I think sometimes it's good for kids to hear a story where good and evil are clearly delineated and evil is given the proper punishment. I did like that this witch was a complete villain, not just someone who was misunderstood, and I also appreciated that she received a fitting villain's comeuppance. Myself, I was more amused by how old-fashioned the book felt and by how easily I was able to predict what was going to happen next. I read this book aloud to my three and five year old daughters in the days just before Halloween, and they were completely riveted. When she begins going to school against her mother's wishes, Minx makes some new friends, and together they all try to use Madam Snickasnee's potions to conjure up a fairy who might be able to help them turn her flower pots back into children and maybe even rescue Minx from her unhappy home life. Minx shares none of her mother's terrible qualities, however, and she is determined to do things her own way. Minikin ("Minx") is the daughter of the much-feared witch Madam Snickasnee, who turns innocent children into flower pots, stirs up dangerous brews in her cauldron and refuses to allow her only child to attend school.
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Though their chemistry is undeniable, they're forced to keep their distance as everyone pushes them together. As royal wedding plans spiral out of control, Christina's charm and kindness breathe fresh air into the royal court, challenging Richard's beliefs about his kingdom. The legend of the ring claims Prince Richard must marry the woman who wears the ring or abdicate, but both he and Christina are determined to defy destiny. Christina, desperate to escape the spotlight, finds her clumsiness reaching new heights when she gets the fabled royal engagement ring stuck on her finger. There, he encounters the enchanting, accident-prone American heiress, Christina Armstrong, who he dislikes on sight and wants to avoid for the rest of the evening. Attending a royal birthday ball in his honor is not at the top of his to-do list, but duty calls. A skeptical prince, an American heiress, and the enchanted ring… Prince Richard de Thierry of San Montico believes legends and love are relics of the past. And despite Mika’s protests, she is roped into caring for a person that seems impossible to have compassion for. While Mika’s family would rather not deal with Grandma Betty, they don’t have much choice. Because Grandma Betty isn’t here to play nice-she is cranky, intolerant of Mika’s mixed-race-couple parents, and oh yeah she has Alzheimer’s and is out of money. Mika Arlington was supposed to spend the summer after her junior year shadowing her marine biologist parents at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but when her estranged grandmother randomly shows up on the doorstep one day, those plans are derailed. You can read this before Fish Out of Water PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Fish Out of Water written by Natalie Whipple which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Fish Out of Water by Natalie Whipple The illustrations and pages in this book were made by hand by the author: she drew and collaged on brown paper, then photographed the resulting images and printed them in a book. The pictures are framed to reflect windows into the adults’ view of death and dying, and the boy instead uses them as doors to move outside of their perspective into his own. Also the boy’s grandmother and her possessions go outside the frame as well - this reflects her similar personality to the boy and the fact that she is gone from this world. His more concrete understanding of death brings him out of the book slightly, so that he does not fit fully within their narrative. This to me speaks of his refusal to go along with what the adults are saying to him - his grandmother is not asleep, but dead. It also brings up the sometimes difficult and controversial topic of dealing with death.Īll of the images in the book are positioned within a white frame of the page, but the little boy breaks the border with the tips of his body. Their conversation, as well as the interactions the child has with adults around him, highlights the fact that children are much more perceptive and literal than adults believe. This book is about a little boy whose grandmother has just died, and the narrator discusses with the boy the different ways adults talk (or avoid talking) about death. Publisher and Year: The Feminist Press, 2016 Author and Illustrator: Anastasia Higginbotham I feel like this helps make her books more personable and easier to read. She does intertwine stories into her books, both personal and stories of people she knows or has interviewed. Brown is a social scientist, researcher and storyteller, so her books are based on research, which I like. So, to say that in a very short time I have become a Brené Brown super fan, would be putting it mildly. I started with The Gifts of Imperfection and once I finished it, I just went back and ordered all the rest because I knew that I would eventually want to read them all. I perused the Brené Brown website and ordered a few, okay all of her books. I did a little more searching and found her TED talks about vulnerability and courage and the Super Soul Interview that she did with Oprah. Well, this just happened to be right around the same time that Brown launched her weekly podcast Unlocking Us which I immediately began listening to and looking forward to each week. A couple close friends suggested that I look for podcasts from her. My introduction to Brené Brown came last spring when I was looking for something to listen to on my walks. What lies behind such behavior and preferences? That is precisely one of the points that the book we're sharing with you today seeks to explore. We make all kinds of similar irrational choices in our daily lives. So, why would people make contrary choices, even if the gain remains the same and the only difference being the description? On the other hand, if you’d like to take the opportunity to win the $2,000, then you should choose both options giving you a 50% chance to achieve it. If you are happy with $1,500, then you should pick both options offering the same resulting amount with a 100% chance. However when you think carefully, you'll see that the two questions are virtually identical. When answering the second question, however, most people chose the prospect with a 50% chance of losing $1,000. The result showed that for the first question, the majority picked the option with a 100% chance of winning $500. These were the two questions that the two psychologists asked their research participants. Question two: You've been given $2,000, and you need to choose from another two options. Question one: Imagine you’ve been given $1,000, and you need to choose from two options. Today we’ll unlock the book The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.īefore we proceed, first think of the following two questions. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline? When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig - making her doubly an outsider as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengineered enhancements. They call it Company Town - a city-size oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. I’ll also discuss how the technique connects to a presently blossoming realization that is reformatting the deep code of my embodied understanding: In the video below, I’ll dive deep into the Letting Go Technique to elucidate my understanding of how it works and why it is so powerful. Hawkins details a simple yet profoundly powerful technique called the ‘Letting Go Technique‘ that can be used anytime, anywhere to skillfully process emotions and lead us toward higher, lighter, freer stages of human development. In Letting Go, Hawkins elaborates a path to healing and letting go of wounds/blockages that are preventing the realization of higher states of consciousness. I strongly suspect I will read more of his books and continue to revisit them for the rest of my life. I might go as far as to say that they’re occasioning a full-blown paradigm shift in my reality. Letting Go, his YouTube videos, and his book Power VS Forceare clarifying and deepening my understanding in so many ways. His book, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender, is perhaps the greatest book I’ve ever read. Katie Green depicts it right, this stalking cloud, this self-loathing and repugnance at oneself’s actions and behaviour, this shame at feeling that way in the first place. A fog dissipating, but still clearly visible on the horizon, just waiting to spread. It compounds and build onto itself and it’s difficult to keep at bay no matter how hard you try. Each time I feel better and fall back down, it hurts even more. I’ve had similar feelings and thoughts that Green depicts here A black cloud hovering over me, following me at every turn, sometimes growing to engulf me completely before receding and hiding until it eventually comes back. I never quite can describe it to people who never experienced it. I think this graphic novel meant so much to me because I’ve been struggling with depression for the last two or three years. Green provides a thorough look at her own life to show how this illness affected her. People with addictions are engaged in constant struggle against themselves, whether it’s because of an eating disorder, alcohol or substance abuse, gambling or other. It’s a hard look at mental illness (anorexia in this case) and the recurring effects on a person’s physical and mental health. I cried when I finished Katie Green’s Lighter than my Shadow. I am pleased to say that I loved it as much as the first time and here I am leaving you my “old” review as it translates perfectly what I felt this second time around. When I learned some months ago that Lucy Christopher would finally give us a sequel titled “Released” I ordered the book as soon as possible and… I decided a reread was in order. I was instantly smitten with that gorgeous and unconventional story. I read this book for the first time in 2016. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare–or die trying to fight it. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. And before Gemma knows what’s happening, Ty takes her. Ty–rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar–pays for Gemma’s drink. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. |