6/12/2023 0 Comments Heart berries author![]() It’s a short book, which is just as well because I could not put it down. How quickly will you get into the book? Mailhot’s writing pulled me in from the first page. The thrilling part is, it works.” – The Atlantic “In short, the book does everything it technically shouldn’t, brushing off the familiar regimen prescribed by MFA programs, and slipping the strictures of commercial publishing. “Sharp and scorching, her approach walks the knife’s edge between accessibility and experimentation, rendering in exacting detail what it’s like to be ‘ill and alone and intelligent.’”– Chicago Tribune Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir, published under the romantic, rather forgettable name “Heart Berries,” is a sledgehammer.” – The New York Times ![]() She skillfully lays bare her thoughts and emotions to the reader so we feel as if we are looking out at the world from inside her head and her heart. ![]() You might like it because: Mailhot writes with an authentic, and at times shockingly candid, voice unlike anything else I have read. ![]() Her memoir, which she began writing while a patient in a mental institution, is told in a collection of essays in which she seems to unravel her traumatic past to get to a more hopeful future. The book: The author grew up on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in Canada. Teresa Marie Mailhot Pages: 142 Published: 2018 ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Girl Meets God by Lauren F. Winner![]() ![]() ![]() She states early on that "in Christianity's vocabulary the only real sex is the sex that happens in marriage the faux sex that goes on outside marriage is not really sex at all. Interestingly, some of Winner's best insights are about married sex. The candor with which Winner writes about sex may alarm some Christian readers, but those who follow her arguments to their conclusions will find themselves rewarded with fresh insights about an overdiscussed but still deeply entrenched problem among Christians. ![]() She balances a journalistic report of how difficult chastity is for American Christians a personal account of how she and her friends have approached premarital and marital sex a survey of what the Bible, pastors and good Christian books say about the topic and an overview of how chastity has been understood throughout Christian history. , weaves an intriguing tapestry from sociological, autobiographical, pastoral and historical threads. Winner, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Girl Meets God ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Elvisandme![]() Not exactly, you might think, the kind of issues that could be fixed by buying an ex-OTT (Off The Track) racehorse. ![]() It's funny how destiny comes calling, and in Wills' past there hadn't been anything to suggest she was going to join the ranks of the world's horse obsessives, but after a tough decade of a marriage gone wrong and losing a high-status job, Wills, almost without knowing it, developed some confidence issues. I say unfortunately, but of course this inspirational memoir is really about the extraordinary journey Wills embarked on when she bought – or rescued – the emaciated, dangerous and volatile Elvis. But unfortunately for Gillian Wills, a somewhat world-weary music lecturer who decided at the age of 56 to buy her first horse, warning bells did not ring. ![]() There are words that don't go really go together – "Quiet ex-racehorse" or "Thoroughbred, ideal for beginners". As a lifelong horse lover, I've learned that people who advertise horses for sale make second-hand car dealers look like saints. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The caine mutiny 1951![]() ![]() It's even listed that way in the UK edition. To confuse thing further, a listing for "The City Boy" is found inside the all first editions and early printings of The Caine Mutiny. The flap says "City Boy" on both states of the dust jacket. The true first edition point is on the back of the dust jacket, not on the flap. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for The Caine Mutiny.ĭon't be confused by "City Boy" listed on the back flap without "The". Picture of the first edition Doubleday & Company boards for The Caine Mutiny. Later printing dust jackets look similar, but they make mention of the Pulitzer Prize toward the bottom of the Wouk's bio. The first issue dust jacket says "The City Boy" and was quickly changed to "City Boy" for a second issue. Picture of dust jacket where original $3.95 price is found for The Caine Mutiny. Picture of the first edition copyright page for The Caine Mutiny. Picture of the 1951 first edition dust jacket for The Caine Mutiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapterless “patchwork story” follows Daniel through his dreamlike early childhood in Iran, a year in an Italian refugee camp with his sister and “unstoppable” mother (but without his larger-than-life father, who chose to stay behind), and their eventual asylum in Oklahoma. ![]() Marked by a distinctive voice-a straightforward mix of confiding, slyly humorous, and unsentimentally sorrowful-Nayeri’s ( Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow) impressive autobiographical novel is narrated by 12-year-old Khosrou, known as Daniel, who models himself after the legendary Scheherazade. