![]() ![]() And I read it in less than one day because it's the sort of book that you can't put down (though I had to put it down to sleep, and then there were other things that had to be done first today before I could sit down with it again).This book is fast-paced and brutally honest. So there was nothing new for me, in that way, in this book.But I didn't read it to learn anything new, I read it because it was recommended highly by other reading-friends. ![]() more wed much on the TV, and been involved (at the periphery) with lives that would fit in the world of this book. Since then, however, (and it was quite a good number of years ago in the early 1970s that I was at secondary school) I have read much, vie. If any of the girls at my school were sexually active it wasn't common knowledge, and alcohol was rarely on the scene.A cloistered environment? Maybe so. Towards the end of my years at school it was becoming 'fashionable' to swear, but it was never part of an everyday vocabulary. ![]() By the time we got to secondary school we'd had violent responses socialized out of us and I never saw anyone pushing anyone around, let alone getting into fights. Review 1: The world in this book is light-years away from the world I grew up in, and though we were far from rich and we five kids never went to private schools, you'd still have to say I was privileged. ![]()
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![]() There was a rattle of rain on the bathroom window. Ever since the children were born it’s also been the only place in our North Norfolk home in which there is sufficient freedom from interruption to read. In the depths of last winter the bathroom, if by no means warm, was the least glacial room in the house. ![]() Reviewed by Jim Ring in Slightly Foxed Issue 27. Tautly written and full of unexpected twists, this is a timeless work of espionage fiction. Soon they’re on a wild journey of intrigue, meeting danger at every turn, and ultimately unraveling Germany’s secret plans to invade England. Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers is lured by his friend Davies into a yachting expedition in the Baltic, only to discover that the itinerary involves more than killing fowl. ![]() Loosely based on the author’s own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser’s Germany. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments A Book of Toys by Gwen White![]() Why, we felt, should there not be a similar series of books in this country? The experiment, started a few weeks after war broke out, turned out to be successful. The original idea for King Penguins came from the small Insel-Verlag books which were published in Germany before the war. ![]() often dealing with by no means broad subjects, such as the History of British Military Uniforms, The Stone Carvings at Southwell Cathedral, Poisonous Fungi and Romney Marsh. These have not been planned to coincide with the public's growing appreciation of art, but rather to appeal to the general liking for illustrated keepsakes of special projects. 'The aim of the King Penguin is different. In an article about the Penguin Modern Painters, Lane said: The inspiration for the series, which was acknowledged by Allen Lane, came from the books published by the German publisher Insel. The series ended in 1959 after 76 volumes had been produced. The first King Penguin 'K1' was published in November 1939 and sold for 1/- (one shilling) each. ![]() ![]() Responsible for such ambitious and diverse films as Frances (1982) and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), Brooksfilms was headed by screen satirist Mel Brooks, who proved himself to be a visionary producer as well as an accomplished comedian. It was not exactly the kind of film that launches Hollywood careers, but it caught the attention of producer Stuart Cornfeld, who was working for the newly formed production company Brooksfilms. Prior to making The Elephant Man, Lynch had made only one feature, the stylized and narratively oblique Eraserhead (1976), the tale of a forlorn man's lonely existence in a nightmarish industrial wasteland. ![]() A friendship between the two men blossoms and Treves, as well as the hospital staff, discover that Merrick is not the mindless victim they thought him to be, but a man of remarkable intelligence and sensitivity. A renowned and affluent doctor, Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), endeavors to study Merrick's condition, and convinces the London Hospital to take him in as a resident patient. John Hurt stars as Merrick, a man whose body is so grossly deformed by disease that he lives as a carnival attraction, "The Elephant Man," in the slums of London. Based upon the life of John Merrick, David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) is a moving portrait of one misshapen man's struggle to find and maintain his dignity amidst the horrors and hardships of 19th-century London. