The scientific establishment throughout Europe - from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton - had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. Countless quacks weighed in with preposterous suggestions. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in 1714, Parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (£20,000) to anyone whose method or device proved successful. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. 'Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy - no mean feat' New ScientistĪnyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong. The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
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Understanding Show, Don’t Tell: And Really Getting It (2016) by Jance Hardy is the best book I found. I read many blog posts and craft books on this subject. This blog post is a summary of my research and learnings on how to recognize a tell from a show. Some obvious red flags help but, honestly, I didn’t have a deep understanding of this subject. I didn’t know exactly where my writing is a tell and when it is a show. To decide consciously between show and tell, at first, we need to recognize tells. It depends on the art and the craft of the storyteller! There is no rule to tell us where to find the balance. I read another piece of advice somewhere that I believe is worth giving to you. It is a piece from a Wikipedia article or a newspaper article. On the other hand, if a story fills only with tells, it is not a story at all. If a book shows everything, the number of details bores the reader. This advice is correct up to a certain level. Show don’t tell is the piece of advice writers and authors, at any stage of their career may give or get. You might not know this, even if you read the collection in high school, but Leaves of Grass is pretty gay. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman serves as one of the cornerstones of the book both thematically and plot wise. Reading Paper Towns with these new anaylical tools lead me to some interesting insights about Ms. I’ve turned in actual papers about this stuff. I’ve learned to pick up on queer coding both accidental and purposeful. Queer readings were only mentioned in passing in class. When I first read Paper Towns in high school, I didn’t know how to pick up on queer subtext. But as I read, I started to look at the female lead, Margo Roth Spiegelman, in a different light. I thought I would give the book a reread, and just do a review. Paper Towns hits the big screen this weekend after years of being stuck in pre-production. Given how large race hatred looms in the world of Coates, I was surprised to find the worst thing that evidently happened to him directly at the hands of a white person is recounted beginning on page 93 of the 152-page book. He argues - although that might be too generous a word it’s more like assertion shrouded in a haze of lyricism - that all that other black people did to hurt or threaten him was ultimately the product of white racism. Coates lived in perpetual fear - although largely of other black people. Other kids were a constant physical, perhaps even mortal, threat. It is a masterly little memoir wrapped in a toxic little Philippic.īetween the World and Me evokes the terror of the upbringing Coates had in West Baltimore in the 1980s with a sickening immediacy. But if you refuse to simply stare at the book in wonder as one who admires Michelangelo’s David and subject it to even minimal critical scrutiny, you will realize that it is profoundly silly at times, and morally blinkered throughout. It is, in part, the story of the creation of a writer, and one with undeniably formidable gifts. What everyone says about the literary power of Between the World and Me is correct. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.įifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. Synopsis: A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlist.Empathy Day steps up a gear as it returns for its seventh year – at a time of great need.20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness Week.Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books.Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day.
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