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6/30/2023 0 Comments Dilla time author![]() And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. “This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” -QUESTLOVEĮqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. ![]() WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY ![]() ![]() ![]() Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar. Although no attendance records for the period survive, biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford, a free school chartered in 1553, about a quarter-mile from his home. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23rd April, Saint George's Day. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26th April 1564. ![]() William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about matters as wide ranging as his physical appearance, sexuality and religious beliefs. Referred to as England's national poet, and the 'Bard of Avon', his extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, (some with unconfirmed authorship). His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. William Shakespeare, as any reader of this book will presumably know, was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language - and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Lunar chronicles books![]() ![]() With high-stakes action and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once classic and strikingly original. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. ![]() ![]() She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. " - Entertainment Weekly "Prince Charming among the cyborgs." - The Wall Street Journal Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars. "An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction. ![]() The first book in the #1 New York Times - and USA Today -Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Red Rising by Pierce Brown![]() He and his wife Eo are captured after entering a forbidden area and are arrested. Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet. The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist. It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets. A six-issue prequel comic book series, Red Rising: Sons of Ares, was published in 2017. ![]() Brown began developing Red Rising as a television series in 2018, and later announced that the potential series had a director and a showrunner with either Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, Amazon Prime or HBO interested in adapting the series as of September 2021. In 2014, Universal Pictures secured the rights for a film adaptation, but the project was eventually scrapped. Red Rising has received generally positive reviews. ![]() ![]() The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds. Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, and the first book and eponym of a series. ![]() |