5/22/2023 0 Comments This is going to hurt author![]() ![]() Both a love letter to the power and potential of the NHS, and an ode to its failings and frustrations, This is Going to Hurt sends a very clear message to those in power that it is very nearly on the brink of collapse. Full of frustrations, yet underpinned with Kay’s signature humour, the author paints a bleak picture of the working conditions for many medics. ![]() It too is a candid look at life in the NHS – where being overworked and underpaid is the norm for many employees and Kay writes honestly about the hierarchal behaviour that lies therein – from the on-call consultant who makes it clear not to call him – to the private doctor who won’t let him touch a patient. Ranging from the absurd to the hilarious to the heartbreaking and beyond, despite the sometimes depressing nature of the book, it is consistently – and painfully – funny throughout. Written as a series of diary entries during Kay’s six years as a doctor, This is Going to Hurt is a wry and witty account of the few highs and frequent lows that Kay encountered while working for the NHS. A book that has been lauded by critics and readers alike, much like Educated by Tara Westover – which I read back in January – I came to the book with high expectations. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay had long been on my literary radar by the time I finally got around to reading it. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments From head to toe by eric carle![]() ![]() ![]() Personally I found this to be a valuable tool for learning, for both myself and my kids, and I plan on buying a copy for my grandson to add to his collection. For instance "Claro que sí" is a phrase that roughly means "Of course", not "I can do it", which is what the English version says. ![]() I will also note, it is not a verbatim translation. Even with my intermediate knowledge of Spanish, I didn't know some of the words-mostly the verbs and a few body parts-and some of the phrases were worded differently than I'd expect. Without a decent amount of Spanish vocabulary, it would be difficult to read this, so it's best read by someone who knows the language well enough to know proper pronunciation. I will say that it's not for Spanish beginners though. Another gem from Eric Carle, the bilingual edition is really good if you want to learn a lot of Spanish words and phrases common to native speakers, but might not get taught in class. This book is about animals and parts of the body. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The mouse and the motorcycle 2![]() ![]() Then we opened the ears up and glued them down horizontally as in the picture below. We drew on the faces with a black marker and then we did the ears. Then we bent the pipe cleaner so that it would stay in place. ![]() The second activity we completed was a mouse using a small plastic egg.įor this we pushed a pipe cleaner through the hole in the bottom of the egg. Then we unfolded it and glued it in place. We taped the other end of the pipe cleaner in place.įor the eyes we folded a rectangle piece of pink paper in half and then cut out the ear shape as in the picture below. Then we drew on the eyes with a black marker before using a pipe cleaner, we pushed one end through the mouse and out of its nose. Using a semi-circle of pink paper, we rolled it up to make a cone shape before taping the end in place. The Mouse and the Motorcycle By Beverly ClearyĪfter reading the book, we completed a couple of mouse activities to go with this book. We chose to read a book about a motorcycle that our boys really love. ![]() The theme for the Poppins Book Nook this month was Planes, Trains and Automobiles. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Nothing Is Strange by Mike Russell![]() We are all mysteries surrounded by mystery and filled with mystery! I like to explore that mystery. I love exploring the places that inspiration reveals to me and I have a huge desire to share what I discover. Where it comes from is a mystery. I love inspiration. It is always something new to me, giving a certain insight beyond what I already know and it comes with a small euphoria. I have moments of inspiration that come at odd times. ‘Nothing Is Strange’ is a collection of 20 mind-expanding short stories. This proved to me that there was an audience for my writing. Happily, I just kept being invited to do more. This led to many years of regularly performing my stories in clubs, bars, galleries and various other strange venues. Knowing that I wrote things, she asked me to contribute. Then one day a friend was putting together a spoken-word event. I still like the title. Years later, I began writing again. I thought this early attempt was lost until my parents found it in their loft a couple of years ago. ![]() I designed the book cover and wrote about twenty pages before deciding that I needed more life experience and abandoned it. When I was 12 years old I began writing a novel called ‘Imagine Infinity’. Today I’m very pleased to be able to share with you an interview I did with Mike Russell, author of Nothing is Strange (a mind-bending short story collection). ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Brenda novak home to whiskey creek![]() "Alcohol burns and it's an old wood building." Eventually, he located an existing distillery in Culpeper that was for sale. After leasing a rather forlorn 53,000-square-foot apple cold-storage warehouse in Sperryville, he was unable to find a company that would insure the building. "It was like walking into a hornet's nest," says Wasmund. ![]() His zoning application, to convert an old mill in Delaplane into a distillery, was turned down by the Fauquier County Planning Commission, citing, among other things, traffic concerns. "I wanted to make the only applewood-aged whiskey in the world."īut Wasmund soon discovered that there is more to the spirits business than whipping up a fermented mash of grains and sticking a name on the bottle. ![]() He calls it Copper Fox."When I turned 40, I decided that I wanted to make something that no one else was making," says the soft-spoken Wasmund between puffs on a cigar. Last month he started selling his own whiskey. Three years ago, Rick Wasmund, a financial planner from Middleburg, Va., decided to make an unusual career change. ![]() Interesting idea, haven't tried it yet but it's for sale in the State stores here. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments A cosmology of monsters![]() ![]() I loved it, and think you will, too." -Stephen King "A monster stalks a family across generations a hidden city beckons from beyond perception trauma and human frailty and loss bear their terrible fangs. If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. Hamill's prose is simple, and simply beautiful. Horror only works when we care for the people involved, and because we care for the Turners, their nightmare becomes ours. It succeeds because these are good, likeable people that we root for they could be our neighbors. Lovecraft with a contemporary story of a family under threat of destruction from supernatural forces. I loved it, and think you will, too." -Stephen King, "Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters brilliantly combines the mythos of H.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters brilliantly combines the mythos of H.P. ![]() ![]() RL.6.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. ![]() RL.5.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently. RL.4.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. RL.3.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. RL.2.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. ![]() RL.1.10 - With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. ![]() RL.K.10 - Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Hugo Burnand/Buckingham Palace/Getty Images While less than half the UK population. ![]() Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier The bottom half of King Charles’s coronation invitation, with a representation of the Green Man. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:02:39 Boxid IA139201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston, Mass. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Poetic Edda by Anonymous![]() ![]() Several recent translations lack the same charm and attention when it comes to minor details of the poems, so a recommendation - if you want a beautiful and more precise translation of the Poetic Edda read Bellows. And after my class where we compared several translations I also feel obliged to note that Bellows translation is among the best in its precision and beauty of language. From the very first page and until the very last. A lot of it actually, despite the fact that this book is comparatively short. Secondly, it is necessary to pay attention to the footnotes and process what is said due to the complicated language. In the translation of Bellows one can more often than not encounter archaic words or sentence structures that are unusual not only in English but generally since epic poetry has a unique style one finds nowhere else.įirstly, one has to get used to it. Its influence in literature cannot be put into proper words. ![]() rating the Bible the book had (and still has) such an enormous impact on the Western history and culture that rating it feels utterly wrong. It feels undoubtedly strange to review this book. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Mr strange and mr norrell book![]() It’s probably not perfect, and at 1,024 pages it’s going to be a while before I read it again. All the same, once I’d finished the book I put it on my shelf and it’s been there ever since, like all the other different and special books that I’ve read once and then forgotten all about.īut some books are slow burners, and as the years have dragged on Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell sticks in my mind as a genuine masterpiece. ![]() ![]() In the month that it took me to read the novel I became more and more aware that, not only was I enjoying every second of it, but that I was also reading something really different and really special. I found Strange and Norrell in a charity shop that I’d ducked into to avoid the rain. At the time I was really into Sci-Fi and Fantasy – which are brilliant genres, even if I almost never read them anymore. A few years ago I read Susanna Clarke’s mammoth 2004 novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. ![]() |