![]() ![]() The characters interact in an offbeat manner, their conversations are seemingly simple and often repetitive. ‘Just before I arrived at iDEATH, it changed. It is the reader’s way in a way to make the book their own and make of it what they will. The imaginative space is the books most creative asset. It’s as much about what isn’t said as what is. This book manages to be both vivid, and completely untethered in place. Richard Brautigan, described as the last of the beats, has created an experiment of transcendentalism through which we explore people, connection, spirituality, self-sustainability, corruption and reflections of our own society. ![]() This book is a representation of the author’s own counterculture ideologies. In iDEATH, things are made from watermelon sugar, the sun shines a different colour every day and rivers can be half an inch wide. IDEATH is a place, a town, a feeling, and as far as can be told, an entire world completely adrift of the universe as we know it. ![]() The story is told by a nameless narrator, a gentle character whose contemplative nature and poetic disposition are the eyes with which we see the world of iDEATH. One that will materialise at random, dredged from the depths of conscious, and is impossible to shake. The feeling that remains long after the book is placed back on the shelf is like waking from an absurd dream. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends the line between good and evil is murky indeed and nothing goes quite as we expect. "Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something."-Patrick Rothfuss Will Thorn forever be a pawn in the hands of the powerful, or can she carve her own path? Beside her on the journey is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill, a failure in his eyes and hers, but with one chance at redemption. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. She finds herself caught up in the schemes of Father Yarvi, Gettland's deeply cunning minister. But she has been named a murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. ![]() Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Martin hailed as "a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to let go." "New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie's thrilling new series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. ![]() ![]() ![]() One Plastic Bag is also available in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tamil, and French. Limited paperback versions are available through Scholastic Book fairs and audiobook and ebook versions are also available. You can buy the book at Barnes & Noble, local chain or independent bookstore, or Amazon. The book, written by Miranda Paul and illustrated by award-winning artist Elizabeth Zunon, has been honored as a Junior Library Guild Selection! Its release date in the U.S. ![]() The book also includes bonus information such as a Wolof language glossary, timeline of actual events, and photos of the women of Njau. ![]() Despite limited resources and ridicule, Isatou and her friends persevered for more than a decade, eventually realizing economic empowerment through their recycled plastic purse project. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia tells the inspiring story of five women who creatively dealt with their village’s plastic trash problem. Click to buy from any of your favorite online retailers. ![]() ![]() Macy, Lillian Boxfish became the highest-paid female advertising copywriter in the world. Lillian knows how to sell what people will buy. She doesn’t even remember buying the cookies, but buying almost anything is key to this story. She hangs up, then realizes she’s absent-mindedly consumed the better part of an entire package of Oreo cookies while on the phone. It begins about midday after a telephone conversation with her son who again laments that she will not move out of the city. The novel takes place on New Year’s Eve day, 1984. ![]() No matter our ages, many of us have learned the pleasures of walking even if we all walk for different reasons. She also loves her ex-husband (deceased) and her son. ![]() ![]() Lillian loves at least two things passionately: New York City and walking. Lillian is an eighty-five-year-old widow living alone with her cat Phoebe in Manhattan in the mid-1980s. Most everyone who has read and commented on Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (written by Kathleen Rooney) uses the word charming at least once. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk inside NYC and her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (CNN and HBO Max are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. ![]() At its best, it’s a lightweight companion to “All the President’s Men,” presenting the flip side of all that planning and frantic covering up by what amounted to Keystone Criminals. Watergate meets “Veep” in this new limited series, an at-times-surreal account that occasionally feels a little too over the top, mostly because the real-life characters actually were. ![]() Watching some of the newer and more recent productions devoted to that story, as well as revisiting older ones, offers a few insights about tho Watergate years, and a reminder that Nixon’s scandals went well beyond just sending a few hapless burglars into the Democratic National Committee headquarters.įor those who might see Watergate as ancient history, these projects – featuring those who participated in and covered the story – also underscore that this previous constitutional threat was much closer than it appears in the rear-view mirror.Īs for refresher courses, here are a few options, including some that qualify as Watergate-adjacent in terms of helping to understand or remember what happened. With the premiere of HBO’s “ White House Plumbers,” the Watergate scandal is having yet another moment, 51 years after the original break-in that ultimately led to Richard Nixon’s resignation. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have two protagonists who seem to live a life without close connection to other people, loneliness and isolation are reoccurring themes in Japan’s novels and from the news I read about the country this really seems to be a major topic. A singular friendship forms between the two neighbours, centred around a building close but far away for them.Tomoka Shibasaki’s novel “Spring Garden” has many typical features of what I expect from Japanese literature. When she realises that she is spotted, they make contact and Nishi explains Taro why she is behaving this strangely: the house is actually quite famous, she even possesses a book about its interior and her greatest wish is to enter and have a look herself. She seems to try to look into it through the window. One day, he observes a woman walking around the sky-blue house neighbouring their block. Since the flats are going to be destroyed soon, they will have to leave anyway. His neighbours, he only knows the names that were given to the flats they inhabit, but not who is living close to him. ![]() His family is far away and they are hardly in contact, his father died already ten years ago, yet the memories of him are still alive. ![]() Taro lives alone in one of Tokyo’s anonymous block of flats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am sure stabbing her boyfriend has something to do with it. Like there was never a point during reading Hysteria where I thought to myself, hey I could be friends with this person. Anyways, Mallory is pretty convinced that she’s being haunted by Brian’s ghost, or at least that someone has it in for her. While at school she reconnects with this guy Reid, who shot her down years and years ago when she tried to kiss him… on the night of his dad’s funeral. Mallory resists because she wants to stay home with her best friend Colleen. As Mallory’s family is super worried for her, and because she wasn’t charged and got off on it being self defense, her parents decide to send her to Monroe school in New Hampshire, a boarding school that her dad went to. Mallory doesn’t really remember much of the night - she can’t quite remember the whole event except that she stabbed Brian to death in her kitchen instead of running out the door. ![]() Main character Mallory has murdered her boyfriend with a knife. I’m actually still trying to work out whether my feelings are just me and my circumstances or if it was the book. Yet, I just feel so lukewarm toward the book. So, technically, Hysteria by Megan Miranda should have been a no-brainer fall head over heels in love sort of book for me. Who doesn’t love a creepy story of murderer girlfriends? This blogger LOVES those sort of stories - especially when there is a lot of information to unravel AND a mystery and CIRCUMSTANCES. ![]() ![]() In this critically acclaimed account, she weaves together personal stories, history and politics to produce an extraordinary, evocative investigation into how the policy has changed China and why the repercussions will be felt across the world for decades to come. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong has spent eight years documenting the effects of the one-child policy across all of Chinese society. They have bought an apartment they hope will improve his eligibility in a nation that has 30 million bachelors, or 'bare branches'. Tian Qingeng and his parents are deeply in debt. Liu Ting becomes a national hero when he brings his mother to college, a celebration of filial piety in a nation that now legally compels adult children to visit their elderly parents. A lovely antidote to decades of chillingly cold Party-speak from Beijing. But Mei Fong has also given us a wry, bittersweet, and often very personal look at how courtship, marriage, birth, and death interact in the post-Mao Chinese family. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. One Child is a timely and informative look into China’s infamous effort to control its enormous population. ![]() Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. ![]() ![]() ![]() 12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.10. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. ![]() 9. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 20 Classic Books Now Available as Free English E-books.In this list, you’ll discover 20 classic English books that are perfect for intermediate learners, now available in e-book format. Plus, you’ll learn stories which are very important to culture in the English-speaking world. In classic English literature, the language is so powerful that you’ll remember words, phrases and grammar long after you’ve finished the book. Reading lets you explore a whole new world. Febru20 Free English E-books (PDF) That’ll Give You a Taste of Classic English Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The horrifying part of the story is that the murderous tradition continues even in a seemingly modern, “normal” society. This village has been established as a farming community, so it seems likely that this was the origin of the lottery. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a short story published in the Jedition of The New Yorker. The idea behind most primitive human sacrifices was that something (or someone) must die in order for the crops to grow that year. The use of stones also connects the ritual to Biblical punishments of “stoning” people for various sins, which then brings up the idea of the lottery’s victim as a sacrifice. ![]() There is no real religious or practical justification for the lottery anymore-it’s just a primitive murder for the sake of tradition. The line about the stones makes an important point-most of the external trappings of the lottery have been lost or forgotten, but the terrible act at its heart remains. She is best known for her dystopian short story, The Lottery (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. Dunbar already sent her son away, perhaps to spare him having to participate in murder this year, and now she herself seems to try and avoid taking part in the lottery as well. ![]() |