![]() ![]() Matthews's extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top political aide Kenneth O'Donnell and others, documents from his years as a student at Choate, and notes from Jacqueline Kennedy's first interview after Dallas. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. ![]() We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. ![]() What was he like, this man whose own wife called him "that elusive, unforgettable man?" In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve of a novelist. "What was he like?" Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Foxing on outside page edges foxing on inside is limited to first and last several pages. Soil and smudges on paste down and free end papers. Front paste down shows evidence of roughly removed bookplate. Fore-edge corners are turned in and rubbed through. ![]() Edges at head and tail of board spine are rubbed and split in several places fraying and tiny closed tears on the corner tips and points. Spine folds are rubbed and beginning to separate in several places. Boards are scuffed overall with patchy discoloration. Original dark blue clothwith light blue stamped text and graphics on the front panel and gilt text with light blue graphics on spine. Footnote on bottom of page 480 states "Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles." Good plus first English edition book with all points. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party-and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. ![]() ![]() K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. But her devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments.īook Synopsis Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. In an urbane Japan of jazz bars, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles, a college student, falls in love with Summire. About the Book Combining the seductions of "Norwegian Wood" with the complex mysteries of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, " here is Murakami at his most intriguing, mystifying, and satisfying. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fourth viewpoint did not add any extra insight or necessary details through the whole novel all it did was up the word count, and I firmly believe if it doesn’t add to the story it should be left out. Two of the characters were with each other throughout the entire novel, and having both points of view was just each story being retold, most of the time word for word. It was clear why it was told from three of the four, but the fourth viewpoint seemed excessive, to the say the least, and completely unnecessary. Forever Doon was told from four different points of view. ![]() Although there is nothing wrong with that, there is a point when it isn’t needed. I felt as though the target age for the series changed to a younger audience, as if series was being dragged on, like the authors lost their focus and were unclear where it was going, and like the classification of the novels changed.įorever Doon, like the three before, was a multiple point of view book. After the first two though, I started having some fairly major issues with the novels. Not being one for fairytales with the whole princess and prince thing, I was surprised at how much I thoroughly enjoyed the first two titles in the series. I’ve read the Doon series from beginning to end. An avid reader, Kymbo is also the teenaged daughter of our own Ang. Please help TWITA welcome guest reviewer, Kymbo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laura is the only one who knows that Sorry is a witch…and he is the only one she thinks can help her in this fraught situation. Enter the Carlisle family who are witches and Sorenson who is a senior (6 former) at Laura’s school. ![]() Jacko is targeted by an entity who steals life forces to exist and it is a race against time to overcome and reverse this terrible incident. Laura lives with her mum (Kate) and little brother(Jacko) in New Zealand and they are a tight unit due to the divorce and their limited financial resources. She is often forewarned but not in a clear, helpful way when there are important events that impact on her life. The Changeover is about Laura who is a sensitive to supernatural portents. Yet this wasn’t limited to females, all characters including supernatural ones are well rounded, developed and in some cases fascinating. ![]() There were different family units all with strong women providing a home. I remember that I enjoyed it very much, not just for the romance or the supernatural elements but more so for the depiction of people and their interactions. I first read The Changeover when I was in secondary school and regularly read it in my teens. ![]() ![]() The monster wearing the “The End is Nigh” sandwich board is wonderful. I loved her wide eyed OMG, the button worked! expression and giggled at the “BLRG!” horror of raising herself from the ground covered in giant snail slime.Ĭharacter wise, I had completely forgotten about dopey Jerry who joyfully declares the good news that “In three days an asteroid is gonna explode us all!” to attempt to fix Zita’s leaking eyes. I appreciated and paid more attention to the details this time around, including the wonderful expressions on Zita’s face throughout the story. What’s wrong with me?! (Please don’t answer that!) The bright side is that I decided to reread this one so I remembered where I left Zita and her friends. ![]() ![]() Here we are almost 4 months after I first adored this graphic novel and I still haven’t read Legends of Zita the Spacegirl. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has also published the picture books King Baby and The Princess and the Pony. The collections of her landmark strip Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops each spent several months on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list, as well as appearing on best of the year lists from Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR Books, and winning the Eisner, Ignatz, Harvey, and Doug Wright Awards. ![]() After graduating from Mount Allison University with a double degree in History and Anthropology, she moved to Alberta in search of work that would allow her to pay down her student loans. Kate Beaton was born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Featuring a performance by Peter MacInnis. Ducks is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people. Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. Join comics artist Kate Beaton in conversation with journalist and professor Asmaa Malik to celebrate the launch of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton’s first full length graphic narrative. ![]() ![]() People keep mixing up 'Holding The Man' and 'Remembering The Man' as if they are the same thing - they are NOT, they are very different. I felt I understood them so much more after seeing it. To me it really brought Tim & John to life - as real people. Remembering The Man is a documentary yes, but it is so much more. Since reading the book 'Holding The Man' years ago, I'd always had so many questions about Tim & John - and Remembering The Man answered so many of them. Through a combination of re-created scenes, interviews and some narration from Tim himself (from an old interview he did), Remembering The Man really allows you to get inside and behind the story of Tim Conigrave and John Caleo. And it didn't disappoint - in some ways I enjoyed it even more than 'Holding The Man' movie. When I found out a major documentary was being made of Tim & John's story I knew I had to see it. It felt like it didn't 100% capture the magic of the book 'Holding The Man'. ![]() ![]() I'd seen the feature film 'Holding The Man' based on Tim Conigrave's book and I really liked it - but it felt 'not quite right'. I saw Remembering the Man at the Adelaide Film Festival and was blown away by it. ![]() ![]() Reflection reveals this simple concept to be surprisingly elusive, at leastĪmong the majority of us in the Western world. Shop, cook, and think about one of their most basic needs and pleasures.Īfter Pollan eye-openingly followed four meals from seed to table in The Omnivore's Dilemma, he was repeatedly asked one question by his readers: So what should I eat? His answer is simple: "Eat food. Will inevitably preach to the choir, but some of his research is sure to getĮven the most thoughtful eaters scratching their heads and changing the way they ![]() With a small but impassioned return to wholeįoods free-range meats and fair, local farming brewing among foodies Pollan Out as remarkably sound and sustainable not just for ourselves, but also for Might change next year, Pollan presents a concept of food and eating that shakes Rather than presenting a faddish list of do's and don'ts that ![]() ![]() Michael Pollan's impassioned "eater's manifesto", I must admit, the idea is Have you ever considered purchasing an entire hog from a localįarmer and sticking it in your freezer? I hadn't either, but after reading Michael Pollan offers a well-considered answer to the question posed in his bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma - so what should I eat? ![]() ![]() ![]() Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent-and ultimately very hopeful-novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves. ![]() The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people-each living on the periphery-to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. When a strange new visitor arrives-a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side-the city is entranced. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges-crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population. Not to mention an orca and a polar bear!” -Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke Awards After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. ![]() Plus, it has lots of action and a great cast of characters. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. “Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. ![]() |