![]() ![]() ![]() That said, she’s also good at noticing stuff, has super hearing, is confident, ambitious, and determined to get what she wants from life. She’s oblivious to her faults, more than willing to point out other’s, selfish, and a bit short sighted. Rebel McKenzie is one of the most real 12 year olds I’ve read about in some time. ![]() Throw in a perchance for non-fiction, a love of digging up dead things, and the most ridiculous cat to ever grace the pages of contemporary fiction, and you have yourself one sealed deal. Give any character a love of blueberry Slurpees and Necco wafers, and you’ve more or less guaranteed them a place in my heart. A definite kink in the works, but Rebel knows she’ll be able to go to the later session of the dig if she can come up with the money to pay for it herself, and she has the perfect plan–she just has to win the local beauty pageant. Unfortunately for Rebel, she doesn’t make it very far…just far enough to destroy her feet, lose a bet to a convict, be grounded till she’s 50, and land herself a no-pay live-in babysitting gig for her seven year old nephew in her sister’s new (used) trailer. No problem, she decides she’ll just runaway from home to attend. Her biggest dream is to attend a dig camp this summer where she will have the opportunity to hone her skills, but alas, the family fridge broke down and funds were unavailable. ![]() Rebel McKenzie is (practically) a paleontologist (the Ice Age kind, not the dinosaur kind). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even the book’s interior design has more in common with a fancy greeting card than with a traditional book, poetry or prose. ![]() All that tells you is what you were worth to someone else-not what you are worth.” Whether or not we are the authors of ourselves in any real sense, the metaphor is a powerful one that encourages the agency it takes to positively reframe pain and disappointment as opportunities for growth. ![]() Allow yourself to be revised.” She continues later, “revise the story you tell yourself about rejection. Drawing on her experience as a writer, Smith views the self through the metaphor of a composition, one the “author” must constantly tend to: “Accept that you are a work in progress, both a revision and a draft: you are better and more complete than earlier versions of yourself, but you also have work to do. Combined with original short essays, those tweets demonstrate that social media can be a source of wisdom, as the author allows her own story of grief and transformation to inspire. ![]() Words of encouragement from an award-winning poet.Ī couple years ago, following the end of her marriage, Smith, the author of Good Bones (2017) and other poetry collections, took to Twitter to share a daily affirmation, imploring herself and her readers to #keepmoving. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if he promises they’ll never fall in love. If it means she can stay in her beloved Scotland. ![]() And she can’t possibly marry such a surly, damaged man… can she? Well, perhaps. But the only remedy is to become his wife. Elisa Braden The Taming of a Highlander (Midnight in Scotland Book 2) Kindle Edition by Elisa Braden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,005 ratings Book 2 of 3: Midnight in Scotland See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 3.76 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Kate has no wish to testify against a man who’s already suffered too much. ![]() Blissful, that is, until a scarred, beastly Highlander with a heartbreaking past frightens her out of her wits, making her a witness in a criminal inquiry. Unless they find a loophole-an inconvenient, shockingly tempting loophole.įor Kate Huxley, visiting her brother in the Scottish Highlands is a blissful escape from the stifling expectations of the marriage mart. Now, her compelled testimony could send Broderick back to the prison that nearly killed him. But when a wayward English lass interrupts his revenge, he loses his enemy in the dark. The Taming of a Highlander (Midnight in Scotland Book 2) Kindle Edition by Elisa Braden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,071 ratings Book 2 of 3: Midnight in Scotland See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 6.27 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() Wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by an unseen enemy, Broderick MacPherson lives for one purpose-punishing the villain who targeted him. ![]() ![]() ![]() By making us aware of our mental fallibility, Kahneman and Tversky gave us the tools to sharpen our thinking and avoid the pitfalls of unconscious bias. ![]() They identified systematic ways the mind fools itself, why we make irrational decisions, and how we reshape reality when the truth is too painful to bear. Yet both had a deep interest in the workings of the mind and were insightful, inquisitive thinkers with a knack for seeing flaws in ideas that everyone else took as given. Kahneman was reserved and given to self-doubt, while Tversky was brash, outgoing, and magnetic. On the surface, the two men couldn’t have been more different. ![]() The story of Tversky and Kahneman’s lives, told in The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, is as riveting as the truths they uncovered. Keep reading for an overview of The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. ![]() Their collaboration produced ideas that reshaped the way psychology understands the mind. Thanks to the groundbreaking research by two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, we can get at the answers to these questions. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here.ĭo you understand why you make the choices you do? How prone to error is the human mind? Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis. ![]() ![]() Money is tight but they go to extraordinary lengths to buy each other a present for Christmas. Poignant and heart-warming, it tells of the unselfish love between Della and Jim. It’s also very short, so short I happily read it online at my PC. The Gift of The Magi is a sweet and sentimental read. I read this story for Festive Reads Fortnight 2019 but never got around to posting the review, so I waited a whole year so that I could as I thought it would seem quite out of season to do anything but. “…life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.” Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the sacrifices each must make to buy the other a gift. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure - her long, beautiful brown hair. One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved husband a Christmas present. Quick Review (read on for full review) Poignant and heart-warming, this story is hard to forget. ![]() ![]() Fans of the first volume will be satisfied insufficient back story means no one else will know (or care) what is going on. Despite the predictable romantic entanglements and the constant telling, the plot races along with a search for a crazed renegade vampire, threatening ghosts, uncovered secrets and a flaming climax with a significant body count. Bianca’s tendency to belabor every point, particularly the depth of her love for Lucas, makes for a dull narrative style, and three-dimensional characters are pretty much nonexistent. Meanwhile, Bianca’s attempts to discover why humans have been admitted to vampire bastion Evernight Academy (which teen-looking vampires attend to learn how to manage in the modern world) stir up evil wraiths seemingly intent upon destroying-or maybe saving-her. Amidst surveillance and suspicion, they contrive to meet secretly, using Balthazar-an attractive vampire-as a cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Events tore apart star-crossed lovers Bianca and Lucas at the end of Evernight (2008), when the inevitable conflict between Bianca’s vampire family and Lucas’s vampire-hunting family nearly destroyed the teens and their loved ones. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are excited to partner with Rachel Payne and the RaMa Luna Center for Yoga and Well Being, which is located at 282 Main Street Ext in Middletown, on the third floor of the Palmer Eye Care building, next to the Historic Sanseer Mill and CVS.įacilitated by Christy Billings of Russell Library, Information Services and Adult Learning Department. This true story about the power of random acts of kindness will warm the heart, a beautiful reminder of the miracles of Christmas and the gift of family during the holiday season. 10 Where: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati When: 8 a.m. The 13th Gift by Joanne Huist Smith - 9780553418552 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their "True Friends." As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. What: Book-signings with Joanne Huist Smith, author of The 13th Gift When: 7 p.m. The 13th Gift by Joanne Huist Smith, 9780553418552, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Copies are available at the Borrowing Desk or by placing a hold at After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children-especially with the holiday season approaching. 'First Fridays Book Club' will be held as a hybrid Zoom and offsite at RaMa LuNa Center for Yoga and Well Being at 282 Main Street Ext in Middletown.ĭecember's title is The 13th Gift by Joanne Huist Smith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, from the sundae to the cone, American entrepreneurs popularized the treat, developed the modern ice cream industry and gave the world the soda fountain - that nostalgic icon of American innocence and small town values. Though Europeans came up with the first modern recipes, Americans have long claimed ice cream as their national dessert. It's a tale populated with Chinese emperors, English kings, former slaves, women inventors, shrewd entrepreneurs, Italian immigrant hokey-pokey ice cream vendors and a gourmand American First Lady. ![]() Weiss takes us on a vibrant trip through the history of ice cream from ancient China to modern-day Tokyo in order to tell the lively story of how this delicious indulgence became a global sensation. Though ice cream was once considered a food for the elite, it has evolved into one of the most popular mass-market products ever developed. Be it soft-serve, gelato, Indian kulfi or Israeli glida, some form of ice cream treat can found throughout the world in restaurants and home freezers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. 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Over the years, Williams has been compared to Roger Zelazny for his relentless exploration of the genre's possibilities. Williams gives us Wyatt Earp through the eyes of Friedrich Nietzsche, shipwrecks through a diver's mask, imaginary friends, dream-inspired water ballet, and working-class buddies who hit the road against a space opera back-drop. In the introduction to Green Leopard Plague & Other Stories, novelist Charles Stross praises Williams as a "versatile and elegant writer." Nowhere is Williams' flexibility (and elegance) shown more vividly than in Green Leopard Plague. "It's the thing that turns me on, both as a reader and a writer, and that's enough for me."Ī sense of playfulness and wonder pervades Williams' stories, a sense that he is exploring the whole sandbox, every dimension, every tool, and not just some corner sectioned off for one genre or another. ![]() ![]() "I don't have an agenda for science fiction," said Walter Jon Williams. ![]() |