After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine ( eserine), his granddaughter Sophia tells narrator and fiancé Charles Hayward that they cannot marry until the killer is apprehended. His second wife is the indolent Brenda, decades his junior, suspected of having a clandestine love affair with Laurence, the grandchildren's tutor. His first wife Marcia died her sister Edith has cared for the household since then. Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. twisted and twining", meaning unhealthily interdependent on the intensely strong personality of the family patriarch, Aristide Leonides. Narrator Charles's fiancée Sophia says it refers not to dishonesty, but rather "we hadn't been able to grow up independent. The title refers to a nursery rhyme (" There Was a Crooked Man"), a common theme of the author. Christie said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works. The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.
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The Barbara Walker Crossing earned international recognition from two major organizations: Collaboration of Design + Art in Public Spaces (CODA), an international clearinghouse for connecting designers and artists, and the Portland Garden Club.ĬODA’S international jury gave the Crossing top honors in Transportation and the Crossing also won one of the three People’s Choice awards, selected from among hundreds of entries worldwide. In 2014, the Portland Parks Foundation adopted the project and partnered with Portland Parks & Recreation, the Portland Bureau of Transportation, Metro, and hundreds of Portlanders to bring the bridge to life.Ĭompanies like KPFF, R&H Construction, Walker Macy, and Shiels Obletz Johnson all played important roles, donating hundreds of hours of work for the design, engineering, construction, and installation of this bridge.Ĭontributions from foundations, businesses, and hundreds of donors made all of this possible. It moved from dream to drawing board in 2012 when architect Andrew Wheeler and artist Ed Carpenter began lobbying. The Barbara Walker Crossing had been a dream for decades. Pincus' text is rather simplistic, straightforward, and informative. Hermine "Miep" Gies (née Santrouschitz) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family (Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank-Holländer) and four other Dutch Jews (Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. When the Nazis came for Anne Frank’s family and the other Jewish friends who had been hidden in the secret annex, Anne left behind the diary that would be read and cherished around the world. Miep and the Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who Rescued Anne Frank's Diary is a children's picture book written by Meeg Pincus and illustrated by Jordi Solano. They are both developed personalities, and there is a charming intimacy between them of surprising depth and nuance. Holmes and Watson are excellent characters, and I loved their friendship. Published today, I think this book would provoke a degree of ridicule, but I can see why it has endured. ‘It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.’ ‘Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,’ answered Holmes thoughtfully. The stories are somewhat formulaic, always starting along the lines of ‘it was a case unlike any other, fit to challenge the brightest minds of the age… but these criminal machinations could prove no match for the intellectual powers of my most marvellous companion…‘ That’s my poor imitation, but it’s not much of an exaggeration. It is a collection of twelve short stories, narrated by Watson, and chronicles the famous duo’s sleuthing escapades. Ever the eager student, I have vague memories of flicking through the first few pages, before I consigned the book to indefinite exile at the bottom of my bookcase.īetter late than never? I enjoyed The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes a great deal more than I was expecting to. I’m feeling quite pleased with myself, because this book has been in my TBR pile for years. Are you pear-shaped or apple-shaped?įat accumulated in the lower body (the pear shape) is subcutaneous, while fat in the abdominal area (the apple shape) is largely visceral. In women, it is also associated with breast cancer and the need for gallbladder surgery. Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Visceral fat, on the other hand, lies out of reach, deep within the abdominal cavity, where it pads the spaces between our abdominal organs. Abdominal, or visceral, fat is of particular concern because it's a key player in a variety of health problems - much more so than subcutaneous fat, the kind you can grasp with your hand. But we've now been put on notice that as our waistlines grow, so do our health risks. Extra pounds tend to park themselves around the midsection.Īt one time, we might have accepted these changes as an inevitable fact of aging. As people go through their middle years, their proportion of fat to body weight tends to increase - more so in women than men. Though the term might sound dated, "middle-age spread" is a greater concern than ever. Visceral fat more of a health concern than subcutaneous fat If they fail, they will lose the only lives they've ever known.but if they succeed, they could be more powerful than anyone ever bargained for.įrom New York Times best-selling author Megan Shepherd, Grim Lovelies is the glittering first audiobook in a new YA epic fantasy series. Pursued through Paris by the underground magical society known as the Haute, Anouk and her fellow Beasties only have three days to find the real killer before the spell keeping them human fades away. Now, the world she always dreamed of is rife with danger. That is, until one day she finds her mistress murdered in a pool of blood - and Anouk is accused of the crime. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison, Anouk is a Beastie: destined for a life surrounded by dust bunnies and cinders serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow. As they become closer over batches of bread, love is ready to bloom. But while interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easygoing guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and hot ovens. Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. And what I didn’t expect was how cute this comic would be! Summary I have had Bloom on my radar for a while as I’ve just been getting more and more into First Second. Overall, they found that those who stop themselves from eating the first marshmallow in order to obtain the second ostensibly exhibit better self-control, a characteristic they linked with later academic and career success.īut according to a new study published in Psychological Science, the marshmallow test is not as decisive as previous research suggests. This dilemma, commonly known as the marshmallow test, has dominated research on children’s willpower since 1990, when Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and his colleagues published their groundbreaking study on the topic. (Or so the popular children’s book goes.) But if you ask a kid to wait 15 minutes before eating that marshmallow, promising a second if she holds out, she’s going to have a hard time complying. Eventually, she'll want another marshmallow. If you give a kid a marshmallow, she’s going to ask for a graham cracker. (“When I talk about pictures in my mind,” Didion said, “I am talking, quite specifically, about images that shimmer around the edges. The words smear and splash and streak and-through precision and, you have to assume, a bit of magic-conspire to make the whole. More than admitting, they imply-Montaigne, definitely, but also Monet: Didion is an essayist who is also an impressionist. Didion’s confessions are controlled, always, and extremely strategic about what they share and what they keep hidden from view. Didion, with her faith in the moral worth of introspection-her conviction that understanding oneself operates on a continuum with the understanding of everything else-helped to inspire a generation of writers to remain, via acts of performative journaling, on nodding terms with the people they used to be.ĭidion’s writing, however, can be deceptive: It pulses with the heady warmth of confession, but in fact has extremely little patience for the indignities of aimless admission. “What I want and what I fear.” The writer was in one way taking preemptive credit-or, depending on your point of view, accepting the preemptive blame-for the explosion of personal essay-writing that, fueled by the internet and its egotisms, would later become known as the first-person industrial complex. “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means,” Joan Didion confessed in 1976. Kids are invited to join in reading with exuberant alliterative words like “Ding Dong Ding, that call out to the little girl Her big heart and buoyant spirit will inspire kids to find the spirit of the holiday in everything they do too. Little ones wanting to share their bubbly excitement for Christmas as well as their innate empathy will fall in love with the little girl who eagerly joins in on all of the city’s festivities while also embracing those in need. Courtesy of Bloomsbury Children’s Books.Īs the sights and sounds of Christmas begin to light up towns, stores, and homes, Connie Schofield-Morrison’s story fills young readers with the joy and deeper meaning of the holiday. Image copyright Frank Morrison, 2018, text copyright Connie Schofield-Morrison, 2018. |