![]() ![]() They collaborated on Angélique: Marquise of the Angels (1956), the first installment in the Angélique series. She was sent to Africa as a journalist, where, in 1947, she met her future husband, Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, better known as Serge Golon. She wrote using different pen names, helped create France Magazine, and was awarded a literary prize for The Patrol of the Saint Innocents. During World War II, she travelled via bicycle through France to Spain. She was interested in painting and writing from early childhood and published her first novel, The Country From Behind My Eyes, when she was 18 under the pen name Joëlle Danterne. She was the daughter of Pierre Changeux, a scientist and a captain in the French Navy. Biography Īnne Golon was born as Simone Changeux on 17 December 1921 in Toulon, a port in south-eastern France. Her Angélique novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide and have inspired multiple adaptations. Anne Golon (17 December 1921 – 14 July 2017) was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What does it mean to “see” the world? How can we measure the ways people perceive reality? In order to try to find an answer, we’ll take a trip through time to look at the ways researchers have tried to approach the idea over the past century. One of the central problems with assessing the extent to which language affects how we see the world is that the concept is so vague and hard to quantify. Unsurprisingly, the idea has created some very heated discussions among linguists. It could also be used to explain why people who speak other languages seems so different from us. ![]() ![]() This concept, the fundamental idea behind the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (you’ll learn all about it below), has been around for a very long time, and it’s appealing because it’s so tempting to think our language can change the way we process the world. Let’s start with a famous quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein that you’ve probably heard before: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” While slightly taken out of context, this perfectly summarizes an idea that comes up again and again in the study of language, which is that the language you speak can change your worldview. ![]() ![]() She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, for The Lacuna and the National Humanities Medal. Each of her books published since 1993 have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Her most famous works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in Africa in her early childhood. ![]() ![]() Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ![]() ![]() This poll is also a great resource for new fans who want to know which Asimov novels they should start reading first. ![]() If you're a huge fan of his work, vote on the best Asimov books below and make your opinion count. The 1999 film Bicentennial Man is also among books by Isaac Asimov made into movies. Though it happened long after his lifetime, the I, Robot author had his famous series of short stories turned into a successful movie that starred Will Smith. Asimov is also famous for The Martian Way and Other Stories, a collection of novellas. Considered one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, he is said to have written over 500 books in his lifetime.Īmong his biggest successes is the Foundation trilogy, which started simply with Foundation. ![]() What is Isaac Asimov famous for? With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Asimov is one of the most popular authors of the last 100 years. List of the best Isaac Asimov books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. ![]() ![]() ![]() As one of the few Indian American students at school, and with the annual International Bazar approaching, Rahul tries to figure out how he can “fit in” in a world that seems determined to make him stand out. Rahul relies on his best friend Chelsea and his family for help with trying new things to figure out what he might be the best at. In The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy, 12-year-old Rahul wants to find something he can be the best at in order to get Brett (who always makes fun of him!) to leave him alone. ![]() How do you get a bully to leave you alone?īe so good at something that no one can criticize you – that’s what Rahul Kapoor thinks, at least. ![]() ![]() ![]() She forms a definite idea for the little nursery. She supervises workers in a renovation, staying in a one-time nursery room while the work progresses. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie. The story is explicitly set in 1944 but the first draft of the novel was possibly written during the Blitz in 1940. ![]() ![]() Released posthumously, it was the last published Christie novel, although not the last Miss Marple novel in order of writing. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]() ![]() I was 22 when I saw that scene of Omar kissing Brandon, and it floored me. And now, the audience learned that he was gay, not as the crux of a plot twist played up for shock, but in a subtle moment of affection. He’d been established as a snarling Rambo who struck fear in the hearts of everyone who heard his name in Baltimore. ![]() As the scene progresses, Omar and Brandon tenderly play with each other’s fingers, leading to Omar delivering a light forehead kiss and a tender caress of his chin.īy this point in the series, we’d already watched Omar, trademark shotgun in tow, and his posse rob a drug house. The second member, John, looks on uncomfortably. One of the men, Brandon, is under Omar’s arm, his head leaning on Omar’s chest. About 15 minutes into the third episode of The Wire, Omar Little is sitting on a stoop with two of his crew members. ![]() ![]() ![]() She reveals a political system of male dominance and female subordination that sexualizes power for men and powerlessness for women. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference-as virtually all existing theory and law have done-covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power. ![]() Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law is a 1987 book by feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon. The book is a collection of essays by MacKinnon delivered during the 1980s, in which she makes a radical feminist critique of pornography and liberal feminism.įrom Harvard University Press: Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Sanja (a good cook and fighter from a family that values boys and violence) and Lelek (a witch! you can tell by the candle over her head!) meet for the first time, assumptions are made, challenged, and eventually the two join forces on an epic quest. Sanja and Lelek’s world is one of small hamlets, markets, and magic. The combination of girls doing things, a Black main character, cooking, sword-fighting, and witchy magic was delightful, escapist, and just the thing to kick off my first summer as a teacher. Jessi Zabarsky's young adult graphic novel Witchlight moved with me, and I’m glad I finally got around to picking it up. I gave away 8 bags of books, and when the movers came I still had 16 boxes for them to haul… (!!!). ![]() I recently moved houses and “pared down” my book collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the book may pop up on TBR lists seasonally, the movie appears largely forgotten (it isn’t streaming anywhere). It was then I made the connection between an obscure Hanna Barbera cartoon, which originally aired on The Cartoon Network, and its story of life and death and history on Halloween was, in fact, real and had source material. Stine was in his prime, cranking out Fear Street books galore, “ Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was airing on Nickelodeon and “ Hocus Pocus” and “ The Nightmare Before Christmas” premiered in theaters.īut, there’s another film from 1993 that only existed in fragments of my memory until last year when Bookstagrammers were posting spooky season reads and Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” made appearances. “ The Sandlot,” “ Free Willy” and “ Jurassic Park” all debuted, but for ghost-obsessed children, like me, we were swimming in quality content. ![]() In hindsight, 1993 was a banner year for kids entertainment. Reality: A little convoluted, but ultimately an entertaining and family friendly spooky story. Expectation: A nostalgia-fueled story of what Halloween was like for kids in the 1970s and 1980s. ![]() |