![]() And as an adult, it might not be the greatest of literary fare, but it was good for an afternoon's read. ![]() When I think of a "children's book", this is what I envision. She has been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too - like buying, and eating, seventy-two pounds of candy on a shopping trip, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to show them what it's like to be shipwrecked. It is short and well within their attention spans, funny and humorous and most of all, it is about kids their age. Outrageous Pippi Longstocking of Villa Villekulla has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. This is the type of book I would love to read to kids to awaken their interest in reading. Read Online Pippi Longstocking Kindle Unlimited Written by Astrid Lindgren (Author) PDF is a great book to read and thats why I suggest reading Pippi Longstocking Textbook. My Thoughts: A fun story with each chapter being a little story on its own. Title: Pippi Goes On Board Series: Pippi Longstocking Author: Astrid Lindgren Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Children Pages: 78 Synopsis: Pippi and her two little friends have adventures at the Fair, on a deserted Island and eventually with her father, the Cannibal King. ![]() Crossposted at. & Bookstooge's Reviews on the Road Facebook Group by Bookstooge's Exalted Permission. ![]() This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the novella, Mann transformed Mahler into his protagonist, writer Gustav von Aschenbach, and Goethe's desire for the young woman became Aschenbach's passion for a 14-year-old Polish boy named Tadzio.Īschenbach first sights Tadzio in the dining room of his Venetian hotel, in much the same way Mann saw "his" Polish boy. These three matters coalesced in Death in Venice. While in Venice, Mann became fascinated by a young Polish boy he observed in the hotel where he and his family were staying, and also with the recent death of composer Gustav Mahler. For some time prior to this, according to a letter he wrote at the time, he had wished to write a story about "passion as confusion and degradation" based on the true story of German writer Johann Goethe's love for an 18-year-old baroness. The novella had its origins in a visit Mann made with his wife and children to Venice in 1911. Death in Venice - the novella written by Thomas Mann and published in 1912 - is perhaps the author's best-known work, not least because it was made into a film by the great Italian director Luchino Visconti in 1971. ![]() Which is better - the book or the film? That question is often debated when a much-loved book is turned into a movie. ![]() ![]() During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. ![]() He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1497 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).Ĭarolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. ![]() An attempted kidnapping, a nearly disastrous sailboat collision, and an encounter with a dishonest sculptor are just a few of the exciting challenges that Nancy is faced with as she gathers evidence against a clever ring of art thieves. Despite these precautions, danger stalks Nancy's every move. To solve both mysteries, the famous young detective disguises herself and assumes a false identity. ![]() Horace Merriam commissioned anart dealer to sell - has he swindled her instead? The second mystery revolves around the baffling theft of a beautiful marble statue. Once again, Nancy faces two puzzling mysteries at once! The first concerns a valuable collection of rare books that Mrs. ![]() ![]() How do Zoe's struggles as a music therapist to Lucy give you insight into her character?ħ. On page 75, Max reflects on the nature of change: "Actually, when you turn into someone you don't recognize, you feel nothing at all." Do you think this is true in all instances? How would you describe periods of self-discovery and metamorphosis like those Zoe experiences?Ħ. In your opinion, which characters changed the most? Which characters remained the same?ĥ. Change and metamorphosis are reoccurring ideas in Sing You Home. Did this narrative device work for you as a reader? Do you think Zoe's story would've been portrayed differently if there had only been one narrator? Why or why not?Ĥ. Sing You Home is narrated by three different protagonists, each with their own unique voice and personality. Are there any songs or albums that remind you of a certain time or place in your life? Do you think it's a blessing or a curse to be reminded of such memories through music?ģ. Zoe also claims that "music is the language of memory" and has the power to reach through even the darkest corners of dementia and awaken long-forgotten memories. ![]() In what way did having a soundtrack enhance your understanding of Zoe's "voice"? If you had to create a soundtrack for this book, what songs would you include? Explain your choices.Ģ. ![]() Listen to the soundtrack with your book club members and discuss how the song choices reinforce or affect your reading. An original, accompanying soundtrack is available for Sing You Home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, she decided to make the switch to freelance work. She worked there for two years, and became an associate editor. She went on to take a position as an assistant editor with a children's trade book publisher. Career įrom 2003 to 2004, Smith served as the Emerging Writer Lecturer for Gettysburg College. ![]() She received her Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1999, and then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 2003. Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977. PRI called it "the official poem of 2016". A Wall Street Journal story in May 2020 described it as "keeping the realities of life's ugliness from young innocents," citing that the poem has gone viral after catastrophes such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the May 2017 suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, U.K., the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the coronavirus pandemic. Smith's poem "Good Bones," originally published in the journal Waxwing in June 2016, has been widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people. Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. For persons of a similar name, see Maggie Smith (disambiguation). ![]() ![]() ![]() Any of us could name many more, but the odds are we would not be able to expound on each the way Ms. Thankfully, Kassia St Clair trimmed a few off the top, bottom, and middle, settling in at seventy-five. The top number is probably infinity, but it feels nice to have an actual number, however extreme, however arbitrary, to define the edges of what there is of anything in the universe. A computer displays under 17 million colors, of which we can see maybe 10 million, but a conservative estimate of how many colors there actually are puts it at 18 decillion. If you are interested in how many colors we can see or the number of colors that exist, you’re gonna need a bigger palette. ![]() ![]() Color has played a major role in the development of homo sapiens, giving us more tools for making the best survival decisions. And, while B&W still holds a respected place in the visual arts, particularly in photography, film, and drawing, it is color that holds the broadest appeal, which should not be surprising. The cinematic and TV worlds were both certainly B&W for a long time, before color imposed itself on screens large and small. Monochromatics see only the gray scale from black to white. ![]() Many creatures have dichromatic vision, (two kinds of cone receptors), which allows limited color perception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bounty that follows embodies only a small selection, favoring variety and currency. ![]() The graphic novel adaptations here offer readers a different, wonderfully illustrated path into stories. Adaptations can also highlight what was lacking in a text-only title, or draw attention to other aspects of the tale. Heroes and heroines long gone can speak to readers today, lending inspiration and bravery. It can also extend the reach of a story that was popular in the past but is now surprisingly appropriate to the present. Some hold fast to their inspiration, while others alter setting and characters, such as a new spin on the classic story of Frankenstein or a surrealistic take on a Greek tragedy with a mostly animal cast.Īdaptation into comics can make a long, wordy work easier to get into. Today, thousands of comics adapt books, short stories, epic poems, plays, musical productions, political documents, TV shows, essays-even podcasts. Classics Illustrated adaptations broke ground in 1941. How many times have we read or watched or listened, imagining the story playing out as a graphic novel? It is not a unique feeling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The author breaks own definition of research - "Research is simply systematic inquiry", but there is nothing really systematic about this work. Even more disappointingly, "research" means largely intuition, introduced as a universal panaceum only to be diamissed by encouragements to cover "all" aspects. So, "just enough" means by and large ignoring quantitative methods (the book spends a few dismissive sentences to tell us what good is quantitative research, and a few ungainly pages on linking a verbal overview of quantitative research to a quote from the 's excellent but grim We). Just Enough Research has a confusing title, because it's a book about the study of organizations, users, market, and own products, using mainky qualitative research methods. Overall, better read colleague Mike Monteiro's Design is a Job (and even that with a pinch of salt). + Publisher A Book Apart specializes in accessible (read: reasonably short) topics on emerging tech. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I found out there was another entry in The Roots of Chaos series releasing, I was absolutely ecstatic. ![]() When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. ![]() Now someone from her mother's past is coming to upend her fate. ![]() Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory's purpose. In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. Shannon has created a world rich in intricate mythology, beautifully realized and complex.” Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on February 28th 2023īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon ![]() ![]() “It was such a novel idea that we had to make up our own language for it, although the word ‘locavore’ germinated so naturally from the lexicon that it was invented simultaneously by many people at around the same time. “Ten years ago, we wrote this book about our decision to get serious with eating local, more or less forsaking all others,” Barbara writes. Now, in a beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of this beloved work (Harper Perennial, $16.99), Kingsolver, husband Steven Hopp and their daughters Camille and Lily contribute new chapters taking stock of the last decade and how their decision to align their lives with the local food chain has continued to shape their destinies. The Chicago Tribune named it “an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.” Washington Post Book World called it, “Charming, zestful, funny and poetic…a serious book about important problems.” The family's chronicle of struggles and triumphs as they rooted themselves to their Appalachian farm and adopted a locally-produced diet was met with critical acclaim, spent years on bestseller lists and won the James Beard Award. When published in 2007, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE was embraced by readers worldwide and quickly earned its place as a credo for the locavore movement. ![]() Hopp,Ĭamille Kingsolver, and Lily Hopp Kingsolver ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: A YEAR OF FOOD LIFE Tenth Anniversary Edition Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. ![]() |