7/7/2023 0 Comments Betsy tacy book setThe book features chapters like "The Sand Store" and "Playing Paper Dolls." Though I wouldn't describe the book as a page-turner, it was fascinating to read about the daily activities of little girls in the olden days The illustrations are by Lois Lenski and are also totally charming. "Except I glamorized her to make her a proper heroine." I love it. "Betsy is like me," the author says in the back of the book. What made the story extra interesting to me was that it is written in the 1940's and set a bit further back than that, being autobiographical for the author. :) Anyway.īetsy and Tacy are two sweet five-year-old girls who meet when Tacy moves to Hill Street. "But everything seems unmanageable!" especially Words of Radiance, which I know Jacob wants me to read. "I've just got to read something," I'd say to myself, because I know how reading makes me feel so good. My life is a little bit hectic at the moment, and I found my reading was totally suffering. I heard about it from Melissa Wiley - she's always talking about what she's reading with her kids over on her blog (and I'm so glad! She is an author of books for young kinds including Fox and Crow are not friends, which I reviewed last week).īetsy-Tacy was just the book I needed right now.
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7/7/2023 0 Comments Han joon changThe NPS is one of the major shareholders of Samsung C&T. However, the philosophy has been criticized for the executives or shareholders taking excessive gains from increased productivity, while salaries of other workers stay flat.Ĭhang mentioned shareholder capitalism when he was asked his view on the allegations that the Ministry of Health and Welfare pressured the National Pension Service (NPS) to vote for a merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries last year. Shareholder capitalism refers to a business philosophy that companies should be run for the owners' or shareholders' sake. They have nothing to do with our economy." "However, you have to think about who are the shareholders. These are based on shareholder capitalism," Chang said during a lecture at Yonsei University, western Seoul. "The so-called chaebol reform ongoing here is about enhancing shareholders' power and keeping a watch on owner families' tyranny. In a lecture organized by the Network for Social Solidarity, a civic welfare group here, the Cambridge University economics professor said the current approach to solving problems related to conglomerates will only bring outcomes that have "nothing to do with the actual living of the public." Bestselling economist Chang Ha-joon criticized Korea's approach to reforming chaebols as obsessed with shareholder capitalism, calling for a different philosophy in tackling the issue. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Half magic the bookAchmed is evidently Muslim, as he says “Bismillah!” in greeting. Yikes! I instantly wished I hadn’t opened it, because the children meet a ragged, “crafty, and definitely unattractive” Arab named Achmed who smiles unpleasantly at them. I opened it up randomly at a section where one of the children has wished that they could travel to a desert island, but the children end up in a desert, instead. It was published in 1954, and I loved it as a kid in the early 1970s. It is a book about the comic adventures of some children who find a magic coin, but always get (unpredictably but exactly) half the magic they wish for. This week, in the children’s department of the library where I work, I picked up a book called Half Magic, by Edward Eager, with the idea of putting it on the staff recommendations table. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Black betty mosley” Librarys Journal ’s review of A Red Death noted, “As before, Mosley ’s inclusion of life in Watts, contemporary social attitudes, and colloquial speech contribute to the excellence and authenticity of plot and character portrayal. Lomax wrote in American Visions that Mosley has “a special talent for layering time and place with words and ideas. He has also branched out into the areas of science fiction and social commentary.Ĭritics have praised Mosley ’s writing for its realistic portrayal of street life in African American neighborhoods of post- World War II Los Angeles. His novels are all written from an African American perspective. Walter Mosley has broken new ground as a mystery writer by incorporating issues of race into novels that stand on their own as gripping detective fiction. image credit: bookwrittenĭomestic violence? Yes, I was certain that they must exist. Then there were the repeated miscarriages. Rasheed is a good man if a bit grouchy and archaic in his demeanor, but when everything is taken into account, Mariam’s life does not appear as bad. Mariam learns early on in the narrative that her father’s love is hollow, and after her mother commits suicide, she is compelled to wed a man. Hosseini begins the book with an innocent toddler whom you quickly sympathize with and feel a dreadful need to grab the pages. As a harami-an illegitimate child-Mariam is subjected to stigma and blame from both her mother’s family and her father. The first one is on Mariam when she is nine years old when she lives on the outskirts of Herat with her resentful mother and waits impatiently for her wealthy father’s once-weekly visits. The book is divided into two distinct narratives. More than what is mentioned above is covered in A Thousand Splendid Suns. You will too, but not for the reasons you would think. I was satisfied-yes, I will cry-after anticipating domestic violence, gory combat depictions, and a key topic of Afghan women’s persecution. Following the lives of two women in their marriages and their war-torn nation, the story takes place in Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 1990s, covering the period from Soviet occupation to Taliban control. The core plot seems to meet my requirements. One of those books that affect you, making you cry like a baby because it tugs at your heartstrings. