![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Luke wakes up, he’s in a near perfect replica of his own bedroom, but with one startling difference: there are no windows. His mind has a latent ability that draws the attention of a secret organization known only as The Institute. But Luke’s mind isn’t what gets him kidnapped from home in the middle of the night. Accepted into two colleges at the age of twelve brilliant. “It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.” The cast of characters was beautifully fleshed out and varied. The plot was disturbing and vaguely supernatural without seeming implausible. While I’ve enjoyed everything of his I’ve read at least in part, some of his books are more successful than others. The plots he dreams up, and the characters he creates to populate those stories, are pretty spectacular and always feel original. While I do believe that King would benefit from a harsher editor, and that he often fails to stick that landing with his endings, Stephen King has an incredible mind. ![]() Since then, I’ve read a third of his body of work, and I’ve been largely impressed. This has not been a lifelong truth, and my infatuation began a mere 5 or so years ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Quantum theory explains the interactions of the universe’s fundamental particles. Hawking and Mlodinow don’t deliver anything new on this front, but there are a few baffling elements of quantum physics worth knowing. “It is not necessary,” Hawking and Mlodinow write, “to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.” We come up with mathematical models to explain observations with a set of narrowly defined rules. Hawking and Mlodinow’s conclusion is, “There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.” All we can use is model-dependent realism. ![]() But physicists have come to terms with this problem. The way the problem is often summed up in popular culture is, “What if we were just the playthings of some all-powerful being?” or “Could we all be the stars of an alien reality show?” The answer is: Maybe. And all of them purport to explain reality when in fact we have no idea what is objectively real. Others are more ugly and unwieldy, like the Standard Model. ![]() Some are neat and elegant, like Einstein’s theories of relativity (which come in special and general flavors). Physicists have all sorts of tools for describing the universe around us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Charles spends less and less time at home. Anne, who won literary prizes in college, goes on to write books. In the years that follow, the Lindberghs have five more children. By now a skilled pilot, she had numerous adventures with him mapping new routes, and in 1930 had become the first female licensed as a glider pilot. Flying, after all, is what Lindberghs do, and she has become his crew. ![]() ![]() After they have their first baby, Charles insists that she leave the little boy at home with a nurse and go off on missions with him. He teaches her to fly, tells her what to cook for breakfast, and chooses where they will live. Throughout most of the novel, she subordinates herself to Charles, her controlling, arrogant husband - her hero and everyone else’s. Despite her intellect and education, Anne is looking for a man to take care of her. If this sounds to you like an introduction to feminist issues, know that it is. “Hadn’t I always wanted to be carried away by someone stronger than me? As much as I had told myself that life was no fairy tale, I had always hoped, deep down, that it was.” Like other young women of her era, Anne Morrow had been waiting for her prince to come. “I wasn’t frightened,” the fictional Anne confides. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Dragons like tacos book![]() I can see why the first book is insanely popular in our elementary library. I loved the voice in this and the imaginative world. Now I need to go read the first book in the series because I thought I had but after reading this, I'm not so sure. It's zany, but also predictably zany (so kids can practice their reading strategies of making predictions and reading between the lines of those foreshadowing things). And what a great way to introduce kids to that genre! It's funny. I feel like all time travel stories (well, the good ones) have to have a little zany mixed in because, after all, time travel is a bit unpredictable. ![]() It should be simple to nip back in time, grab a few tacos, return to the present and plant them to grow more. ![]() ![]() Confronted by the dour circumstances the boy decides drastic times call for drastic measures and fires up the time machine. The dragons are in despair because they ate ALL of the tacos. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. "Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. "A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. "As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs."- New York Times Book Review And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.Ī New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year ![]() Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. ![]() Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. The New York Timesbestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood.and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Īlison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. ![]() ![]() This year on International Women's Day (8 March) the Chinese government struck a big blow to the country's feminist movement when Sina Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter – shut down the popular Feminist Voices Facebook page. "Even though there are tight constraints on social media there's still room to get your message across." It's constantly a cat-and-mouse game with internet censors. "If one person's social media account is shut down… they find another person to post something. ![]() When the #MeToo movement swept the world at the end of 2017, Hong didn't think China's feminist activists would be about to seize on it, but #MeToo became a convenient hashtag.Ĭhina's feminist activists are innovative and continually coming up with different strategies to get around China's heavy and sophisticated internet censorship.īefore the censors caught on, women were using the emojis for rice and bunny – which when spoken aloud are pronounced “mi tu” – to tag content relating to sexual harassment or assault. Improve your experience by using a more up-to-date browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Clockwise from top left: Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wei Tingting, Wang Man Photo: Amnesty International / EyePress Some features of our website wont work with Internet Explorer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She married Peter John Bauer, a pastor, in 1990. She has been a member of the English faculty at William and Mary since 1993. in American Studies from The College of William and Mary. īauer holds a Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts in English and a Ph.D. She and her two siblings received a homeschool education starting in the 1970s. Her father was a pediatrician, and her mother was an educator. She grew up on a farm in Virginia, the daughter of Jessie and James Wise. Susan Wise Bauer was born on August 8, 1968, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Susan Wise Bauer (born 1968) is an American author, English instructor of writing and American literature at The College of William and Mary, and founder of Well-Trained Mind Press (formerly Peace Hill Press). ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Wild hunger by chloe neill![]() ![]() I love this quote because it says so much about their character and values. And if you are, you’ll always be beautiful.” Whether it was true or not, he’d tell me it was the least important of the three. He (Ethan) liked to say that, had been saying that for years, and had always put ‘beautiful’ last. ![]() And as a side note, I love the parents Ethan and Merit turned out to be. Although Elisa has aspects of her parents, she is no Merit. It’s a good thing I loved Elisa’s character! Otherwise, I think it would be difficult to stick with the series.įirst off, do not go into this book expecting a miniature Merit. But I guess that’s how it is with all spinoffs. I almost felt left out, like I was missing something. It was a little weird having Ethan and Merit be side characters, being able to hear their words without their thoughts. I was surprised, albeit happily surprised, with how often Ethan and Merits characters showed up in this book. ![]() ![]() Prices include UK postage postage to other parts of the world will be added when we confirm the details of your order. Our packages are wrapped in brown paper and tied up with coloured paper ribbons. We aim to provide choice for the giver and relish to the recipient. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Stockport has historical evidence going right back to the stone age and the exciting thing is that it is still being uncovered. Did you, for instance know that Stockport was probably founded by a Saxon princess, or that it had a castle which was in rebellion against the king, or that a battle took place here during the English Civil War? Stockport, besides producing silk, cotton and hats, also gave birth to John Bradshawe, the man who became first president of an English Republic in 1649. What can I possibly know which eminent local historians who wrote tomes on Stockport, like Dr Peter Arrowsmith, and Dr Henry Heginbotham didn’t? Well quite a bit actually.Īpart from all the recent evidence of early people which has come out of the excavations at Mellor, and my first-hand knowledge of the campaign to save and restore the old town centre and open Staircase House, our only medieval townhouse to survive, I also know lots about Stockport from my 18 years of editing and publishing Stockport Heritage Magazine.Īll this knowledge is distilled and concentrated into a handy, readable, little book published by Tempus (in time for Christmas) which will tell the average person all they ever wanted to know about Stockport and perhaps a bit more than that. People smile when I tell them that I am the author of a book, which breaks new ground in Stockport’s history. ![]() |