![]() ![]() What elements of yourself do you see in Rosalie? In Abdullah? In Faisal? In Miriam? TMR: When asked about his famous character, Emma Bovary, Flaubert said “Madame Bovary, she is me.” I’m sure you get lots of questions about how autobiographical your characters are. ![]() Between flying around the country to give readings and celebrate her book publication with her family and friends, she took the time to sit down and answer a few questions for TMR about her new novel. Calling her a local writer is only half-accurate: she’s lived in Saudi Arabia, Texas, New Jersey, Iowa, and now, right here in Columbia where, among other things, she runs the Quarry Heights Workshop. ![]() Keija has just released her deubt novel, The Ruins of Us, on Harper Perennial. And it is also really wonderful to know that there is a writer here in Columbia not immediately connected to the university, and thriving with her own work. I can’t remember how the conversation started, but we talked for a solid half-hour about … well, a little bit of everything, with that effortless rhythm that happens when I speak to someone genuinely interesting. I first met Keija Parnissen last summer when she and her husband Michael stopped by The Missouri Review’s summer launch party. ![]()
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![]() Plot: Past tense, told by an omniscient third person narrator. ![]() Achilles then refuses to fight in the Greek army, which causes them to suffer losses to the Trojans. Apollo hears her prayers and sends a plague to the Greek military camp.Ĭonflict: Agamemnon demands Achilles’s war prize (the maiden Briseis), which hurts Achilles’s pride greatly. Chryseis’s father offers a ransom for his daughter, but Agamemnon refuses to return her. The Greek army captures Chryseis and Briseis, two beautiful maidens from an ally town to Troy. ![]() Major Thematic Elements: The glory of war heroes military victories valued above personal life the fleeting nature of human existenceĮxposition: It is nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Value, of type object, that returns the resource that's currently being used by the markup extension.Dark, of type object, that you set to the resource to be used when the device is using its dark theme.Light, of type object, that you set to the resource to be used when the device is using its light theme.Default, of type object, that you set to the resource to be used by default.The AppThemeBinding markup extension is supported by the AppThemeBindingExtension class, which defines the following properties: The AppThemeBinding markup extension enables you to consume a resource, such as an image or color, based on the current system theme. 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Resources for light and dark themes can be consumed with the AppThemeBinding markup extension, and the SetAppThemeColor and SetAppTheme extension methods. ![]() ![]() The following screenshot shows themed pages, for the light system theme on iOS and the dark system theme on Android: NET MAUI apps can respond to system theme changes on iOS 13 or greater, Android 10 (API 29) or greater, macOS 10.14 or greater, and Windows 10 or greater. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Since David had cornered the market on perfection, I had to settle for mining the depths of my own imperfection.” Spellman co-workers include younger sister, Rae ( “Rae would eventually throw everything off balance, but I’ll get to that later.”) Then there’s her parents: her mother, Olivia who met her father when she was spying on a potential brother-in-law, and her father and former police detective, Albert. It’s been a hard road getting there after a decade of childish rebellion. ![]() Isabel is a private investigator in the family business, Spellman Investigations. ![]() This book won’t work for some, but head into it in the right frame of mind and it’s a fun ride, a modern screwball comedy crossed with spy caper, Harriet the Spy meets Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() So what's a girl to do? Her answer, born of desperation: move in with her crazy, widowed mother - who Ginger claims sucks the life force out of every creature within one city block of her - and her grandmother, who spends much of her day engaged in heated arguments with her dead husband. And the spiral continues: her cozy little sublet (really, she liked having her shower in the kitchen) is about to be yanked away, and the prestigious little design firm where she works is about to go belly-up. When was the last time she'd seen him? She'd better not leave town. At the door: Nick, Ginger's "first." Only, he's a police officer now, and he wants to find out what she knows about her M.I.A. And her trip to hell in a handbasket was about to escalate. So here she sat, alone in her cramped apartment, wedding crinolines askew, drowning her sorrows in a hundred-dollar bottle of Veuve Cliquot, when her doorbell rang. ![]() In the space of a few hours, thirty-year-old Ginger Petrocelli had gone from bride-to-be to