![]() ![]() ![]() His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV)"ĭavid Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. "On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon" "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)" "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)" ![]() "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life" These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Dennis DrabelleĬopyright 2006, The Washington Post. First published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. When it came to marital mayhem, Chas Addams could swing either way. Happily Ever After: A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of Your Loved One is a book by Charles Addams. The book includes droves of cartoons in which it's the wife, not the husband, who's involved in spousicide. In another cartoon, a man goes up to a train-station ticket booth and, while his wife stands obliviously by, asks for "a round-trip and a one-way to Ausable Chasm." Not to worry, though. you wouldn't dare." Perhaps Echo Gorge goes by more than one name. The caption reads, in ever-diminishing letters, "You wouldn't dare. ![]() ![]() Among the drawings - many of them previously unpublished - collected in Happily Ever After (Simon & Schuster, $20) are such anti-Valentines as a middle-aged man standing near the edge of Echo Gorge, into which a woman's hat and purse are disappearing after their owner. I speak of Charles (Chas) Addams, creator of the Addams Family, longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker, and possessor of an inexhaustibly mordant sense of humor. What kind of man would collect medieval armor? Perhaps one who wanted to be insulated from his own creations - men, women and children often on the verge of dispatching one another. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lately most libraries now have their reference guides on line also. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game! b Winner of the Newbery Medal b b Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award b b An ALA Notable Book b b "Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand."— i The New York Times Book Review i "A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book."— i The Horn Book i b ![]() B A Newbery Medal Winner"A supersharp nfoundingly clever, and very funny." — i Booklist i, starred review b A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meditative and decidedly memoir-like, Fear of Flying went on to sell more than 20 million copies, becoming a free-love cultural touchstone shelved firmly in the canon of second-wave feminism, and lauded by the likes of John Updike and Henry Miller. And it is rarer than the unicorn."īoth the concept and the book hit a cultural nerve at the tail end of the sexual revolution, resonating with a generation of women who felt society had completely overlooked their desires, carnal and otherwise. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The man is not 'taking' and the woman is not 'giving.' No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. The adventurous Isadora Wing is on the hunt for what Jong famously called the "zipless fuck," described as "absolutely pure. Her 1973 debut novel, Fear of Flying, was an explicit and revelatory look at the female sexuality of its era, depicting a 29-year-old erotic poet as she yearns to indulge unfulfilled fantasies with someone other than her husband. Erica Jong is perhaps best known for coining a phrase that can't be printed in a newspaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL5703660W Page-progression lr Pages 40 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1930332467 ISBN: 144240891X ISBN13: 9781442408913 Giggle, Giggle, Quack (Part of the Farmer Brown's Barnyard Tales Series and Ready-To-Read: Level 2 Series) by Doreen Cronin See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.59 - 17.26 Paperback 4.19 - 7.19 Board book 4.19 - 8.99 Audio CD - Select Condition Like New - Very Good - Good 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:gigglegigglequa00cron:epub:cfd9c620-12dc-44e6-aa2e-4f24b259df35 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gigglegigglequa00cron Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t83j44n3k Isbn 0689845065ĩ781416903499 Lccn 2001032201 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition There were pictures of animals Ive never seen before, many which made me giggle, some that had me burst out laughing and some which made me wince. Toddlers will giggle as they learn the answers to all their questions: Will I fall in (No, youre way too big.). Although it wasnt quite as giggle-inducing as the previous two books in the series, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and Giggle, Giggle, Quack, it will still have great appeal to anyone who enjoyed those books, and wants to see what Duck gets up to next. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:32:00 Boxid IA110407 Camera Canon 5D City DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I decided to start with the first novel in her Borgdorf Cycle series, Stones from the River. (And if you think I shouldn’t have ended that sentence with a preposition, I’m excited to tell you that I recently learned that “rule” is now just a “guideline.” Look for more on that in a future blog post.)Īfter reading Stella’s blog post, I wanted to read something by Ursula Hegi. I don’t abide by the rules that book reviewers adhere to. I just enjoy sharing my impressions of the books I read. It was that blog post that nudged me to read Stones from the River. My fellow blogger, Stella Maud Maurer ( ,) wrote about author Ursula Hegi a couple of months ago. From a review, I can be fairly sure a particular book is or isn’t for me. ![]() Their reviews often pique my interest in books I might have otherwise overlooked. I enjoy following the blogs of book reviewers. It made such an impression on me that I decided to write about it today and share my thoughts on the other books I read in January in next Monday’s blog post. I finished reading Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi a few days ago. ![]() ![]() How is it that one of the most important and powerful books ever written could be about a pesticide? To be first is something of value, and this book, with the power of language, ideas, and argument, did much to launch environmentalism, which makes it one of the most important books of the 20th century.Īrmies of the Night by Norman Mailer (Plume, $15). Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Mariner, $14). From that experience he has written a haunting novel of a veterans search for an inner peace. In 1969, Bao Ninh from Hanoi was one of 500 who went south with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. A small, simple book a novel of the Vietnam War that fills the heart with almost unbearable sadness. The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh (Riverhead, $13). The book is out of print in English, but Im currently working on a new translation for Modern Library. A story about the people who are fat and the people who are thin, set amid beautifully described mountains of food, in a time of political turmoil. Food as a metaphor full of social commentary, anger, and irony. The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola (out of print). ![]() ![]() ![]() High-resolution climate data demonstrates an episode of rapid global climate change involving significant alterations in temperature and precipitation in the period ca. In most parts of the floodplain of the Mississippi River and its tributaries there are few sites dating to this interval suggesting the river bottom was abandoned for several hundred years as a location for sustained habitation. Elsewhere in the basin, this transition is marked by an occupation hiatus or decline and is accompanied by significant changes in settlement and material culture organization. In the lower Mississippi Valley, however, there is an abrupt gap in the archaeological sequence at this time and pronounced differences between Late Archaic and Early Woodland archaeological remains. 3000–2500 cal B.P.) in the Mississippi River basin is a gradual process. ![]() Archaeologists frequently assume the cultural transition from Archaic to Woodland (ca. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is best known for his work in science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. Michael Crichton was an American best-selling author, physician, producer, director and screenwriter. As the scientists come closer to the answer, they realize that the danger they are dealing with is much bigger than what they assumed. Everybody around is horrified at the incident and there is an investigation as to what caused this scene. Soon after this incident, dead bodies have been discovered in heaps in a nearby town of Piedmont. One of the probes falls on earth and lands in an area in northeast Arizona. Now, Project Scoop has sent seventeen satellites into space to collect organisms and dust for study. This means, that these unmanned spacecraft may still have particles that could prove dangerous to the planet. The United States government has received a warning saying that the sterilization procedures for the returning space probes may not necessarily guarantee decontamination. The Andromeda Strain is thriller about an extra-terrestrial microorganism that is about to overpower human life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's heart is broken. Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. ![]() As Razia begins rebelling in small ways, Rehman adds a layer of emotional intimacy to Razia's conflicted feelings. "Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age in the 1980s and '90s. "ENCHANTING." -Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk "I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." -Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! Microhistories - Get down in the weeds with these intriguing titles!įor fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.Legacy Washington Audio Collection - Listen NOW!.Modern Scholar Audiobooks - NO WAITING!.Escape into History: Historical fiction.SciFi Old & New, Contemporary & Classic.Resources for Dealing with Grief and Dying.Books to Battle Quarantine Sleep Problems.Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List.Celebrate National Native American Heritage.Black Lives Matter - Books for Young People. ![]() |