5/13/2023 0 Comments The art of death cleaning![]() ![]() With their distinctly Swedish sensibility, they liberate each person from the clutter in their lives, and allow them to pass on treasured mementos - and the deeply personal stories behind them - to their family, friends, or neighbors. The Swedish Death Cleaner will turn each home upside down as they uncover and undo decades of collecting. ![]() “Swedish Death Cleaning reminds us to focus on what is truly important, and we couldn’t find a better team to take this journey with than Peacock and the incredible Scout Team.” “We are so excited to work on such a life affirming project with the genius creators at Scout,” said Amy Poehler. We hope our compassionate and dynamic series sparks conversation within each household and breaks the stigma around mortality and the tough reality of letting things go.” “In this series, viewers will be taken on an honest and emotional journey as they watch everyday people conquer their worst fears and discover who they really are on the inside. “The combination of working with Amy Poehler and her team, along with the fantastic folks at Scout Productions, is something you dream about, and I am so glad this dream came true for us,” said Rod Aissa, EVP, Unscripted Content, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Marc reisner![]() Fish and Wildlife Service who specialized in busting international poaching rings. ![]() Reisner was also the author of "Game Wars," a 1991 book that elucidated the career of Dave Hall, a now retired special agent for the U.S. "Cadillac Desert" was ranked by the Modern Library as 61st among the 100 most notable nonfiction English language works published in the 20th century. The film won a Columbia University/Peabody Award. The book was the basis for a $2.8 million documentary film series, which was first shown on national Public Broadcasting stations in 1997. Reisner's book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1979, and began the research on water policy that ultimately resulted in "Cadillac Desert." From 1972 to 1979, he was a staff writer and communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. ![]() ![]() Paul, Minn., and was a 1970 graduate of Earlham College in Indiana. It stimulated a campaign for water policy reform that continues to the present. The book was a wake-up call about destructive dam-building, pork barrel water subsidies, and the general frittering away of the West's scarce water resources. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Without Borders by Amanda Heger![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without HRO shaming, a bad or worsening human rights condition does not diminish the proportion of a population that believes their government respects human rights. The results largely support the article's contention: HROs are powerful conduits through which a population becomes informed of domestic human rights issues. These hypotheses are tested using an updated dataset on shaming by over 400 HROs, together with never-before-examined data from the World Values Survey on the public's opinion of human rights within a state. With increased HRO shaming of the state, however, a smaller proportion of people come to believe that their government respects human rights. Without this information, worsening governmental abuse of human rights alone will not lead to fewer people believing their government respects human rights. Do human rights international nongovernmental organizations (HROs) impact public opinion? This article argues that HROs provide information to citizens in repressive regimes about their government's human rights practices. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Rush by Beth Yarnall![]() ![]() For more information about Beth and her novels please visit her website. Beth lives in Southern California with her husband, two sons, and their rescue dog where she is hard at work on her next novel. ![]() Somehow hairstylists and salons seem to find their way into her stories. She hasn't stopped writing since.įor a number of years, Beth made her living as a hairstylist and makeup artist and even owned a salon. In middle school she discovered romance novels, which inspired her to write a spoof of soap operas for the school's newspaper. A storyteller since her playground days, Beth remembers her friends asking her to make up stories of how the person `died' in the slumber party game Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, so it's little wonder she prefers writing stories in which people meet unfortunate ends. Best selling author, Beth Yarnall, writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and the occasional hilarious tweet. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The dark is rising book![]() ![]() ![]() Paperback and e-book available from Barnes & Noble. Susan Cooper's award-winning Dark Is Rising sequence, which has delighted fantasy readers for over forty years, can be found once again in one brilliant volume! Full of symbolism and allegory, the story and its implications are nevertheless clear, comprehensible, and enormously exhilarating.” - Ethel Heins, The Horn Book “The mounting excitement of the narrative is well-matched by the strength of the writing, which can be as rich and as eloquent as a Beethoven symphony. The five-book cycle, a classic work of children’s literature, is deeply rooted in the rich heritage of Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology. ![]() Will, his ageless master Merriman, and their allies and adversaries-human and mythic alike-seek the objects of power that will tip the uncertain balance of good and evil that exists throughout the world and within the mind of man. The battles against the last dreadful rising of the Dark are waged across time in the most ancient myth-haunted places of England and Wales. When young Will Stanton discovers he has come of age as the lastborn of the Old Ones, the immortal keepers of the force of the Light, he is swept up in the age-old struggle between the powers of Light and Dark. Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea Īll shall find the light at last, silver on the tree. Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Eve & adam michael grant![]() ![]() Something white smeared in red hovers above me like a cloud at sunset. The pain slams me down, and I realize I’m not dead after all, although I really wish I could be because maybe then I could breathe instead of scream. I know I must be dead because in the movies there’s always a tunnel of brilliant light before someone croaks. I open my eyes and the light is blinding. I should be thinking about love right now-not apples, and certainly not a new pair of Nikes-and then I stop thinking altogether because I am too busy screaming. ![]() Between a bike messenger’s ropy calves I can just make out the 30% OFF TODAY ONLY sign at Lady Foot Locker. It reminds me of the bamboo wind chimes on our patio.Ī thicket of legs encircles me. It’s not an unpleasant sound, more delicate than I would have imagined. I listen as my bones splinter and shatter. ![]() I register the brakes screeching and the horrified cries before I hit the pavement. ![]() If not love, at the very least you should be counting up your sins or wondering why you didn’t cross at the light.īut you should not be thinking about an apple. When you die-and I realize this as I hurtle through the air like a wounded bird-you should be thinking about love. I’d noticed it because it was so weirdly out of place, a defiant crimson McIntosh in an army of dull green Granny Smiths. It was in a vendor’s stall at the farmers’ market off Powell. I am thinking of an apple when the streetcar hits and my leg severs and my ribs crumble and my arm is no longer an arm but something unrecognizable, wet and red.Īn apple. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Heretics anonymous![]() ![]() ![]() Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Q: How many 1940s film references will I, the reader, be subjected to?Īnd since no book is complete without a shiny sticker that you can’t peel off without ruining the dust jacket, I’ve created this one just for you, Goodreads friends:Ī place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() Q: Was writing this book a vital lifeline for you during the pandemic, or a cause of greater despair? But most of all, this is a story about stories: their power, their limitations, and the infinite possibilities in writing yourself a new one. It features many things I love, including film noir, school newspapers, and In-N-Out Burger. Hi! I’m Katie, I wrote this book (releasing 5/17/22, available for request on Edelweiss/Netgalley now) and I’m reviewing it because Goodreads allows me to do that! FAQs (THAT NO ONE HAS ACTUALLY ASKED ME YET): Q: What is this book about? A: This book is Hi! I’m Katie, I wrote this book (releasing 5/17/22, available for request on Edelweiss/Netgalley now) and I’m reviewing it because Goodreads allows me to do that!įAQs (THAT NO ONE HAS ACTUALLY ASKED ME YET):Ī: This book is about Gideon Green, former child detective, who comes out of retirement to help his ex-best friend and solve a brand new case. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Max brooks new book![]() ![]() World War Z was adapted into a 2013 movie starring Brad Pitt, which had a troubled production and ultimately ended up making more than $540 million worldwide. ![]() ![]() Brooks, who is the son of comedian Mel Brooks, wrote for Saturday Night Live for a couple of years in the early 2000s and also has a "story by" credit on the 2016 movie The Great Wall. Like World War Z before it, this book is partially told from the perspective of a fictional version of Brooks himself in that book, the premise is that he travelled the world interviewing survivors of the zombie apocalypse, and in Devolution, he's conducting a scientific investigation into the Bigfoot tales and reproducing the fictional Kate Holland's journal entries alongside his work. It is described as "part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction." The tale is told via the lens of town resident Kate Holland. Rainier that, in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, is rampaged by ferocious beasts known as the Sasquatch. The story is set in a model eco-community town in the shadow of Mt. Here's how THR describes the story of Devolution: ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The heron's cry review![]() ![]() When Dr Yeo is later found with a glass shard sticking out of his neck, a murder enquiry begins. She is collared by Dr Nigel Yeo who it seems wants to tell her something important – but at the last minute he changes his mind. The story opens at a house party where DS Jen Rafferty (a member of Matthew's local investigative team) is more than a little tipsy. This time police HQ is in Barnstaple where the two rivers, Torridge and Taw, meet and where Matthew Venn and his husband, Jonathan Church, live in a remote cottage on the sand dunes overlooking the estuary and Bideford Bay. In it she evokes a strong sense of place reflecting her knowledge and love of the local wildlife, as in her two previous series - Vera and Shetland. This is the second of Ann Cleeves’ Two Rivers series featuring DI Matthew Venn, set in North Devon. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Jade War by Fonda Lee![]() Now, add a dash of Quentin Tarantino levels of violence, the strict hierarchies and loyalty of Yakuza or Triad gangs, and deeply personal and believable character relationships. Then, marry that with the aesthetics and slick martial arts action of Hong Kong cinema from the ‘80s and ‘90s. ![]() Picture the family drama and mafia politics of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (as well as its film trilogy adaptations). ![]() Now, let your imagination run wild for a moment. ![]() Also, as far as any “rating system” goes, I will be going for a simple spin on “Yes, I recommend this book” or “No, I don’t recommend this book” along with a brief line of who might be a fan of it. Sometimes I will be reviewing two books in one post (as I've done here) if they are in the same series, but most of the time they it will be one book at a time. This is the first in a series of book review blog posts, where I will take a critical look at the books that I’ve read from the perspective of both a fan and an aspiring writer. ![]() 7, 2017 & J“Martial arts action and jade-fueled gangster warriors propel this Godfather -esque fantasy saga of family, politics, loyalty and drugs.” Formats: Paperback | Author: Fonda Lee | Release Dates: Nov. ![]() |