![]() A very brief introduction identifies this turtle as a loggerhead. A fine bed of blue crabs on which the turtle feasts is the only view of other animals sharing the ocean habitat until a concluding beach scenario where gulls and crabs threaten the newly hatched turtles who are starting the cycle anew. The double-spread paintings, occasionally alternating with smaller pictures set on aqua pages, focus on the turtle, with a few water plants suggesting underwater detail. ![]() On many pages curving lines of smaller type add bits of explanation, augmenting the story line. ![]() This is the nursery of a sea turtle." Several pages follow the creature's early period and departure for the larger sea, and then the years of growth and travel are skimmed until her eventual return to the beach of her birth to lay her own eggs. ![]() The author exhibits a flair for alliteration and imagery in her descriptive narrative about this sea animal: "Just beneath the surface is a tangle of weed and driftwood where tiny creatures cling. ![]() K-Gr 2-This nicely developed picture-book introduction to the loggerhead turtle sketches the life experiences of a typical female through text and broad acrylic views. ![]()
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![]() The two characters, in fact, share some crucial similarities: like Shuggie, 15-year-old Mungo Hamilton is gay and Mungo's mother is also an alcoholic. Reading it is like peering into the apartment of yet another broken family whose Glasgow tenement might be down the road from Shuggie Bain's. Young Mungo, like its predecessor, is a nuanced and gorgeous heartbreaker of a novel. It's tough to follow such a success story, but if Stuart was cowed, his latest novel doesn't betray any artistic hesitations. Such a tale is not an easy sell, which is why Douglas Stuart's debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was initially turned down by over 30 publishers before finding an audience and eventually winning the Booker Prize in 2020. ![]() ![]() A coming-of-age story about a gay, working-class boy set in 1980s Glasgow, in which the characters sometimes speak in Scots dialect. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The auction also included lesser-known elements of Blake’s work, including a group of pencil drawings from his 2018 London exhibition, Arrows of Love, depicting women avoiding or embracing Cupid’s arrow. The sales comprised works from the past 40 years of his career, including illustrations of characters that have captured the imaginations of generations of children, including works for The Enormous Crocodile, Dahl’s first book to be illustrated by Blake preliminary drawings for The Big Friendly Giant, one of his best-loved creations and children’s favourites by Dahl, including Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. They realised a total of £768,625. In July 2018, 30 illustrations from Blake’s personal collection were offered in a dedicated session in our Valuable Books and Manuscripts sale in London, while a further 148 were offered in an online-only auction, Quentin Blake: A Retrospective. The roughs are the rehearsals, in a sense, and then you have to go on and do it.’ When I’m doing the roughs, I’m thinking I am that person. ‘I’ve read the book like a book, then I read it looking for these moments. ![]() ‘When I start work on a book I do roughs of everything I want to draw in it so that I get a sense of how the book goes,’ he says, describing his creative process. ![]() ![]() He will pay for his rallying of the Third Force with his life. These are going to make not only his pants and boots splattered with blood but his hands as well. He blindly follows this York fellow and doesn’t know that his ideologies are going to be murderous. He keeps on preaching about York’s Third Force that will solve the problem that is Vietnam. Alden Pyle, the eponymous American, is a well-meaning CIA agent who’s out there to put into practice the theory of his favorite political author. That’s what it seems to be telling me, at least on the surface.īut if you chip away that surface, there’s a tale of moral complexity that takes the form of a murder mystery. Americans should have known better than to get mixed with the affairs of Vietnam, and now look at what happened. ![]() It is seen by some as Greene’s anti-American sentiments. ![]() The Quiet American is a quintessential book of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. Book Club Book Review – The Quiet American by Graham Greene ![]() ![]() ![]() Learning of an entire population of people in the quarantined area, Zeke decides to go beyond the wall. Zeke has questions, yet his mother would just like to leave the past behind. Sixteen years later, life just keeps getting harder. On the day the last brick was laid, Briar gave birth to Levi's son, Zeke. The wall was built to keep the gas and the rotters in. Behind the wall Briar's father was sheriff and what he did brought further ridicule to Briar's name. There he created The Boneshaker, a device to aid in the mining of Alaska, which instead devastated Seattle and released a blight gas that would turn people into the walking undead. ![]() Within that wall she was married to a great inventor, Leviticus Blue.
![]() Only she is a different person completely, as she has no memories of her old self. ![]() The book jumps ahead six years, and Sal can now walk and talk just like before. Unfortunately she has no memory of anything before waking up. It basically means no more taking so many pills just to survive day to day. In the future in this book most people are fitted with an intestinal parasite which helps with a range of health problems such as allergies. When her family is about to pull the plug on the machines keeping her alive, she suddenly wakes up. Parasite is the story of Sal, a woman who is in a car accident and declared legally brain dead. ![]() The publisher was kind enough to send it to me a few days before it came out and I started it immediately. I thought the concept sounded amazing and unique. I first saw it featured on a blog I trust at the start of the year. Let me just start by saying I had really high hopes for this book. ![]() ![]() My experiment was conducted on 20 January 2013. ![]() The Rand novel was published in 1957 and it apparently has a devoted readership eager to believe in the free mind solving all problems. I thought I would compare Dianetics with Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Amazon ranks books according to their current sales. But then you have to reckon with more objective external estimates that the membership might be just 50,000, while one assumes that the book sales are inflated by deliberate bulk-buying by church members. ![]() ![]() That sounds possible, if you credit the church's claim that it has 8 million members. According to Bridge Publications, itself an arm of the Church of Scientology, at least 80 million copies have been sold. L afayette Ronald Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I am philosophically intrigued by prayer techniques that are more about presence than language, such as centering prayer, I inevitably fall asleep (all that deep breathing). The conversational style of prayer preferred by my evangelical college fellowship often struck me as too outward, too talky. Wow.: The Three Essential Prayers (Riverhead 2012) with these words: “I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the past twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple.” Reading that, I silently uttered one of the three prayers that Lamott presents as essential: “Thanks.” The notion that life-changing prayer can be simple was a message I needed to hear. Wow.: The Three Essential Prayers Anne Lamottīuy now: Amazon ] Kindle ]Īnne Lamott opens her newest book, Help. Disentangled from our Selfish, Controlling, Damaged SelvesĪ Feature Review of Help. ![]() ![]() Martin Lings born in Lancashire, England in 1909.
![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen Clarke is acerbic, insulting, un-PC and mostly hilarious."-San Francisco Chronicle "Highly entertaining.Clarke renders the flavor of life in Paris impeccably: the endless strikes, the sadistic receptionists.Clarke's eye for detail is terrific."-Washington Post "Those who enjoyed Clarke's first book will certainly delight in his newest production."-Library Journal "This memoir is full of comic misadventure and misunderstanding, but underlying it is a deep affection for France and its people. Praise for Stephen Clarke and In the Merde for Love: "Call him the anti-Mayle. He is the author of Talk to the Snail and the international bestseller A Year in the Merde. Just in time for spring in Paris, find out if Paul finds the perfect French mademoiselle or if it all ends in merde! Stephen Clarke is a British journalist who has written comedy sketches for BBC Radio. What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Is it really polite to sleep with your boss's mistress? And why are there no public health warnings on French nude beaches? Paul discovers how to judge a French vacationer by the rustiness of his bicycle opens his English tearoom and finally understands why Parisian waiters are so cranky. This "anti-Mayle" will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul West struggles to solve the mysteries inherent in life in France. The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. ![]() |
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