![]() ![]() ![]() Because Blaise's mother was best friends with Theo's, the two grew up playing together. Theodosia's best friend, growing up, was Blaise. It has long been suspected that Theodosia's father was the Queen's favorite Guardian, Ampelio. Theodosia Eirene Houzzara was born to Queen Eirene Houzzara, the Queen of Fire. She always vowed she would be different from the Kaiser. She wanted revenge for what has been done to her people but at the same time, she didn´t want to lower herself to the same level as the Kalovaxians. ![]() Theo has endured humiliation and countless atrocities from the Theyn which had planted a seed of hopelessness in her until her childhood friend, Blaise, appeared. Raised from the ashes of her Kingdom she´s proven to be brave and determined to get her Kingdom back. She is described as very pretty and enchanting. She also describes herself as having hazel eyes that resemble her father, Ampelio's. Theodosia has tawny brown skin, freckles, and dark hair, all of which mean she resembles her mother in an uncanny way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is clear in one of Clarke’s earliest stories, “Rescue Party” ( Astounding Science Fiction, 1946), in which a crew of tentacled aliens is dispatched by the galaxy administrators to go rescue a fledgling, bipedal civilization from a backwater planet about to be vaporized by the local sun going nova. ![]() What that means for Clarke’s End of the World stories is that the theme of extinction or a dying Earth is an opportunity to encourage us to leave our petty terrestrial concerns behind and embrace our galactic manifest destiny. Pursuing that mystery is humanity’s noblest aim – it is an essentially religious imperative that becomes a means of transcendence. But unlike other galactic narratives like Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, which treat the galaxy or universe as a gigantic platform on which to re-stage Edward Gibbon, Clarke keeps his universe unfailingly mysterious. ![]() Instead, they’re about to have their consciousness expanded as they become tied into a grand galactic narrative. In his stories, humans who face extinction, or who live as the last holdouts on a barren Earth, are not doomed. ![]() Clarke didn’t write write typical post-apocalyptic stories, but he sure liked to write about dying worlds, long-abandoned constructions, last cities, the end of humanity, and vast, empty spaces. ![]() ![]() That’s right, the phenomenal Studio Ghibli film you’ve known and loved all these years? It was based on a book! If you didn’t know, now you know.Īnyway, Harel and the Folio Society have breathed new life into this modern classic, adding six spectacular color illustrations and 21 black-and-white ones that open each chapter, along with an almost Harry Potter-esque cover design on the front and back. This time, I’ll point your attention to their rendition of Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel. The books they make are truly stunning objects crafted with care and they deserve prominence on your bookshelf. ![]() It’s been a while since I last wrote about The Folio Society, the London-based group that takes beloved works of literature and produces beautifully illustrated editions of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were at least five different kinds of drama that contributed to only two of the six band members getting on the bus the next morning. You think that it's going to be all about Daisy and Billy. It kept me on the edge of my seat, overanalyzing every frown and meaningful glance on stage as more details get filled in. The finale teases out what happened, alternating between a performance from their final concert and another piece of the band's crucial last day. ![]() Here is a full recap of how Daisy Jones & the Sixended. Even if you read the Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, watching the ending play out onscreen was intense. Are you crying after the Daisy Jones & the Six finale? Because I'm crying. Daisy Jones and the Sixbegan with a promise that we would learn why the fictional band broke up after a sold-out concert in Chicago at the height of their fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke: “I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.” On many editions, its jacket wears the praise of legendary sci-fi writer Arthur C. Since then, it has become one of the most influential pieces of post-war American fiction, and a staple of several literary genres including fantasy and science-fiction. In fact, there is no water anywhere to be found.