![]() ![]() ![]() O literatura plina de farmec, in care peste oameni si omuleti (de la cei fantastici, precum Stim si Stam, pina la cei „reali”, in masura in care realul inseamna un compromis intre viziuni diferite) se pliaza nostalgia, una sustinuta si compensata, cu virtuozitate, de umor, de sarcasm blajin si de gustul dulce-amarui al unor povesti ce stirnesc in fiecare dintre noi pofta intoarcerii la propria copilarie. In dialogul dintre autori, un fel de muzica la doua instrumente, afirmatiile unuia sint repozitionate si reformulate de celalalt, istoriile capata mize diferite in functie de unghiul din care sint privite, personajele, dupa o scurta „cariera” intr-un capitol, sint demascate ironic in urmatorul. ![]() O carte despre miracolele de linga noi, despre copilarie si naivitatile ei, despre jocuri si prietenie, despre fotbal si dorinte, dar, mai ales, despre tarimul familiei, cu toate ritualurile, iubirile, asteptarile si dezamagirile lui. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Land owners wished to know if coal might be found on their holdings. ![]() The book describes the social, economic or industrial context for Smith's insights and work, such as the importance of coal mining and the transport of coal by means of canals, both of which were a stimulus to the study of geology and the means whereby Smith supported his research. Winchester's book narrates the intellectual context of the time, the development of Smith's ideas and how they contributed to the theory of evolution and more generally to a dawning realisation of the true age of the earth. His pivotal insights were that each local sequence of rock strata was a subsequence of a single universal sequence of strata and that these rock strata could be distinguished and traced for great distances by means of embedded fossilized organisms. Smith's was the first national-scale geological map, and by far the most accurate of its time. The Map that Changed the World is a 2001 book by Simon Winchester about English geologist William Smith and his great achievement, the first geological map of England, Wales and southern Scotland. ![]() ![]() You can use them, but you don't have to use them. *Note: These craft ideas are just suggestions. Make a headband with antennae and act out parts of the story.ĭivide up into two teams and play pictionary, having the kids draw common objects around the kitchen while their team members guess. Draw a picture of a common object in your bedroom from an ant?s perspective on one panel, from a giant?s perspective on another, and from your perspective on the third. ![]() When was the last time you were lost? What did you do?ĭivide a piece of paper into three. What would you have done if you were a third ant watching the other two? What would you have said? What does perspective mean? Do some things look different to you than to others? Why?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading:ĭid this book change how you see ants? How? How would your living room or bedroom look to an ant? How about to a giant? ![]() ![]() Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Grade Level: 3rd (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)Īccustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. Volunteers needed in June! Click here to sign up. ![]() ![]() ![]() As late as 1970, just 1 percent of all American engineers were black, and my father was one of them.īecause of my father’s job, I was part of the NASA family. In the 1960s, most college-educated African Americans took teaching jobs or worked for the post office. ![]() He thought my dad would have trouble finding work as an engineer. Become a physical education teacher, my grandfather told him. My father, who as a high school student had wanted to study electrical engineering, lived a different story. I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that’s just what black folks did. Our church pews were crowded with mathematicians. He started there as an engineering intern in 1964 and retired as an internationally respected climate scientist in 2004. My dad worked at the Langley Research Center at NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, I assumed the face of science was brown like mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mandy: Did I completely devour this book? Yes, yes, I did! And now I am counting down until the second book, because Jody Hedlund has done it again, completely hooking me and knocking it out of the park with this new book and series!.Kim: Wow! This reimagining of the story of Excalibur is adventurous and passionate and full of intelligent characters.Sylvia: All I can say is Jody Hedlund truly knows how to write a good story! Enamored is sweetly romantic and inspirational. ![]() With the kingdom under attack both from within and without, can Elinor and Maxim overcome the deceit spinning around them? Or will it destroy their love once and for all? until she learns he has been unwillingly drawn into Rasmus’s scheme to take control of the throne. Reunited with Elinor, once his closest friend, Maxim is quickly enamored with her even though he can never be considered a prospect for her husband.Įlinor’s feelings for Maxim are rekindled too. With aspirations to become the wisest man in the land, Maxim is summoned home by his father Rasmus, a Royal Sage. ![]() As she comes of age, she must choose a husband to rule beside her, but she struggles to make her selection from among a dozen noblemen during a weeklong courtship. ![]() Having been raised by her childless aunt and uncle, the king and queen, Princess Elinor finds herself the only heir to the throne of Norvegia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This includes the Crown Estate, the Queen’s personal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk, and the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, which provide income to members of the family.