5/21/2023 0 Comments Would you by marthe jocelynClaire is excited for the summer, because she’ll be going to college in the fall. Would you rather know what’s going to happen or not know? Would You by Marthe Jocelyn takes place in a summer night where two sisters, Claire and Natalie have different perspectives towards their summer. A sob story but an eye-opener nonetheless. This novel teaches us how to cope up with life, with your family & friends, and with yourself. Questions that seemed irrelevant but had been haunting Natalie since the accident. Would you be happy now that the attention of your crush would soon be diverted to you instead after Claire’s gone? Would you blame Claire’s boyfriend for not chasing her back after their big fight? Would you blame Claire for running away to the street crying after breaking up with her boyfriend? Would you be cruel to the person who hit your sister by a car when you learn that he did not really mean to hit and ran on her, that he was actually driving his wife who was about to give birth to the nearest hospital? In this tear-jerker novel, you are left with a lot of questions starting with Would You? Then tragedy strikes, and Natalie is left contemplating the things they shared and most loved. When they’re together, they share almost everything – they share room, secrets, clothes & even crushes. When you thought you had everything, suddenly, the world turns upside-down and all is lost in a blink of an eye.įor sisters Natalie & Claire, they had each other, against all odds.
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How could this uniquely relatable being who so poetically connects people, food, and cultures into a woven tapestry of human stories be gone? How could he have made the choice to go? And of course, why?Īs someone who mostly eats vegan and is afraid of mostly everything, the ever-carnivorous and adventurous Bourdain has not been the most likely source of inspiration for me. The news of Anthony Bourdain’s death hit me like a brick - an unexpected and heavy blast of concrete from the sky, straight in my face. Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. On the anniversary of Anthony Bourdain’s death, I wanted to share my Kitchen Confidential review, which I wrote shortly after his passing (but before I had a blog… in those days, my writing lived on way too many notes on my phone). 5/21/2023 0 Comments Anne Neville by Amy LicenceThere are moments when she steps forward and claims the historical limelight, when rumors question the paternity of her son Edward, or the moment she hears of his victory following the battle of Towton. ” Writing a biography on Cecily Neville has been rather like striking a series of matches in the dark. In Amy Licence’s introduction, she explains the difficulty of researching Cecily Neville: It has taken Amy Licence to let this fascinating women’s story be told. During her long life span, she witnessed victories and suffered great personal losses. She died during the reign of Henry VII, the king who killed her son and married her granddaughter. Cecily, a woman known as the Rose of Raby and Proud Cis, her claim to be “ queen by right'” was born in 1415 and died in 1495. I became intrigued by Cecily Neville during my studies. Amy Licence’s genealogical tables helped make sense of these dynastic families. So many Nevilles, Buckinghams, Percys, and Yorks. I recently started to study the War of Roses, which I found to be a fascinating, yet complicated era in English History. Now that Richard III has been laid to rest, I thought this would be the perfect time to review the only biography about the mother of Edward IV and Richard III, Amy Licence’s biography Cecily Neville, Mother of Kings. Used in Amy Licence’s biography: Cecily Neville That were true in loving and all their lives. Thou shalt, where thou livest, year by year (Several of the allegorical/introductory images from Leloir’s illustrations are featured at the bottom of this page.) But there have been many, many other artists who in the 170+ years since Les Trois Mousquetaires was first published have brought their own interpretations to the characters and their tale. In my opinion, the all-time greatest visual interpretation of Dumas’ musketeer tales is by French artist Maurice Leloir, who spent two years creating around 250 illustrations for an 1890s edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires. Now, since the advent of internet image searches, it is naturally far easier than it was before to assemble a large library of images which give us different artists’ interpretations of the musketeer novels’ characters and events. Ever since I became an aficionado of Dumas’ musketeer saga back in middle school (which by now was several decades ago), I’ve been collecting copies of The Three Musketeers, particularly looking for illustrated copies or other illustrated adaptations. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Carol s dweck ted talkI was about to give this book a one-star rating because I was so irritated with Dr. Okay, so the idea is fine, and usable, and easy to explain to others, and pretty simple. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love - to transform their lives and your own. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. People with a fixed mindset - those who believe that abilities are fixed - are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset - those who believe that abilities can be developed. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. A newer edition of this book can be found here.Īfter decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. But where can one hide something from such powerful entities? Now, malignant forces seek to possess the button box, and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean-but so can the secrets.įor 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. PublishDate T05:00:00+01:00 edition Unabridged publishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription She lives with her husband, Chip Cunningham, and their two sons in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Her short fiction has appeared in Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and The Colorado Review. She grew up in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a teaching/writing fellow. bioText: Elin Hilderbrand is the author of The Island, Nantucket Nights, Summer People and The Blue Bistro, among others. 5/21/2023 0 Comments A touch of darkness hadesAs she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.Īfter her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. Clair (Goodreads Author) Aida F s review liked it Ok, Im giving this a 3.8 and not a 4 because Persephone was just too much for me honestly. All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone, 1) by Scarlett St. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone 1) Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Kishore mahbubani new bookWith his trademark candor, Mahbubani delivers impartial and incisive insights on the strategic stakes and mistakes in this new great game. Otherwise, the start-up nation, barely two hundred and fifty years old, with only a quarter of China's population, cannot expect to defeat the world's oldest continuous civilization. American policymakers must shake off their complacency and launch a major strategic reboot of both domestic and foreign policies that have weakened the nation's social foundations and global standing. To many it is no longer the indispensable nation but an awkward interloper.The global rise of China and the relative strategic decline of the US presents a political challenge that the US has never faced before. Meanwhile, America has seen the power of its economic model badly damaged by the 2008 financial crisis. Chinese society is now infused with innovation and dynamism. Most critically, the Chinese people have regained their cultural confidence. Who will win this contest? What is at stake? And who will judge the winner?In this book, Kishore Mahbubani evaluates the two sides, and shows how China has been thinking on a global scale, launching ambitious initiatives under some of the world's most pragmatic and competent leaders. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence. But until Fern’s expulsion.she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. “I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. “I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. |