![]() ![]() Potter composes picture and prose with a wink and a twinkling smile. Her characters may be anatomically identical to their creature counterparts, but they are beset by the aspirations, vexations and petty snobberies of human readers. ![]() ![]() While Potter’s beautifully observed watercolour illustrations are rightly celebrated, much of the pleasure of reading and being read her books lies in the playful rhythm of her language.īorn in 1866 in London (a city she loathed, but which, alas, remained her home until her forties) Potter authored the tales of Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Jeremy Fisher and friends, which spoke knowingly to adults and children alike. Did you know that in the Netherlands, Jemima Puddle-Duck is called Kwakkel Waggel-Eend? On the basis of that name alone, I feel Beatrix Potter’s pitter-pattery, lippety-loppety prose would translate excellently into Dutch. ![]()
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![]() Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) ![]() Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World… whatever that means. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. ![]() ![]() It’s a recipe for the perfect love story.” – Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet CuteĪ steamy, hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne! Not only is it hilarious, it’s sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the previously unimaginable death of the shogun seems ever more possible, Sano finds himself at the center of warring forces that threaten not only his own family but Japan itself. And Sano has enemies of his own, as well as unexpected allies. If the shogun's heir is displeased, he will have Sano and his family put to death without waiting for the shogun's permission, then worry about the consequences later. This is the most significant, and most dangerous, investigation of his career. Sano is restored to the rank of chief investigator to find the culprit. In his own palace, the shogun is stabbed with a fan made of painted silk with sharp-pointed iron ribs. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes place. Yet, Sano's dedication to the way of the warrior-the samurai code of honor-is undiminished. ![]() His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Ienobu has left him bewildered and wary. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichirō has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. ![]() ![]() Everything really comes together and starts to build as the end of the series approaches. ![]() They're just too over-the-top.Ī Surrendered Heart is the culmination of the Broadmoor legacy. That goes for both Ellert and Uncle Jonas in this book. I understand the underlying message of the Christian author, but it's the way it was laid out was too unbelievable. I'm glad the creep ended up overboard, but I didn't think it was as plausible as it should've been. When her parents are proud of her decision and say she has maturity beyond her years, I just think she's playing the martyr and showing very little self worth. ![]() She was supposed to be level-headed and reasonable in all the books, but she lost all credibility in this one. She loathed the man and had no obligation to him except an agreement her father made, which she did not have to uphold (since she was legally and adult). ![]() ![]() As Ellert showed more and more of his truly awful character, Amanda's stubbornness in remaining with him made no sense. I found Amanda's fixation with saving face for her family really hard to believe. I enjoyed the first couple books in this series, but this one was too far-fetched for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its gridded but otherwise featureless landscape evokes formalist painting, urban concrete, and pawns on a chessboard. Its capstone, American People Series #20: Die (hereafter Die, as it was known at the time), was her last, largest, and most ambitious painting of that summer.ĭie conjures a blood-spattered world of indiscriminate interracial carnage. The show would be her first outside Harlem, where she was born, lived, and taught art at P.S. 1 Faith Ringgold left the same exhibition Kramer was reviewing with a markedly different impression: “I came away with the idea that there was more to a big canvas than its size that there had to be a good reason for taking up so much space if the painting was to be more than merely expensive wallpaper.” 2Īt that moment Ringgold was immersed in her own large-scale painting project for an exhibition that December at Spectrum, a cooperative gallery a few blocks from MoMA. No longer content to be a discrete object, painting aspires to become a world.” So the critic Hilton Kramer, writing in the New York Times in July 1967, described how oversize paintings fill our field of vision. “The world closes in on us, and yet painting.becomes more expansive. ![]() But it has to tell a story that is profound.” “I create work that pleases me, that thrills me, that speaks to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() The French reacted with ruthless violence. On the eve of those mass executions, the Spanish rebelled against the French invasion and the removal of Carlos IV from the throne. Goya’s painting silently but powerfully witnesses the tragic events that rocked the Iberian peninsula in the year that the Portuguese royal family arrived in Brazil. Some cover their eyes, while others hang their heads in resignation. At his side, other prisoners await their fatal bullet. At the feet of the man in the white shirt lie three or four s. Is he begging for mercy, attempting some explanation, performing a last act of protest? The moment of pure fear and despair stands frozen in Goya’s painting. In the center, a square lantern on the ground throws phantasmagorical light across a man in a white shirt and beige trousers, who lifts his arms in the direction of the firing squad. On the right, shrouded in heavy, dark tones, a firing squad aims at a group kneeling on the left. ![]() To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]() What reading level is 1808: the Flight of the Emperor book? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She possesses a rare ability to translate between disparate fields and make them accessible and exciting to audiences at all levels of fluency with her subjects. Lee’s uplifting and visually stunning presentations are laced with evidence-based insights, actionable takeaways, and delightful details. In 2018, she gave the closing address at TED her talk “Where Joy Hides and How to Find It” received a standing ovation. In her book, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, and as founder of the blog The Aesthetics of Joy, she reveals the powerful connection between our surroundings and our emotions, and empowers people to find more joy in their lives and their work through design. Ingrid Fetell Lee’s work occupies a truly unique space, situated at the intersection between design, neuroscience, and psychology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read Born, Madly (Darkly, Madly Duet Book 2) by Trisha Wolfe Mobi Read Born, Madly (Darkly, Madly Duet Book 2) by Trisha Wolfe ePub ![]() Read Born, Madly (Darkly, Madly Duet Book 2) by Trisha Wolfe Kindle Read Born, Madly (Darkly, Madly Duet Book 2) by Trisha Wolfe PDF Born, Madly (Darkly, Madly Duet Book 2) by Trisha Wolfe PDF EBOOK EPUB KINDLE ![]() Wish you have good luck and enjoy reading your book. 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With her parents' divorce, her father's second marriage and her sister's upcoming wedding, Haven feels she has no control over her life, so she dwells on memories of the summer that Ashley dated Sumner Lee and her family life seemed perfect. That Summer by Sarah Dessen portrays the struggles of a fifteen-year-old trying to accept the major changes in her life over which she has no control. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trouble is, Roman’s not ready to quit on her. Feeling hurt and foolish, Lexi’s ready to quit while she’s ahead. But when the friction between Roman and her new family heats up, Lexi wonders whether she’s a pawn in their game. As one relationship takes off, another begins: Brian seems to be clicking with Lexi’s boss at the coffee shop. That’s where she first meets sexy, intimidating Roman-who’s really a big softie at heart. Lexi Robertson came to Raleigh, North Carolina, to finally meet her father, Brian Brannon, and her half sister, Gray, both of whom work in the Cold Fury’s front office. Luckily he’s got an enticing distraction: a fun-loving barista who plays the ukulele and brings out a side of Roman he didn’t know he had. But now Roman’s feeling the burn from management to clean up his act, or else. ![]() ![]() When he’s not chilling in the penalty box, the sizzling Czech skate demon is racking up tabloid headlines for his scandalous behavior with the ladies. In a league full of troublemakers, Cold Fury defenseman Roman Sýkora stands out-at least when it comes to negative publicity. New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett steams up the ice all over again as the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team’s hottest bad boy gets his first taste of something good. ![]() |