![]() ![]() Beginning with her own 20-year flock of chickens, Montgomery celebrates birds - their individuality, biology and abilities. Coast Guard trained pigeons in helicopters to spot orange life vests at sea they outperformed human spotters three to one.” One wonders why they are no longer used but Montgomery doesn’t go into this. They notice details that humans miss: one study found that pigeons could learn to recognize the difference between the painting style of Manet and that of Monet faster than many college students. If you’re one of those who think crows are just raucous marauders and pigeons no more than rats with wings, this book may transform your thinking. “Naturalist and acclaimed New Hampshire author Montgomery’s rhythmic and lyrical subtitle conveys the feel of this entertaining, eye-opening book about birds and the people who love them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The important thing is that The Iliad and The Odyssey were recorded (from an amalgam of oral tradition, basically) and have had an enormous impact on the thinking, literature, and story-telling of the World, especially the Western World. We don’t actually know too much about Homer and “he” might have been a number of people or not really Homer at all. They are some of the oldest works of literature in the world and are based on a combination of history (perhaps) and Greek mythology. ![]() In case you somehow don’t know, The Iliad and The Odyssey are ancient Greek, epic poems. While teaching mythology to a small classroom of approximately-ninth-graders this year, I decided to have a looky-loo at these graphic novel versions of the Trojan War and Odysseus stories. I have now purchased The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Beowulf for our home school shelves. I have stumbled upon the graphic novels of Gareth Hinds in my obsession with coming up with things that my middle school boy will read. I actually believe I already read The Odyssey in high school. I do intend to read a translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey one day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?Įmma knows she has to listen to her heart. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. ![]() He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Įmma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. ![]() Book: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re in the mood for a classic, 1973’s road trip comedy “Paper Moon” holds up tremendously well. – Adam Chitwood “Paper Moon” Paramount Pictures What begins as a gambit to make more money soon takes a number of shocking twists and turns as director Bong Joon-ho unfurls a complex tale that’s essentially about the myth of socio-economic mobility. The Korean-language drama follows a low-income family that schemes to get jobs for a rich family without the rich family knowing they’re all related. The 2020 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay, “Parasite” is a wildly compelling, moving and surprising story of class struggle through the eyes of two very different families. What’s New on Netflix in May 2023 “Parasite” Neon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would say the world was the best part, but I actually found reading the worldbuilding and scene-setting a bit of a slog. The book follows one human as he journeys across his world, often at the behest of a superintelligent morel, and encounters different aspects of the amazing ecosystem. The warming of Earth (from natural causes) has caused a massive proliferation and evolution of plant life, and thus the downfall of the human race, which exists only in isolated pockets of depressed intelligence. Though not the earliest by far, Hothouse is still a pretty early example of the climate apocalypse subgenre. There definitely are arresting, interesting images. The same year Aldiss won the Hugo (there is a funny story about this in my Penguin Modern Classics edition), the five stories were published as a fix-up. ![]() Even beyond that, the rules didn't work the way they work now the five "Hothouse" stories have a collective wordcount in the novel range, and thus if the sequence was nominated as a unit these days, it would have to be in Best Novel. 1959 had seen categories for Best Short Story and Best Novelette, but from 1960 to 1966, there was just a singular Best Short Fiction category. In 1962, Brian Aldiss won the Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction for the "Hothouse" sequence of stories. ![]() ![]() Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation.one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. ![]() Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, DC., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.Īs the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths.all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory brings a sobering dose of reality to an era that's often romanticized this is a fine glimpse of history on a human scale. Through Hattie's diary, Gregory brings the rigors of the trip to life, but she also includes the details that kept the settlers going-the friendships and camaraderie that developed and the joyful events (a wedding and some births) that occurred. ![]() Continue they do: Eight months after they set out, the remaining wagons arrive in Oregon City, just in time for Christmas. The Campbells lose neighbors and friends until they almost believe they cannot bear to continue. They cross the prairies, hastening the journey as news of the fate of the Donner party reaches them, but death, disease, weather, and the terrain take a terrible toll. At first the adventure is exciting, but as the days, weeks, and months pass, Hattie realizes what a dangerous and tedious trip it will be. In a work subtitled ``The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell,'' Gregory (Earthquake at Dawn, 1992, etc.) reconvenes the Dear America series in 1847, as Hattie, her parents, and her two younger brothers begin the long trek from Missouri to Oregon by wagon train. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. ![]() Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. The novel details the fallout when several people go missing in quick succession, exploring. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., and Local Woman Missing. Local Woman Missing is a 2021 domestic thriller by Mary Kubica. People don't just disappear without a trace… ![]() Are these incidents connected After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica, author of Just the Nicest Couple, takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried. From Variety: Black Bear Television Nabs Rights to Mary Kubica’s ‘Local Woman Missing’ From Deadline: Netflix Makes Film Deal for Mary Kubica Novel THE OTHER MRS. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. ![]() "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." -Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda- water that has been standing in the sun. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him but there was the fact. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 7. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman 6. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate 5. ![]() The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper 4. This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.Ģ. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime novel’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’–the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is learning and applying intentional standards to achieve meaningful objectives.ĭiscipline is a choice… your choice. ![]() It is internal.ĭiscipline is not obedience to someone else’s standards to avoid punishment. You can receive instruction or guidance from one or many sources, but the source of discipline is not external. It is not rigid, boring, or always doing the same thing.ĭiscipline is not something others do to you. ![]() It is not compliance, obedience, or enforcement. What isn’t discipline?ĭiscipline is not rules, regulations, or punishment. The word “discipline” is from the Latin word disciplina, meaning “instruction and training.” It is derived from the root word discere-”to learn.” So what is discipline?ĭiscipline is to study, learn, train, and apply a system of standards. The root word of discipline is “disciple,” which comes from the Latin word discipulus meaning “student.” Most people believe a disciple is a “follower” (probably because of the religious context), but in reality it means student-as in, “one who studies.” To understand what discipline really is and what it really means, let’s look at the origin of the word to find its intent and true form. Is it consistency? Is it doing what you’re told?ĭo you even get a choice? Do you just comply? Is it always doing the same thing? Is it always doing the right thing? ![]() |