Ĭonservation charities, such as the National Trust and the Woodland Trust, collectively own 2% of England, while the church accounts for 0.5%. He calculates that the land under the ownership of the royal family amounts to 1.4% of England. ![]() Those who own homes in England, in total, own only 5% of the country. Shrubsole writes that the bulk of the population owns very little land or none at all. He concludes that the public sector owns 8% of England. The public sector – central and local government, and universities – appears to be the most open about its landholdings, according to Shrubsole, partly in order to advertise land it has wanted to sell off in recent years. Shrubsole, who works as a campaigner for the environmental charity Friends of the Earth, estimates that “a handful of newly moneyed industrialists, oligarchs and City bankers” own around 17% of England. Several large grouse moor estates and Beeswax Dyson Farming, a farm owned by pro-Brexit businessman James Dyson, are also high on the list. ![]() Prominent on the list are the Boughton estate in Northamptonshire, belonging to the Duke of Buccleuch, the Woburn estate, which is owned by the Duke of Bedford, and the Badminton estate in Gloucestershire, owned by the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. ![]() ![]() While not originally drawn to the book by the court intrigue and romance, what the magic and even religion contributed, it all worked to draw me in deeply to a captivating world and a very sweet story. Adversity does not often come in the form of knockdown, drag out, hand-to-hand combat or epic wars but skillful and intelligent (often in spite of himself) dealings in royal politics and usually not so adroit magic. But his heart is strong and his mind is as sharp as ever and he rises to every occasion to meet and successfully deal with adversity. No, he is beaten-down and crippled by years on a slave ship. ![]() While only middle-aged, in those days (whenever that was), he is certainly not young and virile. This is one of those rare books where the hero is about as reluctant or prepared as one can be to be a hero. When if first heard the voice of the protagonist, Lord Cazaril in The Curse of Chalion, I thought oh brother, this is not going to be good. ![]() ![]() ![]() ABC Family took an unusually long time to decide whether or not to renew The Lying Game beyond season 2, and the cast's contract options lapsed in April 2013 with only Alexandra Chando signing a new option. Like the former, The Lying Game is also loosely based on the book series. The Lying Game premiered on Augon ABC Family. Shepard had a cameo on two episodes of the show: " The Homecoming Hangover", as a substitute teacher and " I'm a Good Girl, I Am", as the news reporter. Actresses Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Shay Mitchell, and Lucy Hale star as the main characters Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields and Aria Montgomery. The adaptation television series Pretty Little Liars lasted for seven seasons. The Pretty Little Liars series of novels is "loosely based on her experiences growing up in Chester County". Shepard's book series Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game have both been turned into television series by ABC Family (now under the name of Freeform). Shepard currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She started ghostwriting as a freelancer in 2002 and writing her own books in 2005. Custom Publishing and produced lifestyle magazines for corporate clients. From 2000 to 2005, Shepard worked at Time, Inc. ![]() degree in 1999 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College in 2004. She attended New York University, where she graduated with a B.S. She graduated from Downingtown High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1995. ![]() Shepard grew up with a sister named Alison. ![]() ![]() ![]() He says he'll put rocks in her shoes and clean her toilets. "One of them wants to be her personal slave. In scenes both serious and hilariously funny, Vanessa meets a parade of "meshugenahs," Jong says. So, in a sly nod to Jong's first book, Vanessa signs up for a sex website called. Read an excerpt from Erica Jong's "Fear of Dying".Sex was for twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty. ![]() We were supposed to become grandmothers and retreat into serene sexlessness. at age 73, she's back with "Fear of Dying," this time about issues of vitality and mortality facing an aging former actress.Īs Jong told a rapt audience in suburban New Jersey, her heroine, Vanessa Wonderman, must cope with aging parents, an ailing husband, and her own intense sexual desire: "Women were not allowed to have passion at sixty. Well, actually, more than 27 million people DID read the book! And now, more than 40 years later. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is fairly simple: A Harvard graduate student named Oliver comes to stay with an academic expat family in the Italian Riviera, where he will oversee the translation of his dissertation on Heraclitus. How strange, then, that Aciman’s first novel, Call Me by Your Name, should run against the Proustian grain. ![]() But the best essays are those in which Aciman imports Proust to his various homes in Cairo, Rome, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later in the same essay, he makes the pilgrimage to Illiers-Combray only to be predictably underwhelmed (as Marcel was by his much-longed-for Venice). In his remarkable collection of essays, False Papers (2000), Aciman tells how his father first bought him Swann’s Way when he was fifteen (“I already knew I had just received, perhaps without my father’s knowing it, his dearest, most enduring gift of love”). Even more than Roger Shattuck, who’s championed Proust in scholarly works, or Alain de Botton, who’s promoted Proustian self-help, Aciman has taken to heart the author’s injunction to use In Search of Lost Time as a personal darkroom-to dip the negatives of one’s own memories into the magic solution Proust provides. André Aciman is our consummate Proustian. ![]() |