Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney7/3/2023 ![]() Miss Rumphius raises questions concerning what it means to make the world more beautiful. ![]() ![]() ![]() He tells her that she must also make the world more beautiful, but he doesn’t tell her how. She decides because of the example that he set, she too wants to travel to faraway places and live by the sea. The book opens with Miss Rumphius sitting with her grandfather and being enchanted by his life story. But how do we acquire these values? Miss Rumphius illustrates two ways that this is possible: explicitly (listening to people) and implicitly (observing people and following their example). Values, in their simplest form, are the principles or judgments about what in life is important. Read aloud video by KidLit TV Guidelines for Philosophical DiscussionĮvery person has values, whether they know specifically what they are, or whether they just live by them without realizing it. She presents the same challenge to her great niece at the conclusion of the book. The next summer she travels, spreading lupine seeds. She has difficulty coming up with a way to do this until she plants lupines and the wind carries the seeds. ![]() Miss Rumphius’s grandfather tells her to make the world more beautiful. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary Miss Rumphius explores one child’s journey in learning how to make the world more beautiful. ![]()
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The Fly by George Langelaan7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() €˜The Fly’ was a short story that appeared in Playboy magazine. He was awarded the Croix De Guerre, and wrote a memoir tell the story ‘The Masks Of War’, in 1959.īut two years before this he penned another work about the power of transformation. His ears stuck out like a taxi doors, so along with a new identity he was given some plastic surgery to make himself less recognisable.Īfter being dropped, he was caught by the Nazis and condemned to death, but managed to escape from the Mauzac camp in 1942. To aid the French resistance movement, he agreed to be parachuted back there in order to meet a key contact, but was worried about being recognised. Rescued during Dunkirk after being stranded behind enemy lines, he then worked for the Special Operations Executive, a secret unit involved in sabotage and spying. Well, he began as a newspaper writer until the start of WWII, then found himself working for British Army Intelligence. By my reckoning, he didn’t get published until he was approaching fifty – so what was he doing in the intervening years? Vincent Price (R) Herbert Marshall (L) and Charles Herbert.Īlthough he was born in Paris in 1908, Langelaan was British, and lived a life far stranger than almost any of his fictions. ![]() ![]() A scene from the 20th Century-Fox Production “THE FLY”. ![]() Southland nina revoyr sparknotes7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Southland depicts a young woman in the process of learning that her own history has bestowed upon her a deep obligation to be engaged in the larger world. In the process, she unearths the long-held secrets of her family's history. ![]() Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, Jackie tries to piece together the story of the boys' deaths. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store Frank owned during the Watts Riots of 1965. ![]() A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. ![]() Veronika decides to die book review7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Zedka was the first character among Villettes, who becomes her friend. Where she met with many things and persons. Role-plays in Veronika Decides To DieĪfter committing suicide, Veronika apparently went into a comma, but anyhow, she survived and when she found herself alive, she found her self in Villette, a mental hospital in Slovenia. The writer brought twist through examining her character Veronika’s life in Villette where she met not with other characters but life itself. She decided to commit suicide by overdosing with sleeping pills, because of her ill thoughts of life. Veronika is the major one who took the role of making life worth living. The novel, Veronika Decides To Die, contains different characters dealing with the same question about life. Actually, Paulo Coelho gives some interpretations of life and defined his thoughts through the character ” Veronika”, a Slovenian young girl of 24 years of age. And yes, life is worth living and it needs some correct predictions. As it is said “life is itself a quotation”, so of is true, it isn’t easy to explain it well. Verily, the writer answered the question, ” is life worth living ?”, in this novel. The novel Veronika Decides To Die is written by Paulo Coelho that deals with the psychological terms of human life in different aspects. ![]() The 7th time loop7/2/2023 ![]()
What we lose zinzi7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The outcome is a fragmented narrative that at times frustrates. An assortment of episodes that reflects Thandi's own identity crisis, it mixes autofiction with non-fiction, including rap lyrics, blog posts, photographs of women who have fallen in love with serial killers and extracts from the autobiographies of Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela. What We Lose is a raw and thoughtful outpouring of loss and grief, identity and race, motherhood and relationships. Her role as an outsider takes on new meaning following her mother's death from cancer. Despite this, she feels estranged from her peers and colleagues, caught between two cultures – part American, part South African, full-time drifter. Thandi excels at school, gets a scholarship to a sought-after college and a job with an NGO in New York upon graduating. ![]() ![]() She considers herself light-skinned but was “dark enough that we often encountered the uncomfortable pause of a white woman in my hometown trying to discern our relationship: mother/daughter or hired help/charge”. Thandi’s mother – the axis around which this short but engrossing novel turns – is South African. ![]() Often mistaken for Hispanic or Asian, the colour of her skin sets her apart from her mother at a young age. A self-professed “strange in-betweener”, Thandi is a black woman of mixed-raced parents who has grown up in a predominantly white, middle class suburb in Philadelphia. ![]() My Policeman by Bethan Roberts7/1/2023 ![]() It is a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, of how at a time when the country was on the verge of change so much was still impossible. ![]() Unfolding through the dual narratives of Marion and Patrick, both writing about the man at the centre of their lives, this beautifully-told, painful, tragic story is revealed. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. But in an age when those of 'minority status' were condemned by society and the law, it is safer for this policeman to marry his teacher. Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman, and opens Tom's eyes to a world previously unknown to him. Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, she plunges into marriage, sure that her love is enough for both of them.But Tom has another life, another equally overpowering claim on his affections. ![]() ![]() And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him. From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten. ![]() Outpost by Ann Aguirre7/1/2023 ![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. May include "From the library of" labels. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). ![]() ![]() Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, neither was Miranda (she of the gathering storm), a journalist, who is sick and tired of WWI, the propaganda surrounding an unpopular war and injured American soldiers on the streets.Īnd, what's with all of these sick people lately? What's up with this new, weird influenza thing? In a true moment of irony, you might be amused to learn that I was originally going to read Peter Heller's The Dog Stars for my home state of Colorado (a novel which starts out at a location just minutes from my house), but it's a dystopian story centered around a flu pandemic, and I wasn't in the mood. Worst book to read during a pandemic: Pale Horse, Pale Rider. I've been humored by how many readers on here have cracked open Stephen King's The Stand during this pandemic, but now I know that I've read a worse book during quarantine, and it was by accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries - the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. ![]() |