![]() The program involves five public lectures in cities across Canada they are recorded and broadcast on CBC Radio’s Ideas program - for those with accesss to CBC, Coupland’s will air nightly from Nov. (1967) and Jane Jacobs (1979) recent luminaries include Michael Ignatieff (2000), Alberto Manguel (2007) and Margaret Atwood (2008). He joins an illustrious group - the early lecturers included Northrop Frye (1962), John Kenneth Galbraith (1965), Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() This year’s series marks the half century of the lectures whose purpose is to “enable distinguished authorities to communicate the results of original study on important subjects of contemporary interest”, so Coupland is a reasonable choice. The former distinction is testimony to Coupland’s substantial reputation and following the latter is one that I am at a loss to explain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Review copy courtesy of House of Anansi While Canada’s Massey Lectures have been published as a book for decades (House of Anansi Press is a sponsor and an appendix in this book lists 31 volumes of previous lectures), Douglas Coupland’s Player One is the first ever to be published as a novel - which by default means that it is the first ever Massey Lecture contribution to be longlisted for the Giller Prize. ![]()
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Relatively few humans were killed, most of them in car or plane crashes when their vehicles no longer functioned. The Others began their assault on humanity first by unleashing a massive EMP that disabled all electronic technology worldwide. Manipulative Robots The Others are an artificial intelligence created by another alien race to conquer Earth, and the primary antagonists of the novel and film series The 5th Wave. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gothic fantasy fans will want to snap up this thrilling tale. The fascinating magic system, impeccable and unusual worldbuilding, and well-shaded characters will keep readers riveted through every twist of this wild ride. But to survive, she’ll have to find a way to sate the hunger that plagues him, a hunger far more sinister and alien than her own. Willful and stubborn in nature, Devon has always chafed under the Family’s control-and when her first son is born not a book eater but a far more dangerous mind eater, she goes on the run to save the boy from the Family, who no longer want him. Devon’s duty is to grow up and produce two children by two different husbands to ensure the survival of their species. A vampire-themed Handmaids Tale, with effective thrills that are intensified by social commentary Guardian. ![]() Raised by the isolated, cultish Family, Devon is treated like a breakable princess and fed a steady diet of fairy tales in which the girls are always the damsels in distress. Book eaters are rare, and book eater girls are even rarer. She and others like her live off eating books, and they retain all the knowledge they consume. Dean’s unputdownable debut gives the phrase “voracious reader” a new, very literal meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her other works include “Among the Talented Tenth: A Novel. It took her more than a decade to become an established author. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. Neely published her first short story, “Passing the Word” in the magazine Essence in 1981. 193 pages 21 cm Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. ![]() She also had positions at the Institute of Social Research and was executive director of Women for Economic Justice. ![]() She worked on behalf of women released from prison and as a radio producer. She attended the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her master’s degree. “Her talent and memory will live on forever in her wonderful books.” “She was an inspiration, a trailblazer and a remarkable talent and voice whose loss is deeply felt,” Mystery Writers of America said in a statement following her death. She was included in 2012’s “100 American Crime Writers” by Steven Powell. She was recently named the 2020 Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America & is best known as author of the groundbreaking Blanche White mystery series, which we are honored to publish. We are deeply saddened to share the news that Barbara Neely passed away earlier this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() WHERE: Fine Arts Theatre Inver Hills Community College WHAT: Spoon River Anthology Written by Edgar Lee Masters It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.” ![]() “To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, ![]() ![]() Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.” “In time you shall see Fate approach you in the shape of your own image in the mirror.” Poetic selections from Edgar Lee Master’s Spoon River Anthology celebrate the living as only the dead can tell it. From the pen of one of America’s greatest folk poets and storytellers comes an exploration of the depth of common human experiences. The Theatre department is proud to deliver a new telling of this piece of classic American literature adapted by Shawna C. A fourth performance will be held Sunday, November 21, 2021, at 1:30 p.m., also in the Fine Arts Theatre. in the Fine Arts Theatre on the campus of Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Inver Hills Theatre is presenting Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters Thursday, November 18, Friday, November 19, and Saturday, November 20, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() We welcome Rachel Hawkins today with a guest post on her love of libraries and librarians (yay!) We love you, too, Rachel. ![]() ![]() If you like snarky, twisty, paranormal adventures with fierce girls and the boys who love them, this one will be right up your alley. You aren’t entirely sure what is going on, but nothing seems quite right. Honestly, this installment was like trying to walk through a house of mirrors. Harper’s boyfriend David (former nemesis turned supernatural powerhouse that she is compelled to protect) is “fine?” Everything is going along well, even Bee has been returned by the Ephors. Harper Price is back, and just as fun as the first time! This week the sequel to Rachel Hawkins fabulous Rebel Belle hit the shelves, continuing the story of Harper Price, high school queen bee turned magical Paladin. ![]() ![]() Some people have skin in the game, such as citizens, merchants, businessmen, entrepreneurs, artisans, etc. What does it mean that you trust a professional? Do you trust their knowledge and skills? Or their ethics and moral values? Or both? In the introduction, the author focuses on the idea that one cannot disentangle ethics and competence when dealing with human beings. This post summarizes some of the ideas of the book. ![]() It deals with asymmetries in daily life (decision-making, risk management, politics, religion, etc.). “Skin in the Game” is the 5th book in Nassim Taleb’s Incerto series. This is reflected in his writings when theory (science) and practice (real life) are intertwined. He is a philosopher and cares about the consequences of theory on people’s life. He is a mathematician and cares a lot about rigor and logic. ![]() Nassim Taleb is a non-conventional thinker. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle-an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood-without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. ![]() The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. “A devastating love story…Gaunt and Ellwood will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” -Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait “In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love, and there is often a lightness to the book.”- The New York Times “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” -Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians. ![]() A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I. ![]() |