5/29/2023 0 Comments The light ages book![]() ![]() An enlightening history that argues that these times weren't so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today. ![]() The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. Born in a rural manor, educated in England's grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Abarat barker![]() I loved the way that Clive Barker describes Abarat as being a place full of wonder, especially the part about how Abarat is a world that has islands that represent a different hour of the day such as the Great Head that represents eight in the evening and Gorgossium is an island that represents midnight. Clive Barker’s writing is extremely interesting and beautiful as Clive Barker details everything that has happened in Candy’s journeys in vivid detail. I will admit that this was quite an unusual book to read! Clive Barker has done an excellent job at both writing and illustrating this book about a young girl traveling to a strange and unknown world while finding out more about herself in the process. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Hair love by matthew cherry![]() ![]() My idea is that when mom comes home, approving of all this beauty before her, she has her head covered, as she has lost her hair through chemo, so adds that layer, but it doesn't have to be seen that way, either. Dad's already a "body art" guy as he has dreads and tattoos and seems muscled, so he is supportive for sure of body and hair style as self-expression. I figured it early on to be a "be proud of what you were born with" sort of thing, which it kind of is, but it's also about a helpful dad, a mom (probably) coming home from the hospital, and the hair stuff was really cool.ĭave: 4. I like how the dad is always trying to make his daughter happy and give her the best hairstyle for her. Not my favorite book, but heart-warming and adorable and legit. Cute and simple, about a hard-working family letting their daughter express herself as she pleases □. Mom walks in at the end, her own hair covered (without explanation, so we discussed whether she might be coming home from the hospital, or something). ![]() The tale is a father-daughter story, where he tries (for the first time) to help his daughter get her hair the way she wants it. ![]() This is book #15 (of more than 20) of 2019, and we thought it was sweet. My family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books every year. Good for Matthew Cherry, former NFL football player, whose animated version of this picture book was just awarded Best Animated Short, at the 2020 Academy Awards! ![]() ![]() ![]() Heard it grow closer and closer, then pause. I heard its roar from miles away in the still of the country night. It was his bad black ’68 Norton Commando I heard first. ![]() But, hey, you want the whole story, you’re going to get the whole story-poopy and all. And definitely not some thing I thought I’d ever be caught doing for any midget human life form, particularly my own. Not the height of glamorous living, I’ll give you that one. I WAS CHANGING TRACY’S diapers at four o’clock in the morning when Thor Gibbs showed up. ![]() She sleeps next to me, secure in the belief that I know what I’m doing. But then I awaken, and realize that it is my own house that is creaking, from the wind, and that I am in the master bedroom. For a moment I think it is my father on his way down to the kitchen for a glass of milk in the night, and that I am in my old room, snug in my narrow bed. SOMETIMES AS I SLEEP I hear a creak on the stairs. Preview: The Man Who Loved Women to Death ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Penny reid beard in mind![]() ![]() The only problem is, learning why this porcupine wears her coat of spikes opens a Pandora’s box of complexity-exquisite, tempting, heartbreaking complexity-and Beau Winston soon discovers being nice and accommodating might mean losing what matters most. He wants her out of his auto shop, out of Tennessee, and out of his life. And her damn parrot speaks only in curse words. She won’t shake hands with or touch another person, but has no problems cuddling with a dog. She glares at everyone, especially babies. She mumbles to herself, but won’t respond when asked a question. ![]() Shelly Sullivan is not nice and is never accommodating. But since his twin decided to leave town, and his other brother hired a stunning human-porcupine hybrid as a replacement mechanic for their auto shop, Beau Winston’s charmed life has gone to hell in a handbasket. Handsome as the devil and twice as charismatic, Beau lives a charmed life as everyone’s favorite Winston Brother. Semi Finalist: Goodreads Choice Awards, Best Romance 2017Īll is fair in love and auto maintenance.