6/10/2023 0 Comments David mitchell author slade house![]() ![]() But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late. Every nine years, the house's residents - an odd brother and sister - extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.ĭown the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House. Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews ![]() The New York Times best seller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Steinbeck museum cannery row![]() I’m glad it’s mandatory reading in so many schools. It is stunning literature and evokes such feeling and emotion. I maintain that there is no better way to ruin your day that to read Of Mice and Men. They are magnificent treasures of American life, the good and even more so, the bad. Rarely have I ever appreciated works like those. I want to say that I really enjoyed both works but that isn’t exactly honest. Needless to say, there is a lot of Steinbeck here.īefore The Pearl, the only Steinbeck I’d read were East of Eden and Of Mice and Men. Cannery Row takes place on Monterey’s Cannery Row. The town is now home of the National Steinbeck museum. East of Eden takes place a town over in Salinas. ![]() ![]() He’s from this area and writes a lot about it. I moved to Monterey, CA last summer and decided that while I was here I would read Stienbeck’s catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tyson might have never left his childhood home - a distressed family farm - if it weren’t for the fact that the down-turn nearly bankrupted his parents. ![]() ![]() Funnily enough, it had been the devastating Great Depression that marked the beginning of Tyson’s founding of the largest meat-producing company in the world - an enterprise that would not only get chicken into pots, but make it cheap enough that most Americans could buy it by the bucket. Where Hoover failed to deliver, though, John Tyson would ultimately succeed, as agri-business reporter Christopher Leonard so vividly illustrates in his wonderful book, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. Something about the stock market crash, eight months after his inauguration, putting an end to his plans for the country’s prosperity. That’s what Herbert Hoover promised on the 1928 election trail but, as is so often the case, these campaign promises never came to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn't wait to read this book and it did not disappoint. "One of my very favorite authors." -Julia Quinn But now that she's decided to find a prospective husband with a bit more polish, could Lachlan finally appreciate her charms? And is it remotely possible to ignore the wild attraction she feels for him? Three months away was more than enough to show her a world infinitely more glamorous than the untamed Scottish Highlands-and her beloved childhood crush. That's just fine with him, as he never had any intention of marrying the lass anyway! Yet how can he ignore the fact that the once rough and tumble Winnie has become a very fashionable-and incredibly desirable-young woman.īrawny, rugged Lachlan is nothing like the aristocratic English gentlemen who pursued Winnie-with a passion-in London. ![]() In Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch, high-spirited Rowena MacLawry has come to the Highlands after a spectacularly successful debut Season in London, and has made it painfully clear that she's outgrown her girlhood obsession with Lachlan MacTier. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The goodluck of right now![]() ![]() Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. In her final days, mom called him Richard-there must be a cosmic connection. ![]() But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly?īartholomew thinks he’s found a clue when he discovers a “Free Tibet” letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother’s underwear drawer. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. ![]() From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere-an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and love.įor thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Intercourse andrea dworkin summary![]() ![]() ![]() Her prose seizes even a hostile reader by the throat and refuses to let go. Perhaps the Dworkin revival says less about Americans' capacity to change their minds and more about the ability of powerful writing to succeed eventually. And now, as we contemplate sexual harassment again (and again, and again), she is worth revisiting. Yet after many years of being disparaged and maligned, often by other feminists and queer people, #MeToo activism has opened the door to a long-overdue recognition of Dworkin's contributions to how we understand the politics of sex and gender. Dworkin died in 2005, still writing furiously but with the lively movement that had inspired her readership mired in either academic theory or celebrations of female political and corporate firsts. Her work never really went away, of course, although radical feminism receded, and with it, an audience for work that exclusively focused on women’s lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, the author has made an accessible and overwhelming stint as a successful street vendor of philosophical answers into a book and explains everything in terms anyone can understand regardless of their education. Just because a person may lack the capacity to fully understand the often lyrical, convoluted and/or complex ways in which these writings usually lean does not mean they shouldn't be privy to the conversation surrounding that particular question or whatever question they may have. Of course, many people with varying degrees of interest and prior knowledge of philosophical concepts ask themselves the same questions about our existence and purpose for living to name only one and perhaps the most asked question of them all. Ask a Philosopher is a superb book as quite simply the one complaint I generally hear about philosophy is that to a layperson it is inaccessible, and despite having read a large number of philosophy books over the years I agree that the general population can often have issues understanding and comprehending exactly what is being discussed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Being Fishkill by Ruth Lehrer![]() ![]() Poet Ruth Lehrer's young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains "family." And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.Ī desperately sad story of profound abuse is softened somewhat by the highly intelligent Duck-Duck and her loving mother. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill's unstable mother - and by unfathomable tragedy. But Fishkill's fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck's mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. ![]() At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. ![]() ![]() Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be - until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck and a chance for a new start. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Hitchcock francois truffaut![]() ![]() A rare highlight in this overcooked season is Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, which will fall on Saturday this year, ending an eerily Hitchcockian week. Desperate vacationers crack open books they’ve spent all year piling other books on top of the music of the early month is perplexing, at best. The cineplex is filled with movies that-like cans of split-pea soup bought immemorially long ago-reëmerge after being dismissed as too paltry for early summer and too lousy for a fall release. Photograph by Philippe Halsman / MagnumĮarly August is traditionally the back shelf of the year’s cultural pantry. A half century after its publication, Alfred Hitchcock’s conversation with François Truffaut in “Hitchcock/Truffaut” remains one of the most enthralling studies of creative thought in print. ![]() |