Turtles on the way down5/24/2023 ![]() I think it will be a real eye-opener for you as it has been for me. ![]() I decided to purchase the book and dive in, just in case I am your ‘last resort’ for finding out what is contained therein. ![]() Written by an (anonymous) Israeli in Hebrew in 2019 (and that’s pre-Covid, I should note), the book has only now become available in the English translation as of July of this year. The point of the story is that it is ridiculous, to say the least, to have a theory built upon something nonsensical which relies on something else nonsensical…all the way down. The expert countered with, ‘but what is that turtle standing on?’ The answer was of course another larger turtle…and so on…all the way down. Instead this strange title for a book comes from the classic story of the person who challenged an expert on the structure of the universe and stated that in fact the earth was flat and was being held up by four elephants standing on a giant turtle’s back. Seuss was of course not a physician but rather an author of some 60 children’s books and a cartoonist. ![]() I have been reading the book: Turtles All the Way Down (by anonymous). ![]()
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Amanda hocking trylle5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of the dangerously attractive Loki, she escapes back to the safety of Forening - only to be confronted by a new threat. Kidnapped and imprisoned by her true family's enemies, Wendy soon learns that the lines between good and evil aren't as defined as she thought, and the things she'd taken for granted may have been lies all along. But the world she's left behind won't let her go that easily. ![]() Leaving behind the mysterious country of her birth, she is determined to fit back into normal life. But a new world and a new family is a little hard for a girl to accept. Torn is the second book in the Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking.Īcknowledging that she was different from everybody else wasn't difficult for Wendy Everly - she'd always felt like an outsider. ![]() ![]() ![]() This disruption could have promoted the convection that still drives Earth's dynamo today.Įventually, the inner core will probably grow large enough that convection in the outer core is no longer efficient, and the magnetic field will fail. This impact, which occurred perhaps 100 million years after Earth came together, could have shaken up any stratification, or layering, of materials in Earth's core: Imagine shaking up a bottle of oil and water on a planetary scale. It isn't clear why the dynamo got started, Tarduno told Live Science, though it's possible that the enormous planetary impact that created the moon might have been the key driver. But Tarduno and his team have found evidence for a magnetic field on Earth in the planet's oldest minerals, zircons, dating back 4.2 billion years, suggesting that activity in the core has been creating magnetism for a very long time. ![]() Scientists think that the current core arrangement may have settled into place about 1.5 billion years ago, according to 2015 research that found a leap in the magnetic field's strength around then. ![]() This magnetic-field engine, known as a dynamo, has been chugging along for billions of years. ![]() What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She also befriends a sweet but quirky girl named Deb. Mclean becomes friends with Dave’s buddies - Ellis, Riley and Heather. Dave is a genius with protective, health-nut parents, who disapprove of his decision to go to a public high school. She meets her neighbor Dave when he saves her from getting caught with alcohol during a police raid at a party. Mainly by accident, Mclean allows new acquaintances to know her by her real name and personality. Her theory works until she and Dad move to Lakeview, where Dad tries to save a dying restaurant called Luna Blu. As long as she can pretend to be someone else, Mclean is convinced she’ll never get too attached, and it won’t hurt to say goodbye. In each new place, she invents a unique identity for herself. She’s followed her dad, a restaurant consultant, from city to city. Ever since Mclean’s mom left her dad for the coach of Dad’s favorite college basketball team, 17-year-old Mclean has been on the move. ![]() Mercy thompson book 45/24/2023 ![]() ![]() So early, that the book hasn’t actually been completed yet. Who is taking them? As Mercy investigates, she learns of the legend of the Harvester, who travels by less-trodden paths and reaps the souls that are ripe with a great black scythe.īecause of the series’ popularity, the Publisher begins advertising the book quite early. Until Wulfe vanished, all of them were powerless loners, many of whom quietly moved to the Tri-Cities in the hope that the safety promised by Mercy and Adam’s pack would extend to them as well. And these are not just ordinary people but supernatural beings. ![]() Someone is taking people from locked rooms, from the aisles of stores, and even from crowded parties. ![]() So Mercy goes out to find her stalker-and discovers more than just Wulfe have disappeared. The mistress of the vampire seethe informs Mercy that the pack must produce Wulfe to prove their innocence, or the loose alliance between the local vampires and werewolves is over. But when he disappears, the Tri-Cities pack is blamed. