She spoke with historians, guides, and scientists in search of answers. She visited a cryonics institute, an ice core lab, a wunderkammer, Wittgenstein's cabin, and other museums and libraries. Peterson's effort to make sense of these losses led to travels across Scandinavia, Italy, England and back to the United States. Finally, Peterson took a harrowing forty-foot fall while ice climbing. The glacier was melting at breakneck pace, and people she knew vanished: her professor went missing while summiting a volcano in Japan, and a friend wandered off a mountain trail in Norway. A few months after Peterson moved to a tiny village on the edge of Europe's largest glacier, things began to disappear. The future of the world's ice is at a critical juncture, marked by international debate about climate change and almost daily reports about glaciers and ice shelves breaking, oceans rising, and temperatures spiking across the globe. For Beth Peterson, the discourse around these quickly-changing landscapes became personal.
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It's the first time I've seen someone bring up HIV and safe sex in lesbian relationships, and how they were also at risk of getting the virus in the 80s. It deals with grief, death, and safe sex in an inclusive way. Many of the stories are related to the AIDS epidemic, told from different perspectives, which made me almost cry at some points. They are not perfect, but I still rooted for them. The characters are so real, and their lives are so odd but in a good way. It's the first time I laugh out loud multiple times reading something. I think this is one of those books every queer person should read, especially if you're Latinx. I had the best time reading this, and I'm surprised people don't know about this book. It is hilarious, insightful, and very relatable. This collection of short stories is brilliant. This was not an easy journey, and it's one that he is still on, but it showed him that real healing is possible. And once he dedicated himself to meditation and trusting his intuition, he started to finally feel mentally lighter, with more love emerging from within. Searching for a way forward, he found that by honestly examining and addressing the anxieties and fears that he had been running away from, he no longer felt like a stranger inside of his heart and mind. Yung pueblo’s path to deep healing began only after years of drug abuse had taken a toll on his mind and body. I knew I needed to find a clear way to help me feel lighter.” “During the years when I had abandoned myself, my mind felt undeniably heavy. A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.įull of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close-yet how unknowable-every family is to itself.įrench Braid by Anne Tyler, Kimberly Farr (Narrator)įrench Braid left me feeling sad although I do see that some people in the family are able to do better at reaching out and connecting than Robin and Mercy, parents of three children who went on to give them grandchildren. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author-a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family's foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present. The first is itself the memory of a memory. Lewis, quote from Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.” But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words “compelle intrare,” compel them to come in, have been so abused be wicked men that we shudder at them but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. “You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. In other words, Pollard’s debut starts out by rewriting the standard quest story, this time with a dog in the starring role. In the opening scene (before one of several flashback), readers land smack in the middle of a confrontation between Season and a snarling pack of wolves. Season the dog’s world upends when ash clouds the atmosphere and threatens the life of Melissa, his beloved owner’s little girl. So, being the plucky pup he is, Season leaves his cozy home and braves the wild forest in an attempt to clear the skies, though he has no knowledge of how to do so. In this holiday novel for middle graders, a dog’s quest to save his master’s daughter becomes a journey to save the world. Her fans will tell you that she succeeded. Jaymin wanted to engage her readers without bogging them down with unnecessary technicalities. The story would keep her awake at night as she refined the concepts and ideas. She pondered the concept for several years before she sat down to write it. Her objective was to deliver a more digestible story that readers of all ages would appreciate. She wanted to replicate what they had done using a YA perspective. She was forced to take notes on many occasions to keep track of characters and plot threads.īut she couldn’t deny the talent behind the authors that wrote those books. They had complicated worlds filled with long names she couldn’t pronounce or remember. The author loved fantasy, but she was overwhelmed by some of the novels she read. ‘First World’ was her debut novel, the first of the ‘Walker’ series. After a while, she had no choice but to sit down and write them. Stories were rattling around in Jaymin’s brain for years. She never thought that she would grow up to become a published author, writing stories similar to those that inspired her when she was a child. The library was her favorite place in the entire world because it fed her love for reading, encouraged her when she was down and gave the author the comfort she needed during the darkest moments of her life. Fortunately, she lived in a small town with a library. She has been reading for as long as she can remember. Her mother sparked Jaymin’s interest in the written word. Now, if you were to ask me what I remember from the adaptation(s), I would say… the dwarves throwing things around Bilbo’s house at the beginning, the guy who plays Thorin Oakenshield glowering, the return of some of my elf pals from the LOTR films, Benedict Cumberbatch voicing the dragon for some reason and… that’s it. Then the fussy little guy goes home, allowing us all to get on with the more important business of The Lord of the Rings. Some elves pop up, Gandalf wanders in and out of proceedings, there’s a dragon who really loves gold for some reason. Fussy little guy finds a ring and tricks Gollum with a riddle that isn’t really a riddle. Fussy little guy almost gets eaten by trolls. Dwarves wreck some fussy little guy’s house. It’s been 20+ years since I read The Hobbit, but I recall it being a delightful, bouncy, reasonably propulsive affair. Peter Jackson’s three, three, Hobbit films will take you 474 minutes to watch in their (I’m sorry) torturous entirety (532 minutes if you watch the extended edition, which nobody has ever done). But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that? The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.īut lighting the lamp has dire consequences. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about 12-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. In turns mythic and down-to-earth, this intense novel combines adventure and philosophy to tell a truly memorable zombie story, one that forces readers to consider them not just as flesh-eating monsters or things to be splattered, but as people. The eye-opening experiences continue when Charlie kidnaps Benny's potential girlfriend, Nix, as part of his efforts to track down the fabled Lost Girl, who holds the key to a deadly secret. As Benny accompanies Tom into the hostile wilderness, he learns how wrong he was about many things, from the supposed "coolness" of larger-than-life bounty hunter Charlie Matthias to the inhuman nature of "zoms" and the true purpose of Tom's work. With every other option exhausted, Benny Imura reluctantly apprentices with his older brother, Tom, as a zombie killer, despite blaming Tom for their parents' deaths. Benny Imura is a teenager who lives in the town of Mountainside with his brother, Tom (a bounty hunter), and his friends. It takes place 15 years after a zombie virus spreads around the world. In Mountainside, an oasis of civilization in a world ravaged by zombies, residents must find work at age 15 or have their rations halved. Rot & Ruin is a four-book series written by Jonathan Maberry. The delineation between man and monster, survivor and victim is fiercely debated in Maberry's (Patient Zero) thoughtful, postapocalyptic coming-of-age tale. |