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![]() ![]() It’s the Summer of 1899 in a small town in Texas and the heat is almost unbearable. Why did I read this book: I have been working my way through Newbery medal winners and honors. It turns out that every drop of river water is teeming with life – all you have to do is look through a microscope!Īs Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century. She also spends a lot time at the river with her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist. Her mother has a new wind machine from town, but Callie might just have to resort to stealthily cutting off her hair, one sneaky inch at a time. ![]() The summer of 1899 is hot in Calpurnia Virginia Tate’s sleepy Texas town, and there aren’t a lot of good ways to stay cool. ![]() ![]() Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. ![]() But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. ![]() As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Courtyard an undercover FBI agent Aldo Sax investigates a seemingly-disconnected yet identical series of murders that all lead back to a Lovecraft-obsessed subculture. Lovecraft, the book is itself an entry into that luminary’s Cthulhu Mythos. ![]() ![]() This book collects both the earlier two-part story The Courtyard and its later four-part sequel Neonomicon, both written by Alan Moore and drawn by Jacen Burrows. I’ll rate it a bit more in-depth and discuss several different factors instead.įirst, the premise. I’ve decided not to give a simple overall star rating to this book because my opinion is very complicated. I figured I should read the real thing first on general principle. Lovecraft, both because I was planning to read Neonomicon, Alan Moore’s tribute to Lovecraft and the first winner in the newly-created graphic novel category of the Bram Stoker award, and because I have another Lovecraft tribute anthology I won through Goodreads. I recently introduced myself to the works of H.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() And this discussion doesn’t apply only to scientists. Colleagues in the Midwest and the South describe exactly this kind of conversation, and I’ve had similar talks even in cosmopolitan Berkeley. ![]() If you do, they almost certainly won’t be able to grow up with their grandparents. ![]() You’ll have to wait to have kids, and you may not have them at all. You’ll be separated from your partner for long stretches of time. You’ll move around from place to place unpredictably, from college to graduate school to postdoc research to professorship, until you’re 40 or so. The honest answer? “If you join us, the chances are very slim that you’ll end up living in your hometown. My family and friends are all nearby, and I’d like my kids to live in my community and take part in the same traditions I grew up with. My parents are looking forward so much to being grandparents, and my own grandparents need me to look after them. I have a boyfriend who also wants to be a scientist, and I’d like to get married and have a bunch of kids here soon. The young woman replies, “That sounds fantastic! But there’s just one thing. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has puzzled critics for over a century. While other Twain novels such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and The Prince and the Pauper are also set in medieval Europe, far from the author’s more familiar milieu of mid-19th century Missouri, Recollections is unique in its somber tone. Narrated by a fictionalized version of Joan’s servant and scribe, Sieur Louis de Conte, the book spans the majority of Joan’s life, beginning with her childhood in eastern France and ending with her questionable trial and execution. ![]() Published in 1896, when its author was 61, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc has long been viewed as something of an aberration, a curio-the type of genre-bending work that a bored, established writer often undertakes in order to buck audience expectations. The same might also be said of his book about the French heroine. Even for those entrenched within the competitive world of Twain scholarship, stories like the one above are usually treated as interesting, but ultimately trifling, anecdotes, illustrative of the eccentricities of a predictably unconventional man. ![]() Mark Twain’s obsession with Joan of Arc has to rank among the most baffling and least talked about enigmas in American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it was published in 1989 and the action takes place in 1956, the questions and concerns of The Remains of the Day all remain vital and interesting now, and stretch far beyond the secret world of British upper classes it takes as its setting. For me the book is particularly poignant because of my own experience of the topics dealt within it, as my grandmother lives in a castle that is still served by staff (though they don’t live on site). It tells the story of the life of a butler, Mr Stevens, who works in a great English country house, Darlington Hall, and the challenges he faces when he comes to look back on his past in his twilight years. Photo by Frankie Fouganthin (CC BY-SA 4.0) Kazuo Ishiguro is among the most celebrated authors writing in the UK now, and The Remains of the Day is probably his most famous work. ![]() ![]() ![]() She began collecting stories from women in the community who remembered Steele, some of whom were delivered by her. Rebecca Steele, a midwife who once lived in their home. While pregnant with her second child, McKay made inquiries about midwifery in the area and learned about Mrs. ![]() The couple purchased the house 20 years ago and knew nothing of its particular magic. The house where McKay and her husband Ian live is the original Birth House and inspiration for her first novel. The international bestselling author of The Birth House, The Virgin Cure, The Witches of New York and Daughter of Family G exudes pure joy as she talks about her writing, her family, her community and her life. Ami McKay sits in her sun-drenched dining room in Scots Bay, sipping tea while monitoring the chocolate chip cookies she is baking for her youngest son who is away at university in Montreal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The publication of the book heralded the arrival of the second-wave feminist movement. Her research on The Feminine Mystique began during the 1950s when she conducted a survey among her fellow Smith alumnae and found that many of them lived discontented lives as housewives. The couple had three children and settled in Rockland County, New York where Friedan became a homemaker and a freelance writer. While there, she worked in a series of odd jobs until meeting Carl Friedan, an aspiring theater producer and advertising executive. She spent a year at the University of California – Berkeley on a fellowship to pursue advanced work in psychology before moving to New York City in 1943. Friedan attended Smith College where she studied psychology and graduated summa cum laude in 1942. Betty Friedan was the oldest of three children born to Harry Goldstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a jeweler, and his wife Miriam Goldstein, a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a journalist until Friedan was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I hear that two-part interview has been downloaded 4.2 million times! Oprah: Welcome, Brené! The first conversation you and I had together almost nine years ago was also the first episode ever of our Super Soul podcast. Oprah and Brené-who have met up many times in the intervening years-recently got together to talk about fear, connection, the state of our country, and much more. Brené’s groundbreaking new book, Atlas of the Heart, builds on her 20-plus years of pioneering research to explore and expand the vocabulary of feelings. Megastar author, professor, and podcast host Brené Brown and Oprah first sat down in 2013 to explore the courage it takes to be vulnerable. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]() |