6/28/2023 0 Comments Labyrinth book borgesIrby in a diverse collection of Borges's works titled Labyrinths and the other by Anthony Kerrigan as part of a collaborative translation of the entirety of Ficciones.īorges' narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms. Two English-language translations appeared approximately simultaneously in 1962, one by James E. That entire book was, in turn, included within his much-reprinted Ficciones ( 1944). The story was originally published in Spanish in Borges' 1941 collection of stories El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ( The Garden of Forking Paths). " The Library of Babel" ( Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Waiting is not easy by mo willemsLe Guin & Her Cohort Wendell Berry Zadie Smith Parker Ross Macdonald & Margaret Millar Shel Silverstein Stanislaw Lem Stephen King Toni Morrison Ursula K. Wodehouse Philip Roth Rachel Carson Ralph Ellison Randy Watts Ray Bradbury Robert A. Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P.G. Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B.Waiting Is Not Easy! - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, December 14, 7:00-7:30 PM EST. We will meet for 30 minutes Tuesday nights, from 7:00-7:30 PM EST. I'm offering what I'm calling a weekly virtual boost! It will be with like minded professionals who work with children on Tuesday nights. So that means that since we work with children, I don't need to tell you, things are still pretty tough out there.Īs an educational consultant in the field for over 20 years, and a mindfulness teacher trainer, I realize in my own small way, there is something I can do to help. Children are facing mental health crises, as well. Many of us are feeling overwhelmed, burnt out and tired. It seems things are hopefully moving in the right direction with vaccines for children now.īut the research is still showing that there is a mental health crisis like we've never known before. Yes, I know things are definitely better.Īnd that is so encouraging. We have all been taxed so deeply and our worlds have been turned upside down. Things have been so hard for everyone over the past few pandemic confusing years. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The runaways volume 1And they must not only survive on their own, but also somehow take down their own powerful parents before it's too late. Now on the run from their villainous parents, Nico, Chase, Karolina, Gertrude, Molly and Alex have only each other to rely on. WIth their true natures exposed, the members of The Pride will take any measures necessary to protect this illicit organization - even if it means taking out their own children! For years, the Pride has controlled all criminal activity in Los Angeles, holding the entire city in its iron grip. They were six normal California teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting… until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: Their parents are a secret criminal society known as The Pride. Karolina deals with her newfound powers as her friends look on. Karolina: "Maybe Captain America and those guys are dealing with some kind of Molly: "I thought the Revengers were gonna rescue us!" 6/28/2023 0 Comments The Dead Will Arise by J.B. PeiresBrief accounts then follow of the main southern Nguni peoples (the Xhosa, Thembu, Mfengu and Mpondo) and of the northern Nguni and their offshoots (the Zulu, Swazi, Ngoni and Ndebele). The chiefdoms are handled regionally, mainly in terms of the Sotho-Nguni cultural divide, with the Sotho-Tswana element considered first - the Tswana chiefdoms of the Kalahari borderlands, the Pedi and groups with which they came into contact in the northern and eastern Transvaal, and the southern Sotho. In this chapter an attempt is made to set out the main characteristics of African political communities in southern Africa as they existed in the mid-nineteenth century, after the Mfecane and before their incorporation into the white political systems. He’s a curmudgeonthe kind of man who points at. Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks 1 New York Times bestsellermore than 3 million copies sold Meet Ove. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.Ī feel-good story in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Fredrik Backman's novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. A Man Called Ove is a paean to the transformative power of finding friendship where you least expect it and the companionship you thought you never wanted. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. After over 1000 of Backman’s readers voted he write a novel about him, A Man Called Ove was the result. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. He's a curmudgeon-the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. Fredrik Backman is a Swedish columnist and blogger whose character Ove, first came to life in the author’s blog. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! 6/27/2023 0 Comments Mccullough the pioneersMcCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam Cutler’s son Ephraim and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “ as resonant today as ever” ( The Wall Street Journal)-the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country.Īs part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Phoenix Unbound by Grace DravenContent and trigger warnings for rape (brief, but at the very start of the book), attempted rape, threats of rape, assault, slavery, captivity, death, murder, torture, gore, violence, sacrificial ritual, blood depiction, self-harm, misogynistic comments, sexual content and war themes. I will say that the world in this book is very dark, so please use caution while reading. And I immediately added, Radiance to my TBR! I never wanted to put this down, I fell so in love with the romance in this book, and this is one of my new favorite fantasy romances of all time. But friends, I was completely enthralled and captivated by this from page one. I knew the author wrote a book that many of my friends love, Radiance, but that’s honestly all I really knew. When Berkley offered me this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. No one knew from whence it originated or why only one woman from every generation in a small village inherited it, but the village elders had kept its secret close and had deceived the Empire for decades.” An ancient magic woven into the flesh and fabric of a single girl child born each generation in Beroe. Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | Book DepositoryĪRC provided by Berkley in exchange for an honest review. The way Stegner writes lets you relate to all of the characters. It was a bit infuriating and made me dislike her character even more. He would give in to small things that let Charity be right all the time and come out of every situation on top. What’s worse is how Sid let her get away with it. Especially the end! I don’t want to spoil it for anyone, but she goes a bit extreme in her desire to control everything around her. I’m a control freak as well, but some of the things she did were over the top. I thought Sally, Larry, and Sid were very well written, but I thought Charity was a bit over the top. I can’t recommend Stegner’s writing enough. I kept clasping the book to my chest and sighing as I read it and my husband wondered what I could be reading! Amazing words didn’t seem plausible. Stegner’s power over words is incredible and it blew me away what he was able to do with this simple story. It’s a simple book, really, telling the story of four people whose lives are intermixed and how they live together. But then again, I don’t think you need to know any more about it. When I first read that summary, I thought it was too short and didn’t do this book justice. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage. Aside from tales of violent conquest and political glad-handing, there's early, breathtaking tales of American politicos' favorite sport, gerrymandering (in 1864, Idaho judge Sidney Edgerton single-handedly ""derailed"" Idaho's proposed boundary, to Montana's benefit, with $2,000 in gold). residents south of the Potomac successfully petitioned to rejoin Virginia (called both ""retrocession"" and ""a crime"") in order to keep out free African-Americans. Border stories shine a spotlight on many aspects of American history: the 49th parallel was chosen for the northern borders of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana because they ensured England's access to the Great Lakes, vital to their fur trade in 1846, Washington D.C. Proceeding through the states alphabetically, Stein takes the innovative step of addressing each border-north, south, east, west-separately. The exact location of borders became paramount playwright and screenwriter Stein amasses the story of each state's border, channeling them into a cohesive whole. America's first century was defined by expansion and the negotiation of territories among areas colonized by the French and Spanish, or occupied by natives. |