![]() ![]() She is low-key worried something is “wrong” with herself. Indeed, as the title and most of the first part of this book emphasize, Georgia is obsessed with the fact that she has never had sex, never had a boyfriend (or girlfriend), never even been kissed. While there she befriends her roommate, Rooney, who is the extroverted, sexually-active foil to Georgia’s introverted, sexually-inexperienced self. Georgia Warr is going off to uni, fortunate to be accompanied by her two best friends Pip and Jason. The second half is where I talk plot details. On the other hand, I’m not sure that, overall, Loveless is a very good book.Ī note about the spoilers: the first half of this review, where I discuss the aro/ace representation, is spoiler-free. Here I find myself very ambivalent: on one hand, I really enjoyed the aro/ace representation here. ![]() ![]() My experience with Alice Oseman has been varied: I adored Radio Silence but didn’t much care for Solitaire. As someone who is herself aromantic and asexual, I was very much anticipating Loveless, to the point where I pre-ordered it. ![]()
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![]() Working closely with P.M, Griffin, one of a select group with whom she has carefully structured the entire Witch World: The Turning, Norton has brought to vivid life the Turning. Norton’s vision of the most pivotal time in the development of the Witch World mythos. STORMS OF VICTORY is the crystallization of Ms. Now, culminating decades of sharpening her artistic focus, comes the greatest epic of the Witch World oeuvre. "The Grande Dame of science fiction,” (Life Magazine) has enchanted millions of readers with the most famous and popular of her works, the enthralling novels of magic and excitement set in the Witch World, “One of fantasy's most enduring world settings” (Library Journal). ![]() Write-up from the front flap of the 1991 dustjacket ~įor over twenty-five years, Andre Norton. The Chronicler: “There was a time…” ~ (Introduction by Andre Norton).Two original stories by Andre Norton and Pauline M. ![]() ~ 1st book in the Witch World: The Turning Series by Andre Norton ![]() ![]() ![]() As for Harry, he's got his nose to the ground hoping to snarf up snacks. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but when the door's open I love the aroma of freshly brewed coffee that comes wafting out onto the street. There's a friendly new coffee shop, Pushcart Coffee, in my neighborhood that I pass every morning on my walk with Harry. What's the occasion for Coffee with a Canine? In my new book, No Dogs Allowed!, written with Joanna Cole, two friends who aren't allowed to have dogs find magic dog bone necklaces and - woofa-wow! - they turn into dogs! Rosie, my first dog, stars in Rosie: A Visiting Dog's Story about raising, training and working with a visiting dog. ![]() Harry's the star of May I Pet Your Dog?: The How-to Guide for Kids Meeting Dogs (and Dogs Meeting Kids). I write children's books, including many books about dogs. That's me, Stephanie Calmenson, with my dachshund, Harry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974. ![]() She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the unforgettable HAIRY MACLARY and his friends. ![]() Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. Here every dog-from big-as-a-horse Hercules Morse to Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum-tries to have his day with HAIRY MACLARY'S BONE, but guess who triumphs! With cumulative rhymes and sunny ink and watercolor illustrations, this international favorite chronicles the escapades of our hero Hairy and his crew of five kooky canines. Hairy Maclary's Bone is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. ![]() ![]() ![]() She begins to think of the lion in the zoo again. One day Lenny even sees bruises on her mother’s body. They argue about money but also about a woman that Father meets sometimes in the middle of the night. ![]() ![]() Another disturbing sound is her mother and father fighting at night. Lenny continues to wonder what is happening with the women in the courtyard near the house. This is a very lucky thing for a refugee child like him and will set him up for success in life. Godmother also uses her friends in high places to get Ranna a spot as a boarder at the Convent of Jesus and Mary outside of Lahore. She is whispering with Slavesister about something and Lenny thinks she might be trying to find Ayah. She knows all sorts of things that are happening thanks to her spies and informants. Godmother is a highly influential person. Slavesister also wants to give blood, but Godmother says she will not permit her to. After the blood is taken, she looks longer, as if the good deed has given her greater stature. ![]() Godmother does not like to leave the house much, but she occasionally goes to give blood. While going around the city, Lenny is always looking out for Ayah. Cousin’s cook drops hints that he may know where Ayah is, but Cousin cannot get any more details out of him. ![]() ![]() ![]() a reddish face, large mouth and many teeth gone altogether plain." Gaskell waspishly described her first sight of Charlotte in a letter: "She is underdeveloped, thin and more than half a head shorter than I. Contemporary critics had been appalled by Jane Eyre's "coarseness", but the public was thrilled and Charlotte was a celebrity. Gaskell befriended Charlotte when the novelist was 34 and already a star. I turned to Elizabeth Gaskell's Life, but I could not recognise the sanitised Charlotte she conjured up. In her novel Jane Eyre, a dark Cinderella tale of a plain, orphaned governess, she dared, baldly, to state her lust.