Like, did I really need to know about how the author- oops, I mean the main character- ranks certain classic works of fiction, or that she considers morels superior to truffles? I mean, we've all got to soapbox and this book was published before blogs, so I get it. It's like the pretentious meanderings of a hipster with some smut thrown in. I don't even know how to describe this book. The rules of the challenge clearly state "please pick something under $5" but my friends and followers are evil people and they kept telling me to read "the bear book," AKA "Canada's Secret Shame." So I ended up spending $10 on this dumb book, and it wasn't even the version from the 70s that looks like a bodice-ripper. I have a weekly challenge called "What the Actual F*** Wednesday" where I let my readers pick something that's really weird for me to read and review. BEAR falls into a genre of fiction called "scatlit," which is my name for authors who clearly would rather be writing erotica but decided to write literary fiction for the $$$, and instead of being lambasted for being gross or smutty, they are instead praised for being "brave" and "daring," and win awards and even get their books blurbed by Margaret Atwood.
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“Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science” by Diane Stanley.An inspirational story of Ada Byron Lovelace, who overcame struggles to pursue her interests in math and science. Ada is a unique young woman who models creative thinking, applies mathematics and science to design, and publishes a pioneering computer program. “Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine” by Laurie Wallmark.Jacksonville’s award-winning children’s science writer Jennifer Swanson’s latest book, “Super Gear: Nanotechnology and Sports Team Up,” an in-depth look at how science is changing the sports world, is on the list. It is a joint project of several organizations: the American Society for Engineering Education, the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, the National Science Teachers Association, the Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees and the Children’s Book Council. To help shape it, the National Science Teachers Association has begun an annual “Best STEM Books” list. If you have a child or are in any way, shape or form involved in education, you know what STEM is.Īn acronym for science, technology, engineering and math, the interest in STEM education is profound. Our organizations are characterized like never before by job-hopping, mergers and acquisitions, layoffs and reorganizations, outsourcing and automation, harsh competitive environments and even harsher startup ecosystems. Non-actionable information gets diverted to the right side as “general reference,” and to the left side as “project plans.” Actionable information - things you must do, delegate, or defer - flows down the central spine, and is clearly the priority.īut the nature of work is rapidly changing. 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Though it is usually known as the Meditations, the full title of the work is Meditations on First Philosophy in which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body are Demonstrated. The Meditations on First Philosophy is Descartes’ most famous work. Her uniquely candid music has drawn many fans. The album is transparent in a way that most music in Rogers’s genre is not. She confesses deeply personal and unglamorous feelings and accompanies these with a list of the literature that inspired her latest songs. She writes lyrics that are honest, full of tiny details that add up into a vivid stream of images. Vulnerability defines “Surrender.” The album is transparent in a way that most music in Rogers’s genre is not. Her list includes Thoreau’s Walden, Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, all placed right alongside Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch, a novel published just this year. Her sophomore album “Surrender” comes with a lineup of recommended books, ranging from classics to brand-new reads. But the indie-pop star Maggie Rogers is anything but conventional. Usually, we can only speculate as to the source material for our favorite songs, relying on the snippets that artists provide in their interviews. How many pop albums come with a reading list? If that sounds like a depressing thing to make a 10-episode TV series about, well, it is. The melting of the polar ice cap may yet bring about an extinction-level event for humanity, but the members of the Franklin expedition encountered their own apocalypse out there, on all that ice, amid the bleary white. (You may have read about it.) What remains we have found of the expedition suggest a long, slow descent into utter hell, with the survivors perhaps even resorting to cannibalism. The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two warships they retrofitted to be icebreakers, were finally found on the ocean floor in 20, respectively. The expedition vanished, the men never to be heard of again. The irony of bringing the specter of climate change into his book so late is that Simmons has set the bulk of his novel amid the story of the doomed Franklin expedition, which set sail for the Arctic in 1845 in hopes of finding the Northwest Passage, only to find itself iced in for years on end. Your best day is the end of the world for somebody else. It’s Simmons’s biggest swing, decoupling from the book entirely to suggest that the apocalypse is no one moment but rather unfurling all around us all the time. