5/22/2023 0 Comments A spool of blue thread goodreadsTheir youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family’s orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. A major new novel from the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author-a freshly observed, funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one family’s foibles, from the 1950s up to our pandemic present.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments The running man richard bachmanWhile not the first of King's novels to be published, The Long Walk was the first novel he wrote, having begun it in 1966–67 during his freshman year at the University of Maine some eight years before his first published novel Carrie was released in 1974. In 2000, the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 19. Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian and militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling annual walking contest. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition, which was fully illustrated by Jim & Ruth Keegan. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Alaska by James A. MichenerAT times I was riveted to this novel at other times, truly bored, but the test, for me, anyway, is what I actually took away with me after reading it. At 800++ pages in hardcover, all in 8 point (or did it just seem 8 point and was maybe 10 point type), you simply couldn't get away with a novel this long today.( Marketer would at the very least carve it up into a three volume boxed set), But, having said that, Alaska is a comprehensive (if in places ponderous) history of the Last Frontier from Big Bang to the Prudhoe Bay Pipeline. So it was - or perhaps so it seemed to be - with Alaska, one of Michener's last and longest historical novels about place. And like those historical mini-series (John Adams & The Crown come to mind) readers often come away form a Michener novel feeling like they've learned a lot, but hardly able to remember what they've learned. A generation before streaming video and binge watching, Michener invented the epic historical miniseries, but in book form. What I did not want was to see them become, essentially, heroes who help save the towers. I wanted to see, I dunno, maybe a little blood (me, bitter?). So when the bratty camp girls came back into the story, I rubbed my hands a little, thinking that in some way or another they were about to Get Theirs. In the middle of the story, I pretty much forgot about them, and found myself (as a lifelong resident of a once-sleepy but still-small town) identifying heartily with the main character's frustration at uppity newcomers to her fictional hometown of Epiphany, New York, who want to raze her great-uncles' life work, an artistic trio of towers in their backyard, because of concerns about property values. I bitterly hated the brats who tormented Margaret, I really did, and they all had faces drawn from my own elementary-school and junior high days. I thought the initial camp scenes were excellent. If you care, I'm about to spoil the ending here be warned. However, again, I'm out of the target audience, and I think a middle-school girl might feel differently about the ending than I do. I found that this book started out really strong, and lost it a bit at the end. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The obstacle is the way summaryLiving by the principles of Stoicism means individuals deliberately control themselves in the face of obstacles which in turn strengthens willpower and confidence for difficult times in the future. While we may not be in charge of the circumstances, it is possible to always be in command of ourselves and how we choose to respond to the challenges presented. The central theme of the work is the belief that everyone is able to handle the obstacles that come with life even though we can't necessarily control everything about life. "Obstacle" is the most frequently used word throughout the book, as well as a very important part of the title because it is all about how to manage the obstacles life throws at us. Instead, it is primarily a book to learn for yourself the basic tenets of Stoic philosophy and how to understand and apply them to daily life. While The Obstacle Is the Way is a book about philosophies in general, it is not an academic textbook on the subject. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to listen to the whole thing. The book has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. This is a summary of Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The iliad and odyssey wereWhat we know of women’s lives in ancient Greece is generally not good. Thanks in part to their connection to the life cycle, women in ancient Greece were both symbols of mortality and a force to humanize heroes. The stories that remain of both real and mythical mothers let us know how important they were. But they did have festivals to honor motherhood, focused primarily on the goddess Hera or the earth mother Cybele – though more often than not, women did the lion’s share of the labor for those events. The ancient Greeks may not have had the kind of Mother’s Day celebrated in the United States and United Kingdom today – holidays that began at the turn of the 20th century and in the Middle Ages, respectively. But my work as a scholar of ancient Greek literature has shown me how much harder it was to be a mother in antiquity. As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to recognize everything mothers do. The key message here is: We begin accumulating emotional wounds in childhood. When children are born, they’re free of emotional poison, but it doesn’t take long to start accumulating. All other negative emotions – anger, sadness, envy, and so on – stem from fear. And those wounds are infected by an emotional poison we call fear. But the human mind, which Don Miguel refers to as the emotional body, is full of wounds. Most people’s skin isn’t covered in wounds, of course. Sound awful? Well, this situation is actually the current state of humanity. The disease starts when people are around three or four years old, and everyone believes that having it is completely normal. Their skin is covered in open, painful, infected wounds. Imagine you live on a planet where all people are affected by the same disease. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Rebecca yarros eyes turned skyward“We should have told each other a lot of things.” Jagger and Paisley hold a lot of important information from one another and it comes back to bit them both. Paisley makes a decision about her relationship with Carter and I must mention that all the supporting characters in this story were very likable and I'm hoping that some get their own books. One kiss transformed me into something I hated and broke the man I loved in pieces.” ”One kiss brought my world tumbling down around me. Paisley tries her darnedest to keep Jagger in the friend zone but who could blame her, he is absolutely irresistible. California turns out to be Jagger, Carter’s rival in flight school. California saves her from drowning at the beach she finds that her feelings for Carter aren’t anything compared to the desire and attraction she has for this hot blonde. Things seem stable and safe with Carter but when Mr. Paisley has been dating her deceased sister’s best friend, Carter for a few years. She doesn’t want to jump to any hasty choices and in the meantime she has a bucket list that she is trying to get through. Paisley suffers from a heart condition that tragically her twin sister died from. She takes her time deciding which makes her parents and friends crazy because her health seems to be deteriorating daily. Paisley is faced with a huge medical decision of either getting a pace maker or going through a very risky surgery. ”For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will long to return…” The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night delivers: there is a ten-step plan you can follow, borne of “dissecting truth from fallacy.” There are insights into the mutual agony for parents and child with the cry-it-out method. I imagine some parents first picked up this book in a hazy state of mind-altering sleep deprivation, read the title through half-shut eyes, and muttered, ‘My baby? Sleep through the night? Are you kidding?’ Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Nightįor those many parents who first tested Elizabeth Pantley’s “ No-Cry Sleep Solution,” thank you for your combined patience and persistence proving the efficacy of this system with your own babies. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. Maas’s sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre’s fiery sister, Nesta. Monster Complex uses Amazon affiliate links. I find it really satisfying to take bits and pieces of a larger story and figure out how it all fits together.”įind the Court of Thorns and Roses books-and an author Q&A-below. “I love building a long arc over a series,” the author told New Indian Express, “and taking the time to get to know characters and worlds inside and out. Her books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Throne of Glass, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series. The books are being adapted for a Hulu TV show by Outlander and Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ron Moore. Maas, follows Feyre Archeron who is dragged into faerie lands for murdering a faerie-and the love story and fierce struggle that happens after she enters. “I love taking the time to get to know characters and worlds inside and out.”Ī Court of Thorns and Roses, a fantasy series written by Sarah J. |