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From 1901 to 1905 he created 500 works adhering to his ideal of 'natural painting'. Early in his career Sorolla mainly portrayed religious and social scenes before developing his own plein-air painting from the 1900s onwards, painting townscapes, garden scenes, nature studies, seascapes and beach scenes with an extraordinary ability of capturing light. He was also a highly sought after portraitist. He was a prolific and popular artist, working on a wide range of subjects - genre, portraits and landscapes - and his impressionist style marked by luminous colouring and vigorous brushwork earned him a considerable reputation throughout Europe and America. Born in Valencia, this Spanish painter was active mainly in his native town and in Madrid. Joaquin Sorolla Sorolla (1863-1923) was one of the greatest natural painters of all time. Living in an all-woman community of Animal Wives-half-Yokai women of unnatural beauty who marry humans in order to steal their wealth-Mari is “considered ugly,” Jean says. Set in a mythic Japan of the past where gods leave smudges on the foreheads of emperors to single them out and supernatural beings called Yokai walk among men, Empress of All Seasons’ protagonist Mari finds herself out of step with those around her. Time and again when deciding what shape her narrative would take, she was determined to, in her own words, “burn tropes.” With her second young adult novel, Empress of All Seasons, Jean, who is half-white and half-Japanese, set out to address the issues that had once convinced her that writing fantasy simply wasn’t in the cards for a girl like her. Dominated by white characters and heavily influenced by Western mythology, those books both drew her in and kept her at a distance. Growing up, Emiko Jean was always a big fan of fantasy novels. COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. I’ve really enjoyed doing the Read Wide challenge this year, and it definitely challenged me to try some things I normally wouldn’t pick up. So I plan to take care of that category this week. But on my Read Wide challenge (a challenge I’ve created and done for the last few years), I’m ONE book away. I set a goal for 60 books, and right now I’m sitting at 73, so I’m good there. I hit my Goodreads challenge a while back. If you’re anything like me, you’re currently scrambling to finish whatever 2019 reading challenges you signed up for. No, not because of the holidays, though I do love the holidays, but because it’s new planner time and… This time of the year is one of my most favorite times of the year. Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness. It returns you to otherness, whether in yourself or in friends, or in those who may become friends. “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. In this article, we’ll share some of the most striking advice from the book on… well, how to read and why. In How to Read and Why, Bloom dispenses wisdom for the avid reader. He was also a prodigious writer, producing over fifty books during his lifetime, as well as editing hundreds of anthologies. Given that, Bloom was uniquely well positioned to answer the question of why we should read and how we should go about it.Īccording to legend, Bloom could read a 400-page book in an hour without sacrificing comprehension and could recite the whole of Shakespeare’s poetry by heart. The late Harold Bloom, literary critic and professor, may well have been one of the most prolific readers of all time. Tessa Dare spins a witty, wanton tale of passion and conquest, as a reformer and a rake find unexpected love.Only one thing could convince Sir Tobias Aldridge, an incorrigible libertine, to profess undying fidelity to a woman he's just met. For if Toby wins this battle of persuasion, Isabel could lose her heart. If she can reform the charming devil, she'll get exactly what she craves: society's respect. Sir Toby, with his paltry title and infamous reputation, is unsuitable husband material - but he makes her blood race, her heart pound, and her long-buried passions come to the surface. Isabel is determined to marry a wealthy, powerful lord and become a lady of influence, using her rank and fortune to fight social injustice. When the prize is Isabel Grayson, vengeance is doubly rewarding. What better way to get back at an enemy than by stealing the scoundrel's sister? Not that Toby finds it a chore, seducing a beguiling, sultry beauty freshly arrived from the West Indies. Only one thing could convince Sir Tobias Aldridge, an incorrigible libertine, to profess undying fidelity to a woman he's just met. In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout. When I went back to Italy everyone was thrilled. Three days later, they published a full page of my photographs entitled: “Preparing for the 1980 Olympics.” When a journalist asked me about being a woman photographer, I got quite annoyed Who do I go to?” Fortunately, nothing was happening that day. I got on a plane to London and, without an appointment, walked into the foyer of the Times and said: “I’ve got some photos. When people saw my pictures, they’d say: “They’re great.” But I didn’t believe them – it was too easy to say. A friend of mine was head of the Italian Olympic committee and he asked me to document sports centres he was setting up across the country. My husband created a dark room for me in the basement and I started fiddling about with his old Rolleiflex. I remember sitting beside him in the hospital thinking: “My God, but for a few seconds, I would be a widow. My children were five and seven when my husband had a car accident. In the late 1960s, I was living in Rome with my family. I’d hide behind people and avoid wearing bright colours, so as to pass unnoticed. ‘I was more interested in Alain Delon’ … Burton as the Russian revolutionary in the film. There has not been a book of hers that I haven’t enjoyed. REVIEW: Last Kiss Goodnight by Gena Showalterīy Ash | | Review | 1 commentTweet Ash’s review of Last Kiss Goodnight (Otherworld Assassins, Book 1) by Gena Showalter Paranormal Romance published by Pocket Books 26 Dec 12 Gena Showalter is one of my favorite authors. REVIEW: Can’t Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalterīy Sandy M | | Review | Tweet Sandy M’s review of Can’t Hardly Breathe (Original Heartbreakers, Book 4) by Gena Showalter Contemporary Romance published by HQN 29 Aug 17 While I enjoyed a few parts of this story, one major factor kept me from really liking it. REVIEW REVISIT: Ecstasy in Darkness by Gena Showalterīy Gwen | | Review | 2 commentsTweet Gwen’s review of Ecstasy in Darkness (Alien Huntress, Book 5) by Gena Showalter Sci-fi Romance released by Pocket Star 26 Oct 10 Original Review posted For the first chapter or two (or three) of this book, I was convinced I would hate the. By Evelyn | | Review | Tweet Evelyn’s review of The Immortal (Rise of the Warlords, Book 2) by Gena Showalter Paranormal Romance published by HQN Books 01 Feb 22 Groundhog Day with a sinister twist, along with Gods, immortals, mythical creatures, and magical powers…I call that. If the hurricane doesn’t come this autumn, it’ll likely come the next. Grow up in North Carolina and it’s hard to get too attached to a beach house, knowing, as you do, that it’s on borrowed time. I received my bachelor of arts degree in 1987, when I was thirty. It might be different now, but in 1984, if you could draw Snoopy on a cocktail napkin, you were in. The place that I eventually graduated from, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has its qualities but is nowhere near Oberlin when it comes to academics. The first two were OK, I guess, but midway through my sophomore year I got heavily into drugs and dropped out.Įveryone said that was it-I’d made an irreparable mistake at age twenty and could never correct it. I went to three in all, looking for the right fit. A good public school followed by college. Like most of you, I am incredibly grateful for the education I received. It’s not necessarily better than the one I earned by going to classes and putting myself into debt, but I’m trying to collect a stack of them before I die, so I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, and for presenting me with this honorary degree. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. |