5/30/2023 0 Comments Snow country japanese novel![]() His father, Kawabata Eikichi, a prominent physician, died of tuberculosis when Kawabata was just two years old. ![]() Kawabata was born June 14, 1899, in Osaka, Japan, into a prosperous and cultured family. His best-known novel, Yukiguni (1948 Snow Country), is the story of a middle-aged esthete, Shimamura, and a forlorn country geisha, Komako, set in an isolated hot spring resort west of the central mountain range, where the winters are long, dark and silent. During his life, Kawabata wrote more than one hundred “palm of the hand” stories, usually two or three pages long, which he said expressed the essence of his art. The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid composition of renga, Japanese linked verse of the fifteenth century. Kawabata combined ancient Japanese literary tradition with modern language in his lyrical works. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments March john lewis graphic novel![]() I didn’t really think of people in terms of their ethnicities or ancestries. It was what we were to evolve toward in our path to moral social perfection. I had grown into a social ideology in which Colour Blindness was the ultimate expression of love one for another. ![]() Maybe in pockets in the South where all the backwards people lived. I was so deep into white privilege that I wasn’t aware that racism was still a thing. I grew up on the beach in South Orange County across the ‘80s. ![]() Like trust-busting, flagpole-sitting, and chimney sweeps. I did not grow up caring about the black civil rights movement. Representative John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell have succeeded tremendously in bringing a particular milieu of the middle of the twentieth century to a point of contact with the soul of the reader. For many of us, the best way to understand people who are different from us or other than us is not through dry academic description-much better to feel the life of another person as if you were intimately concerned with their fortunes. Just a couple reviews ago, I talked up the value of graphic novels in drawing out empathy in readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An entertaining introduction to a world of Greek demigods.Not only does she struggle with her forbidden crush on the pure-blood Aiden, but she’s also struggling with her training to become a Sentinel.Īfter all, nothing’s worse than being turned into a daimon and being hunted by your crush. ![]()
5/30/2023 0 Comments Wrecking ball by p dangelico![]() ![]() “You’re payin’ for that.” Ten minutes later, after he’s put Caroline in her crib, he returns wearing a look that warns me good things are coming. “Reginald––don’t you dare wake that baby.” “No one is disputing your ability to make babies, my love.” I can’t help the giggle that bubbles up when he begins a stealthy crawl toward our bed. “Are you questioning my abilities, woman? ‘Cause I’m ready to provide a demonstration.” Got it?” Needless to say, the boys are more than a handful. And just so we’re clear, no more penises in this house, EVER again. “That’s because we were trying to give Connor and Christian a little brother––” “You and I both know you’re no good in a hammock. A slight lift of a black eyebrow follows. “We haven’t done it in the hammock in a while,” he murmurs in that ridiculously sexy voice that’s gotten me into trouble more than once. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’ll take your world, turn it upside down, and have you smiling while the g-force takes your breath away. He says life has a funny way of showing you what you want before you even know you want it. When I asked him if he regrets not winning another championship, he told me he was done wanting anything for himself, said he was looking forward to helping other people make their dreams come true. However, when he told me he wanted to go into coaching, I knew he was going to be fine. Is it terrible to admit how relieved I am? At first, I was worried about how much he’d miss the work, the camaraderie with the guys. He has one more year left on his contract with the Titans. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Man in 3B by Carl Weber![]() ![]() Though I know it isn’t politically correct to say, I was ready to write this off as another $1 store bargain bin hood movie. All signs point to one person being dead, but the question comes: Who killed them and why? ![]() ![]() Though the big to do of this movie is the fact a dead body, killed due to a fire, gets rolled out the building. is the mistress of some married woman in the building. Part of the reason is he gets kicked out daily because Ben Sr. Ben Jr., a young kid, barely 21, but in college, is not that close with his dad Ben Sr. Now, Darryl digs Connie, and she digs him too, but being that Avery is still her husband, there is a problem. A wife whose husband Avery, is trifling in a multitude of ways. ![]() So, because of that, he leaves her alone. He thought he had himself a nice thing going with Krystal, but being that she got another man, who seems to not have a record, Darryl is just a side–piece. (Robert Ri’chard)ĭarryl Graham, after living a life as a gang banger, is trying to get his life together. To the point, eventually, it seems that man has become a weight some can’t bear to bear.ĭarryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) | Connie (Brely Evans) | Krystal (Nafessa Williams) | Avery (Anthony Mongomery) | Ben Sr. With one man moving into an apartment building, the weight of the web of everyone’s shared secrets lies, and relationships begins to bend and potentially break. ![]() ![]() ![]() However there is a need for a user-friendly guide to wildlife monitoring for Australian conditions and specifically relating to the tourism industry. Monitoring of wildlife that could be affected by wildlife tourism activities is particularly critical to sustainability, and should incorporate well- established statistical principles where possible. Management actions designed to mitigate negative effects of wildlife tourism on wildlife typically focus on management of visitors, and can use a variety of different methods. ![]() Management processes that identify potential and actual negative effects and implement actions to correct them are critical to sustainable wildlife tourism, particularly if there is further growth of this sector. The magnitude and seriousness of negative effects can vary enormously depending on species, life-cycle stages, habitats and other variables. These effects can be grouped into: disruption of activity, direct killing or injury, and habitat alteration (including provision of food). A search of local and international literature, coupled with interviews with personnel from government conservation agencies, identified many potential and actual problems. ![]() ![]() Wildlife tourism is often considered environmentally friendly, but it has the potential to cause various negative effects on populations, behaviour and welfare of wildlife. