But shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that a quarter of all Earth's mammals are on the Red List of Threatened Species? So, when a White's tree frog ends up in an aquarium in his fourth-grade classroom, it's the last straw, and he and his best friend, Bird, are spurred to action. To make it to-infinity worse, he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him. Or why his parents can't live together - after all, when other mate-for-life animals have a fight, it's not like one of them just packs his bags and leaves the country. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why waste-of-flesh Lyle always picks on him. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) A Globe and Mail Top Five First Fiction Title of 2009 Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world.
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Unfortunately, I’d stopped reading the invitation after “Please join us for an afternoon with Judy Blume” what more did I need to know? Alas, this gathering wasn’t going to be the intimate affair I’d imagined, the one where Blume and I sat in an empty theater and bonded over a box of Milk Duds. Mine said, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Elisabeth.” One table was piled high with copies of Blume’s book, another with personalized diaries. The hip SoHo hangout was abuzz with laughing, chatting, selfie-snapping, champagne-sipping fans of the novel that launched a thousand breast enhancement exercises and frank conversations about puberty. When I arrived at the Crosby Street Hotel for a screening of “ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” a man in the lobby located my name on a list, then directed me to a line for the coat check. Pulse chick peas, olive oil, tahini, lime juice, and garlic in a food processor until smooth, about 2 minutes. 1 – 2 Tbsp finely chopped cilantro leaves, for topping. 3 Tbsp olive oil, plus more for serving if desired.2 medium ripe avocados, cored and peeled (13 oz before cored and peeled).1 packet Ranch dressing mix 3 oz bacon bits (in the bag not jar).Today I wanted to share a couple of my go-to recipes when I need something quick and easy for a gathering (usually the office party). Working full-time and being an author means I have little time for making party snacks. So, before we get settled down to begin celebrating Valerie’s summer-time release, I told her she had to bring food to this little shing-dig. We believe that swimming in the rough and tumble of the ocean as well as the smooth serenity of a pool all to yourself is part of Mother Nature’s will. We believe in structured intervals and swimming without a plan. We believe that having it beat you is not the end of the world. We believe that pushing to beat the beeper is good for you. We believe that the post-swim smell of chlorine is an aphrodisiac. We believe in the excitement and speed of short course yards as much as the rhythm and fluidity of long course meters. We believe that TRIATHLETES are SWIMMERS. We believe in drills to refine your technique and in using aids not only because they can be good for you, but because they make you feel good too. We believe seemingly ‘mindless’ continuous laps in the pool still makes for a good session. We believe in hard Red Mist Endurance sessions and challenging yourself. We believe in the magic of Vitamin-Sea and the benefit of swimming on our mental health as much as our physical wellbeing. And swimmers from the U.S, the U.K, U.A.E, Ukraine and every other corner of the globe. We believe in helping those new to the sport as much as those who’ve been there, seen it, got the t-shirt and are still doing it every day. We have built an entire community around the enjoyment of the shared unity of our daily swimming rituals, whoever you are and wherever you are.Īnd we believe in helping SWIMMERS - fast swimmers, slow swimmers, sinky swimmers, floaty swimmers, those who make it look effortless and those who make it look like an effort. Dorothea is an unlikely role model for contemporary feminists. There are two main exemplary (proto-) feminist characters in Middlemarch, a town seemingly based on the West Midlands town of Coventry. My short feminist review can only analyse a fraction of the content. Since the novel is complex, I recommend you buy a copy with footnotes, such as the Wordsworth Classics budget paperback edition, and because there is a marvellous and remarkably faithful serialised BBC TV adaptation (1994), I urge you to read the book and watch the miniseries. The happiness of woman is: he wills." Friedrich Nietzsche's line in Thus Spake Zarathustra elegantly sums up the role of women at the time George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), who like the Brontë sisters hid behind a male pen name, wrote her 1870s Victorian classic Middlemarch (1871/72), and it also applies to the time period of her book, masterfully describing pre-Victorian provincial English life before the first British Reform Bill of 1832, which brought minor improvements to a small portion of the (male) population Eliot also incorporates some truly superb character studies. These images include a color palette of dark and neutral shades, thick classic novels, minimal and delicate jewellery, tweed trousers, black turtlenecks, and too many cups of black coffee. While the aura of this aesthetic may seem highly sagacious, if we investigate from the vantage point of an intellectual, dark academia is actually problematic.