During a total solar eclipse, when the moon completely blocks the face of the sun and it goes dark in the middle of the day, that is the only time when it actually is safe to look up toward the sun with the naked eye. A total eclipse is completely different from anything else you've ever experienced, including a partial solar eclipse. SIMON: What did that set off in you? What did you see?īARON: Well, so a total solar eclipse, nothing can prepare you for it. It was the most awe-inspiring, I dare say spiritual experience, I've ever had. I saw my first total eclipse in Aruba in 1998. SIMON: Before we get into this book, you're kind of an eclipse fanatic, aren't you?īARON: Oh, yeah. David, thanks so much for being back with us.ĭAVID BARON: Hello, Scott, it's my pleasure. David Baron now joins us from Colorado Public Radio in Denver. David, who used to be a science reporter here at NPR, has written "American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race To Catch The Shadow Of The Moon And Win The Glory Of The World." It's the story of the total eclipse that occurred on July 29, 1878. David Baron has been preparing for it for almost 20 years. This will be the first total eclipse of the sun to pass over the continental United States since 1918. A total solar eclipse will sweep across the country. On August 21, millions of Americans will look up into the sky - with the proper eye protection, we hope.
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Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.Īs she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. When it does, you need to press it as hard as you can.” Riley Sager, Lock Every Door “Every so often, life offers you a reset button. One day, an old, brown, dirty, ragged seamen with a sabre cut on his cheek, arrives at the inn and satisfied that the inn contains few people, throws down some gold money and stays for several months. He proceeds by recounting a pirate that resided with his family while he was a boy, living at his father's inn, the "Admiral Benbow," near Bristol, England, during some unspecified part of the 18th century. Livesey, and other gentlemen have requested him to write down the details his experience with Treasure Island, since the treasure remains on the island. The book begins with the narrator, Jim Hawkins, explaining his motive for telling this story: Squire Trelawney, Dr. Rather than being returned to the shelter for failing, as the teacher threatens, Junior finagles a way to enter the Debonair Dandy-Dog Show, with expectedly amusing results. floppy-eared.” Newly rescued, he is delighted with his new “pet human,” Rafe, who in Junior’s Doglish becomes “Ruff Catch-A-Doggy-Bone.” The clueless pup’s delusions stoke the story’s humor: he knows “there’s no nicer way for a human to be woken than with a paw-poke in the center of their forehead.” Similarly, sent to obedience school after causing a ruckus in the park, Junior is convinced he’ll ace the class, despite his inability to follow commands, and is outraged when he flunks (“Stop everything! The world has gone mad!”). In this series spinoff, narrator Junior, hound of the Middle School series’ Rafe Khatchadorian, typifies his exuberance and loquaciousness in his journal’s introduction: “If you hadn’t guessed already, I’m a dog. Very similar to the guilty pleasure some of us may feel with Real Housewives or other reality television, this is what puts the fun in “a fun thriller.” We can laugh and smile at some of her outlandish expectations because she seems to be in on it with us. It makes the character endearing and provides a lot of the fun as well. Sharp contrasts are drawn immediately between Ellie’s life at sixteen, where she lived in a trailer park, came from a broken home, and had no money, as compared to her ultra-lavish lifestyle in present-day where she has bought a mansion on a whim, planned a 40 th birthday party for herself that includes two after-parties, and has pointedly invited “at least 3” of her billionaire friends to the party.įrom the very beginning, however, we get a sense that while Ellie lives for the luxurious life of excess, she still seems to be able to see through it – and mock it. The present timeline is the 40 th birthday party of Ellie de Florent-Stinson, and this story is intercut with chapters from twenty-four years earlier. The novel is told through two separate timelines in alternating chapters. Maybe that isn’t really a genre, or even a sub-genre, but it is a great way to accurately describe this thoroughly enjoyable, but still suspenseful and twisted tale. Part Real Housewives guilty pleasure and part unravelling mystery, Melissa de la Cruz’s The Birthday Girl is (probably) the first book I have ever categorised as “a fun thriller”. № 16 in The BBC's 100 Greatest British Novels. Whilst not one of Woolf's most famous books, it is very highly regarded and was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written in a 2015 BBC poll. The thoughts by the characters are broken up by nine interludes that detail a coastal scene. The Waves explores ideas of individualism and self as it follows the narrators from childhood to adulthood. Whilst the first six have monologues that make up the novel, the reader never hears the latter speak in his own voice. The book has seven characters: Bernard (a story-teller), Louis (an outsider), Neville (who may have been partly based on Lytton Strachey), Jinny (a socialite), Susan (a mother), Rhoda (a solitary woman), and Percival (the hero). The Waves is an experimental novel by English writer Virginia Woolf, first published in 1931. Home Ebooks Articles Buy Collections Donate F.A.Q About Contact Search ☰Īvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats. Like her, they would die for something none of them had had a part in. Lycaon was devastated by the loss of his love, but worse than that was the haunting knowledge that soon his own sons would join their mother and die every bit as horrifically. In only twenty-four hours she went from a beautiful young woman to a crone, then nothing but scattered dust. It was a secret she kept until the day when she, like all the others of her Apollite kind, began to decay and die. Because of the actions of her forefathers against the Greek god Apollo more than two thousand years before her birth, her people had been damned to die brutally on their twenty-seventh birthday. Little did he know she bore the darkest of all curses. A woman whose very smile was his life's blood. Like so many before and after, he made the mistake of falling in love with the most beautiful woman in his kingdom. One who refused to yield before the wills of the Greek gods who commanded him. Long before recorded history there lived a bold king. Gradually, Louisa and Karina are drawn into an intense sensual and artistic relationship, one that forces them to confront their deepest desires and fears. Complicating matters is Louisa’s unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Glamour, PopSugar, Debutiful.a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one drenched in prismatic color and light.”-Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire. Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” ( BuzzFeed) debut About the authors Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer The work contains 352 pages and is divided into three parts, in which the author teaches how it was possible to improve his company through the exclusion of rules.Īll the content is based on their professional experiences, which include their time in enterprises such as Blockbuster, Microsoft, Pure Software and Netflix itself. The book, which was written by Netflix CEO, and commented by Erin Meyer, explains everything about how was built the culture and philosophy of the enterprise and what happens in backstage of this corporation. This book summary will teach you the importance of walking along with the new technologies since the biggest risk you can take is not to make mistakes, but it's to not innovate.ĭo you want to know how it's possible to innovate with freedom? So, keep reading this summary and delve deeper into the culture of corporate freedom. Netflix is not out of this, and in the book "No Rules, Rules", Reed Hastings, the company's CEO, tells how was the process, from the understanding of the needy to change until the implementation of what he calls "the culture of freedom". Thereby, companies also had to rethink their way of working and doing business. The world has undergone a lot of changes in the past few decades, and this ranges from interpersonal relationships to commercial relationships. Michael Richardson leaves her for another woman, and she can’t cope. At that ball, Lol Stein’s life changes forever. They go to a ball and he dances with a woman named Anne-Marie Stretter. It’s about a woman named Lol Stein who falls in love with a man named Michael Richardson. It’s a book with a plot and characters, that much is certain. The Ravishing of Lol Stein seems to exist on two planes–the physical and the intangible. But I want to say something about this book. This review can’t make you feel what I felt, holding the book in my hands, discovering the words on the page, all the moments in which images and scenes have flashed in my mind. I hate writing reviews because words never touch the experience of reading a book. Anything I write about it will be mired in my own history and my own memories. I’ll start there, with an admission of my own limitations, a confession that any review that I write will fail to encompass all that I felt while reading it and all that I feel all these months and years later. I don’t know how to write about Lol Stein. |