7/4/2023 0 Comments The namesake jhumpa![]() Soon their son is born, in the foreign environment of the American hospital. She feels lonely and homesick in America, clinging to letters from her family and devising makeshift Indian recipes with the ingredients she can scrounge together. For Ashima, however, the journey abroad has proven difficult. He was discovered by the rescue party because of the blowing pages of the book he had been reading when the train derailed-a copy of The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol. Ashoke has been set on traveling abroad ever since a terrible train accident a few years previous, which he barely survived. The young couple met through an arranged marriage in Calcutta, India, where Ashima had lived her whole life before leaving to accompany Ashoke as he studies engineering at M.I.T. When we first meet Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli they are living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to welcome their first child into the world. The Namesake is the story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments A discovery of witches book 5![]() ![]() Last week alone…sheesh.ĭon’t be too hard on yourself Agatha. “Let’s see what tomorrow brings” feels like an anthem written specifically for this show. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in the local floral shop when they take the call and then rock, paper, scissors on who “gets” to deliver flower arrangements to the vampires in the giant house on the hill. Without further ado, here’s our A Discovery of Witches Season 3 episode 5 recap… We hope that these recaps will be worth a few giggles for A Discovery of Witches fans and that they might even make you think twice about what you’ve just watched. There’s no right or wrong way to do this, just do it. ![]() ![]() You can read it while you re-watch the episode (because you know you’re going to re-watch it) or just read it. Each week, Ashley and Nikki will publish an episode recap for the highly anticipated third season of A Discovery of Witches. We enjoy these conversations so much that we decided to share them with you. Sometimes we keep those responses to ourselves and, sometimes, we text them to each other as we watch the same show at the same time 700 miles apart. This week? A Discovery of Witches Season 3 Episode 5 recap.ĭo you ever find yourself yelling at the screen in front of you or mumbling cheeky responses to the characters while watching a show? We do. Relive each delicious moment of A Discovery of Witches with our weekly recap. ![]() ![]() When my first book, the Wall Street Journal bestseller Beautiful Affliction, was about to be published, I was thrown onto a roller coaster of emotions that I wasn’t prepared for. I have at least not yet encountered any situation where this approach wasn’t useful or comforting. I didn’t have a handbook called “How to Raise Toddlers When Your Body is Ninety Years Old and No-one Knows Why”.īut I want to share one approach that I have found to give comfort in any circumstance we might find ourselves in. ![]() I certainly didn’t come with a manual that warned about my hidden congenital heart disease, or the depression that I would experience because of it, or the nearly crippling fear before my open-heart surgery. I have often wondered at how we are born and instantly just thrown into the chaos, left to make our decisions as best we can. We are filled with questions regarding the future: How will we manage? What if…? What if not…? The worry, or angst, can be paralyzing, not to mention times when we are overcome by grief, sadness, or depression. Sometimes it feels like stuff are thrown at us with lightning speed. ![]() Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Ok, that was a rhetorical question, I am sure you have, as have I, many times. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Darcy coates parasite![]() ![]() ![]() It mimics the way they talk, the way they look, the way they act. The parasite wears its victims' skins and adopts their personalities. It soon becomes clear she's stuck in isolation with an alien capable of incredible depravity. When a guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost, she disregards protocol to investigate-with catastrophic consequences. Perfect for fans of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Passengers.For readers who love science fiction and horror novels.For fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King.There are bodysnatchers about, and they're closer than you think. Sci-fi thriller from USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror comes a haunting story of isolation, desperation, and terror. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Parallel by lauren miller![]() ![]() And not only that: Abby's life changes every time her parallel self makes a new choice. With the help of Caitlin, her science-savvy BFF, Abby discovers that this new reality is the result of a cosmic collision of parallel universes that has Abby living an alternate version of her life. Overnight, it's as if her past has been rewritten. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with no memory of how she got there. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. But one tiny choice-taking a drama class her senior year of high school-changed all that. ![]() She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. ![]() Purchase On: Amazon | B&N | Book DepositoryĪbby Barnes had a plan. Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Science FictionĬontent Rating: Older Teen (up to : innuendo, underage drinking) ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The power of geography book![]() ![]() ![]() Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's next battleground why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning and why Europe's next refugee crisis is closer than it thinks. In this revelatory new book, Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. ![]() Ten maps that reveal the future of global power and politics: the much-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestseller Prisoners of Geography. ![]() ![]() Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed-and grew in popularity. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event-if it was celebrated at all. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society.In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. ![]() But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. ![]() The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kobo eBook (December 14th, 2009): $6.99 Vincent Millay found her voice in a national poetry contest at the age of 20.Contained in this volume, printed on a premium acid-free paper, are some of her most important works: "Renascence and Other Poems," "A Few Figs From Thistles," "Second April," and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver." Product Details Vincent Millay marks some of the best of the early 20th century. Noted for its lyrical beauty and at times controversial depiction of female sexuality, the poetry of Edna St. ![]() Edna would go on to win the highest prize for poetry, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, for her work "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver". The Suicide 'Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more God's World O world, I cannot hold thee close enough Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing. Interim The room is full of youAs I came in. Edna would first gain recognition when her 1912 poem "Renascence" garnered a fourth place prize in a poetry contest for "The Lyric Year". Vincent Millay Contents: Renascence All I could see from where I stood. ![]() ![]() It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry. The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty. Read 123 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we’re sure you’ll find the following list of the 100 greatest romantic movies ever speaks to your own heart as well. Shoot, we even asked the ultimate romantic, Miss Piggy. And Notting Hill director Richard Curtis. Like Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook. When it comes to cinematic romance, these are folks you can trust. Not just any filmmakers, actors and writers, either. To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, including those from Time Out. That makes choosing the greatest films about love a difficult task – frankly, there’s just so many of them. ![]() So it makes sense that filmmakers turn to it for inspiration more than any other. But even if a scant few of us would ever, say, rob a bank in the name of love, the fact is that love is perhaps the most elemental emotion a human being can feel. At least, that’s how it’s portrayed in the movies. It makes us do things we’d never think of doing normally, like sing or dance or commit crimes. It can drive you wild with passion or make you feel like you’re losing your mind. It’s also plenty painful, and sometimes absurdly hilarious. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Nevala lee![]() ![]() After a stint in the Navy and a job in sales with a meatpacking company, Fuller joined his father-in-law, a designer with an interest in architecture, to invent lightweight building blocks for the construction of efficient, affordable housing. He entered Harvard in 1913 but did so poorly that he withdrew after a semester. Fuller, the great-nephew of transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. ![]() Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), who famously created the geodesic dome. Novelist, biographer, and science-fiction writer Nevala-Lee draws on abundant archival material to fashion a thoroughly researched, comprehensive biography of architect, inventor, and “serial entrepreneur” R. A full portrait of the fascinating life of a famed disruptor. ![]() |