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This past weekend, I went to a book sale with my friend, Cait. I bought a lot of books, obviously. :P But almost all were $1, even the hardbacks!
For a full list of books and links to info pages on Goodreads, check out my blog.
Also, there is one book I accidentally bought twice. Can you find it? :D
Read it on my blog: cbmosaics.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-goodreads-review.html
My book is available at www.cbmosaics.com/book
From Goodreads - I felt the prick of the needle, but only for a second, because this great rush of warmth quickly followed, encompassing my whole body from my toes right up to the top hair on my head. I couldn't move for a minute as she guided the needle in and out of my vein. When she was done, I felt like I had entered heaven. I looked in the mirror and felt beautiful and confident. I felt this great peace, at last, a warmth, and I knew that everything was going to be okay -- and really always had been. Like time had stopped and I was floating on a cloud. "Writing the book, I saw my old dope dealer and bought $1,500 worth of pure heroin -- Brown Gold -- and started shooting up 10 times a day to get the feel of the book. Well, I did, all right. I ended up in Glen Cove General, almost dead. In truth, you make a deal with the Devil. He takes away your pain, but he owns you. You live for the next fix. After a while, it's totally physical; your body has to have it. But I'm off it for good."--
My Review - The book is basically about a girl who wants to make some money so she turns to stripping to do it, but in order for her to actually strip she needs a little recreactional Pharmaceutical help. The more she strips, the more she does heroin. Then it's a downward spiral from there. This is a very hard book to rate because I am on the fence about it. I liked the story, but I absolutlet hated every single character except for the 2 cats, Dinah & Sylvester. I know that is very strange, but every character in this book pissed me off with their crap excuses. The main character was dumber than a box of rocks, her best friend was in denial, her mother was a drunk who had taken up with a perv, her boss ignored the bad stuff going on, her boyfriend was a POS, and the one person I almost liked, Angelo, did not do enough to save Sam who was the main character. Sam did nothing to help herself. I personally thought she was an over indulged spoiled brat who wanted the easy life, but didn't think she had to work hard to get it. She had the resources to make something of herself and avoid the path she went down, but her motivation to do so was not there. Ughhhh....even talking about it makes me mad.
I won't give anything else away, but expect to either be quite angry or quite sad. The story is told in diary format like the book, Go Ask Alice. It's easy to read and with only 168 pages long you can probably breeze right on through it in a day. (less)
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton, published in 1921 & also won the Pulitzer prize that year. I've shown the Goodreads page here as a contrast in the way we can read books now compared with 100 years ago.
“The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson” is one of Twain’s lesser known novels, but it may be one of his best. Set in the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social issues still being debated today. Here is what the Goodreads website has to say about the novel (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson):
“At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.”
The book contains over a thousand illustrations, which are distributed in the margins throughout the text, a technique that had never before been used for a Mark Twain text. Two artists, F. M. Senior and C. H. Warren, supplied the copious, cartoon-sized pictures required for this mode of illustration.
The first edition of the book also has a bonus story called “Those Extraordinary Twins.” "‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's ‘The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.’ As Twain explains, he extricated ‘Twins’ from ‘Pudd'nhead’ when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other.” [From the Introduction by John Greenman for the LibriVox audio edition of the “Twins” story at librivox.org/those-extraordinary-twins-by-mark-twain/]
Speaker Series At Underground Books.
The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues?
Beverly Daniel Tatum, is a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America. {Sharing The Knowledge 7.22.23}
...is ultimately a matter of focus.”
- Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are -
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An Eerie Mystery of the Canadian North.
“They called it Lost House, that island mansion locked in the cypress darkness of British Columbia’s forest – and the only stranger received there came riding to deliver a message of death. Beginning an unusual mystery novel.” [Prologue]
“Men of Scotland Yard and local northwest Canadian police are out for elusive Angel, master-mind in criminal adventure. An innocent bystander gets involved and lures supercriminal to justice. Adventure with a mystery angle. So-so.” – Kirkus Reviews
Born in Gresham, Oregon, Frances Shelley Johnson (1902-1982) never gave up her American citizenship although she spent most of her life in Canada. While an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, where she received her BA, she wrote her first novel, which was never published. Her first book, THE MAESTRO MURDERS (1931), led to more than two dozen mystery and romance novels. In 1924, she married Wilfred Rusk Wees (1899-1981), who taught psychology at the Camrose Normal School and served as executive vice-president of Gage Publishing Ltd.
