You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles - ⭑⭑⭑⭑☆ By far the least interesting and least engaging of the six, in my opinion. I got to the end and was like "Is that it?"Ĭold, distant characters, boring story. Weir spends the first half geeking out about coding and computing, never developing any of the characters, and then the second half just fizzles out. That opinion being that this story was so dry and dull. I got my partner to read this too because I wondered if all the discussion of quantum computing was more interesting to a techie computer geek, but he shares my opinion. It felt almost as if Weir didn't even try. I can now say that Randomize was by far my least favourite story. Mostly because authors like Blake Crouch and N.K. Nothing about this made me want to read on. That made Randomize the first story I read. For no real reason, I decided to read through the Forward collection in order of length, starting with the shortest.
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Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo and Essence. If you’ve ever felt alone on your journey into the writing world, the words of these poets are for you.Ībout the author: Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Examining cultural traditions, myths, and music from the Four Tops to Beyoncé, Bingham-Risher reflects on the enduring gifts of art and community. Each essay also delves into how her own life and work are influenced by these elders. Each essay is thematically inspired, centered on one of her interviews, and uses quotes drawn from her talks to showcase their philosophies. Presented in partnership with Semicolon BookstoreĪbout the book: Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history on the artistic process. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Remica Bingham-Risher will discuss Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions that Grew Me Up. Beautifully and poetically written, the book includes Spanish words and Mexican-American cultural elements to make it a vividly authentic mirror for some readers and a universally appealing and engaging window for others. Here, she begins a journey for her survival as she attempts to reunite with her family and make it home to her country of birth, the United States of America. Her family quickly becomes a target for the Rangers, and Estrella finds herself in Mexico, separated from her family. Walking in the footsteps of her activist parents, Estrella helps to organize a protest against the treatment of the tejanos in her town of Monteseco, with devastating results. Estrella loves poetry and the natural world, but her days of lying in the fields and writing come to a halt when she is repatriated to Mexico.Įstrella’s family owns Rancho las Moras-a rarity in Texas, where they are increasingly surrounded by Anglo incomers, and a safe haven, not just from the Great Depression, but from the Rangers, who are rounding up mexicanos and repatriating them to Mexico, without regard to the fact that many are actually U.S. But there is still so much more to discover. And yet, even though we were covering the familiar, one still had experiences that one would not expect! For example, we actually shot in small caves where an underground river flows! Or discovered a tribe that tattoos the holy name of Ram all over their bodies! Or actually found floating stones at Rameshwaram." "All of us Indians think we know Lord Rama's journey. And to be able to host a documentary on this subject, would I thought, be a bit like coming home. Talking about his experience, Amish told news agency IANS, "'Ramayan' is our collective eternal heritage. As the host, Amish will traverse across geographies in the footsteps of Lord Ram to retrace his journey and unravel the under-explored mysteries around the text. The show will begin streaming on Discovery+ from April 7. Renowned Indian author Amish Tripathi, known for the book series 'Shiva Trilogy' and 'Ram Chandra Series', is all set to make his debut as a host with an upcoming docu-series titled 'Legends of the Ramayana'. His spoonful-of-sugar method will encourage you to take a fresh approach to those thoughts that keep us awake at night - you will come away having gained some perspective and laughed so much. Do I have to say I’m sorry?” we know that there are no easy answers to these elevated concerns and wouldn’t want them because we wouldn’t want to miss Schur’s irreverent wrestling with any possible moral conundrum. By the time he reaches the final chapter he calls “I screwed up. His conversational approach to illustrating concepts like virtue ethics and utilitarianism using references to pop culture, politics, and sports is balanced by an entertaining history of the key thinkers and theories from 2,500 years of Western philosophical thought all with hilarious footnotes we might expect from a comedy writer. They’re the ones that made sense to me, in a cartoon-lightbulb-turning-on-above-my-head kind of a way. The works discussed in this book are simply the ones I liked and connected with, he writes. “How to be Perfect: The correct answer to every moral question” by Michael Schur, Simon & Schuster, 2022, 289 pagesĪfter exploring morality on “The Good Place”, comedy superstar Mike Schur answers questions like “Should we punch our friends in the face for no reason?” and whether or not it is OK to enjoy the art