ĭark Academia has been hyped up by Gen-Z with an attempt, in the words of Francois Rabelais, “ to seek the Great Perhaps.” While this is in pursuit of purpose, it also offers an escape from our conditions through vintage images. The conceptions are nothing more than manifestations of an altered reality. The universe of dark academia is mere make-believe. We delve into aesthetics to find meaning behind our existence, a mindless search for beauty in our being. We crave it, and we need it psychologically. Humans starve and hunt for beauty in the world that surrounds them. To be that animal until you call “freeze!” They have to stayįrozen until you call out the next animal. Call out an animal and have your children pretend The song yourselves and add in new animals and their sounds.Īnimal freeze game. This memory game increases their narrative Try to remember the sound each animal makes, or which animal gets on Reading through the book once, read it again and have your children With your children about the story increases their vocabulary. Many animals on it?” “What sounds do each animal make?” Talking Make up words and helps them develop phonologicalĪsk questions such as, “Do you ever ride a bus?” “How manyĪnimals are on the bus?” “Would you like to ride a bus with so Making it easier for children to recognize the smaller sounds that Songs tend to draw out the syllables in each word, This song with your children while doing the actions and sounds of Has the animals making their own sounds as they ride through town. Adaptation of the familiar preschool song “The Wheels on the Bus” Drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days through Brian's deepening emotional problems to his triumphant re-emergence with the release of Smile, the legendarily unreleased album he had originally shelved. In Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music's most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. the focal point for Peter Ames Carlins engrossing, often lyrical, book. In a few short years, they rode the wave all the way to the top, standing with the Beatles as one of the world's biggest bands.ĭespite their utopian visions, infectious hooks, and stunning harmonies, the Beach Boys were beset by drug abuse, jealousy, and terrifying mental illness. Shop Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys Brian. Now the subject of the movie Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack!īrian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, along with Mike Love and Al Jardine-better known as the Beach Boys-rocketed out of a working-class Los Angeles suburb in the early sixties, and their sun-and-surf sound captured the imagination of kids across the world. Love & Mercy is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Bill Pohlad about the Beach Boys co-founder and leader Brian Wilson and his struggles with mental illness during the 1960s and 1980s. #bookish ,#kindleaddict ,#EpubForSale ,#bestbookreads ,#ebookworm ,#readyforit ,#downloadprintīy click link in above! wish you have good luck and enjoy reading your book. Because my wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in.Yet the world doesn't want to let me.That's the thing when you turn against a king?everyone else turns against you.Good thing I have a different king in my corner.But even with the dark threat of Slade Ravinger, the other monarchs are coming for me.So I will fight for him and he will kill for me, and if we need to become the villains, then so be it.Because so long as I live in this world, I won't be used again.Please note: This is an adult fantasy series with dark elements that may be triggering, including past emotional and physical trauma, violence, adult language, and The problem is, when you turn against a King - everyone. But death has been shaped from rot.Like a phoenix caught fire, I will need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my own power. I have burned down the court of King Midas and from those flames, I will rise and wield my own power. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold." My life has been made up of gilded lies. Glow The Plated Prisoner 4 Raven Kennedy 705 pages first pub 2022 ( editions) fiction fantasy romance adventurous dark medium-paced Description This is book 4 in The Plated Prisoner series, the adult fantasy romance inspired by the myth of King Midas.'I was nothing but a road to Midas. While her family is falling to pieces, Rose focuses her attention on Dunc, a teenager working at the local corner store. Rose’s father leaves the cottage and returns to the city, and her mother becomes more and more withdrawn. Now Rose and Windy are spend a lot of their time renting scary movies and spying on the teenagers who work at the corner store, as well as learning stuff about sex no one mentioned in health class. Plus, being at the cottage isn’t just about going to the beach anymore. Sure, Rose’s dad is still making cheesy and embarrassing jokes, but her mother is acting like she doesn’t even want to be there. From the creators of Skim comes an investigation into the mysterious world of adults. But this year is different, and they soon find themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis. Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki (author) and Jillian Tamaki (illustrator) This One Summer is VBC's first graphic novel selection! |