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6/28/2023 0 Comments Mariel of redwall![]() ![]() " I loved this book because of the female protagonist-and she uses a knotted rope as a weapon! " - Traci, " See Redwall for my complete review of this series " - Gatorgal21, " it bores u too the point where u literally want to shove a piece of glass into ur intestines. I want to try and make some of the woodlandy food! " - Kipahni, Adventure, Quests, Feasts, Triumph, Battles. " There is very much a pattern in Jacques books. Good to see that the female mice were not typecast as weak domestic Goddesses. ![]() I credit an early fascination with the Redwall stories for my modern-day feats of gastronomic delight. They are simple and formulaic, but it's a good formula! Jacques has a real gift for dialect, and culinary descriptions. " The Redwall books ought to be a perennial children's favorite. " Not as good as the first 3, but still entertaining *audiobook " - Ryan, Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The bench by joel elston![]() The loosely autobiographical series imagines how the hypersexual alt-cabaret diva-comedian Bridget Everett might have turned out had she never become Bridget Everett. But Joel remembered Sam, and treated her like a star-something she might’ve been, if she’d tried. ![]() (When Sam broke down at the office, mourning her sister’s passing, Joel was the only one to comfort her.) Sam didn’t remember him from their teen-age years despite his six-foot-five gangliness and nearly-as-wide grin. But the two didn’t become friends until adulthood, when Sam moved back home to care for her terminally ill sister, Holly, and happened to find work alongside Joel at a standardized-testing company. ![]() Years earlier, Sam and Joel had been in show choir together at their high school in suburban Kansas, where Sam was a promising vocalist. ![]() Sitting in the audience of a children’s voice recital, fortysomething Sam ( Bridget Everett) asks her best friend Joel (Jeff Hiller), jokingly but not, “Is that what hope and promise looks like?” She’s the snarker and he’s the giggler-a dynamic established in the first season of HBO’s marvellously understated hangout dramedy “Somebody Somewhere,” but before then, too. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The millionaire woman next door![]() The book goes on to discuss the seven common denominators that self-made millionaires share. They maintain this lifestyle so that they can save and invest a high percentage of their income. In reality, they found that most self-made millionaires are actually quite frugal, and many have jobs that would be considered middle class. The authors dispel the myths that most millionaires are doctors, lawyers, or business executives that live in wealthy neighborhoods. The book starts by discussing the nation’s misconceptions of who millionaires are. Similar Books to The Millionaire Next Door Book.The Millionaire Next Door PDF Free Download.Multiple Languages Editions of The Millionaire Next Door Book. ![]() ![]() Details of The Millionaire Next Door Book. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wreck this journal everywhere![]() Or, even if they didn’t enjoy it, it would give them some creative thinking and writing. They might just enjoy Wreck This Journal Everywhere. ![]() Now, you can buy Wreck This Journal in color! Wreck This Journal While I don’t think the Wreck this Journal prompt book will get kids writing per se, it could be a springboard for creativity and inspire other projects - even writing. It’s a fun little book that may spark creative thinking and wonderment with silly, clever activities.ĭo you think your kids need extra urging to be creative, too? One summer, I introduced Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal, a take-with-you compact book of writing prompts and activities. ![]() When my children were in elementary and middle school, I always searched for ways motivate my kids to write and be creative. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Caraval cover![]() ![]() The colouring, borders, font, imagery, it’s all so gorgeous and Alina looks like such a badass.Ĭaraval – Stephanie Garber: China, Russia & Iran/Persia Gosh I wish I’d continued with my French studies at university. ![]() ![]() Okay, I really tried not to include another bunch of French covers, but WOULD YOU LOOK AT THESE GRISHA COVERS? They’re just….*heart eyes*. The Grisha Trilogy – Leigh Bardugo: France I will say though that Australian cover probably captures the darkness and mysticism of the book more than the others. The title fonts on all three are great, too. The costuming on the German version is lovely and the woman’s head popping up from the border on the Spanish cover is really cute. I adore the clear 1920s feel of both the German and Spanish covers. Whoever is handling The Diviners covers around the world, you’re doing a top notch job. The Diviners – Libba Bray: Germany, Spain & Australia ![]() Also points to both covers for remembering America’s red hair. However, I like the romantic, historical feel of it. It probably doesn’t fit the actual story very well considering The Selection is supposed to be set in a dystopian future. I’m not sure what it is about the Persian cover, but I like it. And well, I have absolutely no problem with this because the illustrations are pretty and suit the books just as much as the originals. The Vietnamese covers for The Selection books are very similar in feel to the US covers except they use illustrations instead of photographed models. