![]() ![]() In this, her magnum opus, she gives us a manual for cooks of every level of expertise from beginners to accomplished professionals. ![]() Nigella Lawson Marcella Hazan introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food. A timeless collection of classic Italian recipes from Basil Bruschetta to the only tomato sauce you'll ever need (the secret ingredient: butter) beautifully illustrated and featuring new forewords by Lidia Bastianich and Victor Hazan If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored. A beautiful new edition of one of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from the Queen of Italian Cooking (Chicago Tribune). ![]()
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![]() So they turn to cute, prep-school Jonathan to be the face of Brandon. Vivi's younger brother, Marshall, who they hire to be the "man" behind the profile, is way too into being Izzy's fake boyfriend. With a few quick keystrokes, they create a MySpace page for "Brandon," the perfect guy to get Izzy out of her revolving-door relationship with Shawn. When Shawn Sluttig cheats on and dumps Izzy just months before the prom she's been planning since the ninth grade, Lane and Vivi decide to take action. He is the only person who can turn their smart, confident best friend into a complete mess. Lane and Vivi have had it with Isabelle Hunter's boyfriend, Shawn Littig (a.k.a. ![]() ![]() The author of the wildly popular Private series returns with this novel about two girls who try to get their best friend out of her revolving-door relationship with her no-good boyfriend by creating the perfect candidate on MySpace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() KC Davis conceived and wrote this book as she fought her way through postpartum depression as someone with bouts of dysthymia and extreme workaholic tendencies, I was profoundly moved by how compassionate and gentle a read this book was while at the same time encouraging of one to get some things done around the home. How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis I use all those details to both better understand my own reading patterns and to establish more nuanced goals for the year ahead, like reading more poetry (2020), going all-in one one author (2023-Anton Chekhov & Elmore Leonard), or making my way through specific lists (2018-books that my friends have written).Īs I’m reviewing last year’s good reads, here are 5 books that I’d recommend checking out! Disclosure: I am an affiliate of and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.ġ. Inspired by Nicole Zhu's ongoing #52booksin52weeks, I’ve plowed my way through over a hundred books annually for the last half decade, and maintain an extensive spreadsheet tracking everything from the author's country of origin to the book’s genre, format, and sourcing. 2022 marks 5 years of really thinking critically about the practic, with books serving as a vessel for my voracious curiosity and as an exercise in informal data analysis. One of my annual, beginning of the year tasks I always look forward to is figuring out my upcoming year in reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1900, Yeats’ poetry grew more physical and realistic. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889. He is generally considered one of the few writers whose greatest works were completed after being awarded the Nobel Prize such works include The Tower 1928 and The Winding Stair and Other Poems 1929. In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as ‘inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief during its early years. William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. ![]() ![]() I will not allow half a dozen adolescent haters and pathological liars to remove this blog and its 18 years of aggregate Red Pill information. ![]() I can only conclude that this was the beginning of an effort to plant inflammatory racial sentiments on my unmoderated discussion threads to be complained about to the authorities at my blog host to have my 9 years of Red Pill work deleted in much the same way Chateau Heartiste was last year. As expected, the usual suspects who are still obsessed with destroying this blog, attacking my books with review bombing, and creating torrents of my books’ for pirated downloads took the opportunity to start race-baiting in my comment threads. ![]() In the wake of all this worldwide civil unrest and amplified Cancel Culture online I thought it prudent to disable comments on this blog for a couple of weeks. ![]() I hate to start a post off with apologies, but I feel like I have to hash out some things with my long time readers. ![]() ![]() My attention, for the last three years, had been repeatedly drawn to the subject of Mesmerism and, about nine months ago, it occurred to me, quite suddenly, that in the series of experiments made hitherto, there had been a very remarkable and most unaccountable omission: - no person had as yet been mesmerized in articulo mortis. It is now rendered necessary that I give the facts - as far as I comprehend them myself. Through the desire of all parties concerned to keep the affair from the public, at least for the present, or until we had farther opportunities for investigation - through our endeavors to effect this - a garbled or exaggerated account made its way into society, and became the source of many unpleasant misrepresentations, and, very naturally, of a great deal of disbelief. It would have been a miracle had it not - especially under the circumstances. Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. ![]() ![]() “The Magic Lantern” consistently violates the sacred first principle of autobiography by eschewing the glories and triumphs in favor of the failures, embarrassments, shortcomings, cruelties and humiliations of the author’s life. He is candid but tactful, telling tales on no one but himself. It may, in fact, probably be unique in its confessional, self-deprecating and even self-lacerating honesty. Then again, one would not expect the man who made “Wild Strawberries,” “The Seventh Seal” and “Cries and Whispers” to do an autobiography quite like any other arising in the world of film. It is an enchanting litany to the film maker’s vision. Most of all I miss working with (cinematographer) Sven Nykvist, perhaps because we are both utterly captivated by the problems of light, the gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, living, dead, clear, misty, hot, violent, bare, sudden, dark, springlike, falling, straight, slanting, sensual, subdued, limited, poisonous, calming, pale light. “Sometimes,” Ingmar Bergman says, “I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() William Goldman' s beloved novel has sold over one million copies. ![]() Nona Vero From the Publisher:īook Description Paperback. Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out. Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it's not as disorienting as it sounds when reading, it is for the characters.Ĭharacter development was on point. One minute, things are one way, the next everything is other. The beginning of the story was pretty fast. Little do they know, love is also out there lurking and waiting for the right moment to make itself present. From poison to menacing beasts occupying the forest alongside them, they both work together to take it one day at a time. Crash-landed in the middle of the Amazon forest, Tristan will do whatever it takes to survive, and that includes Aimee surviving as well. ![]() The story is about Aimee flying to Brazil to arrive early for her wedding to her childhood friend. When I read the title 'Withering Hope' for some reason, I thought about Wuthering Heights. ![]() I didn't read the blurb until I got the ARC, I only wanted to read this because of its gorgeous cover, and my assumption of the title. This story was just something I did not expect. Get ready for the waterworks, this tear-jerker is just absolutely beautiful! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Defence analysts use it as the measure of thermonuclear war - in geographical extent, abruptness and casualties. Only World War II produced more death, physical damage, and emotional suffering. At St Mary's, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, an anonymous hand carved the following inscription for 1349: 'Wretched, terrible, destructive year, the remnants of the people alone remain.'Īccording to the Foster scale, a kind of Richter scale of human disaster, the plague of 1347-51 is the second worst catastrophe in recorded history. In the spring of 1348 it was devastating the cities of central Italy, by June 1348 it had reached France and Spain, and by August England. Pestis virus entered Europe in October 1347 by Genoese galley at Messina, Sicily. It was a catastrophe that touched the lives of every individual on the continent. In just over a thousand days from 1347 to 1351 the 'Black Death' travelled across medieval Europe killing thirty per cent of its population. ![]() 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and devoured them.And believing it to be the end of the world, no one wept for the dead, for all expected to die.' Agnolo di Turo, Siena, 1348 It was one of the worst human disasters in history. A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. ![]() |