![]() ![]() I’d probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine.” - Dennis Lehane She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. “I was first struck by Attica Locke’s prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. Equal parts murder mystery and family drama, the novel also draws readers in through its considerations of African-American history and life in post-Katrina Louisiana.” - USA Today “Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere. “A thoughtful, well-written and absorbing read with a surprising ending.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune ![]() ![]() “Although The Cutting Season succeeds as a thriller, above all it is a well-crafted warning about the damage wrought-generational, social, romantic-when the past is distorted or denied.” - Financial Times Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps.” - Los Angeles Times A mystery that expands the whole idea of the mystery, reaching from the present deeply into the past. Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction.” - New York Times “The impressively astute Attica Locke writes. The Cutting Season does more than exhume a body-it rattles the bones of slavery, race, class, and power to examine a crime that reverberates from more than a century ago.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution “One of the most engaging and gifted new voices in the genre. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I guaranted 100% privacy.Your information is safe. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. ![]() Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. It tells listeners that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. On December 7, 1941, as the Takei family decorates their Christmas tree, a news bulletin interrupts music on the radio. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself.Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Read More : Read Now They Called Us Enemy Description A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takeis childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. They Called Us Enemy is George Takei ’s memoir of growing up in Japanese internment camps during World War II. A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. ![]() ![]() Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on a moon base? Or to live in a space station? Caramel is reading Midnight on the Moon (Magic Tree House #8) by Mary Pope Osborne.Ĭ: I don’t know. There is no moon base right now.Ĭ: There isn’t but there might be one in 2031. ![]() S: Oh that is cool! In many of the previous books they went back in time. S: How so? There are no people on the moon right now.Ĭ: There is a moon base and it is past 2031. ![]() S: So they save her! That is great! But tell me more about the moon. S: Ok, you probably should not tell us what happens when they find all four things.Ĭ: I’ll tell you what happens: Morgan comes back! And the cover picture.Ĭ: Because that is where they will find the fourth thing so that they can help their friend Morgan. Sprinkles: So Caramel, what are Jack and Annie up to in this book?Ĭaramel: They are going to the moon. Caramel reviews Midnight on the Moon (Magic Tree House #8) by Mary Pope Osborne. As usual, Sprinkles is taking notes and asking questions. Today he shares with us his thoughts on Book #8: Midnight on the Moon. ![]() Caramel is on a roll reading Magic Tree House books! He has already reviewed for Magic Tree House books for the book bunnies blog: Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House #5), Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House #6), Knights and Castles (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #2), and Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House #7). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No content on this site may be copied and reused in any form or fashion without express written permission. © 2015 - My Sugar Free Journey All Rights Reserved. Please note: Posts may contain affiliate links or sponsored content.įor more of our privacy and cookie policy, click here. Hes an award-winning science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. 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But she does believe in the magic of imagination. Maggie Collins doesn’t dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year. His sister’s will gives him the instructions: There’s no other choice but you. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. ![]() And since that night, she has never again spoken a word. One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. ![]() Martin's Press Genres: Christmas, Contemporary RomanceĪlso in this series: Rainshadow Road, Dream Lake, Crystal CoveĪlso by this author: Rainshadow Road, Dream Lake, Crystal Cove, Cold-Hearted Rake, Marrying Winterborne, Devil in Spring, Hello Stranger, Devil's Daughter, Chasing Cassandra, Devil in Disguise ★★★ Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, by Lisa Kleypas ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Presenting itself as an alternative to today's fast-paced, mass-produced, neon-lighted world, wabi sabi reminds us to slow down and take comfort in the simple, natural beauty around us. ![]() As much a state of mind-an awareness of the things around us and an acceptance of our surroundings-as it is a design style, wabi sabi begs us to appreciate the simple beauty in life-a chipped vase, a quiet rainy day, the impermanence of all things. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence. Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. ![]() ![]() It’s a list of the stories I consider best as well as my individual thoughts on them.īut now, let us continue on with my ranking of the six Stephen King short story collections. If you are, however, more interested in a more detailed list of short stories, I urge you to check out the list of my favorite Stephen King short stories. It’s not only to rank but to also share my thoughts on each Stephen King short story collection out there. That’s the reason I created this short list. While I enjoyed most of his short stories and each one of his collections, I found some of them more impressive and worthwhile than others. Over the past months, I read every single Stephen short story collection. ![]() Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King seemed like a logical next step. ![]() Since I’m a horror writer myself, I recently decided to read more horror literature myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() īerger was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): rather he was a close associate of it and its front, the Artists’ International Association (AIA), until the latter disappeared in 1953. ![]() As a statement of political commitment, he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red. His Marxist humanism and his strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career. He later became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman. īerger taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college. His art has been shown at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London. Career īerger began his career as a painter and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. ![]() He enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946. Berger was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. His grandfather was from Trieste, and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-observant Jew who converted to Catholicism, had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross and an OBE. Berger was born on 5 November 1926 in Stoke Newington, London, the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger. ![]() ![]() ![]() In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future-a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. The film I, Robot is derived from the book of the same name, although the story in the film deviates from the original book. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov formulated the laws governing robots’ behavior. ![]() Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world-all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asimov’s trademark.ġ) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Ģ) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.ģ) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. ![]() Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-reading robots, and robots with a sense of humor. I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of artificial intelligence. ![]() “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”- The Guardian Synopsis: This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() And to my father, a passion for culture.’Īnother important figure from her childhood was her aunt Mercè, her mother’s sister and her godmother, who lived and worked in Barcelona and decided not to marry. As Maria-Mercè Marçal herself later wrote: ‘To my mother, I owe the meaning, the richness of language. Her father, Antoni Marçal, who had to abandon a degree in architecture for family reasons, always encouraged both his daughters to study and to appreciate culture. Her mother, Maria Serra, loved the theatre and music she knew hundreds of songs, and whenever she could, she got the local children together and put on performances and dances. ![]() ![]() She always remembered her beginnings: a rural life surrounded by her family. Until the age of ten, she lived in Ivars d’Urgell (Pla d’Urgell), which she considered her home. Maria-Mercè Marçal was born on 13 November 1952, by circumstance in Barcelona. ![]() |