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it becomes clear that Hill loves the chaos of her books, their odd juxtapositions, the serendipity of coming across something when looking for something else – and she also champions books AS books, holding out against the little grey e-reader… and there’s a lot more to like in the book. 6 when she talks about “I know people… whose books are even catalogued, in card indexes, on spreadsheets or even on infernal systems on websites where it is possible to log your own library and arrange virtual books on virtual shelves”, as I love my LibraryThing account and wouldn’t be without it. ![]() This is definitely a book to read once, fast, and again, slowly (as she is told to do with Proust). The short section style is eminently suitable for treat reading, especially in quite a busy week, although I did devour great gobbets of it at once. And that’s the mark of an excellent read, isn’t it? The book is divided into short sections which dip into reading, Hill’s life as a reader and as an author, and all sorts of bits and pieces. Well, there was some stuff to like, and some to dislike, and some to argue with. What’s not to like when you have an established author married to a Shakespeare Professor, living in a big house full of books and deciding to only read from her current collection for a year? I heard about this book on the Dovegreyreader blog and immediately added it to the wishlist. ![]() Gosh – here I am in August reading books from January… just realised! ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The whisper man a novel![]() Maybe “The Whisper Man” had an accomplice? So why does the widower, Tom, start to feel like something isn’t right? Another boy goes missing, and Tom’s young son says he hears someone outside his window at night. But, lo and behold, the culprit is caught. ![]() ![]() Except, the town has a super creepy history, including a serial killer who abducted and murdered five young boys. The Whisper Man, the new novel by Alex North, tells the story of a widower and his son, Jake, who move to the tiny English town of Featherbank to start fresh. ![]() Couldn’t put down The Girl on the Train or The Woman in Cabin 10? Then, boy, do we have a treat for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() WholenessĪt the heart of Integrity is the understanding that we need wholeness. Integrity isn’t the latest book that Cloud has written ( The Power of the Other holds that distinction), so this was a chance for me to go back into the foundations of Cloud’s thinking and writing and look at more basic components of how we get along with one another. His more recent book, The Power of the Other, helps us to understand how others impact us – often without our knowledge. ![]() His books Safe People (also co-written with Townsend) and Changes that Heal, Cloud connects the kinds of people we need to be in relationships to the need for boundaries. Boundaries, which he co-wrote with John Townsend, is a cornerstone of my recommendations for people struggling to find ways to go through life. Contextīefore diving into the details of the kind of character that Cloud describes with “integrity,” it’s important to share that I’ve been a fan of his work for years now. ![]() Henry Cloud explains in Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality how integrity is much more than simply ethics and morals – though that’s not a bad place to start. It’s about being one person and not different people in the same body depending on context. What does being “a person of integrity” mean? Though most people would immediately think of moral, ethical, or right, there is a deeper meaning to integrity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse.
7/5/2023 0 Comments Shomari wills![]() The book focuses on six historical figures and how they rose to their status and used their power for social justice, movements, to help their communities grow, and how they helped people of color to thrive. ![]() (description from Goodreads)īlack Fortunes follows the narratives of America’s first black millionaires. Between the years of 18, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of smart, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.Ī fresh, little-known chapter in the nation’s story-A blend of Hidden Figures, Titan, and The Tycoons-Black Fortunes illuminates the birth of the black business titan and the emergence of the black marketplace in America as never before. While Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Michael Jordan, and Will Smith are among the estimated 35,000 black millionaires in the nation today, these famous celebrities were not the first blacks to reach the storied one percent. ![]() The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires-former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties-self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Page Length: 320 pages (hardcover edition) Book Review: “Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires” by Shomari Wills ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, sleeping over with Chloe who is upset about her father's recent death, Val reaches out to comfort her. At a time when Val has a lot of questions about sex anyway-how often do normal people have it, what exactly is an orgasm, do you think homosexuality is a sin-she starts entertaining daydreams about Chloe, and worrying that she does neither her mother nor a teacher she consults (both hypothetically) can tell her if acting on such desires would be ""perverted,"" though they are reassuring about just having them. Disdain for the other, richer girls brings them together at first, and after they become good friends Val recognizes a special ""current"" between them at certain close moments. Val and Chloe meet when they are both out-of-place New Girls at a private Fast Side high school, and Val is intrigued with the more confidently nonconforming Chloe from the start-intrigued with her name even before they meet. ![]() From an author young enough to get it right without trying, a contemporary story of a friendship between two girls, Val and Chloe, and of Val's secret uncertainties about her own place in the sexual scheme of things. ![]() |