It also has three hearts and is literally mind-bending as its brain is found around its throat. Their blood is actually blue, as it uses copper to carry oxygen, whereas we use iron. They can taste with their entire bodies, but their suckers are especially powerful and attuned to chemicals. Each individual sucker can work like our finger and opposable thumb, allowing it to pinch and grab things. One of these creatures can have 1,600 suckers, each of which can lift 30 pounds. Most of the book focuses on the giant Pacific octopus. Octopuses (not octopi) are fascinating enough to fill a whole book. And it is also a memoir, as Montgomery is very much a part of the story-it follows her relations with fellow enthusiasts, her struggles with scuba diving, and her own emotional connection to the creatures. It is part grab-bag of interesting factoids about this incredible species. It is in part an attempt to grapple with animal consciousness as it relates to the octopus. In her attempts to understand the octopus, a creature that for a variety of reasons has caught her eye, Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig, befriends the men and women of the New England Aquarium, and while there she develops what can only be called a relationship with its various octopus inhabitants. These leggy cephalopods, long a prominent player in human fear of the ocean depths, are the subject of a touching yet informative new book by Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. What has eight legs and just might have a soul?
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Told in four parts-freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year-this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. What Eden once loved-who she once loved-she now hates. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. This novel tells the story of a girl named Eden, who was always good at being good. It was met with critical acclaim and nominated for numerous awards, including a Goodreads Choice Award, and in 2022, was named by Cosmopolitan as one of the "Best Young Adult Books of All Time." The Way I Used to Be is the New York Times bestselling debut novel by Amber Smith, published in 2016 by Simon & Schuster. The flowers bursting forth inbeauty on the page range from tropical blossoms to a brilliant poppy. Examine the details that go into depictingfoliage and fruit, flowers in context, single stems, multistem arrangements, and even leaves and branches. All the various materials are covered, along with traditional and experimentaltechniques for painting wet-on-wet, capturing color and form, and adding finishing touches. Additional readings from other sources are posted on Blackboard before each class. Our marketplace offers millions of titles from sellers worldwide. More than 150 stunning fine-art illustrations of both finished works and key stages of the painting appearthroughout this exquisite guide, illuminating the instructions. 9780714833569 - Alibris Used, new & out-of-print books matching 9780714833569. To: United States () Prices INCLUDE standard shipping to United States. Botanical Illustration: Painting with WatercoloursBOOK DETAILPaperback: 128 pages Publisher: Batsford New Ed edition (May 1, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 9780713490527 ISBN-13: 978-0713490527 ASIN: 0713490527 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 poundsBook DescriptionSiriol Sherlock’s techniques for capturing flowers and plants are beautifully simple-yet they yield remarkable results that earned her the2005 Artists Choice Award. ISBN: 9780714833569 / 0714833568 Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1996 Edition: Softcover Language: English + Show book details - Hide book details. Text and Illustration copyright: © 2020 BOOM! StudiosFence(TM) and © 2020 C.S. Pacat’s critically acclaimed Fence comic series and boasts original cover and interior art by Johanna The Mad. Pacat’s critically acclaimed Fence comic series and boasts original cover and interior art by Johanna The Mad. The first installment of this enticing original YA novel series by Sarah Rees Brennan, rich with casual diversity and queer self-discovery, explores never-before-seen drama inspired by C.S. The first installment of this enticing original YA novel series by Sarah Rees Brennan, rich with casual diversity and queer self-discovery, explores never-before-seen drama inspired by C.S. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, several hilariously bad dates, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together than they could ever be apart. After earning a place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes, friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the road to state championships–where Nicholas might finally have the chance to spar with his golden-boy half-brother.Ĭoach Williams decides to take advantage of the boys’ morale after a recent victory and assigns them a course of team building exercises to further deepen their bonds. Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of getting the proper training he could never afford. One of the longer poems on this list, ‘The Giving Tree’ is also one of Silverstein’s most beloved. Was there ever a better light children’s poem about anxiety and worry than this one? Many of us entertain self-doubt from time to time, and Silverstein’s talent here was to give these doubts concrete form: these ‘whatifs’ crawl into the speaker’s ear like insects, and become the tangible manifestation of those ‘voices in the head’ so many of us have heard which eat away at our happiness and self-confidence. The rhythm of this poem, and the list-like structure – recalls Dorothy Parker’s light verse, but the poem is quintessential Shel Silverstein. Some of his complaints are understandable and relatable – the ground being too dusty, for instance, or his shoes being too tight – while others reveal him to be a complete misery-guts: complaining that other people are too happy, for example (no chance of that with Mr Grumpledump himself!), or that clouds are too fluffy. Everything is wrong, because everything in the world is ‘too’ something: days are too long, the sunshine is too hot for him, and the