5/28/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss colors feelings![]() It’s great to show a child a representation of a sad face, but to hear “On Purple Days I’m sad- I groan. This is what makes this book different from so many thousands of other “feeling books” out on the market. The story follows an unnamed narrator who explains how different days feel by describing his emotions as colors, then further describing those colors by using colorful, imaginative images of animals who personify those feelings. “My Many Colored Days” is serious and dark at parts, but, in my opinion, it’s one of Seuss’s best works. ![]() Seuss’s other books, this book is anything but zany and fanciful. On different days I’m different too.Įveryone knows the fun and playful words put to paper by the late, great Theodore Geisel, but it never fails to surprise me how few people have heard of his posthumously published, “My Many Colored Days.” While it follows the familiar rhyming scheme of Dr. ![]() Social Emotional Sundays: “My Many Colored Days” by Dr. ![]()
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![]() But I am a whole lot wiser now than I was when I started out, and I do have people spending their hard-earned money buying my books. Am I a New York Times Best Seller? No, not yet. What you choose to do with the information is entirely up to you.Īm I rich as a result of all of this? No. ![]() The funny thing about mistakes, however, is they offer us the opportunity to learn valuable lessons, and lessons are meant to be shared with others. ![]() No one ever likes to admit their folly, so for me to acknowledge, in writing, the mistakes of my cover art for my first novel is tantamount to my standing naked before the world and giving each gathering gawker twenty minutes to draw their own personal crowd to watch me squirm. The prettily painted bottle might taste like moistened gym socks, but chances are I will reach for the packaging that appeals to me the most. I find myself invariably drawn to the flavored water bottle with the refreshing cluster of juicy fruit painted upon the label when compared to the flat, unappealing label that bores me to death with words of promise for quenching my thirst. ![]() I am not immune to the tactics, even as I apply my logic to the shopping list in hand. Industries of every shape, size, color, kind, and creed play upon this judgmental tendency in an effort to draw our attention away from the competition and towards their product. We are always admonished never to judge a book by its cover, but in truth our judgment of packaging is a prejudice we apply liberally every day. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Sweet tomorrows by debbie macomber![]() ![]() She has her eye on one house in particular-with room for kids. Having given up on marriage, Emily dreams of adopting children someday. Recovering from a twice-broken heart, Emily Gaffney, a young teacher, is staying at the inn while she looks for a home of her own. Determined to move forward, she begins dating again, and finds companionship when she takes on a boarder who is starting a new chapter herself. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same without Mark, but Jo Marie can’t bear to lose herself in grief once more. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future-come what may. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson![]() ![]() Each issue will be presented in color for the very first time!. ![]() “A salute to comics, an exploration of the human condition, and a solid, absorbing, and riotously snide tale about at least half of the things that make life important.” – Tasha Robinson, The AV Club.Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.Lewis’ fantastic color work, BOP is ready to return to comic stands! Flavor as you’ve never seen it before: IN FULL COLOR! Alex Robinson’s masterpiece of dreary jobs, comic books, love, sex, messy apartments, girlfriends (and the lack thereof), undisclosed pasts, and crusty old professionals remains one of the most delightful and whimsical comic stories-and with colorist Pat N. The story of Sherman, Dorothy, Ed, Stephen, Jane, and Mr. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Ta nehisi the water dancer![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So while the ancestry of the enslaved is really important, one of the things that I think about all the time is they actually were two very different kinds of families: My mother's family, from the oldest ancestor that we can actually trace, is a woman whose race is ambiguous - who might have been white, might have been mixed, we're not sure - but she was free, and then her child was free, and I'm talking about the early 1800s, and she had land and the child had land. I knew that my dad's family was from Philadelphia. I always knew my mother's side of the family was from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. ![]() I guess I was just captivated with the idea of why we remember and why we don't. And so it felt natural, actually, to go in that direction, to reach there as a source. And I've thought quite a bit about the fact that much of the country's history is premised on forgetting, not remembering, certain things. I've thought quite a bit about the fact that much of the country's history is premised on forgetting, not remembering, certain things.