![]() ![]() What Matters Most … and WhenĮlder Richard G. Sometimes, though, it’s easy to forget that simple truth.Īnd that’s when we can get discouraged. We can’t possibly do everything we are asked to do all at the same time. Our journey through mortality is the same. Nobody can be expected to focus on so many things at once. Would you beat yourself up for not keeping up with the simultaneous lessons? You shouldn’t. ![]() Try to pretend, however, that somebody actually thought this hair-brained scheme could work and you had to participate. You’d simply sit in one spot for an hour or so while six or seven different teachers talked over each other and gave their lessons all at the same time. Think of it! No schlepping your book bag from one side of the school to the next, no spending all day in classrooms. ![]() Namely, that all of your daily subjects be taught in a single classroom simultaneously. Your school day would fly by so much faster with one tiny tweak to the standard learning process. ![]()
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![]() The stranger is trying to extort money from her father and mentions that they both killed someone named Twining in the past. Late that night, Flavia overhears her father arguing with a stranger in his study. Flavia’s father reacts strangely at the sight of the bird. Mullet, finds a bird with a postage stamp stuck through its beak dead on their porch. Flavia’s only friend is the family gardener, Dogger Weasley. Her mother, Harriet, died when Flavia was one year old. ![]() Her sisters, 17-year-old Ophelia and 13-year-old Daphne, ignore and bully her her remote father, Colonel Haviland “Laurence” de Luce, spends all his time with his beloved stamp collection. She comes from an aristocratic family who has lived in the sprawling Buckshaw manor for centuries. ![]() The protagonist and narrator of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, who lives in the English countryside in 1950. ![]() ![]() ![]() He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, and numerous other Americans, as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack and describes the key events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea - the first battle in history against opposing carrier forces - and Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid of Tokyo. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Symonds, paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. ![]() By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk, and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. ![]() At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. ![]() ![]() Yet the case just seems to get more confusing, rather than less. With the victim a medium who claims to speak to the spirits, the killer seems to be sending a message by leaving the spiritoscope behind.Īs more bodies pile up, the situation becomes increasingly dire. ![]() He identifies the antique as a rare spiritoscope, a device designed to prove the legitimacy of Victorian Spiritualists. Yet Sebastian knows that he has the skills and experience to help, and he doesn’t want to be coddled or sheltered. Not only that, but the police want Sebastian to consult on the case officially.Ĭalvin is not happy to have Sebastian involved with his case, as he can’t help but worry it will put Sebastian at risk once again. But to Sebastian’s surprise, Calvin’s boss seeks him out for help with identifying an antique found at the scene of a recent murder. After Sebastian almost lost Calvin during the Bones case, he is determined to lay low and stay out of trouble. As promised, Sebastian has been staying away from sleuthing and living a quiet life. ![]() It’s been a year and a half since Sebastian Snow and Calvin Winter got married. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1750, Pope Benedict XIV appointed her to be a reader at the University of Bologna (the first woman to be given the position) and later chair of mathematics, but historical records are not clear as to whether she served in either role. Her most famous contribution to mathematics is the Witch of Agnesi, a sine curve whose equation she wrote based on Fermat and Grandi’s study. Because of this text, Agnesi was elected to the Bologna Academy of Sciences. In her work she brought the ideas of many mathematicians together in a clear and concise way that would be used for generations to come. ![]() This was one of the first texts to comprehensively treat mathematical analysis, of both the finite and infinitesimal. ![]() In order to provide a reference for some of her 20 siblings, at the age of 30 she wrote Instituzioni Analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana (Analytical Institutions), which explained differential and integral calculus. Based on her experiences attending these academic lectures, Agnesi wrote a collection of essays in 1738 called Propositiones Philosophicae containing nearly 200 propositions, and in which she encouraged women to be educated.Īgnesi’s pedagogical work came from necessity. Her intellectual pursuits started at a young age when she began to attend philosophy and mathematics seminars in her own home. Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan in 1718. ![]() Maria Gaetana Agnesi is featured for her contributions to research mathematics and mathematics education. