![]() ![]() ![]() What makes this book a women’s fiction tale is the focus on the main character’s emotional journey, which is one of deep self discovery. It has compelling and strongly romantic elements for sure (with a smokin’ hot firefighter, no less!), but the Buddy Love aspect, while important, is secondary. It’s often tempting for readers to lump them together, but there’s a difference between those literary genres, and this particular novel falls squarely into the latter category. I’m a big fan of both romance and romantic women’s fiction. The book was called “a gem” by New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who also wrote that it’s “a story that reminds us that the word emergency has, at its heart, a new beginning.” This idea had me intrigued. ![]() I devoured the ebook in a day and have been pondering certain scenes and themes from it ever since. However, it was another one of Center’s releases, Things You Save in a Fire, that caught my attention this summer. If that final title sounds familiar, it’s because it was made into a Netflix movie last year starring Josh Duhamel and Leslie Bibb. ![]() Author Katherine Center is known for a number of bestselling novels, including How to Walk Away, Happiness for Beginners, What You Wish For, and The Lost Husband. ![]()
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![]() Somehow the pilot, 20-year-old Lt Charlie Brown, still clung to the controls - and the last vestiges of hope. ![]() The nose cone had been blown out and a 200mph gale hurtled through the fuselage. The rear gunner’s body hung lifeless in his shattered turret, another gunner was unconscious and bleeding heavily, the rest of the ten-man crew battered, wounded and in shock. Holed all over by flak and bullets and down to a single good engine, it struggled simply to stay in the air over Germany, let alone make it the 300 miles back to England. The lone Allied bomber was a sitting duck. Incredible story: He was a real master of the skies, but Luftwaffe veteran Franz Stigler showed pity to an Allied bomber in its hour of need ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These advantages are: peace, prosperity, freedom, etc. It seems that those who proposed the theory base their definition of advantage on scientific formulas. Many have taken great risks and chances despite the fact that their advantage lay in not doing so. History contradicts the assumption that human beings always act to their greatest advantage. ![]() The Underground Man criticizes whoever voiced such a theory for being overly naïve. If their true interests were disclosed to them, they would see that it is always in their best interest to do good things and would necessarily do only good deeds since no one acts against their best interest. The narrator asks who was the first to claim that people do not do what is good only because they are not aware of where their true interests lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some children are instantly turned off by his appearance, but others quickly befriend him. Auggie says no I drew myself as a duck because I look like a duck! The story is about his journey through the school year, facing the difficult task of adapting to his new environment and trying to make friends. His principal admires the drawing because Auggie drew himself as the ugly duckling who becomes a swan. In fact, he even draws himself in the story as a duck. ![]() He has a genetic abnormality that caused his facial features to be extremely deformed. ![]() August is a young boy entering school for the first time as a fifth grader. N spite of the fact that this book is a young adult novel, it was definitely a good read for me, a seasoned older reader. You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by R.J Palacio to read online More Less Show More Show Less Instead, he kind of blew into his hands, like you do when your hands are cold. Tushman raised his eyebrows and nodded, but he didn’t say anything. If I told him that Julian had called August a freak, then he’d go talk to Julian about it, then Julian would tell him how I had badmouthed August, too, and everybody would find out about it. “You knocked out a tooth, did you know that?” “Julian’s mouth was bleeding, Jack,” said Mr. “I mean, what were you thinking?” She looked at Mr. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. ![]() They believe that it contains important clues about the creation and future of creatures and desperately want to know how Diana, an unskilled witch, was able to get her hands on the elusive volume.Ĭhief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. However, when she opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, Diana discovers that she can no longer keep magic out of her carefully ordinary life.