6/10/2023 0 Comments Adventures on the alimentary canal![]() ![]() If Mary Roach taught science, all the kids would earn A's. Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. With Roach as our guide, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists - who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. ![]() In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of - or has the courage to ask. ![]() Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: The questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. Best-selling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Legend prodigy champion rebel![]() ![]() These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave the past behind. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Altan Wing's little brother.Ī decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved The Republic of America. It is set about a decade after the events of Champion, and takes place in Ross City and The Republic of America.Įden Bataar Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. It switches between Eden Bataar Wing and Daniel "Day" Altan Wing's point of view. ![]() Rebel is the fourth book in the Legend series, following Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. ![]() This article contains plot details about upcoming events. ![]() ![]() ![]() If, however, you like your fiction plot-driven, dark, with a surfeit of melodrama, this novel is for you. The Casual Vacancy is, in a funny way, not so much an extension of the Harry Potter books as their negative image: it’s a painfully arbitrary and fallen world, a world that, bereft as it is of the magic that animates and ennobles Hogwarts, sags and cracks under its own weight. ![]() In Pagford, everybody believes they’re the hero of the story, but as the novel’s point of view restlessly shifts, we see each character recast again and again as villain, victim, fool, lover, ally, traitor. Rowling, by contrast, shows off a new descriptive dexterity, an extra verbal gear that until now she kept in reserve. Her interest is in the emotional and social chasms that yawn between us and the grotesque emotional wounds we inflict on those on the other side, always in the belief that we’re acting in righteous self-defense. ![]() a big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, very upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence and entirely bereft of bullshit. The Casual Vacancy is a different beast entirely. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Ship of fools book russo![]() ![]() The novel Fiddlers' Green Or, the Strange Adventure of Tommy Lawn: A Tale of the Great Divide of the Sailormen ( 1931) by Albert Richard Wetjen (1900-1948) learnedly unpacks the implications of this nest of topoi.Īs a controlling metaphor, the "ship of fools" has subtended many subsequent works. In the confused mosaic of sailors' lore, a cauldron of story which disintegrated rapidly with the coming of steam, the immense Great Ship or Ship of Fools, which transports dead sailors to the saturnalian afterlife Island known as Fiddlers' Green, is sometimes conflated with the Green itself (see Generation Starship below). The definitive literary realization of the topos is Die Narrenschiff ( 1494 trans Alexander Barclay as The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde 1509) by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) there are many later (much improved) translations, as partially described in Aurelius Pompen's The English Versions of the Ship of Fools ( 1925). A traditional Fantasy theme dating back to medieval times, in which a ship – the Narrenschiff or Ship of Fools – carries all sorts of persons on an endless voyage in search of Utopia, providing an easily visualizable literal vehicle for allegorical Satire on the follies of humanity, the most famous such vehicle probably being "The Ship of Fools" ( before 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch ( circa 1450-1516). ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments After the Fall by Ben Rhodes![]() ![]() ![]() The end of history could not have been more exciting.Īfter the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, Ben Rhodes, Random House, 384 pp.,, June 2021Īfter the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, Ben Rhodes, Random House, 384 pp., $20, June 2021 We went into the world intent on righting the historical wrongs of communism. While I headed to Jerusalem to see about the conflict between Israelis and Arabs, a bunch of my friends set off to Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bratislava, and East Berlin to teach English, train journalists, help build political parties, and shape the world in the United States’ best image. Just like that, the Soviet Union was gone. Less than a year later, the hammer and sickle came down from atop the Kremlin. armed forces needed only three days of ground combat to defeat the Iraqi army after it had invaded Kuwait. ![]() After all, in the fall of my senior year in college, my housemates and I watched in stunned silence when the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern and Central Europeans claimed their freedom. We were inculcated with a sunny enthusiasm about remaking the world. My generation came of age just before the attacks on New York City and Washington. Generation Xers were never the slackers we were made out to be in bad movies and by snarky cultural commentators. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When 16-year-old Lydia Lee fails to show up at breakfast one spring morning in 1977, and her body is later dragged from the lake in the Ohio college town where she and her biracial family don't quite fit in, her parents-blonde homemaker Marilyn and Chinese-American history professor James-older brother and younger sister get swept into the churning emotional conflicts and currents they've long sought to evade. Ng's nuanced debut novel begins with the death of a teenage girl and then uses the mysterious circumstances of her drowning as a springboard to dive into the troubled waters beneath the calm surface of her Chinese-American family. ![]() ![]() ![]() The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’. You can read this before A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce which was published in 1916–. Brief Summary of Book: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Changed into his image![]() What then is the real goal of salvation? Let us find out as we look now at our passage of Scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:18 – “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” But it does not follow that this is the goal of salvation. Now, it is true that salvation does accomplish that, and that we should preach the gospel widely out of compassion for the lost. ![]() If you were to ask people what the goal of salvation is, many of them would probably answer, “The goal of salvation is to rescue people from going to hell so that they may go to heaven and have eternal life.” I would like to direct our thoughts to the goal of salvation. Preached at Life BPC 8am & 10:45am service, ![]() 2 Corinthians 03:18 - Being Changed into His Image ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments A strong hand catt ford![]() Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. So they set out to explore these sensual boundaries together, neither expecting to find love along the way. And the reverse is true for Damian: Control turns him on. With Damian, Nick learns about his own deeply hidden desires and finds out that relinquishing control doesn't make him weak, having someone else in control of his sexual pleasure simply heightens it. Although he knows it might be a mistake, Damian takes Nick into his life.įlirting on the edges of control, submission, and pain excites Nick more than he would have ever dreamed possible. Wolfe.ĭamian has serious doubts about getting involved with a younger man who knows nothing about the BDSM lifestyle, but Nick's adventurous and humorous approach to new experiences is far too alluring to resist. ![]() While Nick has never questioned what kind of man he is or what he truly wants in life, working for Damian during a BDSM photo shoot opens his eyes to all sorts of sexual possibilities, and many of them include the handsome Mr. Nicholas Sayers, needing money for college, takes a job as assistant to infamous photographer Damian Wolfe. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Mary balogh mistress![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as she gets past his devilish façade and sees the noble heart within, she knows the greatest jeopardy of all, a passion that drives her to risk everything on one perfect month with the improper gentleman who thinks that love is for fools. ![]() Surely there is nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Jane tries to pretend it’s strictly business, an arrangement she’s been forced to accept in order to conceal a dangerous secret. When he offers to set her up in his London town house, love is the last thing on his mind. She questions his every move, breaches his secrets, touches his soul. Her blue eyes are the sort a man could drown in-were it not for her impudence. Jane Ingleby is far too bold for her own good. To his astonishment, Tresham finds himself hiring the servant as his nurse. In the melée, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, is shot. She races onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In this captivating novel, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency romance, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable-he falls in love with his mistress. ![]() |