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kasulke also said if readers have more questions, they can ping on Twitter or Instagram. There’s also a dog food PR crises, strange howls from the beyond, and plenty of workplace antics and commentary on this surreal stage of late-stage capitalism. ![]() The entire novel is written in the form of Slack chats and involves a character who accidentally uploads their consciousness into Slack. This workplace comedy is rollicking ride that hits that sweet spot between being experimental and very readable. I’m very excited this first entry in this series I’m calling “Processing” is Calvin Kasulke, whose hilarious debut novel Several People Are Typing was published this August. I think the most common complaint I hear privately from other authors is “No one asks me about craft!” So I’ve decided to be the change and reach out to authors whose books I loved with questions about processes and craft. ![]() ) But as interesting as process and craft questions are to writers, it’s something that often gets ignored in book coverage. (Here are some entries on Zadie Smith, César Aira, and myself. Every author has their own process-and often a different process for every book-and I always find it illuminating to hear about them. Since this is a craft newsletter, I spend a lot of time talking about writing processes. ![]() ![]() I felt like this was majorly a clinical version of patios for international audiences and that is fine but the way it is implemented is very clunky which is strange. I want to be clear, you can't sprinkle the word "mon" into sentences like parsley, and call it patois. The language of this book bothers me, the phrases used, the way patois is integrated is strange. I can't tell what this book is trying to be, it feels like a punishment, the worlding building is a slugfest, the characters thus far uninspiring and uninteresting. I didn't finish the book, I am going to try to but I find this book so offensive as a Jamaican, born and raised in Jamaica that it's hard to read. ![]() I desperately wanted to like this book, and yet, I don't. witches fighting together against a common foe. The premise sounds amazing, right? Jamaican. ![]() ![]() What has slightly changed is that earlier I was interested in very early archaeology and early medieval history and I went and spent 20 years writing on the eighteenth century – which I wouldn’t have guessed I would be doing as a teenager or when I was in college. William Dalrymple : I became a historian by studying history and writing history books! I studied history at Cambridge and history has always been my great love. William Dalrymple’s White Mughals and The Anarchy on display at the Full Circle Book Store at Jaipur Literature Festival 2022. They are out now in bookshops near you with Bloomsbury Publishing. It began with the White Mughals in 1999, then came The Last Mughal, then The Return of the King and The Anarchy, and now they will be put into proper chronological order with The Anarchy at the beginning, and the last book at the end. William Dalrymple : I have just produced a book set of my four company books which have taken the last twenty years to write. Indian Printer & Publisher (IPP): Tell us about your latest books. ![]() ![]() Photo IPPĬ orrespondent Priyanka Tanwar spoke with historian and Jaipur Literature Festival co-director William Dalrymple at the recently concluded 2022 on-ground Jaipur Literature Festival about writing in Covid times, JLF Soneva Fushi, and the challenges in organizing a literature festival in the new normal, and more. William Dalrymple, historian, writer, and Jaipur Literature Festival co-director at JLF 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() The forward, for example, is written by Stan Lee: the man who created all these fantastic (no pun intended) characters. One of the great things about this particular trade are some of the extras you will find within its pages. The language is beautiful and the layout of Ross's panels and art that compliment this story? In a word: it is breathtaking. That is why reading MARVELS is essential to your comics reading: within the pages of Busiek and Alex Ross' story is the exploration of characters we all know and love on a far deeper level. Within the first few pages of Kurt Busiek's story the original Human Torch begs an existential question: is it fair that he is given life only to be denied the chance to actually live? Further, what is his role in the grand scheme of things? The Torch's moment of imprisonment isn't something that lasts very long, but the scenes and the language are indicative of a deeper story: a story of understanding, one that explores the psyches of these superheroes and allows readers to comprehend them on a far deeper level. "Was it right that I should be given life, only to be placed in eternal imprisonment? To be tantalized with knowledge of the world, and denied the chance to savor it?" ![]() ![]() ![]() You are not a dozen gerbils in a skin casing ”. On an inappropriate first date at a theme park, Edie feels “the high-fructose sun of the park like an insult” her pre-date pep talk to herself goes “ You are a desirable woman. ![]() Leilani’s prose mesmerises you go with her, wherever she decides to take youĪnd she delivers many killer lines along the way, sharpened by unexpected details and cynical insights. But Leilani’s prose mesmerises you go with her, wherever she decides to take you. ![]() Leilani’s setup, manoeuvring Edie into their family home in New Jersey, stretches credulity, however, as do a few unlikely set pieces featuring the inscrutable Rebecca (dragging Edie into a moshpit at a thrash metal concert, for instance). Pleasingly, Edie’s relationship with the older Eric soon takes second place to stranger, subtler, more complex ones: with his wife, Rebecca – the cool, capable negative image of the hot mess that is Edie – and with their adopted black preteen daughter, Akila. This is an elevated example of the “millennial novel”, swerving cliche. But Leilani writes with such biting distinctiveness that, while Luster may feel extremely zeitgeisty, it never seems like it’s chasing or overly beholden to it. ![]() There’s familiarity in her messiness: her attempts to fill the void with sexual attention, her devaluing and debasing herself and her body. Edie is the sort of flawed female character we’re seeing much more of in fiction and on screen. ![]() |