Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, Intimations is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened-and what should come next. What does it mean to submit to a new reality-or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what does it reveal about the world that came before it? Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
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The setting was originally going to be Victorian, but we ultimately decided to make the time period less specific. Lizzy chose an absolutely beautiful typeface for the title.Ĭlick here for a larger image This image of the town is from our first rough dummy. Lots of feedback from our editor and art director as well. In an earlier version we had the night gardener working on the tree, but Lizzy and Christian rightly pointed out that it was really William’s story and they chose a quiet moment of wonder to encapsulate the narrative.Ĭlick here for a larger image Having a solid rough to work from always makes the final art a lot easier. This was the final rough for The Night Gardener cover, based on suggestions from our editor and art director, Christian Trimmer and Lizzy Bromley. But that wasn't all he contributed to the world of technology. Morgan, and his rivalry with Albert Einstein.ĭuring his lifetime, Tesla revolutionized the field of electrical engineering with his most famous invention: the induction motor. In this book, you will hear about his friendship with Mark Twain, his furious competition with his former employer Thomas Edison, his uneasy relationship with billionaire J.P. He was a celebrity during the height of America's Gilded Age. Nikola Tesla: inventor or magician? Tesla was one of the most famous inventors who ever lived, but after his death, he was nearly forgotten. I saw The Killing Gift in a bin of cheap old paperbacks and was immediately sucked in by the cover. It was one of the few places my husband and I enjoyed spending time in when we lived in the Binghamton area. I picked this book up several years ago in this cool shop in Vestal, NY called Sound Go Round that sells used books, DVDs/Blurays, vinyl, tapes, CDs, video games, tabletop games, clothing, and more. I’m giving it a mediocre rating because I feel like some serious opportunities were missed, and I can’t get past the outdated ideas about women and casual racism typical of the late ’70s. It’s actually highly enjoyable and features fantastic writing, and I recommend it to anyone interested. The Putnam Prize-winning The Killing Giftis definitely not trash. Some are actually amazing stories, and some are, again, trash. These are classics, once considered pulp, now highly sought after books. The Paperbacks from Hell community could be considered the horror book community’s equivalent of tape collecting. This has really spoken to collectors and inspired a lot of bargain bin diving and Ebay hunting. In fact, her book The Tribe is part of Valancourt’s Paperbacks From Hell series of select ’70s and ’80s classic paperbacks, curated by our favorite Grady Hendrix and inspired by his own Paperbacks from Hell nonfiction exploration of the pulp horror fiction paperbacks published in these decades. Bari Wood has found a home in the Paperbacks from Hell contingent. In fact, I wondered to myself… didn’t she tell me this was a psych-thriller? I’m feeling more of a … wonderful, sweet friendship (with a difficult-to-love character), and a sad history developing? □ But more than anything, it was the journey getting there… getting to the “ what the heck happened?!?!?!!!” that had its own life. And while this may not be a “romance”, it definitely follows a love story, or two, that just may tear your heart out anyway. She sent me a review copy and warned me that it wasn’t a romance (instead, it was a psych-thriller) and I suppose she may not have realized that psych-thrillers are my catnip! One of my favorite authors in the world (I have read – and LOVED – almost EVERYTHING she’s written) and she’s hit this one out of the ballpark again. The book is brilliantly structured as a series of letters, initially between Celie and her ‘God’, and later between Celie and Nettie, when the two women are separated. Firstly there is the sisterly love between Celie and Nettie, which endures even though they are separated for decades Celie remains in Georgia, while Nettie goes to Africa as a missionary. Set in Georgia in the early twentieth century (and going up to the early years of the second World War), segregation, racism and black poverty of course provide the backdrop, but the book is so much more than this. The book was made into a film in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg, and won a clutch of Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Whoopi Goldberg in the lead role of Celie, and Best Supporting Actress awards for both Oprah Winfrey as Sofia and Margaret Avery as Shug.