7/4/2023 0 Comments Depression by Sherry A. Rogers![]() ![]() ![]() Astaire himself would credit her as one of his best screen partners, but their films together were just the start of her long and storied career. Their dance routines were the epitome of class and grace, as well as possessing a chaste sexiness that transcended the censorial limitations of the period. Rogers had achieved stardom on Broadway before she was 20, and began making feature films shortly thereafter, but it was her collaborations with Astaire that elevated her from movie star to screen icon. That declaration neatly summed up the career of the Oscar-winning actress, which was marked by her seemingly limitless talents, which included starring in 10 sparkling screen musicals with Astaire, as well as subtle comedies like Stage Door" (1937) and "The Major and the Minor" (1942), as well as heartfelt dramas like "Kitty Foyle" (1940). As the saying went about Ginger Rogers, she could do everything that her famous dance partner, Fred Astaire, could do, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Goodnight moon book![]() ![]() When Brown was emerging as a writer, in the nineteen-thirties, most books for young children drew on classic fables and folktales, providing moral instruction on each page. Many readers now think of Brown titles like “ The Runaway Bunny” as tranquil introductions to storytelling, but they were radical for their time. At the age of forty-two, she died suddenly, in the South of France, after a clot cut off the blood supply to her brain. Her romances were volatile: she was engaged to two men but never married, and she had a decade-long affair with a woman. Her friends called her “mercurial” and “mystical.” Though many of her picture books were populated with cute animals, she wore wolfskin jackets, had a fetish for fur, and hunted rabbits on weekends. Anointed by Life in 1946 as the “World’s Most Prolific Picture-Book Writer,” she burned through her money as quickly as she earned it, travelling to Europe on ocean liners and spending entire advances on Chrysler convertibles. ![]() Bruce Handy, in his 2017 book about children’s literature, “ Wild Things,” confesses that he always imagined the writer Margaret Wise Brown to be a dowdy old lady “with an ample lap”-just like the matronly bunny from her classic story “ Goodnight Moon,” who whispers “hush” as evening darkens a “great green room.” In fact, Brown was a seductive iconoclast with a Katharine Hepburn mane and a compulsion for ignoring the rules. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen![]() ![]() ![]() Now running Nottinghamshire, Prince John has hiked taxes solely to enrich himself. Rob is of high political standing, technically, the Earl Huntingdon of Nottinghamshire, though he was forced out by a political strike in which Prince John accused Rob’s father of betraying the kingdom. ![]() Bitterly, she becomes an outlaw, passing as male to avoid legal incrimination. After catching her, he delivered an ultimatum: either she admit her crime and go straight to jail, or redeem herself by joining his clan. A number of years ago, Scarlet, then an amateur thief, had fumbled an attempt to steal from Rob. The novel begins by introducing the primary tension between Rob and Scarlet. ![]() Together, they face off against the antagonist Gisbourne, a thief consumed by greed, while dancing between a succession of revelations about each of the characters’ pasts. With “Rob,” she wanders Sherwood Forest outside Nottinghamshire, concealing that she is gradually becoming more interested in Rob himself than his moral mission. Updating the classic story of Robin Hood with a romantic twist, it follows one of the moral thief’s protégés, Scarlet, who poses as a man in order to join the band of Robin of Locksley after the vigilante blackmails her to join him. Scarlet is a work of English folklore by A.C. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The shores of the cosmic ocean![]() ![]() And what did they study? They studied everything. It was the first true research institute in the history of the world. On its dark side, super bolts of lightning illuminate the clouds as first revealed by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979. The largest planet in our solar system is Jupiter. A mere one and a half billion kilometers. We are now only 80 light minutes from home. Saturn’s majestic rings are made of trillions of orbiting snowballs. If it has a solid surface, it must lie far below the clouds we see. There are new worlds to chart even this close to home. The rings of Uranus were first detected in 1977. Its moon, Charon, remained undiscovered until 1978. Only a century ago, we were ignorant even of the existence of the planet Pluto. ![]() Even in the outskirts of our own solar system, we humans have barely begun our explorations. Only four light hours from Earth is the planet Neptune and its giant satellite, Triton. We are approaching a single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets: the family of the sun. Each system is isolated from its neighbors by the light years. ![]() ![]() Most stars belong to systems of two or three or many suns bound