Looking for Me is a sweet and informative peek inside the life of a second generation Russian immigrant in Baltimore in the 1930’s. The author does create some beautiful imagery “In a year my entire planet will shrink to one locked hallway” and “Every time we came back to each other, his arms around me felt like the native country.” But the good moments were few and much of the text felt jostled and disjointed. This can be used successfully but in this piece feels clunky. Part of the problem is that the poems jump through time one in present tense, the next several years earlier and then into the future again. This book however reads terse, forced and unpolished. Her writing hits quick points, is passionate and powerful. Unfortunately, unlike the work of Ellen Hopkins ( Crank, Identical) which tackles difficult subject matter in a free flowing prose format. When I first started reading it seemed as if the book might be using an interesting and seldom used technique to delve into a persistent teen issue. Although the exercise of writing the book perhaps provedĬathartic for Corrigan, the reader gleans little from the disjointed prose and partially realized anecdotes. You Remind Me of You is a poetry memoir of author Corrigan’s experience living with an eating disorder and being partnered with a boyfriend who is a heavy drug user and attempts suicide. To say farewell to National Poetry Month I read one collection of poems for children the other for young adults.
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Manchester did not survive to finish the third volume, and enlisted the help of journalist Paul Reid to complete the task. Not a moment of it was boring, and while I’d say the book doesn’t dethrone David McCullough’s John Adams as my favorite biography, it does join it there, in equal splendor, although for different reasons. For folks who binge-watch TV shows, that is the equivalent of watching about 195 40-minute episodes back-to-back. The audio books are more than 130 hours in length, the equivalent of listening non-stop for 5-1/2 days. The three books total more than 2,000 pages. It is, officially, the longest biography I have ever read, far taking the 3-volume Theodore Roosevelt biography by Edmund Morris. Yesterday, I finished reading William Manchester’s massive 3-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion. Thank You for Your Servitude is Mark Leibovich’s unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party, tracking the transformation of Rubio, Cruz, Graham, and their ilk into the administration’s chief enablers, and the swamp’s lesser lights into frantic chasers of the grift. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. “The new must read summer book.” –Stephanie Ruhleįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. “Really fascinating.There are so many revelations.” –Anderson Cooper “His writing is so damn good.” –John Berman “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher “He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper This discovery led people to discuss “good germs” that were beneficial to us. Then Martinus Beijerinck discovered that certain types of bacteria could be useful to humans by turning nitrogen from the air into ammonia for plants to use. They were primarily focused on the role of bacteria in causing illnesses and not much else. Two hundred years ago, scientists thought of microbes as a disease-causing agent. Yong goes on to discuss the difficulty in replicating his findings, as no one else could see what he saw. He explains that it’s been difficult to study them because they’re so small and hard to see, but he describes the history of microbiology, starting with Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch lens maker who discovered that there were animalcules everywhere. Yong talks about how microbes affect humans. It was originally published in 2016 this guide is based on the 2018 paperback edition. Ed Yong, who has written for many publications such as The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, and Nature wrote this book. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life is an in-depth introduction to the microbiome and how it interacts with humans. 1-Page Summary of I Contain Multitudes Overall Summary
