To be sure, there were a few individualists who resisted these changes, but their aberrant thinking was corrected. Even better, we weren’t just politically merged with every fellow member of our own species, we were simultaneously introduced to countless other life forms. Our entire culture was transformed.Įarth found herself instantly united, a goal sought throughout history. The impact of this singular event can’t be overstated. In that blessed year, the Galactics revealed themselves to Humanity. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.
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Internet links to resources mentioned in this paper are included. This paper aims to raise awareness of valuable resources that can aid collection stewards in promoting, planning, and executing collaborative preventive conservation and collections care activities for the natural history community. Preventive care projects almost always benefit from an interdisciplinary approach with input from conservators and the full range of staff who work with collections in other capacities. Collection care professionals, especially those working with natural science specimens that number in the thousands or millions, know that the everyday practices of preventive conservation contribute to greater overall collections preservation and prevent damage that requires time-consuming and expensive interventive treatment. Risk assessment, disaster planning, environmental monitoring, maintenance of collections spaces, integrated pest management, and development of collection policies and procedures are some of the methodologies that foster preservation of cultural heritage and are a part of responsible stewardship. There is so much about art and the creative process in this book. What is the impact of this kind of loss on Clara and Gamache? Have you ever experienced anything similar in your own life?ħ. Both Peter and Gamache’s father, in a sense, disappear. But found, Reine Marie thought, her heart.”Ħ. What do you think of Ruth’s role in this story? For example, consider the scene in Massey’s studio, where she “seemed to have lost her mind. On the first page of the book, we hear about Armand Gamache’s repeated gesture, “so tiny, so insignificant.” What is the true significance of this and other seemingly inconsequential actions in this story?ĥ. What does it mean to you to be a “brave man in a brave country”? How does courage-or cowardice-feature in this novel?Ĥ. Did you? How did your view of him change in the course of the book?ģ. “I thought he’d come home,” Clara says of Peter. How did you feel about the decisions they both make at this point?Ģ. Clara first approaches Gamache with great ambivalence: wanting (though fearing) to know what happened to Peter, while reluctant to disturb Gamache’s newfound peace. The Long Way Home Reading Group Discussion Guideġ. It is the first book in the seven-book Septimus Heap series. Magyk (an archaic spelling of "Magic") is a fantasy novel written by English author Angie Sage. Her inventive fantasy is filled with humor and heart: Magyk will have readers laughing and begging for more. The first part of this enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells, and a yearning to uncover the mystery at the heart of this story.who is Septimus Heap?Īngie Sage writes in the tradition of great British storytellers. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son, Septimus? The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a newborn girl with violet eyes. The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells. We’re going much deeper in today’s show to discuss a topic that affects all communities-child abuse and neglect and how, through CASA, a National, non-profit court-appointed special advocate and guardian ad litem organization, communities and individuals are changing a child’s life-story by advocating for children and youth who have experienced abuse or neglect.Īnd, how even just one small act of kindness or a little bit of encouragement can have a positive ripple effect on someone’s life. By the age of 3 she was in Florida’s foster care system where she spent almost 10 years being shuttled between 14 homes-some quite abusive-before being adopted from a children’s home at the age of 12. Since her first national keynote at age 14, Ashley has shared her story with thousands in the United States and in more than 7 countries. Joining us today is Ashley Rhodes-Courter, author of the New York Times and international bestselling memoir, “Three Little Words,” and its sequal, “Three More Words.” She’s an international keynote speaker, licensed clinical social worker, and founder of The Foundation for Sustainable Families. How he got that way is both the theme and the riddle of McGilligan’s book. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds.” He was, in a word, precocious. Over the next decade, he would make his Broadway debut, tour in repertory with Katharine Cornell, start his own theater company, astonish New York with his productions of “Macbeth” with an all-black cast and a modern-dress “Julius Caesar,” and cause a widespread panic with his Halloween 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. But he arrived in Hollywood bearing the label of “Boy Wonder,” having made his professional stage debut at age 16 with the Gate Theatre in Dublin, where he played, in heavy makeup, characters much older than he was. As McGilligan points out, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and John Ford had all made movies by the time they reached that age. As monuments tend to do, it cast a shadow over the remaining years of his life.Īt age 25, Welles was not exceptionally young to be making his debut as a film director. There is not likely to be a more fitting observance of those anniversaries than Patrick McGilligan’s “Young Orson,” the story of Welles from his early life to the creation of the movie that was to become his lasting monument. Orson Welles was born 100 years ago, released his most celebrated film, “Citizen Kane,” almost 75 years ago and died 30 years ago. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
The Baron’s son seemed to be in every respect worthy of his father. Her daughter Cunegonde was seventeen years of age, fresh-coloured, comely, plump, and desirable. The Baron’s lady weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, and was therefore a person of great consideration, and she did the honors of the house with a dignity that commanded still greater respect. They called him “My Lord,” and laughed at all his stories. All the dogs of his farm-yards formed a pack of hounds at need his grooms were his huntsmen and the curate of the village was his grand almoner. His great hall, even, was hung with tapestry. The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had not only a gate, but windows. Image from the Trier University Candide Database, courtesy of Hans-Ulrich Seifert. Candide – Illustration by Richard Dreher. And when her parents don’t return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it-has been going on for a while now. When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival, Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, Environmental At first glance, it might seem contradictory. If you’re lucky enough to have more than one person weighing in, search for commonalities in their feedback. Before you begin revising, listen to what the agent is suggesting. My relationship with several clients started this way, and I’m grateful they were able to drop their defenses and let me share my thoughts on their work.Ģ. I know it can be disappointing to receive an offer to revise instead of an offer of representation, but if a writer can shake off that disappointment and welcome the creative feedback, oftentimes an offer of representation will follow. Either way, you’re on the right track if an agent connected with so much of your story that s/he wants to help make it stronger. Think the feedback was overly-critical? Maybe that’s because you’re thinking this is about you and not about your story. Think the agent doesn’t get what you were trying to do? Maybe that’s because it wasn’t clear enough. Hey, we’re talking revision, aren’t we? It only seemed appropriate.įour Five Tips on Revising with Feedback from an Agentġ. Hope you don’t mind my adding a fifth tip to your list. Thanks for asking me to join in the conversation, Skila. And I’ve asked the spectacular Tina Wexler, Literary Agent at ICM, to chime in with thoughts of her own. If you’re in this boat, I’m offering up four five tips today on what to do next. And one thing that can be particularly difficult is receiving feedback from an agent-revision suggestions-with an offer to resubmit instead of an offer of representation. |