![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, the drinking habits of Carry On stars, and what to read in Iceland. ![]() Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, New Statesman TV critic and author joined John, Andy and former host Mathew way back in 2016 to discuss All The Devils Are Here, the astounding travelogue through Kent and the depths of human behaviour from David Seabrook. *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit backlisted.fm * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk./shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, 1967 (45'46) The books featured (with rough timings where they appear in the show) are: We start somewhere near the beginning with The Name of Action from 1930, a book Greene himself wanted suppressed… We cover several representative pieces – not necessarily the most famous of Greene’s work – and try to apply a fresh perspective to his long and sometimes controversial career. The whole of the next hour and a bit is dedicated to the work of Graham Greene – a writer we have long wanted to tackle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Zach finds a smart, beautiful, and a very self sufficient woman when they meet. Zach Balfour is a part time consultant for St.Kilda's, and he has been called away from his vacation to meet with Jill Breck and offer her protection and security from the company. Now Jill realizes she has to call in the favour of St.Kilda's Consulting. Soon Jill finds her car vandalized and the missing painting in shreds, along with a death threat. ![]() Jill finds a letter written by her great aunt to an art gallery requesting an evaluation on a painting which has now gone missing. On investigation, evidence proves that someone was searching the ranch before the fire was started. Her great aunt, Modesty Breck, has been killed in a suspicious fire. Jill has recently become the new owner of thirteen unsigned paintings by a famous Western artist, along with family property. Kilda's should she ever need security and protection. To repay their gratitude Jill has been extended the services of St. On a river trip Jill has saved the life of young Lane Faroe, son of the owner of St. Jill Breck is a whitewater river guide and wilderness expert. ![]() Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you think Sophie is feeling? What are some things that make you feel this way? Introduce the book. Tell the children that the story today is about a girl named Sophie. Social & Emotional Development/Social Relationships progresses in responding sympathetically to peers who are in need, upset, hurt, or angry and in expressing empathy or caring to others. Tell them that you are going to act out some emotions and see if the children can guess from your body language and facial expression. Help the children to notice anger does not only show in the face but the whole body. Volcano (a mountain that spits out the earth’s innards)Īsk the children how you can tell if someone is angry? Ask them to show you what angry looks like.Angry (when you feel really mad inside).This book shows how one person defuses with all those angry feelings in a positive way. Sometimes we all get really, really angry. ![]() Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of Books.Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading.Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rookmaaker said art itself can be a vehicle for carrying out Christ’s commandment to love others. Such is the power of art and beauty that Christian art scholar H.R. Good art enables us to appreciate true beauty. That’s why it’s easier to recall the tune and lyrics to a theologically rich hymn than to remember the points of a sermon. Art is powerful in penetrating our minds and spirits. ![]() But artistic truth should be taken seriously as well. Most Christians are accustomed to truth being communicated propositionally (in a three-point sermon, for example). ![]() What we call art is the physical expression of aesthetic principles. Should Christians Care about Aesthetics?Īesthetics is the study of how beauty both embodies and points the way to truth. To answer this question we must cultivate an understanding of the biblical worldview of aesthetics - whether objective beauty actually exists and how it might be known through the moral order and through nature. There seem to be two camps: those who believe that the value of Christian movies is primarily their effectiveness as a tool for evangelism and those who believe they are an art form, valuable for their own sake, that can reveal God’s truth in profound ways. LifeWay Christian Store’s recent decision to pull the film The Blind Side from its shelves because of profanity, violence, and immoral behavior has ignited a debate in Christian circles about the role of art and beauty, and Christians’ place in consuming and creating art. ![]() ![]() The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. (who presided when the Declaration was adopted) To interviewer David Frost, November 17, 1973 When the president does it, that means it's not illegal. shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. ![]() Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union. The process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. ![]() Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention The executive will be always increasing, as elsewhere, till it ends in monarchy. Nobody knows what sort may come afterwards. The first man put at the helm will be a good one. They lack information and are constantly liable to be misled.