![]() ![]() ![]() Sara Davidson: I define boomers in my book not simply by demographics - born 1946 to 1964 - but culturally. The excerpt in Newsweek focused on 'the Narrows' that phase in life when everything gets harder before it gets easier.Īligarh, India: Hi, What's the central idea behind the words "the baby boomers"? Wow, never done one of these before! I'm delighted to be with you to answer questions about my new book Leap! What Will We do with the Rest of our Lives? Andrew Weil, Ram Dass and Bebe Moore Campbell, and 150 others from all walks of life, Davidson tried to figure out what to make of this stage in her life-this autumn to which her peers told her to just "surrender." Davidson joined us for a Live Talk on baby boomers and the life transitions many are making on Friday, Jan. She bottomed out-so she wrote a book, "LEAP! What Will We Do With the Rest of Our Lives?" In interviews with icons like Tom Hayden, Dr. As she entered her sixth decade, Sara Davidson found that, as she puts it, she "couldn't get arrested." A journalist, television writer and author of 1978's best-seller "Loose Change," Davidson suddenly found herself single, out of work and an empty nester all at once. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Old age should burn and rave at close of day ![]() I particularly liked this line, “By birth more noble than those creatures all/Yet seems by nature and by custom curs’d.”Īnd that made me think about how humans can also be resilient, and “rage, rage against the dying of the light,” which then made me think about Dylan Thomas’ poem Do not go gentle into that good night: I was reading Tirza’s lovely blog, Tirza Reads, where she blogs about books and poems, and she did a post about a beautiful Anne Bradstreet’s poem, Contemplations, where Bradstreet juxtaposes the seeming frailty of humans with the resilience and rebirth quality of nature (and then later flips this in the poem to note how humans can actually become immortal, in a way). If you go to the Wikipedia page for this poem, there’s a whole section dedicated to popular usage in media. Heck, I just did a test and asked a friend who probably hasn’t read any poetry since he had to for high school, and he’s heard it. And I’m not unearthing a hidden gem of a poem if you’ve never read a poem in your life, I can almost guarantee you’ve at least heard the two famous lines from this poem. ![]() Unless the search function isn’t working properly on my blog, I’ve somehow never written about one of my all-time favorite poems. He gives a stirring speech using the famous line from this poem. Bill Pullman playing President Thomas Whitmore in the mega blockbuster from 1996 Independence Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Straight up - I was obnoxiously laughing so hard and so loud for so long that I actually began to feel sorry for the people around me. The Lightning-Struck Heart or, as it was originally titled, Unicorn Star F**ker, is a fantastic story of love, friendship, longing, loss, and hope. I will listen to this over and over again. I hope there is a sequel, that it comes soon, and that it has the same narrator. ![]() I would happily listen to anything this author and narrator ever created. It was not just a narration it was a masterful performance full of emotion, laughter, and passion. The narrator's voices were very different, so I knew who exactly was speaking, and each matched the character perfectly. The details were plentiful without being too much. ![]() I cared about each character, laughed at all the bad guys, and was never confused about what was going on. Every character was fleshed out, unique, and worked flawlessly in this story. The interactions between Sam and Ryan make this relationship my favorite of all books I have ever read or listened to. I'm not one for warm and fuzzy relationships, nor relationships that are too easy or too anguishing. I'm doing my best to write a spoiler-free review, so it will not do the book justice. In over 19 hours, I never once felt like it was slow or boring. I was constantly laughing and rewinding to my favorite parts. It is devastatingly funny, but the humor is sometimes crude. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed both of their characters and their unexpected relationship in the story! Aubrey had so much more courage than she gave herself credit for. Let’s just say that Aubrey and her hot Australian stranger, Chance, went on quite the adventure! I wasn’t supposed to fall for the cocky bastard, especially when I knew we’d be going our separate ways.Īll good things must come to an end, right?Įxcept our ending was one I didn’t see coming. I thought he wanted me too, but something was holding him back. I wanted him, but Chance wouldn’t make a move. It was all fun and games until things got intense. My ordinary road trip turned into the adventure of a lifetime. Next thing I knew, we were traveling together, spending sexually-tense nights in hotels and taking unplanned detours. He was someone who belonged in my wildest fantasies instead of a rest stop in the middle of Nebraska.Ī sexy, cocky, Australian named Chance was the last person I expected to run into on my cross-country drive. ![]() ![]() Well, this is my second ‘cocky’ book review this week, but how can you go wrong with a Cocky Chef and an Australian Cocky Bastard? I’ve had this read by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward on my ‘to be read’ shelf for quite awhile now and decided to give it a go! ![]() ![]() She has an evangelical upbringing and a Cambridge education, a PhD in literature. In McLaughlin’s, it was through her work with the Veritas Forum. In Keller’s case, that was with young, upwardly mobile New York urbanites. Like Tim Keller in his The Reason for God, McLaughlin is delivering the fruit of her years involved in frontline Christian apologetics. So here I go: McLaughlin is easy to read, has done some good homework, has a compelling personal story, and writes with a British accent so clearly she is smart okay you can’t deny it. Third, to be honest, was that Crossway was willing to give me a free copy in exchange for an honest review, no strings attached. ![]() ![]() Second was the author: I read a piece of hers on TGC that I liked. ![]() I actually assumed it was a non-Christian book. What first attracted me to Rebecca McLaughlin’s Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion was the title. ![]() ![]() The book is set at the School, and freida the main character is sixteen and in her final year. If you're looking for dystopian, this is it, and blimey, is it bleak. Shortlisted for the Best Fiction for Teens category of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2015 isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty - her only asset - in peril.