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark He acts very similarly to the way James Gordon does with Batman. Nick Gage is a member of the Gotham Police Department who often helps Batgirl during cases. Miller’s books Average rating: 4.12 18,515 ratings 1,015 reviews 261 distinct works Similar authors More books by Bryan Q. (with Stephanie Brown as Batgirl) Combine Editions Bryan Q. Like Barbara, Wendy is particularly well versed in the use of computers, and operates in Oracle's capacity if she is unavailable or away. Miller is an American television and comic writer most notable for his work on the CW’s Smallville and DC’s Batgirl. Wendy is the daughter of criminal mastermind Calculator, joining team Batgirl after helping Stephanie save Barbara from her father. Being the original Batgirl, Barbara operates as Oracle helping to train Stephanie to be a crime-fighter worthy of wearing the symbol of the bat.Īmong other cast members within the book, there is Wendy Harris aka Proxy, and Detective Nick Gage. Despite some protest from the rest of the Bat Family, Stephanie is eventually taken under Barbara Gordon's wing. After Bruce Wayne's apparent death, Cassandra Cain departs Gotham City, leaving the mantle of Batgirl in the hands of Stephanie Brown, who was Spoiler at the time. The League of Seven Lib/E by Alan Gratz - 9798200187713 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. In a breathtaking race against time, they all must fight to complete their high-stakes missions. The League of Seven Lib/E by Alan Gratz, 9798200187713, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ALAN GRATZ is the author of many critically-acclaimed books for children and teens, including Samurai Shortstop, an ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults Prisoner B-3087 The Brooklyn Nine. And in the thick of battle, Henry, a medic, searches for lives to save. Meanwhile, paratrooper James leaps from his plane to join a daring midnight raid. His childhood was quite carefree and humid, after which he joined the University of Tennessee and earned his College Scholars degree. He was born on Januin Knoxville, Tennessee and was brought up in his home of the World’s Fair of 1982 in Knoxville. Behind enemy lines in France, a girl named Samira works as a spy, trying to sabotage the German army. Alan Gratz is a well known American author of the young adult genre. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders. And Dee – along with his brothers-in-arms – is terrified. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France. A New York Times bestseller! Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny – and how just one day can change the world.June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. Since Cat, his cartoons have adorned many products including stickers, calendars, mugs, and t-shirts. This led to several other books of cartoons ending with Advanced Cartooning in 1993. She thought they should be compiled into a book, introduced him to an agent, who found a publisher, resulting in the 1975 book Cat. Michelle Urry, Playboy's cartoon editor, visiting his studio, reviewed his drawings, mostly cats. In 1962, Kliban became a Playboy cartoonist, contributing cartoons until his death. The income from Playboy provided financial security that enabled him in 1967 to move Brown and his daughter Kalia to the suburb of Fairfax, Marin County. It was while living in North Beach that "Hap" (for his birthday, "Happy New Year") began to draw cartoons for Playboy magazine. Brown and chose many of the cartoons that appeared in his publications. His first wife, Mary Kathleen Brown, was a noted cartoonist in her own right as M. He did freelance advertising illustration, drawing ads, logos and annual reports. He spent time painting and traveling in Europe before moving to California, where he lived in the North Beach section of San Francisco. Bernard " Hap" Kliban (Janu– August 12, 1990) was an American cartoonist.īorn in Norwalk, Connecticut, Kliban studied at the Pratt Institute and Cooper Union but "flunked out". And The Silmarillion gives you more of it than any other book. There's something brilliantly evokative about this book though, like there is to Tolkien's legendarium in general. I'm convinced there are many who slaved their way to the seeming endless passages of LOTR and emerged victorious at its final pages who attempted The Sil and just said "Fuck this". And because of the endless array of characters, many with more than one name, locations, many with more than one name, events, and the detailed descriptions of titles, heraldry, genealogy etc etc. The full narrative is nothing if not unwieldy because of this. From the Music Of The Ainur and the creation of the Universe, to the start of the Fourth Age. Encompassing, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years, or millions even. My third "reading" full of this tome.Įven though is less then half the size of Tolkien's most famous work, I never seized to be amazed on how expansive it actually it. I finished the audiobook of this last week. |