![]() ![]() The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY 'The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing.' GEORGINA MOORE, author of The Garnett Girls From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving.funny, witty, wise and superbly written.The age beautifully evoked' STEPHEN FRY 'Exquisite. Eva's latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER 'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES 'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. 'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice's books it has felt like a modern classic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something that Gary’s parents (& anyone their age) would at least would’ve mentioned. To make this trip, you’d catch the train to Flinders St, then another train on the Glen Waverley Line, to Glen Waverley! Google Maps would’ve told you this!! No mention at all by *ANY* character that the child was called “Gary Cooper” - a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. Overington is *OBVIOUSLY* not from Melbourne… And nor did she do *ANY* research on living in Melbourne… One cannot catch a tram from Footscray to the city, & the tram from the city stops at Burwood. ![]() ![]() ![]() The past decade has seen an unprecedented number of new books and novels about China, but aside from a handful of mass-market memoirs there was nothing definitive about its expatriate culture. ![]() Why did you feel there was a need for a collection of stories and anecdotes by Westerners living in China? What is it about that experience that interests you? I asked him about expat identity issues, to try and get under the skin of those “masochistic” enough, in his words, to call China home. He also did a book of photography based on trekking 35,000 miles through 33 provinces for two years. Tom is originally from San Francisco and has been living in China for a decade. ![]() Over at the LA Review of Books China blog, I interview Tom Carter in the wake of the collection of true stories from expat China he edited, called Unsavory Elements. The unbearable lightness of being an expat in China – a Q&A with Tom Carter ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() InstitutionsĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:01:19 Boxid IA40020917 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.-From publisher description Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it-because the world's religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. ![]() What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false-but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. ![]() ![]() He has always been considered weird, and the people in this Midwestern town have long pegged him as a "a careless, spacey, moon-eyed idiot." Now he has witnessed a crime and "couldn't identify the man" who did it.įinn's neighbor Charlie Valentine describes Bone Gap as "a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide." And this is where Finn must go to rescue Roza. ![]() Finn is the only witness to her driving off with the stranger "who moves like a cornstalk in the wind." When Finn can't describe the man, people look on him with suspicion. Sean falls in love with Roza, but she later - inexplicably - leaves Bone Gap with a mysterious man. ![]() Their lives are brightened by the appearance of Roza, 19, a sweet, lovely Polish girl who shows up on their farm one day with unexplained broken ribs and bruises. She has run off to Oregon with a new boyfriend, leaving the two young men to fend for themselves. ![]() Finn O'Sullivan and his older brother, Sean, are carrying the mighty weight of their mother's rejection. Laura Ruby creates a dark and terrifying alternate world in the ominously titled "Bone Gap," a novel for young people that deals with serious adult and criminal issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wurtzel wrote about her personal experiences of clinical depression in a way everyone could understand, and democratised the conversation in the process. In fact, it was arguably the first book to properly talk about it at all. ![]() Quite simply Prozac Nation changed the way we talk about mental health. ![]() ![]() Yet history would prove such criticisms to have missed the point. Sentences such as “My gifts are for life itself, for an unfortunately astute understanding of all the cruelty and pain in the world”, led one New York Times reviewer to wish for some Prozac in order to ease the pain of reading them. No one had read a book like it before, and some wished never to again. Wurtzel, who has died from cancer aged 52, was one of the first people in America to be given the drug Prozac, and her memoir, written when she was 26, splurged with unashamed abandon the wayward details of a childhood blighted by depression, an adolescence blighted by drugs and a period at Harvard blighted by extreme combinations of both. When Elizabeth Wurtzel published her wildly influential first book, Prozac Nation, in 1994, the critics hardly fell over themselves to praise it. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time she catches the eye of Prince Arnold of the neighboring Hyne Kingdom, which was the source of a world war, pestilence, resources depletion and even direct murder in all her previous loops. ![]() ![]() Rishe Vuetzner has had her engagement to the crown prince annulled, but this is the seventh time it's happened she's stuck with in a time loop, where no matter the job she takes or location, she always ends up dead at 20, five years after the annulment. As of June 2022, the series' individual chapters have been collected into three volumes. A manga adaptation with illustrations by Hinoki Kino began serialization on the Comic Gardo website in December 2020. As of November 2021, four volumes have been released. The series originated on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in February 2020, before being published in print with illustrations by Wan Hachipisu by Overlap beginning in October 2020. ![]() 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! ( Japanese: ループ7回目の悪役令嬢は、元敵国で自由気ままな花嫁生活を満喫する, Hepburn: Loop 7-kaime no Akuyaku Reijō wa, Moto Tekikoku de Jiyū Kimamana Hanayome Seikatsu o Mankitsu Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Touko Amekawa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Love Story: Ash has a job as a cleaning woman at the Halcyon Building that is owned by the Constantine’s and house their corporate offices. The heroine: Ash Elliot – Her father married a famous plastic surgeon named Manda Manford with hot but evil triplets who like to think that their new stepsister belongs to them. ![]() ![]() Win has a younger brother named Perry and his family have some sort of bitter rivalry with the Morelli family who killed Winston and Perry’s father. The Hero(s): Winston Constantine – CEO, Wealthy, Alpha male dominant with a side of kink. At the stroke of midnight, that choice may be lost for both of us. When she challenges me with an offer of her own, I have to decide if I’m willing to give her far more than cold hard cash.īut love can have deadly consequences when it comes from a Constantine. When I discover the one woman who doesn’t wither under my gaze, but instead smiles right back at me, I’m intrigued.Īsh Elliott needs cash, and I make her trade in crudeness and degradation for it. Cruel, rigid, unyielding-I’m all those things. As the head of the Constantine family, I’m used to people bowing to my will. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, his “Translator’s Note” makes the straightforward claim that he “almost always … the simpler and more direct rendering rather than the elegant or ‘poetic'” (p.xxii). I have a difficult time imagining this ideal, to say nothing of evaluating Caldwell’s success in attaining it. In contrast to John Dryden, who endeavored in his translation of the Aeneid“to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age,” 1 Caldwell claims that he has tried to make the Mantuan speak such English as a Roman contemporary of his would have used to translate the work into prose (p.232). It assumes no special background on the reader’s part and therefore supplies a great deal of information in its Introduction and notes, making it suitable for both high school and college students, as well as the general reader. In this Focus Classical Library translation of the Roman national epic, Richard Caldwell has produced a prose version in clear, idiomatic, and readable English, appropriate for anyone who “wants to read the Aeneid but doesn’t know Latin” (p.xxii). ![]() ![]() ![]() AdaptationsĪdam Canfield of the Slash was adapted as an audiobook read by Patric Girard Lawlor, Brilliance Audio, 2005. ![]() Writingsĩ Highland Road (nonfiction), Pantheon (New York, NY), 1994.Īdam Canfield of the Slash, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2005.Ĭontributor of articles to periodicals, including Redbook, People, Woman's Day, Glamour, and National Wildlife. Schorr Family Award for Distinguished Contribution to Mental Health. 1985, suburban reporter, columnist, investigative reporter, national political writer, education writer, deputy metro editor, currently national education columnist former staff writer for New York Times Sunday magazine. ![]() 1970s New York Times, New York, NY, beginning c. Education: Harvard University, graduated, 1974. ![]() |