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5/21/2023 0 Comments To the Letter by Simon Garfield![]() ![]() ![]() In the process you find yourself wondering how Erasmus managed to reform the world while knocking out scores of communiques a day (at the end of his life the Dutchman reckoned he had spent over half of it writing to people, an annoying number of whom didn't bother to write back). Still, the nice thing about letters is that they lend themselves to rereading, and Garfield provides us with substantial extracts over which to pore. There's Abelard and Heloise, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller and a whole coach-party of Pastons. There are no surprises in the pageant of epistolary superstars that Garfield summons to celebrate the deckle-edged past. Now Garfield turns his attention to letters, yet another cultural form that looks as though it might soon be going the way of all paper. On the Map arrived just as sat navs made battered A–Zs redundant. Just My Type explored the historical nooks and crannies of Gill Sans and Times New Roman at the moment everyone was tipping towards e-readers. ![]() Over the last few years Simon Garfield has made it his job to remind us of what we risk losing in the rush towards a virtual world. ![]() ![]() I’m usually really into stories that involve time travel, but this one doesn’t sound appealing. This was another freebie I picked up at some point, so I’ll pass. Also, the two main characters both have alliterative names, and there doesn’t seem to be any reason as to why. ![]() The title doesn’t make sense after reading the synopsis. The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson – GO. I think the only reasons I got this ebook were because of the setting and it was free. As much as I love a story set in Scotland, I’m not into Faeries all that much. This week’s books:īlood Faerie by India Drummond – GO. I am less than 20 pages from finishing Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, though, so next week should see at least a tiny decrease in the height of the pile. I was hoping to have finished at least one book by today, but that didn’t happen. ![]() My TBR pile is still at 679 books from last week. I will be repeating this process until I’ve filtered out my entire TBR. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Serendipities by Umberto Eco![]() ![]() In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities-unanticipated truths-often spring from mistaken ideas. ![]() While some false tales produce new knowledge (like Columbus's discovery of America) and others create nothing but horror and shame (the Rosicrucian story wound up fueling European anti-Semitism) they are all powerfully persuasive. The fictions that grew up around the cults of the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar were the result of a letter from a mysterious "Prester John"-undoubtedly a hoax-that provided fertile ground for a series of delusions and conspiracy theories based on religious, ethnic, and racial prejudices. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America. Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s done it before, after all, when a boy and in good company: the brave tomfoolery of a midnight dip as the old year dies in the new year’s arms. Nearer he goes to the water, and puts out his tongue to the briny air: Yes - I’ll go for a dip, he thinks, dropping his coat on the marsh. He unbuttons his coat, he holds it open, but it’s not enough: he wants to feel the wind’s edge strop itself sharp on his skin. “ I’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,” he sings in his sweet chapel tenor, then laughs, and someone laughs back. I’ll go for a dip, he thinks, that’ll shake me loose and coming down from the path stands alone on the shore, where deep in the dark mud all the creeks wait for the tide. The collar rasps at the nape of his neck: he feels fuddled and constricted and his tongue is dry. ![]() ![]() It’s cold, and he ought to feel it, but he’s full of beer and he’s got on his good thick coat. “I’ll just go down to the water,” he said, and kissed the nearest cheek: “I’ll be back before the chimes.” Now he looks east to the turning tide, out to the estuary slow and dark, and the white gulls gleaming on the waves. He’s been drinking the old year down to the dregs, until his eyes grew sore and his stomach turned, and he was tired of the bright lights and bustle. A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Students should try writing sonnets, as that poetic form is historically associated with love. Students can write from their own experience or choose a character from the book and write their poem as that character. Have students write a poem from the point of view of someone who is exploring their feelings of love-for themselves, a family member, or for another person. Ask students to share what love means to them and the kinds of love they found in Last Night at the Telegraph Club. ![]() Also talk about the different forms love can take, such as self-love, parental love, family love, romantic love, etc. Have students explore their own feelings about love by writing a love poem.Īs a class, talk about love, attraction, and infatuation, and what the differences are. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a coming-of-age novel with a love story. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Orphan train author![]() "I have a lot of the actual historical material including pictures of real orphan train riders as children and as adults," Kline says. Her presentation will include a slide show with lots of photos and newspaper clippings. "It's a wonderful opportunity to be out in the world and hear what people respond to and what touches them or interests them," she said. She likes doing community reads, Kline says. It's been the subject of dozens of programs and reading groups, and will culminate with Klein's lecture and book signing at 7 p.m. Kline will be in Wilmington April 25 to talk about her book, which was chosen as the 2018 New Castle Reads book by New Castle County libraries. "What does it mean to be new to the country? How are you treated? How is different today?" "That's part of what the book is about, and I think that’s part of what people are interested in," Kline said in a telephone interview from her home in New Jersey. So do many of the poor kids in her history-based novel who end up being put on the orphan train in search of a home, job and safety. ![]() Christina Baker Kline, author of "Orphan Train," can draw a line from the events in her novel about New York orphans shipped west to today's bad treatment of Muslim and Hispanic immigrants.Īt the turn of the 20th century, she says, it was not unusual for Irish, Italian and other immigrants to find themselves spit at, called names and abused in many ways. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Valerie Fitzgerald, one of the country's leading real estate agents, candidly recounts her personal journey from unemployed single parent to entrepreneur, philanthropist, and renowned corporate executive.įrom beginners just getting started in residential real estate to seasoned agents - or anyone in business looking to take their game to the next level - this step-by-step guide teaches readers the art of selling. "Heart and Sold" is an insightful journey through the emotional and tangible challenges of regaining one's personal power while building and maintaining a successful business - regardless of the country's economic situation. ![]() ![]() And not nearly as cute and fluffy as I thought it was going to be. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it. Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.Ī long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. ![]() ![]() Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? ![]() Published by: Little Brown Books for Young Readers on January 2, 2012 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Home marilynne robinson summary![]() ![]() They tell different stories about what led to this rupture in our family, and so I, too, have become an unreliable narrator. It is generally believed that children form memories between the ages of two and three, and it was during this time of my life that my parents were separating. I don’t remember how long I’d been apart from my mother, but I know that I was sad and that I missed her and that’s why my father suggested we make a mermaid-mother on the shore with seaweed for her long black hair, Neptune’s pearls around her neck, and scallop shells to decorate her breasts. It is just the two of us-I see no others on the shore. In my mind it is winter-Avalon in the off-season-and I see us huddled in coats, wrapped in wool, bracing ourselves against the salt wind that blows in from Port Philip Bay. ![]() In one of my earliest memories I am standing on a beach with my father and we are sculpting the shape of a woman’s body out of sand. ![]() |