Wolfe blasts modern music and art in a few passages, but concentrates the bulk of the book on architecture. It took me a couple of days to read it, but that was with interruptions and was really only a few hours if you put all my reading time together. According to the copyright page, most of the book was published in Harper’s during the June and July issues, so you can see it’s not a long tome. Published in 1981, this is not a scholarly work, but it’s a passionate rejection of Modernist architecture and its practitioners. I recently read–finally, way after I should have–Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House. From Bauhaus To Our House Tom Wolfe – Farrar Straus Giroux – 1981
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Haunted by the disappearance of a young girl 11 years earlier, Ted just wants to forget. Multiple narrators including Ted, Lauren, and even his cat Olivia take the reader through the ups and downs in The Last House on Needless Street, all while hiding a more sinister story at its core. But Ted has a lot more going on than the reader – or even he – understands. Add in a young woman who’s moved in across the street, and his privacy is being invaded at every turn. Lauren is constantly giving him a hard time, and he keeps trying – unsuccessfully – to find a date. He’s losing time, not remembering things that he’s done. He’s trying to keep things together, but he’s having a hard time of it. Ted lives in a rundown house at the end of Needless Street, with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia to keep him company. The stranger by Norman Whitney ! Worksheet page 2 2b) Here are some of the people from the story.Dave Slatin is an evil man. ! ! (a) D-L (b) S-N 3b) Explain why each of these things was important in the story. interesting, funny, dangerous, strange.) Draw lines between the people and the things they said. 2) While reading 2a) Make list of all the important characters that appear in the story and add an adjective that best describes the person! (e.g. What are these things? Guess if you do not know. What do you think? Write a short text where you answer the following questions: ✗ What will the story be about? ✗ Will it be a sad/ happy/ romantic/ frightening story? ✗ What sort of story will it be (detective, romance, comedy.)? 1b) Look at the cover of this book. What does it suggest and what impression do you have. The stranger by Norman Whitney !Worksheet page 1 The Stranger Norman Whitney 1) Before reading 1a) Look at the front cover and read the back of the book. Excuse her, for expressing reasonable disappointment! They have to move if she can’t live with them but sharing the residence, means giving up Sarah’s endeared new bedroom. One cannot help asking: why doesn’t he obtain the single electronics diploma he is missing?! Sarah and her brother are in their first home where they have separate rooms thanks to a disabled Aunt. However this young one keeps losing jobs. Raised in a struggling middle class, where every advantage my folks obtain is frustratingly sucked somewhere I do not fault a non-educated Father for being ineligible for better jobs. If one parent is not understanding one has a right to consult the other! That is the benefit of having a pair of human beings raise you! Her decree that Sarah should not share her feelings or worries with her Father, was the last straw. If you pardon my language: the Mother in this story is an insensitive bitch! Comments are clear that if she were not present, ratings would be higher. At other times, wonderful authoresses like Betty Ren Wright weigh down the pleasure with youth baggage. Some stories do the paranormal such justice, that the target demographics do not affect our investment. Typography – a tool and medium for these world-changing developments – quickly adopted binary structures. The rapid spread of typography coincided with the age of Western colonial conquest and techno-scientific exploitation of the Earth’s resources. Mechanised letters hastened changes in religion, science, literature, law, and commerce. Invented in Germany in the fifteenth century, printing with metal type became the first form of mass production. But what is the role of binary thinking in Western typography? Environmentalists are unravelling oppositions such as nature/culture and human/animal, which justify human domination and destruction of the planet. LGBTQIA+ activists are dismantling the male/female polarity, which enforces gender norms and compulsory heterosexuality. Advocates for racial justice have challenged racial binaries, which marginalise people of colour while enshrining white supremacy. You can purchase Extra Bold, published by Princeton Architectural Press, here. Written by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Tobias, Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti‑Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers, is “part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual” for creatives. Things set up long ago get paid off, and it’s amazing. From the technology, to certain characters with murky backstories, everything starts converging. That unpredictability makes this such a wild ride!įurthermore, things introduced in the first two installments of this story develop and evolve in such cool ways. There are definite goals the characters have, and motivations, and secrets they want to protect, but in terms of what events will occur, it’s not always clear. That’s a really great thing about this series-not being able to really predict where the plot would go. I couldn’t decide if, when, and how I wanted everything to be revealed, and not knowing how it would go down was actually so fun. Seriously, the dramatic irony is insane in this book! The reader knows things that certain characters don’t know, and it’s somehow both agonizing and delightful. And as their greatest fears take form, they will have to see if they can break down the division between heroes and villains, because the stakes have never been higher. Nova and Adrian have to face tough revelations and even tougher decisions. In Supernova by Marissa Meyer, a powerful villain is on the verge of taking over Gatlon City, a beloved boy’s life hangs in the balance, and secrets seem about to be exposed at any moment. Could it really be that she was alone in the world? That the rest of her kind had disappeared from the earth? The conversation haunted. The unicorn had seen men before and listened to their stories as they traveled through her wood, but never before had she been called the last. But the first insisted that here, in this forest, was the last. The second scoffed at his friend, saying there were no unicorns, they were myths that mothers told their children at bedtime, nothing more. The first warned the second that they should hunt elsewhere, as this was the home of a unicorn. That was, until one day two hunters passed through searching for game, but found none. Time meant nothing to her, and the outside world was merely a dream inside the eternal spring of her forest. She spent her days admiring her own loveliness and watching as the curious creatures in her forest went about their short and frantic lives. A creature of immortal beauty and purity: a unicorn. In a forest that time wouldn’t touch, was a creature who would live forever. Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.Īfter serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Daughters never forgive.įor the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. “Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction.”-Lee ChildĪ most anticipated book of 2020 by Newsweek ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Shondaland ∙ PopSugar ∙ Woman’s Day ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BookRiot ∙ She Reads "If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold." - Washington Post THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER If you recall, the Minotaur was a monster, half bull and half human, with a voracious appetite for human flesh, sequestered in a labyrinth devised by Daedalus, a kind of Leonardo of his day. I have long been fascinated by the story of the Minotaur and how Theseus defeated it with the help of King Minos’s daughter, Ariadne. Ariadne is the first novel by Greek myth enthusiast, Jennifer Saint. Miller continues to write terrific books like this – I can’t recommend Circe enough – and acclaimed author Pat Barker has veered away from her 20th century war fiction to produce two novels (so far) about the women of Troy. Since Madeline Miller’s hugely successful novel, The Song of Achilles, published in 2011, fiction based on ancient myths, has been popping up, almost spawning a whole new genre. I started by mixing a neutral gray, consisting of the paint I had currently on my palette. By masking a section of this color wheel, you can focus on a small group of colors, and bar yourself from using any colors outside that wheel. In this particular color wheel, the outer colors are full-saturation, with the color gradually losing saturation nearing the center. I decided to see if I could create a painting based on the limited colors of a gamut mask - that is, taking a color wheel with a 'neutral tint' at the very middle, and 'masking' a section of it to focus on those colors. It seems whenever I turn to start a painting, I always go straight for the pure pigment, rarely graying anything down. Gurney mentions, by using too many pure, full-saturation colors rather than mixing and focusing on a few. I'm quite guilty of the 'fruit salad' approach that Mr. I've long attempted to use less color and try to focus on how to make a few colors work well together. Digital "Yurmby" color wheel by Fengl0ng on Deviantart, with a digital 'mask' added by myself |