![]() ![]() Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment between the only two black people in a room.īut Gay never dismisses the complexities, even the terrors, of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. The bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay. ![]()
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![]() Yellow Star is the outgrowth of Sylvia Perlmutter Rozines' recollections of life in the Łódź ghetto. Since its publication in 2006, the book has received multiple awards, starred reviews, and other accolades, and has been made into a likewise well-received audiobook. After the war, Syvia moved to the United States, married, and only much later told her story to Roy. ![]() Syvia, her older sister Dora, and her younger cousin Isaac were three of only twelve children who survived. The book covers Syvia's life as she grows from four and a half to ten years old in the ghetto. Roy added fictionalized dialogue, but did not otherwise alter the story. Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia, who shared her childhood memories with Roy more than 50 years after the ghetto's liberation. ![]() Written in free verse, it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these years more than 100,000 people - most of them women - were prosecuted by secular and ecclesiastical courts across Europe for allegedly practising harmful magic and worshipping the Devil. ![]() It focuses on the great age of witch-hunting in Europe (and also in colonial America), between 14. In both these aims - but particularly in the former - he has succeeded will serve as a standard introduction to the topic for many years to come." So wrote Brian Easlea in the English Historical Review of this famous book when it first appeared in 1987. "Brian Levack's aims are to provide a coherent introduction to the subject and contribute to an ongoing scholarly debate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rutherfurd is a remarkable writer in many ways. ![]() Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while Paris is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. As enchanting and complex as the city he describes. Rutherfurd's exemplary historical research supports a wonderfully woven saga of four families from different social positions through the ages that captures the spirit of the nation. Summary: Spanning the years from 1261 to 1968 but focussing on the period from 1875 to 1940. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s much more depth, different bits of drama, and much more romance than what they show on Netflix. The books are better than the TV show in a few ways. The characters, the town, the writing, the romance, and everything combined makes you feel like you are reading about your longtime friends. ![]() You will love everything about Virgin River. The short answer to the question, should you read Virgin River, is yes! Absolutely! There are currently 21 books you can read, and the romances and stories are wildly addicting. The author of the Virgin Riverbooks, Robyn Carr, created a very expansive, enjoyable, and relatable cast of characters. ![]() Or maybe you want answers to the TV show’s plotlines while waiting for season 3. You may find yourself thinking if the books are better than the TV show or if they are, in fact, better. It’s useful for people to know what they can expect before committing to a lengthy book series. Many fans of the Virgin River, the Netflix series, are curious about the books that inspired the much-loved show. ![]() ![]() Following his historic reelection victory in 2022, Desantis appeared to be one of the GOP’s most electable options having flipped the heavily Latino, Democratic stronghold Miami-Dade county in his favor. Ron DeSantis appears to be the strongest of Trump’s potential competitors with a polling average of 22.9%. Asa Hutchinson, the only consistent Trump critic in the race, holds only 1% of likely voters.Īdditional contenders are likely to emerge in the months ahead. Nikki Haley, with a polling average of 4%, is his closest challenger amongst official candidates.įormer Arkansas Gov. Trump enjoys a polling average of 52% as of Friday. ![]() ![]() ![]() So far, the Republican primary is shaping up to be the more dramatic of the two major parties’ contests with incumbent President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign likely to clear the Democratic field.įormer President Donald Trump still maintains a lead in the field despite his legal troubles. ![]() ![]() ![]() I should have read the books much sooner. Once Lizzie works out that this is all wrong and it must be stopped, we have a race against a hypnotist Headmaster someone who appears to be able to read minds and is always a few steps ahead. Their new friend Ethan has become a super soccer player and all the other children excel at something, including their old bully who has become quite polite and charming. In Total Control we have siblings Lizzie and Tyler returning to school after an absence, and finding the place transformed. And why the children at his schools acted all funny, but also why he needed to be outwitted. Now I get what he was and what he was trying to do. But do you know what? It is better to read. So it’s his face and eyes I saw as I read this new school horror. ![]() Actor Terrence Hardiman did a great job of frightening at least this parent. ![]() That will be why I feel I know the man so well, while never really understanding what he did or how and why. The Demon Headmaster is back! Yes, Gillian Cross has written another book about the man with the scary eyes.īack in the day I used to semi-watch the Headmaster on television when we got home from school. BBC / Robert Periera Hind 'All he wants to do is control every single aspect of your life and make you do exactly what he wants under his idea of what perfection is, at the cost of individuality. ![]() ![]() In addition to the enjoyment that flow brings an individual, the experience of flow is associated with many positive psychological characteristics, and is an optimal performance state. There has been remarkable consistency in how flow has been described by individuals across diverse settings. ![]() ![]() Flow has been examined across diverse settings, from daily living to a state of mind associated with scientific discoveries. Since his initial investigations where the term flow was chosen to denote these special absorbing experiences, Csikszentmihalyi has continued a research program examining this experience. Despite such diversity in setting, there was considerable consistency of responses regarding what was felt during moments that stood out as being special in some way for the individual. The types of activities initially investigated by Csikszentmihalyi were diverse, ranging from surgery to dancing to chess and rock climbing. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the flow concept in the 1970s, after investigating the experiences of individuals when everything came together during times of involvement with a chosen activity. ![]() ![]() NOTE- My full review still did not fit here, so please read it in the comments. That's right! WE ARE GETTING SOME NEW KIERA CASS IN MAY 2020!! Read more about it here + the first chapter.Ī steamy YA romance duology and a love triangle. « ARC received from Harper Teen via Edelweiss+ in exchange for an honest review » I guess maybe my expectations were too high? I don't know. I, like many, have eagerly been waiting years for Kiera Cass to release something new. ![]() ![]() Author tried to do something for shock value but just didn't make sense.įinal thoughts: I really loved the selection series.
![]() ![]() I found the prose less poetic and more purple in places than in Howard's earlier stories.īeyond the Black River: A very good story if you can ignore the racism, which is a big ask. And we're supposed to be impressed when, without hesitation, he gives up the fortune of ten lifetimes to save her. Conan, in the process of rescuing her, calls her variously "slut," "trollop," "hussy," and worst of all, "actress". ![]() As usual, there is exactly one female character. It is definitely the most sexist Howard Conan story to date. The Servants of Bit-Yakin: A multi-layered backstory supports this story, in which a mid-career Conan (post-piracy, but pre-kingship) attempts to solve multiple mysteries affecting his scheme to retrieve a fabled treasure from a long-abandoned temple, isolated from the world in the middle of a huge crater surrounded by dense jungle. Was I simply less sensitive to it previously, or did Howard increasingly let it all hang out over time? I suspect the latter. The stories in the prior volumes of this complete, writing-order collection of Howard's Conan stories struck me as significantly more openly racist and sexist than the prior ones. ![]() Presenting the last of Howard's original Conan stories, from Hyborian lands long, long ago, before "clothing for women" was a thing, these tales are so good. ![]() |