Ĭonnecticut delegate to the Constitutional Convention ![]() The people … immediately should have as little to do as may be about the government. ![]() ![]() If you continue doing things that have always worked for you, then you will get more of what has already happened: anxiety, depression and poor health. ![]() To break this cycle, it is important to first understand how your mind limits what is possible. If you keep living in the past, you will miss out on opportunities for the future. That’s why some people get addicted to those hormones so it’s hard for them to change their ways of thinking. This makes his body produce stress hormones like adrenaline or cortisol that make him more anxious or stressed out than before. For example, if someone gets hurt by something that happens today, he might remember his past experiences and feel bad again about them. The mind has the capacity to cure diseases with positive thoughts and beliefs, but most people don’t do this because they are stuck in their past pain. The book outlines principles and practices that help ordinary people improve health, mood, finances, and relationships. Joe Dispenza’s Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon (2017) explains how people can achieve their potential by harnessing the power inside themselves. ![]() ![]() 1-Page Summary of Becoming Supernatural Overview ![]() ![]() This will mean that my translations will not be exactly the same as the original, especially since I'll be translating from another fan translation (trust me if I could read Chinese, I would have tried translating from the original Chinese text). I am in no way a professional novel translator, an experienced writer, nor an experienced translator. Note: I will be translating this series from Vietnamese to English. But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb? Will they be able to find the real coffin? And just where will these puzzle lead the group?Įmbarking on eight-volume's worth of adventures, as Wu Xie slowly unravels millennium-old mysteries, he sees the deterioration of his naive world as he discovers the people around him are not what they seem and that he could trust no one in this tomb robbing world of deceit and lies. ![]() Together with his third uncle, Wu Sanxing, and a few other experienced tomb robbers, to search for the treasure. ![]() In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes. ![]() Translation Source(s): Tóng Mặt Than, Thủy Đạm Nguyệtĥ0 years ago, a group of Changsha grave robbers dug out manuscripts of the location of treasures from Warring states, but an encounter with an undead rendered almost the whole group dead. Also known as: The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, Grave Robbery Note, The Lost Tomb, Đạo Mộ Bút Ký ![]() ![]() ![]() They said to tell you their plane took off on time, ninety minutes after yours. We’d started our trip at La Guardia airport in New York, checking in at 5 A.M. Here in Seattle, it was only nine-thirty in the morning. During the flight I’d turned it back three hours. I looked from Cody to this stranger-uncle and back, feeling so not okay about the next nine weeks. “He isn’t shy,” I said, “he just hates shaking hands.” ![]() Neal tried to shake with Cody, but my little brother shrank back. Only Cody could get away with calling me Shannie these days. “I go by Shannon now,” I muttered as he gave me a hug. I could see my mother in the lines around his steel gray eyes, the shape of his lips, and the dimple on his chin. My mother had never said anything about her brother having a tattoo.Īll the same, it had to be him. Plus he had a tattoo-the word Sage on his left arm. This version was almost skinny and had no muscle definition. The uncle I was expecting had the strong, chiseled arms and legs of a climber. This Neal had a thin face and was clean-shaven from skull to chin. I was expecting him to look like his snapshot on our refrigerator back home, with curly black hair, a full face, and a neatly trimmed beard. I recognized his voice, but otherwise I was drawing a blank. ![]() “Shannie, over here,” he called as he came closer. Just some confused guy with a shaved head, that’s what I thought at first, but then he called my name. I didn’t even recognize him when he headed toward us at the crowded baggage carousel. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Him and I both look a little older now," Staal said. They can, however, get tickets at highly inflated prices on the resale market. residents only for the first 24 hours, preventing many Canadian fans from buying tickets when they first go on sale. ![]() Florida Panthers NHL playoff series to U.S. WATCH | Leafs great Darryl Sittler previews the series:ĭuration 2:00 Ticketmaster has restricted ticket sales for the Toronto Maples Leafs vs. ![]() "I don't answer because I don't know the number. "A number comes up on my phone that I don't know," said Maurice, whose team downed Boston after falling behind 3-1 in the best-of-seven series against a club that set NHL records for wins and points. He thought he was done with coaching until last June. He would return to Carolina for a second stint, coach a year in Russia, and then spend parts of nine seasons with the Winnipeg Jets before resigning in December 2021. Maurice certainly has figured things out since. "I don't think that I was necessarily prepared for it." You have to be aware of the impact of what you say in your room. In truth, a lot of it has to do with dealing with the Canadian market. "So many lessons that I've used going forward. "Really valuable to me," Maurice said Tuesday of his time in Toronto ahead of Game 1 against the Leafs. Maurice is surrounded by media during his first season as Leafs coach in 2007. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lingers on back roads looking for obscurely-named towns just for the amusement. ![]() During this initial leg of the journey William is excited to see new people and learn about their lives. Headed east, William visits Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina before turning southward into Georgia for a quick tour of the Southeast. William outfits his Ford van, which he calls Ghost Dancing, and set out on his journey from his Columbia, Missouri, home in March of 1978. Debating about what to do and what direction his life should take in light of these two events, William quietly decides to take a journey around the United States in hopes of discovering not only a little bit about his country but also about himself. ![]() William Least Heat Moon, whose given English name is William Trogdon, reaches a crisis point in his life when he loses his college teaching job and learns that his estranged wife is dating another man. Throughout his trip William encounters diverse people, explores natural wonders and finds out more about himself in the process. William sets out in his van to follow back roads of America, "blue highways" because they are colored blue on road maps. Blue Highways: A Journey into America is William Least Heat Moon's account of a three-month, 13,000-mile trip around the United States. ![]() |