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Posted: 22 Jul 2021 12:05 AM PDT
Read it online at www.archive.org
Much of my excitement at being in a bookstore comes from the place itself, the understanding that I can stay here for as long as need be. The unspoken rules we've developed for the bookstore are quite different from the rules that govern other retail enterprises. While the bookstore is most often privately held, it honors a public claim on its time and space. It is not a big-box store where one buys closets of toilet paper or enough Tabasco sauce for the apocalypse; nor is it a tony boutique that sells prestige in the shape of sequined dresses or rare gems; and it's no convenience store either, raided for a six-pack, cigarettes, and a Nutty Buddy on the way home from a hard day at work. The cash register's chime does not define how long we can linger. A bookstore is for hanging out. Often for hours."
I had already started to read this beautiful book online at archive.org but you know me, don't know? - unless I can hold it in my hand and turn its pages, it's not really a book. So I ordered it on ebay from someone in Rozelle in Sydney and it arrived today. It's in almost brandnew condition complete with a €15.00 price sticker on the back and a bookmark inside from the "Curious Fox English Bookshop, Flughafen-straße 22, Berlin".
Of course, I immediately emailed curiousfox.de to let them know that their book has completed its long journey from Berlin in Germany to its new home with a (ex-)German in Australia. It's what booklovers do!
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P.S. The author, Lewis Buzbee, named the book after a letter that Vincent van Gogh (who had worked as a bookseller) wrote to his brother not long before he died, "I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening ... like a light in the midst of the darkness."
...is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life -
i have been following this woman's story since she was kidnapped in somalia in 2008.
to read her story, her history and her experience is amazing.
for many, many, many hundreds of days, there were no real answers as to whether or not she was even alive.
and then to emerge from her experience and make change the way she did has affected me deeply.
originally her story caught my attention because here was a woman who was following her dream, trying to make a life for herself filled with change and adventure, suddenly thrust into an unimaginable situation.
then, to see what amanda has done with her life, now that she has it back, is unreal.
i got to meet her once, at a talk she was giving in ottawa ( remember, my other amanda l:)??).
she gave me chills with her grace and her absolute openness.
anyways, i am half way through. i will share more when i am finished.
the august break 2013
day thirteen
Hidden Warbirds - Lost and Found
My full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/849224594
At the outbreak of World War II, the United States engaged in an effort to churn out warplanes at a rate unprecedented in history. At the end of the War, the vast majority of these War heroes were flown to huge junkyards, waiting their turn to be turned into aluminum ingots. For several decades these now old-fashioned airplanes were forgotten; however, films as "Tora, Tora, Tora" and "The Battle of Britain" revived an fledgling interest in these heroic machines.
This fascinating book tells the story of the great lengths people have gone to to recover what was once discarded trash, to be turned into pristine restorations worth millions of dollars and the delight of huge crowds at airshows. This book explores the recovery of old wrecks from the highest mountains and deepest oceans, the steamy jungles of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to the isolated frozen wastes of Alaska and Greenland.
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(Almost) all the books I brought to the lake with me. We had so many fantastic days to relax and read.
I finished Cutting For Stone the first day of vacation, One Hundred Demons the day after, and skipped over the other easier targets right into Anna Karenina, this year's epic reading challenge of the summer. I left the rest out on the desk for the ladies to dabble in, though.
The Dream of a Common Language will make another great one-day read. Same for The Painted Word. I brought that copy of Wild for Evan's mom, and Evan slipped Feet of Clay in my suitcase after I packed. Lucifer 3 I picked up in Chicago for my coworker who couldn't find it in New York.
And I forgot the copy of Watership Down in my suitcase all week long.
This is Book 4 in The Mortal Instruments Series. From Goodreads"
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And - most importantly of all - she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.
But nothing comes without a price.
Someone is murdering Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine's Circle, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second bloody war. Clary's best friend, Simon, can't help her. His mother just found out that he's a vampire and now he's homeless. Everywhere he turns, someone wants him on their side - along with the power of the curse that's wrecking his life. And they're willing to do anything to get what they want. At the same time he's dating two beautiful, dangerous girls - neither of whom knows about the other one.
When Jace begins to pull away from Clary without explaining why, she is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: She herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. The stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.
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My Review:
NO, NO, NO, NO!!!
WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?
Come on now, can we please stop torturing Jace and Clary? Seriously? A couple can only deal with so much crap especially when one thinks he is evil incarnate to begin with.
Alec..What the hell has gotten into that boy? Did he truly think Magnus had no other relationships before him even though he's older than Methuselah's grandmother? Alright, since Alec is simply just a relationship beginner I will cut him a little slack.
Jocelyn has somehow made herself the most annoying character in the books. Sorry honey, you can't run away from your past that easily and think it will go away if you try and ignore it. What you once thought was the right thing to do is going to get you or your kid killed if you don't wake up and accept some things. As it was, she was almost killed.
