![]() ![]() The merry widow is an opera and a kind of sexy lingerie. ![]() ![]() The other seven are Hong Kong (355), Shenzhen (289), Dubai (201), Shanghai (163), Tokyo (158), Chongqing (127), and Guangzhou (118).Ĭheck out the Sassy Podcast and The Babysitter’s Club Club. According to wikipedia, only nine cities in the world have over 100 buildings 150M tall. If we’re talking skyscrapers, meaning buildings over 150M (about 500 feet) tall, when this was recorded in April of 2021, Cleveland has 4, Denver has 7, Chicago has 127, and New York has 284. Might we recommend a Pulp Fiction movie poster or some Absolut Vodka ads? The question of freshman year dorm room decoration is of new significance to Jen since Lil Romance will be heading off to college in the fall. Why food bloggers include some pre-recipe chatter. Sarah made some Maple Oatmeal Muffins, and maybe you want the recipe. The Reese Witherspoon book club is the definition of the full glow-up. It’s about the Sackler family and how they made billions on Oxycontin which was a huge factor in the creation of the opioid epidemic.ĭaisy Jones and the Six is a great novel, and the full-cast audiobook is supposed to be amazing. Last week, we talked about Big Pharma, and if you want more of that, read Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With a somewhat darker feel to her work, she would also bring in elements of the paranormal to help underpin her material, giving it the extra weight it needed to really stand-out at the time.īorn on the 13th of May, 1907, and living until the 19th of April, 1989, Daphne Du Maurier lived a long and fruitful life, building a literary career that is still referenced and drawn from to this day, creating a style all of her own in the process. Usually utilizing a moody and foreboding atmosphere, she became well known for her trademarked style that would evoke recognition among readers for years to come. An influential British author, Daphne Du Maurier was an institution within her own right, who came to be respected as a masterful storyteller with a keen eye for both structure and form, something which many have tried to replicate over the intervening years since her death to varying degrees of success. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the not-too-distant future, Jenna Fox has been lying in a coma for a full year after a tragic Accident. More than the video clips they make me watch. More than the facts and statistics they fill my head with. Mary Pearson’s vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. ![]() This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? ![]() But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile in Asgard, Loki gets the assignment to find out more about the so-called Inventor in New Jersey. ![]() In this third volume, Kamala is happy with her double life as a normal teenager and superhero Ms Marvel. This third volume would have Loki in it, but Agent Jemma Simmons as well, who is just one of my favourite characters from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I loved the first GN, picked up the second one which I loved as well, and then got the third one for my birthday this year. Marvel graphic novel, because I'd heard some positive things about it and I had the character of Ms Marvel on my phone game, where she was really cool. Last year I decided to pick up the first Ms. What are these feelings, Kamala Khan? Prepare for drama! Intrigue! Romance! Suspense! Punching things! All this and more! The fan-favorite, critically acclaimed, amazing new series continues as Kamala Khan proves why she's the best (and most adorable) new super hero there is! Plus, see what happens when SHIELD agent Jemma Simmons goes undercover at Kamala's school! Marvel must deal with…a crush! Because this new kid is really, really cute. ![]() ![]() Marvel is! Well sort of - by crashing it in an attempt to capture Asgard's most annoying trickster! Yup, it's a special Valentine's Day story featuring Marvel's favorite charlatan, Loki! And when a mysterious stranger arrives in Jersey City, Ms. Love is in the air in Jersey City as Valentine's Day arrives! Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school dance, but Ms. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my first one, so I don’t have a lot to compare it.Ĩ. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? So far so good. And that I took the time to shower, but then never made it to the author discussion.ħ. ![]() ![]() What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? How little I’ve actually read. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? Actually, I’ve had suprisingly few interruptions, probably because I warned my family in advance that I’d be doing this.Ħ. Not an easy task to coordinate, and I’ll pay for it dearly with the next two weekends.ĥ. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day? I took the day off from both jobs. ![]() What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? This wasn’t on my reading list originally, but looking at my TBR pile I’m finding Jump by Elisa Carbone is calling my name.Ĥ. How many books have you read so far? A paltry 2, because the first one was almost 500 pages (yes, I’m still using that excuse)ģ. Next on my list is Wish by Alexandra BullenĢ. What are you reading right now? Just finished Dirty Little Secrets by C. Who could pass that up, especially after the finger foods I’ve been eating all day?