6/27/2023 0 Comments Only mostly devastatedThis novel starts at the end of summer break. I enjoyed the themes, the characters and the writing immensely and I’m keen to pick up Sophie Gonzales’s debut novel to see how I get along with that one. It was lighthearted and adorable, but also explored some complex and serious themes, including loss and sexual identity. Only Mostly Devastated was such a cute and heartfelt contemporary novel about grief, family, friendship and identity. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. But as Will starts ‘coincidentally’ popping up in every area of Ollie’s life, from music class to the lunch table, Ollie finds his resolve weakening. Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn’t ready for a relationship. This Will is a class clown, closeted-and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. To complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country-Will’s school-where Ollie finds that the sweet, affectionate and comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. But once summer’s ended, Will stops texting him back, and Ollie finds himself one prince short of a fairytale ending. When Ollie meets his dream guy, Will, over summer break, he thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After. Genres: Contemporary, Diversity, LGBT, Romance, Young AdultĪmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia | Barnes & Noble Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Flower garden by eve buntingOL97617W Page-progression lr Pages 40 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0663602084 A simple rhyming story about a little girl, helped by her father, making a window box flower garden as a birthday present for her mom. Urn:lcp:flowergarden00bunt:lcpdf:aa275e8d-8a98-43dd-8a7e-af9df4bed5e4 by Eve Bunting and David Diaz 9 Resources 2 Awards Flower Garden by Eve Bunting and Kathryn Hewitt 9 Resources 1 Award Going Home by Eve Bunting and David Diaz 9 Resources 2 Awards So Far from the Sea by Eve Bunting and Chris K. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:31:08 Boxid IA107216 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor Hold up the cover of Flower Garden by Eve Bunting and tell children you are going to read the story to them again. But before all of that, he was a relatively unknown music producer working with some big-name artists, including Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. Today, Iovine is a mogul, the co-founder of Interscope Records and the Beats by Dre headphones. And it all starts with music lifer Jimmy Iovine. While you may have heard rumors of this, the details are fascinating. Written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith Here are 3 songs you likely didn’t know Springsteen wrote for other artists. The LP’s title track is considered one of the most important rock and roll tracks of the 20th century and is still a fan favorite.īut while The Boss has many popular singles to his name (see: “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born in the U.S.A.” and “I’m on Fire”), we’re looking at some songs he wrote for others. Born September 23, 1949, in Long Branch, New Jersey, the now-73-year-old Springsteen became a star 26 years later in 1975 with his third album, Born to Run. 6/26/2023 0 Comments I Spy Mystery by Walter WickA lot of mirror mazes and magic tricks." - Publishers Weekly Praise for I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles:NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing"Definitely fun, and educational, too this is a true eye-opener." - Los Angeles Times Praise for I Spy Christmas: Parents' Magazine Best Book* "Features gorgeously styled, full-spread color photos of many objects." - Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for I Spy Spooky Night:* "A must, in multiple copies, for any Halloween collection." - School Library Journal, starred review"Spectacularly eerie pictures chock full of hidden objects." - Booklist Praise for I Spy Mystery: Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearNational Parenting Publication Award Honorable Mention Praise for I Spy Fun House: Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year"Sumptuously styled. 6/26/2023 0 Comments The bell iris murdoch summaryInto this world Dora comes bumbling, upsetting its careful harmony. There’s the married couple seeking a new connection Toby, an 18-year-old student who thinks he wants to be a priest Nick Fawley, the sullen gatekeeper with a dark past and most compellingly Michael, the leader, who is wrestling with an agonising desire. Its inhabitants are all seeking spiritual reform in some way or another. The court is surrounded by verdant woodland and enclosed by a lake. The lay community is set up at Imber Court, a grand-but-decaying house next door to a 12th-century Benedictine abbey where none but nuns are allowed. After a brief fling Dora returns to him, now ensconced in a religious “lay community” in Gloucestershire. He is said to be “violent”, and his violence is enacted through his stifling and jealous behaviour. The story begins with Dora Greenfield, a 21-year-old woman who loves life and acts before thinking, running away from her art historian husband. There may not be identified witches in this book (there are nuns), but the word is significantly deployed twice, and where there is smoke there is fire. But I have a hazy feeling that it had something to do with witches. I’m not sure where I found out that I should read The Bell, Iris Murdoch’s 1958 novel about a religious community in western England. Listed and described as 'Fair-minus' condition here due to the intact binding, otherwise it would be described as 'poor'. It is a pity about the condition, as the stories are engaging. Fraying and other marks in evidence to boards. Binding on boards is loose, but binding is still intact. Mark from former Boots' Booklovers' Library sticker to front boards and remnants of Boots' stickers to rear end papers. 