Īfter Diana returns the book, it becomes clear that creatures (classified as witches, daemons, and vampires) are after its secrets. Yale historian Diana Bishop may be descended from a long line of witches (Bishops and Proctors, yes, from the Salem Witch Trials), but she wants no part of her magical inheritance. The first book was published in 2011, and the second book Shadow of Night was published in July 2012, with the final volume, The Book of Life, released in July, 2014. ![]() A Discovery of Witches is the first novel in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, which weaves together elements of science, history, romance, and fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() We don't know much about her, but the trilogy's called the Locked Tomb, so presumably the occupant of said tomb is important. ![]() ![]() Alecto is the sleeping girl in the tomb, out to get even with the Emperor for imprisoning her. Some blatant speculation on my part of possible identities for Alecto: So, presumably, whoever this is looking for payback. Historically, Alecto is the name of one of the Erinyes, or Furies, spirits of vengeance from Greek mythology that would pursue those who committed certain mortal sins. Obviously, the first was about Gideon, told from her perspective the second appears to be about Harrow (though, curiously, it's told in second-person perspective, at least from the snippet that's been published but that leaves the question, who's the third book going to be about? So, Tamysn Muir has three books planned for the Locked Tomb trilogy: Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Alecto the Ninth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rapper and hip hop artist will headline the daylong festival featuring 45 artists in a takeover of Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center that will provide music and entertainment for up to 1,200 of all ages. ![]() He started attending open mic nights in the area when he was 14 and has been involved in the music scene ever since.įor his first foray into festivals, Brown snagged a high-profile rapper sure to spark some interest - Afroman. The Uptown Get Down festival is the brainchild of Caleb Brown, a Tri-Citian whose life has revolved around music. The mix includes lifelong locals to others who’ve never set foot in town, as well as a collection of people ranging from musicians and crew members to vendors. The first extensive music festival to come to the Tri-Cities region has been an eclectic collaboration. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The camera has destroyed the original meaning, but has also given it many others.īerger says original works are still worth being experienced in many ways, but only if it is ‘stripped away from false myserties’. Now they are used as pieces of information in different contexts and situations. It no longer has a place like it used to. The painting changes environment and sometimes we control it. ‘And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced.’ (Benjamin 1935) You are seeing them in the context of your own life’. ‘The camera reproduces the painting making it available in any size, anywhere, for any purpose. In his video, Berger describes the revolutionary effect of the ‘mechanical eye’ in this manner. Now, a painting can appear at a place and simultaneously in another as well. ![]() It is a conversation about the camera and how it changed art by making it reproducible and easily accessible. Walter Benjamin’s essay is the core of John Berger’s Program “Ways of Seeing / Episode 1”. ![]() ![]() These materials would later tell the molecular story of his death.Ĭhekhov, the author of theatrical masterpieces including The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and The Three Sisters, had suffered from tuberculosis for two decades before his death in 1904. Carver doesn’t describe what happens to Chekhov’s body and possessions, but someone that day had the foresight to preserve the shirt he was wearing as well as the letters and postcards he had been writing during his stay. ![]() In the decades that followed, Chekhov’s death became, in the words of journalist and biographer Janet Malcolm, “one of the great set pieces in literary history.” Raymond Carver fictionalized it in his final short story, “ Errand,” published in 1987. The stillness was interrupted by a huge black moth, “which kept crashing painfully into the light bulbs and darting about the room,” she wrote. “Anton took a full glass, examined it, smiled at me and said, ‘It’s a long time since I drank champagne.’ He drained it and lay quietly on his left side, and was soon silent forever.” The playwright’s wife, actress Olga Knipper-Chekhova, later remembered, “He awoke in the early hours of the night, and for the first time in his life himself requested that the doctor be sent for.” When the German doctor arrived, “Anton sat up unusually straight and said loudly and clearly in German (of which he knew very little): Ich sterbe (‘I’m dying’).” The doctor ordered a bottle of champagne be brought up. Despite the champagne the mood was somber. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never before have Marcus’s insights been so directly and powerfully presented. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text. In Gregory Hays’s new translation-the first in thirty-five years-Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago. Marcus’s insights and advice-on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others-have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. ![]() A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.įew ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. ![]() |