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Perhaps because the romance seemed so superficial. It was a good read, but in the end, it left me empty. I read it because the lighthouse/seashore cover promised summer romance. Took me three separate reads before I found it.įirst I read Emilie Loring’s Give Me One Summer. But for me, the hanging question has been, “How light?” So I searched through my library, trying to find a book that while light still held within its pages something enduring, meaningful, heart-tugging, worthy of the last days of summer. So it isn’t the month for a heavy read – but a light one. For the older, it’s “back to the grindstone.” In Europe half the continent can be found on the beaches during magical August. For the young, at the end of it is that dreaded yet longed-for thing called school. Which brings me to you: what are your responses to the series, based as they are on my own favorite books? I’d like to know.Īugust. Since so many of you have told me you’ve faithfully sought out and purchased each of the 21 previous titles in the series, I take each new selection seriously. Yes, another summer is giving way to autumn, and here in the Colorado high country, on serpentine Conifer Mountain Drive, splotches of yellow in the aspens signal the coming autumn.įor several weeks now, ever since I first turned the calendar page from July to August, I’ve wrestled with our August book. Steven Knight, said, “This will be a secret history telling the story of exceptional soldiers who decided battles and won wars only to then disappear back into the shadows. It will tell the story behind the revolutionary thinking which led to the creation of a new form of combat and warfare in the deserts of North Africa. Celebrating the glory, action and camaraderie at the heart of this story, the series will delve into the psychology of the flawed, reckless but astonishingly brave group of maverick officers and men who formed the SAS in the darkest days of WW2. Steven Knight will bring to the screen Macintyre’s extraordinary book, written with unique and privileged access to the secret SAS archives, and bring to life this definitive account of SAS history. BBC One announces the commission of a major new drama series based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book SAS: Rogue Heroes which tells the incredible story of how the world’s most renowned and ruthless Special Forces unit, the SAS, came to exist. The series will be adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Taboo, A Christmas Carol) and produced by Kudos (part of Endemol Shine UK) whose credits include Broadchurch (ITV), The Tunnel (Sky Atlantic) and Humans (C4). Fonda is a former corporate strategist and black belt martial artist who loves action movies and Eggs Benedict. Born and raised in Canada, she currently resides in the Pacific Northwest. Jade War is the second book of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade. She has also written acclaimed short fiction and been an instructor at writing workshops including Viable Paradise and Clarion West. Fonda Lee is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of and the award-winning YA science fiction novels Zeroboxer Exo, and Cross Fire. Jade City has been translated in a dozen languages, named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time, and optioned for television development. Her novels have garnered multiple starred reviews and appeared on Best of Year lists from NPR, Barnes & Noble, Syfy Wire, and others. Fonda Lee is the author of the epic fantasy Green Bone Saga, beginning with Jade City, continuing in Jade War, and concluding in Jade Legacy. She is also the author of the science fiction novels Zeroboxer, Exo and Cross Fire, and two novellas, the Green Bone Saga prequel The Jade Setter of Janloon, and the upcoming Untethered Sky.įonda is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a four-time winner of the Aurora Award (Canada’s national science fiction and fantasy award), as well as a multiple finalist for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Oregon Book Award. For a short while, everything is perfect. On arriving in Cape May, they tentatively begin to explore each other, experiencing the benefits of marital bliss and growing closer in the process. Effie and Henry are young, naïve and intimately awkward. Set against a picturesque beachside backdrop in September, 1957, Cape May follows newly-weds Effie and Henry as they become entangled in the lives of their decadent neighbours whilst on their honeymoon in New Jersey. Not that Cheek lets that lack of opulence affect his debut. Yet whilst Fitzgerald’s novel takes place amidst the decadence of the roaring twenties, Cheek’s story is firmly rooted in the late 50’s, an era that’s infinitely less glamorous. Both are tales of excess, wealth, love and betrayal. Both feature a cast of idealistic characters. Both stories are set in prosperous East Coast America locations. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby feels like a fair comparison. Racial epithets are screamed, gay stereotypes and homophobic baiting are positively revelled in, and the attitude to women is repellent. The Choirboys has a reputation as an offensive movie, and even in 2020, decades after I saw fragments of it unwisely broadcast as a Scottish television Wednesday night movie, it’s still a shocker. The appearance of Charles Haid as Nick Yanov, who announces the daily news to the assembled cops, reveals this as a fore-runner of Hill Street Blues, in which Haid played a near-identical role as Renko there’s an iconic strength in his scenes that would later play more successfully on tv. After a near accident involving the discharge of a gun, they’re warned not to bring firearms, but the killing on an unarmed man threatens to disrupt their routines. The setting is LA, and the cops are put-upon they blow off steam with intense drinking sessions in a public park. The author, who specialised in front-line tales of police departments, hated the result and removed his name, but there’s still vestiges here of what make the book so compelling in its catalogue of urban atrocities. Surely ripe for a remake, or at least a more accurate version of Joseph Wambaugh’s book, Robert Aldrich’s film was a pretty strange choice for a Christmas movie from Universal in 1977 it flopped at the box-office, perhaps understandably given the scabrous content. But soon, Eileen’s affection for Rebecca will pull her into a crime that far surpasses even her own wild imagination.Įileen was Ottessa Moshfegh’s first published novel, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. It was a warm, late-spring day, and the kids were out on recess. Not long ago, I was running past a grade school. Introduction: Running Lessons from a T'ai Chi Master Transform your running with the ten-step ChiRunning training program. Make it a Mindful Practice: Maintain high performance and make running a mindful, enjoyable life-long practice. Add relaxation to your running: Learn to focus your mind and relax your body to increase speed and distance. Engage your core: Shift the workload from your leg muscles to your core muscles, for efficiency and speed. Get aligned: Develop great posture and reduce your potential for injury while running, and make knee pain and shin splints a thing of the past. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles, an approach found in disciplines such as yoga, Pilates, and T’ai Chi.ĬhiRunning enables you to develop a personalized exercise program by blending running with the powerful mind-body principles of T’ai Chi: In ChiRunning, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, provide powerful insight that transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly, injury-free fitness phenomenon. The revised edition of the bestselling ChiRunning, a groundbreaking program from ultra-marathoner and nationally-known coach Danny Dreyer, that teaches you how to run faster and farther with less effort, and to prevent and heal injuries for runners of any age or fitness level. In 1900, his major work 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was published in which Freud analysed dreams in terms of unconscious desires and experiences. In 1897, he began an intensive analysis of himself. The same year he married Martha Bernays, with whom he had six children.įreud developed the theory that humans have an unconscious in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the defences against them. On his return to Vienna the following year, Freud set up in private practice, specialising in nervous and brain disorders. In 1885, Freud went to Paris as a student of the neurologist Jean Charcot. He collaborated with Josef Breuer in treating hysteria by the recall of painful experiences under hypnosis. After graduating, he worked at the Vienna General Hospital. In 1873, Freud began to study medicine at the University of Vienna. He is regarded as one of the most influential-and controversial-minds of the 20th century. Sigismund Freud (later changed to Sigmund) was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. Each new development is neatly captured in fine style, with sketches of colorful personalities. Coal mining, iron and steel works, the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the automobile age. Next are 19th- century tales of the soot and blackening of the skies over English cities as coal replaced wood in homes and factories-and mutant moths with black wings replaced their spotted forebears on blackened tree trunks. His story begins with the mathematician Fourier, whose studies of heat diffusion led to the idea that gases in the earth’s atmosphere trapped sunlight and re-radiated it back to the earth as heat. Christianson is a historian (Indiana State Univ.) who has written biographies of Newton, Hubble, and Loren Eiseley, and clearly has a scholar’s eye for depth and detail. At least half this book is fascinating history of technology-the birth and growth of the Industrial Revolution the second half describes what that portends in terms of global warming. |