This journey through the Americas by train, is probably only 35% about the train travel itself, 45% about the architecture, history, politics and people and 20% grievances of the author (whether its about his fellow travelers or the state of the train/station). The Old Patagonian Express describes the author’s self-imposed mainly train-only journey from Boston, Massachusetts to Esquel, Patagonia through Mexico, Guatamala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecudor, Peru, Chile & Argentina. This time I steeled myself to just take note of the racist & condescending tone but not let it bleed into the description of the places or the journey itself. Having read the breezy Bill Bryson, earnest Karen Blixon & contemplative Pico Iyer, I found it really hard to ignore the misogynistic tone of Paul Theroux, thus causing the stall. And what seems like eons later thanks to Covid, I picked it up again resolving to finish it this time! So, I started reading The Old Patagonian Express but couldn’t progress beyond the 40th page. Almost 4 years ago, I was bitten by a kind of travel bug – of the armchair kind – and I bought a dozen travel books to satiate this desire.
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Thirty days is their forever, but forever is not long enough. The attraction is immediate, the friendship is earned, and the love is undeniable. She's immune to rainbows, fairytales, pixy dust, and the "L" word. Lautner is every girl's dream, but Sydney is not every girl. He knows how to woo a woman with flowers, pastries, and sweet tea. Lautner Sullivan is a college wide receiver turned pediatric resident. With eyes of iridescent blue oceans, he is mesmerizing, sexy, and addictive. Within twenty-four hours of her arrival, Sydney's cleaning up runny dog poo, taking an uncooperative pooch to a handsome yet awkward vet, and being rescued from the bottom of the pool by a naked "pool guy." Lautner, "pool guy," has a hot body and a cool persona. When her aunt and uncle need a house and dog sitter for thirty days in Palo Alto, Sydney can't turn down the chance to be closer to her sister in L.A. Who gets paid to walk a dog and recline by the pool all day? Sydney Montgomery, aspiring museum curator and professional house-sitter, that's who. One crazy dog-one awkward vet-one naked pool guy-and one life-changing month in California to make friends, fall in love, and twist fate. Now, he fling its existence in her face like an insult. Once, he would have given it to her as a gift. I like the metaphor bandied about in the hydroponics bay, in particular the beautiful but useless flower Garth insisted on growing. Saturn Girl and Live Wire's relationship has never felt more adult (in the Reboot), both too wise for playing it as cagily as they do. This one's all about reacting to last issue's revelations, and the writers give us some well-written scenes to advance the characters if not the plot. She walks through the ship, overhearing conversations that condemn her actions, and sometimes tries to apologizes, with variable success. When Saturn Girl woke up, all her mental constructs disappeared, leaving the Legionnaires reeling.Īs the Progeny tears across space looking for the Legion and committing genocide at every planet it finds, Saturn Girl quits the leadership of the Legion, permanently handing it to Live Wire. After a psychic snafu, Imra was sent into a coma and a Legion rescue squad showed up. Apparition wasn't one of them, but to keep Ultra Boy sane, Saturn Girl projected an image of her into everyone's minds. Several Legionnaires are lost in an unknown part of space. Girl, Shikari, Ultra Boy, Umbra, Wildfire Brainiac 5, Chameleon, Kid Quantum II, Live Wire, Monstress, Saturn One of the things that got me in a huff was the naivete of both June and Day. A lot of things are happening, a lot of people expect different things from our heroes, and it’s not clear who’s telling the truth… or whether our heroes can look past each others difference’s to stay together. Prodigy is an great sequel to Legend that manages to avoid the middle-book syndrome. Read my review for the first book of the series, Legend: link. When the first trickle of doubts emphasize their stark differences, that may tear them apart faster the Republic crumbling around them. Desperate they reach out to the rebel group, the Patriots, who really like the idea of making them both pawns in their own game. June and Day manage to escape the Republic, but have nowhere to run and no one to turn to. Brief Summary: This is the sequel to the first book of the series: Legend. Let’s take a closer look at each of their points. S tories : How do you get people to act on your idea?.E motional: How do you get people to care about your idea?.C redible: How do you get people to believe your idea?.C oncrete: How do you help people understand your idea and remember it much later?.U nexpected: How do you capture people’s attention… and hold it?.S imple: How do you strip an idea down to its core without turning it into a silly sound bite?.In this concise and entertaining read, they concluded that it all came down to these elements of “SUCCES”, being: Made to Stick acts as a practical guide for people of all professions to ensure that their ideas connect and are memorable to those they communicate with. However, this book isn’t just limited to marketers and business owners. įrom urban legends and conspiracy theories to iconic speeches and commercials, the brothers draw upon psychological studies of memory, motivation, and emotion to examine a variety of stories and determine why some are more successful in “sticking” with an audience than others. These are the questions that brothers, Chip and Dan Heath, set out to answer in their 2007 Business Week Best-Seller, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. What is it that makes an idea or story memorable? Why is it that some impact us harder, stay with us longer, and drive us to share them? What makes them stick ? "Reminiscent of the wildness, adventure, and romance of The Last of the Mohicans, Captive Heart sizzles on every page. Who wants to wed a murderer? Both Samuel and Eleanor are survivors, facing down the threat of war, betrayal, and divided loyalties that could cost them everything, but this time they must face their biggest challenge ever. He decides it's time to marry again, but that proves to be an impossible task. The life of a trapper in the Carolina backcountry is no life for a small girl, but neither is abandoning his child to another family. Backwoodsman Samuel Heath doesn't care what others think of him-but his young daughter's upbringing matters very much. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract-marriage to a man she's never met. The wild American wilderness is no place for an elegant English governess On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes from England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. He intended to get in one last trip before the river was dammed, forever altering its landscape and, to Graves anyway, its spirit. Published in 1960, Graves narrates his float down a stretch of the Brazos River, Texas’s largest, south and west of Fort Worth. Having been gone from Texas for a couple years I’ve retained a general interest in its history and traditions, and I used the opportunity to read John Graves’ Goodbye to a River, long considered a foundational work in the history of Texas conservation and about as good a work on the relationship between ecological history and regional history as I’ve ever read. In May of 2014 I returned to Austin for one last research trip before finally sitting down and completing my book on Austin’s history. Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Achieved breakout success with My Blood Approves in 2010 less than a year later, had seven books on USA Today‘s bestsellers list. Name: Amanda Hocking Position: Author Resume: Started writing novels at the age of 17 and turned to self-publishing at 25 when she was unable to find a publisher. “And I think that a lot of people are missing that, because I think they see self-publishing as, ‘Well, you could just click and upload it, and then that’s it.’ There’s a lot of time, energy and your heart that you put into it.” I was trying to get published for nine years before I started selling books, and I have been writing literally since I could write,” Hocking told us. “I worked really hard at this for my entire life. How I Turned an Internship Into My First Full-Time Editorial Gig The divine beatitude (26) The Blessed Trinity POWER: The power of God (25), the principle of the divine operation as proceeding to the exterior effect. Predestination (23) and the book of life (24). OPERATIONS (INTELLECT AND WILL): Providence (22), in respect to all created things for in the science of morals, after the moral virtues themselves, comes the consideration of prudence, to which providence belongs. Hence we shall first consider the love (20) of God, and secondly His justice and mercy (21). In our own wills we find both the passions (such as joy and love), and the habits of the moral virtues (such as justice and fortitude). The life of God (18), since to understand belongs to living beings. Truth (16) in God, for knowledge is of things that are true. The ideas (15), which exist in His knowledge. OPERATIONS (INTELLECT): God's knowledge (14). His immutability (9), and His eternity (10) following on His immutability. His perfection: and because everything in so far as it is perfect is called good, we shall speak of His goodness (6)-and goodness in general (5)-as well as His perfection (4). His simplicity (3) or lack of composition. So to study Him, we study what He has not-such as composition and motion. The One GodĮSSENCE: We cannot know what God is, but only what He is not. GENERAL: The nature and extent (1) of sacred doctrine. The students will then go back to their seats and begin working on their books. They can describe these elements through text or verbally. It will have to have a setting, characters, plot though. It will have a few pages with sentences and some without. It will be approximately 5 pages long, and illustrated with multiple creative tools. The teacher will present a handmade model to show the students a realistic example/guide. They can include text with their pictures if they want, or they can share their story verbally, while using the illustrations as a visual guide for the audience. They will be asked to make a book of their own, using illustrations! It can be about whatever they would like, in whatever language they would like. The students will then be instructed on the work session. Next, we will talk about how illustrations work with words to tell the story. Is it similar? Different? What surprised them? What did they guess correctly from the illustrations? Talk about the predications they made versus the story Jon J. Ask students to make predications on each page about what they think the story is about. Show children the illustrations in Zen Shorts by Jon J. To help students learn the importance of illustrations.ĮLACC1RL7: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.ĮLACC1R元: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. |