6/10/2023 0 Comments The dirty life bookKristin and Mark’s plan to grow everything needed to feed a community was an ambitious idea, and a bit romantic. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of the couple’s first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through their harvest-season wedding in the loft of the barn. On an impulse, she shed her city self and started a new farm with him on five hundred acres near Lake Champlain. When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” ( Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Hannah arendt originsAt the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. 6/10/2023 0 Comments The curtain agatha christieIf you're only familiar with Christie's better-known works, check out this underrated classic. Bringing their own unique style, the characters leap off the page and bounce off of each other in entertaining, plausible ways. While the mystery itself is very clever (and the solution very satisfying), what really makes this one of Christie's best are the characters. When Shaitana is found dead after the game of cards breaks up - murdered literally in front of the whole party - it's up to the four detectives and the four "murderers" to figure out what happened.Īs noted by Bookrags, "Cards on the Table" is considered one of the finest locked-room mysteries ever devised, in part because of the large cast of characters who should have witnessed the crime. A man who lacks any sort of moral compass, Shaitana is a sociopath, but a charming, urbane one who almost makes the concept of "collecting" murderers seem cool. CrimeReads notes that Shaitana is one of the most memorable characters in any of Christie's books. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Stuart little novelAdditionally, the film gross more than $300 million at the box office. In their critical consensus, they wrote, "Critics say Stuart Little is charming with kids and adults for its humor and visual effects." The film's special effects were also nominated for an Academy Award. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film received a 67% fresh rating (based on 96 reviews). The first Stuart Little film also received positive reviews. The New York Time s said, "To say that "Stuart Little" is one of the best children's books published this year is very modest praise for a writer of his talent." Upon its release, Stuart Little received generally favorable reviews. In 2003, an animated television series based on the film series was aired but was canceled after one season. In 1966, an adaptation the novel narrated by late-night television host Johnny Carson was released in an episode of the television series Children's Theater (shown below). Ī second sequel, Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild, was released direct-to-DVD in 2006. Three years later, on July 19th, 2002, a sequel to the film was released in the United States (shown below, right). Fox as the computer-animated Stuart Little (trailer below, left). On December 17th, 1999, a live-action film adaptation of the book was released in the United States. The book went on to be considered a classic of children's literature. White published the book Stuart Little in 1945 (cover below). This is a book that can be appreciated on many levels. The sun eventually comes out, and the family heads outside to begin cleaning up. In the morning, things are better, and even though the storm still rages, something has changed, and hope for the future is restored. When thunder and lightning cause a nighttime power outage, one by one, the kids (and the dog) make their way to Dad’s room and the family begins to reconcile. Dad loses his temper, and everyone retreats to their separate bedrooms and stops talking to each other. Soon boredom and irritation overtake the household, leading to bickering, sloppy rooms, and an awkward self-haircut. It was unlike any storm we’d ever seen.” A father, three children, and a dog are forced inside their home together and find it hard to occupy their time. What did you like about the book? “A storm came to our town. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 6/9/2023 0 Comments The choirboys bookWambaugh used a group of ten patrol officers as his main characters that held end-of-shift "get together's" Wambaugh euphemistically coined "choir practice". The Choirboys was a tragicomedy that parodied the effects of urban police work on young officers, which Wambaugh exaggerated through the exploits of his characters, a group of Los Angeles police officers in the Wilshire Division of the L.A.P.D. Muhammed Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manilla, The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings in New Orleans to win the Super Bowl, and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox in 7 games to capture baseball's "fall classic", and Joseph Wambaugh penned "The Choirboys" Gerald Ford experienced two unsuccessful assassination attempts on his life, one by ex Charles Manson gang member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. "Apollo" and the Soviet "Soyuz" spacecrafts took off for their historic July 15th link up in space. Still a hot book, Wambaugh wrote this almost 40 years ago! What was happening in 1975? Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, the city of Saigon on April 30th was surrendered to the North Vietnamese and all remaining Americans were evacuated, thus ending America's role in the Vietnam War. In 1975, a Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist named Joseph Wambaugh wrote the controversial novel "The Choirboys". 24th, 2009 e mail Pembroke Pines, Florida 6/9/2023 0 Comments Plutarch's caesarBut who’s to say which one is correct? That is where the work of Suetonius comes in. Although this is the case, Plutarch and Shakespeare’s portrayals of Caesar and the events that encompass his life are quite different. Even Shakespeare used him as a historical reference in his play on Caesar. Plutarch was one of the world’s first modern biographers and his work is still used today. In fact a famous ancient writer named Plutarch depicted Julius Caesar as a power-hungry and arrogant man in his biography The Life of Caesar. However, this view is not shared by all of the biographers that chose to write about Julius Caesar. This quote also shows how Shakespeare perceived Julius Caesar as a prominent and influential man of his time. He is speaking about Julius Caesar and Caesar’s arrogance and overconfidence. These words were spoken by Cassius, a character in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. “He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus”? (Julius Caesar 1. 6/9/2023 0 Comments The great stink by clare clarkInspired by the true story of a politician’s wife who lived a double life for decades, Beautiful Lies is set in a time that, fraught with economic uncertainty and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own. When the notorious newspaper editor Alfred Webster begins to take an uncommon interest in Maribel, she fears he will not only destroy Edward’s career but both of their reputations. As her husband’s career hangs by a thread, her real past, and the family she abandoned, come back to haunt them both. But it is soon plain that Maribel’s choices are not so simple. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. Now years later, Joanne realizes her parents didn’t really hate her or think she was really ugly and stupid. Sadly, she also knew she had a sister to share the disappointment of her parents. Kate came along when she Joanne was six and Joanne was instantly in love with her baby sister. Joanne knows she’s stupid and ugly because her father told her, frequently. In order for either sister to move forward they are going to have to come face to face with each of their pasts. Now she’s helping her sister keep it together after Joanne’s illusions about her marriage come apart and and she has to make a new life for herself. Kate has made a promise to herself to never fall in love, absolutely avoiding the trap she swears she won’t fall in. After a whirlwind romance with Steve she grabs the opportunity to escape her hopeless life at home. Joanne is desperate for affection and to escape the bullying of her father. They never grew up with any kind of good examples the parents were unhappy and the girls grew up with conflicting thoughts about love and what it is and what is definitely is not. Sisters Joanne and Kate struggle with having successful loving relationships. Ms Brannan’s A 75% Solution is a standalone novel filled with tension and suspense. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Chéri by ColetteShe was the first woman President of the Académie Goncourt, and when she died, aged 81, she was given a state funeral and buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Her writing, which included novels, portraits, essays and a large body of autobiographical prose, was admired by Proust and Gide. She had a love affair with Napoleon’s niece, married twice more, had a baby at 40 and at 47. Colettte left Willy in 1906 and worked in music-halls as an actor and dancer. By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthier-Villas (Willy). It was, however, considered scandalous in its day. Colette described it as her most moral work, and critics aplenty have declared it a masterpiece indeed, no one could deny it was one of her most ambitious works. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. Chri is something of cautionary tale in that it exposes the tragedy of self-delusion and the cruelty of time. À mesure quelle éprouve le manque de conviction croissant de son jeune. Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France’s outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. Cheri By Colette Léa de Lonval, une courtisane de près de cinquante ans, est la maîtresse de Fred Peloux, appelé Chéri. |