5/20/2023 0 Comments Some Bugs by Angela DiTerlizzi![]() The collage-like mixed-media artwork offers vivid views of the yard and its inhabitants. "Here's a bright, breezy picture book spotlighting many varieties of bugs. Publishers Weekly, January 2014, *STARRED REVIEW So vivid are Wenzel's compositions that readers will feel transported to a summer day, when the air is musical and life is literally buzzing." Even the most squeamish or squash-happy reader will find these critters easy to love. ![]() * " marvelous encyclopedic look at backyard entomology. Deceptively simple, with innovative illustrations and a catchy narrative, this book adeptly supplies information, a sense of accessibility, close looking and joie de vivre." each page of this ebullient book introduces a different bug's proclivity. ![]() "A picture book that capers with joy in the buggy natural world. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments His at night by sherry thomas![]() ![]() This was my second Sherry Thomas book and I became a firm fan of this author who has a very real and deep understanding of the complexity of the human psyche. But as they risk their lives for each other on the journey home, will the biggest danger be the treacherous war around them-or their rekindling passion? Leo has no reason to think Bryony could ever forgive him for the way he treated her, but he won’t rest until he’s delivered an urgent message from her sister-and fulfilled his duty by escorting her safely back to England. Why, then, three years after their annulment and half a world away, does he track her down at her clinic in the remotest corner of India? A man as talented, handsome, and sought after by society as Leo Marsden couldn’t possibly want to spend his entire life with a woman who rebelled against propriety by becoming a doctor. Their marriage lasted only slightly longer than the honeymoon-to no one’s surprise, not even Bryony Asquith’s. Genre: Historical Romance (Victorian – North-West Frontier of India and England 1897) ![]() ![]() ![]() As an archaeologist, she has worked on remote sensing projects across twelve countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery analysis to identify thousands of potential archaeological sites. National Geographic Fellow and TED Prize-winner Sarah Parcak pioneers the young field of satellite archaeology, using futuristic tools to unlock secrets from the past and transform how discoveries are made. ![]() This book will awaken the explorer in all of us. Holton Book Award - A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 - An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 - Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019 - A Science News Best Book of 2019Ī crash course in the amazing new science of space archaeology that only Sarah Parcak can give. Winner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sonnets are some of the some of the most famous love poems of the Victorian Age, or any other. According to Wikipedia, the collection was originally called Sonnets from the Bosnian, but was changed to Portuguese after Robert’s suggestion, perhaps stemming from his nick-name for Elizabeth: “my little Portuguese.” ![]() ![]() In order to maintain some privacy, Browning disguised the title in hopes people would believe they were translations from foreign sonnets. Originally, she did not plan to publish the collection due to their extremely personal content, but changed her mind after Robert Browning insisted, saying they were perhaps the best sequence of English-written sonnets since Shakespeare’s time. As the relationship progressed Barrett Browning was able to overcome her anxieties, and eventually, they took a more accepting and passionate tone. In the earlier sonnets she expresses her doubt and fear about beginning a relationship with Browning. The content and tone of the sonnets change as her relationship with Browning relationship progressed. It is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written for her, then, future husband Robert Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning between 18 and was published in 1850. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel opens with Ruth’s discovery of Eddie having sex with Marion, one of sixty times that summer that they performed the act. ![]() ![]() Ted counted on Marion wanting sex with Eddie because of the resemblance, and that Eddie, for his part, will be tempted by Marion, whom at age 39 is described by Irving as possibly “one of the most beautiful women alive” (30) Ted chose Eddie because of the sixteen-year-old’s resemblance to the dead boys. In the summer of 1958, when Ruth is four, Ted decides he wants to end the marriage, so he hires Eddie O’Hare as his writer’s assistant. Ted and Marion conceive Ruth soon after, but it is clear by then that the marriage is already over. We are told that the Coles’ lives are shattered when their two teenage boys are killed in a car accident (as in Irving’s World According To Garp). The Coles are a family of writers: Ted Cole, the father, is a writer of very successful children’s books his daughter, Ruth, becomes a popular novelist Marion, the mother, becomes a mystery writer years after divorcing Ted. John Irving’s A Widow for One Year chronicles the history of the Cole family over a period of 37 years. An imaginary review of Irving’s The Third Leg ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Pluto urasawa x tezuka vol 1![]() ![]() No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 20 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys. ![]() Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa’s oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy ( Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary ( Pineapple ARMY story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga ( 20th Century Boys), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka ( Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with BETA! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. ![]() ![]() Naoki Urasawa’s career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Fletch novels![]() Like any good mystery, the cast of characters is essential. The movie, like the book, is primarily a detective story, as Fletch interviews a rogue’s gallery, including an unscrupulous art dealer played by Kyle MacLachlan, plus an opioid-addled rich kid and his trophy wife (Lucy Punch) and a few others. It’s a lightly comic mystery that’s low-key and relatively pleasing to watch, giving Hamm a role he’s ideally suited for.Įasygoing, even when framed for murder, Fletch never takes his predicament too seriously, as he knows he’ll be able to figure things out eventually. In this movie, as in the books, Fletch is more of a charming rascal with a quick wit and a knack for getting in (and out of) trouble. ![]() ![]() Many of the things people remember most about those movies were the one-liners and disguises, but those were both pure Chevy and not really part of the books. The movies were based on a long-running series of novels by Gregory McDonald, and for decades, Hollywood has been trying to relaunch the series, with Kevin Smith notably attached at one point.Ī passion project for producer-star Jon Hamm, who also produces, Confess, Fletch is much closer to the tone of the McDonald novels than the Chase movies. ![]() REVIEW: Most people reading this review probably know Fletch as the main character played by Chevy Chase in one of his best movies, 1985’s Fletch, and its (mediocre) follow-up, Fletch Lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are some characters that I hate with my entire being (even the good guys) but being capable of feeling any strong emotions signifies that you’re engaged in the book. The series is long, but none of the details included are overblown or unnecessary, so essentially it’s watching the development of a really lovable universe. Rereading the series has probably taught me more of how to write than every English class and writing camp I’ve ever taken. ![]() The characters are not overpowered, but have a basic goodness (or lack thereof, for the villains) that make them tangible and likable. Flanagan did his research, and he did it well. I wouldn’t go as far to say it’s a book for nerds, but there are fascinating technical details on every page. The entire series of Ranger’s Apprentice checks every box. Likable characters, a comprehensible plotline, suspense, humor, and overall just a well-written story. There’s five things that people are looking for in a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Edgar Allan Poe ( né Edgar Poe Janu– October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Orion, for instance, was essentially one giant shaggy-dog joke-a flood of terminology and ideas and metaphors and references used to support a plot that wouldn’t otherwise have deserved a ten-page short. He is not, however, a very engaging storyteller, and almost every time he’s sat down to cull together a story out of his torrent of wild images, the results have been disappointing. Masamune Shirow is a fantastically creative visual artist, one of the best in the business. George Lucas may have been deeply enamored of the relationship between Amidala and Anakin, but we saw no evidence onscreen of what was so interesting to him. That or he simply hadn’t found a way to make those things interesting to us. The further the material has been taken from its creator (manga artist Masamune Shirow), the more interesting it has become-which implies that Shirow was most interested in the things about it that were least interesting to everyone else. ![]() ![]() The most disconcerting thing about the Ghost in the Shell mythology is something that, oddly enough, parallels Star Wars. ![]() |