![]() Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. ![]() All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. ![]() Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. ![]() WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. ![]()
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![]() This medical thriller is written by someone who has clearly read Rand (the novel's title, in fact, is a nod to a line from The Fountainhead). Think Hank Rearden + Ragnar Danneskjöld + flintlocks. His steadfast morality and ruthless rationality make him the closest to a Randian hero I have found outside of something actually written by Rand. ![]() ![]() He soon escapes, and begins a life of derring-do and piracy on the Caribbean Sea of the late 17th century.īlood himself will be of the most interest to fans of Rand. It tells the tale of Peter Blood, an honest doctor who is sentenced to slavery after trying to help a wounded rebel soldier during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685. Of his many books Captain Blood is probably the most famous. Sabatini wrote swashbuckling historical fiction in the early part of the 20th century. But if you loved Rand's Objectivist fiction you'll be sure to like these five other compelling authors and novels. Once you've powered through Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living, Anthem, The Night of January 16th, and her Unpublished Fiction, where do you turn for similar stories, plots, and characters? ![]() Unfortunately, there's only so much fiction that Rand wrote. The moral clarity of her characters, tightness of her plot lines, and insights into the human condition combine for some incredible page turners. Reading the novels of Ayn Rand for the first time is an unforgettable experience. ![]() ![]() Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Discover the time management myth Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed Know the exact formula to solve problems Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. ![]() ![]() The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichŽs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. ![]() This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. ![]() "Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. ![]() ![]() The McKays remind Jack of the humble upbringing he left behind, and country girl Keely feels she doesn't measure up to Jack's big-city expectations. Their sizzling lust overtakes common sense and suddenly they've gone from butting heads to knocking boots, but outside the bedroom they're as mismatched as ever. When the notoriously hot-bodied-but-hot-tempered Keely begs him for help, he proposes a crazy idea he'll personally oversee her restoration-if she acts the part of his fianc e. Jack is this close to securing a career-defining project, until he learns his bachelor status puts him out of contention. What she does need is a restoration specialist to help her open her physical therapy clinic-and that expert is none other than buttoned-down, uptight Jack Donohue-her brother's best friend and a certified pain in her Wranglers. As the lone girl in the prolific McKay family, Keely McKay doesn't need another man giving her orders. ![]() ![]() One hot-blooded cowgirl and one cool-headed businessman in a stripped-down, revved-up game of sexual truth or dare. ![]() ![]() I wonder why it is that despite the men living with Alzheimer’s today, whose voices I hear and words I read the most, like Norman Mc Namara in Torbay (UK), Michael Ellenbogen in Pennsylvania (USA) and Dr. While helping reduce the stigma of jokes in poor taste about forgetting. We continue to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s among mainstream audiences, We’re overdue for a finely crafted film of a leading character with Alzheimer’s disease.īy turning well-crafted stories into feature-length films, Only 50 years old, Alice finds herself living moment to moment with Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() When she gets lost in her own neighborhood, she realizes something is very wrong. When Alice grows forgetful, she dismisses it initially. ![]() Still Alice is a movie about Alice Howland, a happily married mother of three and a renowned Harvard linguistics professor, who is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.īased on the book by the same name, Still Aliceis the first of three titles by Lisa Genova who has a Harvard doctorate degree in the neurosciences. ![]() ![]() But once he's got it, things don't go quite as he'd hoped. When she declines his offer, he takes matters into his own hands and hires robbers to get the box for him. ![]() Then one day, a rich and powerful archduke offers Annabelle one million, two million. In fact, Annabelle's colorful yarn seems to be never-ending, and she knits and knits and knits until her town and all the people in it are adorned with Annabelle's colorful creations. When she's finished with that, she still has extra yarn. When she's finished, she knits one for her dog. One day, she comes upon a box of colorful yarn, and knits herself a sweater. Everything.