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Spirits abroad stories![]() “Travelers should not have to worry about what will happen if their flight gets canceled or delayed,” he added. Power’s highest marks in the economy travel category and ranking positively in The Vacationer’s survey. Remember Southwest’s meltdown that left thousands of people stranded in airports last December? The event didn’t deter the airline from being awarded J.D. ![]() “Lack of communication and poor customer service are two major reasons why people will not fly an airline again,” The Vacationer’s Eric Jones said. Some of the airlines mentioned included Delta Air Lines, Spirit Airlines and Southwest Airlines. In anticipation for a busy summer of travel, The Vacationer surveyed over 1,000 Americans to discover which of the 10 major U.S.-based carriers they avoid at all costs. ![]() Many of us have our prefered airline, but what are the ones you refuse to fly? ![]() ![]() His unhappiness deepens when Krissy's father reveals that he went to Rick’s hotel, fired him, and punched him in the nose for good measure, as if intent on making himself a suspect. Her old flame Officer Paul Dalton is unhappy to find Krissy involved in yet another crime. Next morning, Rick is nowhere to be found, so Krissy goes to his hotel, where she discovers his body, stabbed through the eye with a pen. James foists this task off on Rick, who ungraciously dashes off before the crowd can ply him with their work-but not before he makes an obnoxious pass at Krissy, who’s never liked him. Pushed into giving a talk for the local book club, James finds that almost every member has a manuscript they want him to read. ![]() ![]() She's surprised and delighted by the unannounced visit of her father, mystery author James Hancock, his agent, Rick Wiseman, and Rick’s put-upon assistant, Cameron Little. ![]() Krissy Hancock, who owns the bookstore/cafe Death by Coffee in the smallish town of Pine Hills, has a reputation as a crime solver ( Death by Pumpkin Spice, 2016, etc.). An amateur detective must solve a murder to clear her father. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny![]() ![]() Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha: his teachings swept across India, striking at the roots of decadent Brahmanism. Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). ![]() He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (out of 14 nominations). Zelazny never entirely fulfilled his early promise-who could?-but he and his work were much loved, and a potent influence on such younger writers as George R. The fantasy sequence The Amber Chronicles, which started with Nine Princes in Amber, deals with the ruling family of a Platonic realm at the metaphysical heart of things, who can slide, trickster-like through realities, and their wars with each other and the related ruling house of Chaos. Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with tricksters and mythology, often with rogues who become gods, like Sam in Lord of Light, who reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion on a colony planet. ![]() Zelazny continued to write excellent short stories throughout his career. Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf the most famous of these is A Rose for Ecclesiastes in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it' Independent 'There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps' Observer A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' Mail on Sunday 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. 'Clever and soars' Financial TimesĪ baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. 'A shining delight of a novel' New York Times A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Daredevil bendis omnibus 1![]() ![]() ![]() There’s no indication that he even knows Sam Silke exists, yet it is Silke who sells his identity to the feds, not some age-old adversary and certainly not as part of any grand big plan. It’s no coincidence that the cause of most of Matt Murdock’s pain in this run can be traced back to two people he never really meets. More than that, Bendis is actually willing to devote time to rounding out the universe surrounding Matt Murdock. Beyond that, Bendis isn’t afraid to put away the silly costume for a more considered look at Matt Murdock and the world around him (take, for example, the fact that he only appears in costume once for the entire Trial of the Century arc). He’s a tangential figure in the opening two storylines, Wake Up and Underboss, which is particularly surprising given how the second storyline affects him in such a huge way. What is most remarkable about Bendis’ run is just how little Daredevil there actually is in it. It’s strange how these things work – Bendis was almost a one-off Daredevil writer. But, in a story related in an afterword collected here, Bendi explains that it was actually Alex Maleev who suggested that the two be granted stewardship of the title. He did a fill-in arc, Wake Up, after David Mack finished writing for the recently relaunched book. ![]() Bendis wasn’t meant to be a long-term writer for the book. ![]() |