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Odilla and her four sisters plan on spending most of their summer swimming at the watering hole and having a grand old time seeing as how it’s a summer without adult supervision. Also, because The Odyssey is mad awesome. I decided to make McCall’s contemporary-fantasy retelling a summer priority in order to kill two birds with one stone - read an old book from my TBR pile and thus be able to pass it on and also to remove a Netgalley book from my queue. Friends, this book sat on my Kindle and then in my house for YEARS because I can sometimes be a terrible blogger. After The Summer Of The Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall passed my threshold, I looked at it with optimism, but not much motivation. As I love that movie so much, I look at other retellings of the Odyssey with a view of optimism. It’s such a creative, fun, musically interesting retelling. I think my favorite Odyssey retelling of all time is the movie O Brother Where Art Thou. He followed it up with two sequels and one prequel many years later: World Without End, which picks up with the characters' descendants in the same village in 1327, A Column Of Fire, beginning in 1558, and The Evening And The Morning, set in the tenth century. Woven throughout this deeply personal drama are the civil wars between King Stephen and Queen Maud, and later the machinations of King Henry II and the priest Thomas Becket. The Gothic Cathedral at Kingsbridge, it turns out, becomes more important than anyone imagines. Philip, the Prior of Kingsbridge, fights to build a cathedral there, against the wishes of his Bishop, his Lord and all manner of political enemies. Tom Builder is a poor stonemason who dreams of building something that will be his legacy and which will sustain his family for the rest of their lives. It is by far the most popular story that Ken Follett, mainly an author of thrillers and various spy novels, has ever written. An epic novel, published in 1989 and set in 12th century England, The Pillars of the Earth is the chronicle of a man, his family, their enemies and the extraordinary dream that consumes them all. Warning: heavy on the erotica.Īnthology: Fascinated – A Man and A Woman. Michael is a male prostitute who is physically scarred. Unable to resist the lure of her guileless desire, he plunges her into a deadly web of deception and revenge where the price of carnal ecstasy is life itself.Īnn is a 36 year old spinster. A woman who will not suspect his own aching needs or his true motive for accepting her terms. All it will cost her is ten thousand pounds.ĭriven by vengeance, ravaged by tragedy, Michael seeks to lose himself in a woman who will demand only physical pleasure. Michel des Anges- Michael of the Angels- is renowned for his ability to bring women pleasure. But her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man’s intimate caresses. Even desire has its price…Thirty-six-year-old Anne Aimes is a spinster whose only attraction is her wealth. It a nice combo of contemporary and sci fi together. Also this is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start reading sci fi. This book is such a joy to read, the kinda book you would wanna read in lockdown! I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a laugh. The entire chapter of "Advice for a human" was my favorite!! All 97 points!! They make my heart so happy happy everytime I read it. "I felt the beautiful melancholy of being human" But the rewards can be wonderful Gulliver." According to Clark, while ' The Humans was warmhearted, sharply observed and often laugh-out-loud funny, funny enough to forgive Haig’s alien his regrettable fondness for fortune-cookie philosophy. "Here, you have pain, and loss, that’s the price. Writing for The New York Times, English writer Clare Clark compared the book unfavourably to Matt Haigs previous book The Humans. The way he described his pain like he enjoyed it. I also found the aliens take on sadness and pain very interesting. It was interesting how his logical and critical way of looking at humans changed to him being "such a human" and crying for no reason in middle of night.įrom "After all, a sunset was nothing really but the slowing down of light.". His entire journey on Earth was so much fun to read. I just love how the aliens character is built in the book. The plot is very simple but the alien's take on human is what makes this book so amazing! It has made me laugh out loud. There is something soothing about this book. The Humans is a book which I have being going back to ever since lockdown started. A helpful and/or enlightening book that combines two or more noteworthy strengths, e.g. presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.ĭrawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us an enthralling account of Endurance and Shackleton's expedition-one of history's greatest epics of survival. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail in their ship, Endurance, for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Including never-before published photographs. A riveting account of Shackleton's famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration-perhaps the greatest of them all -the shipwreck that stranded the crew for twenty months. In Australia, Newton served five years with the Australian army and met his wife June Brunell, also a photographer, who later took up the name Alice Springs. There he worked briefly for The Straits Times, before leaving for Melbourne in 1940. In 1938, with Jews facing increasing hostility in Germany, Newton’s parents moved to South America, while Helmut set sail for China, disembarking en route in Singapore. He arrived at Paris Vogue via Singapore, Australia and London Newton did what he could to keep her memory alive, describing her as ‘a great photographer and an exciting woman’.Ģ. After Newton left Berlin, Yva was deported to a Nazi concentration camp and murdered. Under the German-Jewish photographer, Newton learned to master large-format cameras - 8x10s. At the age of 16, however, it was clear that Newton would not be joining the family-run button factory, and he was apprenticed to the portrait, nude and fashion photographer Else Neuländer Simon, better known as Yva. It was then, he later recalled, that he realised he wanted to become a fashion photographer at Vogue.Īt first, Newton’s father did not encourage his son’s interest in photography. By the time he was 14, he was working as a photographer’s assistant and frequently skipping school to photograph childhood girlfriends in the streets wearing his mother’s clothes. The eighth was of the radio tower in Berlin. He took his first seven pictures in a subway, which, he later admitted, all came out too dark. Newton got his first camera at the age of 12. The film will have its world debut during Closing Night of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Peter Sohn, “Elemental” is voiced by Catherine O’Hara, Leah Lewis, and Mamoudou Athie. This year’s Centerpiece Gala is the New York premiere of Disney and Pixar’s “Elemental.” Set in Element City, where fire-, water-, earth- and air-residents live together, the film is about Ember, a fiery young woman, whose friendship with water-guy Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in and the person she wants to be. After the movie, the film’s director and star and Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal, and writer and co-star Chazz Palminteri will participate in a live conversation with David Remnick, the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker. Viva Sarajevo!”Ī special 30th-anniversary screening of “A Bronx Tale” will close the 2023 Tribeca Festival on June 17. If defiance is the essence of romance, then the people of Sarajevo are the most romantic figures. U2 frontman Bono said, “We know U2’s marquee is helpful in getting the lives of these local heroes to a wider audience, but even at my most puffed up I couldn’t have imagined our tiny role being given so much care, attention, and screen time by Nenad Cicin-Sain. Cannes Jury Revealed: Paul Dano, Brie Larson, Julia Ducournau Join Ruben Östlund He had the happiness to be educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which in those days deserved to be called the School of Saints, the nursing mother of gigantic evangelical divines. Some men are their own ancestors, and, for ought we know, Thomas Watson's genealogy reflected no fame upon him, but derived all its lustre from his achievements. We shall not attempt to discover his pedigree, and, after the manner of antiquarians, derive his family from a certain famous Wat, whose son distinguished himself in the Crusades, or in some other insane enterprise whether blue blood was in his veins or no is of small consequence, since we know that he was the seed-royal of the redeemed of the Lord. His writings are his best memorial perhaps he needed no other, and therefore providence forbade the superfluity. Although Thomas Watson issued several most valuable books, comparatively little is known of him - even the dates of his birth and death are unknown. There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works, and his Body of Divinity is, beyond all the rest, useful to the student and the minister. Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature. Thomas Watson's Body of Practical Divinity is one of the most precious of the peerless works of the Puritans and those best acquainted with it prize it most. |