![]() ![]() With urgency and great clarity, Milman explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. What is causing the collapse of the insect world? Why does this alarming decline pose such a threat to us? And what can be done to stem the loss of the miniature empires that hold aloft life as we know it? In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. ![]() A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.įrom ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A book making fun of and paying homage to other books! Gah - hearts superimposed over my eyes! I loved your edgy, irreverent, Internet-slang voice. ![]() Like most whirlwind love affairs, our relationship began with a head-turning, mind-blowing mutual attraction. I know you are really just hiding the passion of your author, Annie Spence, a fun, hip librarian in Detroit who, with your publishing, has put into print the many letters she has composed in her head over the years to the books she must handle. Is it to be true love forever or the free book bin at the library for you? "Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks" by Annie Spence (Flatiron Books, 256 pages, in stores)ĭear “Dear Fahrenheit 451,” I'm taking a page from your book, so to speak, and writing love letters and breakup notes to the books currently in my life - namely you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a quick but really enjoyable read, weighing in at about 200 pages. ![]() More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times in her dreams.Īs she settles into Wisteria, Megan makes two new friends, Sophie and Alex, and a romance develops - but there are sinister happenings, leading to arguments between her, Matt and her grandmother, and she starts to wonder who she's able to trust. Reluctantly, she goes there to please her mother but finds out that despite the invitation, her grandmother doesn't seem happy to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's BooksĪfter years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the town of Wisteria. Summary: This edition is comprised of two novels, Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell. ![]() ![]() Front cover, with art by Samantha Garritano (en).wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Fierce_Femmes_and_Notorious_Liars.png?width=300.It experienced a resurgence of attention when Emma Watson chose it for her feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, in 2019. The novel garnered critical praise and was a finalist for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Two metaphors, those of killer bees living inside her and a Ghost Friend which can make her orgasm, represent after-effects of traumatic abuse. Characters are based on people from her life, as are plot points, but they are exaggerated and made surrealist. Thom aimed not to write a traditional transgender memoir targeted at explaining transgender issues to cisgender people, but to write the book that would have helped her as a transgender teenager. After one of them is killed, others form a gang and begin to attack men on the street. A surrealist novel, it follows an unnamed transgender woman protagonist who leaves home at a young age to live on the Street of Miracles-where various sex work takes place-with other "femmes" (trans women). ![]() ![]() Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is a 2016 Canadian book by Kai Cheng Thom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orwell verleiht am Ende des ersten Teils seiner Ansicht Ausdruck, der Sozialismus könne die Lebensbedingungen der Menschen verbessern. ![]() Das Buch schildert detailliert, wie ihre Lebensumstände sich seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg verschlechtert haben. In den dreißiger Jahren waren dort viele Bergleute arbeitslos. Der kleine Bergbauort Wigan liegt etwa zwischen Liverpool und Manchester. Orwells Buch besteht aus zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Teilen: im ersten schildert er in einer Sozialreportage Erfahrungen, die er Anfang 1936 im nordenglischen Industriegebiet (in den Orten Barnsley, Sheffield und Wigan) machte. Victor Gollancz (1893-1967) war ein Pazifist, Humanist und sozial engagierter Verleger, der Orwell den Auftrag gab, die desolate Lage der britischen Bergarbeiter zu untersuchen. ![]() ![]() ![]() And audio excerpts from Cohen’s interviews with former Rolling Stone reporter Larry “Ratso” Sloman also give viewers some clues as to why Geller and Goldfine only dig so deep into the meaning of “Hallelujah” and its surprising combination of religious and sexual images. It’s great to see so much old concert footage from various periods of Cohen’s career. “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” glosses over some of the best evidence to support what is, at heart, a basic story: after laboring for years on the lyrics for “Hallelujah,” and then later struggling with his own personal and creative demons, Cohen’s song helped to spark a late-career revival and