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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Now, Zauner cries in H Mart, looking at the children eating ppeongtwigi, a food of her childhood, or seeing an older Korean woman, knowing her mother didn’t get to live to be that old. “Crying in H Mart” revolves around Zauner's relationship with her Korean mother, who died of cancer in 2014. On June 4, 2021, Japanese Breakfast released their third album “Jubilee” touching on a lot of the same themes in the book. ![]() This memoir, published on April 20, 2021, is an expansion of Zauner's essay of the same name which was published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2018. Zauner is the lead singer and guitarist of Japanese Breakfast. Zauner doesn’t ease into it, sharing right away that this is a book about her and her mother: the good, the bad, the grief and the culture they shared. It is terrifically simple yet tells you everything you need to know about what you are about to read. However, after finishing the book, I can soundly say this is one of my favorite opening lines of any book. ![]()
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Steve harmon book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() If all Steve did was go into the store beforehand and leave and having no part in the crime after that point thinking it was only going to be a robbery then he should be tried for only the robbery not the murder as he had no involvement in the murder only the robbery. All evidence the connects Steve to the crime point to him being the lookout, not being in the store during the crime and didn’t think the crime would escalate to murder. In addition if Steve were involved in the crime he shouldn’t be being charged with felony murder especially having a higher jail time then the people who committed the offence due to them “helping catch Steve” and having their sentence lessened. Sawicki that Steve is a good student and love film which can also be seen in the style of writing in the book being a film script as Steve was writing a film during this entire novel. Steve is even backed up by his teacher Mr. If Steve was busy working on a film he wouldn’t have the time to committee a crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Secondly Steve does have an alibi to prove his innocence in the film he was making at the time for a school project. ![]()
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Wide sargasso sea6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2022, it was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. She had published other novels between these works, but Wide Sargasso Sea caused a revival of interest in Rhys and her work and was her most commercially successful novel. Rhys lived in obscurity after her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939. Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation. Antoinette is caught in a patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's " madwoman in the attic". Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. ![]()
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Autobiography the story of my life6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to explain abstract concepts like love to Helen, Miss Sullivan must use simile to make the young girl understand the things that she cannot physically touch. You cannot touch love either but you feel the sweetness it pours into everything." (Chapter 6, pg. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. "Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. It is easy to forget the more negative moments of childhood, and she worries that she will not be telling her story accurately. ![]() She describes the mist as golden-a warm, positive adjective-in order to emphasize that her recollections of childhood all blur together in a positive haze of learning and experiencing. Helen describes her hesitation with writing down her own history with a beautiful simile that compares her hazy memories of childhood to a veil of golden mist. Buy Study Guide "I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist." (Chapter 1, pg. ![]()
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Wild ever after rebecca jenshak6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() □ Found family / fun, secondary characters □A hot jock that can't help but fall for his fake girlfriend □ A heroine who isn't well-versed in the dating scene □ A video that SHOULDN'T have gone viral Felix and Dahlia were a perfect match and so good for one another." - AEW "Full of spine-tingling chemistry, slow-burn romance, and fun banter, Scoring the Player was an absolute delight. Felix and Dahlia were a perfect match and so good for one another." - AEW □ A video that SHOULDN'T have gone □SCORING THE PLAYER IS LIVE□ ![]() □SCORING THE PLAYER IS LIVE□ "Full of spine-tingling chemistry, slow-burn romance, and fun banter, Scoring the Player was an absolute delight. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]()
