5/13/2023 0 Comments Why mummy drinks gill sims![]() ![]() ![]() For parents of young children, or who remember having young children, this will likely entertain and cause nods of familiarity in equal measure. The diary entries open with a scene familiar to those familiar with the blog: Mummy is making a list of how her life could work…then compares it with how her life really works. What’s it like?įunny, sweary, mostly relateable. ![]() This is her diary of her year as she approaches forty. Ellen likes wine, shoes and reminiscing about times in her life that involved Fun and Frolics rather than refereeing fights over who had the remote first. Her children, Peter and Jane, create chaos and drive her to drink. Her husband, Simon, is obsessed with gadgets. ![]() Could it be as good as the blog? The short answer is, not quite. So when I learned she had written a book, I was excited and delighted to receive not one but two copies of ‘Why Mummy Drinks’ for Christmas. Gill Sims is an extremely successful “mummy blogger” who maintains a Facebook page which presents the trials and tribulations of her family life to the world. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The worst witch all at sea![]() ![]() She is also well known for her picture books and was commended in the 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal for Peace at Last. They were also made into a major ITV series. ![]() The Worst Witch stories have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 3 million copies. However, Jill continued working as a nanny until the publication of The Worst Witch Strikes Again prompted her to devote herself to full-time writing. The book was published when Jill turned 24 and proved an instant success. Mildred Hubble is very much a self-portrait! She put the book on hold as she attended both Chelsea and Croydon Art Schools, but continued to write it whilst living in a village in Togo, West Africa for a year and then whilst working as a nanny back at home. Jill Murphy was born in London and attended the Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon which, together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, provided much of the material and inspiration Miss Cackle's Academy in the The Worst Witch, which she started when she was 15. She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land." ![]() Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Floating Chinaman by Hua Hsu![]() Full of pragmatic analyses and recommendations, this enthralling, important book will prove to be compelling and useful across many audiences.” Robert Polito “ Every Day I Write the Book is a persuasive instance of the sort of rare nonfiction performance Amitava Kumar invokes within its pages he at once defines and exemplifies a vital modern nonfiction tradition. ![]() ![]() A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book will interest and guide aspiring writers everywhere. Kumar's own voice is present in his essays about the writing process and in his perceptive and witty observations on the academic world. Storytelling, attention to organization, solid work habits: these are its tools. Communication, engagement, honesty: these are the aims and sources of good writing. Alongside Kumar's interviews with an array of scholars whose distinct writing offers inspiring examples for students and academics alike, the book's pages are full of practical advice about everything from how to write criticism to making use of a kitchen timer. RSVP here.Īmitava Kumar's Every Day I Write the Book is for academic writers what Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Stephen King's On Writing are for creative writers. ![]() ![]() We will be presenting this event virtually, using Zoom. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Ready fire aim masterson![]() Only a fraction of your focus should be on product development. The product should have at least one thing which is different from whatever is in the market, even if it means an imitation product at a price cheaper than that of the competition. You have to make it reasonably competent. And remember, follow the Ready, fire, aim process. In stage 1, your company should focus on selling one - yes, exactly ONE - product. The sections of the book focus on what to do and where you should focus during those five stages. In the book, Michael breaks down the lifetime of a company into five stages. ![]() By launching before the product is perfect, we are letting the market decide how to improve it rather than falling into the trap of hubris, where we falsely believe that we fully know the market. The title suggests that we should always start before we are fully ready to launch something and that we should never obsess to the point of perfection. ![]() Written by Michael Masterson, this book describes the process of building a company right from the startup phase to an enterprise that earns millions of dollars. It is a deliberate word play on the common phrase Ready, aim, fire. ![]() Book title: Ready, fire, aim Author: Michael Masterson (aka Mark Ford) ISBN-10: 0470182024 ISBN-13: 978-0470182024 Buy here What this book is about ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Everland"In an exemplary debut, Spinale uses Gwen and Hook's voices to offer glimpses into the psyche of a man desperate to please his cruel mother and a girl intent on saving the only family she has left. Except Gail.But is one girl enough to find a long-dead king, kill the wicked queen, and save the world? Yet before it's set in motion, the village is burned to the ground, all survivors taken prisoner to the castle. Desperate to end the war, a plan is hatched that could put everything right again. or is he? There's a rumor that the king has been hidden away in a secret land, where only the worthiest can find him. ![]() The world has been destroyed and its needs a ruler to set things right again. Doc has found an actual cure for the Horologia virus, while Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa begin plotting the assassination of the queen with the help of Gail, an excellent huntress. With Everland and Umberland both annihilated, the survivors have taken refuge in a small village tucked within the shadows of the Bloodred Queen's castle. Because in Ozland, the only way home is to kill the wicked. ![]() Forget the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz you know. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments A silken thread brenda jackson![]() ![]() Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with a wife or lose his family inheritance. ![]() Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. For readers who love a heartwarming romance and a rich historical setting comes a tale of a young woman with a heavy burden, the International Cotton Exposition, and the pursuit of true love.Įighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Annihilation book trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape all the members of the second expedition committed suicide the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Winter ken follett![]() ![]() The Williams family’s fortunes rise as both Billy and Ethel are elected to Parliament, and the long-separated Peshkov brothers continue to grow further apart, with Grigori rising in Stalin’s army and Lev living a life of infidelity and petty crime in upstate New York. Her son is drawn to Nazism, a movement anathema to the rest of their family, and conflict ensues. Maud Von Ulrich (née Fitzherbert) is now a British expat living in Germany and married to the man she fell in love with during the Great War. Readers will see the rise of Nazi Germany, the epic battles of World War II, and the birth of the atomic era through the eyes of men and women from several countries. ![]() The second in Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the main characters from Fall of Giants and their children as they navigate the major events of the 1930s and 1940s. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Accabadora by michela murgia![]() Murgia, who is an administrator at a power plant, is also a politician and writer. It was first published in Italian in 2009, then in English in 2011 as well as being translated into several other languages. ![]() Michela Murgia’s Accabadora received the prestigious Campiello Prize in 2010, the Super Mondello International Literary Prize and the Molinello Award for First Fiction. Her third novel, Accabadora, is dedicated to her two mothers. Murgia was adopted as a soul-child – a traditional Sardinian adoption method – at the age of eighteen rather than the usual age of ten to fourteen, because of her natural father’s opposition. ![]() She studied at the Lorenzo Mossa Oristano Institute for Technical Studies followed by theological studies at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Diocese of Oristano and taught religion for six years in middle and grammar school in Oristano. Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, on the Italian island of Sardinia, in 1972. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The spanish tragedy by thomas kyd![]() ![]() ![]() (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical Ur-Hamlet that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet. Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd Study Guide Lorenzo Literary Devices Themes Motifs Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics Further Study Thomas Kyd and Spanish Tragedy Background Suggestions for Further Reading Summary Act II: Scenes iiii Summary: Act II: Scene i Lorenzo and Balthazar enter, discussing Balthazar's affection for Bel-Imperia. The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. Its plot contains several violent murders and includes as one of its characters a personification of Revenge. And all those stars that gaze upon her face, Are aglets on her sleeve, pins on her train : And those that should be powerful and divine, Do sleep in darkness when they most should shine. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. - Hecate there, the moon, Doth give consent to that is done in darkness. ![]() The genre is derived from Roman tragedy, especially the works of Seneca. The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 15. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd was considered the first major revenge play in English. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Spanish Tragedy ![]() |