She just has to convince this gun-shy wolf that he can trust the dangerous cat who wants to take a slow, sexy bite out of him… But for dominant leopard Dezi, he’s the most fascinating man she’s ever met. Still raw from being burned by a dominant female, wolf changeling Felix will never again risk being a plaything. But she wants nothing more than to break down the barrier of silence between her and her telekinetic Psy station commander.Ī changeling who can never shift lives a life of quiet frustration-until he learns how to let his leopard come out and play. In a deep-sea station, Tazia Nerif has found her life’s work as an engineer, keeping things running smoothly. The “alpha author of paranormal romance”* presents a stunningly sensual collection of four all-new Psy-Changeling novellas, in which taboos are broken, boundaries are crossed, and instincts prove irresistible.
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In “The Penderwicks at Last,” 11-year-old Lydia, who wasn’t even born when the first book took place, comes to the fore, as she’s about to find out about the family’s storied summer spot in the Berkshires, Arundel, that shaped the lives of her older sisters in the first book. Now Birdsall has completed her fifth - and what might be the final - book in the series. The books have made for a best-selling series for elementary and middle-school readers. Northampton children’s author Jeanne Birdsall hit the big time when her very first book, “The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy,” won a National Book Award in 2005.īut that was just the start. Birdsall followed with three more volumes on the spirited Penderwick girls and their adventures in their home in the Massachusetts town of Cameron (a town that sounds a bit like a composite of Amherst and Northampton) with their absent-minded father, Martin, a college botany professor. The book contains 100 stories about women from Hatshepsut, who was a Pharaoh from 1508-1458 B.C. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is an important book for any young girls library. For more information about their successful Kickstarter program, click here. Having my own Kickstarter campaign backed up, I understand the work that goes into raising money. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is not just a book that can be read at bedtime, it can read it anytime! This book was originally funded by Kickstarter, which was backed by 13,454 backers that pledged $675,614 to help bring this project to life. It has been such a wonderful experience reading this book with my daughter because both of us are learning about some rebellious and extraordinary women in history. A couple of months ago, my daughter received this book, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli as a gift. As anyone who has ever tried knows, writing about sex and violence is difficult. Doctorow never has to tell us this he does it all with a slight shift of style.Īnother virtue of the book-something all good gangster novels should have-is vivid, gritty scenes of sex and violence. At the end of a crucial chapter, Billy's sentence structure will become more complicated, his metaphors more sophisticated, but Doctorow's alters them so subtly, he keeps the language so completely in character, that we soon come to realize we are listening to a reflective, older Billy commenting on his childhood memories. Once Doctorow has successfully created this illusion, however, he manipulates the narrative voice-and our perceptions of it-in a remarkably ambitious way. He describes his streets and adventures in the way that an intelligent boy of his age would see them, and he soon convinces the reader both of the believability of his character and of his reliability as a narrator. Like his literary ancestor Huckleberry Finn, Billy speaks naturally, with colloquial snap and humor. This picaresque novel about Bronx-born “Billy Bathgate” Behan, a street urchin and errand-boy for the Dutch Schulz mob, memorably evokes the tough urban streets of the early '30's, but its principal achievement is the voice of the first person narrator, “Billy Bathgate” himself. The park itself contains a small free exhibition where you can try writing your own haiku poem, and nekotsuka, or cat memorials dedicated to deceased pets. The Park is a 10 minute walk from Waseda station on the Tozai line, or a 15 minute walk from Ushigome-Yanagicho station on the Toei Oedo line. Soseki Park is the location of Soseki’s final house, where he lived from 1907 and wrote books such as Sanshiro, Korekara and Kokoro. The Museum is next to Soseki Park, along the Soseki Sanbo dori street in Waseda. The Natsume Soseki Museum opened in September 2017, on the 150 th anniversary of his birth. Below are some of the key Soseki related spots, besides a guide to some of the neighbourhoods where you can still experience traces of Meiji-era Japan. There are many places left in Tokyo connected to him, and even for those who are unfamiliar with his writing the neighbourhoods he frequented offer a unique and nostalgic way to experience Tokyo. Why are there so many Natsume Soseki spots in Tokyo? His famous books include I am a Cat, Kokoro, S orekara and Botchan. He was born in February 1867 in Tokyo, and spent much of his life in what is now the Shinjuku ward. Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is one of the most famous writers of modern Japanese literature: from 1984 until 2004 his picture was even printed on the 1,000 yen note.
