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![]() ![]() Dini wrote the storylines for the Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City video games. Animation in early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the first season of the ABC adventure series Lost. He also co-created Freakazoid! (1995–1997) with Timm, produced Duck Dodgers (2003–2005), developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog (2005–2006). In addition to Batman: The Animated Series, Dini was a writer for Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), writer and co-creator for The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), and writer and developer for Batman Beyond (1999–2001). Dini and Bruce Timm co-created the characters Harley Quinn and Terry McGinnis.ĭini began writing for Warner Bros. Animation/ DC Comics animated series, most notably Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), and the subsequent DC Animated Universe. He has been a producer and writer for several Warner Bros. Paul McClaran Dini ( / ˈ d iː n i/ born August 7, 1957) is an American screenwriter and comic creator. ![]() ![]() ![]() And these kids are like what? 5? 6? Or what? And if the book IS trying to teach some sort of message, I'm failing to see what it is. For one thing, throwing a stick at a bird would not kill it. What the fuck!?!?! Why would you want to give this book to children? It's depressing as hell and it also doesn't make any sense. ![]() ![]() I'm pretty sure this is implying that the dead bird's spirit is going to heaven, but I GUESS you could posit that the bird is magically healed for some reason. Then a bunch of brightly colored birds swoop down and carry the boy (who is cradling the dead bird) up, up, up, far into the sky - where he releases the bird and it flies away and disappears. But when bullies attack the little boy in the park in order to steal is brand-new toy sailboat, the bird gets a stick thrown at him and dies. A little bluebird starts following him and becoming his friend, I guess. The pictures are pretty and it is wordless - two things I really love in a book.īut the story? OMG. I am not understanding why it is so praised and lauded. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With L-dopa, however, most seem to experience an "awakening", and hence the title of the book. The book describes Sack's experience with this treatment on his patients.Īs Parkinsonism progresses, people become more and more "shutdown", losing touch with reality and increasingly self-absorbed into a reality of nothingness. Unlikely dopamine itself, it could pass the blood-brain barrier, increasing dopamine concentrations. In the 1950s and 60s, L-Dopa appeared as a treatment for Parkinsonism. The disease causes the death of cells in the substantia nigra (a region of the midbrain), which makes it not being able to have sufficient dopamine, which is largely responsible for motivational salience (motivation that elicits behaviour). The book brilliantly captures the lives and the experiences of these patients, and how they experience the world and themselves. People become speechless and motionless as if their "soul" has left. While the disease is known more for its motor symptoms, like bradykinesia (slowness of movement), rigidity of the limbs, and postural instability, it also impacts mood and cognition. It tells the story of Sack's patients affected with either Parkinson or most often encephalitis lethargica, also known as sleeping sickness, which resembles Parkinsonism, with perhaps somewhat more severe symptoms. My 4th book from Sacks and it didn't disappoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 19, 1809, Poe lived a “productive but dismal” 40 years. At least his widely ridiculed foray into theoretical physics brought in $14.īritish novelist Peter Ackroyd has produced a concise new life of Poe “just in time” to celebrate the doomed bard’s 200th birthday, said Heller McAlpin in The Christian Science Monitor. One of those poems, “The Raven,” made him a household name in his brief lifetime but earned him all of $9. As a writer of fiction, he not only invented the detective story but also produced a handful of chilling narrative poems and horror stories that are still widely read today. As a cosmologist, Poe was a laughingstock. Because Poe is not well known for his sense of humor, his remark is often interpreted as a wild misreading of his true cultural contributions. One year before his death, Edgar Allan Poe published a treatise on the origins and destiny of the universe, which predicted his work would finally be appreciated around A.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority. This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. These visions would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373). Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress.Īt the age of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. ![]() Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. It is the earliest surviving example of a book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. It was written between the 14th and 15th centuries by Julian of Norwich, about whom almost nothing is known. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. 3.96 (6,816 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English By (author) Julian of Norwich, Translated by Barry Windeatt. Revelations of Divine Love is a medieval book of Christian mystical devotions. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. ![]() ![]() In 1620, the English reformers in Holland, now calling themselves Pilgrims, sail for England aboard the Mayflower. ![]() After ten years in Holland, the English reformers were able to make arrangements with the Virginia Company, which had gathered investors to send an expedition to Plymouth, located in New England. William Brewster and John Robinson, two of the key leaders of the English reform movement, resolved to bring their congregants to America to find a new home. However, life in Holland was difficult, and the reformers had to compete with other religious sects for their congregants. Many of the English reformers migrated to Holland, where they believed they’d enjoy more religious freedom. However, some Christian reformers worried that the English crown hadn’t gone far enough, and broke with the English church altogether. ![]() ![]() ![]() In England, Henry VIII and his daughter, Queen Elizabeth, instituted a series of religious reforms that limited the role of Roman Catholic ceremony in Christian practice. William Bradford, the Governor of the Plymouth Plantation in North America, records the history of the colony, promising to write in a plain, honest style that reflects his commitment to the truth.īradford begins by discussing the history of the Plymouth colony before 1620. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the closing, particularly funny version, the miller's manipulative daughter named Carleen tries to bully kindly King Gregory into marrying her. ![]() The miller's daughter may fall in love with the king, or with Rumpelstiltskin, and once she runs off without falling in love at all. Rumpelstiltskin,"" the titular character takes the form of an ugly and lonely witch. In one scenario, ""The Domovoi,"" Rumpelstiltskin is a magical, teddy bear-like creature living under the castle basement in ""Ms. What results is a charming and clever collection that explains such conundrums as: Why, if the daughter can spin straw into gold, is the miller so poor? What would an elf want with a baby? Vande Velde keeps the basic structure the same: always a miller's daughter must spin straw into gold for the king, always the claim is made that Rumpelstiltskin does it for herDor at least teaches herDin exchange for her firstbornDand ultimately someone must guess the creature's strange name to break that contract. The eponymous problem, as Vande Velde (There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around) explains in an author's note, is that the original fairy tale ""makes no sense."" Hence, she retells the classic story six times, creatively changing elements with each variant. ![]() ![]() It is extremely erotic, following a hedonistic gang of bootleggers as they resist, rebel, and eventually overthrow a judgmental theocratic dystopian city. The Beyond Series is the first series chronologically. ![]() There is very little crossover between Atlanta and Nevada (as Knox makes clear, people don’t cross the Mississippi that much) but there are a few hints in Deal With the Devil about what else is out there. While Deal With the Devil takes place in Atlanta and follows the lives of people living in the shadow of a technological autocracy, The Beyond Series and Gideon’s Riders both take place in Nevada, and follow the lives of people who lived in the shadow of (and eventually overthrew) a strict, brutal theocracy. ![]() If you’ve found this page, hopefully you’ve finished Deal With the Devil, the first #MercenaryLibrarians book, and are wondering what Kit Rocha book you should read next!Īt the moment, we have two other series set after the same apocalypse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Libra-a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family-and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. ![]() Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. “I promise you have never read a story like this.” -Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter ![]() |