ġ. Ok, so I took a breather, but that was only because my parents were offering up steak and potatoes for dinner if I emptied the dishwasher. ![]() ![]() Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.įour Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.”-O: The Oprah Magazine ![]() ![]() a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”-The Washington Post “A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. ![]() Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ![]() Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket Edition: First Canadian Edition First Printing. ![]() It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Life of Pi - Special Illustrated Edition. Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, Richard Parker, for 227 days while lost at sea. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan-and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The modern classic and international bestseller is now brought to splendid, eye-popping life with forty beautiful illustrations from artist Tomislav Torjanac.Īfter the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc." - Tomislav Torjanac ![]() "My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person's perspective-Pi's perspective. ![]() ![]() He always chooses the girl who seems special in some way, the most beautiful or talented, the one whose loss will be most keenly felt. ![]() Every 10 years the Dragon chooses a young woman from the villages to come live with him in his tower as a servant - after which she never returns to her family, even once released. ![]() Protecting the villages of Polnya against the Wood is a wizard called the Dragon, to whom the villagers owe fealty. Uprooted has leapt forward to claim the title of Best Book I've Read Yet This Year.īetween the warring kingdoms of Rosya and Polnya is the Wood, a place of corruption and danger. By all rights I should have tumbled into Uprooted feeling disoriented and confused, dissonant and harsh in my criticism - but no. ![]() I'm not sure the human brain was meant to read so many brilliant books in such short order - even less sure that swinging my reading-pendulum from Hannu Rajaniemi's collected science fiction stories to Naomi Novik's sword-and-sorcery fantasy novel is at all wise. I've read a staggering number of excellent books recently, and it has done things to my head. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Uprooted Author Naomi Novik ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So long as Democratic senators like Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) cling to the arcane Senate tradition of filibustering, the party is unlikely to pass major legislation on healthcare, immigration, infrastructure and more.Īdam Jentleson knows the stakes all too well. ” )ĭespite winning full control of the federal government for the first time since 2008, Democrats face a firm limit on how much they can accomplish in office. ![]() ![]() ” (Manchin then reiterated his commitment to the “involvement of the minority. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) offered a ray of hope for President Joe Biden’s nascent administration March 7 during an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press.Īsked whether he’d be willing to exempt certain forms of legislation from the filibuster - which functionally allows any senator to “veto” a bill that doesn’t have a 60-vote majority of support - the mercurially moderate Manchin answered: “If you want to make a little bit more painful - make him stand there and talk - I’m willing to look at. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading Parry this week, reminded me of my own thoughts, not long after having translated Duino Elegies ( ). The PN Review piece ends by looking at sonnet II, 18 and asks, if Rilke’s own German is a poor translation (using shabby tools) of an ultimate reality, how can translators hope to do it justice in bringing it over into English? Parry epigrammatically concludes: “We punctuate to retain our sanity, but we should not come to believe the punctuation”. The poet is obliged to speak of this unity but can only use the language of division, a language deluded by the conviction of finality. Rilke’s “praise” is just this acceptance and faithful utterance and is predicated on the truth of an underlying unity of existence. ![]() This is opposed to impatience which is (contra-Keats) an irritable reaching after clarity: “making up your mind before the event instead of letting the event shape your mind” (Parry again). What the young poet learned was to pursue an “unhurried and uncommitted exposure to experience” (Parry’s words). What struck Rilke was Rodin’s “dark patience which makes him almost anonymous”. Parry explores Rilke’s response to Rodin in Paris in 1902. I’d agree and, in translating both in the last 20 years or so, I have come to prefer the vivid enactments of the sonnets. The poet always spoke of the sonnets as subsidiary to the elegies, but Parry argues that while the elegies “talk about” the poet’s task, the sonnets perform it. Idris Parry writes in the current PN Review (March/April 2015) comparing Rilke’s Duino Elegies with the Sonnets to Orpheus. ![]() |