![]() ![]() It’s no wonder Wright’s book influenced my work in deep ways. Her mouth was pursed in a way that implied a smile she wasn’t capable of giving. ![]() I loved Edith, but what saddened me was her expression. In the book Edith’s parents are never home and she is essentially orphaned, wandering the huge apartment, staring out the window, hoping for friends to play with when suddenly two friends show up at her door, Mr. The Lenci doll that represented Edith was the doll she’d played with as a child. Wright was an amateur photographer and The Lonely Doll was her first book. She seemed a charmed life, but there was one problem. Like Dare, the doll was pretty, blonde, with bangs and a high ponytail. The author, Dare Wright, posed her Lenci doll, “Edith,” in various scenes inside her own glamorous New York City apartment, the park, the Brooklyn Bridge and beyond. It was an oversized picture book with a pink gingham cover that featured a black and white photo of a doll sitting on the floor holding an open book. As a little girl I’d lie flat on my back and pour over The Lonely Doll. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are times, though, when the Special Circumstances branch of the Culture’s diplomatic corps launches clandestine schemes to alter the development of a people they think is heading in a dangerous direction. ![]() The Minds realized early on that the universe was too vast to manage as an empire and so respect the many species within their purview to act as they choose, short of declaring war on the Culture. It’s a universe of plenty, run by powerful AI Minds, in which everyone’s needs are met as a birthright, so conventional jobs and money are unnecessary. There will be spoilers in this discussion, but for me the beauty of Banks fiction is not so much the secrets of plot as the richness of imagining a complicated society, surely one of the great creations of science fiction.īanks raises background information to an art form as he explains in Excession several aspects of the Culture. ![]() It captures the grandeur of space together with the folly and impermanence of human relationships. The novel has that typically Banksian mix of the bizarre, the near disaster and the comedic. ![]() Excession is experimental in many ways, shifting its style from compressed action sequences to baroque complexity as the multi-layered story lines demand. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Trials of the Earth, Mary Hamilton relied on her vivid memory and storyteller’s voice to recapture life in the Delta from 1896 to 1932. She recalled, “I had nothing to live for but to make every house we lived in a home.” ![]() You can make a home for me.” Though the two struggled together, with five of their ten children dying before the age of six, Mary retained her self-confidence and optimism. He proposed to her by declaring, “I am tired of boarding around from pillar to post, with nowhere I can call home. She subsequently met an Englishman, Frank Hamilton, and married him on 28 July 1885. ![]() When she was seventeen, both of her parents died, leaving her to care for her brothers and sisters as well as several boarders. The family subsequently moved to Arkansas, where Mary left school by the second grade. Mary Ann Mann was born on in Illinois to William Calvin Mann and Elizabeth Ritchie Mann. Mary Ann Mann Hamilton was a white frontier settler whose touching and historically revealing autobiography, Trials of the Earth, provides insight into life in the Mississippi Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Take a piece of paper and a pen, and write down everything you aren’t happy with. You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward. ![]() The fact that you are imperfect is not a sign that you have failed it is a sign that you are human, and more importantly, it is a sign that you still have more potential within you. ![]() They are busy thinking about themselves in the same way that you are thinking about yourself. Other people’s lives do not revolve around you, nor do their thoughts. Breakthroughs are what happen after hours, days, and years of the same mundane, monotonous work. The breakdown is often just the tipping point that precedes the breakthrough, the moment a star implodes before it becomes a supernova.Ī mind-blowing, singular breakthrough is not what changes your life. When we are afraid of failing, or feeling vulnerable, or not being as good as we want others to think we are, we end up avoiding the work that is required to actually become that good. You’re going to build a new comfort zone around the things that actually move you forward. The people who are meant for you are going to meet you on the other side. You are going to have to decide that you love yourself too much to stop settling for less than what you really deserve. You are going to have to get real with yourself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s start with the worldbuilding, shall we? I can be rather nitpicky when it comes to dystopian worlds. I’m very familiar with her work – I’ve read everything she’s published under her own name, some books more than once even, and I’ve long ago stopped being