![]() Though the transplanted trappers enslaved Native American girls, that didn’t satisfy their needs, and five years after Iberville’s landing, a shipment of twenty-two French girls arrived in Louisiana. The first settlement at what is now New Orleans was a campsite established on the east bank of the Mississippi by Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville-a former fur trader up in Canada-in 1699, on, appropriately enough, Fat Tuesday. Ned Sublette’s latest book, The World That Made New Orleans, is a journey through the early days of the city-back to before it even was one-and an examination of the influence of each culture that successively dropped its wares on the Big Easy. ![]() New Orleans has always been the most polyglot of American cities, with streets and landmarks named in a multitude of tongues (and even a little English) it is a place where stolid religiosity stands cheek by jowl with high lasciviousness. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay, so I was mostly on board with Bingo Love until it turned out to be The Notebook with queer women. Abandon hope all ye who enter here and all that jazz! And… That’s the most I can say about it without spoiling anyone. The dialogue was quite stilted, but some of the conversations – especially the ones about boundaries–were pretty good. I liked how supportive and loving Hazel’s children were eventually, although the fact that Hazel gets homophobia from all generations of her family is upsetting. The art is fantastic, I especially love the way that the colours are done, everyone’s looks are excellent. It’s a second-chance romance Mari and Hazel meet again in their sixties and decide to pick up where they left off as teenagers when their homophobic families forcibly separated them. I’m pretty sure that I can’t discuss Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge’s Bingo Love without spoilers, because the things that naffed me off the most about it are all massive honking spoilers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Situations in this story drive people to commit acts they never thought they were capable of.Įach chapter flowed smoothly into the next, the whole story only spanning a week or so. What interested me the most in this book was the way that people can spiral out of control and dig themselves into a deeper and deeper hole in an effort to save their own skin. ![]() During the span of the party an awful crime is committed and as the story progresses, readers learn exactly what happened that night and what role everyone played, however unexpected. Marco and Anne Conti, new to parenthood, go to a dinner party at the house next door and leave their infant baby behind with a baby monitor. I’ve been looking for a quick mystery novel that isn’t too dark or gory The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena was just the book I was in the mood for. ![]() ![]() "The difference with chronic pain is that it actually worsens over time," she says. Thernstrom says that ordinary pain, such as the kind that results from an injury, will eventually fade. The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering She talked to doctors and scientists in pain clinics across the country, and learned that chronic pain was not a temporary condition but an actual disease that requires daily management. It was not until Thernstrom, a journalist, was assigned to write an article about chronic pain that she began to understand she would never find a cure. "I would think, well, you're not the doctor for me," she says, "because I'm not interested in managing my pain, I'm interested in having my pain cured." ![]() Thernstrom sought relief from multiple doctors but was frustrated to find they preferred to focus on pain management rather than a cure for her condition. The pain quickly spread to her shoulder and eventually her hand. Thernstrom's own journey with chronic pain began years ago when she developed persistent pain in her neck after swimming. ![]() ![]() It's a disease, she says, and more than 70 million Americans live with it each day. But chronic pain, author Melanie Thernstrom tells NPR's Neal Conan, is different. Most people think they understand pain: An injury hurts, but it eventually heals and the pain fades away. Many Americans suffer from persistent neck and shoulder pain. ![]() ![]() When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger I think you will fall in love, too!" (Reese Witherspoon) "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. Number-one New York Times best-seller and the perfect holiday gift. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nona Vero From the Back Cover:Īs the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has studied the magical arts under her father's stern tutelage all her life. Odile, however, is as vivid a heroine as any Lackey's written. Some readers may find the descriptions of dancing and costumes tedious-and Prince Siegfried a questionable hero. But he must use Odile, who has befriended Odette and is no longer her father's puppet. ![]() Should Odette succeed nevertheless, von Rothbart secretly plans a trap for them and the prince's ambitious mother, Queen Clothilde, who schemes to rule in her own right. Unfortunately, the prince is a womanizing hedonist. He's even chosen a candidate, Prince Siegfried. One day von Rothbart tells Odette, the swan princess, that she can break the spell by winning and holding a man's faithful love for one month. ![]() His lonely daughter Odile, who watches the flock and studies spells, longs vainly for his approval. She also gives the characters depth and motivation by providing them with histories.īaron Eric von Rothbart, a powerful sorcerer, hunts down women who have betrayed men and transforms them into swans who can only resume their true forms by moonlight. Lackey preserves much of the ballet's action but provides a happier ending than the original German folktale had. Mercedes Lackey takes readers back to the ballet with her latest fairy tale fantasy, The Black Swan, which retells the story of Swan Lake. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Curious Garden, written by Peter Brown is not just an awesome kids book, but is also a portrait of the world to come, and in some instances a world that is already here. That night as we sat down to read books, we opened The Curious Garden and were blown away. Before going home we walked down to the small lake by the library and watched the baby ducks with their mama swim around. ![]() ![]() Without even flipping through it, I tossed the book into our canvas library bag and we went to check out. It had a great title, The Curious Garden, and the cover art was wonderful. The surprise of the night came when I picked out a random book for my two kids. A few books by Wendell Berry, a sci-fi book called Metatropolis ( five short stories about cities in the future), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey and a few other ones. Even though I really haven’t had the time to read much, I have been getting quite a few books recently. ![]() The other evening we went to our local library to enjoy a little bit of air conditioning and look for some new books to read. Between the gardens, an unexpected house repair project, excessive heat, work, kids, and all the other glories of urban homesteading, I have been more than tired as of late. It has been a long week here at Autonomy Acres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss, himself, deserves that explanation. ![]() Seuss as he really was: a person affected by his time, but able to grow beyond it. It's important that viewers - especially children - know Dr. It begs the question, of all the images of this man's work, do we really need to show this one?īut only if it's displayed with an explanation of Seuss’s journey away from racism. An imaginative elephant named Horton (Jim Carrey) hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. With so few Asians being represented in children’s literature, it’s painful that one of the few images we do see is a cartoon stereotype. Even with Seuss’s adaptations, many people (myself included) wince at the updated caricature with its squinty eyes. The reconfigured character is now white and without a pigtail.īut in 2017, we’ve come even further. In 1978, Seuss acknowledged that the image should be changed. It includes an image of "The Chinaman," which was originally depicted with bright yellow skin and with a long pigtail. Seuss book "And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street," in front of a controversial portion of a mural in the Seuss museum in Springfield, Mass. The Republican A post-1978 version of the Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() But then I'm not sure if calling a book that opens with the complete devastation of human civilization and the death of most of humanity light. Worse, I'm not a TV person.Īnyway This book is, dare I say it(?) Great. At the time I wasn't finding anything that interested me at all. I got this and another novel from Audible. As I noted under a different (and much more serious book) I was in a reading funk. Go man, I'm almost 70 I may not have that many years of reading left! ![]() ![]() So far the only negative I have is that there are so far only 3 to read. I'll say a bit more later but from ments made after the body of book 3 it seemed MD may have had some bad experiences with reviewers and I wanted to reassure him and hopefully buck him up. See, not 1 star and an insult! As a matter of fact, I love these books and at least through #3 I highly recommend them. I listened to the epilogue on book 3 and just wanted to draw your attention to the rating. I've already finished book 3 in this series.in audio. ![]() |