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The Tao of Pooh is a book written by Benjamin Hoff. The book is intended as an introduction to the …
"Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers …
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it …
"In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women : The …
A compilation of everything the author could find about any person, real or fictional, who might possibly have been female who was engaged in any way with anything that might possibly be considered piracy. Written in very plain language. Probably aimed at teenagers.
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his …
I loved this book. But be forewarned - it is nothing but a long stream of factoids. Hundreds of pages of useless trivia. I just happen to love useless trivia.
The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman. Drawing on the diary of …
"In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt …
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The …
I started this book because I wanted to translate some Latin poetry, and I'd read some bits of Catullus in my textbook that were quite sweet.
Unfortunately, those sweet bits are few and far apart among his poems. In the vast majority of his work he is simply nasty. He viciously skewers people without mercy and often drops into obscenity. There were many times when, after parsing out and understanding the Latin, I was at a loss of how to restate it in English. Because I couldn't bring myself to write down the English words that were needed to do this. Hell, in many cases I didn't even know the English equivalents.
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr …
Hadfield takes readers into his years of training and space exploration to show how to …
A cross between a memoir and a self-help book, interspersing details of how exactly you function in a weightless environment with advice on how to achieve your dreams. Work your butt off, pull your own weight and help others out, don't be an asshole.
On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved …
A great whopping chunk of the book was taken up with various speeches, interviews, articles and short stories, culminating in about a dozen chapters of an unfinished Dirk Gently book. The writing was wonderful, but I really had no idea what was going on, as Adams skipped happily to and fro. I can only trust that he would have pulled all the loose ends together and tied them all up in a big messy knot. Or gone through the chapters and snipped them all away. We'll never know now.
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the …
Mothers and daughters and their interactions. All sorts of mothers - biological, adoptive, and virtual. There are men and boys in the book as well, but they are mainly placeholders. The novel is really all about the women and girls.
The novel is set in Shaker Heights, Ohio (where Ng grew up, although she was born in Pittsburgh) in the 90's. Ng is of the generation of the teenagers in the book, while I would be the same age as the mothers.
Mrs Richardson seems at first to be Lady Bountiful, distributing largess to the deserving needy, but is gradually revealed to be the Witch Mother from Hell, secure in her own knowledge of what is right and proper and manipulating and controlling everyone around her. Mia on the other hand, is a Wise Woman, a nomadic artist, poor and rootless, but with the gift of seeing the deep inner …
Mothers and daughters and their interactions. All sorts of mothers - biological, adoptive, and virtual. There are men and boys in the book as well, but they are mainly placeholders. The novel is really all about the women and girls.
The novel is set in Shaker Heights, Ohio (where Ng grew up, although she was born in Pittsburgh) in the 90's. Ng is of the generation of the teenagers in the book, while I would be the same age as the mothers.
Mrs Richardson seems at first to be Lady Bountiful, distributing largess to the deserving needy, but is gradually revealed to be the Witch Mother from Hell, secure in her own knowledge of what is right and proper and manipulating and controlling everyone around her. Mia on the other hand, is a Wise Woman, a nomadic artist, poor and rootless, but with the gift of seeing the deep inner essence of everyone she meets, and the knowledge of how to prick it out to the surface. They meet and mingle for a while, then, inevitably, clash and part ways.
The novel ends abruptly, with each of the teenagers pointed in a different direction. But you're left wondering where each will end up, and how they'll live their adult lives.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a …
"From the one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"-- and bestselling …
A book about SCIENCE! Or at least a small part of it. Actually, the bulk of the book dealt with the Large Hadron Collider - how it was built, how it works, and what we hope to find with it.
