![]() ![]() I remember them wearing fanny packs and visors, talking excitedly about the rising values for the pieces they were hoarding. My mother and I went to flea markets a lot and there was this one flea market that, overnight, became dominated by Beanie Baby dealers. ![]() I was in middle school when Beanie Babies were at their peak, and it was sort of my first introduction to the weirdness of speculative capitalism. Since that very early start as a published author, he has gone on to write two more books ( How to Be Richer, Smarter and Better-Looking Than Your Parents and Good Advice from Bad People) and served as a contributing writer for publications ranging from Time to The Wall Street Journal.īissonnette’s latest book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is a powerful cautionary tale about where a speculative craze can lead-and who gets hurt when the bubble pops. Zac Bissonnette’s first book, Debt-Free U, was published in 2010 when he was a 20-year-old senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From 1947 to 1950, he was Director of Productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1947, he went to Stratford-upon-Avon as assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. ![]() ![]() He directed Dr Faustus, his first production, in 1943 at the Torch Theatre in London, followed at the Chanticleer Theatre in 1945 with a revival of The Infernal Machine. Brook was educated at Westminster School, Gresham’s School, and Magdalen College, Oxford. His first cousin was Valentin Pluchek, chief director of the Moscow Satire Theatre. His elder brother was the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Alexis Brook (1920-2007). The family home was at 27 Fairfax Road, Turnham Green. It transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.īrook was born in the Turnham Green area of Chiswick, London, the second son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Jansen), both Jewish immigrants from Latvia. With the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directed the first English language production of Marat/Sade in 1964. He has been called „our greatest living theatre director”. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() We can no longer afford to blindly follow the recommendations of doctors or friends, advertisements, or online ratings to make what are often the most important decisions in our lives. The coronavirus has destabilized the entire healthcare system, resulting in higher costs and more complexity for everyone. ![]() ![]() When you're in need of an elective procedure, SurgiQuality provides you expert recommendations, full cost comparisons, and, most important, a ranking of surgeons based on past outcomes. Sanjay Prasad explains how SurgiQuality uses breakthrough technology to provide patients unprecedented transparency, quality, cost control, and expertise. With so much uncertainty surrounding our healthcare, Resetting Healthcare Post-COVID-19 Pandemic is your essential guide. The pandemic reset how doctors practice and how patients receive care-there's no returning to the pre-coronavirus status quo. ![]() The book a river runs through it7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is true that one day a week was given over wholly to religion. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. ![]() In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. This is more than stunning fiction: It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special gift for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kindsthe arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing."Kenneth M. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway."≺lfred Kazin "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, excerpt ![]() Ilium book review7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book doesn't seem to be quite as complicated as Hyperion books or as long-winded as I found Endymon books. The writing is smooth and literate, the plot compelling and the characters engaging. After you get past page 125 or so the pace really picks up. There are three separate story lines that converge by the end.Įven though it took about 100 pages or so to get hooked, once there I found it hard to put this book down. It has sentient robots from Jupiter's moon who spout Shakespeare and Proust, a pastorial, illiterate, pet population of humans on earth, post-humans in space, Greek Gods re-enacting Troy with modern historian commentators on Mars, mysterious controllers, a Wandering Jew.and it all works. I have seen it listed in some threads in the Fantasy Forum. This book may be more Science Fiction than Fantasy, but I think both groups will like it. So, when I read "Ilium" I enjoyed it so much I thought I would pass it along. I have gotten so many wonderful recommendations form this board, particularly during my dry periods. ![]() ![]() ![]() A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.įrom the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. ![]() ![]() Initially, without the visual clues of a film, I found the testimonies hard to follow because of the continual switching between different voices. ![]() The book is divided into several time periods from before Kristallnacht (titled When the bough breaks) until the year these conversations were recorded ( Living with the Past). It consists of the testimonies of 12 children, a couple of surviving parents and foster parents, and of the organizers Nicholas Winton and Norbert Wollheim.Īnd in an afterword which apparently wasn’t in the film, Deborah Oppenheimer has a tribute to her mother, another of the kinder and whose lifetime inability to share her history led Deborah to connect with those of the Kindertransport who knew her mother and ultimately, to the documentary. This is the transcript of a documentary that was made twenty years ago now, which I haven’t seen, but it can easily stand on its own as a highly readable and moving tribute to those involved in the Kindertransport. ![]() Ravenmaster book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They are not the easiest of charges - as he reveals, they are much given to mischief, and their escapades have often led him into unlikely, and sometimes even undignified, situations. Over the years in which he has cared for the physical and mental well-being of these remarkable birds, Christopher Skaife has come to know them like no one else. ![]() The current holder of the position is Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife, and in this fascinating, entertaining and touching book he memorably describes the ravens' formidable intelligence, their idiosyncrasies and their occasionally wicked sense of humour. One man is personally responsible for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass - the Ravenmaster. But their role is even more important than that - legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave, the Tower will crumble into dust, and great harm will befall the kingdom. Each year they are seen by millions of visitors, and they have become as integral a part of the Tower as its ancient stones themselves. Martin For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. ![]() I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past after reading this book, I cannot wait to go back' George R. 'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. ![]() ![]() Content that is better suited to other subs may be removed. WVP is curated to maintain a warm, hopeful, supportive, and uplifting environment.Witchy content is most encouraged! It doesn't have to be feminist, but witchy+feminist+humorous will score you extra points.If you would not like to be assumed female, please use a different gender-specific or androgynous "☉" or "⚨" flair. ![]() If a gender is to be assumed, that gender will be female. Though women-centric, we welcome all beings interested in using their esoteric powers to destroy the Patriarchy and all its constraints on women, men, and everybody in between or beyond. Taking a more historic approach to the concept of Witches, we channel the spirit of the those who have been persecuted as part of a thinly veiled systemic oppression of feminine power. ✨ Join our Discord coven ✨Ĭan I be a Witch if I don't actually believe in anything? ![]() If you do not consider yourself an ally, then this subreddit is not for you. This subreddit is a Safe Space for Women, BIPOC, and anyone in the LGBTQ+ community. ![]() The goal is to at once embrace, and poke fun at, the mystical aspects of femininity that have been previously demonized and/or devalued by the Patriarchy. R/WitchesVsPatriarchy is a woman-centered sub with a witchy twist, aimed at healing, supporting, and uplifting one another through humor and magic. ![]() Hot Dog by Molly Coxe7/6/2023 ![]() I grew up in Georgia during a simpler time. With her thoughtful stories and exquisite images, Molly’s books are the perfect building block towards growing a happy, appreciative and competent young reader. Outdoor sets, to boot! With real snow, dirt, flowers, and water! Your eyes feast on the page, drinking up the colors, textures, and balance.įrom Blues for Unicorn, Bright Owl Books, Kane Press: 2019 Equally magnificent are her illustrations, which are needle felt characters photographed on live sets. ![]() With titles like Rat Attack, Blues for Unicorn, Go Home Goat, and Save the Cake, Molly presents clever, engaging stories with developed characters and perfect timing. But the series that really puts a smile on my face – and makes my creative mind go whoosh! – are with Bright Owl Books and Kane Press. ![]() Molly has produced a terrific set of “Step Into Reading” books with Random House ( Big Egg, Cat Trap and Hot Dog, are a few titles). At least, that’s what my son expressed to me as he struggled to read. Early reader books are essential for this learning, but they can also seem a bit babyish with their simple stories and illustrations. Memorize the letters, string them together, recall the sounds, then run everything together until it makes sense. ![]() ![]() From Save the Cake! Bright Owl Books, Kane Press: 2019 ![]() |