![]() ![]() ![]() I hope you enjoy my postings and reviews and share my blog with friends. There will be no advertising since I'm not interested in making money, just sharing. All discussions will be related to books and reading. Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). For 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What passes between mother and daughter in these five days while they talk about friends, cousins and marriages that didn't work out, among other things, is pretty amazing. This is when her mother, whom she hasn't seen for many years comes to visit her in the hospital in New York. Lucy remembers hers childhood as the narrative progressives and it moves from present to various times in her past, most notably when she is in the hospital for an extended period of time after routine surgery. There are too few glimpses of joy in this complex, dysfunctional family but yet Lucy still can't help but think, "how our roots were twisted so tenaciously around one another's hearts. She carries the burdens of a none too happy childhood, one of poverty and sometimes abuse, sheltered from the outside world in many ways. ![]() It's painfully sad at times in her reminiscences of her life growing up in Amgash, Illinois. She's someone I'd want to know and a character I'll remember. In this short book I came to know what an extraordinary character Lucy Barton is. I also thought when I first met Lucy Barton that this was going to be a story about an ordinary woman. It is after all written by Elizabeth Strout. When I first started reading this I had the feeling that it was going to be a remarkable story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh Lucas □□□ 7th Circle by Tate James #booktok #darkromancebooks #tatejames #hadesseries #whychooseromance #reverseharem #booktokfyp #darkromance #7thcircle #anarchy #club22 #timberwolves #tatejamesbooks #tatejamesauthor #whychoose #darkreads #spiceybooktok #romancereader #bookscenes #bookscenarios #bookish #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #strongfmc #darkromanceclub #aussiebooktok #spiceybooktok #smuttokġ05 Likes, TikTok video from thequeenofbooks "Oh Lucas □□□ 7th Circle by Tate James #booktok #darkromancebooks #tatejames #hadesseries #whychooseromance #reverseharem #booktokfyp #darkromance #7thcircle #anarchy #club22 #timberwolves #tatejamesbooks #tatejamesauthor #whychoose #darkreads #spiceybooktok #romancereader #bookscenes #bookscenarios #bookish #bookrecs #bookrecommendations #strongfmc #darkromanceclub #aussiebooktok #spiceybooktok #smuttok". ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes the boys get on with it, grow up. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. ![]() In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow-antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wifes sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. Book Summary Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. ![]() Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar-a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:55748314 Scandate 20110906024825 Scanner . In Frantz Fanon Damns de la terre (1961 The Wretched of the Earth) established Fanon as a leading intellectual in the international decolonization movement the preface to his book was written by Jean-Paul Sartre. He also discusses the barriers that prevent people from. ![]() OL16052188W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.37 Pages 326 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0802150837 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon exposes the negative impacts of colonialism on cultures that have been colonized. Urn:lcp:wretchedofearth00fano:epub:f66bdc13-c361-420a-aeb4-fd0ddeaf3221 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wretchedofearth00fano Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1pg2n47w Isbn 0394173279ĩ780802140562 Lccn 65014196 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:49:28 Boxid IA109003 Call number 27794182 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Black Cat ed. ![]() ![]() Love it or hate it, his nihilistic, dry perspective on life, in all of its existential mundanity, drips from nearly every line of prose. Chuck Palahniuk has one of the strongest narrative voices of any author I have come across. If I can get anything across to you in the review, it’d be that. ![]() Through his affiliation with Durden, our narrator finds himself embroiled in a world of underground boxing rings and further mayhem. This all changes when he comes across Tyler Durden, a soap salesman and part-time movie theatre projectionist with a penchant for chaos. Our insomniac of a narrator struggles to find meaning or purpose in a life of consumerism, constant travel, and forgettable interactions. The novel generally follows the same premise and beats as the movie. Nevertheless, I’ve found a surprising number of people familiar with the 1999 film directed by David Fincher remain woefully unfamiliar the 1996 novel written by Chuck Palahniuk. My ThoughtsĮven though the first and