What Light by Jay Asher6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I was lucky enough to receive a proof of What Light from the lovely people at My Kinda Book, and I read it at the perfect time, during the SundayYAthon. > T hank you to My Kinda Book for sending me a proof of this for review! Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life begins to eclipse the other… And leaving one always means missing the other. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. Sierra’s family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon – it’s an idyllic place for a girl to grow up, except that every year they have to pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. ![]() Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Christmas ![]()
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Silko leslie marmon6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Because we do not see this connection, we continue to destroy ourselves, our fellow humans, and the world in which we must live. ![]() Silko's novel is a beautiful reflection on the ways in which we are all interconnected-all humans and all of nature-but do not see this connection. Until he visits Betonie, that is, a medicine man who tells him about the witchery that is at play in the world, witchery that Tayo can help put an end to as he completes a ceremony that will also help him heal. He is sick, depressed, suffering from PTSD, it seems, and unable to re-integrate into his society. Ceremony itself takes part in this process, telling the story of Tayo, a young Native American come home from WWII and severely traumatized by the experience. Storytelling is a way of making the world, a way of protecting self and culture. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony opens with a defense of storytelling. ![]() ![]() By the early 1530s, having first left the Franciscans for the Benedictines, and then left monastic life entirely to become a secular priest, he was a prominent physician living in Lyon, the cultural (and publishing) capital of France at that time. By 1521 he had become a priest and acquired the reputation of being both an excellent scholar of Greek and a troublemaker, as his Franciscan superiors confiscated his Greek books. 1510), studied both theology and law, and frequented or corresponded with leading humanist scholars of the day. As a young man Rabelais joined the Franciscans (c. ![]() He was born near Chinon, in the Loire valley, and refers affectionately to the region in his work. Little is known about Rabelais's early life even the year of his birth remains uncertain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fine copy throughout in fine unclipped dust wrapper that has minimal storage markings. His terse and vigourous account has provided a landmark for social historians and literary critics, as well as historians of art. Barrell writes in a tradition that views landscape painting as an ideological tool that promotes a particular view of reality among those who 'see' it. ![]() Throughout the book, Barrell draws illuminating comparisons with the literature of rural life and with the work of other painters. His discussion focuses on the work of three painters: Thomas Gainsborough, George Morland and John Constable. John Barrell's influential 1980 study shows why the poor began to be of such interest to painters, and examines the ways in which they could be represented so as to be an acceptable part of the decor of the salons of the rich. The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in England and this inevitably involved a distinct approach to the depiction of the rural poor. ![]() Flo wadlow over a hot stove6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She started as a kitchen maid and ended this part of her life as cook at Blickling Hall no less, just before the Second World War – at the amazingly young age of twenty-three. It is an experience she would not have missed, despite the hardness of the work, the long hours for little pay, and the often spartan accommodation. Where there were restrictions on what she was allowed to do, she saw these as part of her employers’ caring role, especially for the young girls in their charge. She would not hear a bad word spoken against the families whose paths crossed with hers whilst in domestic service. By her contact with and proximity to them, Flo felt ‘elevated’ herself. ![]() Flo regarded it as a wonderful opportunity to live in beautiful surroundings, employed by people who, in some cases, were at the very centre of world affairs. Her career in full-time domestic service was mainly in the 1930s, and the life she so vividly recalled now seems to us as some distant period of history, so markedly did things change after the Second World War. This book is dedicated with love to my late husband, Bob, and to all my familyĪ lovely portrait of Flo in the late 1930s, probably aged about twenty-fiveįlo Wadlow was an amazing lady by any standards, and something of a Norfolk legend in her own lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s an innocent girl who is staring a new life with a passion to collect books. My impression of the show at first is that of a slow paced story to teach us about the person Myne really is. She’s a child who is eager to learn and explore. To her, reading books is equivalent to a life necessity and she would do anything to get her hands on them. It doesn’t take long for her to adjust to her newfound life as she carves for books and love of reading. The first episode drops main protagonist Myne into a world of uncertainty. ![]() Ascendance of a Bookworm contains fantasy elements but also relies a lot more on realism than what people will realize. However, you should actually take a careful look into this anime and see it more of as a slice of life isekai. With the amount of isekai anime coming out in recent years, it’s easy to paint this show as another clone. Ascendance of a Bookworm attributes to a bookworm named “Myne” who is reincarnated into another world as she hopes to regain her ability to read. One of the fundamental elements of power comes from books and even in our modern world today, that phrase remains as true as ever. You’ve probably heard the phrase “knowledge is power”. ![]() She was gone book6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() She makes cursory visits to her mom at the hospice, but Laurel’s life is grey and dull and pointless. She doesn’t speak to her son and hasn’t met his partner. She cleans her daughter Hannah’s apartment weekly, speaks to her even less often than that. She’s moved to a dull, undecorated flat where she does little more than run the hoover once a week to maintain it. She works three days a week at something she doesn’t find very important. Ten years after Ellie’s disappearance, a divorced Laurel is living half a life. Why would someone who had everything leave it all behind? When she disappeared, the police spoke of runaways, but Laurel has never really believed that. At fifteen, Ellie was dating the best-looking boy in her school and getting top marks in all her classes. Ellie, her tumultuous teenage daughter, who lacked the surliness of her sister and the indifference of her brother was Laurel’s golden girl. Mothers shouldn’t have favorites, but Laurel did. A tale of a missing girl, a mother’s shattered life and the gradual rebuilding of a family, this twisting, turning mystery will have you reading into the wee hours of the morning. Jewell’s Then She Was Gone since I finished the last page of her stellar I Found You. ![]() The black cauldron books6/7/2023 ![]() So Taran goes on a quest to bring her back and on the way meets an assortment of characters: the brave hero Prince Gwydion, the young princess Eilonwy, a lovable but cowardly creature named Gurgi and a bard named Fflewddur Flam. She flees the county of Caer Dallben in fear when the Horned King- a monster with bloodstained arms and wears an antlered mask made of a human skull- and his army come seeking her. ![]() Taran is an assistant keeper of a very special pig named Hen-Wen she has the power to see the future. In the first book “The Book of Three”, we meet our protagonist. The film is based on the first two books in the series and that alone is a step in the wrong direction. Why? Because this movie was so underwhelming in every way, it got me wondering what it was about the original stories that made Disney go, “Yep, this needs to be our next movie”. The Black Cauldron is the movie that inspired me to write this blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. ![]() Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings and powers. Instead, Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers - not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. ![]() The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. Schwab, number one New York Times best-selling author). Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this “expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic” (V.E. ![]() Chris columbus ned vizzini6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Out of the three, I think Cordelia was my favourite – she was the one I connected with instantly, what with her being smart, amazingly logical and mature, plus, with Deal being a total book-lover-slash-geek, I could relate to her the most. And I love the relationship the three of them had – it was so real and funny. ![]() They sort of reminded me of the Baudelaire siblings from the Series of Unfortunate Events – in a brilliant way. They were all so wonderfully unique and smart. It's so exciting and accessible and enjoyable and is just a really fun, pretty easy read. And my God, kids will love this! I just know they will. But by far the best quality was the fantastical world – oh, and the wonderfully odd sense of humour too. It had all the action, adventure, suspense, fantasy, humour and family feel that I'd expect from these two authors. So it's safe to say that I had ridiculously high expectations of House of Secrets. And Ned Vizzini? He's one of the writers of Teen Wolf – a show I absolutely adore. When I saw House of Secrets was written by Chris Columbus, I knew I had to read it. ![]() Well, the children soon find out, as they are thrown into the middle of a tangle of dark secrets – and even darker magic. ![]() |