299 pages printed and bound on dark orange cloth boards. The first story, titled 'Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm' is set retrospectively to Gibbons' famous novel 'Cold Comfort Farm' (1932) and takes readers back to Starkadder Farm. A collection of 16 short stories by Stella Gibbons, originally written for magazines, including 'The Lady', 'The Bystander', 'Nash's Magazine' and others, as according to the front Note. "First published 1940" is stated on publisher's page with no other printing/publishing history listed, so described here as a 1st edition. 1st edition, but being sold here as in Fair-minus condition as a 'reading copy' only and priced accordingly. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Enlightenment nowProgress marches ever-onward, bringing light to the darkness, and order to chaos. Even the most apocalyptic-seeming dilemma is just a problem to be solved. Quality of life? Democracy? Equality? Don't sweat it. The environment? Some challenges, sure, but we'll work them out. Pinker's latest, Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, reads like a long-form Everything's OK Alarm. Among his ill-conceived doohickeys is the Everything's OK Alarm, a retrofitted smoke detector that makes an obnoxious shrieking sound every three seconds, "unless something isn't okay." So why shouldn't there be one for Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American psychologist and pop-science author? Consider the episode in which our hero, Homer Simpson, recasts himself as an inventor. It's been said that there's a Simpsons reference for everything. Truth and knowledge become merely the products of power. The linguistic turn obliterated the distinction between primary and secondary sources. All of this was the result of the popularity of social sciences models, and, unfortunately, those who issued the cry were seldom good writers themselves.Įvans discusses the drawback of postmodernism in history and its rejection of reason and progress as historical forces. But when postmodernism arrived on the scene some time ago, the cry to make history more like literature was a reaction to history’s tendency at the time to avoid narrative and stick to themes. These questions have a place in the study of history. Is it simply a record of politics? Of vast, impersonal forces? Of thought? Should historians stop looking for causes and concentrate on consequences? What does it mean that historians tell us what cannot be done, not what should be done? Most important, is it possible to establish historical truth at all? The book has a 12-page introduction and confines footnotes to the back, making it easier to read. But what’s interesting for us amateur readers of history is his general discussion of the many ways history is done. What’s best known about this book is Evans’s defense of history from postmodernism. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Richard siken poemsNot, of experience, but the realisation of season? of loss? An object that is both symbolic and real, stationary and formidable, moves, and that movement is departure. Let me pause for a moment at this this stalk that offers three different shades of green.Ī wedge slips in between the routine of days. One particular line stayed with me, and in the morning I woke up with the sentence on my lips - the beginning of Litany… Last night I read many poems from the book again. “If you think the world is a golden place made out of love, then the book is ‘grim,’if you think that life is brutal and short, then the book is uplifting. About the reader’s emotional response to Crush, he says: Haunted by a despair that is connected with the death of his boyfriend in the 1990s, Siken explores intimacy, desire, relationship even as he negotiates the gathering darkness of mortality. The work is considered one of the greatest collections of contemporary American poetry. This happened to me with Richard Siken’s Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out from his award-winning collection Crush published more than 15 years ago. You do not not know why you turned back to them, what light drew you to them again, and suddenly they dance, those words. They wait patiently in pages not accustomed to the light, forgotten after a brief uninspired read. There are some works that sit waiting for you for years. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The immortal irishman reviewTHE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN was a New York Times bestseller. His last book, A PILGRIMAGE TO ETERNITY, was very personal, an adventure on an ancient pilgrimage trail through the heart of Europe, the Via Francigena - a journey, a family story, and a history of Christianity. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a harrowing look at forgotten chapter in American history.” It’s a book that explains the madness of our times with a look back at a hundred years ago. “Brisk” “Powerful” and “Gripping,” wrote the Times. His most recent, A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND, is a historical thriller that was an immediate New York Times bestseller. He worked on a farm, in a factory, and at a fast-food outlet while muddling through nearly seven on-and-off years of college. Timothy Egan comes from a family of nine, from a mother who loved books and a father with the Irish gift of finding joy in small things. |