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![]() ![]() Stoner remains probably my favorite novel for reasons I'm unable to articulate. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are." Short, 3 1/2 hrs less than 150 pages, but within, the whole life of Andreas Egger. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. I listened and read the modest novel and agree with the publisher's little blurb that author Seethaler has a way similar to the purity and simplicity of John Williams' Stoner: "Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. ![]() It was the smallest of the finalists for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, nominations for both its author and the translator, Charlotte Collins. ![]() Beautifully translated from its original German in October 2015, A Whole Life feels like a reflection of a life with a meditative quality. ![]() ![]() Consider the French Revolution or Napoleon Bonaparte or the Eiffel Tower, it is not just the monuments and famous people who call Paris their home. ![]() Paris is a beautiful city with its name engraved in monumental historic events in time. Combining personal observations and anecdotes with stories and facts about famous figures in Parisian history, this visual tale of discovery, through the eyes of an artist, is sure to delight, inspire, and charm. The end result is more than a diary: it’s a detailed and colorful love letter to one of the most romantic and historically rich cities on earth. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journal recording in illustrations and words, nearly every sight, smell, taste, and thought she experienced in the City of Light. Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman’s French sojourn in the world’s most beautiful city. ![]() ![]() ![]() If we keep ourselves and our minds in the immediate spaces around us: our families, our friends, our colleagues–we, like Nicholai and Tolstoy’s king, see that the most important ones are the ones we are with right now. Yet how can we do that at a time like this? Learning to overcome obstacles is one of the very lessons we hope to teach our campers and children in order to make them stronger, wiser and even better problem solvers. It is how we can evolve and create resilient and even more connected communities. And it is only through challenge that we grow and learn and stretch our individual and collective capacity. The coronavirus is metaphoric in so many ways: it is an enemy, a unifier, a distiller, an unknown, a terror, an opportunity, a risk, a challenge. ![]() Unlike the old turtle, Nicholai is young and able to help carry the panda and her lost child to safety, putting himself in harm’s way to help the two creatures find each other and survive the storm. Because of the time spent in the garden, Nicholai is nearby when he hears a panda’s cries for help during an afternoon storm. He is seeking answers to his three questions and discovers that by helping a wise turtle (Leo) plant his garden, he invests his time in a way that is benefical to Leo, to the earth and to himself. ![]() The Muth story is told through the experience of a boy, Nicholai (Muth’s son’s name and Tolstoy’s brother’s name). ![]() ![]() ![]() The remarkable set design (by Jon Gourdoine) included several levels and moving furniture pieces. Numbers made use of the aisle space and there was a T-shaped part of the stage that extended into the audience, creating intimacy within the theater. Everything changes when she meets the charming player Anatole (Jared Lee), leading to a clash of emotions, a scandalous affair and a (ruined) elopement scheme.įrom the onset, I noticed that the show efficiently used the theater’s small space. When Natasha arrives in Moscow with her cousin Sonya (Annie Hunt) to stay with godmother Marya (Susan Gundunas), she has to navigate society while remaining faithful to her engagement. Set in the midst of the Napoleonic wars, it follows Pierre (Stephen Guggenheim) - an old man in the depths of existential crisis - and Natasha (Paloma Aisenberg ’23) - a naive-yet-beautiful young girl longing for her away-at-war fiancé Andrey (F. ![]() Seeing the show in San Jose was like revisiting an old friend: through effective staging, choreography and overall energy that poured out of each cast member, I walked out with a greater understanding and appreciation for something I have loved for years. It delivers it all with ballads and pop-opera songs that make you bounce in your seat. The piece takes a 70-page sliver of “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy and twists it into a two-hour tale of Russian aristocracy and marriage, joy and chaos. “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812,” written by Dave Malloy, has always been one of my favorite musical theater shows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our Summer Reading Guide is hitting inboxes on Thursday at 8:00am EDT. And Alina Bronsky’s Barbara Isn’t Dying represents the sort of quirky work that could easily fly under your radar, but that the right reader will be THRILLED to discover this summer. I wanted to make sure we had a solid nonfiction category this year you’ll see Claire Dederer’s nonfiction work Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma below. (In today’s book list you’ll see Joshilyn Jackson’s With My Little Eye, Vanessa Walters’s The Nigerwife, and Sarah Adams’s Practice Makes Perfect.) I read a good amount of historical fiction, represented here by Jasmin Iolani Hakes’s Hula. ![]() This collection does a decent job of capturing some of the major categories of books I sought out for my guide reading: I read TONS of mysteries, thrillers, and love stories, because so many of us (definitely including me) enjoy reading those in the summertime. These releases are all from April and May 2023 because my winter and spring reading have been heavily focused on vetting summer titles for the guide, but beginning next month you can expect to see a lot more backlist in this monthly roundup of what I’ve been reading lately! The 12th annual MMD Summer Reading Guide comes out on Thursday, May 18, and so today I’m sharing six new releases that I enjoyed reading but that you won’t see in the guide. Welcome to Quick Lit, where we share short and sweet reviews of what we’ve been reading lately on the 15th of the month. