![]() ![]() Eulberg does a good job of weaving their shared love of a fictional British comedy duo into the story line without making it obnoxious. As each year progresses and their unresolved romantic tension continues, Macallan and Levi start acting skittish and uncomfortable around each other - especially when it comes to their significant others (whom, no surprise, they're never that into). It's obvious to readers, their parents, and even their dates, that they should be together, but taking that step when you have such intertwined lives is understandably frightening and risky. Inspired by Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally screenplay, Eulberg crafts a tale of bantering best pals, who, like Billy Crystal's Harry and Meg Ryan's Sally, prefer each other's company to any one else's - including people they're supposed to be dating.īecause the point of view changes between the two main characters, it's easy to get caught up in Macallan and Levi's comedy of errors, miscommunication, and missed opportunities. ![]() ![]() Eulberg is well known for her sweet, "clean" high-school romances ( Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, The Lonely Hearts Club), and this is her best so far. Countless movies and stories have explored the issue of whether men and women can be friends without attraction getting in the way, but there's certainly room for this witty, well-crafted take. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Eugene odum ecology![]() ![]() ![]() The design's innovative strategies - green roofs, living walls, water treatment system, photovoltaic cells, natural ventilation, daylight, double skin facades and a collaboration corridor - reinforce the spirit of founder Eugene Odum's approach to ecosystem ecology by creating a living laboratory that will foster regenerative relationships between the student, researchers, visitors and the natural systems at work in the building and site. The Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia will transform education and research by setting a new benchmark as the world's most sustainable academic lab building. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments I can read with my eyes shut![]() For the first book in the intro, you see the Red fish flying into her book titled One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. ![]() When the book glows, the title of the book gets revealed. And when the 12 books appear, you see layers of characters fly to their books which then makes the book glow. Seuss" and "Beginner Book Video" appear in yellow. The scene is depicted as a blue screen and the words "Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Video series' intro, a male voice says, "Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Video Tapes published. Seuss's Sleep Book, If I Ran The Zoo, Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose and more of others. ![]() Seuss Video Classics views other books to video such as Horton Hatches the Egg, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. ![]() These books have been brought to video premiering and have been presented as Dr. Seuss that have been brought to video as well. The creators of Praxis and Greenlight Media used both Beginner books and Bright and Early books. Seuss books are used as being on screen by computer animation and characters of the pages are moving at some point as the story from the book is being narrated. Seuss' books to a video premiering series with the help of other production companies such as Praxis Media and later Greenlight Media, and the Dr. ![]() Random House's Beginner Book Videos is a 30-40 minute video series where the creators from Random House Inc. This is the real display of how the 12 books are posted before one book comes to the screen to be viewed.ĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the star-shaped chapter, for example, the cherry blossoms and anemone tutorials describe painting these flowers in a loose style (with little or no pencil drawing to guide the painting), while the clematis and orchid are painted more realistically (begin with a pencil drawing and adhere closely to the details of the plant and flower). As a surface pattern designer, her work has been seen on products in stores like Staples, Target, Office Depot, and more. The projects in each category come in two types: loose and realistic (botanical). Jenna Rainey is an artist, self-taught designer, and author of Everyday Watercolor and Everyday Watercolor Flowers. That’s 24 projects plus a section on combining flowers into wreaths and borders…so lots to paint here. The main chapters describe flower painting projects and are organized by flower shapes (star, circle, bell, bowl, trumpet, and combination) with four projects in each. ![]() In this section Rainey also gives a brief explanation of flower anatomy, leaf types and shapes, and demonstrates brush strokes that make those shapes. : Everyday Watercolor Flowers: A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step (9780399582219) by Rainey, Jenna and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() The book begins with an extensive introductory section on watercolor basics including materials, colors, color mixing, hue, and value. Her newest book Everyday Watercolor Flowers came out in 2019 and my Kindle edition is well used. A couple of years ago, her book Everyday Watercolor introduced me to the wonderful medium of watercolor (reviewed here). One of my favourite art teachers, particularly of watercolor, is Jenna Rainey. