Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication.
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His two most popular novels, Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, brought Vonnegut national recognition and a wide readership, which continue up to and after his death in 2007. Over the course of his career, Vonnegut published popular work across several genres, including novels, short stories, plays, and nonfiction works. His work is celebrated for its dark humor and the anti-war sentiments in his writing remain relevant today. Vonneguts short story is a warning that complete equality creates many problems and can even bring with it danger. is equality, but it is not the kind of equality which people generally desire. He taught at various institutions, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The main theme in 'Harrison Bergeron,' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Vonnegut had seven children (three biological, four adopted) and was married several times. After the war, he studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, worked as a reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, and later moved to New York State to write for General Electric as a public relations man. In the Battle of the Bulge he was taken prisoner by the Germans, and his experiences in Dresden during and after the firebombing of that city form some of the factual basis for Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born in Indianapolis, studied chemistry and engineering at Cornell and other universities, and entered the Second World War as a private in the US Army. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful-a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another-and to one another-as we fight to become ourselves. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence-into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times The Washington Post NPR Time The New Yorker O, The Oprah Magazine Harper's Bazaar Elle BuzzFeed Goodreads and many more. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" ( The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. Hopefully they will be sitting on the edge of their sofas, dying to talk about it with people as soon as they’ve finished watching it.”Īnd what about viewers who have already read the book? People don’t really want to spoil things for each other. “Hopefully our version will provide that ‘water cooler moment’, too. "Part of the buzz for a reader is keeping it a secret then being able to share it with someone else when they’ve read it too,” said exec Jessica Burdett. The series doesn’t deviate from the book, which wore proudly a ‘WTF ending’ crown and the team behind the show are hopeful viewers will be as respectful as readers at keeping schtum about exactly what happens. It’s the ending nobody is allowed to talk about and also the one that absolutely nobody will see coming. Trust us, once you’ve watched the whole of Behind Her Eyes, you will realise why people keep banging on about the ending. Several scenes felt so out of place and time it was nearly cringe-worthy. I can suspend disbelief for a good romance, but the constant use of very contemporary language and social ideas is distracting from the story. I sincerely doubt women and men discussed their Feelings to such great degree. He would fight in wars, even be married at that age (as were most girls). While today a sixteen or eighteen year old young man would be considered a child, certainly in the 12th century a male of 16 was considered a man. The dialogue, save a few "ayes" and "miladys", is contemporary, as well as all notions of age, the language of emotion (how it is discussed or thought about), and general social behavior. MacGregor's style of writing historical romance is to write as if everything is happening today. As a result, they simply slowly starved to death.Īfter the workhouse, Oliver becomes a student of the undertaker and a victim of bullying by the shelter boy Noe Kleipol. The poor were separated from their families and imprisoned there by force, very poorly fed, forced to engage in excessive and useless work. After all, work houses, the creation of which was conceived to provide ordinary people with shelter, food, work, rather resembled prisons. It was precisely because of such a misperception by society that the poor suffered as they were doomed to eternal humiliation, deprivation, and wandering. The writer believed that poverty itself was not so terrible as the indifference of other people to this category of people. Since Dickens is a writer of enlightenment, he never focused on the inhuman conditions in which the poor of that time lived. Oliver was not only deprived of all the benefits of a normal existence, but also grew very lonely, defenseless against an unfair fate. He is an orphan from the first minutes of his life. The plot of the novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” is structured in such a way that the focus of the reader’s attention is a boy who is faced with an ungrateful reality. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But there are dangers as well on the long road between the Big Woods and the Wastes, for the wild country in which Laura grew up was one still plagued by warlords, cannibals, and a terrible sickness that turns men into monsters. On their journey, Laura encounters the marvelous ruins left over from Lectric Times and meets the diverse peoples who inhabit the former domains of the Old Merican Empire. Then, one winter, as refugees from the east begin pouring into the nearby market town, Laura and her family are forced to migrate westward towards the dry, unpopulated flatlands known as the Wastes. But Laura and her family live safe in their little house in the wilderness, growing their own food, making their own tools, and scavving their own Supplies. Elsewhere, war and hunger and disease still linger. Laura was born many years after the Great Bust. Once, there was a little girl named Laura who lived in an abandoned cabin deep in the big woods of what was once Wisconsin. : Little House on the Wasteland (9781733865500) by Ingalls-Wei, Laura and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available. I won an advanced copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway. The only way to survive is to open your heart. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship-and even love-after all. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine The series is long, but none of the details included are overblown or unnecessary, so essentially it’s watching the development of a really lovable universe. Rereading the series has probably taught me more of how to write than every English class and writing camp I’ve ever taken. The characters are not overpowered, but have a basic goodness (or lack thereof, for the villains) that make them tangible and likable. Flanagan did his research, and he did it well. I wouldn’t go as far to say it’s a book for nerds, but there are fascinating technical details on every page. The entire series of Ranger’s Apprentice checks every box. Likable characters, a comprehensible plotline, suspense, humor, and overall just a well-written story. There’s five things that people are looking for in a book. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share ofups and downs. Whenever they’re together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Perhaps because it was her debut, or perhaps because it was an audiobook, or just perhaps because I’ve read a few of her books, some of the structure and pacing felt a tiny bit flat, but only a tiny bit. I have only The Hypnotist’s Love Story left to go and I’ll have read everything of hers (everything adult, at least). But I seem to have been going about things backwards, as Three Wishes is her debut, but it’s the second-to-last that I’ve read. I’ve read a lot of Liane Moriarty’s books – almost all of them, I think, at this stage. |