![]() ![]() ![]() On this day, fog and drizzle prevented us from seeing more than an outline of that venerable monument or anything else. Michelin had made his notes on a clear day. The 1952 Michelin indicated that it overlooked the Arc de Triomphe. ![]() My husband had selected the one-star Napoleon Bonaparte, partly for its price, 3500 francs (about $10) for a double room, and partly for its view. We drove through grim streets, rundown houses on either side, to our hotel, a turn-of-the-century hostelry with a shabby lobby and a cage elevator. Expecting beauty and light in a city with echoes of Victor Hugo, Degas and Maurice Chevalier, we got somber darkness and bone chilling weather. Twenty-four years old at the time, married almost a year, I arrived in the city of my dreams ready to be seduced by her warmth and historic charm. My husband had been recalled for the Korean War and sent to France as part of a bomber wing Eisenhower promised NATO in the early days of the Cold War. Photo above: Lyla Blake Ward in France, 1952. Featuring a 1950 Pontiac, Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, La Tour d’Argent, Lasserre… and an endless drizzle. Lyla Blake Ward revisits her first trip to the City of Light. Paris was still coated in post-war grime. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Friendship book lydia denworth![]() ![]() Lydia, her husband, and three sons, split their time between Brooklyn and their sustainable farm in Central New York. An expert guide (Kathryn Bowers, New York Times Book Review), Denworth weaves past and present, field biology and neuroscience, to show how our bodies and. She is the author of three books of popular science Toxic Truth, I Can Hear You Whisper and Friendship. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Spectrum, and many other publications. Lydia Denworth is a contributing editor for Scientific American and writes the Brain Waves blog for Psychology Today. She will also provide guidance for parents to help as life gets back to normal. Lydia Denworth, author of the book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond, will join us to explain how the social brain gets built, the importance of social and emotional learning for healthy development, and how building good friendship skills early in life sets children and adolescents up for a long, healthy, and happy life.ĭenworth will also address whether friendships are changing in the age of social media, as well as the effects of the pandemic on young people’s social lives. The new science of friendship explains why. ![]() Friends matter at every age, but never more so than when we are young. They affect our bodies, and our minds and humans need them to thrive across their lifetime. These bonds not just pleasant but essential. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Life itself roger ebert book![]() ![]() As Ebert himself says in a clip from the first few minutes of the film, "The movies are like a machine that generates empathy." Life Itself, as part of that machinery, succeeds. Life Itself excels by showing us who the man really was. It's easy for a film to show what a man accomplished. ![]() Life itself is what Im dealing with as I sit here in a hospital waiting room. He had no qualms about showing his face, even after surgery left him visibly disfigured. Life itself, that loaded two-word phrase, is what Roger really wrote about when he wrote about movies. Some people might have sunk into bitterness and despair, but Life Itself shows that Ebert remained optimistic and joyful. No matter the impact of his disease, he still had his words on paper, and with these, Ebert never stopped sharing his wisdom. But that's just the beginning as the film goes on, Ebert's portrait (which he narrates himself in spots) gains texture not just through the many interviews with friends who share memories of a man with an deep yearning to experience as much as he could - and demanded the same from the art he reviewed - but time with Ebert himself, who remains eloquent even when cancer has made it impossible for him to speak. This terrifically life-affirming documentary from director Steve James whose first feature, Hoop Dreams, Ebert championed puts both sides of the argument, and unearths outtake footage which. As with many biographical films, viewers get to know the writer from childhood on - born in a small Illinois town, dad was an electrician, mom was a homemaker, always wanted to be a journalist. Life Itself is a beautiful documentary that befits a man as complex, intelligent, and compassionate as Roger Ebert. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Karl ove knausgård books![]() ![]() Knausgaard argues forcefully that explorations of all human impulses are necessary, and touches on many of the themes that have lately become associated with his body of work: Nazism-which forms a central plank of Book 6 of My Struggle -identity, literary freedom. The title essay, first published in a Swedish newspaper in 2015, is an enraged response to a critic who asserted that Knausgaard’s depiction of a relationship between a teacher and a student in his first novel was pedophiliac. ![]() Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest release, In the Land of the Cyclops, is a collection of essays and reviews translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken and published in the United States by Archipelago Books. Read an excerpt from In the Land of the Cyclops here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While it was originally developed with elite athletes in mind, anyone can do it. ![]() The method is meant to boost energy levels, reduce the risk of injury, increase vitality, and promote a more natural, holistic lifestyle. In case you’re unfamiliar, muscle pliability is targeted deep muscle work that lengthens and softens muscles while contracting and relaxing them at the same time. The TB12 Method was created with the goal of developing and maintaining muscle pliability and encouraging sustained peak performance. Together, with a fitness routine and lifestyle guidelines, the diet is part of Brady’s book The TB12 Method. The diet was created by Tom Brady and his former Patriots teammate Alex Guerrero in 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mother Nature has always acknowledged and compensated for the fragility and loss of boys by arranging for more of them: 106 male births to 100 female newborns over the course of human history. ![]() It’s man’s fate, so to speak.įirst of all, human males are disappearing. Several studies suggest that boys are harmed in some ways by these chemical exposures that girls are not. These frailties leave them more vulnerable than girls to life’s hazards, including environmental pollutants such as insecticides, lead and plasticizers that target their brains or hormones. Contrary to cultural assumptions that boys are stronger and sturdier, basic biological weaknesses are built into the male of our species. We can, thankfully, remove one threat to the future existence of the human male from our worry list: The male Y chromosome, after dwindling from its original robust size over millions of years, apparently has halted its disappearing act.īut don’t start cheering yet. ![]() ![]() Set on Kelewan and in the Empire of the Tsurani, the book concerns the life of young Mara of the Acoma, the last remaining member of the Acoma clan, following the betrayal and death of her father and brother during the Riftwar on Midkemia. This is the first book of a trilogy that spans a time period slightly off-set but related to the first trilogy of Feist’s Riftwar. Admittedly I picked it up because it was related to the Riftwar books, but to be honest I was captivated when I started reading it. But all of them fed into how I came to love fantasy and how I perceive the genre.įollowing on from Magician, one of the books that really captured my interest as a young reader of fantasy was Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Some of them have not really stood the test of time, some I grew out of, and others are still great. ![]() This is a series of posts about fantasy novels that I love, or loved, and that really got me into fantasy. My favourite cover of Daughter of the Empire Favourite Fantasy Books Part 2: Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Shea ernshaw the wicked deep![]() ![]() She is wispy and angelic, with thin lips pinched tightly together, holding her breath against the icy water. I have an old black-and-white photograph taken in the 1920s of a woman at a traveling circus floating in a massive tank filled with water, blond hair billowing around her head, legs hidden by a false mermaid’s fin made of metallic fabric and thread to look like scales. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. ![]() Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. ![]() Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. ![]() Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them. ![]() ![]() ![]() A standout example of Pueyo’s style can be seen in “An Open Coffin.” Amélia is hired by her former army officer as caretaker for a long dead and preserved body that receives daily visitors. The subsequent pause and readjustment, forces the reader to slow down and fully experience these thought-provoking, disorienting, and open-ended tales that are more about how they make you feel than what happens in them. The visual layout is both authentic and striking, adding an extra layer of unease to these already deeply unsettling stories because as readers turn the page, their eyes will automatically look at the next page, but will be unable to read it. Īfter a few appearances in critically acclaimed anthologies and magazines, Pueyo is ready for her close-up with this debut collection of 10 stories presented side-by-side in both Portuguese and English. ![]() ![]()
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