6/29/2023 0 Comments Pages and co books![]() ![]() ![]() When her favourite fictional characters come to life, and Anne of Green Gables and Alice in Wonderland step out of their novels to visit her in the bookshop, she realises the truth about her mother’s strange disappearance isn’t the only secret being kept from her. ![]() Tilly lives above her family’s bookshop, surrounded by books and loving grandparents, but still confused about her mother’s mysterious disappearance when she was a baby. Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers combines the best elements of classic children’s books – adventure, mystery, and a magical world to explore – and serves them up in an original way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The dominant form of life on Earth for more than 200 million years, they were likely felled by two major catastrophes that occurred around 66 million years ago: “the largest asteroid known to have hit any planet in the solar system…hit Earth… one of the largest volcanic eruptions ever smothered parts of India in lava more than 2 miles deep.” Improbably, our planet has survived each of the five major extinctions. ![]() The most recent event, the extinction of dinosaurs, provides a case in point. ![]() ![]() “Animal life has been almost entirely wiped out in sudden planet-wide exterminations five times in Earth’s history,” writes Brannen, who notes later, “life on Earth is resilient, but not infinitely so.” An extinction event is defined as “any event in which more than half of the earth’s species go extinct in fewer than a million years.” The author provides an overview of the five major extinction events that have occurred over the last 300 million years, evidence of which are revealed by the fossil record and appear to be correlated with major geological shifts. A simultaneously enlightening and cautionary tale of the deep history of our planet and the possible future, when conscious life may become extinct. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The fifth wave series![]() ![]() However, though dramatic, it's really easy to predict. I've also seen lots of people talking about the ending, which is partly why I kept forcing myself through. There’s been a shitload of huh? moments since the Others came, but this one has gotta be the huh-est of them all. That creeping, beautiful style of storytelling has been replaced with gems like this: It was this, more than anything else, that pulled me so deeply inside the book. It was eerie, compelling and it forced you to look over your own shoulder. Yancey enthused every page with a deep level of distrust. I didn't even realize the importance of atmosphere until I read that book. But, that being said, I think The 5th Wave was so good for one big reason: atmosphere. An alien takeover story is not exactly original, Cassie Sullivan is not Katniss Everdeen, and there are some plot decisions that don't quite add up. This conclusion was a struggle to finish.Īs much as I loved the first book, I'm not going to pretend this series is something it isn't. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Infinite Sea wasn't as strong for me, but that too was an enjoyable experience because I just clicked so much with Yancey's writing. I was one of The 5th Wave's biggest fans, singing its praises to everyone who would listen. Oh, the Evanness of it all, how he gulps down my presence like a guy stumbling upon an oasis in the desert. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The thorn of emberlain![]() ![]() Red Seas under Red Skies: Medieval Oceans 11 style heist main plot that gets downgraded to subplot to make way for the adventure main plot. The Lies of Locke Lamora: Revenge main plot with an antihero subplot I know some of the following has been said before, but bear with me. The Mods May Remove Posts and Comments at Their DiscretionĬontinously disregarding these rules will result in a ban.Tag Spoilers-Use spoiler tags appropriately and never put direct spoilers in the title of posts.Be Civil-Just because the books are full of colorful insults doesn't mean you can use them on other members of the community. ![]() ![]() Something Cheeky Gentleman Bastards Podcast: Here We have spoiler tags! follow the example! (/spoiler) Three out of seven planned books are currently written with the fourth scheduled to be released at some point in the future.Ī "successor" sequence is also planned, also consisting of seven books. A place to discuss The Gentleman Bastard Sequence written by Scott Lynch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I quickly figured out that other people like this book too. I took Invisible Cities out of the library. I couldn’t report you many specific details from the book now-there’s not much story to speak of-but I remember the feeling of sitting in the grass and reading it, feeling the coldness of it, the sense of being sucked into another dimension, a series of images both dreamlike and exact, a pleasure simultaneously visceral and intellectual. I couldn’t see more than two feet in front of my face. My relationship had just exploded, and I was very depressed I only knew one person in town, and she was in rapturous love with her new boyfriend. I was working a tedious job at my college over one summer, living in a strange dorm room with no internet. Sometimes I like to think that Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities saved my life, but it might be more accurate to say it saved my mind. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Unconditional parenting![]() Instead, research shows that self-esteem grows from feeling capable and understood. It may surprise you to learn that self-esteem doesn’t come from giving children trophies and stickers or by telling them they’re the greatest, smartest, or most wonderful people on the planet. ![]() ![]() A child with higher self-esteem is better prepared to manage failure, rejection, and stress and has increased self-control. Brain scans have shown that rejection is more painful for people with low self-esteem than for those with high self-esteem. In the article, Does Self-Esteem Function as an Emotional Immune System?, Guy Winch, PhD, asserts that a variety of studies have begun to demonstrate that self-esteem can arm us with emotional resilience as well as insulate us from stress and anxiety. ![]() How is self-esteem related to unconditional love? How do parents show approval for kids as human beings even as they must often show disapproval for children’s behavior? ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Matthew yglesias one billion![]() ![]() ![]() What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial- supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth-like more housing, better transportation, improved education, revitalized welfare, and climate change mitigation. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yetlogical argument that if we aren't moving forward, we're losing. ![]() Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to MatthewYglesias, one billion. The winner in the future world is going to have more-more ideas, more ambition, more utilization of resources, more people. We can't compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and unaffordable housing. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it's that America has lost the will and the means to lead. NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great- more people. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Prep curtis![]() ![]() ![]() Where she may go too far is with the length and extent of Lee's ultimate humiliations. But she also captures how one solid friendship can make this general estrangement bearable. Sittenfeld nails the social tone deafness of the outsider for whom the moving parts of the world are entirely opaque. Her extreme caution to connect in only the circumscribed ways that might translate into belonging creates a tension that essentially incapacitates her. She is constantly on a threshold of humiliation and her hyper-vigilance to avoid this makes the book both compelling and excruciating. She has a desperate desire to do both, but a virtually pathological inability to do either. Lee struggles throughout the story with connecting and belonging. To bring this experience into even more relief, her protagonist, Lee Fiora, is a stunningly clueless girl from the mid-west. In Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld uses the setting of a preparatory boarding school in New England to magnify and dissect the peculiar compression chamber of adolescence. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dog diaries ruffing it![]() ![]() ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less, Binding: Hardcover, Weight: 0 lbs, Product Group: Book, IsTextBook: No, ISBN: 9780316500210, EAN: 9780316500210, Book Title: Dog Diaries: Ruffing It : a Middle School Story, Item Length: 8.5in, Publisher: Little Brown & Company, Intended Audience: Ages 2-3, Ages 9-12, Ages 4-8, Under 2 Years, Publication Year: 2021, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Item Height: 0.8in, Author: James Patterson, Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Topic: Humorous Stories, Animals / Dogs, Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, Item Width: 5.7in, Item Weight: 10. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less Condition: Bon état, Condition: Missing dust jacket Pages can have notes/highlighting. ![]() ![]() ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less Dog Diaries: Ruffing It: A Middle School Story by Patterson, James Missing dust jacket Pages can have notes/highlighting. Dog Diaries: Ruffing It: A Middle School Story by Patterson, James Missing dust jacket Pages can have notes/highlighting. Item: 144679133846 Dog Diaries: Ruffing It: A Middle School Story par Patterson, James. Ships to: WORLDWIDE & many other countries, Regular Price 7.99 Regular Price 9.99 CAD ebook. Seller: thrift.books ✉️ (3.276.411) 99.3%, Dog Diaries: Ruffing It A Middle School Story by James Patterson. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters![]() ![]() This book was adapted into a drama serial by Andrew Davies, and received much press attention when it was shown on BBC TV in 2002. But this is only beginning of Nan’s adventures, in a novel that follows her through heartbreak, recovery and steamy sexual education, and sees her finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places. In 1998, her first novel Tipping the Velvet was published - a picaresque adventure based around Victorian music hall, with a lesbian love story at its centre. ![]() When Kitty’s career takes a glittering turn, Nan accompanies her to London as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after after, dons trousers herself to join the act. Her fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. Sarah Waters’s debut, a delicious reimagining of late-Victorian life, chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl – I knew it at once! – that I had ever seen. ![]() ![]() ‘Waters is an author to cherish’ GUARDIANĬelebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago’s history, from the 1970s to today. ‘Everyone’s appetites will be satisfied’ ELLE MAGAZINE ‘Intelligent, witty and stylish’ INDEPEDENT ![]() |