Īfter I had reread Jane Eyre, I wanted to know what dark genius created this world. But she dared to transcend her background and her situation. ![]() She was toothless, almost penniless and - to Victorian society - worthless. Her father Patrick had fought his way from Ireland into Cambridge University and the church. Charlotte was an obscure, ugly parson's daughter, a sometime governess and schoolmistress. When I returned to her 10 years later, I recognised her. When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jess knew nothing about the deaths-presumed to be murder-suicide-and while she does feel betrayed that her grandmother kept this from her, she immediately vows to do whatever it takes to learn more about her family. This journalistic work details the story of the shocking deaths in 1959 of Nora’s sister-in-law Isabel and three of Isabel’s children and the disappearance and presumed death of Isabel’s baby. “Help me.He’s going to take her from me.” Jess is determined to seek out answers to help comfort her grandmother, which leads her to find Nora’s copy of a book called As If They Were Asleep by Daniel Miller. Jess is perplexed by this-what could her elderly grandmother have needed so badly that she couldn’t wait for her home aide to help her?-and when she arrives at the hospital, her confusion is heightened by Nora’s panicked utterances: “The pages,” she says. ![]() ![]() Nora, who raised Jess for much of her childhood, suffered her fall when climbing to the attic. When journalist Jess Turner-Bridges receives a call that her grandmother Nora is in the hospital following a fall, she leaves her chosen home of London and returns to Darling House in Sydney, Australia. A woman discovers that everything she knows about her family is a lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chronotype variation and human sleep architecture (including nocturnal awakenings) in modern populations may therefore represent a legacy of natural selection acting in the past to reduce the dangers of sleep. We propose that throughout human evolution, sleeping groups composed of mixed age classes provided a form of vigilance. ![]() ![]() Thus, asynchronous periods of wakefulness provide an opportunity for vigilance when sleeping in groups. We show that this asynchrony in activity levels is produced by chronotype variation, and that chronotype covaries with age. Using actigraphy, we discovered that all subjects were simultaneously scored as asleep for only 18 min in total over 20 days of observation, with a median of eight individuals awake throughout the night-time period thus, one or more individuals was awake (or in light stages of sleep) during 99.8% of sampled epochs between when the first person went to sleep and the last person awoke. To investigate sentinel-like behaviour in sleeping humans, we investigated activity patterns at night among Hadza hunter–gatherers of Tanzania. To reduce the risks of sleeping, the sentinel hypothesis proposes that group-living animals share the task of vigilance during sleep, with some individuals sleeping while others are awake. Sleep is essential for survival, yet it also represents a time of extreme vulnerability to predation, hostile conspecifics and environmental dangers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quest for a Settlement IV: the Commonwealth 1649-1653 15. Climacteric II: 'Not a Mere Mercenary Army' 13. ![]() Towards a Resolution III: Towards a Kingless Britain 1646-1649 11. The Bishops' Wars II: War in Three Kingdoms 1640-1646 6. King Charles's Inheritance, ii: The Matter of Religion 3. King Charles's Inheritance, i: Three Kingdoms, Three Peoples 2. By the end, the reader is left in no doubt that every source has been tapped that could have been., Prologue I: Background and Beginnings 1625-1640 1. The scholarship is immense and faultless without being heavy or intrusive. Woolrych's clarity and understanding.'Contemporary Review, The fitting culmination of a lifetime's study of the English Civil War, and the best one-volume study we are likely to have for a long time., Those to whom the story is unfamiliar will be impressed by the freshness with which it is told. Always informative and often illuminating., 'the author writes clearly and brings to his subject years of research, teaching and, most important, reflection. ![]() deeply learned, tightly constructed, expertly orchestrated and elegantly written. ![]() ![]()
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