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking Mercy, some may see it as no great loss. In ‘Soul Taken’, Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. I of course accepted excitedly, and immediately contacted Patricia Briggs to chat about her upcoming novel. Late last year, the Art Director of Ace books contacted me to see if I was once again available to paint the next Mercy Thompson cover. ![]() Alexandra penfold books5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Several kids point to their home countries on a world map, and some wear markers of their cultural or religious groups: There’s a girl in hijab, a boy wearing a Sikh patka, and a boy in a kippah. ![]() ![]() All are welcome here.” Indeed, this school is diversity exemplified. In between, the rhyming verses focus on aspects of a typical school day, always ending with the titular phrase: “Time for lunch-what a spread! / A dozen different kinds of bread. A lively city school celebrates its diversity.įront endpapers show adult caregivers walking their charges to school, the families a delightful mix that includes interracial, same-sex, and heterosexual couples as well as single caregivers the rear endpapers assemble them again at the conclusion of a successful schoolwide evening potluck. ![]() Josephine angelini book series5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, as we also know trilogies can often end as epic failures, where you feel the same plot line is being repeated in each novel again and again, or the author just can’t maintain the brilliance of their first book (*cough* Moira Young). Angelini explores this concept in her novel and brings into reality the dangers our actions pose, from climate change to nuclear warfare.īut, then there’s the problem with trilogies – is it just me or is basically every YA book you read nowadays part of a trilogy? Now this sometimes works, such as in the cases of the Chaos Walking trilogy and The Hunger Games. ![]() The idea that for every world that’s succeeded infinite others have failed (known as cinder worlds) is truly haunting. So firstly, parallel universes – this is an idea relatively new to me in the realms of YA fiction. I’m not sure what quite hooked me on this book, perhaps the idea of alternate universes (which has always been so fascinating to me) or the complicated relationships between characters – is it possible to have a love quadrilateral? Regardless it was a real page turner, easily devoured in one sitting! Yet together this concoction creates a compelling read, both fast-paced and exhilarating, sure to enthral most readers. To be blunt, this book is unoriginal, many elements in it have been seen before in other YA fiction. ![]() Bad feminist writer5/24/2023 ![]() Of her decision, Gay wrote, “I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation. ![]() Gay recently hit headlines when she pulled her forthcoming book, How to Be Heard, from TED Books (an imprint of US publishing giant Simon & Schuster) after discovering they would publish a book by alt-right provocateur and former Breitbart News editor, Milo Yiannopoulos. Previous works include her 2014 novel, An Untamed State, a 2011 collection of writing called Ayiti, and a comic series entitled World of Wakanda, with which Gay became the first black woman to write for Marvel. Since the release of Gay’s 2014 bestselling collection of essays, Bad Feminist, the writer’s popularity has soared. ![]() Tickets to the show sold out in a record-breaking eighty-eight seconds. The duo will chat about feminism and Gay’s latest book of short stories, Difficult Women. ![]() New York Times’ bestselling author Roxane Gay will appear in conversation with Good Morning Toronto’s Garvia Bailey at the Toronto Reference Library this Thursday (March 16). ![]() Finding sylvie lee5/24/2023 ![]() The roaches penetrated everything, even open tubes of toothpaste. It’s hard to say which was worse, the cockroaches or the cold. Language plays a key role in all of Jean’s fiction, and together with reading, it has been central to Jean’s own extraordinary story, which we share with you below. It comes with a list of encomiums as long as a kite string: O Magazine, Buzzfeed, the Washington Post, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and more. Her newest work, Searching for Sylvie Lee, is a Today Show Book Club pick and earned Jean another spot on the New York Times bestseller list. ![]() ![]() Since her debut novel, Girl in Translation (which was translated into 16 languages), Jean Kwok has earned the coveted status of international bestselling author. ![]() Split tooth tagaq5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() As a prepubescent child, she spends time with her peers in various houses and sheds in town, often attempting to hide from the teenagers and adults in town who spend much of their time drinking or using drugs. The narrator describes instances of sexual abuse throughout her childhood. The novel begins in the springtime, with the narrator and her cousins hiding in a closet as the adults in the house drink and party. ![]() The majority of the novel is narrated in the first person, although a few poems and chapters use the second person as the narrator reflects on herself. The novel generally follows a linear timeline from the narrator’s childhood to her death, although the novel also includes dreams, visions, and memories. These chapters and poems are extremely short, ranging from half a page to five or six pages in length. Tagaq’s novel is divided into over 60 prose chapters and poems. The following version of this book was used to create this guide: Tagaq, Tanya. ![]() |