I'm glad to see more of the spotlight on Simon. He is such a profound and important character in these stories.
The first half of the book dragged a little bit, but I once again the last half saved the book.
Yes, I'm addicted now. I will not hand my head in shame!
From Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582996.City_of_Ashes
Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.
To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?
In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.
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My Review - This is the second book in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series.
Ok..This is fluff, my fluff. That's the story and I'm sticking to it. Every now and then we need some fluff in our lives and this is mine. Now that's out of the way here comes my review.
In a nutshell Clary and the gang are back and they have to try and defeat Valentine. In the process some people die, Simon becomes a vampire, Clary and Jace are fighting their feelings for each other because they are siblings (supposedly, I'm not buying that for one minute.), Alec and Magnus sorta hook up, a girly werewolf becomes enchanted by Simon (WTF?? That came the eff outta no where), Luke helps, Jocelyn is still in her coma, and we have lots of demons and fighting. Oh..I forgot the Fairies make an appearance as well. Some official Clave people come around and hate on Jace and imprison him a couple of times (which he escapes).
Clary is still the biggest pain in the ass known to mankind, angels, and downworlders. She never knows when to shut up and listen. She runs head first and asks questions later after she is captured and becomes the damsel in distress. It's getting kinda old.
Jace is still my favorite. However if he keeps being a smart ass every single time he talks I may change my mind. No one is like that all the time. He's fun, but getting to the point where the character is becoming unbelievable.
Alec and Isabella are the two most underdeveloped characters ever. I want to like or dislike them, but right now all I feel is nothing. They have the personality of rocks right now and not the fun pet kind.
Magnus..oh Magnus. I hope he shows up more in the next books. I'm getting a good peak at him and what he can do and I want to see more.
The writing still seems immature at best. I still think a 15 year old could have written this, but since I'm considering this my fluff I am rating it as such.
"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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meyveleri sarı, turuncu ve kırmızı renktedir. bu albümdeki alıç fotoğraflarında kırmızı olanlar en olgunları ancak sarıyken de yenebilir. ekşimsi tatlı bir lezzeti var. olgunlaştıkça ekşiliği azalır.
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ingilizce: haw, thorn apple, hawthorn
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Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
The Sign of Jonas by Thomas Merton
by SISTER RUTH NISTLER
This is a marvelous book, a diary written by Merton during a five-year period of his living as a Trappist Monk at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. Some of his entries are brief and others are quite lengthy, including philosophical wonderings, poetic descriptions of the beauties of nature he sees all around him, theological treatises and remarks about his daily experiences, with bursts of delightful humor sprinkled in. He gives a detailed description of the life of a Trappist, the perpetual silence, the hand signs they learned for non-verbal communications, the long hours of prayer, beginning in the early morning, the long hours of work in the monastery and outdoors, the frugal diet and the simplicity of life.
Indonesian Reader Festival, held by Indonesian community in GoodReads. Part of the event is the book swapping booth where visitors can get book for free by swapping with their own book, old or new. This event is held to promote reading among Indonesian population especially the younger generations.
Lucania 5240m 17,192', Steele 5073m and Walsh 4507m
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Yesterday's haul. The cushion is actually for my girlfriend and the Dorayaki from Kokoro is long gone. #parkwaydrive #pwd #ire #music #illustration #menswear #goodreads #flask #vintage #nautical #home #cushion #cushioncover #metal #metalcore #homedecor #interior #bands #softfurnishings #bookworm #bookstagram #reading #instagood #instadaily #japan #kokoro #dorayaki
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Zak reading from his new book We Did Porn.
Zak Smith is an artist and occasional porn actor whose paintings and drawings are held in major public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. We Did Porn— a book including drawings and stories about his experiences working in the adult film industry—is his third book and his first to include writing. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Sex Worker Literati (Flickr Group) is a monthly readings series happening in NYC on the first Thursday of the month at Happy Ending.
The series is hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry - these photos are from the readings and starring all of our fabulous performers! See videos and read stories at hoshookerscallgirslrentboys.com/
Behind the bumps and the grinds, under the garters and the pasties, in between the booze fueled clients and the stiletto heels there is in the exchange of sex for money a power dynamic that opens a window into the soul. Sex Worker Literati features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who will read, monologue, perform, and shimmy their ways into your hearts, minds, and naughty bits.
Happy Ending, 302 Broome St between Forsyth and Eldridge
First Thursday of Every Month
Doors at 7, Reading from 8-10. FREE.
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
- Søren Kierkegaard -
From Goodreads -An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares.
As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and unfulfilling sex lives. During the turbulent World War I era, uncertainty and upheaval accompany the arrival of a brash new medical doctor and his promises of progress and fast, painless childbirth. In a clash between tradition and science, Dora finds herself fighting to protect the rights of women as well as the wisdom that has been put into her care.
