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Structures and why things don t fall6/12/2023 ![]() Part of that was de-contenting DROP Structures so more people could afford them. We chased down every lead we got, and never said no to anyone – even if we had to sacrifice our vision of what a DROP Structure was designed to be. Like many businesses, we spent our first years trying to be everything to everyone. Providing our customer the DROP Structures experience That’s why we’re making full-front glass standard on every DROP Structure. And, it’s our mission to work with everyone to get them that space that will make their backyard or retreat property feel like they do when they stare at the Mono sitting there in front of Chief Mountain. ![]() It’s pictures like that one that bring people flocking to our site looking for a DROP Structure. ![]() That picture encapsulates our iconic look, our vision for what a DROP Structure should be, and we’re proud of it. It’s the one that everyone likes on Instagram and shows up on all the blogs. That picture up above, we owe a lot to it. ![]()
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Restless william boyd synopsis6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In it, an American anthropologist called Page Arbogast tells her sister, Amelia, about the recent arrival of a new assistant, 'a tall young Scotsman, about thirty-five years old, called Brodie Moncur'. William Boyd’s layered and intricate novel begins close to its end point, with a brief prologue in the form of a 1906 letter from a British penal colony in the Bay of Bengal. On the surface Love Is Blind has all the hallmarks of a slow-burning thriller-the event-packed story of a single decade in Brodie’s life. Love Is Blind eventually reminded me of a tired revival of one of Franco Zeffirelli’s decades-old, hyper-naturalistic stagings for the Metropolitan Opera: all surface detail, no life. ![]() In any case, however, there are only flickers of the charm you would want to steadily emanate from such a period production. it’s depressing that he thought that classical music would be the perfectly complementary subject matter, as lovably hoary as the narrative style he is pantomiming. the book’s promise of eroticism ends up involving only some risible sex writing. There are halfhearted efforts to place the plot vividly in its time. ![]() But there’s no philosophical armature to Love Is Blind, only the most convoluted of bildungsromans. This is a 'play it again, Sam' kind of production, the novelistic equivalent of the showy orchestral chestnut 'Pines of Rome.' Love Is Blind goes down easy, its pleasures are vaguely guilty, and upon setting it down, it swiftly vanishes from the mind. ![]()
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The forgotten garden goodreads6/12/2023 ![]() So, if you are one of the 12 other people in the world who has not read this book yet (there are more than 83,000 reviews on Goodreads), here's the setup. (Everyone else loved it).īut people kept raving about The Forgotten Garden, so I gave it a shot, even though it's more than 550 pages long. I also disliked Water for Elephants and I was really underwhelmed by The Paris Wife, which we discussed last month. I hated, hated, hated The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which was really popular a few years ago in fact, I hated it so much I demanded a refund from Target. ![]() There are certain books that become extremely popular with book groups, but when it comes time to choose books for my two groups at the library, I'm sometimes leery - there are some books that absolutely everyone loves, and I end up hating them. I have to confess, sometimes I'm a bit snobbish when it comes to book group books. ![]() It seems to be one of these books that a lot of book groups are reading. ![]() This book has been on my radar forever, but somehow, I'd never gotten around to reading it. ![]()
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The last house on the street chamberlain6/12/2023 ![]() I pictured Kayla’s backyard much like my own-filled with trees, deer, and other wildlife. I think I was most surprised to learn how difficult it would be for a young white Southern woman to be accepted in an organization like SCOPE. Exploring floor plans and photographs of contemporary homes was a breath of fresh air after the heavy work of studying injustice. I had fun researching Kayla’s portion of the story. Yet I was drawn to the idealism of the organizers and the students and wanted to capture it in a story. This was especially true in North Carolina, where the registrars’ offices were not open. ![]() There is little written about SCOPE, since it was a short-lived program, and-depending on whom you speak with-not a very successful endeavor, either. ![]()
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![]() The story describes a young woman and her husband. As the reader continues through the journal entries, they experience the writer's gradual descent into madness with nothing better to do than observe the peeling yellow wallpaper in her room. As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. ![]() ![]() The journal was written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. " The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. ![]() ![]() Cover of a 1901 edition of The Yellow Wallpaper ![]()
