![]() (Or is it that Peter doesn’t really want to say the words aloud?) His grandfather appears to be losing some of his spark, but Peter seems to be the only one noticing. His best friend doesn’t seem to want to hear the truth about Peter’s injury. Unfortunately, that’s not the only figurative curveball being thrown at Peter, either. Baseball has been his life up until this point, and he figured it would continue to define him as he transitioned to his high school career. ![]() The summer before he starts high school, life begins to change for Peter Friedman the moment he suffers a significant injury to his pitching arm. And with Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip, he has once again created a piece of realistic fiction that portrays a teenaged character with sensitivity, complexity, heart, and a bunch of laughs. When I heard several months ago that he would be releasing his next YA novel in March, I literally marked my calendar. When I first read After Ever After (linked to my 5 Star Reads review), I didn’t realize it was a sequel (of sorts), and I immediately searched out the book that had proceeded it- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. I have to start by saying that I am an unabashed fan of Jordan Sonnenblick’s young adult fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the series continues, Cinder forges alliances with Scarlet, a spaceship pilot who is determined to solve the mystery of a missing loved one-with the help of a magnetic street fighter named Wolf Cress, a computer hacker who is imprisoned by Queen Levana and Winter, a princess who's in love with a commoner, and who discovers that Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress may hold the key to saving her kingdom-and the world. In Cinder, a teenage cyborg (half human, half machine) must deal with a wicked stepmother, start a rebellion against the evil Queen Levana, and decide how she feels about a handsome prince. ![]() The Lunar Chronicles are futuristic retellings of classic fairy tales. ![]() Prepare to see the New York Times-bestselling series like you’ve never seen it before, now with new cover art! The #1 New York Times-bestselling series that brought fans a complex and thrilling world of cyborgs and evil queens, available together in one beautiful boxed set. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was that version that eventually created a huge cult around the song, and it’s since been covered by everybody from Bono to Bon Jovi. The Velvet Underground’s John Cale tackled it on the piano for a 1991 Cohen tribute disc, and three years later, Jeff Buckley took inspiration from that rendition and covered it on his 1994 album, Grace. Bob Dylan was one of the first to recognize its brilliance, playing it at a couple of shows in 1988. It took a few years for “Hallelujah” to emerge as a classic. They didn’t even want to release the album, though it eventually came out in Europe in 1984 and America the following year. When Cohen submitted the songs for his subsequent LP, Various Positions, to Columbia, label execs didn’t hear “Hallelujah,” the opening song of Side Two, as anything special. His 1977 LP, Death of a Ladies’ Man, a collaboration with Phil Spector, was a commercial and critical disappointment, and his next album Recent Songs fared no better. Leonard Cohen’s career had reached a low point when he wrote “ Hallelujah.” It was 1984, and he had been out of the spotlight for quite a long time. ![]() ![]() The story begins as they march through the Unsea (also called the Shadow Fold), a perpetually dark, barren strip of land cutting most of Ravka off from the sea. It is also the basis for the Netflix adaptation, Shadow and Bone, which premiered in April 2021.Īlina Starkov is a teenage girl who grew up with Malyen (Mal) Oretsev at an orphanage in Keramzin in the Kingdom of Ravka. It is the first book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy, followed by Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. The novel is narrated by Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan who grows up in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka when, unexpectedly harnessing a power she never knew she had in order to save her childhood best friend, she becomes a target of intrigue and violence. It was published by Macmillan Publishers on June 5, 2012. Shadow and Bone is a young adult fantasy adventure and debut novel written by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, some of the stories made me smile, because of the veiled language the story tellers sometimes used in the Middle Ages. To me, it was interesting to see that the old Greek stories, like the siege of Troy for instance, were already known in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages, something I hadn't realized before. ![]() Two of the stories, Karel en Elegast en Beatrijs, I already knew from secondary school, but I still enjoyed reading them in present day Dutch this time. For a review in Dutch, see message 222 of Fictie van Nederlands-Vlaamse auteurs / Dutch-Flemish fiction of the Netherlands & Flanders group.