In addition to her more than a dozen books, Frances published primary readers, serial fiction, articles, and poems in various periodicals, worked as a Chautauqua director during the 1920s, did public relations work in Toronto during the 1930s and 1940s, and directed the national clothing drive for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration during World War II. She traveled to China in 1959. After spending some 30 years in Stouffville, Ontario, she moved to Denman Island in 1981, where Wilfred soon passed away from a heart attack. Frances died only six months later. [Source: Goodreads.com]
“The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson” is one of Twain’s lesser known novels, but it may be one of his best. Set in the early years of the 19th century, this pre-Civil War satire tackles social issues still being debated today. Here is what the Goodreads website has to say about the novel (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson):
“At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.”
The book contains over a thousand illustrations, which are distributed in the margins throughout the text, a technique that had never before been used for a Mark Twain text. Two artists, F. M. Senior and C. H. Warren, supplied the copious, cartoon-sized pictures required for this mode of illustration.
The first edition of the book also has a bonus story called “Those Extraordinary Twins.” "‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's ‘The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.’ As Twain explains, he extricated ‘Twins’ from ‘Pudd'nhead’ when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other.” [From the Introduction by John Greenman for the LibriVox audio edition of the “Twins” story at librivox.org/those-extraordinary-twins-by-mark-twain/]
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Got another book from an awesome friend of mine and this one is called Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skulls Coloring Pages and again I wish i knew who the artist is cuz there pages looks amazing. With soo many different designs of Sugars Skulls. But here is the link to this book but im not sure where else you could find it at . www.goodreads.com/book/show/25980628-coloring-books-for-g...
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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Goodreads Review - Kyle Kirby has planned a cruel and unusual revenge on Cass McBride, the most popular girl in school, for the death of his brother David. He digs a hole. Drugs Cass. Kidnaps her. Puts her in a box-underground. He buries her alive. But Kyle makes a fatal error: Cass knows the power of words. She uses fear as her weapon to keep her nemesis talking - and to keep herself breathing during the most harrowing 48 hours of her life.
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My Review - So what happened to Cass McBride you ask? Hmmm...Cass is one of those girls that you see in school as an overachiever who tends to get what she wants whenever she wants. She's not particularly nasty to peoples face because she understands that in order to get to where she needs to go she will need others to do it. But like a lot of girls her age, she has a nasty side that she showed in a note that was supposedly only to be for her best friend about a boy who asked her out.
I don't want to give anything away, but Cass will soon learn something about herself that will affect her for the rest of her life and changes the way she sees and feels about things.
The book is quite short, but I think it has the perfect amount of pages to tell a story about a young woman whose life changed quicker than she could say Prom Queen.
Bookmarket on" the Spui" friday afternoon -Amsterdam
looks like there is a face in this bubble..O_O creepy.
$3.50 - Mint condition and hard cover. I have to say I'm pretty excited about this because I had to leave my soft cover copy of this book behind when I moved here to Canada and I hadn't even finished reading it yet. Pretty excited to find a new, and better, copy! We also found Friends (season one) for about the same price in mint condition. It still had the proof of purchase tag inside! It's good because it gives us something to watch until the new season of Psych starts. We like feel good stuff, in case you couldn't tell.
The new Flickr pages look really fabulous, but it also makes me groan because it gives me one more thing I feel I have to organize. (Geotagging.) Before it was tucked away at the bottom, but now it's right in my face and it makes the completionist/perfectionist in me whine. I'm already so behind on tagging and organizing and removing all old photos from my public stream; it makes me want to move to a new account and start fresh.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/557112.The_Mystery_of_the_Pur...
A choice picture from a larger set of 139 pictures, taken at the Saturday morning parade of Dragon Con 2022 in Atlanta, GA.
So proud of whoever at UM came up with the idea for this, and then did it. This quote is an excerpt:
“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.” Lauren Myracle, SHINE. www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13804537-shine
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Went for the usual lunch hour walk with Nard today and found some more signs of spring. Luckily I was smart today and brought my macro converter with me today and managed to get this.
I really like the bell shape to this flower, I also really liked how the stem came up and curved so that the flower is hanging instead of standing straight up.
On a non-photo related note, a friend of mine asked me to sign up for www.goodreads.com, just wondering if anyone from here is using the site as well?
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