![]() She basically starts puzzling her life together. For the first time in her life, she has some time to herself. ![]() ![]() There, she has to wait a couple of days before the next train comes. Not long after, Joan finds herself stuck in a rest house in the middle of the desert. Blanche however feels quite satisfied with her life, even if she did travel on a very long and rocky road to get to her current destination. Because Joan thinks her life is much better than Blanche’s. When Blanche tells Joan the story of her life, that she followed her heart with mixed results and that she moved down in social status because of her marriage, Joan pities her. Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, she comes across an old school friend, Blanche Haggard. ![]() Joan Scudamore is a complacent woman who’s married to a lawyer and has three children. Agatha Christie described this book as “the one book that has satisfied me completely - the book I always wanted to write.” That was all the motivation I needed to pick this one up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sau đó, cô tiểu thư từ ao sen bước lên, đi qua chỗ thầy đồ dạy học thì thấy tờ giấy ghi hai câu thơ kia. Có lẽ lúc ấy mãi say sưa thế nào mà cô chủ đứng yên quá, cho nên mặt nước ao phản chiếu lấp ló hình ảnh thầm kín… Ngày ấy phụ nữ mặc váy rộng mà lại không mặc nội y để che lấy “vùng vịnh”, nên mới có hình ảnh lung linh trên bóng nước… Vừa lung linh vừa thấp thoáng, thế mới làm khổ thầy đồ!Īnh đồ trẻ trông thấy, tức cảnh sinh tình, liền cất tiếng ngâm nga hai câu thơ sau đây: ![]() Một buổi chiều, hết giờ dạy học, thầy đồ tản bộ ra trước ao sen, cũng là lúc cô tiểu thư con quan đang đứng dưới ao hái hoa sen. Quan phủ có cô con gái trẻ nổi tiếng là ứng đáp trôi chảy, xuất khẩu thành thơ và sắc nước hương trời, vừa xinh xinh vừa đáo để. Ngày xưa, khá xưa… Quan phủ Vĩnh Tường mời một thầy đồ còn trẻ về dạy học cho đám học trò trong phủ. Câu chuyện này có nhiều phiên bản khác nhau đôi chút về tình tiết, và bài thơ trong chuyện cũng khác nhau một ít, nhưng điều này không đáng kể. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The museum, itself, which is located on Santa Barbara’s breakwater, next to the town’s picturesque harbor and wharf, proved to be fascinating, featuring many well-conceived and executed exhibits. Linda and I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and the dinner with Patti, Dave, and their other friends who attended. She has recently been commissioned to provide a large mosaic mural for the museum using ocean themes – thus the museum setting for her recent artist’s reception. Patti is a successful artist and life-long resident of Santa Barbara who is well-known for her work with wood-block prints and mosaics. They recently posed the question, and, ironically, they are the very reason for this week’s post.Ī few months ago, Linda and I drove down to Santa Barbara to attend a reception for Patti and her artwork at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Patti and Dave, our very good friends from Santa Barbara, California, stopped by for a quick visit this week on their way north. Occasionally, people ask how I get my ideas for these weekly posts. ![]() ![]() ![]() And where in the universe is the Starship? Many revelations follow, seen through the eyes of Complain.įIRST EDITION: Faber & Faber, 1958 ITION: Jonathan Cape, 1980 1.įaber & Faber, London, 1958 – reissued 1965, 1967Īs: Starship, Criterion Books, New York, 1959. Where are Roy Complain, Marapper and the rest of the Greene tribe? Well, they are tunnelling through hydroponic entanglements in a vast starship so many human generations have passed that the ship itself has become their world. The author’s first SF novel, immediately well received. ![]() For this is science fiction at its best, a realm where the logical happening is the unexpected one. But these classic ingredients have undergone a romantic metamorphosis: no tribe has ever been more thoroughly lost than the Greene tribe, and when Roy Complain and Priest Marapper set our for the fabled region called Forwards, they are heading for a series of shocks which will surprise the most hardened reader. Here is an adventure story complete with such traditional ingredients as a lost tribe, sinister traces of a mighty former civilisation, and a hero, Roy Complain, who, purged by peril, comes eventually to find himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a New York, NY : |b HarperCollinsPublishers, |c ![]() |a Hunger : |b a memoir of (my) body / |c Roxane Gay. |a NjBwBT |b eng |c NjBwBT |e rda |d SKYRV |d CoBoFLC Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. ![]() Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. The popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating act of violence that triggered her personal challenges with food and body image, sharing advice for caring for oneself and eating in healthful