![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() , Isaacson describes how Leonardo's delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. , made him history's most creative genius. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. ) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. Brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life"īased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" ( ![]()
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![]() Ozeki herself, by the way, is a Buddhist priest, which is no small part of the story. Fortunately, as Nao tells the story in her diary, before ending her life, she wants to write the biography of her ancient great grandmother, an ailing Buddhist nun. Might she have already killed herself or is she still alive? Her father's already tried to kill himself. Yes, Ozeki turns herself into a character in this book and portrays herself as reading the diary in a race against a huge wave of oncoming time. Ozeki might also have called her book "A Tale of Two Shores." She discovers the schoolgirl in a diary preserved against the ocean, a diary which, thanks to the recent Japanese tsunami, washes up on the shore of her British Columbian island residence. Naoko's nickname is Nao, Nao, get it? She's clearly a creature of time as are all of us, she both assures and warns us. The time being means for our current days and also refers to one of the main characters in the book, a suicidal 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl named Naoko. Alan Cheuse has this review.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: "A Tale for the Time Being" offers a huge pun in its title. ![]() And finally this hour, a new novel that tells the story of two lives intersecting across an ocean after the recent tsunami in Japan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now I can see both readings at once, like a magic eye painting. When I was 20, I saw Madame Merle as a non-character, a “bad person” who existed just to mess with Isabel. As in, rereading “The Portrait of a Lady” at 40, and finding that the most relatable character is suddenly Madame Merle. The only reading experience I’ve had after 40 that feels truly inaccessible to my earlier self is rereading. What book should nobody read until the age of 40? ![]() Once you read enough, you learn to discard the toxic parts, and keep what helps you. Quantity is important, because books are a product of their time and place, and the toxic ideas of the time get baked in. ![]() To me, “Does this book seem like it could change my life” feels like a more useful question than “Is this a book that everybody should read.” I would invite people under 21 to think of the world as a treasure hunt for life-changing books, with clues everywhere - in other books, on the subway, maybe in The New York Times - and then to read as many of them as possible. What’s the last great book you read?Īdrienne Rich’s “Blood, Bread, and Poetry” - specifically, the essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” What book should everybody read before the age of 21? “Tideline,” by Krystyna Dabrowska, translated by Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Mira Rosenthal. “The Eighth Life (for Brilka),” by Nino Haratischvili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin. ![]() ![]() Astounding in detail, the ambition of "Hip Hop Family Tree" is to include every pioneer and contributor to Rap music including the stories of DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, to Sylvia Robinson and the Sugar Hill Gang, and from Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Caz to Dr. Crumb, first originated "Hip Hop Family Tree" online where he could indulge his fascination with Hip-Hop History and all the men and women who have lived their lives, like Piskor, with their own visionary art, lifestyle and devotion to craft. Piskor, heavily influenced by illustrator, R. "Hip Hop Family Tree" is a true labor of love for Piskor who both wrote and illustrated every volume. In the last decade, Piskor has collaborated on several graphic novels as well as his own series, "Wizzywig". ![]() Item #188 Fascinated by comics from an early age, Ed Piskor cut his cartooning teeth illustrating stories from Harvey Pekar's legendary "American Splendor" series. ![]() PISKOR, Ed Hip Hop Family Tree Treasury Edition Volumes 1-4 (1970s-1983) ![]() ![]() 'This extraordinary debut combines a true gift for storytelling with a liberal dose of racy encounters. Whrend die erneut schwangere Joss und Braden dieses Jahr als Babysitter dienen mssen, kriselt es zwischen Jo und Cam ein bisschen. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her. 'Valentine: An ON Dublin Street Novella' ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten rund um den Valentinstag unserer 6 Dublin Street Paare. Jocelyn soon realises that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. Knowing she's not looking for a relationship, he proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction with no strings attached. įour years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, free of any attachments.īut all that is about to change when when she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, and meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.īraden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he wants Jocelyn. ![]() But all her secrets are about to be laid bare. Genre Holidays TIME PERIOD Contemporary CLASSIFICATION Romance Romance - Sensual Romance - Contemporary Romance - Holiday Holidays Click on any of the links above to see more books like this one. Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. VALENTINE: An On Dublin Street Novella is a special gift to fans of the series in thanks for supporting HERO, her first standalone contemporary romance. ![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. Passionate and romantic, On Dublin Street is a captivating and bittersweet story of the redemptive power of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing cat lovers and cat loathers alike agree on, though, is that cats know more about us than they let on. ![]() In this mythology, the cat lover likes a bit of a challenge and is prone to overthinking, while the felineophobe prefers an easy ride, and tends towards the more simplistic view of life that might come from, say, a spaniel. W hen discussing people who like cats and those who don't, it's often tempting to talk about two distinct personality types. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character’s (Molly) mom writes a bestselling book about her love life, which pretty much the whole town has read. ![]() The plot for 99 Days is really interesting. A fast paced read set in summertime essentially makes this book a fun summer read almost akin to reading a journal. It begins with Day One and quickly progresses throughout Molly’s entire summer. Each day that Molly is in town has its own chapter. The chapter sequencing is also very appealing to this story. Starting with its beautiful end papers, this book has a beautiful feel to it. Review: 99 Days by Katie Cotugno ❀ A Beautiful Hardcover ![]() My Patrick, who’s never going to forgive me. My Patrick, who’s supposed to be clear across the country. I think he’s about to kiss me-and that’s when I see Patrick. “For what it’s worth, Molly Barlow,” he says, “I’m really glad you’re back.”Day 12: Gabe got me to come to this party, and I’m actually having fun. I’m expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it’s just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. Now I’m serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college, and be done.Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn’t finished. Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything-how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays, poems and articles. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to have described her as ‘the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War’. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate, and catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. ![]() It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South, and inspired pro-slavery copy-cat works in defense of the institution of slavery. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter – she drew on her anger from this to write UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to the house, as the negro par excellence designates his master’s dwelling. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. ![]() ![]() Tom Reiss has researched the life of General Alex Dumas and takes us from the French sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the battlefields of the French revolution and to a dark dungeon on an island in the Mediterranean, in recapturing the spirit of this extraordinary man, living in an unforgettable era, that we are all the better off for being reminded of.Īntoine was the eldest of three brothers, required to go out in the world and seek their fortunes, which they initially pursue in the army before Antoine followed his brother Charles to Saint-Domingue. Less is known about the novelist’s father General Alexandre ‘Alex’ Dumas, born in 1762, the son of Marie Cessette Dumas, a black slave from Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) and a French nobleman Alexandre Antoine Davy, the Marquis de Pailleterie, who was from a family of provincial aristocrats with a more impressive coat of arms and title than fortune to their name. In France the novelist referred to as Alexandre Père Dumas, had a son Alexandre, also a well-known playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mention the name Alexandre Dumas and many will associate it with the classic stories as well-known now through their film adaptations, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip and La Reine Margot (Marguerite de Valois) as they are through the novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ash has a lot of my nuances and weird habits, but Pete has my mother hen nature (and the contradictory habit of trying to hide it). Garrett: Erm, I’d say Ash from Slide resembles me most, though put a lot of myself into Pete too. TNA: To piggyback that question, which of all your characters would you say most resembles you? How so? Their collection of physical ailments aside, the way he and Jed live at their cabin by the lake-chickens, dogs, wholefoods and thr great outdoors-is my idea of heaven. Garrett: Despite all the heartache, I’d have to say Max from Only Love. TNA: If you had the chance to go back and write yourself in as a character in one of your books, which book would you choose, and why? But, seriously, anything can make me laugh, given the right mood, but I’m a big fan of silliness, you know, just arsing around, just for hell of it. ![]() Garrett: Myself, mainly, which is lucky, ‘cause I’m a bit of a twit. ![]() TNA: How would you describe your sense of humor? What makes you laugh? I have lots of ink and bake my own bread. Garrett: Erm, let’s see…I write porn and keep chickens. Why don’t we start out with you telling us a little bit about yourself? TNA: Hi, Garrett, thanks so much for being here with us today. ![]() |