![]() It featured his high-fashion work and gritty inner-city pictures from early in his career, some with black people as subjects. This book reminds me of meeting the great photographer Norman Parkinson at an exhibition in the 1980s. My team, Manchester City, have had their ups and downs, but I look forward to the day when I can see them again, Covid restrictions permitting.Īs a boy, I also lapped up the Test series in the 1970s and early 1980s when the West Indies were pre-eminent – they were the background to my youth. Growing up in Lancashire, I was a keen football and cricket fan. Sadly, my trumpet-playing is pretty rusty now so I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give up the day job. ![]() I now have quite a collection of vinyl records, and love going to jazz clubs like Ronnie Scott’s whenever possible. Clive treasures this photograph from his wedding day at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Covent Garden ![]()
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![]() Before their mama lands in prison ― just like an embarrassing lyric from a country-western song ― Mace and her sisters must find the real culprit. It doesn't help that the handsome detective assigned to the case seems determined to prove Mama's guilt or that the cowboy who broke Mace's heart shows up at the local Booze ‘n' Breeze in the midst of the investigation. ![]() This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. Mama's antics ― especially her penchant for finding trouble ― drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. ![]() ![]() Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. ![]() ![]() Carrying up to her current events and even future in the time of the Peace Treaty and her husband's return.Īll throughout you'll be amazed to find that it is natural to read Israel's history this way, you aren't wondering about how this woman and those around her live for hundreds and hundreds of years-you are, I think, familiar with her. ![]() ![]() We meet, with her, Daniel, Nehemiah we go through Israel's history with her, captivity, the Maccabees, the weeping of Rachel (her friend) in Bethlehem, - through the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Pogroms, the Holocaust. "Sarah", in the beginning of our book is turning her back on her husband and is about to feel the consequences in the Babylonian captivity. More unique than any fiction book I've ever read because the author personifies the nation of Israel and takes you through her history. ![]() "Hope! I'll survive because I have hope!"Īn amazing read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is probably the fifth book I’ve listened to by this writing duo and somehow each new romance is fresh, fun, funny and fantastic! Each of their books tackle deep personal issues that enhance and make the romance realistic. Yeah, he’s pretty shocked about the whole thing too.Ĭan genetics find your soulmate? Does the act of knowing you match with someone make the match work? Or is there an equation that can help us all find love? But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera. She’s completely shocked to find out she matched with Dr. The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in the New York Times bestselling The Soulmate Equation. ![]() This is a match so high that it hasn’t been seen before. Imagine her surprise when her phone alerts her to a match. In a moment of weakness, Jess sends off her DNA to GeneticAlly but sets her alerts to only notify her for very high matches. ![]() Turns out he’s a scientist and founder of a new dating app, GeneticAlly, that matches people based on their genetic profile the higher the number of DNA matches between two people, the higher the compatibility score. He’s an attractive, aloof snob who never pauses to give them a second glance. Jess and her best friend spend their mornings drinking coffee at the local shop, working, and musing over the regular customers including the man they nickname “Americano” after his daily order. Her job as a statistician, her grandparents and her amazing daughter fill and complete her life. Single mom Jess Davis is NOT looking for love. Review by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian “ The Soulmate Equation ” by Christina Lauren ![]() ![]() ![]() Organized by what I’d say are illustrated autobiographical essays, each colored section is a story and most of the time, they don’t really have any relation. The sunshine yellow cover tricks you into thinking you’re just in for a bunch of laughs and that you won’t be reading it at 1am, tearing up, as you blubber, “Oh my god, that’s me.” When I finally got it, I was surprised by how big it is, at over 350 brightly colored pages. However, the book version of Hyperbole and a Half is more than just Brosh’s greatest hits, though those are also included in the book.īy now, the book is a few years old and it’s been on my TBR list for forever. At times, I’ll remember them and go back to the blog to read over her posts again. But her post regarding her struggles with depression have stuck with me all these years. ![]() The creator, Allie Brosh, has inadvertently spawned memes (Clean all the things!) and viral sensations. I’ve been a longtime fan of Hyperbole and a Half back when it was being semi-regularly updated online. (It’s exhausting sometimes, isn’t it?) So this May, I wanted to read something that I could identify with and that would allow me to further spotlight the importance of mental health discussions. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I’m certainly no stranger to the trials and tribulations of keeping up with one’s own mental health, not to mention the mental health of my mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cleland,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 5 (With: Carolyn Haines,Carola Dunn,Sheila Connolly,Ellie Alexander,Mindy Quigley,Auralee Wallace)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 6 (With: Carolyn Haines,Cate Conte,Kylie Logan,Leonard Goldberg,Allison Montclair,Ellen Hart,Sheila Connolly,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 7 (With: Diane Kelly,Ellen Crosby,Ellie Alexander,Vivien Chien,Ashley Weaver,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 8 (By: M.C. ![]() ![]() Beaton,Ellie Alexander,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 4 (By: Parnell Hall,Shari Randall,Ellen Hart,Ellie Alexander,Frances Brody,Tessa Arlen,Vivien Chien,Julia Chapman,Paige Shelton,Jane K. Copperman,Ellie Alexander,Cynthia Riggs,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 3 (With: M.C. Cozy Case Files Volume 1 (By: Cynthia Riggs,Mindy Quigley)Ĭozy Case Files Volume 2 (With: Carolyn Haines,Hannah Dennison,Cate Conte,Diane Kelly,E.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() In chronicling the life of this bast*ard son of Venetian actors, Masters draws from Casanova‘s own highly expansive memoirs, unavailable until the 1960s, and shows that many of the most racy and unlikely events have been corroborated by fact. That he was also a con man, cabalist, spy, revenge taker, and experienced prisoner only enhances his appeal as one who personified the extreme social and moral contradictions of the time. Lawyer, mathematician, poet, translator, and librarian who was fluent in several languages, he was described by one contemporary as the most civilized man in Europe. Enthralled with the first one to come my way. ![]() But he was much more than the great eighteenth century lover. I first became acquainted with John Masters via his three historical novels, set in India during British rule. Giacomo Casanova‘s reputation rests largely on his obsession with the mystery of exactly what was lurking between any particular woman s legs. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. ![]() Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eating a wide range of plants keeps you well – 30 a week is ideal, including seeds, nuts, herbs and spices. Once you wrap your head around the microbes in our guts, which need a varied diet themselves in order to process the food that makes us healthy, much of it seems like common sense. ![]() It’s complex, hard to digest and obviously good for us, like an enormous portion of fibrous vegetables, well balanced with spices. It aims to think about food for “our individual health, the health of our society and the health of our planet”. Food for Life, at over 500 pages, overlaps with these but offers more information than ever before. Spoon-Fed, in 2020, exposed diet misinformation. His 2015 book The Diet Myth popularised the idea that each of us has a unique and constantly changing gut microbiome that is crucial to our health. T im Spector, an epidemiologist and co-founder of the ZOE nutrition study, wants to change the way people think about food. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author's experiences with dogs, large and small, through the years. Kerr gives her own helpful hints on how to redecorate on a budget. Kerr's take on the popular trend of writers moving to the country to reconnect with nature. The trials and tribulations of an author who hopes her letters are being collected for future publication. Kerr begins the book with her take on parenting four small boys. The introduction serves as yet another humorous essay, as Kerr describes how she came to be a writer. Kerr followed up this book with two later best-selling collections, The Snake Has All the Lines and Penny Candy. The film was later adapted into a 1965-1967 television series starring Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was adapted into a 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (New York: Doubleday, 1957) is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. ![]() |