Īnd then, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.įreida must fight for her future - even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. The alternative - life as a concubine - is too horrible to contemplate.īut as the intensity of the final year takes hold, the pressure to remain perfect becomes almost unbearable. ![]() ![]() Now, aged sixteen and in their final year at the School, they expect to be selected as companions - wives to wealthy and powerful men. I originally posted this review on my book thread, but after a spoilertastic discussion in Noll's book thread, and with others planning to read the book, I thought I'd set up a separate thread where we could discuss some of the issues and plot lines in the book without having to put everything in spoiler tags.įreida and isabel have been best friends their whole lives. BEWARE - THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD, FOLLOWING THE TWO REVIEWS ![]() ![]() ![]() While reading books of this author, you will that you have actually stepped down in the pages of the book. This author has the ability to catch the reader attention and filling all the ends of story. Our digital library gives readers access of downloading their concerned book completely free in ePub and PDF formats.Elizabeth Kelly is the author of this poised and chilling book. Red Moon is a compelling and highly gripping novel that will keep the reader on their toes till the end. ![]() Here is the brief summary of Red Moon by Elizabeth Kelly to get the reader an idea of the book This book is absolutely unputdownable with the outstanding love-to-hate characters and non-stop turns and twists. Red Moon by Elizabeth Kelly is an enthralling story that is a perfect source of entertainment, joy, happiness, sadness, love, romance, drama, thrill and suspense. ![]() Download Red Moon by Elizabeth Kelly PDF novel free in both PDF and ePub formats. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Mother Dolores is somewhat of a public figure again. She has become a mother prioress and the abbey is flourishing, with a professional theater group performing in the summer, internships and several new postulants. ![]() Dolores Hart was one of Hollywood’s top ingenues, giving Elvis Presley his first screen kiss in 1957’s “Loving You” and then reuniting with him a year later in “King Creole.” She worked with such legends as Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani in 1957’s “Wild Is the Wind” and Robert Ryan and Montgomery Clift in 1958’s “Lonelyhearts,” then earned a Tony Award nomination in 1959 for her first play, the romantic comedy “The Pleasure of His Company.”Ī devout Catholic since the age of 10, she broke off her engagement to Don Robinson in 1963 and entered the cloistered Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., where as Mother Dolores Hart she has lead a life of contemplation and hospitality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She continues through the struggles of the Civil War and explores the split that occurred in evangelicalism between fundamentalists and modernists in the late 1800s. ![]() In her fascinating new book, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Pulitzer Prize winner Frances FitzGerald gives a broad overview of the history of American evangelicalism, but more importantly focuses on how, in the last fifty years, evangelicalism has once again reasserted itself into the American mainstream.įitzGerald begins her book with a brief history of the First Great Awakening in 1735 and quickly moves on to the second in the early 1800’s. And yet many of us have only a vague understanding of evangelical thought and history, or even how evangelicals view themselves. For humanists, dedicated to critical thinking, reason, and firmly opposed to supernatural beliefs, there may be no group in the United States more directly opposed to our worldview than the evangelicals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm a Murakawa fan would just add to the many reviews of his work something that's often not mentioned - not only are they deeply beautiful, his novels are really fun to read. ![]() Degas just never gets the mood of the work right, to my mind. Other narrators have done Murakami really, really well (1Q84, with multiple readers, is terrific, as is Kafka By the Shore with Sean Barrett and Oliver Le Sueur ). ![]() The tone throughout is much too theatrical and feverish for the quiet deeps, wry humor and reflective unfolding of this tale.I loved reading this book - Murakami's stories never seem abstract and 'experimental' in the off-putting way at all and I can never put them down. Murakami's wonderfully delicate, mysterious and absorbing novel is terribly marred by the narration here Degas renders the main character unpleasantly arch and snarky initially and seems to be struggling without success to find the right voice for him throughout children and teens have voices like obnoxious TV cartoon characters, and both female and children's voices are indicated by a very rapid, jerky, breathy, oddly pitched delivery that's just all wrong and actually jarring. If you could sum up The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in three words, what would they be? ![]() |