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Dünyaya Orman Denir by Ursula K. Le Guin6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their technology and resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured. In Omelas, the summer solstice is celebrated with a glorious festival and a race featuring young people on horseback. The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city of unbelievable happiness and delight. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Fiction in 1974 and won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1974. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child. " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" / ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s/ is a 1973 work of short philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. ![]()
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The tragical history of dr faustus6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Faustus orders Mephastophilis to do his bidding, but Mephastophilis informs him that he can do nothing that is not commanded by Lucifer. Wagner tells them that Faustus is with Valdes and Cornelius, and the two scholars lament Faustus' interest in magic.įaustus begins conjuring, and summons up a devil named Mephastophilis. ![]() Two scholars, who know of Faustus for his reputation as a scholar, wonder what he is up to and, running into Wagner, ask him. Valdes and Cornelius give Faustus spell-books and Faustus is excited to begin casting spells and summoning spirits. The Good Angel tries to convince Faustus not to pursue unholy magic, but the Evil Angel encourages him to delve into sorcery. Two angels (a Good Angel and an Evil Angel) appear. Feeling that he has reached the ends of all traditional studies, he decides to pursue magic, and has his servant Wagner bring him Valdes and Cornelius, two men who can teach him how to perform magic incantations. Doctor Faustus is a scholar living in Wittenberg, Germany. ![]()
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Red clocks by leni zumas6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Zumas lives in Oregon and teaches in the creative writing program at Portland State University. She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. ![]() Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is Director of Creative Writing at Portland State University. She is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Leni Zumas is the author of RED CLOCKS (Little, Brown, 2018) THE LISTENERS (Tin House, 2012) and FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (Open City, 2008). Zumas was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. The true horror of this novel isn’t the way the plot unfolds but that there are those who will read this book and see it as the beginning of a great utopia. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far. The fact that Red Clocks has a near optimistic ending is a testament to Zumas’ refusal to take the most obvious route, to misery-up the story because of dystopian expectations. ![]() The novel was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Entropy, and the New York Public Library. Leni Zumas’s bestselling novel RED CLOCKS won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. ![]()
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Wicked business janet evanovich series6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The third book in the deal will be the start of a new spin-off series written solely by Evanovich that will be shopped as a film and TV franchise. ![]() The first, titled Fortune and Glory, is the 27th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Two of the books to be published by Atria will feature Evanovich’s hugely popular series character, Stephanie Plum. This is a significant publishing industry move, as she is one of the biggest selling authors in the world with 25 #1 New York Times bestsellers and nearly 100 million books sold. ![]() Evanovich’s books had been published by Penguin Random House for years. Deal is substantial eight-figures for world rights. EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Janet Evanovich has pacted to write her next four novels for the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As mysteriously as it all started, the screaming went away and the next morning I married Oliver Jones - the Oliver Jones - and we just about lived happily ever after. To this day, I don't know why that happened to me. There was no foreseeable problem that I could articulate. I had a job waiting for me when I returned from my honeymoon. I was marrying the man of my dreams in a prototypical white clapboard New England church, and the reception - a lavish one with white-gloved waiters and Beluga caviar - was going to be held in my parents' backyard. I was barely nineteen, a straight-A student fresh out of Wellesley College and in 1976 that was still an accomplishment. I watched the lights come on in different houses - blue and yellow, blinking like Christmas - and wondered what was happening to me. We lived in a button-down suburb of Boston, and we were waking up the neighbors one by one. Even with my mouth closed, I continued - the high, shrill note of a nocturnal animal. My parents came into the room and put their arms around me they patted my head and smoothed my hair, fine, and I still couldn't stop screaming. ![]() ![]() The night before I got married I woke up, screaming, from my sleep. ![]() |