moon is too high. Mr Grumpledump, as his name perhaps suggests, hates everything – or at least, seems to. Mimi find him alluring but hasn't had much luck with prospective men. Taking it in for repairs, she meets a good looking guy her age named Cramer who has some interesting theories about her computer problems. Later, she finds her computer has stopped working. Having left a car door unlocked, she returns to find someone has rifled through her belongings and stolen from her. Mimi soon has her own encounters with the mysterious intruder. Eventually Mimi finds out a little more than she was prepared to about Jay, but accepts that he too has a legitimate connection to the place. Jay doesn't believe her, but the day they met was her first day in Canada, let alone at the cottage. The only problem is that Mimi was still in New York City when this started. Someone has also been fooling around with his recordings leaving strange sounds on the unused tracks of his most recent recordings. Jay believes Mimi is the one who has been breaking into the cottage and leaving animal corpses on the table to frighten him. His name is Jay and he is an aspiring musician. For starters, there is a guy living in the cottage already who seems to feel he has every right to be there. However, no sooner does she arrive, than more creepiness ensues. He tells her she can have all to herself for as long as she needs. Her father owns a cottage over a snye (a narrow channel) which he hasn't visited in years. Mimi has come to Canada to get away from a creepy professor who has abused her trust. The one point of view we never heard in the novel was Dracula’s own. Saberhagen’s approach works well, since Dracula is an epistolary novel told from several points of view. It turns out that Arthur and Janet Harker are descendants of Jonathan and Mina Harker of Stoker’s novel and Dracula is on a mission which will be revealed at the end of the novel. He relates the events of Bram Stoker’s novel from his point of view. On the tape within, is the voice of a man purporting to be Count Dracula. Arthur Harker and his wife Janet arrive in a hospital after their car dies on a remote road. Fortunately, Fred’s wife, Joan Saberhagen, has made certain that The Dracula Tape is still available in ebook and audio formats, so I was finally able to pick up a copy and dive into a book I’d long meant to read. Unfortunately, by the time I actually read Dracula in the mid-1990s, Saberhagen’s novel had fallen off my radar. However, in 1986, I hadn’t yet read the original Dracula and I thought it would be more enjoyable if I had some background. After I’d read and enjoyed The Frankenstein Papers, I’d always meant to seek out a copy of The Dracula Tape. It occurred to me that was a serious omission. Recently, a friend asked if I’d ever read Saberhagen’s 1975 novel, The Dracula Tape. The book has become something of a classic for children ages 3 and up. And of course she enjoys eating them and having her own cookbook. Pretend Soup by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson is one of my absolute favorite books. Pretend soup and other real recipes by Mollie Katzen. The recipes are simple and tasty, and she can mostly cook them herself (with help). Co-author Mollie Katzen is, most famously, the author of The Moosewood Cookbook. Maia usually helps me make a mess (um, cook) from any cookbook these days, but I like the idea of a kids cookbook. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes : A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up. Maia did every step herself (with me telling her what to do), including painting the muffin tins with butter and a pastry brush (lots of fun)! She even poured the batter into the tins with a 1/4 cup measure.Īnd I like that the recipes are all kid tested and approved with cute kid reviews for each along the lines of, “It tastes so good, I’m gonna eat it ALL UP!” and “I wish I could eat 100 of them!” In 2007 the Moosewood Cookbook was inducted. Tag on Instagram and hashtag it #artfulparent She has written and illustrated three childrens cookbooks, Pretend Soup, Honest Pretzels, and Salad People. “Walking, Researching, Remembering” is, yes, an extremely amiable and charming tour de force, which, to me, also has the advantage of drawing attention to one of the differences between North American and European fiction - the Europeans (see Kundera’s The Art of the Novel) have never been averse to mixing their essays with their novels, whereas North Americans have been stunned into minimalism by that show-don’t-tell nonsense. In effect, he incarnates the form (of the essay) in his discussion of the essay and Sebald as essayist in the most amiable and slyly convincing manner. Sebald’s discursive, essayistic novels, especially The Rings of Saturn, but then Patrick wanders off and talks about the nature of the essay itself, the nature of creative nonfiction, the fictional aspects of nonfiction and the nonfictional aspects of fiction, and the way he likes to write his own essays (maybe a dozen different topics-you count). Something like that must be at the back of Patrick Madden’s essays because he will wander and digress and quote and ponder and talk about himself and reflect and quote again. The movie writer/director Ron Shelton once told me he figured he had enough material for a movie when he had enough for twelve movies. The ability to have the imagination throughout the story is awesome. I think that's why it touches me so deeply. Even though it's a short story, it is a complete package of life lesson. But, I like to define the theme as 'unexpressed love'. There is love, compassion, selflessness, commitment and sacrifice, hardwork in life, child marriage, poverty and descrimanation etc. Even I can't categorized it to a certain genre. I read the Sinhala translation 'ගුරු ගීතය' by Dedigama V Rodrigo, when I was 18 years old, way back in 2014. It was first written in the Russian language. But there are a few that touches my heart deeply like " Der erste Lehrer, by Chinghiz Aitmatov. From fairies to international top-rated books I have referred. I can't remember how many books I have read in my life. “Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again.” |