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Butterfly hunter by julie bozza6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I loved it!ĭave Taylor is a wonderful but lonely man, his childhood sweetheart dumped him and immediately got married and had a baby. I wasn’t familiar with the author, but I’m always up for a story set in Australia, and butterflies are cool, so I thought I’d give it a try. I read another book set in Australia about a man looking for butterflies, and it referenced this book. ![]() However Nicholas Goring is no ordinary tourist, his search is far from straightforward, and it’s starting to look as if the butterflies don’t want to be found.Īs Dave teaches Nicholas everything he needs to survive in the Outback he discovers that he too has quite a bit to learn – and that very often the best way to locate something really important is just not to want to find it… ![]() It started as a simple assignment for Aussie bush guide Dave Taylor – escort a lone Englishman in quest of an unknown species of butterfly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even with just the bare remains of the fish, the experience has changed him and altered the perception others have of him. Santiago gets back to shore - weary and tired - with nothing to show for his pains but the skeletal remains of a large marlin. The sharks eat the flesh of the marlin, and Santiago is left with only the bones. Santiago does his best to fend off the sharks, but his efforts are in vain. Santiago has to drag the marlin behind the boat, and the blood from the dead fish attracts sharks. This victory does not end Santiago's journey he is still far out to sea. A kind of kinship and honor develop between the fish and the man. Finally, the fish - an enormous and worthy opponent - grows tired, and Santiago kills it. To avoid letting the fish escape, Santiago lets the line go slack so that the fish won't break his pole but he and his boat are dragged out to sea for three days. ![]()
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Peak by k anders ericsson6/27/2023 ![]() No matter what role innate genetic endowment may play in the achievements of “gifted” people, the main gift that these people have is the same one we all have-the adaptability of the human brain and body, which they have taken advantage of more than the rest of us. Chapter 8: But What About Natural Talent?.Chapter 6: Principles of Deliberate Practice in Everyday Life.Chapter 5: Principles of Deliberate Practice on The Job.Chapter 1: The Power of Purposeful Practice.Much of deliberate practice involves developing ever more efficient mental representations that you can use in whatever activity you are practicing.The goal, with deliberate practice, is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before.Once you reach a level of “acceptable” performance and automaticity, the additional years of “practice” don’t lead to improvement.The right sort of practice carried out over a sufficient period of time leads to improvement.People aren’t born with fixed reserves of potential instead, potential is an expandable vessel, shaped by the various things we do throughout our lives.In Peak, Ericsson shows you how to get better at the things you care about. ![]() ![]() We all have the seeds of excellence within us its just a question of nurturing them properly.Anders Ericsson has made a career studying top performers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() On the 31 st, Mars sets at 11:53 p.m., PDT, and is 93-percent illuminated and 4.7 arcseconds wide. The planet sets at 12:54 a.m., PDT, and is 91-percent illuminated and 5.4 arcseconds wide. On the 1 st, Mars is due west and two-thirds of the way up from the horizon. Mars crosses from Gemini the Twins to Cancer the Crab on the 16 h. Venus continues to increase in brightness and width and to decrease in the percentage of its disk that is illuminated. ![]() On the 31 st, the sun sets at 7:59 p.m., PDT, and Venus sets at 11:21 p.m., PDT, and is 52-percent illuminated and 23 arcseconds wide. Venus is 66-percent illuminated and 17 arcseconds wide. On the 1 st, the sun sets at 7:37 p.m., PDT, and Venus sets at 11:07 p.m., PDT. Venus is due west and about a third of the way above the horizon after sunset. Do not observe any planet when it comes close to the sun, for the danger to the eyes is great. Mercury is 43-percent illuminated and only eight arcseconds wide. The planet rises just north of east and stays close to the horizon. On the 31 st, Mercury rises at 4:35 a.m., PDT, and the sun rises at 5:43 a.m., PDT, 68 minutes later. On the 29 th, Mercury reaches greatest western elongation, 25 degrees west of the sun. Mercury rises due east at 6:04 a.m., PDT, and the sun rises at the same time on the 1 st, and so the planet is not observable. Here are the events happening in the sky of southern California. This is the Griffith Observatory Sky Report for the period between May 1 and May 31, 2023. ![]()
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The neverending story book english6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Oh well, my lasting thought after reading TNS now is. ![]() The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. He is supposed to be the hero of the book (or is that Atreyu?), shouldn't we like him?Īll in all I thoroughly enjoyed reading TNS, it brought back a lot of childhood memories, which are always enjoyed, even if they were of the movie and not the book. The Neverending Story ( German: Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. Ende was going for, why should we like Bastian if he doesn't even like himself, but it just gnawed at me throughout. ![]() I understand he was a human in Fantastica and all he was losing himself and his memory and all that jazz, but he didn't keep any shred of likeableness (if that's a word). one of the main things that bothered me throughout, I guess the second half of the book is that I really, really, didn't like Bastian at all. Needless to say it didn't work out to well, and anyway what movie and book are really the same? Anyway, my impressions of the book version of TNS. Read the book that inspired the classic coming-of-age film before it's back onscreen in select theaters this September From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. His most successful titles in the UK are Momo and The Neverending Story, both of which were made. The Neverending Story, what can I say, well, first off, I couldn't help but compare the book to the movie in my head, even though I haven't seen the movie in god knows how many years, and this is the first time I've read the book. He wrote 30 books, not all were translated into English. ![]() |