5/24/2023 0 Comments Bug Boys by Laura KnetzgerI loved how Rhino-B and Stag-B deal with the pressure of being true to each other and to the new friends they make on their journeys. “Bug Boys has a wonderful blend of silliness, introspection, adventure and the right amount of weirdness. Join these two best bug buddies as they go above and beyond for each other and the friends they meet in their adventures. In their first adventure, the Bug Boys travel through spooky caves, work with a spider to found a library, save their town's popular honey supply from extinction, and even make friends with ferocious termites! I graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2012. Together these two young beetles make up the Bug Boys, best friends who spend their time exploring the world of Bug Village and beyond, as well as their own - sometimes confusing and complicated - thoughts and feelings. Stag-B is a calm and scholarly adventurer. Bug Boys: Adventures and Daydreams: (A Graphic Novel) is written by Laura Knetzger and published by Random House Graphic. About Bug Boys: Adventures and Daydreams. Join two bug friends as they learn about the science of the world around them and the meaning of friendship in this early graphic novel series perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly!
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Jacques rousseau emileIt seems as if he had accomplished his purpose when he had taught them to be happy and Seneca, speaking of the Roman lads in olden days, says, "They were always on their feet, they were never taught anything which kept them sitting." Were they any the worse for it in manhood? Do not be afraid, therefore, of this so-called idleness. Plato, in his Republic, which is considered so stern, teaches the children only through festivals, games, songs, and amusements. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day? He will never be so busy again all his life long. You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing, and that a child ill taught is further from virtue than a child who has learnt nothing at all. You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. Give nature time to work before you take over her business, lest you interfere with her dealings. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are adopted. “Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Lara jean books in orderWhen your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to? Plot Now Lara Jean's the one who'll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family-and possibly the boy she loves-behind. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father's wedding, she can't ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Rothschild and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.īut change is looming on the horizon. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter her dad's finally getting remarried to their next-door neighbor, Ms. Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. Lara Jean's letter-writing days aren't over in this surprise follow-up to the bestselling To All the Boys I've Loved Before and P.S. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The immortals of meluha trilogyLanguage, character development and plot, all founding pillars to a successful novel were not his concern. After all, you are trying to rewrite an already well-told story.Īmish apparently did not worry about these things. You would think any writer would be cautious in his presentation and tone. Writing a fantasy novel is no mean feat, especially when you are taking on deeply revered Indian mythological and divine characters. The focus of the trilogy is the journey of Shiva (yup, that guy!) a Tibetan tribal leader to becoming the Neelkanth, the savior of the people of India. His story implies that all Indian Gods must have been mortals with exceptional achievements, which led to their divine status and somewhere in there, lies a story waiting to be told. The Premise Rocks But Everything Else Falters In MeluhaĪmish’s central premise of the series is promising. So there is an audience for this content, but it’s not me. So this is a bit of rant and I usually stay away from really negative reviews, but I just couldn’t get over how appalling I found these books.Īnd I admit I haven’t read only two-thirds of the Meluha Trilogy, but that’s enough to conclude that these are not for me.īefore I make a case for why these were not worth my time, the series has been constantly on the best-seller list and is also rumored to be picked up for movie rights. It’s important to recognize that when I finish a book, that book is immediately deducted from the total, meaning the total value decreases. – Total Books is the total number of books still waiting to be read on my Up Next Shelf. (If total increases and read also increases (see week Nov 9-15, the net progress is 0.) – Overall is the net value between the books I read and the books I added to my Up Next shelf. In fact, none of their issues were patched over with sex or avoidance, which is such a novelty in erotica romance novels and why the book was a 4-star read. Still, I appreciated that the Heroine fully confronted the Hero afterward and informed him that she wasn’t going to forgive and forget (he shoved it in her face). Lilac is also realistic in that one of the Heroes is not celibate after meeting the Heroine. The page length can be intimidating for some (558 pages), but I thought the length allowed Reid to properly progress the relationship between the Heroine and her love interests from bully to would-die-for-you. It’s a rock star reverse harem contemporary romance filled with angst (which is not surprising considering it’s about a rock band). Many of the books I read were long-awaited releases or amazing discoveries that will be staples in my recommendations list for years. I also didn’t re-read a single book, which is unlike me since I find re-reading books quite comforting. Last week was super stressful, so it makes sense as a stress-reader I read around a book a day the whole week. Whether it’s Cleo’s best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo’s marriage, or Frank’s financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.Īs hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.Įach compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage. The smash Sunday Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist-perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. Praise for the Novels of Michael Curtis Ford Once again, Ford demonstrates his mastery as a chronicler of battle, honor, and ancient worlds in this masterfully plotted epic novel that will leave readers begging for more. Pulsing with intrigue, saturated with historical detail, The Fall of Rome brings readers to new places-pressed into the trenches as catapult bolts fly overhead, lurking within the palace where betrayal is plotted, imprisoned in a tower stronghold where an emperor turns mad. In this powerful saga of Roman warfare, the sons of Attila's great officers wage battle with one another as the dramatic confrontation between Rome's last emperor and Rome's barbarian conqueror leads to the thrilling dénouement that becomes the fall of a mighty empire. Now, in The Fall of Rome, he takes on the bloody twilight of empire, as the legacy of Attila-once thought destroyed on the battlefield-emerges again to defy the power of the Western World. In his riveting novel The Sword of Attila, Michael Curtis Ford thrilled readers with his recounting of a cataclysmic clash of ancient civilizations. 476 a.d.: The Roman Empire, riddled with corruption and staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts, now faces its greatest challenge-not only to its wealth and prestige, but to its very existence. The hidden cameras and invisible ink, disguises, costumes and cardboard cutout car passengers sound almost farcical but did the job amazingly well. With the US officials under constant surveillance they had to come up with some fantastic ruses to shake off their KGB snoopers. One misstep by him or his American handlers would lead to an appointment with the firing squad. The stakes of course were astronomically high for Tolkachev. Was this offer of a meeting the genuine article or a trap dangled by Moscow Centre? After lengthily establishing Tolkachev's bona fides, the expert in radar technology went on to become one of the CIA's most valuable assets. It all started with a note passed through the window of the CIA station chief's car while filling up with petrol. That makes the tale of Adolf Tolkachev, a Russian engineer who provided thousands of top secret documents to the Americans right under the noses of the KGB, all the more incredible. With the Cold War at its frostiest, there were few tougher locations for western intelligence agencies to try and run an agent than 1970s Moscow. 5/23/2023 0 Comments My cross to bear bookMY CROSS TO BEAR provides a window into Allman’s tortured soul - he presents himself as a man cracked and flawed, yet somehow intact.” (Birmingham News) From the Back Cover: “Packed with juicy anecdotes, gripping details and raw energy.Fans of the Allman Brothers Band are certain to relish the revelations. Life, love and music from one of the most influential American recording artists of the last 40 years. This is a story about musical brotherhood. In the end, Allman, writing with music journalist Light, has produced a fiercely honest memoir. In his memoir, the rambling and rambunctious Gregg Allman lays bare his soul. MY CROSS TO BEAR carries a welcome seal of honesty. For generations of fans, Allman’s book provides insights into the many turns in that long road. (New York Times Book Review)Ī soul-searching rumination on a hard-lived life. This book is everything you could hope for: in a grizzled, laconic drawl, Allman provides a rambling backstage account of his five decades with the Allman Brothers Band, and he doesn’t seem to hold anything back. 5/23/2023 0 Comments A utopia for realistsUtopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. It’s just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. Rutger Bregman’s TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn’t be this way - and in some places it isn’t. “A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell.” - New York TimesĪfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don’t need. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe’s leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. |