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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Fashion History
Monday, May 22, 2023
Museum
In 7th grade, my classmates along with the students in 8th grade ran amok in the field museum. Thus causing my school to instill a ban on all field trips for the secondary grades. I maintain my innocence, based on the fact that my mother was my group leader and I knew better than to cross her.
When I search online I'm always amazed by the number of museums that are actually around and would really like to make the effort to explore them. I would especially love to see the immersive Immersive Van Gogh exhibit.
Lesson in Red: a novel by Hummel, Maria
"Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so why did she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's return to LA and her old job at the Rocque Museum was supposed to be about restarting her career, reconnecting with old friends, and maybe starting to date again. The last thing she expected was to find herself at the center of another art world mystery concerning the death of Brenae Brazil. Are there hidden clues in Brazil's other works of video art? Maggie will get pulled into the cryptic video art of Brazil that will send her down the rabbit hole of art schools, power struggles over students and mentors, and the still shady and often violent art world in Los Angeles. The work of Kim Lord and the fallout of the Still Lives exhibition looms continually over Maggie and our other returning cast members. Picking up where Still Lives-a Reeses's Book Club and Hello Sunshine selection-left off, Lesson In Red is a fast-paced thriller set against the cutthroat world of high art and the often fatal legacies of women who threaten its status quo"--. Provided by publisher.
For further "night at the museum, "adventures check out these links:
https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/events/science-snoozeum/
https://www.sheddaquarium.org/programs-and-events/asleep-with-the-fishes
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/our-events/dozin-with-the-dinos
Other museum links:
https://do312.com/p/chicago-free-museum-days
Thursday, May 18, 2023
When Animals Attack
Monday, May 15, 2023
"May"
When searching for the reason why May is called May, you get tossed about the Parthenon of gods. In Ancient Greece Maia, whose name means "great" or "mother", was one of the Pleiades, a nymph, daughter of Atlas, mother of Hermes, and caregiver of Arkas,(this was after his mother Callisto was turned into a bear, by either Hera or Artemis as punishment for her affair with Zeus or by Zeus as an attempt to hide her from Hera... because when Greek gods are involved it's complicated). In Ancient Rome Maia Majesta, was a goddess of fertility and spring, and has a mythos that gets wrapped up in Greece's Maia, but also other Roman deities such as Gaia, Fauna, Ops, Juno, Carna, etc.. In Latin the term "maiores" means elders and at some point, the poet Ovid suggested what we call May and June refers to elders and young men. However it was derived, when it came to naming the fifth month of the year the decision was:
https://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia
https://www.almanac.com/content/month-may-holidays-fun-facts-folklore
The May Queen Murders by Jude, Sarah
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Welcome to Rowan’s Glen—a place full of old fashioned superstition and secrets. Twenty-five years back, a teenage girl was murdered after being crowned queen at the Glen’s May Day celebration, and outsiders have regarded the isolated farming community with suspicion ever since.
But that was before Ivy Templeton was even born. She’s lived in Rowan’s Glen for all of her sixteen years, and feels safe there with the company of her free-spirited cousin Heather, and their friend, Rook, son of the sheriff.
Until . . . animals start showing up dead, clearly from unnatural means. Dark omens seem to appear everywhere Ivy goes. And Heather, who used to tell Ivy everything, is sneaking off after dark with a mysterious lover.
Ivy worries her cousin could be in danger—especially after Heather is elected queen of the May Day celebration. When Heather goes missing, Ivy must come to terms with the fact that she never knew her beloved cousin—or Rowan’s Glen—as well as she thought she did." --https://sarahjude.com/books/the-may-queen-murders/
Mother May I : a novel by Jackson, Joshilyn
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat's single mother warned her that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother's fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Marrying into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree has all a woman could ever dream: a loving lawyer husband, two talented young teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world--until the day Bree awakens and sees a witch peering into her bedroom window, an old gray-haired woman all dressed in black who vanishes as quickly as she appears. --Provided by Publisher.
This May End Badly by Markum, Samantha
Pranking mastermind Doe and her motley band of Weston girls are
determined to win the century-long war against Winfield Academy before
the clock ticks down on their senior year. But when their headmistress
announces that The Weston School will merge with its rival the following
year, their longtime feud spirals into chaos.
To protect the
school that has been her safe haven since her parents' divorce, Doe puts
together a plan to prove once and for all that Winfield boys and Weston
girls just don't mix, starting with a direct hit at Three, Winfield's
boy king and her nemesis. In a desperate move to win, Doe strikes a
bargain with Three's cousin, Wells: If he fake dates her to get under
Three's skin, she'll help him get back his rightful family heirloom from
Three.
As the pranks escalate, so do her feelings for her fake
boyfriend, and Doe spins lie after lie to keep up her end of the deal.
But when a teacher long suspected of inappropriate behavior messes with a
younger Weston girl, Doe has to decide what's more important: winning a
rivalry, or joining forces to protect something far more critical than a
prank war legacy.
This May End Badly is a story about
friendship, falling in love, and crossing pretty much every line
presented to you--and how to atone when you do. --Provided by Publisher.
The Story of Chicago May by O'Faolain, Nuala
May Day Murder by Hesse, Jennifer David
May the Best Man win by Ellor, ZR
"Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won't let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdated school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise--and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother's funeral and the loss long-term girlfriend--who turned out to be a boy. But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy's campaign. When both boys take their rivalry too far, they jeopardize the entire dance. To save Homecoming, they'll have to face the hurt they're both hiding--and the lingering butterflies they can't deny"--Provided by publisher.
Long May She Reign by Thomas, Rhiannon
Bryant & May Off the Rails by Fowler, Christopher
"Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck again. Their search takes them into the vast labyrinth of tunnels, a subterranean world full of legends and ghost stations, which tie the city together. Edging closer to what lies hidden beneath the city - and to the madness that is driving a man to murder - Bryant and May are about to uncover a mystery as bizarre as anything they have ever encountered ..."--Provided by publisher.
You May Now Kill the Bride by Stine, R. L.
Two Fear family weddings, decades apart. Each bride will find that the ancient curse that haunts the Fears lives on. It feeds off the evil that courses through their blood. It takes its toll in unexpected ways, and allows dark history to repeat itself. In 1923, Ruth-Ann is planning to marry Peter-- until Rebecca stepped in. And the two sisters plunged off the cliff on the day of the wedding. In the present, Marissa disappears on the day of her wedding to Doug. As her sister Harmony searches for her, will saving her mean finding a way to stop a disaster almost one-hundred-years old? --Provided by Publisher.
"Witch" Book Will Put A Spell On You
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