5/29/2023 0 Comments The iron jackalLearn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis the divorceThe Driver tells the Ghosts that they may stay as long as they wish - even forever, if they so choose. The narrator isn’t even able to pick up a leaf, which seems to possess an extraordinary weight. The world itself, moreover, is fuller and more real than they could have imagined, and its substance is so solid that the Ghosts find it nearly immovable the grass is painful to tread, and flowers are as hard as diamonds. The passengers disembark, finding that they are no more than shades, translucent ghosts inhabiting the world of the living. On the way up, several minor characters speak to the narrator, including a curly-haired young poet, a man who believes the universe conspires against him, an intelligent man in a bowler hat, and a big belligerent man with little respect for anyone. The bus starts and begins to ascend, rising in the air in a manner quite unlike a bus. Eventually it is revealed that they’re waiting for a bus going up to Heaven, which comes and allows them all entry with plenty of room left over. The novel opens with the scene of a writer living in a sort of gray, unpleasant city (Hell), standing in a long queue. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Books like shantaramThis book was kind of like a rollercoaster for me. I was hooked right from the first chapter. She faces many social problems and rejection, but she is headstrong and the story’s real hero. On the other hand, Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a businessman named Jalil. She’s beautiful, confident, smart, strong, and playful. Laila enjoys her school life and is absorbed by the thoughts of her crush Tariq. The novel focuses on the life of two Afghan women- Mariam and Laila, who come from different walks of life. There are very few books that can shock me with such a wave of emotion: make me happy at one moment and feel devastated the next leave me laughing at one scene and in tears the next, and make me love some characters but hate the rest. ” One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.” 5/29/2023 0 Comments The stepford wives by ira levinIra Levin says that when he published “The Stepford Wives” 30 years ago on Oct. Then those two women changed overnight, finding sudden profound happiness in a well-waxed floor and supportive undergarments and Joanna was left all alone, with her husband and his creepy friends, one of whom had worked-aha!-in the animatronics division at Disneyland. was a bastion of chauvinism, that a dirty kitchen was the sign of a creative mind, that the women in Stepford, with their slim waists and big breasts, were just too perfect and really kind of weird. How there were only two other women in town who felt as she did-that the fenced-in Men’s Assn. Well, we all know what happened next, don’t we? How Joanna began noticing that all the women in the suburban town were perfectly coiffed and groomed and could not be pried from their housewifely duties with a crowbar. “And I want to wish you a sincere and hearty welcome to Stepford.” “It’s a nice town with nice people!” she told Joanna, who still had boxes in the living room. It’s three decades now since the Welcome Wagon lady showed up at Joanna Eberhart’s door with her packets of powdered breakfast drink and unrelenting smile. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Chemistry lesson bookBut it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. A page-turning and highly satisfying tale: zippy, zesty, and Zotty.”-Maggie Shipstead, best-selling author of Great CircleĬhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. “It's the world versus Elizabeth Zott, an extraordinary woman determined to live on her own terms, and I had no trouble choosing a side. It reminds you that change takes time and always requires heat” ( The New York Times). A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a one-of-a-kind scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Josh malerman inspectiona lot of mythology to consume, especially in the book’s disorienting early chapters. All that is good about it, stated above, remains intact, even if it's not entirely a knockout. But Inspection is still a worthy read, one that, despite its flaws, upholds Malerman's premiere horror author status. And yet, there's a pretty big oversight that mars Inspection. Much of the novel relies on atmosphere and mystery, for 'quiet' horror fans, but for those who appreciate some Grand Guignol levels of violence, Malerman has you covered there too. Malerman handles the point-of-views of his adolescent characters adeptly, capturing the heartache, confusion, longing, and ever-shifting quality of self-esteem that comes with the onset of puberty, especially as it applies to these extraordinary pre-teens, who live strange and extremely sheltered lives. Characters both good and evil are completely fleshed out, with the latter especially believing themselves to be the heroes of the story, convinced their deplorable deeds are just. Malerman's sparse yet evocative prose helps move the narrative along, which is good since, in other hands, the same idea could have ended up being quite bloated. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Book the source james michenerPart of my visit included a bus tour of Israel. "The Source" is at the top of my Michener list along with "The Drifters." I started "The Source" in 1974 when I was visiting Israel, the subject of the book. I have mixed fond and not so fond memories about "The Source." I am a huge Michener fan and have read all of his books. But he said in his 1992 memoirs that the circumstances of his birth remained cloudy and he did not know just when he was born or who his parents were. Michener's entry in Who's Who in America says he was born on Feb. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, best known for its permanent collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and a room containing Michener's own typewriter, books, and various memorabilia. Toward the end of his life, he created the Journey Prize, awarded annually for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer founded an MFA program now, named the Michener Center for Writers, at the University of Texas at Austin and made substantial contributions to the James A. His first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. James Albert Michener is best known for his sweeping multi-generation historical fiction sagas, usually focusing on and titled after a particular geographical region. In discussing the film, however, Luhrmann insisted that he “wanted…to look at the way in which Shakespeare might make a movie of one of his plays if he was a director…he was a relentless entertainer and a user of incredible devices and theatrical tricks.” His stylized depiction of a late 20th century American city came out of research into the Elizabethan world, and he insisted that the English of Shakespeare’s time would have sounded more like contemporary American ( not quite true). Extravagance in sets, costumes, colors, and MTV-style editing all showcase Luhrmann’s visual flair. Swords become guns (with convenient sword-related brand names). Feuding nobles are replaced with mafia families with legitimate fronts. It transplants the action from Renaissance Italy to “Verona Beach” contemporary to the 1990s. Romeo + Juliet’s restaging is possibly more drastic than that. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The queen of hearts kimmery martinIn case you don’t know, my favorite author is Liane Moriarty. The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin Book Review As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie starts to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend. Nick’s unexpected reappearance during a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years.Īs chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie’s life–both professionally and personally–throughout a tragic chain of events in her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Now they’re happily married wives and mothers with successful careers–Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Goodreads The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin Book Review 5/28/2023 0 Comments The cabin faced west by jean fritzLike any 10 year old child would, Ann longed for the company of the relatives and friends she left behind. There is not a lot of action or sensationalistic drama, but the book happily offers a historically accurate portrayal of a young girl’s experience moving west with her family. In fact, the historical accuracy is probably the book’s most outstanding strength. It depicts the loneliness and hardships of pioneer life, when many Americans were slowly starting to move west to make a life and to build the country that we know today. The book is very realistic, down to earth, and presents the historical context and events in a very accurate way. Show More revolves around the life of a 10-year-old girl named Ann Hamilton who moves from Gettysburg Pennsylvania to the “Western Country” with her family, far away from the comforts of “civilization” in the eastern side of the infant yet growing United States. |