![]() The peacock perhaps featured so prominently in story and mythology because it was seen by many cultures as a symbol of immortality the ancients believed that its flesh did not decay, even after death. Zeus freed Io, who was still in the form of a heifer. Hera then sent Argus Panoptis to watch over Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus.Īccording to the Roman writer Ovid, he did so by first lulling him to sleep by playing the panpipes and telling stories. In the version of the story in which Zeus transformed Io, the deception failed, and Hera begged Zeus to give her the heifer as a present, which, having no reason to refuse, he did. ![]() Many versions of peacock story in Greek mythology ![]()
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![]() ![]() This evenhanded and now-classic history illuminates the horrifying episode with visceral clarity, from the opportunistic Putnam clan, who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas and greed, to four-year-old "witch" Dorcas Good, who was chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. ![]() In less than two years, nineteen men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. ![]() During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to my professional engagements, my family members often felt ignored, though they never expressed it. The best part of post-retirement life is spending time with my family. I was soon to discover that the government was shortchanging me big time. However, the biggest revelation was discovering my true worth, financially and otherwise. Fortunately, there is not much of a change in the number. Even during my stint as a civil servant, I did not encourage hangers on, but now, in any case, only true friends are around to engage with. Thankfully, there are no such restrictions now. They are also perhaps unaware that a number of civil servants do express their opinions freely and frankly on files and during discussions though these don’t get to be known in public for good reason. Many outsiders who don’t have any idea about the civil services or the Code of Conduct wonder why some civil servants start expressing their views after retirement. However, the Code of Conduct prevented me from expressing my views in public. I had enjoyed every moment of my life as a Civil Servant (I wrote in Not Just a Civil Servant that if I were to be reborn, I would like to be an IAS officer) but what happened thereafter was even better. I superannuated as a civil servant on 30 June 2018. ![]() ![]() The author’s love of sea turtles and their preservation continues with this latest book – a process that I find to be quite fascinating. It explores many of the complexities of life during the pandemic, providing insight into how the Rutledge family coped. The Summer of Lost and Found was an entertaining and enjoyable read. Linnea’s life becomes more complicated as she has feelings for both men at the same time and is uncertain what to do about it. By the time Gordon arrives and finishes his quarantine, John and Linnea have rekindled their friendship. Desperate for company and to meet her financial obligations, Linnea invites a female colleague to move in with her. To compound things further, her former flame John has moved in next door to care for his Grandmother. Her boyfriend Gordon is in his native England and Linnea has felt the struggle of maintaining a long distance relationship. ![]() ![]() Linnea Rutledge has been furloughed from her position at the aquarium and is feeling all the financial, emotional and health issues many have felt in the past year. The book is set in the Isle of Palms during 2020 in the throws of the COVID-19 pandemic. It certainly can be read as a standalone, but is more likely appreciated if you’ve read the earlier books in the series. The Summer of Lost and Found is the seventh book in the author’s Beach Read series. ![]() It wouldn’t feel like summer if I didn’t read and share Mary Alice Monroe’s latest book. ![]() ![]() The trolls want Cécile and offered to pay him her weight in gold in return for delivering her to them. He brings her under the mountain, claiming that he has discovered the lost city of Trollus. ![]() Unfortunately, their plans are not meant to be and Cécile is captured by Luc, a man from her village, on the way to her going away party. ![]() At that point, she would accompany her mother to begin her own career as a singer, and Genevieve promised her, “When you stand on stage and sing, the whole world will love you” (pp. After discovering her daughter also had talent, Genevieve decided to provide singing lessons from tutors of her choice until Cécile turned seventeen. A few years ago, Genevieve made a rare visit to the village and requested that Cécile sing for her. On her seventeenth birthday, Cécile is preparing to leave her father’s farm behind to join her mother Genevieve, a famous singer, in the city. This is a great relief since Stolen Songbird is a wonderful story, and it would be terrible not to be able to read the rest of the series! The next book, Hidden Huntress, was scheduled for release in March 2015, but since its publisher was recently discontinued that date may no longer apply-although the author has stated that the sequel will be published one way or another. ![]() Jensen’s debut and the first book in The Malediction Trilogy. Stolen Songbird, a young adult fantasy, is Danielle