![]() ![]() "They're dream companions, really sweet and good-natured," he says. You thought donkeys were stubborn and lazy? Not so, argues Christian Brochier, whose firm Gentiâne (nice donkey) keeps 35 animals-for-hire in the Cévennes. You can rent by the day (roughly $50), by the week, opt for a guided group or hoof it on your own, overnighting in small hotels, campsites or even yurts along the way. They facilitate contact and conversation." The affectionate quadrupeds, says Régine Delhome Boudreau of France's national donkey trekking organizers' association (FNAR), "give rhythm and soul to your walking. More than 200 donkey agents now specialize in hikes 'n' hires. And with interest surging in family hiking, donkeys from the Alps to the Atlantic are once more in demand as porters and endearing travel mates, especially for kids. Today, the Stevenson Trail also known as GR-70 (Grande Randonnée, or long hiking trail) is one of France's best-known donkey and trekking paths. His memorable account, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. ![]() Jean du Gard 12 days later, he'd had a change of heart about his long-eared companion, and the encounters they shared inspired 404 Not Found 404 Not Found When Robert Louis Stevenson set off from Le Monestier in the Upper Loire for France's mountainous Cévennes region in 1878, the Scottish poet and novelist spent much of his 220-km walk cursing and goading Modestine, the recalcitrant "she-ass" he'd hired to carry his load. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Who is this man? What is his connection to the murders?Īs the police are scrambling to try to find A.B.C. Although everyone is a suspect, there are mysterious chapters interspersed throughout the book that feature a strange man named Alexander Bonaparte Cust…A.B.C. ![]() ![]() The cast of characters keeps expanding as more murders occur, including family members and distraught boyfriends. When Alice Ascher is found dead, it’s obvious that the murderer is engaged in a lethal game with Poirot. It warns of something happening in Andover on a specific day. The story starts out with the arrival of a teasing letter at Poirot’s home. I also appreciated the fact that the story was told from the perspective of Poirot’s friend, Captain Hastings, meaning that I was left out of Poirot’s thought-processes, so every twist and turn was a surprise. Poirot is brilliant, polished, and funny. It was refreshing to have a main character, the dapper Poirot, instead of some gritty detective with emotional problems. This was also my first foray into this genre most “mysteries” I have read are actually gory crime thrillers. This is another Agatha Christie story I have read, although I am familiar with the Hercule Poirot series on television. ![]() ![]() Wrath would sense my hurt, and it was a conversation I didn’t wish to have. My eyes prickled with unshed tears just thinking of my sister now, and I tried desperately to rein in my emotions. Without focusing on Vittoria and the way my heart ached each time I thought of my twin’s deception. Without games or magical bonds urging us together. Since he’d already stolen my soul, I was now offering him my body. ![]() It was the desire he was struggling to control the passion I’d ignited when I chose him-knowing exactly who he was-and still agreed to become his wicked queen. Lingering near Wrath’s bed, tunic now discarded at my feet, I knew it wasn’t his namesake sin that had the fires blazing in his private chamber. Something I refused to examine at the moment. Seeing my sister in the Triple Moon Mirror broke something vital in me. It was a welcome feeling, especially after the coldness that had swept in earlier and settled in my bones. ![]() His heated stare coaxed a different kind of warmth to spread over me just as gold-tipped flames erupted in the fireplace, sizzling and crackling like mad. Tracking the small action from where he stood on the balcony, the prince’s attention moved to my mouth and remained there a beat longer than necessary. ![]() All at once, candles flared to life around the Prince of Wrath’s bedchamber.ĭespite my best efforts to not grin at the demon, my traitorous lips curved upward on their own. ![]() ![]() We – myself and my small coterie of fellow comics readers, with whom I’m now hardly in touch and one of whom is dead – judged Watchmen to be realistic: grimy, gritty, containing sexual acts and acts of senseless violence.īut while Dave Gibbons’s art is detailed in content, drawing every label on every sweet wrapper, it’s somewhat cartoony in form and doesn’t have the fine hatching that was thought crucial for anyone aspiring to realism, something we ignored at the time. ![]() No artist who dashed of page after page of exaggerated, hypermuscled figures could make a claim for realism, but those were the artists we called realistic. Almost everything we read had just such men. No book which featured a man who could fly would be thought realistic. ![]() It was the building block of everything that followed.īut what was realism? Certainly it wasn’t the same quality you’d see in prose fiction or in art. It was the vital quality that we looked for realism meant a comic that was worth bothering with, that was of the present rather than the past, that recognised our maturity as readers. Trying to recall exactly what we meant, back in our teenage comic-reading days, when we talked about “realism” isn’t easy. We are sharing it here to mark the release of the new hardback edition of Zenith: Phase II from 2000 AD. ![]() This article was originally published by Tom Whiteley on his excellent Suggested for Mature Readers blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pukak, the Keeper of History for The Siku, the tribe inhabiting Utuquq, is drawn to Lauren and her stories of a world with no winter. Sent on a research mission to Utuquq, a planet that’s avoided the pitfalls of climate change, Lauren Hascamp has a year to learn everything she can to help scientists save Earth. ![]() THECLIMATE OF LOVE: THE UTUQUQ CHRONICLES BOOK 1 by BLAIRE EDENS They can carry this off without falling in love … but only in their