Īlthough the stories in Middeleeuwse verhalen uit de Lage Landen date back to the Middle Ages, they have been translated from middle Dutch to present day Dutch, and have been put into prose as well, for the benefit of present day readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() He turned down a scholarship to what is now known as the Royal College of Art, only to pursue two more years of art training at the University of Edinburgh. An artist by training, the Scottish Chambers grew up in the home of a pastor in London. My Utmost is, too, a biography of Oswald Chambers, whose life did not follow the traditional path of a nineteenth-century clergyman. Halford combines spiritual autobiography with social commentary and church history in doing so she puts her own life and experiences within the broader context of the role of religion in contemporary America. My Utmost describes her life, career and increasingly conflicted faith, and how all three have been influenced by Chambers’s devotional. ![]() This is the community in which Halford grew up, her childhood dominated by church camps, Sunday School and conversations with her strict grandmother. Bush and a cherished text among evangelical Christians. Chambers’s devotional is a favorite book of President George W. Halford takes her title from My Utmost for His Highest, a ninety-three-year-old book by Oswald Chambers, a Scottish artist-turned-preacher whose writing has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. ![]() This makes it a kind of devotional-but it’s also a book about another devotional, one far older and far more famous. Macy Halford’s first book asks Christians and non-Christians alike to reflect on how religious thought influences public and private life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why should you read this you ask? Because pancakes. ![]() Throw in some much appreciated appearances from a few of our personal favorite characters and some maiming and killing and this is about as perfect as you can get. To me there's nothing more perfect than a heartwarming story about two loners who find their place in this strange world, and in each other. Frankie is an enigma herself, which in my mind makes her perfect for Smoke and they both have been loners from birth. ![]() He's not really one of the crew since he is a total loner, but to his surprise he belongs much more than he ever realized. This is the newest addition to The King series and this says it can be read as a standalone, which it can, but I strongly recommend starting with book one titled King and going from there since this entire series is freaking amazing!! This is by far one of my personal favorite series ever and I literally just can't get enough of this incredibly talented author's work! This is Smoke's story and he's one bad dude in the best way possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() World Vision has partnered with Krish Kandiah to create an interactive tool so you can ask yourself the critical questions and take stock of where you are as a leader. Partnering with the Church to help pastors and church leaders stay healthy. Learn from leadership expert John Maxwell, Chris Hodges and more. Grow as a leader for FREE by attending the Impact Leadership Conference, hosted by Highlands College in Birmingham, AL. Special thanks to Impact Leadership Conference and World Vision for being our trusted partners to help bring you these great interviews and episodes. Make sure to access the Show Notes at the H3 Leadership website. Plus 12 Productivity Books you should read included below. ![]() We discuss The Power of Habit, his to do list, why curiosity is key and much more. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New Yorker and a popular speaker. Check out my interview with Charles Duhigg on the H3 Leadership Podcast.Ĭharles Duhigg is the New York Times best-selling author of The Power of Habitand Smarter, Faster, Better. ![]() ![]() While the retraction was very important, it does not fully solve the problem. Hopefully, fewer people will be made vulnerable to unintended pregnancy via misleading, unsupported claims. I’m glad to have helped to remove junk science from the literature. ![]() In a comment on PubPeer, I also detailed unethical behaviors by Valley Electronics. Science reporter Stephanie Lee covered the retraction story in Buzzfeed. Prior writings had investigated Daysy and detailed unethical behaviors by Valley Electronics (Daysy’s manufacturer) – including that the company kicked people out of online forums for asking questions, and used manipulative language in their marketing materials. The retraction note says: “Independent post-publication peer review has confirmed that there are fundamental flaws in the methodology which mean that the conclusions are unreliable due to selection bias and the retrospective self-reporting of whether pregnancies were intentional.” In May 2019, 404 days after I submitted a commentary detailing egregious flaws in data collection and analysis of a study purporting to estimate contraceptive effectiveness of the Daysy thermometer - that study was retracted from the journal Reproductive Health. ![]() I will share additional updates as they become available.) (NOTE: as of 9/20/19 that link is no longer functional. If you purchased a Daysy, please be sure to read about the investigation and determine if you would like to speak with these lawyers to share your experience. ![]() UPDATE 9/9/19: The company that manufactures Daysy is now the subject of a legal investigation. ![]() ![]() ![]() He died in 1964 in Greece, during the return journey from a lecture tour of the United States.Įlizabeth Elliott is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Aberdeen. In 1951, he published The Goshawk, which details his attempts to train a hawk using the falconry methods of the Middle Ages. ![]() Although The Once and Future King is his most famous novel, he was a prolific writer, with 20 other books to his name. Of White’s novel, Burgess writes: ‘This is not remote and fabulous history: the lesson of the breaking of the Round Table is for our time.’ Beginning with the childhood of Arthur in the first book, The Sword in the Stone, White’s version of the familiar stories are complex examinations of leadership, nobility, romance and war. ![]() Published in 1958, The Once and Future King adapts the famous stories of King Arthur and his Round Table. This is the final episode of series 2, and our guest Elizabeth Elliott is helping us explore Camelot in The Once and Future King by T.H. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. ![]() |