Over the years, Rosie and Mazie move apartment so often it becomes a local running joke. Her streets are filled with men who have lost everything, “bodies all around, not dead, but some of them seemed barely alive … I gave them all I had in my pockets and kept digging to see if I could find more.” Why is this city so beautiful when it mourns?” Mazie asks, the spectre of future catastrophe looming between the lines. “I had to see today on the streets, the day Wall Street fell. That’s the real test.” Homelessness soars when the Great Depression hits. “Life’s plenty easy when you’re winning,” she says. She befriends a nun who is devoted to helping the poor, and Mazie’s humanitarian streak develops. Mazie wears bright dresses, bleaches her hair, and drinks her way through Prohibition. At first, Mazie thinks it’s a death sentence, but instead of being shut off from the world, the world lines up in front of her box office every day, and she becomes the centre of the Bowery. Rosie, who wants to keep Mazie safe, away from the streets, has persuaded Louis to employ Mazie in the “cage” of The Venice. It’s 1918 – one year before Prohibition, 11 years before the Wall Street Crash – and Mazie lives with her younger sister Jeanie, older sister Rosie and Rosie’s husband Louis, who owns a cinema called The Venice.
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It does not go without saying how poverty can greatly influence the personality of a person. Nonetheless, this built her ability to cope and develop a stronger personality in dealing with future events that may bring pain without giving up. Sugar, as portrayed, felt bad and suffered emotional torture from the experiences of Bertie Mae. For instance, a person who makes the choice to move on and persevere builds a stronger coping mechanism on future events that may cause pain. However, how one responds to the pain influences the adaptability and survival mechanisms of a person. Bertie Mae's ordeals such as battery and emotional suffering greatly impacted courage and cultivated deep sense to persevere and not giving up.įear of physical pain is a significant source of psychological torture. Although psychologists argue that fear is a motivating factor in the change of personality, the same fear of the unseen often times instill the discipline of perseverance and coping with the adversities the hard way. As seen from the book, Sugar does not listen to the nasty things that the residents of Bigelow have to say about her (, n.d.). Sugar, who has grown up witnessing the nasty ordeals that her mother, Bertie Mae suffered while staying with Ciel Brown can arguably have made her personality stronger in shoving the hardships of life away and instilled the aspect of perseverance in her. The father of Bede may, for all we know, have been in his youth a heathen fighter and sea-rover such as we encounter in that poem. While Bede was composing his History in the new monastery at Jarrow, built by Benedict Biscop, some brother-scribe in a Northumbrian monastery-quite conceivably in Jarrow itself-may have been at work, redacting the text of Beowulf, our precious Old English epic of the slayer of monsters and dragons. Their spirit is sweetly reasonable as that of Westcott, tranquil as that of Keble or Stanley. For here are the first fruits of the Christian scholarship of England, and they read as if behind them lay a long tradition of gentle learning. The sensitive reader handles these pages with reverence not untouched by amaze. Source: Introduction to Bede's The Eccesiastical History of the English Nation (and Lives of Saints and Bishops), with an Introduction by Vida D. For instance, Taylor shows that most of the people living in what is now Ontario were essentially neutral during the war– or at the very least they tried to avoid getting involved in the conflict. Patriotic Americans looking for celebratory stories will be disappointed by this volume, as will anti-American Canadian undergraduates looking for heroes to add to the Canadian nationalist pantheon. Indeed, if one did not know that the identity of the author, it would be hard to guess his nationality. Taylor is an American, he certainly cannot be accused of bias towards the United States in terms of his choice of archival source or overall interpretation. It is also based on extensive archival research in both Canada and the United States. This book incorporates recent scholarship, such as Carl Benn’s wonderful study of the Iroquois in the War of 1812. It’s an important and well-written book, albeit one with one flaw I will discuss below.Īs the bicentennial of the war approaches, I am certain that many people will turn to this work as a reference. I have just finished reading Alan Taylor’s new book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies. It is full of whimsy, wonder, energy, and joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee's delightful book evokes the same positive feelings she describes. * Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg * A tender and moving book about one of our most important feelings - joy * Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Lost Connections * Joyful overturns conventional wisdom about happiness: that it comes from within, and that experiences-not things-make us happier. Warning: reading this book may cause unexpected bouts of joy. In the book, she details ten esthetics of joy: energy, abundance, freedom, harmony, play, surprise, transcendence, magic, celebration, and renewal. Ingrid Fetell Lee's blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight. So I got curious about joy, and picked up Joyful, by designer Ingrid Fetell Lee. Joyful is an inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good * - Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global Founder, The Huffington Post * Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it-and how to create it. * Susan Cain, author of QUIET and founder of Quiet Revolution * A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea: we all have within the power to design joy into our lives. Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy. This book has the power to change everything. This book review examines Ingrid Fetell Lees book Joyful, which articulates the ten components of an aesthetics of joy. Mike Grondin helpfully pointed out that I had managed to replicate the verb forms for the focalising present/present II in the verb paradigms table instead of presenting the correct forms for the relative present /relative of present I. I used the tables to produce a table of Sahidic Coptic verb paradigms with their alternative names which others might also find useful. I found the tables of verb conjugation bases and the concordance of grammatical terms at the back helpful for getting my head around the differences between the older naming conventions used by Lambdin and the newer ones used by Layton, but I had not looked at it carefully enough to notice the errors that Brice points out. I own a copy of the book and have dipped into it in places, but not worked through it systematically. Brice Jones has reviewed Johanna Brankaer’s Coptic – A Learning Grammar (Sahidic) (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2010) here. They unearth their wands from the attic, dust off their broomsticks, and begin casting spells on the townspeople. Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas, and the Beauchamp women realize they can no longer conceal their true selves. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. And finally, there’s Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.įor centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. But they are harboring a mighty secret–they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. “The three Beauchamp women–Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid–live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Baptist where she talked about the importance of depicting Black Joy in kid lit. I recently read an interview with author Kelly J. Retellings of Black historical figures and events in Black history We’ve divided this brief collection into general age groups and then into two categories, so it’s easy for you to jump in:įun, fictional stories with Black main characters Let’s dive into some of this bookish goodness, yes? I can’t wait to see how this shapes the future. Y’all, our kids will grow up seeing the diversity of their world depicted in books in ways we never did. And there’s been a wonderful explosion of Black main characters in kidlit–a really exciting (and overdue) development. So many talented authors and illustrators have brought Black history to life through their work. Talking about race with kids in a way that is age-appropriate, but also not watered-down, can be tough! I’m aware that my words are complicated by my own privilege and personal history…how can I give my girls a bigger picture? How can you do the same for your kiddos? And I want them to know the brilliance and resilience of Black women and men throughout history. I want my girls to know the truth (even though it’s an ugly truth) about Black history in the US and our country’s ongoing struggles with racial equity. As a white woman, the significance of this month has changed for me over the years-from simple appreciation before I was a parent, to a focus on education, now that I’m the mama to 2 young girls. He illustrates this with extended examples from some of those contemporary hunter-gatherers: the San bushmen of southern Africa. “Hunter-gatherers-our ancestors and contemporaries-are not nervous rabbits but cerebral problem-solvers.” As Pinker puts it, “In social science and the media, the human being is portrayed as a caveman out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions.”īut Pinker argues that rationality is human nature and can be observed in less formal, more rudimentary forms, in the earliest human activity. This is the currently popular idea that we are all basically unfrozen cavemen equipped with a primitive tribal-emotional default setting, so that modern rationality is an unnatural imposition on human nature. Pinker begins by pushing back against the notion that there is some kind of inherent barrier to human rationality. Plus, getting a visual of this diverse cast of characters was wonderful: the Chinese Cinder and Kai, the black Iko and Winter, and the white Scarlet, Cress and Thorne. This series is a whole lot of light silliness, easy to digest science-fiction, and romance, but underneath there's a constant subtle nod to the outsiders those who have had to fight to be heard or taken seriously because of who they are. Her behaviour and feelings are constantly being questioned - her fiery temper considered a "malfunction" and her emotions considered "artificial". She also has to deal with being the "forgotten hero", her name kept out of the history books because she is an android, and therefore not considered a real person. Iko is now a hunter, searching for rogue wolf-hybrids all over the world. The characters we know and love all make an appearance, and Meyer's trademark humour keeps the story light between the royal politics and drama. The protagonist here is Iko, the charming and - as you will soon see - badass android that's been with Cinder from the very beginning.Īnd it was really enjoyable. It is basically the fifth book in the Lunar Chronicles and does contain spoilers for all previous books - so if you haven't finished the others don't make the mistake of thinking this is a completely separate story. Wires and Nerve picks up shortly after the end of Winter. I loved it! It's just a shame that graphic novels are over so quickly and now we must wait a whole year for the sequel. |