Dr seuss green eggs and ham read7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elsewhere, the various rest stops on Sam and Guy’s road to Meepville are drenched in whimsical, vividly colored landscapes.Īgainst that backdrop, “Green Eggs and Ham” also deserves credit for finding a tonal sweet spot for Sam-I-Am himself to live in. Sometimes that pops up in the show’s gleeful literalizing of common phrases (Michellee is an actual bean counter, while Guy watches paint dry). One of the more enjoyable aspects of “Green Eggs and Ham” is seeing the show indulge the absurd, exaggerated Seussisms that exists on the page. (Ilana Glazer) and a couple self-proclaimed Bad Guys, McWinkle and Gluntz (Jeffrey Wright and Jillian Bell) close on the Chickeraffe’s trail. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: A Sweet Teen Odyssey with Killer MovesĪlong the way, they meet other sets of foils: an overly protective mother Michellee (Diane Keaton) and her daughter E.B. ![]()
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Commonwealth patchett review7/8/2023 ![]() “The most remarkable thing” about these six joined children, Patchett tells us, is that “they did not hate one another, nor did they possess one shred of tribal loyalty … The six children held in common one overarching principle that cast their potential dislike for one another down to the bottom of the minor leagues: They disliked the parents. This one, taking place outside Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, is occasioned by a christening, but no matter: Before it’s done, a young lawyer named Bert Cousins is kissing Beverly Keating, mother of the newly baptized Franny and wife to Francis (Fix) Keating, a cop.īy the time we reach the second of the book’s nine chapters, we’re looking back on that day from a half century later, during which Bert and Beverly moved to Bert’s native Virginia, leaving Fix and Bert’s wife, Teresa, high and dry - while bringing the two Keating offspring and four Cousins offspring together for portions of each year. ![]() “Commonwealth” (Harper Collins, $27.99, 336 pages), Ann Patchett’s moving, beautifully crafted novel, begins with the sort of set piece that often looms large in stories including divorce as well as marriage: a booze-soaked party and all it does to lower inhibitions. ![]() Beatrix potter the tailor of7/8/2023 ![]() The book's masterful illustrations were based upon the several gardens at the Lake District estate of Fawe Park, where Potter spent the summer of 1903. In 1903, Potter and her publisher decided her next book should be less complicated than her previous productions, and in Benjamin Bunny she created a simple, didactic tale for young children. In Benjamin Bunny, Potter deepened the rabbit universe she created in Peter Rabbit, and, in doing so, suggested the rabbit world was parallel to the human world but complete and sufficient unto itself. McGregor's garden with his cousin Benjamin to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his previous adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), and tells of Peter's return to Mr. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. ![]() ![]() Later Sasson wrote PRINCESS: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE BEHIND THE VEIL IN SAUDI ARABIA, which is the story of a princess in the royal house of al-Sa'ud. When the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington heard that soldiers sent to free Kuwait did not know why they were there, the Embassy sent 200,000 copies to the region. The book was an instant best-seller, reaching #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. ![]() Jean started her writing career in 1991 when she wrote the book, THE RAPE OF KUWAIT. She traveled extensively, visiting 66 countries over the course of 30 years. When given the chance to travel, Sasson accepted a position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, and lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 12 years. She also began her book collection at age 15. An avid reader from an early age, she had read all the books in her school library by the time she was 15 years old. ![]() Jean Sasson was born in a small town in Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of love itself.Ī Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most beautiful places on earth–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only true bruschetta) directly from the author’s private collection. ![]() Love especially for old Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pressed olive oil invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. A trumpets wailing, a winds warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany. ![]() ![]() The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena. They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice. ![]() Hayden herrera upper bohemia7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Her parents’ friends included such literary and artistic heavyweights as artist Max Ernst, writers Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, architect