![]() ![]() When she turned 65, Grant remembers that her financial manager called her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, and said, “Your mother is sixty-five. “Today, with the Internet, I’d be finished.” That neurosis has stayed with her. “The fear that my age would be disclosed became the neurotic focus of my life,” she writes. Later, after returning to film and television following more than a decade on the Hollywood blacklist, she persuaded the mayor of Los Angeles to finagle a more youthful birth date on her driver’s license. She notes that a facelift in her early 30s saved her career. Throughout her career, the Academy Award-winning actress and filmmaker has often engaged in a smoke-and-mirror routine regarding her age, something she admits to on numerous occasions in “I Said Yes to Everything,” her magnificently titled, admirably candid autobiography. ![]() Just don’t ask her to say exactly how long. Lee Grant is a woman who has really lived. ![]()
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All of the whatever after books7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Abby is very cautious and also very protective both of Beauty and her brother. Late one night they get ported through the large mirror in the basement along with most of their parent's Legal books, and soon find themselves in a story that is familiar but not quite the same. This is the story of Abby and Jonah and their adventure. It is the story of two modern day kids who get transported through a magic mirror into the events of the legend or story of Sleeping Beauty. In some ways reminiscent of the fractured fairy tales, or Tony Abbott's Cracked Classics. This book and the series that is now up to ten books is a new spin on old tales. Because she is struggling a bit we tend to read 40 minutes but alternate pages. For school she is suppose to read for 20 minutes a day. This is one of the books my oldest daughter and I read together this year. ![]() Labyrinth by kate mosse7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() My parents were from that wartime generation who appreciated what they had. There was never a sense that we were watching the pennies, but equally never a sense of there being money to waste. I can’t remember money being a topic of conversation when I was growing up. ![]() How did your background influence your work ethic and attitude towards money? She lives near Chichester, West Sussex, with her husband Greg, with whom she has two children, and her mother-in-law, Rosie. She is also the founder director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was awarded an OBE in 2013. She has written nine novels and short story collections, four non-fiction titles and three plays, and has sold more than eight million books worldwide. Writer Kate Mosse, 59, is best known for her Languedoc trilogy, the first novel of which, Labyrinth, topped the bestseller lists for six months in 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Starting can be intellectually thrilling, and there are quite a few old classics written in just the right style to accompany you as you begin to take your first steps in mathematics. But also here is a message to any older person who has never given a thought to mathematics or science during their school days or afterwards: You may be ready to start. Early education deserves our efforts and ingenuity. A person’s first steps in his or her mathematical development are exceedingly important. This raises a hard question: How–if at all– can this living world of mathematics become accessible?īARRY MAZUR: I can’t answer that question, but I can offer some comments. The disconnection between the inner, lived world of mathematicians and the mainstream of intelligent people is very deep, despite the sensual character of mathematics that you describe so well in your recent book, Imagining Numbers: (particuarly the square root of minus fifteen). ![]() Doubtless this is partly due to the way it is taught, but such teaching is widespread, the product of good intentions and much effort. PETER PESIC: Many intelligent people only see in mathematics a wasteland of dreary formalism, a mind-numbing expanse of theorems and proofs expressed in very abstract language. ![]() Abraham verghese novels7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. Published in 2009, Cutting for Stone became a literary phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. ![]() The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone. From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. ![]() ![]() Talk turns to training programs and recruitment - activities much more meaningful, they decide, than school. The work on the railroad exhausts the boys, and the sight of the first train to pass - a troop train carrying young recruits - makes the students feel childish. Only Leper stays behind, to ski through the countryside and take photographs. Later, with the first heavy snow, they volunteer to dig out the railroad yards so that trains can pass. ![]() Making an excuse about having to study, Gene escapes the awkward situation.Īs the winter approaches, Devon students start to take on the work usually done by men now in the service. When the boy answers that Gene pushed Finny off the limb, Gene tells him he is wrong and brushes him aside, exposing the younger boy to the ridicule of the others. At this point, he dares a younger boy to guess what happened at the tree. Later in the basement Butt Room where students gather to smoke, Brinker pushes Gene into a crowd of boys and openly accuses him of "doing away with his roommate." In response, Gene makes up a long, silly list of crimes he committed against Finny, stopping short of actually admitting to his part in the fall. ![]() Gene laughs off the remark uneasily, feeling as if Brinker is hinting that he deliberately caused Finny's accident. ![]() Brinker teases Gene about having a room to himself, suggesting that Gene has "fixed it" that way on purpose. ![]() This chapter opens when Brinker Hadley, a leader of the senior class, visits Gene in his room. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() The far field madhuri vijay summary7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() People there are so poor that they live in tents and work in the mines–smashing up rocks to get at the iron ore inside. This story is set in Karnataka, India, a poor state in the south of the country. And I think I have to blame a cultural disconnect for that. ![]() And I was maybe a little disappointed by this story because of it. After the wonderful stories that came in second and third place I expected something pretty amazing to win. ![]() ![]() “Lorry Raja” won Narrative magazine’s “30 Below” contest for 2011. I can hear it all (except the first and last songs) working well for a relaxing evening of massage. The whole disc is definitely a background/new agey kind of deal. I rather like the song, but it doesn’t really fit on the disc. There are chanted vocals and lead vocals in another language. The final song, “Sufi Kalaam” has a somewhat more sinister or perhaps just movie soundtracky sound (low bass chords underpin the beginning of the track). Although if Part 1 is 8 minutes, how long is the whole song? “Patan Part 1” also has a cool sitar riff. “Katarajama” (a pilgrimage site for Sri Lankans and South Indians) has a great riff to it, and it’s even better when the other instruments play along. ![]() ![]() ![]() Magdaleine comes to embrace this world, taking up a managing role, as well as raising five children. Sophie’s mother Magdaleine, married into a glass-blowing family in 1747, a world her own father warned her was a closed world, a world totally different to the one she had grown up in. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty, but he can, with that same breath, shatter and destroy it.” ![]() “Perhaps we shall not see each other again, I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. The novel is narrated by Sophie Duval – who now an elderly woman tells the story of the family history to her long-lost nephew, taking him back to the world of the glassblowers and the turbulent, frightening years of The French Revolution. Set in eighteenth-century France, this is a novel of a family, their struggles, and tragedies during an extraordinary period in the country’s history. Two other readers (at least) have written about this novel this week, and so I don’t feel it necessary to go into too much detail. My third and final read for this year’s #DDMreadingweek was The Glassblowers – an incredibly vivid historical novel based on the author’s own family history. ![]() Fluorescent Mud by Eli Howey7/6/2023 ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Fluorescent Mud, by Eli Howey Only show reviews with written explanations thegayngelgabriel's review Go to review page 4.0 Haunting, overwhelming, compelling/compulsive. ![]() |