![]() ![]() These two PBBs feature fierce and “terrible” women who were regarded as such because they happen to excel in sports – an area traditionally perceived to be dominated only by men. I have a special affinity for picturebook biographies (PBB), and I am thrilled that I can indulge in reading as much as I possibly can given our current reading theme. Since two of our friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have been joining this meme for quite awhile now, we thought of joining this warm and inviting community. It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers (new host of Monday reading: Kathryn T at Book Date). Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress. ![]()
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![]() But under the surface is what matters-fulfillment, self-expression, dynamism, sex-and that’s where Richard Coleman, though charming as fiancé, reveals himself to be old-fashioned, “ordinary,” even authoritarian as husband. ![]() ![]() Things aren’t going so well in Kitty and Richard Coleman’s marriage, though by appearances all’s fine: they’re a respectable couple in London’s middle-high society, live in a fine house, keep maid and cook, and remind readers of the upstairs family in, well, Upstairs, Downstairs. Chevalier’s enormous hit with Vermeer and the 17th century ( Girl With a Pearl Earring, 2000) is followed by a novel so familiar-the forces of change at 19th- century’s end put cracks in domestic life-that the hyperverisimilitude of its period-color seems almost done by number. ![]() ![]() Minor injuries to the hymen may heal on their own, and not require surgical intervention. ![]() The state of the hymen is not a reliable indicator of virginity, though " virginity testing" remains a common practice in some cultures, sometimes accompanied by surgical restoration of hymen to give the appearance of virginity. Sources differ on how common tearing or bleeding after first intercourse are. The hymen can rip or tear during first penetrative intercourse, which usually results in pain and, sometimes, mild temporary bleeding or spotting. Very rarely, it may be completely absent. Normal variations of the post-pubertal hymen range from thin and stretchy to thick and somewhat rigid. During puberty, estrogen causes the hymen to change in appearance and become very elastic. ![]() In children, a common appearance of the hymen is crescent-shaped, although many shapes are possible. ![]() It forms part of the vulva, or external genitalia, and is similar in structure to the vagina. The hymen is a thin piece of mucosal tissue that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she approaches the lamp, it begins “shaking vigorously with nobody else around.” At this point, Amanda appears to calmly walk back over to the spot where she was sitting, pick up her cell phone and dog, and leave the room. I first heard of the story from an article in The Sun tabloid published on October 30, 2020, titled “House of Horrors, Terrifying Moment ‘Poltergeist Shakes Lamp’ As Couple Flee Home Where Katharine Hepburn Once Escaped ‘Haunted’ House.” The “ exclusive footage obtained by The Sun ,” shows the lamp in question flicker on and off before one half of the couple, Amanda Michaels, walks over to investigate. land where screen goddess Katharine Hepburn once escaped her ‘haunted’ house” and learned that the house was once owned by Boris Karloff-one of my heroes-I just had to know more! So when I read about a couple fleeing their home “on notorious L.A. Whether it’s the Knickerbocker or Roosevelt Hotels or the infamous Chateau Marmont, Tinseltown has its fair share of allegedly haunted locales to titillate the curious. There’s no shortage of ghost stories when it comes to Hollywood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, watch Seinfeld bring the concept alive. It helps us better understand the return we expect from our choices. It’s a measure (a very imprecise one) of what you’ve given up. Economists call the value of the goods and services you sacrificed in making a choice an opportunity cost. You could use the money to pad the savings account rather than pay down the mortgage fast or earn a paycheck instead of attending college. Here is the basic definition: Whenever you make a decision to do something–like dramatically accelerate mortgage payments or go to college–you foreclose using money and time for other purposes. When it comes to personal finance one of the most important economic ideas is ( The Chinese restaurant.). ![]() Maybe the equation is this: Couch potato + Seinfeld = economics + knowledge (or is it supply + demand). A trio of academics have put Seinfeld clips up to illuminate basic economic concepts. Hah! What the sneering critics don’t realize is that viewers are actually learning the basics of economics, at least when it comes to watching 9 years of Seinfeld (and the reruns). (Google “television” and “vast wasteland” and you’ll see what I mean.) Critics still rail against TV as a vast wasteland. ![]() I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.” That’s Newton Minnow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in a talk he gave before the National Association of Broadcasters in 1961. … “sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air…and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. ![]() ![]() What I got was a slowburning, worldbuilding, plot featuring hot alpha monsters, where a gypsy girl moves to small town to find out that every myth… is real. Gotta be honest, I was expecting full on monster smut. ![]() I've gone and drawn attention to myself, and the ones paying attention are the ones everyone else seems to fear. They decide who