![]() I didn’t enjoy it, which is a shame as it’s a book that’s been on my shelves since 2008 and one I chose to read this month as part of Reading Ireland Month, an event to ‘˜to celebrate the wealth and breadth and general awesomeness of Irish cultural life.’ It’s a dark and disturbing novel about a dysfunctional family. I’m sorry to say that I think The Gathering is one of the most dreary books I’ve read. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. ![]() It wasn’t the drink that killed him ‘“ although that certainly helped ‘“ it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother’s house, in the winter of 1968. ![]() The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. The Gathering by Anne Enright is her fourth book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Max takes Ruby’s written requests for eggs/milk/flour to the grocery store and tries to add his own “Red-Hot Marshmallow Squirters” addendum each time. Ruby just needs to replenish all the ingredients Max constantly spills/wrecks. Max wants to get some Red-Hot Marshmallow Squirters to decorate her cake with. So Grandma has taken another trip around the sun. Looking at you too, Ryder and Paw Patrol.) (AKA: the only grownup who ever appeared in any of their books/TV shows until recently when the writers realized that it’s SUPER WEIRD not to have adults in a TV show. ![]() 3 year old Lily is still a fan, however, so I’m only posting her review at the end.īasically, Bunny Cakes is about brother-and-sister rabbits Max and Ruby preparing a birthday dessert for their grandma. My 5 year old, Vivi, informed me that Bunny Cakes is now “too babyish” for her (she loved it when she was 2-3 and we read it almost daily, but now that she’s nearly 6, it’s just not her speed anymore). I figured, when I had kids, that they might also like Max and Ruby. I also ended up sewing my little charge Max and Ruby dolls. I read a LOT of Max and Ruby, is what I’m saying. And, failing that, we’d just renew the ones we were bringing back. ![]() ![]() Whenever we’d go to the library for our weekly book haul, we’d comb the shelves for any new Rosemary Wells books. I used to tutor a little boy who loved, loved, loved Max and Ruby. ![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest cause of mental health issues in men’s lives are work (32%), their finances (31%) and their health (23%).29% said this was because they are “too embarrassed” to speak about it, while 20% say there is a “negative stigma” on the issue. ![]() 40% had never spoken to anyone about their mental health.77% reported suffering with common mental health symptoms such as anxiety, stress or depression.Yet according to the Men’s Health Forum, men are more likely to suffer in silence rather than seek help.Ī mental health survey from The Priory UK found that, of 1,000 men polled: If you’re struggling and need to talk, call the Samaritans free on 116 123.Īt any one time, it’s believed that one in eight men and one in five women have a common mental health problem, such as depression and anxiety. For more information about Men Can Talk visit .uk.“There’s a stereotype about men, that they don’t need to get together and talk – but those are the ones suffering the most,” he says. Around 14% of older men experience moderate to high social isolation compared to 11% of women.Ĭorrin, who’s now busy with his personal training business, doesn’t have the time to attend the group any more but is in regular contact with the members, some of whom have become good friends. Loneliness is a growing problem, with the number of over-50s experiencing it set to reach two million by 2025, according to the Campaign to End Loneliness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, is now bringing Whitehead's brilliant concept to our small screens, adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a sprawling 10-part drama for Amazon. ![]() Whitehead's figurative, fantasy railroad features an underground platform accessed through a trapdoor, an elusive, dilapidated box car being pulled across subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, and a semi-mythic conductor on board. In the novel The Underground Railroad, author Colson Whitehead ingeniously makes literal the metaphorical network of the Underground Railroad, the 19th century network of clandestine channels and safe houses created by abolitionists to help free enslaved people from the Deep South into the free states of the North. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around-and they have their sights set on Albury and his fishing boat.Īfter the smugglers cut his three hundred trap lines and crush his livelihood, Albury is forced to run drugs to survive. ![]() Though he is one of Key West’s most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida’s drug lords in this “splendidly written” crime story coauthored by the #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been more than four months since these shipments occurred, and the tracking numbers are now being used by the carrier for new shipments that are completely unrelated to the Kickstarter campaign, your rewards, or Dragonsteel Entertainment. ![]() The tracking numbers for those shipments were added to your BackerKit account, which unfortunately does not label which reward the tracking number is associated with. It is wrong now.īack in October, we shipped out tens of thousands of Bridge 4 posters. In summary: If you have only one tracking number in BackerKit AND you have already received your Bridge 4 poster, please ignore the tracking. Greetings and salutations from your favorite Kickstarter campaign! We’ve been asked for an update, and so we will provide! The biggest news: No, your books have NOT been shipped to another state. "What's Going on With My Tracking Number?" and Other Updates ![]() ![]() ![]() But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. ![]() These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emery helps Oliver lose the crowd, and they find themselves alone: two people whose paths are marked with loss and pain. He could have walked into any bar in California, but he walked into hers. Also in hot pursuit are the paparazzi, who catch Oliver at his lowest low. Apparently he isn’t very good at it they follow him wherever he goes. Reeling from the death of his twin brother and bandmate, rock star Oliver Smith is trying to drink his problems away. With no one to help them - no support system - any unexpected expense or late bill could turn their whole world upside down. Raising her daughter is both her pleasure and her pain as she struggles to hold on to her job as a bartender and keep a roof over their heads. Emery finds him first.Įmery has never felt more alone. ![]() Since the death of his twin brother, Oliver’s caught between pleasing his fans and finding himself. Published by Brilliance Audio on July 1, 2021 ![]() ![]() And now, on to the books, which are all gold medal worthy!Ĭhris Bosh, Gold Medal in Basketball (2008 Summer Olympics) Purchasing a book this way is a small and easy way to support me and my dream, so thanks in advance. I’ll also get a commission on anything else you put in your cart on that “shopping trip”. Please know that buying one of these books through the blog link will give me a small comission (at no additional cost to you). At the bottom of the post you will find a larger list, along with links to purchase them in you are interested. The ones I am choosing to highlight are books that are of particular interest to me, caught my eye, or overlap with another personal connection in my life. ![]() ![]() You may think you know Simone Biles, Chris Bosch, Abby Wambach and Greg Louganis… but not like this!īefore we dive into the list, let me say that there are dozens of bestselling books written by (and about) Olympians. If you are wanting to take your Olympic consumption to a deeper level, check out these amazing olympic books by the multitalented humans who have proudly represented the USA in the World’s greatest sporting event. ![]() As a reader, writer and athlete, I love how the concepts of passion, hard work and craft can coalesce in the form of physical pages. This week, in honor of the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, I want to share with you a handful of books written by Olympians. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then he takes the challenge of growing the black tulip. The prosperous Cornelius Van Baerle, godson of Cornelius de Witt, starts the liking of growing tulips in his state. Also, the gardener would perpetuate his name in history by the tulip's recorded name. At stake was not only the prize, but fame and honour. The city of Haarlem had set the prize of 100,000 Francs to whoever could grow a black tulip. Therefore, he who despises the tulip offends God beyond measure". The tulip is the most beautiful of all flowers, The more beautiful the flower is, the more does one offend God in despising it, The main fictional character, Cornelius Van Baerle, belongs to the natural school, whose motto was: "To despise flowers is to offend God", and thus followed the syllogism: The plot takes place while tulip mania grips the Netherlands. The story begins with a historic event of 1672: the lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, considered rebels against the stadtholder and the Prince of Orange, William III. The Black Tulip is a historical novel and a work of Romantic poetry written by Alexandre Dumas, père, and first published in 1850. ![]() |