although I didn’t review them all. Moore, Taboo, The Ghosts Between Us, The King's Dragon, The Other Book, The Shoreless Sea, The Stone Amulet, The Story Of Us, The West Hills, Those Other Books, Tiferet Design, Voyance, W.M. Metzger, MM Romance, Natasha Snow, Paranormal, Rachel Reid, Ramen Assassin, Reece Notley, Release, Return, Rhys Ford, Roe Horvat, Romance, Rowan Massey, Sam Burns, Sara Dobie Bauer, Science fiction, Sick And Tragic Bastard Son, Space Train, T.A. Scott Coatsworth, Jackie Keswick, Jay Hogan, LGBTQIA+, Liminal Sky, Lisa Henry, Logan Meredith, Lyn Forester, Lyn Gala, Marie Sexton, Mason Thomas, Matthew J. Sexton, Alex Harrow, Anhaga, Annabeth Albert, Arctic Sun, Barbara Elsborg, Best Behavior, Best of List, Brigham Vaughn, Contemporary, Danonza, dark themes, David Bridger, Davlova, Dead Man Stalking, Digging Deep, Empire Of Light, Erotic romance, Fantasy, Fire And Valor, Frozen Hearts, Game Changers, Gifted Guilds, Healing Glass, Heated Rivalry, holiday, J. ![]() Posted on JanuJanuPosted in Book Reviews, Scattered Thoughts And Rogue Words Tagged 2019, 4.5 stars, 4.75 Stars, 5 Stars, A Faerie Story, A.M. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Spark by Vi Keeland![]() My life was too complicated for such a great guy. I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him. So what did I do to repay him for his kindness? He was also funny, smart, and surprisingly down to earth for a man who wore seven-hundred-dollar shoes.ĭid I mention he also did my laundry while I slept? ![]() Donovan wasn't just handsome with a panty-dropping voice. ![]() He got me to admit that I'd snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee.Ĭoffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark. Turned out, it wasn't just his voice that was sexy. You see, I'd gone away for a few days, and in my haste to get out of the airport, I'd grabbed the wrong suitcase.Īfter checking out the expensive footwear and tailored clothes, I dialed the number on the luggage tag hoping maybe Mister Big Spender might have my bag.Ī deep, velvety voice answered, and as luck would have it, he had my suitcase, too.ĭonovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the exchange. ![]() A new, sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland.īefore I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size. ![]() |