Most of the time, if you shoot raw, you will be able to tweak the colors, change the luminance values slightly and bring in a tonal range.Ī slight variation of the above colors gives some tonal range. Some colors may look distinct, but when converted to black and white, they may all end up with the same tones. You cannot just guess that contrasting colors can help with capturing stunning black and white photographs and you need to have a good understanding of tonality. For example, a scene may look brilliant with contrasting colors and other details, but when converted to black and white, it can look flat, dull, and boring. Besides contrast, shapes, patterns, textures, shadows, and composition can be key elements for a good black and white photographs.įor great black and white photographs, when looking at a photo or a scene that is right in front of you, you should be able to visualize if the frame will work better in black and white. Great black and white photographs need to have a tonal range with notable contrast between the lights and darks. Photo by Blake Verdoorn What Makes A Great Black And White Photograph It's probably not a very kind commentary on me, or people like me, and the way we live and eat that it should seem so strange at first-but, oh well! You've got to learn sometime. That it's as much a weird roommate as a kitchen ingredient, I mean. Robin Sloan: Well, this is what happened to me, and I think it's true for a lot of people, especially people who have lost touch with old foodways: the reality of a sourdough starter is honestly SHOCKING. It's as much a weird roommate as a kitchen ingredient. The reality of a sourdough starter is honestly SHOCKING. What have you observed about the rise (sorry) in sourdough culture (sorry)? I feel like it goes beyond "I want bread and I don't have yeast." Jess Zimmerman: Sourdough came out a few years ago, but it's newly relevant today because sourdough has become the hot quarantine hobby for people who are lucky enough to be able to think beyond survival. I asked him what sourdough is doing for us right now, and what lessons it can teach us for the future. Sloan's book, which came out in 2017, predated our current moment, but also kind of prefigured it it features an adrift and alienated tech worker who is brought back to herself when she's given a mysterious, almost otherworldly sourdough starter and begins baking perfect bread. For help interpreting this sourdough fixation, I turned to Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough. As the story develops, we watch as he unites the Mongols against (what would now be) Russian invaders, then enlists the Chinese to help out. From early on, it’s obvious that Temujin is a natural leader, but when his father dies and his family are kicked out of the clan, we see his other traits – tenacity, ruthlessness and survival instincts – as he keeps his family alive in less than ideal circumstances. The Wolf of the Plains is the first book in a series and tells of the young Genghis, Temujin, son of a clan chief, and the beginnings of his rise to be so much more. On with the review.ĭisclaimer – I read this in August, so forgive me if I’m a little hazy on some of the details. People are brutally killed and women are raped, so bear this in mind should you choose to read this. Piece of cake, right? Be warned though, this is rife with historical detail. In Wolf of the Plains, he takes on the same challenge with Genghis Khan, uniter of the Mongol hordes, conqueror of China, and at the time of his death, builder of the largest empire the world had known. This can be a tricky thing to do for many reasons, but I felt that Iggulden did a stellar job in adding life to what for most of us is a historical caricature. One of my favourite series was his Emperor books in which he breathed life into the well known historical facts about one Julius Caesar Esquire. Before we begin, I would like to confess that I am an unabashed Conn Iggulden fan, having read many of his books and enjoyed each of them immensely. In “Hamlet,” Shakespeare has the title character address the ghost of his father, who speaks to him from under the ground (or under the stage): “Well said, old mole! Canst work i’ the earth so fast?” Going back to Middle English, “mole” has referred to a small burrowing animal.By the early 17th century, “mole” could be applied metaphorically to people who were seen as sharing qualities with the animal, particularly relating to how they dig holes underground. In that same interview, le Carré was asked about one term that became particularly prominent after he used it in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” in 1974: “mole,” for a double agent who penetrates an organization and spies on it from the inside. As he revealed to a BBC interviewer in 1976, “I’ve used some authentic words, but I prefer my own really.” Those le Carré-isms include “scalphunter,” “honey-trap,” “lamplighter” and “pavement artist.” But in fact, le Carré would often make up his own terms. That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth. |