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Pop! by Aury Wallington![]() ![]() ![]() One can’t help but feel that the gender representation behind the camera is an integral part to the authentic sense of girls’ empowerment espoused by the film, the story of a young girl and her connection to a wild mustang, Spirit. “Spirit Untamed,” the second film in the “Spirit” franchise, which also includes the 2002 film “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” and the Netflix series “Spirit Riding Free,” is written by Aury Wallington and Kristin Hahn and directed by Elaine Bogan (her co-director is Ennio Torresan Jr.) and features a female producer, composer and other female department heads. ![]() While reading the credits of the new animated feature “Spirit Untamed,” a few things stick out: the first is the star-studded voice cast, but the second is how many women played key roles in bringing the film to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny who makes things up and talks about poop too much.But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment he, his mother, and sister fled Iran in the middle of the night, stretching all the way back to family tales set in the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan, the palaces of semi-ancient kings, and even the land of stories.We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs, to the heroines and heroes of Kosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made them weep, and touched carpets woven with precious gems. The secret police kidnap and threaten her. Back in Iran, Mom joins the underground church but is soon found out. ![]() ![]() In her world, being a Christian could amount to a death sentence. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny who makes things up and. However, this is unthinkable for a pure-blood Sayyed like herself. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls 'Daniel') stands, trying to tell a story. Read Or Download Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) By Daniel Nayeri Full Pages.Īt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands, trying to tell a story. Formerly a committed Muslim, she decides to convert to Christianity. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The Hollow by Jessica Verday![]() ![]() The tale unfolds slowly and doesn't lead to a climax, but rather to more questions, which remain left unanswered at the abrupt ending, presumably left to later books. Jessica Verday is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollow Trilogy, published by Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. ![]() Caspian is also ambiguous until the last few pages, and there's little supernatural atmosphere despite the focus on Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Verday's story is set in the same town). The central mystery here is the circumstances surrounding Kristen's death, but little information is gained and nothing is resolved. After Abbey discovers Kristen's hidden diary, she begins questioning how her closest friend could have kept such important secrets from her. He makes her feel giddy and desired, but she's confused and frustrated by their relationship: he runs hot and cold, and he's secretive, too. Devastated and lonely, Abbey is sleepwalking through her junior year of high school when she meets Caspian, a mysterious boy who tries to help her deal with her grief. Abbey's best friend Kristen is dead, but Abbey knows it couldn't have been suicide as is rumored. ![]() Verday's debut novel, the first in a planned trilogy, is well-written, but enigmatic and ultimately unsatisfying. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Bridget collins the binding![]() ![]() When Seredith dies, the books fall into unscrupulous hands, and Emmett is set on a path to recover his lost past. Of course, somewhere among them is a book with Emmett’s name on it, which contains the secret of his disgrace. ![]() They leave dulled but soothed, and in her cellar, Seredith keeps their secrets safe in gorgeous books with the subject’s name on the spine. But he soon realises that the true work of binding is magical, manifested in the way that lives are turned into stories.ĭistressed people arrive at Seredith’s, asking to have their traumatic experiences put down on paper once that is done, the memories are erased. He spends his days learning to make endpapers, tool leather, gilding – the delicate physical labour of making beautiful books. When he arrives at the isolated house of Seredith, the elderly woman to whom he’s apprenticed, it’s both an exile and a haven. ![]() ![]() He’s weak after a long illness of a mysterious nature and, from his family’s strained behaviour, we intuit that he’s in some kind of disgrace he doesn’t fully understand. B ridget Collins’s fantasy novel, her first for adults, begins sombrely, with its teenage hero Emmett being sent away from his family farm to become an apprentice to a binder of books. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Cloud atlas book cover![]() The joy in reading this novel is found in the complete engagement experienced whilst reading the six interlocking stories. The narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850 a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors a genetically modified dinery server on death-row and Zachry, a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation. In fact, I loved this novel, finding it utterly charming and beautifully written. I am whole-heartedly on the positive side of the fence. A speculative fiction novel, featuring both fantasy and science fiction elements, it met with an almost overwhelmingly positive reaction. ![]() ![]() Cloud Atlas, by English author David Mitchell, was first published in 2004. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Paradise novel by judith mcnaught![]() ![]() Dumpy! she pronounced with a pained grimace. Impartially, Meredith compared herself to the other girls in the elf costumes, wondering how they could manage to look leggy and curvy while she looked . . . Standing off to the left, supervising the proceedings, was a handsome young man of eighteen, whom the caption referred to as Parker Reynolds III, son of Mr. Beneath the caption was a large picture of the elves-five boys and five girls, including Meredith-who were handing out presents to the kids in the children’s ward. The caption read Children of Chicago socialites, dressed as elves, participate in charity Christmas pageant at Oakland Memorial Hospital, then it listed their names. With her scrapbook opened beside her on her canopied bed, Meredith Bancroft carefully cut out the picture from the Chicago Tribune. ![]() |