6/30/2023 0 Comments Fugitive pieces novel![]() ![]() He was rescued and raised by a kind man who took him first to Greece, then to Canada, and taught him to love language and life. It follows the life of Jakob Beer, who buried himself in the mud to survive a Nazi attack on his village in Poland. ![]() This book was the 1997 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, making it the second title in this year’s #ReadingWomen challenge. ![]() Her writing floats you through the book - evenly, decisively, not unpleasantly - even as she asks us to consider the lifetime and generational trauma of the Holocaust. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what’s between the lines, the mysterious implications.”Ĭan we all please take a moment to revel in these passages? Anne Michaels’ poetic prose is absolutely the highlight of Fugitive Pieces. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning. “Translation is a kind of transubstantiation one poem becomes another. If we look up at that moment, it’s not due to any ability of ours to piece the darkness, it’s the world’s brief bestowal. “But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. I know even less than lamplight in a window, which knows how to pour itself into the street and arouse the longing of one who waits.” ![]() “Standing together on the winter sidewalk, in the white darkness. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Losing hope series order![]() ![]() It is not a book, however, that could or should be read without reading Hopeless first as several scenes are better understood with prior knowledge of Sky’s story, allowing this book to simply fill the gaps in the timeline and for Holder to finally tell his side of this timeless tale of love, courage and human endurance. Losing Hope is its sequel, written entirely from Holder’s point of view, but following the same storyline. The story of Sky and Holder is not something that you ever forget – its uniqueness lies in the deep emotions that it makes us feel and in its inimitable writing style. It touched me so profoundly and so irrevocably that I walked away a different reader. ![]() Hopeless was hands down one of the best books I have ever read. Well, fast forward “a few” years and I have found the equivalent of those childhood toy store expeditions. ![]() I never knew what toy I would pick, the anticipation was half the fun, but I always knew I would be returning home with a huge grin on my face. Those day trips were some of the happiest moments in my life because I could always take that joy for granted. When I was a little girl, every single year on my birthday, my parents would take me to my favourite toy store which happened to be in a city a few hours away from ours. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Breaking dawn meyer![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, Now the Series must come to an end. The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed.forever? Now Bella has made her decision a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. ![]() ![]() She worked in a library after completing her education and began writing for children once her own began school. Sue Bentley was born in Northampton, England. ![]() She lives in Cambridge, England with her husband and cats. Dhami has published many retellings of popular Disney stories and wrote the Animal Stars and Babes series, the latter about young British girls of Asian origin. After having taught in primary and secondary schools for several years she began to write full-time. She received a degree in English from Birmingham University in 1980. Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton, England on November 15, 1958. ![]() Rainbow Magic features differing groups of fairies as main characters, including the Jewel fairies, Weather fairies, Pet fairies, Petal fairies, and Sporty fairies. ![]() Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used for the four writers of the Rainbow Magic children's series: Narinder Dhami, Sue Bentley, Linda Chapman, and Sue Mongredien. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments An elegant defense matt richtel![]() The prose in An Elegant Defense is vibrant, conversational, direct and often funny. ![]() Richtel, who covers science and technology for the New York Times, once joked that the paper’s writing will always remain “dry and lifeless.” But that’s not Richtel’s style. And the lives of Linda Segre and Merredith Branscombe have been radically altered by their overactive immune systems. Bob Hoff contracted HIV in 1977, but his immune system managed to keep the virus in check. Richtel’s childhood friend Jason Greenstein is battling a stubborn form of Hodgkin’s disease that seems to be invisible to his immune response. Richtel explains all of this science through the stories of four individuals deeply affected by their immune systems. And that balance is central to our health.Īn Elegant Defense offers a sweeping overview of immunology’s history, from Élie Metchnikoff’s observations in the 1800s of immune cells swarming splinters in starfish larvae to recent discoveries underpinning cancer immunotherapy. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It is a system precisely and delicately tailored to stay in balance, keep the peace and do as little damage as possible to us and our surroundings,” he writes. ![]() |