Back to Blog
Novel by nora ephron5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() As a result, most people do not have nearly enough mashed potatoes in their lives, and when they do, it’s almost always at the wrong time.” Of course, you can always get someone to make the mashed potatoes for you, but let’s face it: the reason you’re blue is that there isn’t anyone to make them for you. The problem with mashed potatoes, though, is that they require almost as much hard work as crisp potatoes, and when you’re feeling blue the last thing you feel like is hard work. ![]() ![]() Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin cold slice of butter to every forkful. “Nothing like mashed potatoes when you’re feeling blue. “Nora Ephron’s novel ‘Heartburn’ still scorches 40 years later.” The Washington Post. It’s a monologue, a diatribe, a roman à clef deployed with heat-seeking barbs.” To some readers, “Heartburn” is barely a novel. References to The Post, including the Style section, are peppered throughout. “Heartburn” is a Washington novel and a Washington Post novel: It’s based on Ephron’s explosive breakup with legendary Post Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who had an affair with the wife of the British ambassador when Ephron was many months pregnant with her and Bernstein’s second child. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() This experience and her observations of racial discrimination politicized the author. In the second half of the book, the author chronicles her college years in Ohio-coping with roommates, making friends and encountering sororities, which at first she was determined to join, but which she soon characterized as bastions of a social conservatism that she abhorred. In one grim episode, she and a girlfriend spied on a fraternity meeting, becoming stunned witnesses to a gang rape. She also writes about her disappointment when bad acne kept her, a talented athlete, from making the cheerleading team. With verve, she relates how she cleverly manipulated her way into the popular girls’ clique in high school, how she nearly burned down the doughnut shop where she worked and how her plan to paint the neighborhood lawn jockeys white went awry. ![]() ![]() This sequel to Too Close to the Falls (2001) picks up the story in 1960 with the willful, exuberant 12-year-old author entering adolescence and exiting small-town Lewiston, N.Y., for a new life in a Buffalo suburb.Ī former clinical psychologist, Gildiner is also a gifted storyteller. ![]()
Back to Blog
Tim marshall geography book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited ISBN: 9781783966875 Number of pages: 320 Dimensions: 235 x 156 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪn Evening with Tim Marshall at the Cambridge UnionĬambridge Union, 9A Bridge St, Cambridge CB2 1UB, CB2 1UB Written with all the insight and wit that have made Marshall the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics, this is the essential read on power, politics and the future of humanity. In this gripping book, bestselling author Tim Marshall lays bare the new geopolitical realities to show how we got here and where we're going, covering the new space race great-power rivalry technology economics war and what it means for all of us down here on Earth. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics. It's no coincidence that Russia, China and the USA are leading the way. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. ![]()
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() Then the War includes a generous selection of Phillips’s work from the previous thirteen years, as well as his recent lyric prose memoir, “Among the Trees,” and his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures. The new poems, written in a time of rising racial conflict in the United States, with its attendant violence and uncertainty, find Phillips entering deeper into the landscape he has made his own: a forest of intimacy, queerness, and moral inquiry, where the farther we go, the more difficult it is to remember why or where we started. Then the War and Selected Poems, 2007–2020Ī new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the WarĬarl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing quest” Then the War is the next step in that meaningful process of self-discovery for both the poet and his reader. See a book here that you’d like to review for us?Ĭontact us, and we’ll talk about the possibility of a review. ![]() (Where possible, we have also tried to include a review/interview related to each of the new book releases …) Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out: ![]()
Back to Blog
Selected poems by ts eliot5/30/2023 ![]() The poem was included in the first issue of his journal The Criterion, which he founded and edited.Three years later he left the bank to become a director of Faber & Gwyer, later Faber & Faber. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. ![]() ![]() After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations.In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Bradley.He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. ![]() Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. ![]()
Back to Blog