Īnnabelle lives in a cold, colorless town where everything is covered with snow and soot. The nephew liked the silly pirate at the end. She didn’t think the yarn was all that pretty and she figured out the end. The artwork did a great job of contrasting the drab life verses the colorful life with yarn and the artwork puts a lot of work into making the drawing look like yarn. It’s original, but it is also similar to the fable of the couple that find the never ending penny, but that ruins their lives where this doesn’t ruin Annabelle’s life. ![]() It’s an original story and I like that so I upped it to 4 stars. Word gets out and people come wanting to see these wonders, even pirates who want to get the magic box. She makes herself a sweater and it isn’t long before she makes a sweater for everyone. She lives in a drab little town where everyone is drab looking. Annabelle finds a magic yarn box that never runs out of yarn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides her numerous lists, there is her uncanny luck. Finally, Heidi decides she must take the journey herself to Hilltop, a venture that involves a long illegal bus ride, stormy weather that leaves Heidi without a way to call home, and many other adventures including a ride in a police car.Īs for the quirky characters, I’ll start with Heidi. This leads the two to plague with residence with letters, a tactic that also gets ignored. From the photos, Heidi discovers that her mom once lived at Hilltop Home, a place which resists answering any and all phone calls from Bernadette. She also finds an old sweater, one which her mother had worn in one of those rare photos. In Heidi’s search to discover the significance of “Soof” to her mother, she stumbles upon a box of twenty-three photos from her mother’s past. As a result of the latter, Heidi’s only friend of her age is an overweight boy who lives in the same apartment building. ![]() Bernadette not only teaches Heidi’s mother basic living skills, but she also home-schools Heidi. The plot begins with twelve-year-old Heidi and her mentally-disabled mother who live in an apartment that is connected to their agoraphobic neighbor, Bernadette, who acts as their caretaker. With its unusual plot and quirky characters, So B. Finding out why the word “soof” is important to her mom turns out to key to the unfolding mystery and drama of Heidi’s life. It, an award-winning novel young adult by Sarah Weeks. “Soof” is a word that Heidi’s mom regularly uses in So B. ![]() ![]() ![]() The truth is, though, that the individual hasn’t stopped ageing. But as time goes by, at birthdays or other annual markers, people begin to notice you aren’t getting any older. Day by day, week by week, even month by month, people don’t change in very percep- tible ways. ![]() After all, every day people wake up and see the same face they saw in the mirror yesterday. Initially the ‘sufferer’ of the condition won’t notice they have it. What happens after that is, well, not much. The first respected doctor to give it one, back in the 1890s, called it ‘anageria’ with a soft ‘g’, but, for reasons that will become clear, that never became public knowledge. It is not in any official medical journals. One that no one knows about until they have it. Illness suggests sickness, and wasting away. I thought of it as an illness for quite a while, but illness isn’t really the right word. ![]() Though I think she might have added that – should He exist – the smile had been a frown ever since. It was a warm day, apparently, for the time of year, and my mother had asked her nurse to open all the windows. To give you an idea: I was born well over four hundred years ago on the third of March 1581, in my parents’ room, on the third floor of a small French château that used to be my home. Old in the way that a tree, or a quahog clam, or a Renaissance painting is old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working first as a welder on a thermos electric plant in the mountains behind Bogota in 1962, then non ferrous studies with British Oxygen and a move to Spain 1965, coupled with a fascination for travel and different cultures has led to carving in Thailand, casting in Java, hammer welding in Rajasthan, silver in Bali and wood in Ghana. Living in the Mountains provides the creative impetus, being surrounded by rocks, rivers, the detritus of erosion, geomorphology and all natures destructive force has inspired an eclectic, very personal and organic bias to my work – an appreciation of random forms, diverse textures and all the unexpected creativity of the natural world where no line is perfect. It is still addictive and highly satisfying despite the onus of molding, casting, welding, polishing, fitting in a tough work environment before the final satisfaction of seeing the piece come together as envisaged. 1942 RECREATE, REGENERATE, RECYCLEĪfter 54 years since my first show I am still fascinated by working in 3 dimensions – maybe because I cant draw or more likely because sculpture holds some obtuse subconscious obligation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey-hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. ![]() Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. ![]() |