together by gravity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plant varieties selected to continue cultivating are often high in sugar and starch while low in fiber, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants. In Eating on the Wild Side, Jo Robinson discloses that humans have unknowingly been destroying the nutritional value of food since the first farmers 10,000 years ago. Great Books about Nutrition: Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health by Jo Robinsonĭuring one of my periods of reading a bunch of dietary books, I stumbled on this by chance at our local used bookstore. I’m about a third of the way through and I believe it will make it onto future books about nutrition lists. It’s my March book pick for my year of health experiment. I’m also currently reading Deep Nutrition by Dr. These books are informative engrossing reads that tend to combine history and science to give a full picture look into this ever changing and developing topic. ![]() In honor of that I’m sharing three of my favorite lesser known but great books about nutrition. Some experts say it is the most important thing we can pay attention to for our health. It’s also something that affects us every single day, likely three or four times a day. Our food choices are something that we have control over when we understand we have the ability to make changes for our health. Nutrition is one of my favorite nonfiction topics to learn about. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Obstacle Is The Way, the framework that Holiday offers is composed of three disciplines: perception, action and will. Holiday argues that if an individual learns the framework to flip obstacles into success (as many individuals with different types of successes have done so), he or she create can actually be better for it. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Holiday draws from Meditations, Aurelius, and the philosophy of stoicism to expand the central theme of the book, which is that how we respond to obstacles is what defines us. The title of the book is drawn from a quote from Meditations, a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius: “ The impediment to action advances action. ![]() It was inspired by the philosophy of stoicism. It is a book which offers individuals a framework to flip obstacles into opportunities, an approach crafted by Holiday. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph is the third book by author Ryan Holiday. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Cold storage david koepp![]() Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Then the lights go out–not just in Aurora but across the globe. In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. You can read this before Aurora PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Aurora written by David Koepp which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Aurora by David Koepp ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Mary jane by anya blau![]() Mary Jane quickly becomes an integral component of the Cone household, not only taking care of Izzy, but also cooking and cleaning for the family. ![]() Cone, a housewife who-scandalously-doesn’t cook or clean, and Izzy, their winsome daughter. Her familiar world turns upside down, however, when she begins nannying for the Cones, an unconventional family made up of Dr. In the summer of 1975, nothing has stopped earnest 14-year-old Mary Jane Dillard from loyally accepting her strict Presbyterian mother’s beliefs about what it means to be a well-behaved young woman. An adolescent girl comes of age in this nostalgic novel of 1970s Baltimore. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Warm bodies the new hunger![]() And in the darkness of a forest, a dead man opens his eyes. Hungry, lost, and scared, sixteen-year-old Nora finds herself her brother's sole guardian after her parents abandon them in the not-quite-empty ruins of Seattle. Born into this bleak and bloody landscape, twelve-year-old Julie struggles to hold on to hope as she and her parents drive across the wastelands of America, a nightmarish road trip in search of a new home. ![]() Then came a final blow no one could have expected: all the world's corpses rising up to make more. ![]() After years of societal breakdowns, wars and quakes and rising tides, humanity was already near the edge. ![]() ' In rich, evocative prose, Marion transports his readers back into the postapocalyptic parable he first brought to lifeor deathin his brilliant debut Warm Bodies.' Library Journal (starred review) ' Refreshingly unique.I love this novella.' LitStack The must-read prequel to the ' highly original' (The Seattle Times) New York Times bestseller Warm Bodiesnow a major motion picturefrom the author whose genre-defying debut turned the classic horror story on its head.The end of the world didn't happen overnight. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Kindred by rebecca wragg sykes![]() ![]() Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. ![]() Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox ** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** ![]() |