5/30/2023 0 Comments A psalm for the wild built art![]() ![]() ![]() Where The Wayfarers was about finding family in an exciting but high-stakes and sometimes brutal future, A Psalm for the Wild-Built is pastoral and meditative in a setting where humanity managed to unf*ck itself. (Possible spoilers ahead.) I’m always ready for a Becky Chambers book. ![]() But if you need some time, to think and unwind, this book is meditation written on paper. If it's not for you, whatever, its short and sweet so you'll not be wasting too much of your life. I honestly just fannot recommend this book enough. But throughout the duration it really makes you question a lot of assumptions, but also of your own mindset. This sounds boring and unthrilling, and compared to, say, the expanse series, it's pretty chilled out. Simply put, this book, in a future absent of any material or ecological stresses, deals with the nature of purpose and choice and the nature of consciousness. I'm not usually one to write reviews but i owe this book after listening to it in one sitting, completely engrossed and at peace, so bear in mind my words are biased and unlikely to explain the book well enough compared to the other reviews. I've been looking for a book like this, for a very long time regardless of whether ive known it. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Still life with crows![]() ![]() She ends up running into Job and becomes his imprisoned "playmate." Alone with the Psycho: Corrie rushes off to the cave without calling Pendergast because she doesn't want to look foolish if she's wrong.All Men Are Perverts: When Corrie's mother learns she's working for Pendergast she insists that this is the real reason he's hired her.She also spends all their money on mini-vodka bottles and Corrie is left to survive on cereal. Abusive Parents: Corrie's drunken mother takes no shame in telling her daughter how worthless she thinks she is.As usual, Pendergast believes that something more sinister is afoot. ![]() As more bodies turn up, the local sheriff rushes to find the killer before it spoils a deal that could save the town. While the locals think it is just one particularly gruesome murder, Agent Pendergast arrives and declares that a serial killer is on the loose. ![]() It is the fourth novel in their informal Agent Pendergast series.Ī bizarre, ritualistic killing rocks the sleepy Kansas town of Medicine Creek. Still Life with Crows is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2003. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Wayward lives![]() ![]() In her latest book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, professor and 2019 MacArthur Fellow, Saidiya Hartman, explores the untold stories of young Black women who migrated to New York and Philadelphia from the southern United States shortly after emancipation. ![]() Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman | Nonfiction | Serpent’s Tail | 416 pages | review by Jenn Augustine Her way of living was nothing short of anarchy.” To wander through the streets of Harlem, to want better than what she had, and to be propelled by her whims and desires was to be ungovernable. She knew first-hand that the offense most punished by the state was trying to live free. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Big Picture" overviews at the end of every chapter summarize the chapter's important concepts.įor Art course enrollees, going with recommended textbooks from your professor is a helpful way to absorb new approaches and earn success in the area of Art. The unique Scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. A complete online learning environment, including all images and an eBook, also is available. ![]() ![]() GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME I provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions! Easy to read and understand, the 15th edition of the most widely read art history book in the English language continues to evolve, providing a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations, and incorporating new artists and art forms - all reproduced according to the highest standards of clarity and color fidelity. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments James bond 1953 casino royale![]() Interestingly, as an avid bird-watcher, Fleming named his hero after the ornithologist James Bond, author of Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies. Published in 1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming was an immediate success and was the first of 12 Bond novels and two collections of short stories. No through Daniel Craig’s latest 2015 Spectre, James Bond has never gone out of style. ![]() ![]() Ever since Sean Connery’s emergence on screen as 007 in the 1962 Dr. James Bond.” The well-known introductory line of this British hero likely strikes up the notes of the theme music introducing the beloved film series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The slow-burn romance between them is beautifully done and adds a thrilling element to the story that readers will savor." - Booklist "Kadou's coping with anxiety and personal growth are a joy to watch as he fully embraces his talents and comes out of his shell with the help of Evemer, his bodyguard. ![]() "A beautifully detailed world, the power to touch-taste metal, political schemes, and a slow-burn romance wrap together in a lush fantasy." - Library Journal (starred review) "The matriarchal defaults and three-gender system present in Arasti society place the novel squarely among the ranks of contemporary queer fantasy.An engaging fantasy/romance set in a large, lush, and inclusive world." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Rowland delivers a breathtakingly intimate narrative in this gorgeous fantasy, in which the political intrigue of a kingdom serves as backdrop to a romance between the softest of hearts.In exploring what monarchs owe their people, and what individuals owe each other, this achingly tender fantasy wows." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Tilly and the bookwanderers![]() Leaving the safety of the bookshop, Tilly heads to America to find the legendary Archivists and save bookwandering… or at least, that’s the plan. Can Tilly work out who, or what, is behind the chaos so everyone gets their happily-ever-after? On a wintery visit to Paris, Tilly and her best friend Oskar bravely bookwander into the land of fairytales to find that characters are getting lost, stories are all mixed-up, and mysterious plot holes are opening without warning. Tilly’s powers are put to the test when fairytales start leaking book magic and causing havoc… ![]() ![]() Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their thrilling worlds, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. ![]() But when her favourite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, appear in the shop, Tilly’s adventures become very real. Since her mother’s disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly has found comfort in stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents’ bookshop. Three magical ‘bookwandering’ adventures to delight the imagination. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Branding the virgin by alexa riley![]() ![]() Now she’s got a plan be the one on top, and there’s nothing he can do about it. He’s broken his tightly held control only once and it was the best night of her life. Mina loves her husband, but she knows he’s keeping part of him away from her. He ties her down to keep himself in control and won’t allow himself to let go. He’s too big, too strong, too obsessed with her. ![]() Kingsley loves his wife so much that it drives him crazy. Kingsley and Mina are newlyweds and everything in their life is perfect. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.Ĭover Designer: Perfect Pear Creative Covers Taking Her Turn ![]() Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. ![]() Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. For permission requests, email to Note: This is a work of fiction. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. Copyright © 2018 by Author Alexa Riley LLC. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments All the light we cannot see author![]() ![]() Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. ![]() When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. Not only are the characters Doerr creates beautiful and wholesome, but the intricate plot-line, the well-developed metaphors, all create the enchanting World War II story that is “All the Light We Cannot See.” ![]() You might have already guessed that from the little sticker on the cover that says “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize,” but I can truly tell you that this is a book everyone should read. ![]() Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” is amazing. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The pursuit of god aw tozer review![]() ![]() Touchy-feely, big on the Heart and Personal Revelation, but not so much on rigorous thinking and epistemology. ![]() Notes for a longer review: - Underwhelming.- Very much the "christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship" kind of approach. I don't remember a lot of dos and don'ts in the book. His way into that seems to be to truly desire it. He is speaking to them and trying to draw them into actually experiencing more. It sounds like Tozer's environment was one of a society where almost everyone was a professed Christian. I got the impression that he leaves that to each person to find out and not just once, but to continually be open to that experience. He does not attempt to give us an idea of what his experience of God is. ![]() He applauds those things, but he sees the basis of it all as an experience of God. What I particularly liked was his emphasis on an experience of God and not a reliance on dogma, Bible, prayer, or ministry to others. I could imagine today that he might be more like Merton having a dialog with the Dalai Lama, but that is not what is to be found in this book. He speaks only of Christians and Christianity. He writes from a 1948 Christian awareness of how to speak about God. It seems he was a mystic and I gathered that from some of what he says in the book. ![]() There is an introduction that tells about A.W. I listened to the audio version narrated by Grover Gardner. ![]() |
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