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Go dogs go dr seuss![]() ![]() I have a bunch of magazines that we are done with and free for cutting up. He played with the paint for a solid 45 minutes! He ended up painting with the car until almost the entire page was green! Then they were off and running!īaloo was really enjoying himself. I gave them a quick example of using the dog and the car to make prints. We’ve never painted with cars before so they were really lost at first. I used washable paint in hopes it would clean off easily (and it did!) I set out red, yellow, and green (the colors of a stoplight) and a few dogs on cars for them to explore. trips!!) so I went for something easy to set up, easy to make, and just fun to do. Go! because it seems to be a favorite of all 3 boys. ![]() ![]() He won’t sit through the entire book yet, but we’ve gotten about 3/4 of the way though!Īnyway, we finally decided on Go, Dog. And the more we read it, the longer he will sit. Royal has taken a particular liking to The Lorax and we’ve read it so much that he randomly breaks out quoting the story – word for word! He loves to retell the story now! Logi-Bear has actually been sitting down and requesting someone to read Go, Dog. Go! A Crack in the Track…) and I just couldn’t choose. A few of them have become daily favorites again (The Lorax Go, Dog. Seuss books and started reading through them. At the beginning of the month we got out ALL of our Dr. Seuss, but then I just couldn’t pick a book. I was so excited that the Virtual Book Club author this month was Dr. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Dungeons & Dragons by Jeff Grubb![]() ![]() Soul of the City (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin)īlood Ties (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin)Īftermath (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) The Dead of Winter (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) Wings of Omen (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) The Face of Chaos (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Storm Season (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Shadows of Sanctuary (By:Philip Jose Farmer,John Brunner,Joe Haldeman,Robert Lynn Asprin) Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Thieves' World (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Realms of the Dead (By:Ed Greenwood,Richard Baker,R.A. ![]() Realms of the Dragons II (By:Erin Tettensor) Thomsen,Ed Greenwood,Elaine Cunningham,J. Moore,Douglas Niles,David Zeb Cook,Mark Anthony) Salvatore,Dave Gross,Elaine Cunningham,Mary H. Realms of Magic (With: Christie Golden,Jean Rabe,Brian M. Moore,Troy Denning,Barb Hendee,David Zeb Cook,James M. Realms of Infamy (By:Christie Golden,Ed Greenwood,R.A. Salvatore,Elaine Cunningham,James Lowder,Douglas Niles,Troy Denning,David Zeb Cook,Mark Anthony) Realms of Valor (By:Christie Golden,Jean Rabe,Ed Greenwood,R.A. ![]() Crypt of the Shadowking (By:Mark Anthony)Ĭurse of the Shadowmage (By:,Mark Anthony) ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Charlie portis![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows the man who killed him and vows to find him and bring him to justice. Mattie hails from Yell County, Arkansas, and heads off by herself ostensibly to manage her father’s affairs-he had purchased some ponies at the time he was killed-but really to seek revenge for his death. The story-which virtually everyone must now by now, since it was made into not one, but two major Hollywood movies-concerns a girl named Mattie Ross whose father was murdered by a man who worked for him. True Grit is Portis’ most famous novel, but in some ways it’s his least characteristic. It’s an odd combination for an author whose usual narrator was a sarcastic cynical male. She obviously wants to tell exactly what happened, as it happened, but she also has a kind of literary sensibility and tries to tell the story in a cultivated, literary way. One of the most wonderful things about True Grit is the voice of its narrator, whom we take to be the fourteen-old-girl who is going through this adventure, but who is actually much older, “a woman with brains and a frank tongue and one sleeve pinned up and an invalid mother to care for,” by her own description. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Reviews the candy house![]() The story is told in a variety of formats-writing, emails, tweets, and even formulas. This genre is outside the wheelhouse of what I would normally read. “By uploading all or part of your externalized memory to an online “collective,” you gained proportionate access to anonymous thought and memories of everyone in the word, living or dead, who had done the same.” The idea of this book had me intrigued and got me thinking about the implications of technology like this and having my memories just out there for anyone to access. Soon Bix creates “Own Your Unconscious.” This technology allows you to access and share your memories. Bix is on the hunt for the latest technology when he finds a group experimenting with “externalizing” memories. The Candy House picks up with Bix Bouton, who owns a successful tech company called Mandala and is well known to everyone. I learned that many characters cross over, and I wonder if reading this first book would have given more context to this story. After finishing the story, I checked out more about this book and learned that The Candy House is the continuation of A Visit from the Good Squad. ![]() In this case, I wish I had done a little more research. This is my first book from Egan, and I like to start a new author without gathering too much information about them. Her book A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award. ![]() The Candy House is the sixth fiction novel by American author Jennifer Egan. ![]() |