bride-who-never-was. ![]() ![]() (Almost literally tons.) Over the past year, we’ve spent a lot of time getting comfortable with easy readers. ![]() Since my daughter is almost five, we’ve had limited interaction with some of these book types so far, particularly the ones above her current reading level. There are easy readers (sometimes called “I Can Read” books), beginning readers, middle readers, transitional readers, chapter books, young adult books – the list goes on and on. (If you’re really not interested in reading a brief aside about children’s book types, scan down a bit and I’ll say “ BORING PART OVER” when I’m done.) There are lots of categories and terms for these books – some are used often, some less so, some are interchangeable, some are used incorrectly… it can be a huge pain. Different formats work best at different stages along your child’s development as a reader. I’m cool.) I’m talking about format – how many pages, what’s the text-to-picture ratio, how big is the font, how long is the story, etc. ![]() (Unless there are some really awesome picture books that no one has turned me onto yet. Generally, you don’t have to worry about boobs, blood, and salty language until you get into later-age YA fiction. And I’m not talking about subject matter. ![]() ![]() ![]() One year later he was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency by Irene Kennedy. She had been one of thirty-five Syracuse students returning from a semester overseas. Rapp's high school sweetheart Maureen Eliot, who was attending Syracuse University with Rapp, was killed in the Decembombing of Pan Am Flight 103. ![]() The primary focus of the character is thwarting foreign terrorist attacks on the United States and he is presented as an aggressive operative who is willing to take measures that are more extreme than might be considered commonly acceptable. Rapp is a counter-terrorism operative, employed, first unofficially then officially, by the CIA. Since Flynn's death in 2013, the series has been continued by Kyle Mills. Mitch Rapp is a fictional character in a series of novel by Vince Flynn and in the film adaptation of American Assassin. Special Assistant to the Director of the CIA on CounterterrorismĪnna Rielly (from Executive Power to Consent to Kill) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You may think the trials and tribulations of a star's cancer experience could not possibly relate to the average Joe, but you would be wrong. Friendships and relationships are stronger and more meaningful, she has developed friendships she might never have had without cancer, and her compassion for others has grown tremendously. Like most cancer survivors, Fran Drescher (best known for TV's The Nanny) knows that cancer has changed her life, in a good way. 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From Moby Dick to Pride and Prejudice, here are The Great Books of Western Literature for toddlers and their parents in board book form-a little bit serious, a little bit ironic, entirely funny and clever, and always a welcome gift. ![]() They hit upon the classics as the basis for their infant primers, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Cozy Classics series is the brainchild of two brothers, both dads, who were thinking of ways to teach words to their very young children. It's a first words primer for your literary little one! ![]() Jane Austen's Emma tells of a well-to-do young lady who loves to play the matchmaker, and the many surprises she encounters as she attempts to secure a happy ending for her friends-and for herself. Budding bookworms will delight in this clever retelling of the classics made just for them! Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. ![]() Cuddle up with a classic! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped inside a picture-perfect, make-believe world that is home to a frightening reality, Martin must find a way out that will allow him to stay alive without becoming the very thing he hates.Ī novel of rage and compassion, good and evil, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the thought-provoking story of one man’s desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order. Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery-but this time around, the black men are called “Master.” Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions… They invite him for a weekend away from it all-no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. ![]() He’s dazzled by what they’ve accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover Tell us what you like and well recommend books youll love. Plus, get a FREE ebook when you sign up Books by Dwayne Alexander Smith. ![]() Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. Dwayne Alexander Smith Photograph by Gordon Chou About The Author Simon & Schuster. A young black attorney confronts issues of race and power as he uncovers a shocking conspiracy in the most page-turning and provocative thriller since The Firm. ![]() |
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