īecause both the novel and the film are so well-known, I believe I actually thought I knew the story and what it was all about, but I am ashamed to say I really did not. How had I not?! You don’t need me to tell you that it’s brilliant – the Pulitzer Prize judges did that back in 1983. I feel slightly embarrassed to be calling this post a ‘book review’ embarrassed because it is surely a book that I (everyone!) should have read long before now. Vuong’s intimate lyrical voice, his precise, stark imagery and engagement with gay sexuality construct a familiar story of loss, as well as the immigrant’s precarious transnational identity. Complex figures, displaced by war, haunt the book: an absent, tormented father and a beloved mother. Several poems resurrect violence from before the poet’s birth, in particular the end of the Vietnam war with the fall of Saigon in 1975. Glimpses of it appear throughout his Forward prize-nominated debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Vuong was born near Saigon in 1988 and at the age of two, after a year in a refugee camp, he emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut with six members of his family. I t is tempting to read Ocean Vuong’s poetry with his life story in mind. My Mom was a wonderful Mother and animal lover, who just like me, considered our cats her kids. “ Dewey: There’s A Cat In The Library!” 2009, has special provenance for me. Especially in a library setting children will identify with a story set in a library. This would be a wonderful library storytime book for preschool and school-aged children. I enjoyed this adaptation of Dewey's story. I had checked out the original "adult" story, also written by Vicki Myron, but didn't have the time to read it before it had to be returned. I was so excited to see this story in picture book form. The story's illustrator, Steve James, paints beautiful and soft, realistic illustrations of Dewey and the children at the library. The story follows Dewey as he explores the library, gets to know the library's patrons, and learns to be the best library cat that he can be. When Vicki, the librarian, returns to the library in the morning to find a cold and dirty Dewey in the book drop, she cleans him up and decides to keep him at the library, as the library's cat. Dewey is a orange colored kitten who was left in a public library's book drop one night. Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library is a gorgeous picture book based on the true story of Dewey Readmore Books. Evans shows that the struggles faced yesterday and today are the very same tools God is using to make us better men for tomorrow. Tony Evans gives us the kind of advice and inspiration we need to battle on through the most difficult circumstances.ĭrawing from the lives of Moses, David, Joseph, Jonah, and other biblical men who faced the worst, Evans pulls men out of their brokenness and declares, "No more!" No more falling short of being the man God desires you to be for any reason. He’s not really hurt, he’s just trying keep the heat off his back. When he gets up, he hobbles to the sidelines limping. The ball soars through the air and lands right in the hands of the receiver, yet he drops it and tumbles to the ground. Many of us men are not comfortable or well-equipped to grapple with them. No More Excuses - Teen Guys' Bible Study Book 11.95 In Stock Select Quantity: Add to Cart No more excuses. The difficulty of emotional pain and spiritual setbacks is of a much different sort than any physical challenge. Physical toughness like this is admirable, but it takes more than guts to become the men God made us to be, especially when the struggles we face are personal and close to the heart. The quarterback who gets blindsided but doesn't fumble the ball earns our approval. We respect the fighter who picks himself up off the canvas after a knock-out punch and hangs in until the final bell. Men look up to the guys who can take a hit and keep going. That wisdom is now in one small book for his brothers to keep handy (and in secret) for those sticky situations men usually find themselves in with the women in their lives. Keela adores Alec, and what Keela adores, Keela cherishes. As I read and fell in love with the characters of The Slater Brother series, Dominic Slater was always schooling his brothers with his wisdom of the female persuasion. Keela has a choice to make, and not one she will make lightly. Sex, and everything else that is crazy and represents the name Slater. What started out as a simple day of packing and moving house turns into the day from Hell. Alec wants to make it up to Keela for his mistakes, but as the day goes on, and things go from bad to worse, he doesn’t know if living with him is something she wants anymore. Picking moving day to do both, turns out to be a failure of epic proportions. I watched my little sister, Bronagh, interact with her fianc, Dominic Slater, who, like Kane, was my fiancs brother, and I fought back tears as his hand. He also loves playing games and surprising her. Moving house is a dreaded task, and Keela would love nothing more than for things to go quietly and smoothly, but when you’re engaged to a Slater brother, nothing goes quietly or smoothly. She has no time to dwell on them as she is moving out of her dog box sized apartment and into her first house with her fiancé. Keela Daley is stressed out with nightmares and memories from her past, they are haunting her. *Book #2.5 in the Slater Brothers series.* |