![]() ![]() While on the plane she meets Oliver, who is also on his way to London – what a coincidence! – and they get talking and…well, what do you think happens? TSPOLAFS follows Hadley whose parents divorced a year ago and now her dad, who moved to England for a teaching job, is getting remarried and wants her to come to the ceremony despite the journey and the fact she’s never even met his new wife yet. ![]() It had vague hopes of being a bit deeper, but those hopes weren’t quite realised. I think this book set out to achieve a lot more than it actually did. Unfortunately I don’t think The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight has stood the test of time. I remember really enjoying the story at the time, but at that point, I knew very little about YA and the genre tropes, neither did I know what good YA looked like. I read this book years ago – in fact, it was the first book I ever bought on my Kindle – and since I’ve been doing a lot of re-reading recently, I decided that this SUPER SHORT book would be the perfect thing to read next. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sightby Jennifer E. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Those kindred soul who think 'beyond good and evil'. Written in his most masterful style, full of irreverence and brio, Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour, bankrupt intellectual traditions, and the symptoms of social decadence, while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism the questionable virtues of science and scholarship liberalĭemocracy, nationalism, and women's emancipation. `What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.'Īlways provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a story that speaks to the power of imagination in creating a special time. ![]() The story moves quickly from one moment to the next, which creates a vibrant feel to the story. Moore uses the engaging second-person point of view, referring to the reader as “you.” It draws you directly into the story and gives it a strong and inviting structure as well. But trouble comes along with dragons too, and perhaps this one is more trouble than he’s worth. He can’t get his mother’s attention, his father just tickles him, and his sister insists she knows better. The little boy tries to disguise that he is hosting a dragon in his castle, but then wants to tell his family about it. Together the boy and dragon roast marshmallows, fly kites, float in the water, and defend the sandcastle against bullies who would knock it down. One day at the beach, a little boy builds the perfect sandcastle and immediately a dragon moves right in. When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore, illustrated by Howard McWilliam ![]() ![]() ![]() She’d added to their lives, added to their social sphere, organizing and planning as “Bill’s wife,” fulfilling her job to make him comfortable and enviable and the image of benevolent success. ![]() Bill always won.Īll she’d done for the past eight years was addition. The lawyers, human calculators who cared nothing about her, would discuss and divide, and then Bill would win. She jiggled the fragments of disappearing ice. But Bill Macallen always got what he wanted, no explanation offered or obligatory. She’d asked him why he was leaving her, begged to know, yearned to understand. With a lift of his chin and a slam of the front door and a squeal of Mercedes tires. Which would be followed by the devastating subtraction.īill had subtracted her from his life, that was easy math. ![]() They’d already created a ledger of their lives together, then started the Macallens’ financial division. Not only the physical division, hers from Bill, but what would happen after the lawyers finished. She stared through her chilled glass to the mirrored shelves of multicolored bottles in front of her at the hotel bar. Alyssa swirled the icy olives in her martini, thinking about division. ![]() ![]() ![]() These short profiles of 13 brave, accomplished women capitalize on the current feminist rallying cry "She persisted" and are bite-sized fare for the young. The profiles, which are warmed up considerably by the lovely, affecting art, encourage girls to "remember these women. Clinton includes women of various races from different eras and a wide span of professional fields, as well as one woman with a disability ( Helen Keller). It includes iconic figures like Harriet Tubman, as well as relatively unsung women like garment industry labor organizer Clara Lemlich. Parents need to know that She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, a picture book by Chelsea Clinton ( It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!) and illustrated by Alexandra Boiger ( Tallulah's Tutu), is a compilation of 13 short inspirational profiles of American women who persisted despite obstacles or negative societal expectations. ![]() ![]() Their accomplishments span civil rights and labor, sports, science and medicine, the arts, media, journalism, politics, and law. Thirteen excellent female role models from across different fields and of different races and backgrounds, as well as one woman with disabilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() It rotates to provide artificial gravity 99.2% as strong as Earth's from centrifugal force. The Ringworld, a gigantic artificial ring, is about one million miles (1.6 million km) wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 584.3 million miles or 940.4 million km in circumference), encircling a sunlike star.
![]() With the help of Lopen, the formerly one-armed Windrunner, Rysn must accept Navani's quest and sail into the perilous storm from which no one has returned alive. ![]() Now Rysn's pet is ill, and any hope for Chiri-Chiri’s recovery can be found only at the ancestral home of the larkin: Akinah. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once thought extinct. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. ![]() Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed characters their own chance to shine. ![]() ![]() From Brandon Sanderson author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War-comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. ![]() ![]() Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen (illustrated by Josee Masse) ![]() ![]() Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.”Įach of the following picture books all are a “making toward something” that’s remarkable thanks to their use of poetic forms and a keen sensibility for language. “A poem … can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the–not always greatly hopeful–belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. This is as true in well-written picture books as it is in the classic “adult” poems of Rumi, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, or Yusef Komunyakaa.Īs I think about which relatively-recent picture books most embrace the wonders that poetry offers, I recall what Romanian-born German poet Paul Celan once wrote: One of the pleasures of reading poetry is to witness the urgency, the intensity, and the sheer beauty of language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Makeup, on the other hand, is unlikely to be acceptable in strict churches due to the distraction it causes during worship services. As long as they don’t look vanity, Mennonite women are allowed to wear light makeup. This is written as a sign of submission to her husband and church leaders. For Mennonite women, the bonnet, also known as a prayer cap, is commonly worn as a head covering. Women in less restrictive churches may wear almost anything as long as it is not distracting or vain. In Mennonite tradition, modesty entails covering one’s body and treating it as sacred. Wearing modest clothing is one way they express their faith and commitment to following Jesus.Īlthough both the Amish and the Mennonite women follow the same set of rules, both consider themselves Anabaptists. ![]() Mennonites believe that God calls them to a life of simplicity and service, and they seek to follow Jesus’ example of humility and self-sacrifice. The Mennonite tradition of dressing simply and conservatively, including wearing dresses for women and girls, stems from a desire to live out their faith commitments. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is ultimately a sundial-a totem of light and shadow that changes gradually the longer you look at it. On its face, In Sensorium: Notes for My People (Harper) is a lyrical memoir about fragrances, their histories, and the resilience of the American Bangladeshi Muslim novelist and perfumer’s motherland. ![]() “And in the act of reading, you are living in past, present, and future with every sentence…and one of the most powerful ways to do that is through a physical book.” “I think to write a book is to really retreat into work that is on its own timescale,” Tanaïs said. We wondered aloud about whether submitting to inherited clocks and calendars (both as readers and writers) is a necessary circumstance of our digital, daily news cycle or if the power of a timeless text is that it is truly evergreen? If it is as relevant yesterday as it is tomorrow, unbound by manmade systems designed to corset the natural rotation of a world organized by seasons and planets in orbit. Tanaïs and I began this conversation meditating on the shelf life of books and how long it can take the public to start engaging with them. ![]() |