mini-creative renaissance, too. ![]() Cohen’s “Halleluljah” is then presented as a trite symbol of his frustrated creative ambitions, though archival interviews with Cohen do effectively suggest that there’s more to his music-and that song, in particular-than the usual artistic triumph over industrial exploitation narrative. ![]() This was decades after the song debuted in 1984 on Various Positions, a (rather good) studio album that was rejected by Columbia Records and barely released in the United States. Geller and Goldfine’s docu-collage of interview and concert footage doesn’t give deep consideration to the conditions that led to “Hallelujah” becoming a late career hit for Cohen. ![]() ![]() ![]() I swear I’ll never grow tired of hearing his voice first thing in the morning. He grins down at me, setting his phone on his chest. ![]() We’ve been arguing about how he needs to get his eyes checked, but he refuses because “the glasses will make me look old,” according to him. I roll over, unsurprised to find Smith sitting up in bed with his phone in his hand, likely working as he squints at the screen. Tori wasn’t kidding about how demanding the director job is, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. ![]() Not just to travel, but to get away from work too. We’ve trekked all the places I’ve always wanted to visit-Barcelona, Rome, Greece, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow…all over. Smith took me on that trip I’d been dreaming about to celebrate our first anniversary. It’s where I’ve been for the last three days. If you had told me I’d be waking up to the sounds of farm animals doing it, I’d have laughed right in your face because I would never be caught dead on a farm. ![]() ![]() You will not be disappointed!!” – review from Goodreads My Review of My First Travel Books: The Seven Natural Wonders of The Earth by Anna Othitis “Another gem from this consistent author. A great way to get children interested in the geography of the world and the delights of travel.” – review from Amazon “Beautifully illustrated, amazing little ‘first travel’ adventure book for children. We took a trip around the world without leaving the house! We saw things and places we will probably never see in real life.” – review from Amazon Originally from Zimbabwe, Africa, her home port is now Wanaque, New Jersey, and she has flown across the world in her travels. ![]() This is Anna Othitis’s second trip with Captain Frankie and the crew. Captain Frankie is waiting for you to book your ticket, safely stow your bags, and open your eyes to the beautiful places created for all of us to visit in My First Travel Books. Follow Captain Frankie on his adventures…Ĭome join the adventures of Captain Frankie and the Angelic Airlines flying angel as they travel across the world to the Seven Natural Wonders of the Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Where did he get that ridiculous voice from!! Una Stubbs is how can i put it, unusual in the role I have to admit, and she looks like Geraldine's grandmother, which way have they done her up!!!! Geraldine herself looks a big ragged in Sleeping Murder, she's wearing some dubious cotton seconds. Charles Vanstone's voice overs are cringe worthy, and serve no real purpose. The Theatre scene is stunning, DAME Harriet Walter on stage, joyous, once again Myles is up to the mark. Sophia does act her scenes out brilliantly though and her terror at the flashback is truly well done. Sophia Myles is a beautiful girl and makes a very good Gwen, but her realisation that she's been in that house before is forced through too quickly, it feels rushed. Sadly it starts to go a little off the boil. They clearly tried to do something different, and it's all started off really well. We get a glimpse of young Gwen, and the sad tail of her mother's death. It starts off incredibly bright and vibrant with the Indian dancers, you can't beat a bit of Julian Wadham. ![]() ![]() ![]() In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries-with more than ten million copies in print-Garp is the precursor of John Irving's later protest novels. Garp, from the moment of his unusual conception to his untimely death. ![]() The subject of sexual hatred-of intolerance of sexual minorities and differences-runs the gamut of "lunacy and sorrow." Winner of the National Book Award, Garp is a comedy with forebodings of doom. The World According to Garp is the bizarre and detailed story of the life of T. Her son, Garp, is less beloved, but no less polarizing.įrom the tragicomic tone of its first sentence to its mordantly funny last line-"we are all terminal cases"-The World According to Garp maintains a breakneck pace. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse she becomes a single mom and a feminist leader, beloved but polarizing. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. He is a Populist, determined to keep alive the Dickensian tradition that revels in colorful set pieces…and teaches moral lessons."-The New York Times ![]() |