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Small game blair braverman![]() ![]() She's working as a survival instructor for, basically, rich tech bros in the Pacific Northwest who want to have a weekend adventure they can brag about. RASCOE: (Laughter) Well, I don't know - that might be a spoiler.īRAVERMAN: You never know what can go wrong when people are stuck out there.īRAVERMAN: So there's a small group of people who are selected for this show, and they're selected to be archetypes, so to speak. Tell us about "Small Game" and who the contestants are who sign up for this show. RASCOE: So I kind of think of this novel as, like, if you cross the TV show "Survivor" with the TV show "Yellowjackets," although this book does not have any cannibalism in it. She's the author of "Dogs On The Trail" about her experiences as a dog-sledder in Alaska. ![]() RASCOE: It's a survival competition - a reality TV show, until it isn't. They would forgo all comforts so that viewers didn't have to. The idea was that they'd found one another in the wilderness, this group of strangers and over the course of six weeks, would be tasked with building a new kind of community, something pure and sustainable and right. ![]() Canvas tunics and matching shorts, all dyed a dusty brown. Five people are blindfolded, taken to a helicopter and dropped into a lake in the middle of a remote wilderness.īLAIR BRAVERMAN: The show was called "Civilization." Their clothes were fast-fashion prehistoric. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Leon garfield shakespeare![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His most recent work includes The Seeds of Friendship, which he wrote and illustrated, and the illustrations for Michael Morpurgo’s retellings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. Michael Foreman has illustrated more than one hundred books, including those for stories by J.M. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), Smith (1967, published in The New York Review Children’s Collection), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie Medal), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award). In all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. In 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn, which was published in 1964. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. ![]() His father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. ![]() ![]() For readers seeking a more comprehensive treatment, he refers to the works of earlier biographers (such as Robert Remini). ![]() In his “Author’s Note and Acknowledgements” in the book’s final pages, Meacham admits he did not seek to create a full-scale account of Jackson’s life. It almost seems as though Meacham used his natural gift for writing to just write – but without a grand vision of what he wanted to conclude of Jackson’s life, or of his years as chief executive (which, by all measures, altered the nature of the presidency forever). There is no punch-line, no core message and no lofty judgment of Jackson’s success (or failure) as president – or as a person. In the end, though, I came away somewhat disappointed.Īt a high level, Meacham’s biography seems to lack an overarching thesis or theme. Based on its popular acclaim, and as the last of a half-dozen biographies of Jackson I planned to read, I’ve long looked forward to the opportunity to experience this biography for myself. ![]() Meacham’s “American Lion” is currently the most popular biography (by a wide margin) of this complex, animated, strong-willed and occasionally insufferable president. Meacham has also written about Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and more recently authored a best-selling biography of Thomas Jefferson. ![]() ![]() Published in 2008, this biography of President Jackson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. “ American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” is author Jon Meacham’s fourth book. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Looking for alaska by john green![]() ![]() The relationship that forms between Miles and Alaska builds the story, but this book is so much more than a romance. A huge part of the book revolves around the relationship between Miles and Alaska. The characters must learn how to understand the mental and physical issues that they all are dealing with, whether it is relationship problems, depression, or anxiety. The labyrinth in this case is life and suffering, and that is what much of the book is about: figuring out how to get out of the labyrinth of suffering. Alaska is obsessed with Simone Bolivar (His last words being “How am I ever to get out of this labyrinth”). He finds himself at a boarding school in Alabama, and while there, he meets two fascinating people: Colonel, his new roommate, and Alaska, an expressive, unpredictable, and emotional girl who seems larger than life. Looking for Alaska tells the story of Miles, an introspective junior who is obsessed with the last words of famous people. These ideas are seen in what may be his best work: Looking for Alaska. ![]() The books always focus around an ambiguous theme often relating to empathy or mental health issues. John Green’s characters are typically sarcastic, romantic, and relatively pretentious. His distinct writing style with young characters is seen throughout every single one of his books. He has written and co-written 6 books, and all of them have made it to the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller list. Over the past decade, John Green has been one of the most prominent figures in young adult books. ![]() |