![]() Boccaccio attributes the cause of this terrible plague to either malignant celestial influences or divine punishment for the iniquity of Florentine society.Ī scene from Pasolini’s 1971 film The Decameron. The Decameron is a tale of renewal and recreation in defiance of a decimating pandemic. Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus' The Plague Derived from Greek, the word decameron means ten days and is an allusion to Saint Ambrose’s Hexameron, a poetic account of the creation story, Genesis, told over six days. Each of the book’s ten storytellers tells a story a day for ten days. ![]() He vividly describes physical, social and psychological sufferings, writing of people dying in the street, rotting corpses, plague boils, swollen glands known as “buboes” – some the size of eggs, others as large as apples – bruises and the blackening skin that foreshadowed death.īoccaccio’s introduction is followed by ten sections containing short stories. ![]() ![]() In the introduction to his book, Boccaccio estimates that more than 100,000 people - over half of the city’s inhabitants - died within the walls of Florence between March 1348 and the following July. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With a cover like that, for a book about a summer camp that turns out to be a lot more horrifying than it seems, with a secret society that requires the unthinkable, and it’s sapphic, I was very, very eager to read it. ![]() When she’s tapped to join a strange secret society, Arlee thinks this will be her shot at fitting in…until her new “sisters” ask her to do the unthinkable, putting her life, and the life of her new crush, in perilous danger. Even though the girls in her cabin are awesome-and she’s developing a major crush on the girl who sleeps in the bunk above her-the other campers seem to be wary of Arlee, unwilling to talk to her or be near her, which only ramps up her paranoia. Thank you so much to WednesdayBooks and Edelweiss for the e-ARC!Īrlee Gold is anxious about spending the summer at the college prep Camp Rockaway-the same camp her mother attended years ago, which her mother insists will help give Arlee a “fresh start” and will “change her life.” Little does Arlee know that, once she steps foot on the manicured grounds, this will prove to be true in horrifying ways. ![]() ![]() ADDRESSES:Īgent-Richard Curtis, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., 164 E. Hobbies and other interests: Playing guitar, gardening, cooking. ![]() Religion: Reformed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). Education: Wellesley College, B.A., 1987. ![]() Born November 5, 1964, in Temple, TX daughter of Lloyd (an architect) and Linda (a homemaker) Kleypas married Gregory Ellis (a company vice president) children: Griffin (son). ![]() ![]() I was inspired by colleagues during lunch to create the first book for book clubs. Lucille Colandro told CA: "I write primarily to create books for young children who like humor and rhyme. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, Scholastic Educational Publishing (New York, NY), 2005.Īlso author of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell, not yet published. There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow!, illustrated by Jared Lee, Scholastic Educational Publishing (New York, NY), 2003. ![]() Scholastic Book Club, New York, NY, acquisition director. Office-Scholastic Book Club, 555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Education: Pennsylvania State University, B.A., M.A. ![]() ![]() Colandro married Eugene Santarelli children: David. Born in Sacramento, CA daughter of Anthony C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Broadly speaking, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) branch uses adrenaline to thrust our system into action while the parasympathetic system (PNS) activates chemicals to assist with digestion, sleep, and healing. In order to assess our nervous system’s health, Van Der Kolk utilized heart rate variability (HRV) to evaluate the balance between the two branches of our autonomic nervous system, the sympathetic and parasympathetic. Van der Kolk sought to better understand the physiology of PTSD and an over-active limbic system. To help cope with the uncomfortable physical sensations, we may find ways to numb ourselves: drugs, alcohol, work, exercise, over or under-eating. In fact, many with mysterious physical illnesses may seek out treatment from physicians for issues that stem from a mostly psychological event. Van Der Kolk asserts, if we are chronically scared or afraid our bodies will respond with chronic pain, headaches, and difficulty sleeping. Often, this waking state of extreme caution is unconscious to the day-to-day self, but our bodies are aware. A real trauma has taught those of us with PTSD that the world is a dangerous place. ![]() ![]() However, due to a recent crisis that had taken the kingdoms by storm, tonight's attendance was expected to be much higher than usual. ![]() The gatherings were usually uneventful and low in attendance. Smoke rose from the tavern's single chimney, filling the air with a foul odor and signaling to the witches traveling to the creek that the meeting was about to begin. The midnight gatherings were held at the Witches' Brew, an old tavern made entirely of twigs and mulch that sat in the middle of the creek like a giant beaver dam. When corpses were found, the witches picked them apart like vultures, taking home what they needed in jars to stock their potion supplies. The dead bodies in the coffins were never identified, nor was who or what had sent them-not that any time was given for an investigation. And every time the rerouting occurred, coffins floated in from an unknown location. Every so often, without any warning or explanation, the creek redirected itself to flow uphill into the forest. ![]() ![]() ![]() The meetings were strictly for witches only, and they enjoyed making gruesome examples out of those who disturbed them.