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![]() ![]() ![]() NEAR FINE WITH NO CREASING TO SPINE, SOLID BINDING AND NO MARKING TO INTERIOR. THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET trailer BFI Flare 2019 29,455 views 97 Dislike Share Save BFI 466K subscribers Life is all about control for business consultant Lola. Photograph of Salman Rushdie on rear cover. ***************************************** TITLE : The Ground Beneath Her Feet / AUTHOR : Salman Rushdie / IMPRINT : Henry Holt & Company (Picador Paperback) / PLACE : New York / DATE : (© 1999) / EDITION : Fourth Picador Printing / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Signed by Author on Title Page / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback 575 pages 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" x 1" decorated glossy wraps, glued. ****************************************** Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page in his own enigmatic style, this copy, remaining in near fine condition, is a must have for Rushdie Completists. ![]() Using the wild world of modern rock and roll as a base, Rushdie retells the story of Orpheus and the woman he loved through the modern characters Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama, as recounted by their friend Rai, who in fact, becomes more than a narrator, and seems to be the true hero of this enormously complex and entertaining novel. Originally published in 1999, this reprint is the fourth Picador Paperback printing, issued by Henry Holt, circa 2001. This copy is signed by Rushdie on the title page. This is "The Earth Beneath Her Feet" a novel by Salman Rushdie. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is that paradoxical thing, a novel about music and photography. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then in fairness, I was probably influenced by the extended use, particularly in evolutionary biology, of the term ‘just-so story’ to describe a hypothesis which purports to explain – without evidence – how a particular cultural or biological trait came into being. I may have been in the minority in making this mistake. So at last they came to be like charms, all three of them – the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale.’ They had to be told just so or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. As Kipling later wrote of them, ‘in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. But no: it’s only now I realise that they’re ‘just so’ stories because Kipling’s daughter Josephine (known as ‘Effie’), to whom he told many of these tales as bedtime stories, insisted that her father tell the stories to her ‘just so’, or in exactly the words she was used to. Until now, I’d always laboured under the belief that these tales were called Just So Stories because they’re about things being the way they are: it’s ‘just so’ that leopards have spots, camels have humps, and so on. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had developed a method based on my background, having studied English and having studied literature. It spelled CIA and was an easy way to help women remember those three steps. I ended up coming up with my own formula of comprehension, interpretation, and application, which appealed to my Baptist feelings about acronyms. I did not even know that the observation, interpretation, application method existed. “I was trying to apply basic interpretation tools that you would use with any book to the most precious of books.” The book just captures the method I had come to identify as being helpful for women over the years. I was just head down, teaching the Bible in the local church. ![]() When I set out to write Women of the Word, I never thought I would become an author. Jen, besides clear-cutting an entire forest, what did you set out to do with that book? Where Do I Start? A whole forest has died, and for a good cause. The book turned four years old this summer, and it’s already sold 200,000 print copies alone. Today we’re joined by our friend Jen Wilkin - wife, mom, Bible teacher, and author of the fabulous book Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interesting new magics were woven in, I haven’t seen them pop up in other fantasy stories, admittedly I have not read all the fantasy books ever written □ I want to know so much more about the other students magical powers – anyone know if there’s another novella or does Julie get a spin off series/books later? □ This magic school sounds like it could have been a precursor to Zodiac Academy a student goes missing and it’s the potential new girls test to find out what happened? Guess it explains the novella’s title tho □ Her task seems to be quite the request for a teen… □ This was a cute story which helped show Julie’s growth since her intro in book2(?), but also…what age is she? □ Am I the only one who thought Yu Fong might be the Dragon Dude from Dali’s novella? Not sure he is tho as that guy apparently had amazing turquoise eyes as far as I remember □ ![]() Quick detour with for this novella where we spend a day at a potential new school for Kate’s ward Julie who is tasked with a mystery to solve – potentially making new friends and maybe some frenemies along the way as more magic and characters are introduced. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The comprehensive and accessible nature of the book makes it particularly suitable as a textbook in this growing field.' Donald Mackenzie, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh'A useful and accessible contribution to current debates about the connections between gender, technology and society.' New Technology, Work and Employment'This book will be of considerable interest to anyone working in scientific and technical institutions facing difficulties, whether crises in funding or in communication between science and government, science and industry, science and the public.' The New Scientist'A most welcome work that addresses precisely this issue of how gender can be registered as significant in the making of technologies. ![]() ![]() And if that leaves you wondering who would do such a thing, then it’s time to take a closer look at the blog and its authors.īut although Thiel might have felt like it was a personal attack on him, the truth is that this was pretty standard behavior for Denton and his team of bloggers. The fact that the article acknowledges that serves only to damn its author because it means that they knew the risks Thiel might face if exposed and they deliberately outed him anyway. At worst, it's prejudice with a handy alibi.” So, even if you don’t consider the fact that Thiel is a fiercely private person by nature, he clearly had a lot of professional reasons to keep his sexuality a secret as well. ![]() ![]() At best, it's a wrongheaded sense of caution. They instinctively prefer entrepreneurs who remind them of themselves. And as the article itself states, “the clubby ranks of VCs are mostly straight, white and male. And although this would be a traumatizing moment in the life of anyone who’s gay, for Peter, it constituted an additional, unique tragedy. Because one morning, in 2007, Peter woke up to see a blog post published by Gawker Media - a blog post that was entitled, “Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People.” In that moment, Peter’s most personal secret had been outed not just to a family member or an acquaintance but to the entire internet. ![]() ![]() And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. ![]() Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. ![]() ![]() As Allegreto and Elena journey to Italy to face Franco Pietro, Elena's former fiancé and a rival of Allegreto's family, lust and affection spring between the two (in that order), but Elena's disdain for Allegreto's ability to murder without remorse gives rise to an abundance of romantic tension and some intense love scenes. To this end, he captures Elena, the princess of Monteverde, and makes her his wife in a particularly violent sex scene ("She met him with a fierce reply, opening her mouth against his shoulder, a willing she-cat to his leopard, biting him as viciously as if she could draw blood"). This long-awaited follow-up to Kinsale's last book, For My Lady's Heart (1993), takes place in 14th-century Europe, where Allegreto-assassin, pirate, brute and bastard son of the Navona family-attempts to reclaim his birthright in the Italian principality of Monteverde. ![]() ![]() ![]() She explores the tundra, taking care of the small animals she finds under shelters made from plywood blown from construction sites. The narrator rides the cusp of teenagehood and puberty and fights with her peers at school. Describing childish adventures near a pond to prove manhood followed by seven kids drowning. The novel begins in the springtime, when the thaw releases the smells which have been buried under the ice during the freeze. ![]() The narrator describes growing up in the shadow of constant sexual violence from boys and teachers at school and unnamed men at home. The novel opens with the narrator and her cousins hiding in a closet as adults drink and party in their house. Summary up until "Topography of Pity (pg 48ish)" I will set out a quick summary overview of some of what happened, if you would like to add more observations please do, then I will post a whole bunch of questions and discussion topics for us to think about as we go into the next part of the book. I feel the need to comment that this book may trigger some people, and if it does please reach out, there are resources and people around that could help in that respect. The subject matter could be tough for some of us, but the way she writes is so beautiful. Hi fellow readers! I hope you found a way to get through quite a sudden start to this book. ![]() |