surprised by how consistently good she is. The list of reasons why Ann Aguirre’s books always affect me so deeply is about three miles long. There’s a reason for everything, and a million reasons for some things. No, I was terrified because, even before starting it, I knew it would crush me into tiny Maja bits. After reading 11 of her books and loving them all, I know perfectly well what she’s capable of. (Oh, stop trying to run away, I’m not about to start singing for real.) I must admit I was terrified of reading this book, but not because I doubted Aguirre in the least. ![]() Here we are again: me singing praise to Ann Aguirre and you guys putting up with me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author of the aforementioned bill (titled House Bill 93) that intends to do away with the No Fault divorce is named Matt Krause. Who is Matt Krause and what does his bill seek to accomplish? This blog post will detail that bill, what its effect could be and the current status of the legislation. However, one State Representative sought to change all that by filing a bill prior to this most recent legislative session that would eliminate the ability of a person to file for a divorce on a “No Fault” basis. No matter why you tell the court you want the divorce you can now get a divorce for a myriad of reasons or none at all. To sum it up quickly for those who missed that post (and we do encourage everyone who hasn’t read it to go back in our archives and do so) a divorce can be had in Texas by stating a Fault for the divorce (cruelty, abandonment, etc.) or by stating no specific ground at all- a “No Fault” divorce. In a recent blog post, the attorneys with the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC discussed with you what a No Fault divorce is in Texas as opposed to a Divorce based on “Fault” grounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cutter’s Pass is best known for its outdoor offerings-rafting and hiking, with access to the Appalachian trail by way of a gorgeous waterfall-and its mysterious history. Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, managing The Passage Inn, a cozy, upscale resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda returns with a gripping and propulsive thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter’s Pass-will its dark secrets finally be revealed? “This eerie thriller…can stand next to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Stephen King’s The Shining.” - Booklist (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() And my wife continues to eat chicken and some eggs and fish, so, you know, it's a compromise. ![]() We often joke that she turned into a cavewoman because she started eating all types of - she was eating everything, chicken and beef. "When my wife and I met she was actually a vegan, and then she got pregnant. So this candied sweet potato is kind of a staple dish in African-American cuisine, especially during the holidays, and I decided to kind of give it an Asian twist by adding tamari and miso, which are two staples in Japanese cooking." My wife is Chinese-American and we like to bring together our different cultural food ways. ![]() "This Candied Sweet Potatoes recipe is one of the dishes that is part of this emerging kind of food genre that my wife and I have been cultivating, which is Afro-Asian cuisine. Bryant Terry is a chef, food justice activist and author who lives in Oakland, Calif. ![]() ![]() ![]() To find the truth, she must turn detective. ![]() ![]() He was convicted of murdering her mother and spent years behind bars. At least that's what she grew up believing.īut that was a lie. Mortuary technician Cassie Raven believes the last thoughts of the dead linger like static in the air.Ĭassie has always had a strange affinity with death, ever since her parents were killed in a car crash when she was four. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs. 'AN ENGROSSING AND INTRIGUING READ' FAITH MARTINĬamden mortuary technician Cassie Raven returns to solve another ingenious forensic mystery. 'WARM, ENGAGING AND ORIGINAL' MARI HANNAH 'CASSIE RAVEN IS MY FAVOURITE NEW CHARACTER' WILLIAM SHAW 'ENGROSSING, SHARP, UTTERLY ORIGINAL' TAMMY COHEN **DON'T MISS CASSIE RAVEN'S NEXT MYSTERY, CASE SENSITIVE, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!** FEATURED ON THE SUNDAY TIMES' CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR LIST - 'SUPERB' JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Please note: Digital product purchases are nonrefundable. This ebook arrives immediately as a downloadable epub file. ![]() I’m excited to present this first book to you at last: a different type of Brandon Sanderson story, one I wrote when there were no time constraints, no expectations, and no limits on my imagination. She urged me to share it with the world-and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. Note from Brandon: I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. A perfect introduction to Brandon's work, and a delightful story in the tradition of the Princess Bride, Good Omens, and Stardust. Experience one of the books that launched the biggest kickstarter of all time. ![]() |