ĭune met critical acclaim upon release in 1965. He never published the article on the Oregonian sands, but over the next several years Herbert wrote of another wind-carved world, Arrakis, where the dunes are all that is-and where there is no grass or coast to stop them. He returned to his home in Washington with the seed of something bigger: images of dunes taking over entire ecosystems, countries, planets. ![]() ![]() He was to write on the use of grass to slow the dunes’ movement, their spread. Author Frank Herbert traveled to Florence in 1957 on a reporting assignment. Dune was born in Florence, Oregon, where the temperate sand dunes meet the sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is 240 pages long and Miss Marple makes no appearance in this book until three-quarters of the way through. The first, and lesser, of the two is the fact that the blurb indicate Miss Marple is central to solving this mystery. There were two main problems with this book as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t read this title before so I went with it but I have to say, I was not that enamoured with this particular Christie title. Okay, we are looking at the third title in the Read Christie 2023 challenge here and the theme for this month was the motive of Anger. The official book choice this month is The Moving Finger, a book in which a small, country village is plagued by a series of vicious poison pen letters which soon lead to suicide, and then murder. The letter next to her body reads simply, ‘I can’t go on’.Īs fear spreads among the villagers, Jane Marple must uncover who is writing these letters – before anyone else is hurt. They try to dismiss them as a cruel hoax, but then one of the recipients is found dead. ![]() ![]() Until letters accusing the villagers of unspeakable acts start to appear. Nothing ever happens in the sleepy village of Lymstock. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pre-production of Tarzan began in 1995, with Lima selected as director and Buck joining him the same year. The film stars the voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O'Donnell, Brian Blessed, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight, and Nigel Hawthorne. The film was directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Bonnie Arnold from a screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White. The 37th film produced by the studio, and the tenth and last released during the Disney Renaissance era, it is based on the 1912 story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, being the first animated major motion picture version of the story. ![]() ![]() Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.ĭeep learning has become essential knowledge for data scientists, researchers, and software developers. Novices and experienced ML practitioners will love the expert insights, practical techniques, and important theory for building neural networks. All code and examples have been expertly translated to the R language by Tomasz Kalinowski, who maintains the Keras and Tensorflow R packages at RStudio. It’s based on the revised new edition of François Chollet’s bestselling Deep Learning with Python. Text generation, neural style transfer, and image generationĭeep Learning with R, Second Edition shows you how to put deep learning into action. ![]() Text classification and machine translation Image classification and image segmentation In Deep Learning with R, Second Edition you will learn: ![]() Deep learning from the ground up using R and the powerful Keras library! ![]() ![]() Kermit unexpectedly stands up for a student, the kids of SCS-8 notice his sense of “justice and fairness.” Mr. His relationship with his seven students-diverse in temperament, circumstance, and ability-will be one of “uncomfortable roommates” until June. So when he is assigned to teach the Self-Contained Special Eighth-Grade Class-a dumping ground for “the Unteachables,” students with “behavior issues, learning problems, juvenile delinquents”-he is unfazed, as he is only a year away from early retirement. Zachary Kermit, a 55-year-old teacher, has been haunted for the last 27 years by a student cheating scandal that has earned him the derision of his colleagues and killed his teaching spirit. ![]() ![]() ![]() An isolated class of misfits and a teacher on the edge of retirement are paired together for a year of (supposed) failure. ![]() ![]() ![]() This version was also released in two volumes with the addition of the chapters originally released in Tomie Again. Tomie was re-released again as part of The Junji Ito Museum of Horror ( 伊藤潤二恐怖博物館) series. Ī second series titled Atarashī Tomie ( 新しい富江, New Tomie) was serialized in Nemuki and was collected into a single bound volume titled Tomie Again: Tomie Part 3 ( 富江Again―富江 Part3) and released in March 2001. ![]() ComicsOne released both volumes on April 1, 2001, with flipped artwork (read left-to-right). The manga series was released in an omnibus volume in February 2000 titled, Tomie Zen ( 富江 (全)). Two volumes were collected into the overarching series The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection ( 伊藤潤二恐怖マンガCollection) as volume 1 and 2 of the series. ![]() Tomie appeared as a serial in the manga magazine Monthly Halloween from 1997 to 2000. ![]() |