5/23/2023 0 Comments Into the grey by celine kiernan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Celine Kiernan’s YA novel Into the Grey, it’s 1974 and Patrick’s grandmother has burned the house down. Not on purpose. She’s got dementia but back in 1974 they called it senility or having a fit as in ‘Granny put her bra on the outside of her blouse today.’ The short stories and novel Pat had been working on? Gone. Dom’s drawings and sketches? Gone. I wanted to have a twin when I was little. Even last week I was thinking to myself: ‘You know who would get that joke I just told? My twin.’ If she got stuck with a needle I’d feel it too. If my heart was breaking and I was choking on the pieces I’d have her with me, hurting just as much and helping me plan revenge on the person who tore my heart into bits. But then I thought: ‘Is it really a good idea having two of me stumbling through the world?’ ![]()
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![]() Josephine knows there's something fishy about Mariss but she never expected her to be a vengeful sea creature eager to take her place as her father's first love! Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from Mariss's clutches before it's too late? Check the CatalogĬece Rios and the Desert of Souls written by Kaela Rivera And unlike the other girlfriends, this one doesn't scare easily. The next day, Daddy brings home a new catch, a beautiful woman named Mariss. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport AND use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. ![]() ![]() Josephine Against the Sea written by Shakirah BourneĮleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luttrell credits Webb’s training with his own survival during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in Afghanistan. ![]() Yet it is Webb’s distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy “sniper cell” and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of America’s finest and deadliest warriors-including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle-that makes his story so compelling. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS… HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.īrandon Webb’s experiences in the world’s most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Palfrey is widowed and somewhat distanced from her daughter and son-in-law, who live in Scotland, and her grandson Desmond who lives in London and works in the British Museum. Palfrey at the Claremont is a moving and sympathetic portrayal of seniors who are at the edge of moving into nursing homes, but who are still physically independent enough to manage at a residential hotel or senior residence. He thought, I mayn’t write it down but please God may I remember it. ‘I don’t see anything sad about you,’ he said. ![]() ‘But isn’t that sad?’ she asked doubtfully. Mrs Arbuthnot has been at the Claremont for years.’ Although you seem very much the new girl around here.’ ‘Over there is Mrs Arbuthnot,’ Mrs Palfrey said, in a low voice to Ludo. ![]() Ludo leaned back easily, but his eyes were darting to and fro, noting everything, noting Mrs Arbuthnot noting him, and Mrs Post, in her sad pot-pourri colours, fussing over her knitting. Review of the Virago Modern Classics paperback (1982) of the Chatto & Windus hardcover original (1971) ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Essential labor angela garbes![]() ![]() A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context-the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? ![]() The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daughter of Baron de Sancé de Monteloup, raised very freely, Angelique rubs shoulders with young people of her age, especially Nicolas, her childhood friend, whom she does not leave indifferent. In order to complete her education, her father entrusts her to her cousin and neighbor, the Marquis de Plessis. Mocked by the son of the latter, who calls him the “Marchioness with the sad robe”, Angelique, fleeing, accidentally enters the chamber of the Prince de Condé and surprises the conspiracy conspiracy against the King Louis XIV , his brother and Mazarin , and Fouquet is one of the instigators. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments First love turgenev![]() ![]() ![]() Turgenev (the summary will continue acquaintance with the characters) extremely unflatteringly describes the Zasekin family. She is older than Vladimir for five years.At first she begins to flirt with a teenager, but her interest quickly fades. There the teenager meets Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna. When Volodya's mother receives a letter from them,which they ask for protection, she sends her son to the house of the princess. The boy, seeing the princess, dreams to get acquainted. After a while in the neighborhood settled the family of Princess Zasekin. Together with his parents, he comes to the country house to rest and prepare for the exams. The main character Vladimir was sixteen years old. How does the short content of the story begin?Turgenev's "First Love"? Events unfold in Moscow. And his story is based on the author's own experience, on the events that took place in his family. Turgenev (the brief content of the story will demonstrate this) acquaints the reader with the emotional experiences of the young character. ![]() One of the most famous works of Russianclassics is "First Love". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's the coward's way out." Instead, it's a primer on what to believe about American families, religion, sports, homosexuality (well, not American homosexuality - liberal homosexuality), immigration and many other aspects of our great country. As he explains so effectively in his introduction, this book is "not just some collection of reasoned arguments supported by facts. I Am America (And So Can You!) is full of it. Truthiness, "truth that comes from the gut, not books." "Today," as Colbert explains in his new book, "Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable channels, the Internet blogs, and the Hollywood celebritocracy, out there spewing 'facts' like so many locusts descending on America's crop of ripe, tender values." There's a word for Colbert's sort of truth, and Colbert invented it: Others, Stephen Colbert for one, suggest - nay, declaim - that facts themselves dangerously undermine the truth, especially the American Truth. Some argue that truth is knowledge based on data and facts. What is truth? Does it come from inside us or from the known world? Perhaps it's the smirk that's missing in Stephen Colbert's I Am America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless it remains by far the scarcest recognised discreet state of any James Bond book.Ĭloth. The reason for its apparent extreme scarcity was that being the earliest copies, they were all sent to the colonies, principally Australia and South Africa. According to publisher's records, 940 copies were thus blocked, a larger number than had previously been thought (though still a tiny proportion of the 82,000 copies of the first edition printed). ![]() The decision to cease stamping a golden gun was purely economical." - Gilbert (Ian Fleming Bibliography). the original estimate allowed for just four and a half square inches of foil-stamping. "According to the publisher's book production files. A decision was made, very early in the process, that to block the whole print run with such a large expanse of foil, would be financially prohibitive. All Fleming's previous novels have a decorated front board, and it was the publisher's intention to do the same with this book. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, with just the slightest wear to a couple of corners. ![]() First edition, first state binding with the publisher's golden gun embossed on the front panel, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Chopping. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They all bring something to this story: some with know-how that end up being very useful, others with rational thinking and social abilities to deal with the many dilemmas encountered. And do they ever have personality! I loved how quirky every girl is. So while they're very young, they're intelligent and capable, free of the usual angst and dramatics you might have expected otherwise. Plus, the novel is set in a time where kids that age seemed much older, married much younger, and had to be a lot more independent at a young age. The girls range from tween to early teen, giving us an MG novel that is still a great read for adults. While the plot is not especially hard to predict, the characters are what makes this entertaining. Then shortly after, we have the death of the headmistress and her brother, leaving the girls to solve a mystery while trying to hide the events from the townsfolk - which proves to be quite the challenge in such a small town full of nosy neighbours and visitors. I had the ARC so the illustrations were sadly missing, but the cover accomplished the same and it was fun to have a visual to go with all these great personalities. We begin by being introduced to the girls with the help of some illustrations and a quick look into why they were sent to St. Much like its cover, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place is intriguing and fun with a touch of humour. ![]() Super cute! The plot is more-or-less a game of clue, but more MG-like, with a large cast of funny, resourceful, and charismatic young girls. ![]() |