gets stabbed or tortured. My only guides happen to be the most lethal of the bunch. I'm walking into the middle of a story that's thousands of years old, and I'm the new girl on the block who doesn't have a clue how this world even works. ![]() Somehow, I've gone and landed myself in a world truly filled with monsters, and I'm starting to think this is where I should have been all along. Unfortunately, most of the answers come from men.who aren't just men. It took my mother's death for me to finally start getting answers about what's really been going on. I've been labeled as one thing or another for most of my life: Completely unoriginal, if I do say so myself. I'm sure there are a lot of girls with old gypsy blood who see the dead, have killer cults hunting their family, and turn into something that gets scary when they panic. ![]() ![]() He is executive chef at Locanda Verde, which he co-owns with Robert DeNiro. Then, ready for a place to call his own, Andrew opened A Voce in New York, where he cooked from 2006 to 2008, won his first Michelin star, and produced his first book, Urban Italian: True Stories and Simple Recipes From a Life In Food, which was named one of the best cookbooks of 2008 by Gourmet, Publishers Weekly, and Good Morning America. He has worked at San Domenico in New York at the Michelin two-star San Domenico in Emilio-Romagna with Gray Kunz at Lespinasse at Le Cirque and at Café Boulud. His entire career-from working at the local Italian joint in his hometown of Cleveland at age 14 to his responsibility for one of Esquire magazine’s best restaurants of 2009-he has made an art of charming people with his cooking. ![]() ![]() Andrew Carmellini seems to be the name on everyone’s lips these days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet my qualms about eating octopus cannot stem from biological kinship. It waited until it knew the keeper was watching before contemptuously dumping the food down the drain. One captive octopus wanted to demonstrate its resentment at being fed second-rate food. ![]() In many ways octopuses are like toddlers. It can turn off lights by squirting water at them, negotiate mazes, undo jam jars from the inside, carry round two halves of a coconut shell and assemble a house from them wherever it stops, and recognise individual human keepers, even when the keepers are wearing identical uniforms. It smells and tastes with its arms, sees with its skin, plays with toys and craves novelty. ![]() Its oesophagus tunnels through its brain, and the brain is sometimes skewered by a spiky mouthful of food. It can squeeze through a hole the size of its eyeball. I know now that an octopus is fearfully and wonderfully made, just as the Psalmist tells me I am, and so to eat it seems like a kind of cannibalism. Peter Godfrey-Smith has spoiled it for me. I used to enjoy eating barbecued octopus. ![]() ![]() ![]() These editions are exclusively available in this boxed set. Rowling - Comic Relief and Lumos - will benefit from the sale of each set. Purchasers can be reassured that two charities important to J.K. Eager seekers of wizard learning will find within a treasure trove of magical facts, additional notes from the esteemed Professor Albus Dumbledore, and illustrations from J.K. The Hogwarts Library is an essential collection for any wizard or Muggle home. This is another paragraph Book Description: A highly collectable hardback boxed set from the world of Harry Potter - containing handsome new editions of Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (both in hardback for the first time) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. A collectable and scarce first edition-first printing boxset. With the set we will include Hogwarts Playing cards (not new) and a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them leather book mark (new). ![]() The books are as new with some ink marks on the covers). ![]() Pictorial hardbacks(gilt illustration and lettering on the front cover, gilt lettering on the edges of the spines) with an illustrated red case (small nick on the edges of the case), both in fine condition, no Dj cover as issued. Bloomsbury Childrens,2012.First UK edition-first printing of this boxed edition (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Boxed set including: Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. ![]() ![]() ![]() When defying the Algorithm will cost everything-family, home, and even livelihood-is Lee strong enough to take another path? He longs for the freedom to choose not only his own partner, but his own destiny. But it’s definitely a shock to taste his lips. The seedy District is governed by different standards-different expectations-so it’s not exactly a surprise that Roman isn’t married. The waiter lives in the Taxable District, a run-down neighborhood that’s only a brief train ride away, but feels like another world. Pairing with his own chosen match seems inevitable…until, at his sister’s wedding, he meets Roman. ![]() ![]() Because once he graduates, the Algorithm must be triggered.Įveryone in Lee’s family has allowed the Algorithm to match them with a spouse. He’s switched his major repeatedly and stalled on his Master’s thesis, but there’s only so much longer he can hold out. It’s the reason he’s still in college, regardless of his good academic performance. Lee Kennedy’s destiny is controlled by the Algorithm. At a Glance: This isn’t a story of two people building a relationship it’s the story of a man realizing he’s not imprisoned by circumstance and then constructing a new life where there’s now the potential for a relationship, and it works perfectly.īlurb: A man whose future is assigned – A heart that yearns to be free. ![]() |