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve studied, researched, discovered, and invented, despite facing enormous obstacles. As I research and write about these women, I’m in awe of their persistence and resourcefulness. ![]() The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest by Heather Lang, illustrated by Jana Christyįor centuries women have made astonishing contributions to science, but they’ve often been overlooked or their accomplishments have been buried. ![]() Please use the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. Today, I’m so thrilled to be on her blog tour for her latest book, The Leaf Detective. ![]() She really takes the time to “walk in the shoes” of the people that she writes about. I want to shine a spotlight on all of Heather’s excellent picture book biographies. Heather told me that she was able to interview Eugenie and also learned how to scuba dive in order to write her book! There was a picture book on Eugenie Clark published that same year and this book, while also informative, did not have the same depth of information that I enjoyed in Heather Lang’s book. It was the first time that I had heard of Eugenie. I think I first met her not long after she published her excellent picture book on Japanese-American scientist Eugenie Clark. I have had the great pleasure of meeting her IRL (In Real Life) because she is a Boston area-based author. Please welcome my guest author today, Heather Lang. ![]() ![]() ![]() Told in a non-linear format that splits between the present ("TODAY") and the past ("HISTORY"), History Is All You Left Me is an unflinchingly honest and heart-wrenching examination of friendship, loss, and love told through the eyes of a grieving, unreliable narrator.īustle has an exclusive first look at the cover of History Is All You Left Me. ![]() As the two boys attempt to forge a future without Theo, details emerge that will have readers questioning Griffin's version of the truth. In an attempt to hold on to the past, Griffin begins a complicated relationship with Theo's last boyfriend, Jackson. The book follows Griffin, a 17 year old with OCD who just lost his best friend and first love, Theo, in an drowning accident. Adam Silvera's second novel: History Is All You Left Meis due for release on January 17, 2017. ![]() The novel was equal parts hopeful and heartbreaking, and it left readers and fans wanting more from this talented author. In his debut novel, More Happy Than Not, he tackled sexuality, love, friendship, and happiness with a deft precision that few authors could manage. and falling out of love for the first time. Young adult author Adam Silvera knows a thing or two about writing a story about falling in love for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the most entertaining of the anecdotes are those of the North Polar Bear, an endearing character much prone to mischief and misadventure. Each letter, either written purportedly by Father Christmas himself or his Elf-secretary, tell some of the adventures and mishaps from the North Pole home and workshop of every child’s favourite. My two little granddaughters have just written their letters to Santa and lo and behold! Received a letter each back with a photo of a special elf and a little present from Santa enclosed, so it seemed an apt time to bring out one of my favourite Christmas books to share with Small.įirst published posthumously in 1976, this is a selection of some of the letters that Tolkien’s sons received over a period of some twenty odd years, one each Christmas. ![]() ![]() As Mae and her friends begin to unravel the mysteries of the island, and the Prospers’ magic, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on. And Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir to the Prosper magic, may hold all the answers - including a secret about Mae’s past that she doesn’t remember. ![]() When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae starts to realize that things aren’t what they seem. With everyone returning to the island, Mae finally has the chance to go after what she’s always wanted. ![]() ![]() Now that she’s 18, Mae knows her time with the Prospers may soon come to an end.īut tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends return to the island to celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island’s magic and started producing aether - a magical fuel source that has revolutionized the world. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the magic on the island and the spirits who inhabit it. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." (Chloe Gong, New York Times best-selling author of These Violent Delights )įorbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all. ![]() "A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. ![]() |