6/10/2023 0 Comments Books like the overstoryThe way that Powers writes about trees is beautiful. One of the most impressive parts of this book is that all the characters and their stories do become. I like this part of the book best, because I generally enjoy character studies and not a lot of plot. The beginning- which reads like short stories- is a study and introduction of each character. There’s a lot going on in a forest, and Powers attempts to comment on all of it. It could have been cut by a good 200 pages or so. Perhaps like the growth of trees, this is a dense, slow book that’s overwritten at points. There’s one thing all the characters have in common: their love of trees. I found myself wondering how in the world these characters and their stories would connect, which is what motivated me to keep reading. The Overstory follows the lives of several characters who eventually come together.
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Bury heart at wounded kneeUsing council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warrors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. Signed first editions are decidedly scarce.įirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Brown.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. And may our “book exchanges” continue for at least another 23! Sincerely, D.A. Downs- my Super Chief for 23 pleasant years. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For R.B. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 49 black and white reproductions of photographic portraits of Native Americans. New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.įirst edition of this landmark work. Bury My heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.īROWN, Dee. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Startup book doree shafrirWhen Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she’s been away.īefore the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social-media manager in his office. Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. and he is about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business-in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech. Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Eleven paper heartsEnjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it. but will she find love? Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Following the paper hearts is the most spontaneous thing Ella has ever done. and take her on a journey she never imagined. The hearts contain clues to help Ella remember her life before. Now, a year later, she begins receiving paper hearts from a mysterious admirer who seems to have the answers she craves. or anything about the weeks before it, including the reason she broke up with her boyfriend. Then, you try to find out what it's about, so you read a little description on the jacket. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn't remember the accident. 11 Paper Hearts by Kelsey Hartwell 5,718 ratings, 4.05 average rating, 1,233 reviews Open Preview 11 Paper Hearts Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 Maybe a crush can be like a book you find at the library. But then something completely unexpected happened: a car accident after a Valentine's Day dance. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. Get into the Valentine's Day spirit with this romance about a girl who follows a trail of paper hearts from her secret admirer and learns that sometimes love can find you in mysterious ways. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Witchmark by C.L. PolkThe New York Times calls it “thoroughly charming and deftly paced. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. The Kingston Cycle is One of Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written C. WINNER of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Lammy Award ! One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazine One of the best books of 2018, according to NPR, Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, the Chicago Review, BookPage, and the B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog. llustrated with over 125 color photos, this guide includes: Practice for Radiance, Vitality, and Grace Gestating: A Prenatal Sequence Meditation for a Calm Heart Meditation for Couples Sequence to Relieve PMS-or to Slow Down and Experience Gratitudeĭo you feel anxious, frazzled, or fatigued? Are you struggling with addiction, attention deficits, depression, or compulsive behaviors? Could your mind or memory be sharper? If so, these are tell-tale signs that your brain could use a tune-up. Moon Path Yoga offers a comprehensive lunar rhythm practice that allows women of any age to awaken their innate divine feminine energy. Sierra Hollister helps women discover their unique moon cycle and offers specific sequences (kriya) for daily life, for mothering, for sexuality and relationships-as well as practices, breathing exercises, mudra, mantra, and recipes to provide support and balance. These “lunar” practices not only support well-being, health, and vitality through every stage of life, but also awaken and enhance Shakti-the divine feminine, creative life force. One of the oldest forms of yoga, Kundalini Yoga is a timeless tradition that includes powerful, specific teachings for anyone identifying as female. Experience the powerful, revitalizing, feminine “lunar” energy at the heart of Kundalini yoga practice, through this beautifully-illustrated guide with over 170 asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditations for practitioners of all levels. We're told how amazing he is by his wife, we're told how handsome he is by an ugly woman at a bar, etc. Ultimately just none of the characters felt great in this either, Harry comes off as flat. Especially how it transcends just this book and its in multiple works of his (books / short stories). Hemingway talks rather than thats how Character X talks. So things like racial language (the n-word and the Asian c-word) in the book more comes off as thats how E. I also mostly feel like the characters are him so their actions and dialogue is his actions and dialogue, like surrogate characters, rather than their own entities. Sometimes I find him deep and insightful and love his prose, and then others it just comes off as poor and amateur hour. Its funny, I have a hate/love relationship with Hemingway. The various chapters that are POV and then are omniscient, the going back and forth, the things like Harry losing his arm basically happening off-screen, the bad way that he tried to show the intersecting lives of the rich and the poor. Its not that its Hemingway's style that is bad its just the execution of it in this book. It screams amateurish and first-time writing. I technically finished this yesterday (9.23) (because I only had about 4 pages to go when I got to to work) ironically at work where when I didn't get the promotion I was told I read too much on my breaks and I should be spending that time socializing with my co-workers.īut anyway. Departing from the dry, theoretical writing of many management books, he presents his case in the context of a fictional organization, and in doing so succeeds at communicating his ideas. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.īuilding a cohesive team is not complicated, declares Lencioni. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Some have gone as far as to say that it is morally repugnant to believe in God. Setting that digression aside, it is more apt to this discussion to note that there are many atheists and agnostics that would argue that it is foolish to believe in God, or at least to have any confidence that there is a God. At least, it does not follow by that statement alone. A fool may say there is no God, but it does not follow that someone who says there is no God is a fool. Second, the logic doesn’t flow the way the Christian would like. First, fool is a moral category in Scripture, not “doofus” or “idiot” as we might think in our own culture. However, it is not helpful and often falls short of the mark. That quote, which opens Psalm 14, is no doubt true. Especially those who have been taught to begin debates with an assertion, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” To many Christians, this seems like an obvious answer. Is being a Christian at all intellectually defensible?
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