It further establishes Lavery as one of the most innovative and engaging voices of his generation-and it may just change the way you think about Lord Byron forever. From a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTVs House Hunters, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables, Columbo, Nora Ephron, Apollo, and the cast of Mean Girls, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a hilarious and emotionally exhilarating compendium that combines personal history with cultural history to make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith. Lavery is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids-from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. Jordy Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and Merry Spinster, writer of Slates Dear Prudence column, and cofounder of The Toast comes a hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture-from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure. Book Synopsis One of our smartest, most inventive humor writers, Ortberg combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation.
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The book focuses not only on the classic systems of proportioning, such as the golden section and root rectangles, but also on less well known proportioning systems such as the Fibonacci Series. Explanations and techniques of visual analysis make the inherent mathematical relationships evident and a must-have for anyone involved in graphic arts. Geometry of Design-the first book in our new Design Briefs Series-takes a close look at a broad range of twentieth-century examples of design, architecture, and illustration (from the Barcelona chair to the Musica Viva poster, from the Braun handblender to the Conico kettle), revealing underlying geometric structures in their compositions. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as well as the essential qualities of life. At last, a mathematical explanation of how art works presented in a manner we can all understand. I will admit, here, that I have no first-hand experience of real life kids responding to these books. And they always have a perfectly wonderful day. In each book, the sisters Chirri and Chirra take their bikes on adventures - “ Dring-dring!” - exploring nature or the nearby town, meeting friendly creatures, and finding delicious things to eat. It’s six adorably chipper books by Japanese author/illustrator, Kaya Doi. The Chirri & Chirra picture book series is one of my faves. State of emergency or not, though, all the same anxieties come to visit me, so I like to search out and hold dear books that are just plain and simple goodness. For me they’re an escape, and obviously now is a good time for that. Hi! Since your eyes are here, I’m assuming books are important to you for one reason or another. This post was written by artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and da Shop bookseller, Mariko Merritt Evie, Lottie and Amber start a Spinster club to talk about feminist issues and what it’s like to be a teenage girl. It shows three teenage girls who become increasingly aware of how messed up our society is when it comes to gender equality and decide to do something about it. Bourne deals with many important topics within mental illness, such as how we speak about it and how people suffering with mental illness are treated, in a way that really makes you consider your own life.įeminism is one of the main aspects in Am I Normal Yet? and is mentioned in a completely new and refreshing way. The reader feels like they are suffering with Evie and Bourne allows you to fully get inside the mind of the character as her mental health declines. Bournes writing style is completely gripping and the story flips between current events and looking back at how things were when she was very ill, before she was ‘normal’. Connie and her husband were now completely reconciled. When she returned, her sister came to see her and helped her get ready for a party they were invited to that evening. She made up a reason for leaving so that she could get away and have some time to herself. And when Francesca discovers a trail of deception and lies, when someone very close to her investigation is murdered, Francesca realizes that the evil force behind the girls' abductions may try to find a way to silence her too-if she dares to uncover the truth.įrancesca agreed to marry Calder Hart and then disappeared for a month. Francesca remains torn between the two very different men-but she desperately tries to set aside the affairs of her heart when she discovers that Emily isn't the first girl to vanish in recent weeks. But Rick Bragg is wed to another.and his dazzling wife has just returned after four years abroad to reclaim their marriage. Only one person can help her learn the child's fate-but Police Commissioner Rick Bragg may not want to get involved because Francesca has just stunned Rick by accepting a proposal of om none other than his own rival.įrancesca still questions her decision to marry the powerful and notorious Calder Hart. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O'Hare is missing and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted. It is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress, undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of New York. Realizing that something is terribly wrong, S.T. may be a bird, but he loves many aspects of human culture, and he’s alarmed when his owner, Big Jim, begins to behave strangely and undergo physical changes. Kira Jane Buxton’s debut puts a deliriously original spin on the viral zombie apocalypse as human civilization’s collapse is witnessed - and challenged - by S.T., a pet crow. Here’s what Jeff said about Hidden Kingdom. The sequel, Feral Creatures, finally arrived last summer, and sees the return of our favorite apocalyptic corvid and his faithful friends as they try to keep the last human alive in a rapidly worsening apocalypse.īack cover of the paperback edition of Hollow Kingdom Jeff Somers at the B&N Blog turned me onto Hidden Kingdom in his list of the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of August 2019, calling it “a darkly hilarious twist” on the zombie formula. I challenge you to find another zombie novel with a Good Housekeeping endorsement.) The tale of a zombie apocalypse seen through the eyes of a caustic (and foul-mouthed) crow was a finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor, and chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Book Riot, NPR, and Good Housekeeping (And that’s not something you see every day. Kira Jane Buxton’s debut novel Hollow Kingdom was the sleeper fantasy hit of 2019. Hollow Kingdom and Feral Creatures (Grand Central Publishing,Īugust 2019 and August 2021). Finty was my favorite as she takes to Twitter - #Harold Fry, #Queenie Hennessy, #hospice, #respect. The feisty and sometimes potty mouthed Finty, Pearly King, Barbara, Mr. But yet it was delightful to come to know some of Queenie's fellow patients who will make you laugh as well as cry. A dying woman is in hospice writing a letter seeking forgiveness. There should be nothing light about this story. We learn so much about Queenie in her letter - about her childhood, her days at the university where she studied the classics, her losses, her time working with Harold and how she spent her days after leaving, living in a beach house and tending her beloved sea garden. At the same time, that man, Harold Fry is on a walking journey to see her before she dies. Queenie is in a hospice spending her last days writing a letter to a man she worked with at a brewery in an English town. Rachel Joyce in this novel has answered all of the questions I had about Queenie and I now know that she was worth every mile that Harold walked and then some. While I was reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, I often wondered about who Queenie Hennessy really was and why Harold Fry would make a trek walking hundreds of miles to see her before she dies. "In those 15 or 30 seconds that they had my phone, it only takes five steps to get to the screen in Exodus where you can take a picture of the seed phrase," giving them access to the wallet, he said. Hunter put the money into the wallet and 45 minutes later it was gone. Hunter and the Kennedys returned to the UK, and the following Monday the so-called investors said the deal was on and they needed $206,000 commission in Bitcoin in the Exodus wallet, to be distributed after the paperwork was signed. To do that the miscreants said they needed to get the QR code of the wallet, so Hunter turned his phone to face the two men, with one using his phone to scan the code while the other talked to the Coin Publishers execs, a ruse Hunter believes was done to distract them.įewer than 30 seconds later they returned the phone to Hunter and sent the $10. They said they wanted to run a test transaction by sending $10 in Bitcoin into the new Exodus wallet. The Bitcoin request seemed odd, but the two men said they wanted to avoid paying taxes, Jonathan Kennedy told The Register. They wanted us to create an empty Exodus wallet, which we did." "They wanted to know how they were going to get it. "They brought up the subject of that commission," Hunter said. They sat at a table in the bar with "Moreno" and another man calling himself "Richard Janssens" on one side and Hunter and the Kennedys on the other. Protagonist Jimmy Rabbitte, who formed and managed the Commitments, is still a musical hustler, but now his racket is reuniting and reissuing music from bands of that earlier era, many of whom he holds in great contempt. This represents a return to form, not quite a sequel to that debut and not quite as good but a novel that shows how the musical generation he chronicled earlier is now dealing with mortality, family, nostalgia and all sorts of issues of getting older but not necessarily smarter (or, in some cases, happier). The prolific author has since written some novels that are even better than the first, though his recent output has been more erratic. The publication of The Commitments (1987) established Doyle as a master of the Irish vernacular, earning its place on the short shelf of great rock novels and inspiring a movie that reached an even wider audience. In this entertainingly chatty novel, the Irish author revisits some characters from the well-received debut that launched his career, but he isn’t quite sure what to do with them. |
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