second rule of Fight Club is to not talk about Fight Club, you’ve probably still heard of it. There, two men fight “as long as they have to.” This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world. ![]() Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. ![]() Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plant varieties selected to continue cultivating are often high in sugar and starch while low in fiber, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants. In Eating on the Wild Side, Jo Robinson discloses that humans have unknowingly been destroying the nutritional value of food since the first farmers 10,000 years ago. Great Books about Nutrition: Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health by Jo Robinsonĭuring one of my periods of reading a bunch of dietary books, I stumbled on this by chance at our local used bookstore. I’m about a third of the way through and I believe it will make it onto future books about nutrition lists. It’s my March book pick for my year of health experiment. I’m also currently reading Deep Nutrition by Dr. These books are informative engrossing reads that tend to combine history and science to give a full picture look into this ever changing and developing topic. In honor of that I’m sharing three of my favorite lesser known but great books about nutrition. Some experts say it is the most important thing we can pay attention to for our health. It’s also something that affects us every single day, likely three or four times a day. Our food choices are something that we have control over when we understand we have the ability to make changes for our health. Nutrition is one of my favorite nonfiction topics to learn about. ![]() ![]() The Zero’s rag-tag crew look to their commander, Ezekiel Webb, as their leader and middleman between the regimented expectations of the Service and the harsh and unpredictable demands of the underworld of colonial space. They sell on, buy in, bargain, threaten and report back on everything the political levels the Service don’t officially want to know about. Their role is to investigate and infiltrate the less savoury levels of society. But what very few know is that the Zero, and her crew, are contracted by the Service. ![]() Unofficially, Hugo is re-assigned to captain the crew of the Zero, an eight-man craft classified as, at best, a privateer ship and at worst a smuggling and criminal enterprise vessel. There is no place in the Service for heroes. ![]() The battle was won, but Hugo was condemned and dishonourably discharged by Service commanders for defying regulations. ![]() He has done everything ever ordered of him and has done so with a pride that comes from knowing you are fighting for the good of humankind… until the day that he made a decision to go against orders to obtain victory and save lives. Kaleb Hugo is everything an officer of the Service should be: loyal, expertly trained, unquestioning. Out now from Amazon for Kindle or in paperback ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t think I’m alone in that sentiment. I hadn’t read something that so completely captured me in a long time, and that opened up a door to so many other books, and to entire career. I finished the first book in about five hours and ran out to buy the rest of the series. ![]() Somehow, I had missed the entire Twilight craze, but when my mom saw a segment on the Today Show, I bought a copy of the first book, completely intending to hate it. I dove headfirst into young adult novels when I was in college, which just happened to be the time when Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer came out. My mom is more of an Agatha Christie reader, so I wasn’t introduced to romance as a genre until much later. ![]() I didn’t grow up smuggling my mom’s romances and reading them under the covers. ![]() ![]() He was shorter than I’d expected, but still… I supposed he was handsome enough – if you were into old, rich white guys. Nigel Hartley-Richards had long been a staple in business news and on current-affairs shows and even an occasional topic of conversation for the celebrity gossip sites. His accent was that broad transatlantic or mid-European or whatever, suggesting he was well educated and had lived in a lot of places. Then I’ll tell you what we’re working on and why we thought you might be interested in joining us. Think of this as more than a job interview. ‘What I’d like is for the two of you to tell us about yourselves – your careers, your motivations, and your relationship. Looking out the window, I admired the view of the Tower of London. I glanced downwards at my foot tapping out a silent rhythm on the rich woollen rug atop sanded floorboards. Above me, the ceiling was open and industrial with expensive, carefully aimed light fixtures. I cast my eyes around the room, taking in the exposed brick wall and trendy artwork. ![]() Shifting my weight, I touched the faux leather of the designer chair I was sitting on. ![]() ![]() He looked as if he were posing for a camera rather than conducting a job interview. ![]() |