and music of people who are morally problematic with a mix of theories from Aristotle and Kant combined with personal anecdotes that leave you wishing he had been your first year university Philosophy professor. Fully admitting his own limitations, Schur stresses the importance of personal connection. As Tad tries bravely to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage suddenly on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight, and that the fateful currents of their lives will eddy closer and faster to the horrifying vortex that is Cujo. But life in this small town-evoked as vividly as a Winesburg or a Spoon River-is not what it seems. Vic Trenton, New York adman obsessed by the struggle to hand on to his one big account, his restive and not entirely faithful wife, Donna, and their four-year-old son, Tad, moved to Castle Rock seeking the peace of rural Maine. What happens to Cujo, and to those unlucky enough to be near him, makes for the most heart-squeezing novel Stephen King has yet written. One day Cujo pursues a rabbit into a bolt-hole-a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. He would-Ĭujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the beloved family pet of the Joe Cambers of Castle Rock, Maine, and the best friend ten-year-old Brett Camber has ever had. But the bats kept biting his tender face with their sharp little rat-teeth. He leaped at them again and again, and each time he leaped he brought one down, teeth clamped on a leathery, twitching wing. It was dusk, and the sky was dark with wheeling, red-eyed bats. His dreams were confused, lunatic things. He lay on the verge of grass by the porch, his mangled snout on his fore-paws. Radden Keefe excels in these ‘long form’ pieces, and as he says in the preface, they are ‘Substantial enough to completely immerse yourself in but short enough to finish in a sitting’ and that’s how I consumed them. From computer technicians who expose wide scale financial scandals, to International arms traffickers, a death penalty attorney who feels deeply for her clients and the apprentice creator who transformed the fortunes of Donald Trump, these pieces are incredibly readable and revealing. He considers it for a brief moment (imagine that book) before he respectfully declines, but it’s a tribute to his writing ability to capture portraits of this bunch of grifters, killlers, rebels and crooks in ‘rogues’.Īnd what a cast it is. Patrick Radden Keefe is so good at creating what’s called the ‘writearound’ - which is when he creates an article about subject who doesn’t grant an interview - that he gets an offer to ghostwrite the biography of ‘El Chapo’, the notorious Mexican drug lord. Need help finding a book? Talk to a librarian at your local public library. The books listed on this guide are available at the Free Library of Philadelphia unless otherwise listed and may be available at school libraries as well as public libraries outside of the city. Out-of-state residents can obtain a card by paying an annual fee of $50.00. In addition, anyone who lives in the state of Pennsylvania can obtain a Free Library card without charge. The Free Library of Philadelphia is one of the largest public library systems in the country. A "Free Library of Philadelphia" card is available at no cost to anyone who lives, works, pays taxes, or goes to school in the City of Philadelphia. Looking for books for K-12 students who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) concepts and careers? Encourage your kid(s) to visit their school or classroom library and/or your local public library. BorrowDirect+ (search & browse partner libraries).Lippincott Library of the Wharton School.Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. Drawn partly from Choi's own experiences, her debut novel is a sensitive and honest portrayal of amazing courage. When war's end brings only a new type of domination-from the Russian communists-Sookan and her younger brother must make a harrowing escape across the 38th parallel after their mother has been detained at a Russian checkpoint. Sookan watches her people-forced to renounce their native ways-become increasingly angry and humiliated. Left behind while her resistance-fighter father hides in Manchuria and her older brothers toil in Japanese labor camps, Sookan and her remaining family members run a sock factory for the war effort, bolstered only by the dream that the fighting will soon cease. In 1945, 10-year-old Sookan's homeland of North Korea is occupied by the Japanese. Professor ORVILLE SCHELL (Dean, UC Berkeley School of Journalism): Pleasure. Professor Schell joins us from UC Berkeley School of Journalism, where he's dean. Orville Schell knew Heinrich Harrer and has written about his life. But the adventurer's exploits were also clouded by his association with the Nazis and the SS. During World War II, he escaped from a British prisoner of war camp, trekked across the Tibetan plateau and ended up as a tutor for the young Dalai Lama in Lhasa, a tale recounted in one of his many books, "Seven Years in Tibet." That book was a best-seller and later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Harrer was an Olympic skier and champion golfer and explorer and mountain climber, and part of the team that made the first ascent on the Eiger's north wall in the Swiss Alps. Heinrich Harrer died last week in his native Austria. |