I recognized the tune but couldn’t quite place it. Cantor Jodi Schectman–who had only recently taken her position at Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany, New York–came to the bimah (the pulpit). When it was time for the sermon, the sanctuary became solemn, hushed. LM: I was sitting in the synagogue with my son and his family during a High Holiday service. Considering that the Jewish New Year–Rosh Hashanah–is a time of introspection, of looking inward, I wondered…How could anyone measure a year? Specifically, how could a CHILD measure a year? LM: No matter what you celebrate or how you count, every year has a beginning and an ending. You’ve got a new picture book coming out in a few days- Measuring a Year: A Rosh Hashanah Story. With all the success Linda’s having lately, it seems the right time to find out why. This month’s Author Interview is with Linda Elovitz Marshall, who’s a “writer of books for young children and other cool stuff.” I know her from a previous critique group and from Jane Yolen’s Picture Book Boot Camp.
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6/4/2023 0 Comments Birthday russoReview: Meredith Russo has done it again. From the award-winning author of If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo, comes a heart-wrenching and universal story of identity, first love, and fate. Six years of birthdays reveal Eric and Morgan’s destiny as they come together, drift apart, fall in love, and discover who they’re meant to be―and if they’re meant to be together. Maybe one day I’ll be ready to become the person I am inside. With a dad who cares about his football team more than me, a mom I miss more than anything, and a best friend who can never know my biggest secret. MORGAN: I know that every birthday should feel like a new beginning, but I’m trapped in this mixed-up body, in this wrong life, in Nowheresville, Tennessee, on repeat. That there’ll be a day, a minute, a second, where it all falls apart and there’s no turning back the clock. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won’t be best friends forever. The years where we stuck by each other’s side―as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. Six years.ĮRIC: There was the day we were born. Summary (from the inside flap of the book): Two best friends. Location ( my 2020 Google Reading map) : USA (TN)įTC Disclosure: I bought this book with my own money Along the way, Singh meets members of The Simpsons ' brilliant writing team-among them David X. NP from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, infinity to even bigger infinities, and much more. While recounting memorable episodes such as “Bart the Genius” and “Homer3,” Singh weaves in mathematical stories that explore everything from p to Mersenne primes, Euler's equation to the unsolved riddle of P v. That they exist, Simon Singh reveals, underscores the brilliance of the shows' writers, many of whom have advanced degrees in mathematics in addition to their unparalleled sense of humor. You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama ) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. Among other things, a spectacular change and radical turning point in Turkish history, that is, the return to a multi-party regime after 1945, now more convincingly seems to me a product of the war years. As I have delved into the topic, I became increasingly convinced that the roots, real roots of many major developments in post-war era were closely related to and determined by the catastrophic conditions prevailing in the country during the World War II years. Turkey's return to multi-party politics in 1946 has been an interesting and puzzling topic to study. 6/4/2023 0 Comments The vanity fair bookThe curtain will be up presently, and he will be turning over head and heels, and crying, ‘How are you?’Ī man with a reflective turn of mind, walking through an exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. Yes, this is VANITY FAIR not a moral place certainly nor a merry one, though very noisy. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. Initially, the expectations created by that description led me slightly astray. The plot closely follows what is teased at in the blurb, but of course, not everything is at seems, including this novella. Add in that blurb teasing a found family, wuxia fantasy story involving a nun joining up with a group of bandits in order to protect a sacred object but finding herself in a situation far more complicated than she expected and yes, my tbr mountain found itself one book higher. Zen Cho is an author whose previous work I have enjoyed a lot, but in all honesty, what first drew my attention to this book was not the author or the title, but the beautiful, captivating illustration done by Sija Hong for the cover. Published: 23 June 2020 by Tor.com Publishing The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho 6/3/2023 0 Comments Brenda hiatt starstruck seriesAs Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen: her acne clears up, her eyesight improves to the point she can ditch her thick glasses, and when they touch, sparks fly-literally! When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly mundane life forever…and expose her to perils she never dreamed of. M's dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict "aunt," she's not even sure who she is. Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. The middle of nowhere is getting a lot more interesting! This volume contains the first two books of the Starstruck series, along with an extended preview of book 3 and additional bonus content providing additional insights into the series. Two complete novels plus never-before-published bonus materials! 6/3/2023 0 Comments Artemis fowl book 3HIS FACE IS PALE, HE HAS DARK EYES AND RAVEN HAIR. HE SHALL LEARN OUR SECRETS AND USE THEM AGAINST US. THIS IS WHAT THE PHLEGM TOLD ME: IN THIS TIME, ONE SHALL COME AMONG US. I SAW AN AGE WHEN THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN UNDERGROUND BY THE MUD MEN. BECAUSE OF ITS IMPORTANCE, I DECIDED TO WRITE IT DOWN FOR POSTERITY. THIS VISION WAS MORE VIVID AND DETAILED THAN ANY I HAD PREVIOUSLY SEEN. I WAS HEATING THE POT OVER A FLAME WHEN THE SIGN APPEARED. A VISION CAME TO ME TWO MOONS AGO, WHEN I WAS GAZING DEEP INTO HIS MAJESTY’S OWN PHLEGM POT. BUT SOMETIMES EVEN A POOR POT CLEANER CAN SEE WONDROUS THINGS. I FORETELL OUTBREAKS OF TROLL POX OR GAS SPASMS AMONG ELDERLY DWARFS. MY VISIONS ARE GENERALLY OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE. FOR CENTURIES, WE PIXIES HAVE READ THE PHLEGM, BUT I AM THE BEST THERE HAS EVER BEEN. BUT I AM MUCH MORE THAN THAT FOR I SEE THE FUTURE WRITTEN IN THE PHLEGM. THE PROPHECIES OF OHM PHLEGM POT CLEANER TO FROND ELFEN KING: I managed to decipher the code written below the book so for those who are interested.read on: This was not such good news for the central bank, which had forecast a slightly higher unemployment rate and slower wage growth. Labour market data released on Wednesday showed the unemployment rate holding on at 3.4% and private sector hourly wage growth up to 8.2% from 8.1%. This was lower than forecast by the RBNZ, but not enough on its own to declare victory. Recent data offers some signs that higher rates are cooling inflation but not to the extent that the RBNZ will be deterred from one last 25 point hike to reach 5.50%.Ĭonsumer price index data for the first quarter of 2023 showed a decline in the rate of inflation-at 6.7% annually, down from 7.2%-although the improvement was mostly imported. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will likely end its rate hike crusade this month with one final increase to the Official Cash Rate in its May Monetary Policy Statement. The path of future monetary policy will be partly decided by whether Chris Hipkins’ makes good on his promise to deliver a no-frills Budget that doesn’t exacerbate inflation. To create and pay for this program, Yang believes that a 10% value added tax be added on all goods and services. To combat that, Yang argues, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program is necessary to ensure peoples' basic needs are met. He opines that automation will eliminate millions of well-paying jobs (including white collar jobs) and that technology will make "normal people" as Yang calls them totally redundant. Yang begins the book by talking about a concept he dubs "The Great Displacement," which involves the loss of jobs because of automation and artificial intelligence. In many others, it is a book about, as its subtitle suggests, "The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future." In some ways, 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang's book The War on Normal Peopleis a book for his campaign. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. |