ĭead Man's Creek was shrouded in mystery, making it an ideal place for the witches to assemble. At midnight of every full moon, witches from the forests and neighboring kingdoms gathered at the creek. T he creatures of the Dwarf Forests knew to avoid Dead Man's Creek tonight if they valued their lives. ![]() ![]() When his husband is involved in a scandal with a student, Wyatt spends all of his energy to clear his name, then quickly escapes Canada for the US. His inability to read, aphasia, and stammer make it difficult for him to maintain any semblance of normal when it comes to relationships.Wyatt Adley has dealt with his fair share of disaster when it comes to marriage. But as comforting as the guys at Irons and Works are, he can’t deny that he’s lonely. He escapes into the world of tattooing, settling in Fairfield, Colorado, surrounded by the only people who had ever offered him unconditional support. A traumatic brain injury derails his life, and Mat finds himself dumped by his wife, out of a job, and rejected by his family. Then, at the hands of a reckless driver, all of it changed. He married his college sweetheart, and his residency at the hospital was showing a promising career ahead. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a word I’ll hear many times over the course of the weekend. “I want to change the spirit of time,” he says, defining the German word zeitgeist in case I’m not familiar with it. How else do you explain the throngs of humanity packed into an underground amphitheater to hear him speak? For von Däniken, it’s an affirmation that the path he set out on 50 years earlier was correct. Thousands of fans and believers from across the East coast are pouring into the Baltimore Convention Center. Von Däniken is in Baltimore for AlienCon, a convention put on by The History Channel to celebrate the popular TV show (13 seasons and counting) with countless panels, meetups, and a costume contest party. “’I’m one of these figures who prays every evening.” "What was unreasonable slowly becomes reasonable. “I am a deep believer in God,” he tells Inverse. One thing that hasn’t changed? Von Däniken still prays to God every day. ![]() His quasi-scientific theory that aliens helped guide some of the greatest achievements of ancient civilization has found a passionate audience around the world, thanks in part to the TV show he inspired, Ancient Aliens. In the half-decade, since Erich von Däniken first published Chariots of the Gods? a lot has changed. ![]() ![]() Moriarty as “the Sherlock Holmes of crime,” Lupin operates by a code, eschewing senseless violence, carefully targeting his victims, and returning items he feels inappropriately taken. Like Holmes, he’s extremely intelligent, gifted in observation, with deep insight into human nature, and with a range of practical skills from hand-to-hand combat to disguise, but Lupin puts these talents to use for the purpose of theft. While some of the nine stories reference others, they each read standalone.Īrsène Lupin is the Sherlock Holmes of crime. ![]() This is a beautifully illustrated edition of the first collection of stories featuring the fictional burglar-extraordinaire, Arsène Lupin. Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief by Maurice Leblanc ![]() ![]() ![]() Women deserve to be seen as having equal value as men.Here are the 3 most useful lessons that can help us all be more equitable: ![]() Her work was important then, and remarkably still remains very relevant to this day. Wollstonecraft makes a point to say that she does not believe women are superior, but rather that it would benefit both sexes if they became more educated and involved in politics. She delves into subjects still applicable in today’s world, such as why we have male and female traits, differences in education and treatment of boys and girls, and the importance of females being involved in the democratic process. Her work has been an inspiration for feminists all over for hundreds of years. Surprisingly, she wrote this revolutionary novel all the way back in 1792, when the term “feminism” didn’t even exist. Many consider the first great work of feminist literature to be A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. But have you ever wondered where it all began? Today we hear about feminism and women’s rights on a regular basis. 1-Sentence-Summary: A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman will help you make the world a more fair place by teaching some of the gender inequalities of the eighteenth century. ![]() |