![]() ![]() ![]() Music Credits: Questions? Comments? Email us at: on Acast. ![]() If you have a small horror or web fiction project you want in the spotlight, email us! Send your name, pronouns and project to Story: Vault Imaginary, a forum for horror creators: ![]() Get those pencils sharpened, here’s your first assignment.PENPAL PART ONE. CREEPYPASTA BOOK CLUB EPISODE 1: PENPAL (PART 1)Ī new season means a fresh new look! Two best friends welcome you back from fall break! Jonah and Wednesday discuss the mystery, dread and nostalgia of Dathan Auerbach (1000vultures)’s Footsteps, Balloons and Boxes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She convinces him to make a speech during the concert. Everything seems normal until Elena, the younger of the two daughters, sneaks away to make contact with a former Soviet sympathizer. Raisa flies to New York with her girls and students. ![]() Leo suspects something will go wrong, but this is dismissed as his old paranoia from his days working for the MGB. We find her arranging a joint American-Soviet concert in New York. As Leo has slipped into obscurity, his wife has rise as a teacher. The first part of the book shows Leo living as low profile an existence as possible with his wife, Raisa, and two adopted daughters. But after the high drama of the first two-thirds of the series, this book was kind of a let down. Perhaps this was the author’s point, that all the terror and suspicion were pointless. There’s a keen sense of how pointless it all is. But by the time we’ve rejoined Leo Demidov in 1965, everyone feels tired and disillusioned. As you read, you felt at least a piece of the fear and paranoia of that time. Those first books were marvelous portraits of life in Soviet Russia. I am sorry to report that it doesn’t compare to the previous two books. Agent 6 is the last book in a trilogy detailing the trails and travails of Leo Demidov, former MGB agent. ![]() ![]() Horrified but resigned, the teens reluctantly meet, and an awkward coffee date spirals into a fake relationship for the press George is the public face of an etiquette app for teen boys that his family’s company is launching. ![]() Mama has whisked Sharlot off for her first trip to Indonesia to spend the summer learning how to jadi orang, or succeed as an adult. The perfect match comes in the form of one Sharlot Citra-or at least Sharlot’s mom, who’s likewise committing a catfishing scheme to set up her daughter with a respectable boy. George’s dad and sister decide he needs a girlfriend and set up an online profile for him. Meanwhile in Jakarta, George Clooney Tanuwijaya, son of the country’s second richest family, is caught by his father in a similarly racy solo situation. ![]() ![]() What she did not plan for was her mom walking in on her and her boyfriend. Southern California high school junior Sharlot Citra had everything planned out for her first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() That year, the National Council was to meet in the South, in Dallas, Texas, and that caused real concern among the planners. That job was given to the upcoming president. In 1952 I served as the national meeting chairman. ![]() John Haefner: Well, I'll start with the annual meeting. What kinds of times were those? What was the social-political context for social studies education then? You wrote the preface to the 1953 yearbook, a book on the teaching of social studies skills, which you referred to as citizenship skills, such as gathering and evaluating information, communicating, and critical thinking. In 1952 you were elected president of NCSS and served as the presiding officer throughout 1953. Mary Hepburn: John Haefner, I would like to obtain your perspective on social studies education over the years since you served as president of National Council for the Social Studies. Hepburn is professor of social science education and head of the Citizen Education Division at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, Athens. ![]() The interview was conducted for Social Education by Mary Hepburn in November 1994. In this interview, he shares his reflections on social studies education then and now, and on the constant challenges facing NCSS. John Haefner was NCSS President over 40 years ago, in 1953-farther back in time than any other current NCSS member who has served as President. ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, the colossus of the Recherche is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, shoulder-to-shoulder with Joyce's Ulysses, and many readers consider it the greatest novel ever written, period. ![]() Proust sacrificed the last seventeen years of his life as well as the last vestiges of his fragile health to the composition of this book, and still never managed to finish it. ![]() ![]() At the risk of making a gross reduction, it is fair to say that Proust really wrote just one book: A la recherche du temps perdu, a sprawling, gorgeous, baffling, unforgettable novel about childhood and adolescence, travel and high society, sensation and sexuality, sleep and dreams, memory and forgetting, jealousy and art, comprising some 1.3 million words published between 19. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perry is a pretty wild storyteller with a brand all his own, turning a harrowing story into a compulsively engrossing book. ![]() ![]() In turns self-deprecating, self-pitying, ingenious, with a touch of newfound spirituality and tinged with gratitude, it’s all in good humour (barring a couple of nasty bits, including one that has stirred up a bit of a storm, where Perry talks about some talented actors dying tragically early yet “Keanu Reeves still walks among us?”). This isn’t to say there aren’t behind-the-scenes tidbits that one looks for in celebrity memoirs: he tells us how his different addictions mapped his physicality through Friends, how at his highest career peak he was personally at his lowest, how he managed to get the last line on the finale of the show. Perry isn’t as invested in detailing his starry career as he is in unpacking his life through the lens of his catastrophic addiction, while tying the pain of his childhood to his rocky adult years, where he finds himself incredibly rich, the centre of attention, flitting between addiction and sobriety, but still alone and lonely. ![]() ![]() ![]() The door to it was opened by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. ![]() But the bourgeois life, simple and rather primitive, turned out, oddly enough, the most fertile soil for the birth of the most spiritualized trend in culture. Germany of the late XVIII - early XIX century, little resembled a magical, poetic country. It began in literature, giving a powerful impetus to all other forms of art. German romanticism is one of the most interesting and fruitful periods in art. The brief content of this work will allow you to get acquainted with some features of German Romanticism, which had a huge impact on the further development of art. But one of the most famous fairy tales was the "Golden Pot" (Hoffmann). ![]() At the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries, the name of the Brothers Grimm sounded loud, which created an amazing, magical world in their works. ![]() The fairy tales of German writers Gesner, Wieland, Goethe, Hauf, Brentano were fertile ground for the development of Romanticism in Germany. Folklore tales existed verbally for centuries, while author tales began to appear only with the development of book printing. They freely intertwine fiction with real historical events, and they are a kind of encyclopedia of traditions and everyday features of different countries. ![]() ![]()
![]() Julianne MacLean is a USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the contemporary women’s fiction Color of Heaven Series. ![]() Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage-and most importantly, the true meaning of family. ![]() Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. ![]() While the mystery of her mother’s affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. Fiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way…until a lawyer calls with shocking her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance-along with two half siblings. If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret-even from the father who raised her. ![]() From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany-and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “When Good Doctors Go Bad,” Gawande profiles a doctor who destroyed his reputation and harmed patients before seeking rehabilitation. In “Nine Thousand Surgeons,” Gawande narrates his first trip to a medical convention and offers a humorous look at doctors on their time off, depicting them as susceptible to flashy displays and extra-curricular distractions just like any other person at any other convention. The essay unveils the flawed process by which hospitals seek to address and remedy errors and looks to anesthesiology for a model in error reduction. In “When Doctors Make Mistakes,” Gawande reflects on a time he made a mistake performing an emergency tracheotomy and launches into a data-driven discussion on error in medicine. “The Computer and the Hernia Factory” contains a debate about technology versus humans in the realm of diagnosis and looks at the successful example of a hospital streamlined for hernia operations, the results of a computer that reads EKGs better than people, and the inextricable role of humans in the diagnosis process. In the first essay, “Education of a Knife,” Gawande tracks his ability over time to perform a specific procedure-installing a central line-and discusses the consequences and necessity of training doctors on the job. ![]() ![]() Complications contains 14 essays divided into three sections: Part 1, “Fallibility” Part 2, “Mystery” and Part 3, “Uncertainty.” In Part 1, Gawande embarks on a candid discussion of errors and imperfections in medicine. ![]() |
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