The Annex, another island, is “home to the support staff-men and women of lesser biological and social endowments.” Proctor Bennett lives on the main island and works as a “ferryman”-when his fellow residents become older or infirm, he escorts them to a boat that will carry them to the “Nursery Isle,” where they are reborn as teenagers who will then rejoin Prospera. Things aren't what they seem in the supposedly idyllic state of Prospera.Ĭronin’s latest takes place in Prospera, an archipelago state that “exists in splendid isolation, hidden from the world.” The main island is designed to be something of a paradise, “free of all want and distraction,” where residents are urged to pursue art and personal betterment. Jonathan's house was previously owned by Isaac and Selenna Izard, a sinister couple who had dedicated their lives to black magic, and plotted to bring about the end of the world. His next-door neighbor and good friend, Florence Zimmermann, is a far more powerful good witch. Lewis' uncle turns out to be a mediocre, though well-intentioned, warlock. Lewis Barnavelt, recently an orphan, moves to the town of New Zebedee, Michigan, to live with his mysterious uncle Jonathan Barnavelt. It is the first in the series of twelve novels featuring the fictional American boy Lewis Barnavelt. The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 1973 juvenile mystery fiction novel written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey. And like the pit viper, she can know what she wants and needs - and she can go in for the kill. Through cultivating the inner world, where everything is permissible, the child strengthens her third eye. In many spiritual practices the third eye perceives beyond sight - it intuits. Pit vipers have a heat-sensing organ between their eyes for the purpose of detecting prey. All sets of eyes are in threes rather than pairs - this is the lair of a pit viper. Wall works with embedded road reflectors conjure animal eyes at night. Ceramic vessels throughout the space contain her secrets, her grief, and her joy. When she preens in the mirror (garden gazing globe), she is reminded of her own power simply by seeing herself reflected. In the safety of her lair, life-force builds upon itself - like a forest in a sealed bottle. A garden arch (portal) is a symbolic gateway to serenity through which she passes from outer world to inner world, where no desire is taboo. An old satellite dish antenna is the bed upon which she dreams - sending and receiving signals from psyche to self, sharpening her instincts. The gallery is transformed into a young girl’s bedroom (lair). In The Inner-Garden, Everything is Permissible Per Dostoevsky, forgiveness is possible through suffering. The sun has before all to be the sun,” Porfiry Petrovich says encouragingly. The writer cherished hope that Raskolnikov can expiate his sin. A man, according to Dostoevsky, is not someone endowed with reason and logic, but one who deliberately goes off the deep end. Dostoevsky is convinced that without weaving one’s way through temptation and terrible hardships, without running against moral absolutes, it’s impossible to repent. And yet, the million-dollar question is what are the existential consequences of the crime and how to live with it. We know from the very beginning who killed whom, where, when, why - and even how. ‘Crime and Punishment’ is Dostoevsky’s most perfect crime novel with a psychological twist. He was a true original who pushed the boundaries of the genre, and of human expectation and ambition, too. In retrospect, his crime proves to be worse than the creepiest nightmare.ĭostoevsky never sought to be a crowd pleaser. “Am I a trembling creature or have I the right,” he unceremoniously asks himself, trying to figure out whether he is “a louse, like everyone else, or a human being?” It’s a done deal when the 23-year-old murders an old pawnbroker lady with an axe, for the sake of a moral experiment. Rodion Raskolnikov is a morally ambiguous young man, who allows himself to shed “blood according to conscience”. Vladimir Koshevoi stars as Rodion Raskolnikov.ĭmitry Svetozarov/The ASDS Film Studio, 2007 He became a philosopher after reading Schopenhauer, who suggested that God does not exist, and that life is filled with pain and suffering. Born into a line of Protestant churchman, Nietzsche studied Classical literature and language before becoming a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Read moreįriedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and author. Many themes of Nietzsche's later works first appeared here, making Human, All-Too-Human fundamental to an understanding of the author's thought. The style is particularly suited to this book, which rejects overly systematic thinking and conventional wisdom, anticipating both existentialism and post-modernism. Subtitled "A Book for Free Spirits," this volume marks the author's first use of the aphoristic approach, which he retained in his subsequent writings and elevated to new heights. More than 1,400 incisive and poetic aphorisms appear here. His manner of expression, however, takes a new turn. The philosopher reviews his usual subjects-morality, religion, government, society-with his characteristic depth of perception, unflinching honesty, and iconoclastic wit. With Human, All-Too-Human, Nietzsche challenges the metaphysical and psychological assumptions behind his previous works. "Offers dazzling observations of human psychology, social interaction, esthetics and religion."- New York Times Book Review |