![]() ![]() It was supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old daughter and grow old together. And when she loses her heart to a fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the people living in Round Hill.Īrchitect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for themselves in Round Hill's new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. ![]() Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Book lost connections review![]() The psychologist Stuart Ritchie had this to say about him: Stylistically, the most annoying feature of Hari is that everything – even the milquetoast scientific consensus – is presented as a mind-blowing revelation. Hari has been frequently criticised for misrepresenting research, editing the Wikipedia pages of his detractors to discredit them, and plagiarism. Doing background research about the book reveals the depths of its issues. Hari is above all a sloppy writer, and I have many problems with his book. Lost Connections is about how antidepressants are wildly overprescribed, and how Big Pharma has marketed them as a panacea using dodgy science while ignoring the complex social and economic roots of depression and anxiety. If I had to summarise my main takeaway from this book, I would say this: People are mostly depressed because their lives are bad. The actual content of Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari is less self-help than the title would suggest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I carry around a lot of guilt about everything.”Ĭouric started writing the book about three years ago, and in that time the country has gone through its very fair share of reckonings, from #MeToo to George Floyd. ![]() “I didn’t feel as if I could be honest about other people and my external experiences, if I wasn’t honest about what was happening and what I was thinking and how I was reacting to certain situations. “I think I’m very hard on myself in general and question myself a lot, like off the written page,” she told me recently over Zoom after saying that the road has been long and tiring. Because such is the nature of a tell-all tour, she has continued to explain. She’ll soon hit Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Nashville. This is all extracurricular work for her book tour proper, she’s been to New York Boston Washington, D.C. Before the New York magazine profile, the prodigal daughter returned to Today, and later she sparred on The View. If Katie Couric’s book, Going There, was a 500-plus-page marathon, then the press tour has been an ultra. ![]() ![]() ![]() With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.Ĭromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on he has no great family to back him, no private army. ![]() As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. ![]() 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'Įngland, May 1536. The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments L8r g8r by lauren myracle![]() ![]() “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie.Two other books, “Looking for Alaska” by John Green and “Monday’s Not Coming” by Tiffany Jackson, are under further review.įour books were moved to high school media centers. The school district said there is a review process and rating system to determine if a book is appropriate. “I think that cancel culture and just canceling everything instead of talking about tough questions is also a big issue,” father Jonathon Feicht said. Parents are questioning how the books got into schools if they’re so bad. Early spring or more winter? Georgia groundhogs make their predictions. ![]() Several students pepper-sprayed after large fight breaks out at DeKalb County high school.“The Infinite Moment of Us” by Lauren Myracle.“Out of Darkness”” by Ashley Hope Perez.“Me Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews.“Juliet Takes a Breath” by Gabby Rivera. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lorentz was also responsible for the Lorentz oscillator model, a classical model used to describe the anomalous dispersion observed in dielectric materials when the driving frequency of the electric field was near the resonant frequency, resulting in abnormal refractive indices.Īccording to the biography published by the Nobel Foundation, "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory." He received many other honours and distinctions, including a term as chairman of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, the forerunner of UNESCO, between 19. He derived the Lorentz transformation which Albert Einstein subsequently used to make claims to special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which describes the combined electric and magnetic forces acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz ( / ˈ l ɒr ən t s/ 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. ![]() Formulas for the curl of the magnetic field (IV) and the electrical field E (V), La théorie electromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants, 1892, p. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Make boundaries find peace![]() ![]() You make comments about helping people but getting nothing in return.You avoid phone calls and interactions with people you think might ask for something.You feel resentment toward people for asking for your help.Here are signs you need boundaries, according to Tawwab: If you’re wondering if creating boundaries could help you, Tawwab reveals when it might. ![]() And yes, that can include skipping family or social events that feel draining or unhealthy - sorry Aunt Sarah - or declining requests to lend money to friends. ![]() Practically speaking, boundaries can be as simple as not allowing people to smoke in your home, as Tawwab discovered she could request of her mother, noting you will be unavailable to work overtime or simply saying no to requests that aren’t in line with your goals or that feel uncomfortable. In psychology, a boundary is simply a limit we set to protect our integrity, with this then helping us to set realistic limits on relationships or activities, the American Psychological Association notes. (Though you may find, after you set standards, that some situations are no longer a match.) Are we talking about building fences around our hearts or shutting out people in our lives? Not necessarily. What would that feel like for you? Probably pretty good.īut before you freely feel the breeze, understand what boundaries are. But that setting boundaries can set us free. As her book opens, Tawwab reveals that boundary issues can be disguised as other problems. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Oroonoko online![]() It starts in Africa, telling the backstory of the African prince, Oroonoko, and the cultural traditions that shape his character and values it then follows him to Suriname, chronicling his transformation into slavery. While short, the story covers a lot of ground. Students claim they are able to understand the role and evolution of the narrator much more clearly after reading this novella, including how and why the 3rd person limited and omniscient narrators were developed. The novel’s narrator is the author (or author surrogate) who tells the tale of the African prince since he is no longer able to tell it himself. ![]() It is also a good opportunity for students to practice “finding the main idea” of a sentence by searching for the independent clause a helpful skill for timed, external examinations. Teachers can use this as an opportunity to guide students through lessons about sentence structure – why and when we use different types of sentences and the effects they have on the reader. Students find the language of the novel difficult, mostly because of its sentence structure (although there are a few good vocabulary words in there as well). ![]() It is deemed to be the first novel written in English, published as a “true history”, making it an interesting study for exploring the ways in which the novel has evolved over the last 300+ years. This novella’s captivating slave narrative holds up as a gripping, tragic story in the 21st century. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Three dark crowns book 1![]() ![]() I'd much rather this information were integrated into the actual book(s) than published as a separate work. ![]() Generally speaking, I'm just not really a fan of this trend where seemingly every second series is complemented by one or more novellas. ![]() We can also talk about all the sitcom theme songs in this bio. I mean, whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV? Used to be everywhere you look, there's a heart, a hand to hold on to.Īnyway, I love to hear from readers so drop me a line here or at my website and we'll talk about friends to know, and ways to grow, and how if you threw a party you would see that the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend. My likes include animals, food, and nostalgia. ![]() There's more coming soon like ALL THESE BODIES and a new fantasy series, so don't waste another minute on your cryin. There's more to life that what you're living, so take a chance and face the wind. Fiction, philosophy, good books, bad books, because you take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have a stack of books and stuff. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. The Anna Dressed in Blood duo is horror, The Goddess War trilogy is mythology, and Three Dark Crowns is fantasy, because the world don't move to the beat of just one drum. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Complete shakespeare![]() ![]() Since its first recorded production, Hamlet has engrossed playgoers, thrilled readers, and challenged actors more so than any other play in the Western canon. The last of Shakespeare's great political tragedies, chronicling the life of the mighty warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus. ![]() The story of Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is madly in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra (1607-1608) Here you will find the complete text of Shakespeare's plays, based primarily on the First Folio, and a variety of helpful resources, including extensive explanatory notes, character analysis, source information, and articles and book excerpts on a wide range of topics unique to each drama. It is unlikely that Shakespeare was involved directly with the printing of any of his plays, although it should be noted that two of his poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were almost certainly printed under his direct supervision. With the exception of Othello (1622), all of the quartos were published prior to the date of Shakespeare's retirement from the theatre in about 1611. Before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, nineteen of the thirty-seven plays in Shakespeare's canon had appeared in quarto format. ![]() |