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My Review - I found this book really easy to get into. I love historical fiction especially set in the turn of the century when women were fighting for their rights to vote and the ability to make choices regarding their own bodies.
The Birth House covers a variety of women's issues from the turn of the century. When you read this book you have to forget everything you know and put yourself into the mindset of a woman from the turn of the century living in a rural tight knit community.
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...Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
- Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold -
"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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My rating : 4/5
another lovely work by miss Black.
as expected, the mystery and suspense is insane. I highly suggest this one, dear junior readers!
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beneziatsoni: medievalpoc: Fiction week! Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor’s work gives you everything you crave stylistically about Fantasy and Sci Fi, but incorporates ideas so unprecedented they could easily outshine the characters and the plot. But my favorite thing about each tale I’ve read from this author is that she doesn’t ever allow that to happen-the characters and the action shine just as brightly, if not more so, than the innovative concepts that turn the wheels of the plot. Binti is relatively short, but it’s a very intense story that reads like the best parts of a novel that another author might have stretched out with filler and awkward descriptions. You won’t find any of that here; there is no respite from the tension that will carry you all the way through to its conclusion without a pause to catch your breath. By which I mean, this is a breathtaking story. Binti is a uniquely talented young person from the Himba people, who are sticklers for tradition and not overly fond of outsiders. Despite this, Binti’s love for mathematics and the magic she can work with numbers and formulas has driven her to apply to Oomza University, the most prestigious academic institution in the known universe. Although she is the first of the Himba people to be accepted, her family and community are less than thrilled and forbid her to go. Binti is of course undeterred by their disapproval, and begins her journey armed only with her talent, a jar of the cleansing clay her people rub into their hair and skin, and a strange artifact from her homeland, whose secrets have yet to reveal themselves. She faces a great deal of judgement from those who consider her people provincial, isolationist, and backwards, but she remains fast in her goal to attend the prestigious university where she will be able to achieve her dreams and maybe even unlock the mystery of her artifact-and then, of course, something unforeseeably terrible happens. Do yourself a favor and read this novella. Coming of age has never been quite this weird. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Noble so i just finished reading this and I just,, you know how you start reading a book and you just get… enraptured in it. this book will do that to you. I’m upset with myself for reading it so fast But then you can read it AGAIN sooner!! It’s no surprise to me it won a Nebula Award for Best Novella!
Bold Spirit - Synopsis from Goodreads -
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb.
Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
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My Review - I won't go over the plot again because you can just read above what the book is about. What I do want to say about this book is that Helga Estby and her daughter Clara are two of the most inspirational women ever. I don't really care what the norm was at that time, I don't think most men would have been able to do what she and Clara did. What better motivation than to do this than to try and save the family farm which she and her husband had worked so hard for.The ending was a bit tough considering how her family treated her when she came back and for years later. If not for her daughter in law this story might never have been remembered because her family was incredibly angry with Helga and did not like to let her talk about the trip. The book also touches on important topics of that day such as women's rights, women's health, politics,destitute families in the big cities, and issues related to workers and their need for better rights. I highly recommend for everyone!(less)
The Daughter's Walk - Synopsis from Goodreads
A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives.
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save the family farm. After returning home to the Estby farm more than a year later, Clara chose to walk on alone by leaving the family and changing her name. Her decisions initiated a more than 20-year separation from the only life she had known.
Historical fiction writer Jane Kirkpatrick picks up where the fact of the Estbys’ walk leaves off to explore Clara's continued journey. What motivated Clara to take such a risk in an era when many women struggled with the issues of rights and independence? And what personal revelations brought Clara to the end of her lonely road? The Daughter's Walk weaves personal history and fiction together to invite readers to consider their own journeys and family separations, to help determine what exile and forgiveness are truly about.
“Kirkpatrick has done impeccable homework, and what she recreates and what she imagines are wonderfully seamless. Readers see the times, the motives, the relationships that produce a chain of decisions and actions, all rendered with understatement. Kirkpatrick is a master at using fiction to illuminate history’s truths. This beautiful and compelling work of historical fiction deserves the widest possible audience.”
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My Review
Do yourself a favor and read, "Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America" by Linda Lawrence Hunt before even thinking about reading this book. I hate to admit that I only got 10 pages into this book before I became so disgusted with the author that I have no intentions of ever reading anything else by her again. Extreme much? Why yes..yes I am. First of all the book reads like it took place in 1996, not 1896. The wording sounds like the same dialog that takes place between my daughters and I now. Secondly, and this is what I had a hard time getting past, was that the story immediatley went into making Helga look like she was some sort of tyrant who brushed away anything her family said to her as if they were annoying her. Maybe it became a little different deeper into the book, but this really rubbed me the wrong way since this story was almost lost because Helga's family was angry with her. There were a few other inaccuracies that I caught, but I find it pointless to even speak about. (less)
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...touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
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