![]() Shortly after Delaney’s son Henry turned one, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. ![]() ![]() “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. ![]() Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes she smiles and sometimes she rips things and sometimes she is quiet. Narrated by Jenny Mei’s friend, we learn that Jenny Mei is sad but she doesn’t always show it. This is one of my new favorite picture books and great for preschoolers. For example, three pigs and a wolf or three snails and an alien. Cute illustrations show friends groups that don’t all look the same. Even though one of these is not like the others, that’s just fine with these friends…because it’s how they rock and roll. Saltzberg uses minimal text and illustrations to convey an important message of inclusion, friendships, and diversity. One of These Is Not Like the Others by Barney Saltzberg ![]() These friendship picture books about inclusion share stories to encourage children to be kind and thoughtful of others. One of the most important values to teach at the beginning of the school year, and anytime, is to be inclusive. ![]() ![]() Being labeled homelessness would mean that the machine would send individuals outside where the air was poisonous. If human beings did not worship the machine, they would be labeled as homelessness. It was wrong to think the opposite of most people that worshipped the machine. ![]() People have now established a new type of religion where they now worship the machine, because most people now see the machine as something more than ordinary. The interaction among people has gotten worse. Instead human beings communicate through monitors. People are no longer communicating face to face. People underground have created a new society. The air outside is no longer safe for any of the humans. ![]() The humans can no longer live on surface of earth, because of the bad conditions. “The Machine Stops,” is about a world in a dystopian future, where humans no longer live on the surface of earth, but instead underground. 16 thoughts on “ After Class Writing: E.M. ![]() ![]() My grandparents spoke both English and Yiddish (usually Yiddish when they didn ’t want me to understand what they were saying!) Incidentally, “Zayde” is “Grandpa” in Yiddish. ![]() Until the Blueberries Grow, is a reimagining of the experience through the eyes of a child, perhaps how I would ’ve felt if I had been a little girl when he left. I was already an adult at the time, but those feelings of loss-of the void that his move created, were strong. Jen: I was inspired to write Until the Blueberries Grow when my grandfather moved away, across the country. Tamara: Welcome, Jen! Thanks for doing this interview! Tell us a little bit about the book and how you got the idea. So without further ado, here is Tamara’s interview with Jen! You can find Jen’s interview with Tamara here. Since Jennifer and Tamara both have May book birthdays and also paternal themes, they interviewed each other about their process and experience bringing their stories to fruition. We are here to celebrate her book and all the behind-the-scenes tidbits readers need to know.Īnother PB22Peekaboo author, Tamara Girardi, released her debut board book, Why, Daddy? Why?, May 10. ![]() ![]() Jennifer Kam’s amazingly sweet and touching Until the Blueberries Grow released May 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() The molar extinction coefficient is given as a constant and varies for each molecule. \(\epsilon\) is the molar extinction coefficient or molar absorptivity (or absorption coefficient),.\(A\) is the measure of absorbance (no units),.For this reason, Beer's Law can only be applied when there is a linear relationship. ![]() Figure 5: Transmittance (CC BY-4.0 Heesung Shim via LibreTexts)īeer-Lambert Law (also known as Beer's Law) states that there is a linear relationship between the absorbance and the concentration of a sample. The length \(l\) is used for Beer-Lambert Law described below. ![]() Figure 5 illustrates transmittance of light through a sample. With the amount of absorbance known from the above equation, you can determine the unknown concentration of the sample by using Beer-Lambert Law. Where absorbance stands for the amount of photons that is absorbed. ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes a job escorting a wagon train to Oregon, never dreaming he’d meet a woman as strong, resourceful, beautiful, and kind as Naomi May. The son of a white man and a Pawnee woman, he feels adrift no matter where he lives, unable to fit into either world. John Lowry has never felt at home anywhere. Plus, with her family also planning to set up a homestead, life back east doesn’t hold much appeal for her. Her late husband always wanted to claim land out west, and now that he’s gone, Naomi feels this is the best way to honor his memory. Widowed Naomi May is traveling west with her parents and younger brothers in the spring of 1853. Where the Lost Wander filled me with all manner of nostalgia for those early romance-reading days, while managing to be a fantastic love story in its own right. ![]() However, when I learned that Amy Harmon, one of my very favorite authors, was coming out with a new novel about a wagon train on the Overland Trail, I knew I had to read it. ![]() Western romances used to be a staple of my reading life, but over the past several years, I’ve kind of drifted away from them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AP Harry an how wife Meghan Markle left the royal family in 2020 and moved to California. Prince Harry’s memoir will be published worldwide under the title “Spare” on January 10. ![]() They added that Harry, 38, will also donate to the non-profit WellChild in the amount of $347,000. “The Duke of Sussex has donated $1,500,000 to Sentebale, an organization he founded with Prince Seeiso in their mothers’ legacies, which supports vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/AIDS,” they wrote. 10, 2023, and while it was previously reported that his publishers paid him $20 million for his stories, it is now known what he plans to do with his big paycheck.Ī spokesman from Penguin Random House said that he will “support British charities with donations from his proceeds from ‘Spare.'” Prince Harry’s highly-anticipated upcoming memoir “Spare” has avid royal fans anxiously awaiting its release. Princess Diana’s ex-bodyguard defends paparazzi in Harry and Meghan’s NYC car chaseĪgency behind Meghan, Harry’s alleged ‘near-catastrophic car chase’ speaks out against claims Why royal family won’t comment on Harry and Meghan’s ‘car chase’ Harry and Meghan’s ‘car chase’ claim hurts ‘credibility’: ‘The View’ hosts ![]() ![]() ![]() (And this guy puts an extra *o* in the word smooth.) I'm tempted to continue on with the 5 series *Ripliad* just to shake my head and see "how's that working for you Mr. True, the story might have a few moments that require you suspend belief, and it may be considered slow by some, but the action is the smooth unfurling of the petals on our psycho flower. ![]() Ripleys in my former profession and Highsmith has done her research. I worked with more than a couple of budding Mr. Imagine a film of Ted Bundy's crimes with a lucid Bundy narrating the thought processes going on fascinating. Highsmith's Ripley is like a textbook study of a blooming sociopath/psychopath-along with the personal narration of the processes taking place, and that's what makes this so wonderfully chilling and entertaining. and he is the talented and sociopathic Mr. ago, giving us much more than just a glimpse into the mind of one of the baddest. Phil's pockets with more cha-ching is fine, but Highsmith outlined exactly what you look out for over 25 yrs. ![]() Phil just wrote a book based on his belief that it's time we all knew *how the world really works* and how to become *street savvy * claiming that he is offering a rare glimpse inside the mind of the "bad guys".philling Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some books are so special that there is more than one hero to love, but only a single story is told. And Ned Blydon inīy Julia Quinn.he makes me want to learn to waltz I never thought living in a drafty castle would be much fun until Simon of Ravenswood inĪnyway, I just wanted to let you know that these are my men - when do they get their stories? So if you find yourself asking, e Where is my heroe youll discover the answer right here in this delicious collection by New York Times bestseller Lisa. Where are my heroes? Whenever I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors I find I'm falling for the wrong guy - not the hero, but the other man - and what I really want is for him to have his own story.īy Lisa Kleypas.that doctor could sit by my bedside if I ever got sick. ![]() ![]() Unable to take himself, his colleagues or the university administration seriously, over the course of a week he careens through everything life can throw at him: suspected kidney stones, an irate set of staff, administrative scheming, strained friendships, the absence of his wife, the dissolution of his daughter’s marriage, and the return of his father, and to top it all off he threatens to kill a campus goose a day on live television unless he’s told the status of the department budget. ![]() He now finds himself as chair of a divided and divisive department at a time when large cuts in staff are muted. His one notable achievement was a single novel, published twenty years previously. There he has languished in a lower-tier university in a small town in the Pennsylvania rust belt, where he has remained faithful to his wife and his mother, and raised two kids. ![]() He even followed him into academia and English Literature. has lived in the shadow of his famous father, a noted literary critic and philanderer, his whole life. ![]() |