![]() ![]() The tales all feature full-page illustrations that look like finely worked wood engravings and offer glimpses of realistically depicted figures, major incidents, and eerie details. Clever tweaks (“we have a modest proposal for you,” says a cannibal in the opener) abound, and endings are mostly happy. Later offerings include the origin of the first shape-changing Ymbryne, the story of an unloved lad who becomes a giant locust, and a tale of the long war between Londoners and pigeons over air rights. ![]() ![]() These lead off with a cautionary episode in which villagers who can regenerate body parts grow rich by selling limbs to cannibals but ultimately let greed overwhelm their better judgement. ![]() Those impetuous enough to join peculiar readers in proceeding, however, will find a number of affecting adventures. In this special edition, fictive author Millard Nullings selects 10 tales from the many that have passed down through generations to instruct and inform those of the “peculiar persuasion.”Ī prefatory warning that the contents are “strange, depressing, and altogether not to your liking,” not to mention “none of your business,” will surely cause wiser “normals” to steer clear. ![]()
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I liked the fact that not everything was fictionalized and the book went beyond the war years both past and present, so that you got a good feeling for what it was like to be a Navajo, having your traditions and language suppressed, and then serving with honor (some of the code talkers sacrificing their lives) only to return to the a hostile environment in which one was considered lesser at home. Highly recommended - Excellent writing, packed with carefully researched facts about military movements and some real-life characters who were important to the story. It also gives you a little insight on Navajo beliefs and traditions. So, you also find out that Navajos who served were cut out of the GI Bill (unless, apparently, they bought homes that were not on Native land) and were not given military honors for their bravery. The book goes beyond the war years as Ned is narrating his story to his grandchildren. Nevertheless, the students found ways to keep their language alive and it became a useful skill, speaking Navajo, when the Marines needed Navajo speakers to create and use a code as they invaded islands in the Pacific. Sent away to boarding school, Ned Begay was met with harsh authorities who would punish the children severely if they spoke Navajo instead of English. Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac is a YA novel about a Navajo code talker in #WWII but it begins with the main character's childhood. ![]() ![]() As a result, she fed herself with difficulty and could barely hold a cup of water. After treatments with countless medications failed miserably, she had surgery to reroute and repair ruptured hand tendons. I desperately wanted to help, but her aggressive RA wasn't going to wait for me or medical research. ![]() Seeing the treatments make her worse was beyond heart-wrenching. ![]() Seeing her suffer from the disease was excruciating. I was a budding doctor, working around the clock to learn all the answers about how to treat and heal medical conditions. Nothing stopped the aggressive progression of her joint pain and joint destruction. Anti-inflammatory medicines gave her an ulcer. Regular injections of gold and methotrexate gave her nausea and headaches but didn't reduce her pain. Multiple joints swell, hurt, and degenerate. ![]() The resulting inflammatory response is incredibly intense. By the time I graduated from medical school, my sixty-two-year-old mother had already suffered through several surgeries for her rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a despicable form of arthritis where the body attacks its own joints as it would invading bacteria. ![]() ![]() In light of recent information that Republicans paid off those who took the hostages in Iran in 1979 (something I had heard for years but never had someone go on record about it), it makes it even sadder the direction our country took after Ronald Reagan was elected. He had many victories during this time and did a lot to change the country for the better. The end result here is a complex look at what life was like during the four years of his tenure. Every night he would try to record his thoughts and observations about what was going on. It is taken from the daily diary he kept during his Presidency. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President was written in the two years following his election loss to Ronald Reagan. ![]() For the next four years, I was still very aware, and many of the events he recounts in his memoir of his time in office are very familiar to me, although I don’t recall a lot of the specifics from all those years ago. It was 1976, and listening to Jimmy Carter talk, I felt a connection. I was ten years old and our class followed the election news and discussed it in class. The first election I can remember following was when I was in the fifth grade. Let our recent mistakes bring a resurgent commitment to the basic principles of our nation, for we know that if we despise our own government we have no future. We must once again have faith in our country-and in one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mystery about the inheritance is interesting and does a good job keeping you hooked. Very nice, classic gothic atmosphere throughout the story. I gotta say, I loved the modern gothic vibe this book has. Naturally, it ends up getting picked for book club, so now I have to read it! LOL! Figures… Don’t want to read it! ” ? Well, that’s what it is like. I don’t know… It’s kinda hard to explain… like… have you ever seen a book and were like “Oh, that sounds pretty good. It sounded good but I was kinda meh about it. Westaway shortly after it came out, raving about how good it was. A family member gave me their copy of The Death of Mrs. They sound good, but not quite what I’m looking for. Her books have caught my eye multiple times in the past, but I’ve always been very iffy on if I wanted to read any of them. This was my local book clubs August 2019 book pick. Audiobook runs 14 hours 14 mins, published by Simon Schuster Audio. Hardback edition, 368 pages, published by Scout Press, May 2018. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person-but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills, and as our faces are."Ĭhristopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it has always been. The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series, Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.Īlexander writes, "There is one timeless way of building. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. ![]() Synopsis: The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of his friends - Kyōgokudō, private eye Reijiro Enokizu, police detective Shujiro Kiba, and fellow reporter Atsuko Chuzenji (Kyōgokudō's sister) - Sekiguchi attempts to discover the disappearing husband's fate, but he soon learns that there is much more to the Kuonji Clinic than meets the eye, and that his own involvement with Makio Kuonji's disappearance may run deeper than he thinks. Sekiguchi is further drawn to the case when he meets the pregnant woman's beautiful sister, Ryoko Kuonji, and she asks for his help in solving her brother-in-law's disappearance from a locked, sealed room. He seeks advice and help from his close friend Akihiko Chuzenji, whom Sekiguchi refers to by the name of his bookstore ("Kyōgokudō"). The Summer of the Ubume is told from the perspective of freelance writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi, who is investigating rumors of a woman at the Kuonji Clinic who has remained pregnant for twenty months after the disappearance of her husband. ![]() ![]() It has been turned into a live-action feature film. It is Kyogoku’s first novel, and the first entry in his Kyōgōkudō series about atheist onmyōji Akihiko "Kyōgokudō" Chūzenji. The Summer of the Ubume (姑獲鳥の夏, Ubume no natsu) is a Japanese novel by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a book that has changed a lot of lives, including mine. “I knew that Gregory Maguire had come up with a genius idea the moment I heard about Wicked. What happens when a witch, green or otherwise, gets to tell her own story instead of being vilified and misrepresented by dominant cultural authority? We witches know how that turns out!” - Holly Near I felt a quiet joy that sisterhood had made its way to the Yellow Brick Road. ![]() “Long before there was any thought of a musical, I read Wicked. It has the power to reshape one’s view of the world.” - Winnie Holzman, co-writer of Wicked: The Musical we call it history: First Edition of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch. It was radical when Gregory first wrote it, and remains radical. Where Im from, we believe in all sorts of things that arent true. “At the heart of this remarkable, unforgettable novel is a wildly original premise- one that only a writer with Gregory Maguire’s intellect and daring could have dreamed up: that the Wicked Witch of the West was a real woman, with an actual name, and her own story to tell. "Gregory gets the complications and uniqueness of women very well." - Kristen Chenoweth Based on 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (which was a retelling of Baum’s novel), the musical premiered on Broadway in 2003 with Idina. It’s an astonishing achievement." - Philip Pullman "Maguire did something truly remarkable with this novel, in managing to inhabit, enlarge, deepen and find new dimensions in a world that had been invented by another writer, and in doing so make something entirely new. ![]() |
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