![]() ![]() Wu resides in a version of Chinatown that’s both a real place and the backdrop to an ongoing police procedural TV show called “Black and White.” Its inhabitants live their lives as well as the parts assigned to them: Disgraced Son, Delivery Guy, Young Dragon Lady, Silent Henchman or the most coveted role of all, Kung Fu Guy. It’s the story of Willis Wu, a young man who’s struggling to figure out what his role is in life, literally. He published three books, and his fourth, the novel “Interior Chinatown,” is set to come out at the end of this month. ![]() ![]() He worked as a lawyer by day and wrote late into the night. The boy also wrote fiction, but not until he was an adult. When he grew up, he became a corporate lawyer.Įxcept, as with all good stories, there’s more to the story than that. The boy spent his days watching “The Twilight Zone” reruns, playing Street Fighter II, reading “Choose Your Own Adventure” books and thinking about where he might fit in. Once upon a time, there was a boy born in Los Angeles to a Taiwanese mother and father. Charles Yu is very interested in stories, both the stories we tell ourselves and the stories that are told to us, so let’s start with a story about him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() jpg file, click on it and it will be loaded into your picture viewer from which you can print a hard copy. When you complete the transaction, your request will be emailed to our librarian, who will make a copy of the requested information and email it to you as an attachment. ![]() The form also requests the specific information needed to fulfill your request (e.g., name, volume, page). Complete and print the form, then mail it to us along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope and a check for $10 payable to the Rogue Valley Genealogy Society.įor faster turnaround, use the form below to make a secure online payment using your major credit card. Stoney Knows How: Life As a Tattoo ArtistAlan B. If you would like to receive a copy of the consent/affidavit and certificate, follow the link below to display the request form. Each page in this book contains the certificates for a single couple and includes both the marriage license and certificate (assuming the license was acted upon). This book used preprinted forms completed by the county clerk. ![]() It is in alphabetic order by the bride's name. Below is our index to Marriage Book #-1946. ![]() RVGS volunteers have photographed and indexed the marriage record books housed in the Jackson County, Oregon courthouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character, the titular Binti, is a young woman living in Namibia and belonging to the Himba tribe, a small ethnic group dwelling in voluntary seclusion from the rest of the world, a world very technologically advanced where space travel is easily accessible and Earth has come into contact with a variety of alien cultures. It’s not what I would call an immediate story, but rather one that gains flavor and depth with time, not unlike a fine wine. Binti is a very peculiar story, one that seems to start as journey of discovery, only to turn into something completely different the kind of story that carries several layers of meaning, yielding them one by one only as you keep thinking about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most interesting (and least likeable) is Vi, the older sister, the emotional one, who reacts to everything in a huge way, driving the family forward, literally and figuratively, with her energy and her anger. It is the story of ultimate sacrifice and the meaning of family. Other than that, the novel is an emotional rollercoaster, as the family members try to deal with the possible death of one of them, which reaches a climax when they realize that they actually have a choice as to which one of them will die. This is the tale of four young adults, beautifully portrayed products of a dysfunctional family, who are allowed, through a slip in time, to work through their former relationships in order to discover how much they really mean to each other. It is also the story of families, and how they function together. It is about people and how their past lives and relationships affect them. ![]() Very refreshing for those of us who are tired of the same old “time travel paradox” which I won’t bore you with, because this author doesn’t.īecause that is not what the story is about. ![]() The story goes on the assumption that what is, is, and what has happened, has happened, will happen, and there is no point in worrying about it. However, the author makes no effort to explain how time travel works or to explain anything else, for that matter. It talks a lot about time travel, because the characters are aware from the first chapter that their lives are being manipulated. This book is a rarity in the Time Travel genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kayte Nunn’s The Silk House is scrumptious historical fiction set against the backdrop of the eighteenth-century silk trade. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house. In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention. In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. ![]() She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret…Īustralian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. ![]() ![]() "A heartfelt homage to her Taiwanese heritage that binds multiple generations on either side of the globe. Soon, Kylie is leading her Amah-Come see! Lái kàn kàn!-back through all her favorite parts of this place and having SO MUCH FUN! And when it is time to go home, the video chats will be extra special until they can visit faraway again.īackmatter includes author and illustrator notes and a guide to some of the places and foods explored in Taiwan. However, after she is invited by Amah-Lái kàn kàn! Come see!