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Upstream oliverI meant to save its life, no less, but was horribly conscious of our difference, and of my impostor status in this vast continent across which I, an immigrant, had been given roaming rights. (I shudder, watching Masterpiece’s Victoria, at the brute domesticity of the setting, the hours spent dressing hair and choosing clothes, the dolls: that dull abuse of time, my inheritance.) All these years later, out on that woodsy, North American track, I had, therefore, either to re-classify myself, or else ignore the helpless amphibian at my feet. Little girls like me, a cultured foil for our marauding, muddy-kneed counterparts, distracted ourselves inside. Mine was a childhood in which the outdoors was mostly the province of boys, those grandsires of empire encouraged to hone their conquering instincts by treating what wildlife there was, the bugs and gastropods of our backyards, as sport. I had to face down fear to do it, override some reflex either inborn or else learned during the course of that airless, constrained upbringing, and reach across the paralyzing space between us. Though I’d seen my spouse and young son do this with ease, it was, for me, raised in the London suburbs, a first. THIS SUMMER, walking the wooded lanes of my husband’s Massachusetts hometown, I reached down to rescue a red eft that had wandered into the road: I mean, I pincered between my fingertips that flame-bright newt’s tiny tail, as firm-yet-gentle as I was able, and shifted it into the grass. He was undoubtably a grand master of the communicative art form, and will be missed in the years to come. The Eisner Award is the highest honour a comic creator can achieve. Will Eisner's work continues to inspire not only creators in the comic industry, but also people involved in movie and television production as well. Will Eisner's newspaper feature "The Spirit" legitimized comics as a valid medium for creative expression to millions of adult readers who previously believed comics were just for "kids". It was Will Eisner who coined the phrase "graphic Novel", and gave readers their first example of one. Will Eisner formulated most of the rules for time sequencing, story pacing, cinematographic angling, border enhancement, page layout and much more. He was one of, if not *THE* most influential artist(s) in the medium of comics. Scanner: GuRu Covers: 3 Pages: 164 (Includes 1 Blank Page to maintain numbering sequence) TITLE: Comics and Sequential Art Authors/Creators: Will Eisner I began scanning this book the morning following Will Eisner's death (Will Eisner passed on during the evening of Jan 3/2005). 2023: Get Now The German Kitchen: Traditional Recipes, Regional Favorites by Christopher Knuth.2023: Download Now The World in your Kitchen: Vegetarian recipes from Africa, Asia and Latin America for Western kitchens by Troth Wells.2023: Get Now Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King.2023: (Reads) Keepers: Two Home Cooks Share Their Tried-and-True Weeknight Recipes and the Secrets to Happiness in the Kitchen by Kathy Brennan.2023: Download Now A Commonplace Book of Pie by Kate Lebo.2023: Read Now Disney Princess Tea Parties Cookbook (Kids Cookbooks, Disney Fans) by Insight Editions. 2023: Get Now Veganize This!: From Surf & Turf to Ice-Cream Pie: 200 Animal-Free Recipes for People Who Love to Eat by Jenn Shagrin.2023: (Reads) The Chocolate And Coffee Bible by Catherine Atkinson.2023: (Reads) Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. I happened across The Blue Castle at the Women for Music book sale last weekend and grabbed it right up. Montgomery didn’t move east with me, and the only ones I’ve restocked are the first two in the Anne series. I haven’t read The Blue Castle in over 30 years though it was a favorite of mine long ago, our family collection of L. I just reread Lucy Maud Montgomery’s The Blue Castle, which is why I’ve been thinking about how (and, a bit, why) we make these distinctions. I had certainly read a lot of books from that more nebulous territory before I ventured into the heartland, but (partly because I didn’t know, or think, much about what made something a “romance novel” instead of some other kind of novel, and partly because I hadn’t read any self-identified “romance novels”) I hadn’t recognized any of them as romances. As with all literary labels, though, “romance” isn’t really that precise:all around the territory of the card-carrying Harlequin-style “romance novel” there’s a vast borderland populated by everything from chick-lit to Victorian marriage-plot novels, all of which have at least some key elements in common with romances, even if it’s only a structural similarity. There’s a way in which that was absolutely true: I had never read anything marketed or labeled explicitly as a “romance novel” (a Harlequin, say). Once upon a time I had never read a “romance novel” - or so the story went. I had never heard of Slade House before and the plot blurb was a little vague. I also knew of his reputation of having long and winding roads his stories normally traveled. I had never read anything by David Mitchell before, but I knew of him and some of his books. Read this as the May group read book on the Goodreads group Horror Aficionados. 6 disc with a total of 7 hours running time. My copy is from the library, published by Heavy Entertainment, 2015. Audiobook was narrated by Thomas Judd and Tinia Rodrigues. Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story-as only David Mitchell could imagine it. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late. Every nine years, the house’s residents-an odd brother and sister-extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.ĭown the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. |