įor the past 10 years, in a lot of my writing, I've thought a lot about memory, and why certain things I remembered a certain kind of way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing has had an incredible impact on PEI’s tourism industry because it completely captures the charm and serenity that make the Island such a special place. ![]() Nineteen of these novels are set in Prince Edward Island and beautifully incorporate the location as an essential character in each story’s plot. ![]() Montgomery published approximately 500 short stories and poems in addition to twenty novels. You can even visit Green Gables House, the very site that inspired the book. There are many places in PEI that are dedicated to Montgomery and her most well known character, Anne Shirley. The book’s popularity helped put PEI on the map as millions of fans began to visit the magical setting of their favourite novel. When it was released in 1908, most readers were not even aware that Prince Edward Island was a real place. Montgomery achieved international fame with the publication of her novel Anne of Green Gables, which is set in Prince Edward Island. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Nevermore by James Patterson![]() ![]() Walter Thompson, eventually becoming CEO of its North American company. Instead, he moved to New York to become a junior copywriter for the advertising agency J. ![]() He left Vanderbilt before getting his PhD due to complications involving the Vietnam War. He was given a full-ride scholarship to Vanderbilt University’s graduate program in English. In 1969, he graduated from Manhattan College. The son of an insurance salesman and a schoolteacher, Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, and began casually writing at the age of nineteen. ![]() ![]() He is also the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on the New York Times adult and children’s bestseller lists. In addition to writing the thriller novels for which he is best known, among them The President Is Missing with President Bill Clinton, Patterson also writes fiction for young readers of all ages, including the Max Einstein series, produced in partnership with the Albert Einstein Estate. He has sold over 380 million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers. He has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today, with his Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, Private, NYPD Red, Daniel X, Maximum Ride, and Middle School series. James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Book ancestor trouble![]() Drawing on radical innovations from around the world, Krznaric celebrates the time rebels who are reinventing democracy, culture and economics so that we all have the chance to become good ancestors and create a better tomorrow. The Good Ancestor reveals six profound ways in which we can all learn to think long, exploring uniquely human talents like ‘cathedral thinking’ that expand our time horizons and sharpen our foresight. Us, now is the time to recover and enrich this imaginative skill. ![]() Want to be good ancestors and be remembered well by the generations who follow ![]() Humankind has always had the innate ability to plan for posterity and takeĪction that will resonate for decades, centuries, even millennia to come. History and the human mind to show that we can. Good Ancestor, leading public philosopher Roman Krznaric delves into But what is it, has it ever worked, and can we even do it? With such frenetic short-termism at the root of contemporary crises – from the threats of climate change to the lack of planning for a global pandemic – the call for long-term thinking grows every day. ![]() We live in the age of the tyranny of the now, driven by 24/7 news, the latest tweet, and the buy-now button. Coming soon in Korean, Arabic, Italian, German and other languages. ![]() ![]() Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Little does Marty know that their meeting will end up having a profound effect on both of their lives.ĭuring a charity event at his and his wife Rachel's penthouse on the Upper East Side, thieves steal into Marty's bedroom and take his de Vos, a 1636 painting titled At the Edge of a Wood. ![]() Hoping to get his revenge, Marty goes after the suspected forger, whom he later learns is a pretty 20-something graduate student named Ellie Shipley. In the year 1957, wealthy New Yorker Marty de Groot realizes that his beloved painting, the only known surviving oil-on-canvas by 17th-century Dutch artist Sara de Vos, has gone missing. In the year 1957, wealthy New Yorker Marty de Groot realizes that his beloved painting, the only known surviving oil-on-canvas by seventeenth-century Dutch artist Sara de Vos, has gone missing. Up along the riverbank, a village is drowsy with smoke and firelight, flush against the bell of the pewter sky. ![]() Luke, is also the only known Baroque Dutch Woman to have ever painted a landscape. Chapter 1 Summary: Upper East Side: November 1957 The unnamed narrator rehashes the events surrounding the theft of At the Edge of a Wood. One mitten in the air, he’s beckoning to the girl, to us. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel that describes the way two lives become intertwined through a mutual obsession with a 17th-century Dutch artist. Sara de Vos, the first woman to be admitted into the Guild of St. ![]() ![]() Summary of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith | Includes Analysis ![]() ![]() “ Before the Mayflowergrew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine in 1962, regarding “the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than the roots of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a year after a ‘Dutch man of war’ deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown.” Bennett’s history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about the powerful African of antiquity. “…one of the top 10 influential black books…Highly recommended.” - Black History 365, Volume Two Issue Two, Autumn 2008. The most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, economic, and cultural journeys of African Americans, together with vivid portraits of key Black leaders, complete this comprehensive reference. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an exploration of the complex realities of African-American life in the 1990s. ![]() Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. ![]() |