Geist by philippa ballantine5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The sequel The Janus Affair was a Locus Bestseller and won the Steampunk Chronicle Readers Choice award for Best Fiction. Phoenix Rising was also rated in the top 10 science fiction books of 2011 on. ![]() The first, Phoenix Rising, came out in 2011 and won an Airship Award for best written work. She is also the co-author with her husband Tee Morris of the "Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences" novels. īallantine's first Book of the Order, Geist, was published by Ace Books in 2010, followed by Spectyr, Wrayth, and the final in the series Harbinger. In 2006 Ballantine became the first New Zealand author to podcast her novel. She also holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library Studies from The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. ![]() She attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate School and went on to graduate from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Political Science. Philippa Jane Ballantine was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She now lives in Manassas, Virginia, with her husband and collaborator Tee Morris. ![]() Philippa Ballantine (born 8 August 1971), who also used the pen name Pip Ballantine, is a contemporary New Zealand author of speculative fiction and an avid podcaster. ![]()
Back to Blog
No more mr nice guy book robert glover5/30/2023 ![]() When men get older they tend to carry their child like habits with them into adult hood. What has been done before can be done again. If one man can transform his body, drop fat, gain muscle, and inspire others, then so can you. If one man can build a side hustle, quit his job, and travel the world for years, then so can you. ![]() If one man can discover the keys to a passionate and vibrant relationship and sustain a happy marriage for years, then so can you. ![]() There is no goal that you can set, if it has already been achieved, that is impossible. if it has been done before, it can be done again. “What one man can do another man can do.” – Anthony Hopkins, The Edge Key Pointsġ. Glover has helped change the lives of countless men and women around the world. ![]() Nice Guy, online classes, workshops, podcasts, blogs, consultation, and therapy groups, Dr. He is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and has been featured in numerous local and national publications. Glover is an internationally recognized authority on the Nice Guy Syndrome. ![]()
Back to Blog
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I can’t say I hated the book, there are parts that made me uncomfortable and I wish I had known about these things before buying the The Bone Season. The more I think about the things that bothered me, the more I feel like I need to get them off my chest. Even though I enjoyed most of my time reading the book, I walked away with conflicting feelings. Originally I had planned to post a different book review today but I finished The Bone Season this afternoon and am brimming with thoughts. ![]() Paige Mahoney, a powerful dreamwalker operating in the Seven Dials district of London, leads a double life, using her unnaturalness illegally while hiding her gift from her father, who works for the Scion regime… Forced underground, a clairvoyant underworld has developed, combating persecution and evading capture. classified as Dystopian, Paranormal, Fantasy, General Fiction įor the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London.Ĭlairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished.The Bone Season ( The Bone Season #1) by Samantha Shannon ![]()
Back to Blog
Young Lions by Blaise Larmee5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the customs officers suspected that Larmee’s novella depicted children engaged in sexual contact, but Neely explained that while the characters appear child-like, the book is actually about young adult artists. “Then two more officers came out, took out everything from the car, every book, opened up suitcases,” says Neely, on the phone from Los Angeles. Larmee’s pencil sketches caught the officer’s attention. But they didn’t anticipate that a customs officer would pull a random selection of books from the car, including the graphic novella Young Lions by Portland artist Blaise Larmee, distributed by Williams’ Sparkplug Comic Books. They were carrying copies of about 30 titles to sell at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and had carefully prepared all the tax-related paperwork required to cross the border with print merchandise. On May 6, Tom Neely and Dylan Williams’ rental car was pulled over by the Canadian Border Services Agency in Buffalo, N.Y. ![]() ![]() comic publishers who had their books confiscated by Canadian customs officers on suspicion of obscenity. No superheroes came to the rescue of two U.S. ![]()
Back to Blog
![]() ![]() ![]() This statement encapsulates the main difference between us and God: we are sinful while He is holy. To do so would rob God of the essence of who He is. ![]() God’s attributes are so intricately interwoven, it’s impossible for us to separate a single one and make it independent of the others. Without holiness, God wouldn’t be beautiful, and so because of it, He is eternally attractive. His holiness is what makes Him good, and loving, and kind, and faithful. Here are some of my favorite Quotes from Holier Than Thou: Holier Than Thou points the reader back to Scripture and gives her material to contemplate as she strives to understand the holiness of God. ![]() Perry’s voice and while it’s beautiful to hear, it’s difficult to understand when reading. Perry speak, you know that she’s very lyrical and poetic in the way she expresses herself. The matter is worthy of contemplation by anyone who desires to know God more but I found Holier Than Thou difficult to read. Perry discusses the topic of God’s holiness mainly by exploring various aspects of God’s character to show how His holiness is expressed in His attributes. Many times, we like to focus on the fact that God is love while forgetting that He is holy, holy, holy. God’s holiness is an attribute that all Christians need to spend time exploring. ![]() |