![]() ![]() Back home, another discovery awaits: Janet and Bill are new parents of “A red one? A blue one? But no-/That baby was purple, from head to toe!” The Sneetches-esque story bogs down a bit under its Seussian vocabulary (“Janet met Bill in the Wurpular Wood,/ Where the trockles grew tall/ and the glompoms smelled good”). ![]() As their families travel the galaxy together in hot pursuit, they discover just how diverse worlds can be, and gradually let their guard down with each other. Forbidden by their grandparents to pair up (“Never, never marry a Smoo./ They drink black tea!/ They eat green stew!”), the two eventually elope. “By a loobular lake on a far-off planet” lives Janet, a Smed with red skin, green hair, and a long snout and Bill, a Smoo with polka-dotted blue skin, orange horns, and spotted green slippers. Longtime collaborators Donaldson and Scheffler ( The Gruffalo) convey this story of star-crossed lovers with their customary vim. ![]()
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His music, political activism and teaching gave him an extraordinary influence that shows no sign of abating.Īlthough the American folk revival was well underway when he established The Weavers in 1948, it was this band more than any other that came to epitomise the early folk movement. The death of Pete Seeger marks the end of an astonishing career. ![]() ![]() ![]() The deep voice that comes out of the dark chills me to the very marrow of my bones. Summoning the same iron will it has taken to dig this company out of the trenches, I grasp the handle, yank the door open, and fling myself inside, attempting the element of surprise. My dead husband’s ghost better not be inside, or heaven help me, I’ll kill Brett again myself. ![]() I repeat that truth like a chant until my heart slows to a semi-normal pace. It’s barely hanging on, even after four generations of clinging to life making Irish whiskey in New Orleans. 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Levitin describes recent studies, some but not all at his own laboratory, that seek answers to questions about the brain mechanisms underlying emotion and memories associated with music. To bring the uninitiated up to speed, he devotes his opening chapters to answering the question of what music is, covering rhythm, meter, tempo, loudness and harmony, as well as providing basic information about the workings of the human brain. Levitin, a former record producer, now director of the Levitin Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University, sees music as a window into the essence of human nature. A neuroscientist with a rich musical background explains what is being learned through research about music and the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The amount of disdain that almost anyone working with Trump has for him.Here are some of the things that were new to me: But the sheer amount of information and in particular the verbatim conversations, mostly provided by people who have since been fired or resigned (Gary Cohn, Rob Porter, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus and John Dowd seem to be the main sources), can still be shocking at times. Thus, Bob Woodward doesn’t have that much new to offer. The White House is dysfunctional and the President was and remains unprepared that’s not news. Of all the people who have published books on the current president, Woodward is probably the most meticulous researcher. But for Bob Woodward’s book about the Trump presidency, Fear, I made an exception. I am generally not a big fan of reading books on contemporary subjects, because books get better with a few years of hindsight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He passed in and out of lucidity, a state Pheby recreates by only giving us access to moments when he has some amount of control and awareness. His first struck in 1884, and a decade later he fell ill again, spending the next nine years in asylums.Īlongside the delusions described in Schreber’s book, his illness manifested in other ways: transvestism, groping (himself and others) and bellowing. “These people were nothing,” Pheby relates early in the novel, “their lives ended the moment they were out of his sight.” We join Schreber on the brink of his third and final period of madness. This was especially true of Schreber, who when ill believed that all other people were “false” beings: rag dolls, playthings of the “upper and lower gods”. Alex Pheby puts us disturbingly close to this troubled individual, but pointedly opts for third person instead of first: throughout this compelling novel the space between reader and Schreber becomes a sombre reminder of how alone we all are. Sigmund Freud wrote a case study on Schreber (pictured), as did Jacques Lacan, and Playthings is not the first novel about him. It has become one of the most studied books in psychiatric history. ![]() ![]() I n 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber, a high-ranking judge coming to the end of a severe psychotic episode, published an account of his illness. ![]() |