![]() ![]() ![]() His delights are wide-ranging and unrestrained, the greater of them often interrupted by smaller ones in a chain of digressions. In Gay’s ecumenical view, delight is found in the poignant and the loving, the light and the shadows, and the intentional process of tuning in to all the places-expected and unexpected-where it may reside. ![]() One of the shorter essays, “Lily on the Pants,” is prayer, hymn, sermon, and benediction, all in one go. It’s filled to the brim with spirit and the temporal allegiance with dailiness that abides at the root of mortality and spiritual practice alike. It’s hard not to reach for religious language when describing Gay’s work. WRIGHT once wrote it was her “confirmed bias that poets remain the most ‘stunned by existence,’ the most determined to redeem the world in words.” In The Book of Delights, a yearlong experiment in cultivating delight through daily essays, poet and writer Ross Gay beckons readers to linger with the beauty of the world and his belief in the human desire to conspire in that beauty by reorienting the quotidian to joy’s robust configurations. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So what could be so evil about these tales that the American Library Association has Silverstein on its list of frequently banned books? Let’s face it, how many of us haven’t wondered at some point why a babysitter doesn’t sit on a baby? Well, I did, but I digress… These books have endured because Silverstein paints a whimsical world of fantasy that teaches us valuable and philosophical lessons, while at the same time making us laugh at absolute nonsense. The Giving Tree is one of the most affectionate, oft-quoted, and beloved children’s stories of all time A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends are many a child’s first introduction to poetry. For more than 40 years the books of Sheldon Allan “Shel” Silverstein have entertained and delighted readers as they are shared by fans and passed down to younger generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is impossible to compare the two books, as they are so completely different. I have been impatiently waiting for her sophomore novel, and let me tell you that Transcendent Kingdom was well worth the wait. When I read Yaa Gyasi’s debut, Homegoing, a couple years ago I just knew that she would become an autobuy author for me. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi’s phenomenal debut. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief–a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.īut even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. ![]() Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. ![]() ![]() In a letter written at the time, she summarized her own life in a few brisk sentences, referring to herself in the third person: "As the writer was a practising physician," she later explained, "it seemed only fitting that the Ballard diary, so crowded with medical interest, should descend to her." In 1930, Hobart gave the diary to the Maine State Library in Augusta. She was thirty-three and a recent graduate of medical school when her great-aunts Sarah and Hannah gave her the diary. Mary Hobart was ten years old when her great-grandmother Dolly Lambard died. ![]() James North no doubt consulted the diary at Sarah Lambard's house on Chapel Street in Augusta, extracting the few passages he included in his History. At Dolly's death in 1861, the diary descended to her daughters, Sarah Lambard and Hannah Lambard Walcott. ![]() The diary had remained in Augusta for more than sixty years, probably in the family of Dolly Lambard, who seems to have assumed custody of her mother's papers along with the rented cow. When her great-great-grandaughter Mary Hobart inherited it in 1884, it was "a hopeless pile of loose unconsecutive pages"-but it was all there. That Martha Ballard kept her diary is one small miracle that her descendants saved it is another. ![]() Epilogue - A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Bid time return matheson![]() ![]() What I really love, though, is the fact that he read the book 25 times. First, I love that the goodhearted book thief showed such care for a book he stole before giving it back to the library. There is seriously so much I love about this story. Written in 1975, “Bid Time Return” has been republished as “Somewhere in Time.” According to the synopsis posted on Amazon, “Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century.” The novel is the inspiration behind a 1979 movie of the same name, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. “This is not my book, it belongs in the Great Falls Public Library - wrongfully taken, yes, but if you can, kindly take into consideration it has been loved and cared for all these years and know I am sorry for taking it,” the unnamed man wrote. The book loving thief even had the book restored and signed by the author before he sent it back to the library, along with $200 to make amends. ![]() ![]() It seems that the man who “borrowed” it loved it so much, he read it at least 25 times since the book came in his possession in 1982. Earlier this week, a Montana library received quite the surprise when one of their lendable books, “Bid Time Return,” by Richard Matheson (author of numerous well-read titles, such as “I Am Legend” and “What Dreams May Come”), was returned after 35 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Potter: A Magical Year enchants and delights. Kay’s attention to detail and appreciation of the Potter series is evident in the art that practically leaps off the page. Every brushstroke, ink line, and pencil sketch breathes life into the wizarding world imagery that readers know and love. As you dive into the book, you are met with the real magic: Kay’s illustrious artwork. The inviting burgundy spine is decorated in matching gold font, and an iconic “The Art of Jim Kay” stamp is featured on the back cover. