5/30/2023 0 Comments Ask Me to Stay by Ember Davis![]() “There’s no bitterness or acidity, and it gets the pure flavor and nuances of the coffee.” I mean, obviously she feels that way-she owns the place!-but our experts agree: In our tests the Chemex produced balanced, nuanced coffee. “The magic of the Chemex is that it isn’t that difficult to use, but the process gives you proper filtration-not too fast, not too slow-to remove undesirable elements from the coffee,” Eliza Grassy, who co-owns Chemex with her brother, told me in an interview. It brews an excellent cup of coffee, and the pour-over process can feel intentional and meditative in a world of single-serving pods and to-go cups. What are my options, besides microwaving the room-temp coffee? My husband loves Chemex pour-over coffee, but the carafe doesn’t keep the coffee hot the way a traditional coffee maker does, and I refuse to drink it lukewarm. ![]() Email your biggest product-related problems to Wirecutter, ![]() Ask Wirecutter, an advice column written by Annemarie Conte, explores the best approaches to buying, using, and maintaining stuff. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments How to love by katie cotugno![]() ![]() Blogger Spotlight Tour: Harman from Little Bookwor. ![]()
5/30/2023 0 Comments Redwall by brian jacques![]() These characters become very stereotyped and the book loses a further half star for that. I also disliked how the bad guys are all rats, weasels, ferrets and stoats. This is a serious downside in my opinion, and the book loses two stars for that alone. It would have made a better plot to have some clever bad guys. However, I did not like how all the villains are stupid (except Cluny of course!). ![]() I really liked how the author places his animal characters in a medieval setting (eg.Cluny's horde is a classic 'Barbaric' invasion!). ![]() The terrain around the wood is probably based on medieval Britain, though no place names are mentioned in it. This story and Mossflower are based around the fictional 'Mossflower' wood. It is a bit hard to place this in any genre, but I think that fantasy would be the best way to characterize it. The main characters are Mathias, a young mouse, Constance, an old, wise but very fierce badger, Abbot Mortimer, an old mouse of Redwall and of course Cluny, a sea rat! ![]() But it is not over: Cluny vows to never retreat from mice and badgers again. Luckily Constance (a badger) notices and kicks the plank sending Cluny and one of his captains plummeting to the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also materials held at the James C. The manuscripts for many of his historical novels are in University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives. Joseph Gazette in which he tied with 100 others for third-place to write about a grain of wheat. The book referred to an essay he wrote in 1924 for the St. His autobiography, A Grain of Wheat: A Writer Begins, was published in 1985. ![]() His first book, The Donkey Cart, was published in 1946. He finished his first book shortly after his graduation from high school and then went to work on a newspaper as a columnist and a typesetter. He received his early education in a one-room schoolhouse where he began writing stories and songs. May 23, 2007, Warrensburg, Missouri) was an American writer who wrote over fifty books for children. Clyde Robert Bulla (born January 9, 1914, near King City, Missouri, United States, d. ![]() ![]() Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed. The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork. In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The lost village camilla sten![]() ![]() I was surprisingly shaken by my own reactions to the amount of human suffering in this story. ![]() The psychological aftertaste was a bit too intense for me, though, which surprised me since I love a good scare! I mean, I’ve read everything Wendy Webb has ever published and her books haunted me to my core! ![]() I could feel the silence – even had to turn on some music as it got a little too quiet for me while reading it. I mean, seriously now – an abandoned village in the middle of nowhere was very well-written and chilling indeed. The setting – a Swedish mine village in the 1950’s – served as a great backdrop to this story. Immediately, I had to know what happened to this village! So the suspense aspect of this story was a huge hit for me. ![]() The opening scene is extremely creepy and grabbed my attention. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left-a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn-have plagued her. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Our wives under the sea synopsis![]() ![]() Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of salt slow. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. Memories of what they had before - the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers - only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Twelve percent dread![]() ![]() ![]() Twelve Percent Dread is a fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***ing phone away from Emily McGovern, author of Bloodlust & Bonnets and the hugely popular webcomic My Life As A Background Slytherin. Their friend Emma, meanwhile, seems to have it all figured out-job, mortgage, engagement-yet the long hours working for tech giant Arko and endless wedding admin prove equally dread-inducing.īut when Katie''s latest job finds her tutoring the daughter of Arko''s formidable CEO, Michelle, and Emma welcomes the eccentric and enigmatic Alicia to her team at Arko, none of the three women are aware that their lives-and possibly the future of society itself-are about to change forever. While Katie bounces from job to job and obsesses about falling behind in life, Nas has bigger things in mind-waiting endlessly for their visa to come through, while working on a seismic art project that will revolutionize politics and society as we know it. They share everything, including a tiny room in a North London townhouse belonging to their landlord Jeremy, former host of the hit 90s show ‘Football Lads''. Katie and Nas are best friends, exes, co-dependents. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. A fast-paced, laugh-a-page graphic novel about friendship, capitalism, and never putting your f***ing phone away! Twelve Percent Dread is written by Emily McGovern and published by Dark Horse Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they also find the Lone Power, attacking Darryl with an unrelenting brutality that is excessive, even for the Source of all Evil. Is it merely the fault of his autism? Inside Darryl's mind, Kit and Ponch find complex landscapes of weird beauty that belie Darryl's rocking, vacant exterior. Kit tries to understand why autistic wizard-in-training Darryl McAllister has been stuck in his Ordeal, or initiation, for over three months. Luckily, his telepathic pooch, Ponch, is happy to fill Nita's niche temporarily, as long as biscuits are involved. Initially, Kit finds himself flying solo as Nita has sunk into a deep depression over her mother's recent death. Kit and Nita return to join forces against the evil Lone Power, this time over the heart and mind of a young autistic, in Diane Duane's sixth installment of the Young Wizards series. ![]() ![]() Written for the screen by Jenna Lamia and directed by Damon Thomas, the narrative centers around Abby Rivers (Elsie Fisher) and her titular best friend Gretchen (Amiah Miller), who, after a misguided exploration of a supposedly haunted building out in the woods, falls into the clutches of a wicked entity hell-bent on destroying the lives of everyone around her. (The subgenre’s progenitor The Exorcist is, first and foremost, a Catholic propaganda film that spawned countless imitators, all rife with the same black and white, good versus evil morality). ![]() The 2022 film My Best Friend’s Exorcism, adapted from the 2016 novel of the same name by Grady Hendrix, enters the much-bloated cinematic lexicon of demonic possession movies, but with much more humor and far less religious oppressiveness. ![]() |