5/11/2023 0 Comments Christopher mcdougall shoes![]() ![]() Now, what that doesn't tell you is that the book is not just a dry write-up of scientific studies that come to this conclusion. Plus there's the attitude: the people McDougall writes about all share a love for running that call to mind the old line from "Chariots of Fire": "God made me fast, and when I run, I feel his pleasure." It's about people who run because they love it, not because they have to. ![]() And the reason runners have so many injuries and so few people enjoy doing it is because we're wearing clunky shoes that keep us from feeling the ground, forcing us to strike the ground with our heels extra hard. The reason we have so much heart disease and diabetes and obesity is that we're built to run but we don't. The big conclusion, of course (and I'm not really spoiling the book to tell you this), is that we're doing it wrong. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He must conquer many of his fears: he rides the subway, eats non-vegan food, crosses bridges, and entrusts himself to the mercy of strangers. Oskar’s expedition takes him to every corner of New York City. Black hasn’t left his apartment for twenty-four years, he accompanies Oskar on his expedition. ![]() One of the people Oskar contacts happens to live in Oskar’s apartment building. Oskar finds a key in his Dad’s closet the key is in an envelope marked “Black.” Oskar decides to track down every person with the last name “Black” in New York City to try and figure out what the key unlocks. He has a loving and loyal relationship with his Grandma, but he’s still lonely and sad. Oskar, who was never as close with his Mom as with his Dad, is growing even farther away from her. Oskar feels incredibly guilty because his Dad left five phone messages on the morning of September 11, but he hasn’t told anyone about them more importantly, he hasn’t told anyone that he was actually in the apartment for the final time that Dad called, but he was too afraid to pick up the phone. Oskar is a very precocious boy: he’s extremely intelligent and curious, making up all sorts of esoteric inventions, but he also is scared and traumatized. Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old boy grieving the loss of his Dad, Thomas Schell, who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. ![]() ![]() "This original, sprightly wordsmith of tumbling pulsing phrases pushes poetry to a new level.A stunning introduction to a young poet who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. "Night Sky with Exit Wounds establishes Vuong as a fierce new talent to be reckoned with.This book is a masterpiece that captures, with elegance, the raw sorrows and joys of human existence."- Buzzfeed's "Most Exciting New Books of 2016" From the outside, Vuong has fashioned a poetry of inclusion."- The New Yorker His lines are both long and short, his pose narrative and lyric, his diction formal and insouciant. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck. Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April" One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016" ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The prophets jones![]() fiercely summons the voices of slaver and the enslaved alike to tell the story of these two men from Amos the preacher to the calculating slave-master himself to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr. ![]() Isaiah and Samuel’s love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony. But when an older man-a fellow slave-seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. ![]() That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. ![]() Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. ![]() Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684Ī novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Dearmartin![]() ![]() Tyler’s the Surfer Dude: board shorts and a tank top even though it’s only fifty degrees out. He’s wearing a suit…even has a spot on his chin where he nicked himself shaving and left the little piece of tissue there “for effect.” He’s really into it too: as soon as he was dressed, he started calling Jus “old chap” and “my good man.” Manny’s the Token Black Guy: khakis, loafers, and polo with a cable-knit sweater draped over his shoulders and tied loosely at the chest. ![]() He and Manny even made a grill out of a gum wrapper for Jus to wear on his bottom teeth. Jus is the Thug, naturally: pants belted around his thighs with boxers exposed, Thug Life T-shirt, thick gold chain with a huge medallion, fitted flat-billed baseball cap. Jus, of course, wasn’t real keen at first…but he let Manny talk him into it.