This book took some structural risks that paid off. However, as the parallel story of her Holocaust years unfolds, one starts to believe Bubbie is capable of super-human feats of survival, or at the very least deserves to go out on her own terms. Her family is concerned that she's too frail for independent living, but she's gotten herself kicked out of six nursing homes in five months. In the modern-day sections of the memoir, Lazega's "Bubbie" (Yiddish for grandma) is a stubborn, opinionated Miami retiree who could be the model for Sophia on "The Golden Girls" sitcom. The Jewish comedic tradition-prickly, pessimistic, absurd-was forged in the furnace of centuries of persecution and diaspora. Russel Lazega's exciting and humorous account of his grandmother Lea's escape from Nazi-occupied Poland reminded me of my favorite Mel Brooks movie, To Be or Not To Be. North Street Book Prize 2015 (view all the winners) Critiques for Poems, Stories, and Essays.Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee).Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest.
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So my main issues were with how Damon treated Polly. I have to say I liked his business ethics a lot (except for the hot desk idea. He just wasn't touchy feely about it like Polly. Damon came on hard and tough, like he didn't care, but he also cared about his employees. People who love strong and deep, and believe in doing the right thing. Who deal with circumstances and fix what's wrong in the best way possible. They are both goal-oriented, decisive people who get the job done. Honestly though, Polly and Damon aren't that different. It's interesting how an insecure childhood can shape two different people in two entirely different ways. Fortunately, as it should be with any good romance book, I came to like and respect him, to see that he was a Control Freak more than anything. Wish more bosses were that way in real life. Loving, hardworking, intelligent, strong, and willing to stand up for what's right. I can totally see why one of my GRs friends has so much love for Polly. At one point she is drawn to a church, where, surrounded by an unworldly light, she has a mystical experience and discovers her gift for psychic healing. She's also one tough lady, managing to survive a brief marriage to a sadistic pederast whose favorite entertainment is a good execution, as well as a bout with the plague that leaves her near death she is even accused of witchcraft. Young Margaret of Ashbury, although illiterate, is an inventor, philosopher and feminist. ''A Vision of Light'' is the story of a woman's search for fulfillment and autonomy in pestilence-scourged England. (Delacorte, $19.95.) The 14th century was a wild and crazy time, at least according to Judith Merkle Riley's fast-paced first novel. Young Margaret of Ashbury, although illiterate, is an inventor, philosopher and feminist.Ī VISION OF LIGHT. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, and this makes their partnership a classic cliche of the odd couple. But when he’s paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it’s hate at first sight. He’s cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case. Subsequent novels are written solely by Roux.Ĭut & Run Synopsis: In Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux (book 1 of the series), a series of murders in New York City is proving difficult for the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an message that they cannot figure out. Note: The first four books in this series (up until Divide & Conquer) were written by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban. A wealthy, anonymous benefactor hires Liz and her partner Nate Andrews to prove Poppy Oliver’s innocence. But the dent on the front of her Subaru and the victim’s injuries provoke a certain Charleston police detective’s suspicious nature. When the police arrive at the scene of the accident, Poppy Oliver claims she’s only trying to help. Who’s the client? Well, now, therein lies the first puzzle. A late night tragic accident along the Lower Battery leads Liz Talbot straight to her next case. Boyer’s USA TODAY bestselling mystery series.īetween an epic downpour and a King Tide, those historic streets are flooded-and dangerous. Lowcountry PI Liz Talbot returns to the streets of Charleston in the seventh installment of Susan M. Signed copies available from Fiction Addiction. Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She hates him-his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye-but over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him. One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. Recent scholarship has productively disputed the older narrative of the Armory Show as the signal event introducing modernism to an unprepared America. Changes in institutions, exhibitions, and transatlantic networks created a complex map of insiders and outsiders, with new divisions drawn between traditional and modern, urban and rural, American and European, high and low, the wider public and the enlightened few. The American artist was not the only figure seemingly made provincial by the dramatic processes of modernisation and modernism in the decades around 1900. Reflecting on the 1913 Armory Show, painter and exhibition organiser Jerome Myers noted its disorienting effect on American artists: ‘in the swirling medley of art on parade…more than ever before we had become provincials’. 'Matt Parker never got the memo about maths being boring. 'Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd - clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty' Adam Rutherford, author of Creation 'The book oozes with sheer joy' New Scientist And always with something for you to make or do along the way. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this book goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed. Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. Matt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Matt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. 'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan Ellenberg Virgil has Somnus cause Palinurus, the helmsman of Aeneas's ship, to fall asleep while steering the ship at night. Somnus makes a brief appearance in Virgil's Aeneid. In the first courts and entrances of Hell Sorrows and vengeful Cares on couches lie : There sad Old Age abides, Diseases pale, And Fear, and Hunger, temptress to all crime Want, base and vile, and, two dread shapes to see, Bondage and Death : then Sleep, Death's next of kin Virgil įollowing the Greek tradition, Virgil makes Sleep and Death brothers, and locates their dwellings next to each other, near the entrance of the underworld: According to Hesiod, Sleep, along with Death, live in the underworld, while in the Homeric tradition, although "the land of dreams" was located on the road to the underworld, near the great world-encircling river Oceanus, nearby the city of Cimmerians, Sleep himself lived on the island of Lemnos. In the Greek tradition, Hypnos (Sleep) was the brother of Thanatos (Death), and the son of Nyx (Night). Ovid named three of the sons of Somnus: Morpheus, who appears in human guise, Icelos / Phobetor, who appears as beasts, and Phantasos, who appears as inanimate objects. According to Virgil, Somnus was the brother of Death ( Mors), and according to Ovid, Somnus had a 'thousand' sons, the Somnia ('dream shapes'), who appear in dreams 'mimicking many forms'. In Roman mythology, Somnus ("sleep") is the personification of sleep. The Somnia, which included Morpheus, Icelos, and Phantasos Somnus and Mors, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death by John William Waterhouse The gardens in “Tokyo Digs a Garden,” written by Jon-Erik Lappano, are about abandoning control, not exercising it. The townspeople were never the same, says the text, and neither was William. Then, in a riveting sequence of spreads, a green vista of sculpted animals - giraffe, emu, rhinoceros - turns autumn-colored and finally reverts to plain, bare-branched trees. In a marathon night of climbing and clipping, a park becomes a menagerie of giant, leafy creatures.Īs the depressed town turns celebratory, illustrations that started out monochrome go full-color. Young William, who lives in an orphanage but is apparently free to come and go, happens one evening upon the Night Gardener, a mysterious old man with a walrus mustache who (because this is William’s book, or his fantasy) engages the boy as apprentice. The vivid animal figures spark delight in this grim place. Every morning the townspeople discover that another large tree has been reshaped into magnificent topiary. So it is in “The Night Gardener,” a debut written and illustrated by the brothers Terry and Eric Fan, set in a gray town where green things are happening. As three new picture books with dramatically varied styles of illustration show, a garden is an idea that can be approached from starkly different directions.Ī garden can be art: sculpture made from greenery. Even if you don’t, thinking about gardens - renewal, growth, wildness, creativity - has its own reward. It’s time to be thinking about your garden, if you have one. |