![]() ![]() What does the driving incident tell us about Ruth? That she is like a different person. Why is mom always on the go? She deals with her problems through movement. He was in his "own self-absorbed funk" (163). Why does James continue to smoke pot? He does not care about school at the time. What turned James around? His step-father's death and his mother stress after the death of Daddy and her friend Irene (164). I had done some wrong things in my life, but I was still my parents' child" (158). Why doesn't Ruth enter the church? Ruth doesn't go inside because in her heart she was still Jewish. Why didn't her parents to go gradation? They didn't go because it was in a Protestant church (156). How dies Ruth react to the news about Peter? Her heart is broken and she decides to move to New York. What does Ruth find out about Peter? She found out that he got another girl pregnant and is going to marry her. ![]() How was the school in New York different from Suffolk? The high school in New York was ahead, and Ruth could not keep up. ![]()
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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Agent: Katie Shea Boutillier, Donald Maass Literary. The Roughest Draft audiobook (Unabridged) By Emily Wibberley. ![]() This literary spin on Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story aims for bittersweet, but lands on depressing. Most rom-com readers will object to the emotional affair between Katrina and Nathan while Nathan was married, and the pretentious, privileged Nathan and self-involved Katrina do little to redeem themselves. The prose is rather pedestrian for how loftily both characters discuss literature, and the alternating timeline between their work on the new novel and their collaboration on Only Once adds little. 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If you are perhaps more religious or into spiritualism, rather than cold hard science, you might get more benefit from this book than I did. There are however better and more recent books in this field. ![]() If you can read this and not take it too literally, bearing in mind when it was written, then there are some good points in it. This book takes a fairly literal view that the universe is manifesting your desires. There is good science which shows that you can train your mind to help you "tune in" to opportunities that meet your goals. Lots of examples are given in the text, some good and again some straying into the territory of "miracles". ![]() A bit of a dangerous message to those with serious illness. Further, in places it blames ill health and lack of prosperity on poor quality thinking, the implication being better thinking is all you need. However this book strays too much into religion in places, using bible quotes as if to support its points. There are some good points regarding how the subconscious mind works and how it can be used for your benefit. Firstly it must be understood that this book is of some age and the language and tone reflects this. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book presents The Heptameron and its investigations into gender relations, the nature of love, and the nature of religious faith in the context of the intellectual, religious, and political questions of the sixteenth century, setting it alongside Marguerite's other writings: her poetry, plays, and diplomatic letters. Her work reflects the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period, as the Renaissance re-imagined the past and the Reformation re-made the church, and represents her original and sometimes provocative position on these questions. Marguerite herself was deeply involved in the debates and conflicts of her time. The stories explore love, desire, male and female honour, individual salvation, and the iniquity of Franciscan monks, while the discussions between the storytellers enact and embody the tensions, ideologies, and prejudices underlying the stories. She is arguably best known for The Heptameron, an answer to Boccaccio's Decameron, a brilliant and open-ended collection of short stories told by a group of men and women stranded in a monastery. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. ![]() ![]() ![]() Putney has published twenty-nine books and counting. ![]() (“But why didn't anyone tell me that writing would change the way one reads?”) Like a lemming over a cliff, she gave up her freelance graphic design business to become a full-time writer as soon as possible. ![]() When the realization hit that a computer was the ultimate writing tool, she charged merrily into her first book with an ignorance that illustrates the adage that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.įortune sometimes favors the foolish and her first book sold quickly, thereby changing her life forever, in most ways for the better. While becoming a novelist was her ultimate fantasy, it never occurred to her that writing was an achievable goal until she acquired a computer for other purposes. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since. Mary Jo Putney was born on 1946 in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Severance,” the mall reads as a knowing gesture: Romero’s work, and the waves of subsequent entrants to the genre that he created, are, one gathers, part of the world that her characters inhabit. ![]() When “Dawn” was remade, in 2004, the Times called the unimaginative update “a cautionary tale for those dying to shop.”Ī shopping mall also features prominently in “ Severance” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Ling Ma’s zombie apocalypse of a début, which was published in August, won the Kirkus Prize for fiction in October, and has begun to pop up, as the year nears its end, on various best-of-2018 lists. This was an important place in their lives.” Romero’s satire, like the violence in his movies, could be blunt. ![]() ![]() When a still-living character asks, bewildered, “What are they doing? Why do they come here?” another answers, “Instinct, memory of what they used to do. At the mall, the creatures-stiff, as always, with frozen expressions-resemble the mannequins that surround them. Romero had more or less invented the modern zombie a decade before, in “Night of the Living Dead,” set mostly at a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. There is a scene early on in George Romero’s horror classic “Dawn of the Dead,” from 1978, in which a great tide of zombies converges on a once sacred American institution: the shopping mall. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not entirely sure what Jamie’s learned, since everything’s sort of handed to him at the end. That said, I think his emotional journey to self-acceptance could have been much more clearly defined. His heart ultimately seems to be in the right place. Plus, Jamie typically acts nicely, even if he’s a mess underneath. He’s not comfortable with his own sexuality and doesn’t know how to deal with anything or anyone. I was able to forgive Jamie his problems because they so obviously stem from his own lack of self-worth. Jamie’s not the sort of person who stands out in a crowd or an obvious hero. He’s not the most likable character in the world, and he isn’t particularly interesting, though he did feel real to me. He occasionally thinks or says things that don’t reflect well on him, including stereotyping of other gay guys early in the book. For me, though, while I didn’t emotionally attach to Jamie, I did feel for him. ![]() Some have found him hateful from the very beginning and, if that’s the case for you, the book will be torturous. 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One of his admirers was Gertrude Atherton, an author also living in California. 1,400 pagesTwo weeks ago the Story of the Week selection was “ The Eyes of the Panther,” from the Library of America collection of Ambrose Bierce’s writings.“ The Little Room,” Madeline Yale Wynneīuy this book: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulpsīuy both volumes of American Fantastic TalesĨ6 classic stories of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural. ![]() The Strid on the River Wharfe: photograph by Andrew N. ![]() |