dreams. Now the duke she’s guarding wants her to pretend to be his date at several Christmas parties, and she’s more intrigued by him than she wants to admit. ![]() Instead, she’s sent to New London–the most backward planet in the Coalition–to protect one of its silly nobles during the holiday season. When Gabi Esser joined the Galactic Coalition Fleet Marines, she dreamed of seeing the universe. I’LL BE ON NEW LONDON FOR CHRISTMAS by MARGO BOND COLLINS ![]() Only $.99 –A limited time offer from New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning authors of fast-paced science fiction romance! Each SFR novella in this anthology delivers the perfect holiday gift-love-to warm readers during the coldest season of the year. Set thrusters to max with these steamy science fiction romance stories by eight exciting authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I try to replicate the suggestions made by teachers in Alaska who are of different cultures I point out the problems in the illustrations and talk about the problem of white people telling Indigenous stories. ![]() I feel angry at the publishers who tried to market it as an Indigenous book when published I am angry at myself for believing them (until the internet emerged and I did an MLIS and could research things.) I no longer believe the publisher's early implied claims, needless to say. Reviews I've read by Indigenous teachers say they read the book with their students and point out the problems in the illustrations (multiple Indigenous cultures are represented in one character and imagery is inconsistently applied.)Īs a settler myself, I have strong misgivings about this book. It was fact-checked by University of Montréal. The publisher clearly knew the identities of the two creators was problematic. ![]() The illustrator is not only not Indigenous but taught at a residential school (she calls it a boarding school, as white settlers complicit in cultural genocide do.) The narrative is gorgeous and playful I've read it to children in library storytimes and to my own children. I bought this book after first encountering it at the library, where I worked when I was an undergrad student. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meant to be used as a resource you turn back to regularly, following the tips in this book will help you make bigger strides towards personal and professional success. This book is designed to provide you with a step-by-step program to increase your EQ by providing you with practical techniques in the four main areas of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Now, Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves strives to answer that question. The research makes it clear that a high EQ is critical for achievement, but few people know what that means exactly or how to improve their own emotional intelligence levels. In fact, a different form of intelligence makes a far more significant difference for your overall success in life: emotional intelligence, also known as EQ. But your cognitive intelligence level can only get you so far. ![]() There’s never been more pressure to pull ahead at work or understand the people around you than there is today. Important note: This is not the full version of the book, this is a book summaryĮmotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves Book Summary of by Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves Emotional Intelligence 2.0 operates on a similar philosophy but with some nuances that make it a more satisfying self-help book, at least for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() THROUGH most of his nearly eight years as President, Harry Truman was profoundly unpopular. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history. ![]() The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. ![]() In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. ![]() ![]() Similarly to how the Titanic lacked enough lifeboats for all of its passengers, the World Trade Center buildings lacked adequate escape routes, as safety restrictions were eased by a 1968 code, after real estate industry advocates claimed new technologies made old requirements obsolete. The impact destroys stairwells, traps elevators between floors, and creates an inferno inside the poorly-fireproofed towers. In the aftermath, chaos and confusion reigns, as employees trapped above the point of impact are desperate to escape the flames that soon swallow their office spaces. Fifteen minutes later, at 9:01 a.m., United Airlines Fight 175 strikes the south tower. When they reach the lobby, a trade-center security person informs them the issue is in Tower One, so they return to work. Employees at Muziho/Fuji, a banking firm which has offices from the 79th to 82nd floors, evacuate their south tower office. ![]() People in the south tower are not sure what has happened. ![]() More than 14,000 people were inside the Trade Center when United Airlines Flight 11 smashed into the north tower at 8:46 a.m.Īs the narrative progresses, flames swallow the upper floors. Sixteen minutes later, America is forever changed. Others arrive after dropping off their children at school. ![]() The day begins like many others, with workers inside the buildings comprising over 220 vertical acres checking emails and sipping coffee at 8:30 a.m. ![]() ![]() Still, in rural areas where large extended families are constantly in touch, grandparents indulge the young in folklore. Western children’s books are popular, primarily to improve English language skills. ![]() They speak Luganda, which belongs to the Bantu group of languages.īecause of books, a lot of children, especially those of the middle-class, are no longer immersed in folklore at the family level. They belong to Buganda Kingdom in Central Uganda along the shores of L. The Ganda, my tribe, call themselves Baganda (plural) or Muganda (singular). There are other forms of oral traditions like poetry, sayings and proverbs other forms. ![]() Folklore is a part of oral traditions that include myths, legends, oral histories, and the folktale. The Ganda are one of the 45 ethnic groups of Uganda. ![]() |