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels” is printed below the title. The tagline “A spellbinding moment for every day from J.K. ![]() ![]() The book’s cover features eye-catching gold font overlaying a stunning watercolor rendition of the Hogwarts Express chugging through the English countryside. We here at MuggleNet were thrilled with its release and are confident that it is a gift book that any Potter fan will enjoy. To say that this book is gorgeous is an understatement. One moment, anniversary, or memory is featured each day of the year along with a selection of Jim Kay’s illustrations and previously unseen pencil sketches and preparatory pieces. This unique book pairs the art of celebrated artist Jim Kay with quotes from the Harry Potter novels. The beautiful Harry Potter: A Magical Year gift book finally hit shelves on October 19, 2021. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments To shake the sleeping![]() ![]() Jenkins comments, “I wrote this story down to tell people that they’re not alone, to tell the same to my younger self, and the thought of it being told on screen is a dream beyond what I had dreamed,” ![]() Jenkins’ parents Peter and Barbara Jenkins were featured on the August 1979 cover of National Geographic as they took their own epic journey on a walk west across America from New York to Oregon. To Shake the Sleeping Self follows the real life journey of Jenkins, who on the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he did n’t choose, quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia in search of answers to the question: What makes a life worth living? ![]() ![]() The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told TalesĬOPYRIGHT ‘The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales’ The Complete Works of NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit to learn more about our wide range of titles * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Hawthorne’s works * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ The Delphi Classics edition of Hawthorne includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.eBook features: Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. ![]() ![]() ![]() This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne’. ![]() ![]() ![]() You'd better be sharing if you're ordering this much Dave's Hot Chicken. Lucky’s Hot Chicken will be at 6309 Hillcrest Ave., Dallas. 2 is expected to open by the end of February on Hillcrest Avenue, across the street from Southern Methodist University, in University Park. have opened one Lucky’s Hot Chicken in East Dallas already. 2: The Dallasites who created Hudson House, Drake’s and East Hampton Sandwich Co. In addition to traditional hot chicken options, S&J’s will also have sandwiches with faux-meat chicken, fried fish and portobello mushrooms, to cater to vegans and vegetarians. The restaurant will be halal and will therefore not sell alcohol. Chef Nathan Black, who worked at Pink Magnolia in Oak Cliff (and is married to chef Blythe Beck), created S&J’s menu. S&J’s Hot Chick: S&J’s Hot Chick is expected to open in Northwest Dallas, near the crux of Northwest Highway and Interstate 35E, in the next few weeks. Nashville hot chicken shops coming soon in D-FW ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The plague camus![]() ![]() ![]() The Plague is full of people who struggle to clarify their language and strain to make it more precise: Grand, Rambert, Paneloux, and even Rieux all try-and often fail-to express their deepest feelings through words. “I’ve heard so much reasoning that almost turned my head,” he says, “and which had turned enough other heads to make them consent to killing, and I understood that all human sorrow came from not keeping language clear.”Īll human sorrow! The boldness of this claim hints at how much Camus believed in words. ![]() Like with most problems in art, the solution was to address it directly: in one of the most revelatory sections of the novel, the character Tarrou blurs the line between fancy rhetoric and violence. Aside from these difficulties, there was the pressure of authentically speaking up about the violence of World War II without falling into the nationalist heroics he deplored. Camus was ill when he began it, then trapped by the borders keeping him in Nazi-occupied France. The Plague was not an easy book to write. Photograph by Marianne Casamance, via Wikimedia Commons. ![]() |