L. ![]() ![]() He’s currently working in the video game industry, having written story scripts and world-building for multiple clients. He’s recently sold a show to Amazon Studios. DMZ has been adpated at a miniseries at HBOMax. He’s written three television pilots, for WV Entertainment, AMC, and Team Downey. ![]() He’s written original-trilogy Star Wars comics for Lucasfilm, and contributed several titles to the Alien universe, most notably creating the Zula Hendricks character from Aliens: Defiance. He’s written The X-Men for the Marvel Universe, as well as co-writing stories that informed the Moon Knight TV series. ![]() His historical fiction - the Viking series Northlanders, the American Revolution-centered Rebels, and the Norse-Samurai mashup Sword Daughter - are genre benchmarks in the comic book industry. His YA novels - Demo, Local, The New York Four, and Mara - have made YALSA and New York Public Library best-of lists. He left in 2003 to write full time.įrom the 1500-page war epic DMZ, the ecological disaster series The Massive, the American crime drama Briggs Land, the groundbreaking lo-fi dystopia Channel Zero, and the class inequality of Starve, Wood’s graphic novel work has always been relevant and timely. After graduating from the prestigious Parsons School of Design (moonlighting as a New York City bike messenger), Brian Wood spent several years designing for Rockstar Games, most notably on the Grand Theft Auto franchise. ![]() ![]() In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and best-selling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. ![]() Named a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Paste, and Pop Sugar Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfictionįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second major phase of his work, Baudrillard argues that even the notion of the sign as a vehicle of meaning and signification is too reductive rather, the Saussure of the anagrams, where words seem to emerge mysteriously, and almost magically, through the letters, is more in keeping with the way language works. Starting with a re-evaluation and critique of Marx’s economic theory of the object, especially as concerns the notion of ‘use-value’, Jean Baudrillard develops the first major phase of his work with a semiotically based theory of production and the object, one that emphasises the ‘sign-value’ of objects. The object of exchange-value is what Marx called the commodity form of the object. ![]() The use-value of an object would be its utility related in Marx’s terms to the satisfaction of certain needs exchange-value, on the other hand, would refer to the market-value of a product, or object measured by its price. Certainly, for a time, Marx was able to provide a relatively plausible explanation of the growth of capitalism using just these categories. In a society dominated by production, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) argues, the difference between use-value and exchange-value has some pertinence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her legal name was Lauren Oya Olamina Bankole. And she needed large events to manipulate. ![]() In spite of all her protests and denials, she’s always needed devoted, obedient followers-disciples-who would listen to her and believe everything she told them. I think that would please her, if she could know about it. As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future. Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. ![]() The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to “make America great again.” In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren’s subversive colony–a minority religious faction led by a young black woman–becomes a target for President Jarret’s reign of terror and oppression. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel’s timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. ![]() ![]() He was able to go back and forth between the real world and Witch World seamlessly and did so between the characters who existed in both worlds simultaneously. You receive hours of enjoyment from each book without having to buy fourteen quickies, ya know? Witch World held my interest. He doesn't give you a novella and call it a book. And I have to give him props for writing a complete book. ![]() I have enjoyed Christopher Pikes Thirst series and he is a wonderful writer who writes women quite well. She also seemed to speak in a whiny pitch when speaking in Jessica's voice which made me come to not like the character! When she spoke for a male character, she made me cringe and reminded me of kids in high school making crank calls and putting on a "man's voice". Justine did not speak clearly and has a habit of allowing her words to drift into a mumble towards the end of a sentence. That was the first thing that put me off about this audiobook. I didn't like Justine's way of speaking at all. What didn’t you like about Justine Eyre’s performance? I think I will stick to Gillian Flynn, can't get enough of her books at the moment! What do you think your next listen will be? Maybe someone with more appreciation for Sci-Fi would enjoy this better than I did. The whole story just seemed to drag on and branch out into other stories ultimately to no end. ![]() I am a big Pike fan, but I really did not enjoy this book. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? ![]() |