įive of the six costumes are mostly fine. Last week, he told Manny and his crew about this “brilliant-ass idea” he had: “Bros,” he said, “let’s all dress as different stereotypes for Halloween, and then go out together. It’ll be this massive political statement about racial equality and broken barriers and shit.” Dude even asked Justyce to participate. In the month and a half since the racial equality discussion in Socio Evo, Jared’s been on a crusade to prove things in America are equal. ![]() ![]() The minute Jared, Kyle, Tyler, and Blake step into Manny’s basement, it’s clear Jared’s Equality Brigade thing was a terrible idea. ![]() ![]() However, there are issues with the books. ![]() The supporting characters like Miss Poni, Ame, and Diana, as well as the ghost, were what made the story tolerable. Eventually, I got into the plot events and the mysteries and wanted to see them through, which is the only reason I kept reading. I bought the whole series to read on a long trip. Will they find the strength to create their own future, or will they succumb to a cycle of violence that reverberates through the centuries? The first volume in a multigenerational saga with roots in the witch trials of the 1600s, The Wicked Garden explores the role of mythic resonance and familial inheritance in our lives, and asks if it's possible for the present to heal the past. As Gretchel and Eli stumble towards each other, forces-human and otherwise-rally to keep them apart. ![]() He's spent the seventeen years since she left him building the semblance of a life, but a chance encounter unsettles him from this comfortably numb existence, stirs memories he's tried to bury, and compels him to seek out his lost love. Eli Stewart has never gotten over Gretchel. It's just that the dream she's living is not her own, and a nightmare festers beneath all the luxury. ![]() As far as her neighbors are concerned, she's living the dream. Gretchel Shea is a beautiful woman with a lovely family, a gorgeous house, and a country-club membership. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Stratagem by Christina Hagmann![]() ![]() Fueled by revenge, the boys are gathering intel on the Agency in hopes to take them down.Īllegiance and family are tested to their limits as bullets fire from all sides. However, the longer she spends playing hostage, the more information she gathers on her kidnappers. She’s behind schedule, and if the mission fails, her family pays the price. While on a high stakes mission, Meda is kidnapped by three teenage boys. It's her job to seek out and discredit political figures. Being dragged out of a car and shoved into a darkened trunk might make a normal girl feel helpless, but Meda isn’t just any girl, and the boys who kidnapped her have no idea who or what they are dealing with.Īt seventeen years old, Meda is ripped from her family to train as a shape- shifting operative for the Agency. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Kleypas hello stranger![]() ![]() ![]() There wasn't much about Garrett in the past books that got me excited to read her story. Then again, I was looking forward to that one, and Hello Stranger.not so much. ![]() Then again, anything from Kleypas usually is, so that's no great surprise, is it? I was surprised that I liked this one quite a bit better than Devil in Spring, though. As they face the menace of a treacherous government plot, Ethan is willing to take any risk for the love of the most extraordinary woman he's ever known. ![]() When the mission goes wrong, it will take all of Garrett's skill and courage to save him. Despite their vow to resist each other after that sublime night, she is soon drawn into his most dangerous assignment yet. For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again.Īs a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little interest in polite society, yet he is captivated by the bold and beautiful Garrett. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man-why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of an unconventional beauty who finds passion with the spy who can’t resist herĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works-in real-world terms. In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for our heroine, understandably, it has few attractions. With its chipper rogues and multifarious squalor, it is, perhaps, a rather more familiar milieu than Hester seems to think, but it is brought to life with such grimy vitality that it seems a shame to leave it behind. The year is 1831, and the streets Hester has come to know are lightless and filthy, teeming with thieves and vagrants. Her London, she assures us, “isn’t the one Papa visited, or the one you might think you know”. Consigned to insalubrious lodgings among the backstreets of Bethnal Green, Hester now counts “foglers, lifters and murderers” among her neighbours. Orphaned at 11, and lacking better prospects, she has been taken in by the family of his former gardener. Raised in a parsonage in the Lincolnshire Wolds, she would listen raptly when her father returned from his travels, imagining a wonderland of “wherries and steamers”, where one might “take a seat on Shillibeer’s omnibus…stopping at The Unicorn for beefsteak with oyster sauce”.īut Hester’s father, by the time we encounter her, is long dead, and her childish illusions have been abandoned. Do you think you know London? Hester White, who narrates Laura Carlin’s debut novel, confronts us first with this question. ![]() |