īeau Winston is the nicest, most accommodating guy in the world. NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, & USA TODAY bestselling series ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Saul leiter women![]() ![]() Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. With In My Room, Leiter ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery. He preferred to be left alone, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. ![]() ![]() Leiter, who painted and took pictures prolifically up to his death, worked in relative obscurity until he entered his eighties. Leiter, who was also a painter, allows abstract elements into the photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now, we get a first-time look at this body of work, which was begun on Leiter's arrival in New York in 1946 and honed over the next two decades. In the 1970s Leiter planned to make a book of nudes, but the project was never realized in his lifetime. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist's studio in New York City's East Village, these black-and-white images reveal a unique type of collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. ![]() Leiter's painterly, ravishing, yet informal nudes from the 1940s to the 1970sThe fruit of fantastic recent discoveries from Saul Leiter's vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way her father can be freed is if she travels with Rasmus into the mythical underworld to rescue him. A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth: her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life, and has been held captive by Tuoni, the God of Death. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna's busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances.īut when Hanna discovers that her father's body is missing, that's when things really get weird. When 24-year old Hanna Heikkinen's estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Prozac nation book review![]() The memoir garnered wide acclaim for Wurtzel’s explosive, deeply confessional style, and wry, self-deprecating voice. Wurtzel first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the memoir Prozac Nation, which documented her struggles with depression and substance abuse. Wurtzel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Wurtzel’s husband Jim Freed cited the cause of death as complications from leptomeningeal disease, a condition that results from cancer spreading to the cerebrospinal fluid. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Wurtzel - author of the best-selling memoir Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - died in a New York City hospital on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Turtle Reef by Jennifer Scoullar![]() ![]() Zoe focuses on her research and tries to ignore the growing attraction between them. The last thing she expects is to fall for her boss's boyfriend, cane king Quinn Cooper. ![]() ![]() Her work at the Reef Centre provides all the passion she needs, and Zoe finds a friend in Bridget, the centre's director. And by its people – its farmers and fishermen, unhurried and down to earth, proud of their traditions. By its vast cane fields, sweeping from the foothills down to the rocky coral coast. She is charmed by the region's beauty – by its rivers and rainforests. Seeking a fresh start, she moves to the small sugar town of Kiawa to take up an exciting new role in marine science. Unlucky-in-love zoologist Zoe King has had enough of Sydney. Can Zoe protect the reef she loves? Or will fighting to save it mean she loses everything?įrom the bestselling author of Billabong Bend, Brumby's Run and Currawong Creek comes a wonderful novel set against the spectacular beauty of Queensland's far north coast. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Defy the night book 2 release date![]() ![]() Ramsey Some Shall Break – Ellie Marney The Sun and the Void – Gabriella Romero Lacruz Threads That Bind – Kika HatzopoulouĪpr 25: Ben Lee & The Magic Lunch Box – Hanna Kim City of Vicious Night – Claire Winn Darkhearts – James L. May 7: A Curse of Salt – Sarah Street Chef’s Choice – TJ Alexander Hollowthorn – Kalyn Josephson Ravenfall – Kalyn JosephsonĪpr 29: A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality – Kate Khavari Camp Damascus – Chuck Tingle The Dos and Donuts of Love – Adiba Jaigirdar Girls Like Girls – Hayley Kiyoko King’s Bride – Beck Michaels One of Us is Back – Karen M. Walther You Will Own Nothing – Carol Roth Andreu The Last Fallen Realm – Graci Kim Let the Dead Bury the Dead – Allison Epstein Sparkella and the Big Lie – Channing Tatum Those We Drown – Amy Goldsmith What Happens After Midnight – K.L. Armentrout Garden of the Cursed – Katy Rose Pool Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel – Nikki Grimes Hattie Harmony: Opening Night – Elizabeth Olsen & Robbie Arnett Julieta and the Romeos – Maria E. May 8: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea – Rita Chang Eppig Destroy the Day – Bridget Kemmerer Fall of Ruin and Wrath – Jennifer L. ![]() |