-to play and splash in the hot springs (which aren't that different from the pools at home), Kylie begins to see this place through her grandmother's eyes and sees a new side of the things that used to scare her. And in Taiwan, Kylie is at first uncomfortable with the less-familiar language, customs, culture, and food. ![]() Even though they have spent time together in video chats, those aren't the same as real life. When she and Mama finally go to Taipei, Kylie is shy with Amah. Kylie is nervous about visiting her grandmother-her Amah-who lives SO FAR AWAY. ![]() ![]() ![]() A delightful story of a child's visit to a grandmother and home far away, and of how families connect and love across distance, language, and cultures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel completely exposed and unsafe to anything smaller than a garbage barge or anything bigger than a Naval battleship! I also hoped that the coverage of “titanic” or “monstrous” ships would be covered, but again I was disappointed. I was truly hoping this book would also explain how to avoid “big” or even “moderately large” ships, but alas in 112 pages not a scrap of information on how to avoid the dangers of tugboats or coast guard vessels was mentioned. I realize that the title is “How to Avoid Huge Ships,” but I didn’t think that Captain Trimmer would be so narrow minded in his book. ![]() Identify big ships’ horns and much more!Īllsion Hawn was a bit more critical in her review: Sense a big ship’s presence before it senses meĥ. ![]() But now, after reading this book, I feel at ease and totally prepared if a ship strike should occur. I couldn’t work, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, all because the thought of a big ship encounter was too horrifying. Who could have predicted that a how-to manual would create such a stir? The following are a few sample comments left by readers:īefore reading this book, my days and nights were spent in terror over the possibility of running into a big ship. With 1,097 reviews, Captain John Trimmer’s book on “ How to Avoid Huge Ships” could very well be the most highly-reviewed maritime industry book on Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This results in each victim of the mist dying in a uniquely gory way, their deaths coming from some hidden part of their psyche. Where the mist of the novella was populated by deadly Lovecraftian monsters from another dimension (a trope shamelessly mined by the all-conquering Stranger Things), Torpe’s version is even more mysterious – by the end of Season 1, we’re still not sure exactly what it is – and seems to have some sort of supernatural power. The premise is the same – a mysterious mist rolls into a small town in Maine and, with it, something deadly – but showrunner Christian Torpe has made some significant changes in order to stretch the narrative out for TV. While the TV version can’t touch Darabont’s movie, it’s not without its gory attractions and is perfect binge-viewing fodder: dumb but fun, with twists and cliffhangers that’ll keep many viewers hooked. That movie was a small but perfectly formed slice of horror that, with its grim ending, managed to be even bleaker than the source material. When news broke that the Weinstein Company was adapting Stephen King’s novella The Mist, many expressed the wisdom of such a move: it was, after all, brought to the screen in 2007 by Frank ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Darabont. Warning: This contains minor spoilers for The Mist Season 1 – and spoilers for Stephen King’s original novella and the 2007 film adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lena is in effect a reincarnation of his dead wife, a woman who wants to reinstate his 'original' identity. ![]() Most obviously, it is a reworking of 'Vertigo', the story of a homme fatal (Koller - black widower?) who kills two women because he couldn't say the right thing, because he behaved like a man should, rather than the way he really feels. 'La Peau Douce', 'The Bride Wore Black'), 'Shoot the Pianist' is his most Hitchcockian film. Although Truffaut would go on to make self-conscious and superficial tributes to his hero (e.g. More objectively, it amounts to a manifesto for Truffaut's intentions with the film, the way he will turn the gangster genre inside out, a genre he confessed to not really liking. but it also suggests that Charlie Koller's fatal emotional timidity has warped or deadened that soul, made it a mere mechanism, alive only in a technical sense. it will suggest that his insides are like the piano's insides, the the only way he can express what's buried inside of him is through piano-playing - this is what gives the film its emotional pull. it says that this film will similarly uncover the insides (heart, soul) of a man who gives nothing away on the surface. This image points to the film's ambiguity. 'Shoot the Pianist' opens with the insides of a playing piano, the inner machinations of a musical instrument. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Power figures prominently in a new HBO documentary that debuted Jan. More than eight years later, Power has returned to Harvard as the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at HKS and professor of practice at Harvard Law School. When he was elected president, she became a special assistant to him, serving first on the National Security Council, and later, as U.S. senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. ’99, switched gears when she left Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) to join the longshot 2008 presidential campaign of a U.S. Part jet-setting diplomat, part sneaker-clad advocate, the Harvard human-rights champion and scholar first shot to fame in 2003, when she won a Pulitzer Prize for her book on genocide, “A Problem from Hell.” Power, J.D. But clearly, he never met Samantha Power. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. ![]() |