![]() ![]() When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. It's hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. ![]() ![]() Produktbeschreibung Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother's imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A forever future is within reach for all of them, if only Mark can find the courage he needs to trust Isaiah with his secrets-and his heart. But there's no denying there's something sexy about a big, tough military man with a baby in his arms.Īs the legal details get sorted out, their long-buried attraction resurfaces, leading to intimate evenings after the kids are tucked in. But a conflicting will could give custody. ![]() In the wake of tragedy, SEAL Mark Whitley rushed stateside to act as guardian to his sister’s three young children. For now, he's throwing himself into proving he's the best person to care for his cousin's kids. Whether making my heart melt or my head burst into flames, Annabeth Albert draws the reader in and keeps them captivated. In fact, he's done with crushing on the wrong men altogether. Isaiah's totally over the crush that made him proposition Mark all those years ago. Even after six years, Mark can't shake the memory of his close encounter with Isaiah James, or face up to what it says about his own sexuality. But a conflicting will could give custody to someone else-someone Mark remembers as a too young, too hot, wild party boy. In the wake of tragedy, SEAL Mark Whitley rushed stateside to act as guardian to his sister's three young children. "Whether making my heart melt or my head burst into flames, Annabeth Albert draws the reader in and keeps them captivated." -Gay Book Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Īrriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge–there’s something about the hotel that makes her nervous. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.Īn imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. ![]() Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. ![]() I was so captivated-I read it in one sitting! Here’s the Synopsis: And while I sometimes have issues with thrillers, I liked that this one is more of a mystery. For her February 2021 pick, Reese selected The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. ![]() Indeed, the poems and bits of prose collected in Glck’s 13th book of poetry are dreamy, even ethereal, but as absorbing and intensely experienced as ever. Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryĪ luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet My first book without struggle and without despair, says Louise Glck, describing her new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night. ![]() ![]() The phrase "Prague Spring" refers to this period of attempted reform. ![]() Dubcek attempted to give back to the people rights that had been taken away by the Russian communist regime (like freedom of speech and press). This reform was spearheaded by Czech leader Alexander Dubcek, who came to power in January of 1968. Needless to say, this made the Czechs unhappy, and there began a period of attempted reform. Czechoslovakia was largely under the control of Stalinist Russia, which began to use the smaller country largely for its own interests. Political activism was strong in favor of communism, particularly among young people. After World War II, Czechoslovakia started taking steps toward becoming a communist nation. Let's get some background on the political history before diving into the novel. The narrator frequently interrupts the story to analyze his own characters and discuss the fictional plotline in the context of the novel's central philosophy: the dichotomy between lightness and weight. Set mostly in Prague during the Russian invasion of Prague in the late 1960s, the novel focuses on the love lives of four Czech intellectuals as they struggle with relationships, sex, politics, and the military occupation of their country. The novel is a genre-defying mix of historical fiction, love stories, philosophy, and experimentation with narrative technique. ![]() The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Introduction ![]() ![]() ![]() 2nd phase review why we are (or have really been) maximalists. 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I have really review a number of publications on minimal way of living, as well as likewise this is just one of the best in my viewpoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The history of each of these species is fascinating. To illustrate his point, Michael Pollan gives us the history of four common plants that have greatly affected mankind: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. Pollan’s thesis in a nutshell (and his name is rather appropriate here), is that we are human bumblebees of a sort, lured by our desires to seminate seeds and further the evolutionary whims of plants in a reciprocal dance in which they are every bit as much in charge as we, evolutionarily speaking. In his intriguing book, The Botany of Desire But what if instead of controlling plants, it’s the other way around – plants manipulating us, satisfying our needs so that we will do their bidding, which is to aid them in their endless quest to propagate? This, at least, is the highly original notion of Michael Pollan Higher civilization itself, you might say, began when people learned to farm. One of the pivotal moments in our history, anthropologists like to say, is when mankind learned to domesticate plants, becoming farmers instead of hunter-gatherers, thereby insuring a steady food supply and giving birth to settled communities. Please follow us on Picture by Peter HägerĪs humans, we take ourselves fairly seriously, imaging we are in charge of the world around us. ![]() ![]() On the Run is the story of the six years Goffman spent conducting an ethnographic study in a poor black community in West Philadelphia. As I will explain below, Goffman appears to have participated in a serious felony in the course of her field work – a circumstance that seems to have escaped the notice of her teachers, her mentors, her publishers, her admirers, and even her critics. One must try to keep an open mind about such things – especially regarding someone as obviously brilliant and dedicated as Goffman – so readers may disagree with me about the extent of her embellishments. There are just too many incidents that strike me as unlikely to have occurred as she describes them. A careful reading of On the Run, however, leaves me with vexing questions about the author’s accuracy and reliability. Her TED talk, which was often interrupted by applause, has had nearly 700,000 views. ![]() ![]() The success of the book led to a lecture tour of at least twenty sociology departments and conferences. ![]() Review of ON THE RUN: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries), by Alice GoffmanĪlice Goffman’s widely acclaimed On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City has drawn more positive attention than almost any sociology book in recent years. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I spent the first third of the book just trying to figure out what was going on. Del’s world full of walkers and echo’s, dissonance and cleavings was just plain difficult for me to understand. What Del doesn’t realize is that her actions have consequences that could threaten the fate of the entire multiverse.Īs great as the premise sounded, Dissonance started off quite slow. A guy that she has a crush on in real life but who doesn’t know she exists. Something strange is going on and she thinks it may have something to do with the fact that she keeps falling for different versions of the same guy, Simon Lane, in her walks. She continues walking despite her suspension, trying to figure out what went to wrong in those other worlds. Even though Del’s world is full of rules, she’s never been one to follow them. ![]() When a training session in a parallel world goes terribly wrong however, Del finds herself suspended from walking. They’re the people who navigate the parallel worlds that branch off from other people’s decisions and keep them in harmony with the key world. Sign me up.ĭelancy Sullivan comes from a family of Walkers. Parallel worlds branching off with every choice playing out what could have been? Sounds awesome. I saw the beautiful cover and read the goodreads synopsis and I decided I had to read this book. Dissonance first caught my eye when I was searching books that were being released this month. ![]() |