and satisfying ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a modern day version of the same world as we know from the other books – although it has evolved somewhat – but with a lot of explicit sexy times here. This book made me blush reading it, and I’ve read a lot of romance over the years. This is the first in a new contemporary paranormal series, which Carriger is self-publishing under the name G L Carriger because they are (very) different to her Parasol Protectorate and Custard Protocol series. The cover is a distinct shift from Carriger’s other books – but it works. I don’t read a lot of male/male romances, but because I love all of Gail Carriger‘s other work I had this on pre-order and was prepared to give it a go. This week’s Book of the Week was an easy choice – I devoured the Sumage Solution as soon as it was published last week, and read it as quickly as I could within the restrictions of having to work and go to bed to get enough sleep to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tower at Stony Wood is a re-telling of Lordy Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, which in turn derives from Arthurian myth. In the Forests of Serre takes the Slavic tale of the Firebird as it's source. For example, her novel Winter Rose is a revisioning of the traditional Scottish ballad, Tam Lin. Kraft), of McKillip's work often centers on known fairy tales, and her re-spinning of well-known tales. ![]() This period, from 1994 to today (many of which have covers by the incomparable Kinuko Y. She is perhaps not as known as some, for reasons that relate to what make Kingfisher an important piece of literature. McKillip, she's one of our contemporary fantasy greats. Strange is a haunting novella, providing timely warning via the world of the fey, of the oncoming global green-house gases and pollution disaster that is even now striking our oceans.įor those unfamiliar with Patrica A. Something Rich and Strange, had been unavailable for some time, but has re-releasedin last year's collection of short fiction by McKillip called Dreams of Distant Shores. ![]() This novel is of a piece with trends in her novels which I see as dating back to 1994, with her short novel Something Rich and Strange. This week, I finished a recent novel by one of my favorite authors and spent some time unpacking it on Twitter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Copyright 1999 by Play with Your Food, LLC. Parents can use it to talk about different emotions or to help children to identify and articulate their mood of the moment. a little shy?"), this appealing picture book is bound to spark discussion with young children. Adults and children alike will marvel at the range of expressions these fruits and vegetables possess-did you know just how many faces a kiwi could have? With simple rhymed text describing the emotions ("How are you when friends drop by?/ With someone new. ![]() One page reveals a wistful-looking poblano pepper being comforted by a cheerful red tomato, while another shows the amused, confused, frustrated, and surprised expressions of a green pepper, red pepper, orange, and apple. ![]() Who hasn't looked at a fruit or vegetable and seen a funny face? In How Are You Peeling?-by the creator of the whimsical Play with Your Food-the "natural personalities" of produce are enhanced with black-eyed pea eyes and the occasional carved mouth-then photographed in vivid colors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My appearance, the way I paired a print or tied a blouse, gave the illusion of confidence and mastery.” After more than a year without making a single sale, Halbreich suggested to management that she change her role to that of personal shopper. “I never had to look for work or even make a résumé for that matter,” writes Halbreich. The author’s sense of style trumped her lack of sales talent, and the novice sales clerk’s attire drew comment from fashion icon Carla Fendi. However, she commenced a new life when a friend convinced her to seek employment at Bergdorf Goodman. An early marriage transplanted Halbreich to the more competitive East Coast, and New York, she writes, “was an introduction to an aggressive pursuit of fashion I had never before known.” When the author’s 20-year marriage crumbled, she spiraled into depression, ultimately requiring psychiatric hospitalization. ![]() “From childhood to child bride to a childish mother, I had always been taken care of,” she writes. The author, 86, details her privileged upbringing in an affluent Chicago suburb during the 1930s. Her revealing memoir chronicles her career and personal life. ![]() For 40 years, Halbreich ( Secrets of a Fashion Therapist: What You Can Learn Behind the Dressing Room Door, 1997) has created fashion magic as a personal shopper with Bergdorf Goodman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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