Marcel Breuer, and collector Peggy Guggenheim. These adults inhabited a world that Herrera’s mother called “upper bohemia,” a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. They saw their father only during the summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated, and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drinking stepfather. Hayden Herrera’s parents each married five times following their desires was more important to them than looking after their children. ![]() A “touching, heartbreaking, and exceptional” ( Town & Country) coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents-set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their stories were far less interesting to me and, even though I often found Oskar annoying, I was always relieved when the story returned to him. The envelope has the word “Black” on it and, through a series of investigations, Oskar decides that “Black” must be a last name and so he embarks on a journey to visit every Black in New York City to see if they know about the key.Īt the same time, we hear narration from Oskar’s grandfather who is mute (and also abandoned his wife and unborn son (Oskar’s dad) decades earlier) and Oskar’s grandmother. A while after his death, Oskar accidentally breaks a vase in his dad’s closet and finds, in the vase, an envelope with a key. ![]() His dad, whom he adores, died in the World Trade Center in 9/11. The book is about Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old kid with too many brain cells for his own good. Whenever I listen to a book on CD I wonder if I would have liked it more or less if I’d read a print version. ![]() But I did count down every CD I put in (only three more CDs to go! only one more! Only two more tracks! Done!) and that’s not exactly a good sign. And, because of their reviews, it’s harder for me to say that I didn’t really care for this book.īut there it is. I listened to the Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close audiobook after reading very positive reviews of it by Kristy and Bethany. ![]() Garudayana Vol. 2 by Is Yuniarto7/6/2023 ![]() The race of moon elves was once again at stake, which outraged the great elven king! At a night of thunder and lightning, Estes woke up. Seduced by the Blood Queen, Alice, some young elves have fallen. However the dominator of dark abyss is thirsty for more believers and the dark force has been growing stronger in secret. However, when the flames of wars between human and orcs burned on this peaceful woodland, the young Moonlight Archer - Miya, stood up and gathered rest elves to protect their homeland. Moon elves lost the guide from their king ever since. The elven king of present generation is the unique Estes, who was badly hurt during the second plane war and had to go into sleep in the Emerald Woodland. Every elven king was born in the Tree of Life at the center of the Emerald Woodland. At the habitat of moon elves, somewhere west of the Moonlake, here locates the legendary Emerald Woodland, which was the birthplace of the first generation of elves. ![]() The 100 complete boxed set7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Rare group of 31 golf stereoviews by this scarce maker. Set401. Bay State Publishing Co., London & Boston. ![]() Top of box is intact but has splits at corners. The Netherlands. 100/100, complete, consecutively numbered. Ceylon. 100/100 complete, sequentially numbered. Views are E, box is worn and flaked as shown. United States. 100/100, complete, sequentially numbered. With booklet Jerusalem Through the Stereoscope. ![]() This was issued as a subset of the Palestine set. 27 views, consecutively numbered 9-35, as issued. Views are in E condition, box has some wear and fraying, so G. Views of Horton Smith (4), Willie Macfarlane (6), Gene Sarazen (3), Johnny Farrell (4), Bobby Cruickshank (1), Leo Diegel (3), MacDonald Smith (2), Larry Nabholtz (7), Billy Burke (1), plus an unidentified golfer in the #50 view titled “The Wrong Way to Finish a Stroke.” All views are different and are numbered at top center. This set contains 32 golf views of the 50 card set. ![]() Fomorian Earth by Lars Bergen7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Lars Bergen is a driving force, but I do not know what form he takes.Ībout 750 B.C., the renowned author Homer is credited with writing the Iliad, Odyssey, Cypria, and other works from which we derive some of the history of the Greek gods when they lived on Earth among us, this being a segment of Earth’s extraterrestrial history. I say that because Lars Bergen came into my life at the onset of the book series Through the Wormhole which is now at 11 books covering Ancient Aliens and Nordic Aliens. People have asked me: “Is Lars Bergen an alien?”Īnd the best answer I can give is: “I don’t know, but if he is then he’s probably a Celtic goddess incognito.” ![]() Moving silently through the backways in search of Earth’s extraterrestrial history where the dust lies thick, hidden in the mists of time. Lars Bergen is a shadow on a moonless night. ![]() |