![]() ![]() ![]() The mayor of Les Sables-d’Olonne Yannick Moreau praised the magnitude of the 40-year-old Neuschäfer’s achievement. I didn’t want to be in a separate category but to compete on equal terms with all the skippers.” Neuschäfer also touched on the issue of gender given she was the only woman in the race, adding: “I wanted to win, not as a woman. I had the will to win as soon as I registered for the race and I did all my preparations accordingly.” “It’s a fast, elegant boat, on which I worked a lot for a year. I even got angry with her, but I love her very much,” the victor explained per Sail-World. ![]() Olivier Blanchet/ALeA/Getty ImagesĪfter finishing with an official time of 233 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes and 47 seconds, Neuschäfer said her boat – Minnehaha – had been her “companion,” throughout the adventure. Neuschäfer became the first women to ever win the race. ![]()
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He traces a path between the dogmatism (despotic tyranny) and skepticism (complete anarchy) that he says have characterized most previous metaphysics. ![]() Kant famously calls metaphysics “the queen of all the sciences” (A viii). ![]() For the purposes of this essay, I will limit my discussion to metaphysics, which is also the subject of this first Critique. In his preface to the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant sketches his vision of philosophy’s task after the transcendental turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what its like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. 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Reinventing Comics explains twelve "revolutions" which McCloud predicts are necessary for the comic book to survive as a medium, focusing especially on online comics and CD-ROM comics. Paradox Press, formerly an imprint of DC Comics, is now defunct and William Morrow is now a division of HarperCollins, so subsequent printings of the book have been released by HarperCollins. Reinventing Comics was released in 2000 in separate editions published by Paradox Press and William Morrow Paperbacks. It is a thematic sequel to his critically acclaimed Understanding Comics, and was followed by Making Comics. Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000) is a book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The invisibility of female spies, or ‘she-intelligencers’, was compounded by contemporary beliefs that women were incapable of keeping secrets. The intelligence-gathering of Elizabeth and other women, often paid as nurses by Cromwell’s spymaster John Thurloe, has usually been treated as a footnote to the real business of warfare. Her husband was hanged by the Royalists at Oxford for spying and she had put her life in danger in the service of the state. Elizabeth later claimed that during the Civil Wars she was ‘imployed as a Spye by the Earl of Essex, Sir William Waller, & the now Lord Generall ffairfax’. In February 1649 the Royalist newsbook Mercurius Pragmaticus characterised ‘Parliament Jone’, aka Elizabeth Alkin, as ‘an old Bitch’ able to ‘smell out a Loyall-hearted man as soon as the best Blood-hound in the Army’. ![]() ![]() Sweet! The basis for the story: beauty is in the eye of the beholder works for me and there was one line at the beginning that really got to me: "Benji, you're so beautiful," he whispered as he tenderly stroked my cheek. The story is about a small shy guy who meets a giant shy bear. ![]() This is my fourth read from this author and, for a free online writer, he’s pretty good. He didn't come across as a crier, so fingers crossed X X! It's about Ben's brother and I liked him. So, a quick free read that was again, VERY sweet and VERY sobby. ![]() Apparently I'm not a fan of after sex tears. Damn boys, the sex seemed good, quit your crying. He apologized to Ben once about it and of course, got the obligatory "that's one of the things I love about you" responses. My complaint would have to be for the copious rivers of tears that Benji sheds. These two are quick with the "I love you forever and ever until the day I die" statements, but I can always forgive that a little when you have two characters who are obviously very lonely going in the relationship. ![]() Lots of set ups for the stereotypes here and no big surprises. Ben is a big, shy hairy bear and Benji is a small, shy twink. Ben is a truck driver and Benji is a dispatcher. ![]() This is a story about two guys who have just never found their place or the person that makes them whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author has a unique way of presenting her story (more about that in a while) which make her books such an exciting read. I have eagerly been waiting to get my hands on a copy of All The Rage by Cara Hunter, as it’s definitely one of my all-time favourite police procedure/crime thriller series. All he can do is try to ignore the sickening feeling he’s seen something like this before…īut when another girl goes missing, Fawley knows his time is running out.īecause if he ignores the past any longer, this girl may not be coming back. ![]() The story she tells is terrifying: grabbed off the street, a plastic bag forced over her head, then driven somewhere remote and subjected to an assault.ĭI Adam Fawley is doing the best he can to investigate, but the teenager refuses to press charges. All The Rage by Cara Hunter, but first the book description…….Ī distressed teenage girl is found on the outskirts of Oxford. ![]() Today I’m thrilled to be sharing my review for one of my favourite crime series. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have read I Capture the Castle and fallen under its immensely charming and slightly melancholy spell, and they know that everyone else who loves that book must be a kindred spirit. They have strong opinions about whether Cassandra and Simon Cotton ought to be together (they should not, Simon does not deserve Cassandra) and whether the 2003 movie adaptation was any good (it was not, young Henry Cavill was inspired casting for Stephen but everything else was nonsense). It’s a club whose members daydream about dyeing all their clothes green, as the penniless Mortmain family does when they can’t afford to buy anything new, and drinking cherry brandy outside an English country village inn, the way 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain does with her sister and her sister’s two suitors. Once you read it, you fall in love with it, and from then on you’re part of a secret club, self-selecting and wildly enthusiastic. It’s not quite famous, even among Smith’s works (her most famous title would be 101 Dalmati a ns), but for a certain kind of reader - mostly women, mostly bookish - it is perfect. ![]() ![]() I Capture the Castle is that kind of book. “Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle,” writes Jenny Han in her foreword to the new edition of Dodie Smith’s 1948 classic, “I know we must be kindred spirits.” ![]() ![]() Though the lead character rules the Dreaming and our very sleep, The Sandman is about the concept of dreams more so than the act of dreaming. ![]() The difficulties he faces are often a result of how he interacts with humans and lesser beings. As with most great tragedies, Morpheus is his own worst enemy. What threatens Morpheus most are not big, ugly creatures (though they certainly do exist), but his own ego. The few times he does battle, it is his wits, not his power, that provide the victory. A lesser writer could easily have succumbed to "Superman Syndrome," wherein he throws bigger and uglier monsters Morpheus' way as the only form of a challenge. The events in these first stories may seem to be important only to the present tale, but almost all prove to have a connection to later issues leading into the series finale.Īs an immortal being, a function of the universe personified, there is little that can threaten Morpheus. ![]() Many Vertigo books since The Sandman, including Transmetropolitan and Y: The Last Man, have adopted Gaiman's finite format. The Sandman is not a series of unconnected events and is structured nothing like an incoherent dream. As the title suggests, Dream is the focus of the series and his journey is distinct and deliberate. Each of the seven ethereal beings embodies a different facet of existence, though only Dream, Death and Desire are explored in the first 20 issues collected in Absolute Sandman Vol. Morpheus is one of the Endless, beings older and more powerful than gods. ![]() |