Money-saving tricks for reading this month’s book pick: Get your copy of this month’s book club pick:īuy the book on Audible. I’m pleased to announce that it is our official September Pick for this year. September's Official Book Club Pick: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton Just joining us? Don't miss the full 2020 line-up for our book club picks. Learning about the past through the story of a beloved character brings the history lesson to life in a much more engaging way than most textbooks are able to do.Īs the kids head back to school each fall, I love to throw in a historical fiction book so we can dive into our own history lesson! This year's pick has been on my to-read list for ages and I'm so excited to dig in. I think they are the best way to learn about a period of history that is unfamiliar. I've always loved historical fiction books. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton is the official September Pick for the Peanut Blossom Book Club for Recovering Readers.ĭo you read historical fiction? I'm always surprised when members of the Peanut Blossom Book Club tell me that this is a new-to-them genre they haven't tried.
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To the Greek philosopher Epicurus, the unhappiness and degradation of humans arose largely from the dread which they had of the power of the deities and terror of their wrath. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.ĭe rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la was written by the Roman poet Lucretius. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism the nature of the mind and soul explanations of sensation and thought the development of the world and its phenomena and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Opening of Pope Sixtus IV's 1483 manuscript of De rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la, scribed by Girolamo di Matteo de TaurisĮpicureanism, ethics, physics, natural philosophyĭe rerum natura code: lat promoted to code: la ( Latin: On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius ( c. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. She bleeds coffee, thinks chocolate should be its own food group, and currently lives in Kentucky with a five pound furry ninja that protects her from baby birds, spiders and neighbors’ dogs. She believes in romance, happily ever afters, and the faith it takes for her characters to get there. Seriously, as soon as I knew this quarter’s topic would be about setups she was the first person I thought of asking to talk about opening your book with iconic character moments. Someone who is an auto-buy and comfort read author for me. Me and my guests will talk about process, book stats, resources, and advice to help you grow into the amazing author I know you already are. Convos on Craft episodes are all about peeling back the curtain and getting into the nitty-gritty of how you put together your story from the developmental side of things. This week, we have our first guest episode on a segment that I like to fondly call Convos on Craft. This is Kate Marope, and you’re listening to Path to Print. But, as with any epic narrative, the central drama marches towards a war. There are tales of grizzly surgical techniques and astonishing medical discoveries. Mukherjee assembles a teeming cast of characters: from ancients such as Atossa, the Persian queen who in 500BC self-prescribed the first recorded mastectomy, to Mukherjee's own patients. the scene is set for a monumental scientific, political and human struggle. But that is, breathtakingly, what Mukherjee pulls off. It takes some nerve to echo the first line of Anna Karenina and infer that the story of a disease is capable of bearing a Tolstoyan treatment. The yoking of scientific expertise to narrative talent is rare enough, but the literary echoes of The Emperor of All Maladies suggest a desire to go further even than fine, accessible explanation. Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver, too, of what he feels. Homecoming discusses the different ways in which a troubled or wounded inner child makes its presence felt. They also need help in separating their thoughts from their feelings. He is One of Us.Ĭhildren need security and healthy modeling of emotions in order to understand their own inner signals. He does not position himself as a teacher or a preacher – he identifies with the reader instead. He further humanises his narrative by extensively discussing his own mistakes, and the journey he took towards healing his own inner child. He lays out what could have been a complicated psychological concept in simple terms, taking great pain to explain every aspect in detail. (My brain threatens to leak out through my eyes from sheer boredom otherwise). This child will spontaneously contaminate the person’s adult behavior.īradshaw is an engaging writer – which is something I’m infinitely thankful for when it comes to reading non fiction. … when a child’s development is arrested, when feelings are repressed, especially the feelings of anger and hurt, a person grows up to be an adult with an angry, hurt child inside of him. Synopsis: Homecoming lays out the fundamental theoretical principles involved in the psychotherapeutic approach of “inner child healing,” along with meditative exercises. This event is free and open to the public!Īttendance at in-person Raven events requires face masks and proof of vaccination against Covid-19.Ī staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet Join us for an unforgettable discussion of fathers, Frank O'Hara, New York City, and the impossibility of writing biography. Bestselling author Ada Calhoun brings her intimate, groundbreaking new book Also a Poet to the Raven Book Store for a live in-person reading and book signing July 13. She attended Hampton University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating with a Master of Public Administration degree in 1978. Briscoe grew up in the Silver Spring, Maryland area. She was born with a hearing impairment due to a genetic condition and became profoundly deaf by the age of thirty, though she became adept at lip-reading. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters and Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperback combined in its first two years.ĭarryl Dickson-Carr has characterized Briscoe as "among the better writers to emerge in and benefit from the strong wave of interest in African American fiction that arose in the early 1990s after the publication of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992)." Early life and education Ĭonstance Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C. Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American writer of romantic and historical fiction. After reading Elizabeth George Speare, I caught the Native American behaving in ways that were glaringly wrong, but only a few times. I do wish the portrayal of the Onondaga brave and the 1870s cowboy were less caricatures, but they did have some twists of character, even if they were stereotypical (in an ignorant way). On the other hand, it’s a childhood classic-which is maybe more children’s literature than middle grades-and is magic realism (or low fantasy), a fantastical and imaginative story. In some ways, it is a weaker book than the other two, though I say that largely because it is not historical fiction and is not as accurate or truthful. The final book in this theme (at least, as far as I know) is The Indian in the Cupboard. Lo cursi: Comedia de tres actos (Madrid: R. Modas: Sainete en un acto y en prosa (Madrid: R. La gobernadora: Comedia en tres actos (Madrid: R. Velasco, 1900) ĭespedida cruel: Comedia en un acto (Madrid: R. Viaje de instrucción: arzuela en un acto y cuatro cuadros (Madrid: R. La farándula: Comedia en dos actos (Madrid: Fortanet, 1898) La comida de las fieras: Comedia en tres actos y un cuadro (Madrid: B. del Asilo de Huér fanos, 1896) Įl marido de la Téllez: Boceto de comedia en un acto (Madrid: Administración Lírico-Dramática, 1897) Gente conocida: Escenas de la vida moderna: Divididas en cuatro actos (Madrid: Imp. Versos (Madrid: Tipografía Franco-Española, 1893) Ĭartas de mujeres: Coledonadas, first series (Madrid: Tipografía Franco-Española, 1893) Įl nido ajeno: Comedia en tres actos, en prosa (Madrid: R. Jacinto Benavente (12 August 1866 - 14 July 1954)ġ922 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation SpeechīOOKS: Teatro fantástico (Madrid: Tipografía Franco Española, 1892 revised, Madrid: Fortanet, 1905) |