There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. They weren’t alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life.
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She's torn about her ex and is constantly conflicted over whether ending the relationship was a good idea or not, something that's sadly very common for victims of toxic relationships. Scottie had been in a nasty breakup caused by a nasty relationship, and it shows. The things that made this book stand out from the simplistic romances of its peers was surprisingly not how the main love story was handled, but rather how the previous one was. It was a standard rivalry turned forced cooperation turned love story, with lots of shenanigans along the way. But within their fake relationship, Scottie finds that maybe feelings, relationships, and exes aren't as simple as she thought. But after a few twists and turns, Scottie comes up with a perfect way to get back at her ex: fake date Irene until their next basketball battle. After a horrendous fender-bender in the parking lot after the game, Scottie is forced to carpool with Irene Abraham, the beautiful head cheerleader with a heart of stone. She Drives Me Crazy opens with Scottie Zajac horrendously losing the first basketball game of the season to her ex-girlfriend. Abandon rates increase the newer a book is, and the lower the average rating. I also consider a model adjusting for covariates (author/average-rating/year), to see what books are most surprisingly often-abandoned given their pedigrees & rating etc. The Witches: Salem, 1692, Stacy Schiff.I fix that to see what more correct rankings look like.Ĭorrecting for both changes the top-5 ranking completely, from ( raw counts): There is also residual error from the winner’s curse where books with fewer ratings are more mis-estimated than popular books. This conflates popularity with probability of being abandoned: a popular but rarely-abandoned book may have more abandoned tags than a less popular but often-abandoned book. The default GoodReads tag interface presents only raw counts of tags, not counts divided by total ratings ( = reads). What books are hardest for a reader who starts them to finish, and most likely to be abandoned? I scrape a crowdsourced tag, abandoned, from the GoodReads book social network on to estimate conditional probability of being abandoned. The King of the Silver River gifted him a one time use of his magic to be real, rather than an illusion. When he used the magic things only seemed to happen. The power of her magic was so strong that one of the trees ended up destroying itself to obey her. When trying to make her aware of the full extent of her magic, Allanon had Brin cause two trees that were intertwined to separate. She had also caused a dog to chase its tail until it nearly dropped and caused an entire garden of vegetables to wilt. Brin, born with the magic of the Wishsong, which alone can open a way to the Ildatch, reluctantly joins Allanon's journey.' Shannara Vol. Some things she did with as a child included: change the colour of a trees’ leaves, soothe an angry dog, bring a wild bird to light on her wrist and could make herself part of any living thing or it a part of her. The Ildatch, immemorial book of evil spells, has stirred to eldritch life, sending its foul Mord Wraiths to accomplish mankind's destruction. 3 The Wishsong of Shannara – p 2 Brin’s Wishsongīrin could influence the behaviour of living things. The Wishsong manifested itself differently for Brin than it did Jair. What happened between her and Mariel were the best parts and I loved and rooted for them so much. Sure, she made some stupid mistakes, but she did try to fix things. I felt oh so sorry for her when all that stuff happened to her family. Sure, she had some flaws, but out of all the POVs and all of the side-characters, she was definitely the most real. Eris, Eris was my favourite girl out of the 5 and I looked forward the most to her POV. We have 5 POVs and really? I just hated 4 of them in various degrees. I am not going to continue on about this, some things you just don’t want to dwell on. It was just creeping me out, and frankly I didn’t feel well reading it. Really, you have been brother/sister since the age of 5 (or 7 for Atlas), and I know you are not from the same blood/genes, but still so long together this makes you family. Incest, drugs, drugs, more drugs, stupid drama, rich-kid problems (that just don’t make sense), alcohol, did I mention incest? I just don’t feel like sorting my thoughts at the moment, I will just let them all out as it comes. This review might be a bit chaotic, I will discuss good and bad all mixed-up. This was one of my most anticipated books for August, but I have to say I am quite disappointed in it all. 2.5 because on the one hand I really liked this book. In addition to 'Howl,' poems in the book include: 'A Supermarket in California,' 'Sunflower Sutra,' 'America,' 'In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,' 'Transcription of Organ Music,' and 'Wild Orphan,' among others. A strident critique of middle-class complacency, consumerism, and capitalist militarism, HOWL also celebrates the pleasures and freedoms of the physical world, including a tribute to homosexual love. Considered the single most influential work of post-WWII United States poetry, the City Lights edition of HOWL has remained in print for more than 60 years, with well over 1,000,000 copies in print. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems!HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. She held a special interest in the study of Native American Code Talkers and wrote the book Winds of Freedom, telling their story. After lovingly raising her two children, Margaret went back to school and earned her MA from the University of New Haven. She was a member emeritus of the board of Yale Divinity School and was co-chairman of the Friends of the University Library of the University of New Haven. Through the years she was active in her community, especially the New Haven YWCA and the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven. Margaret attended Bluffton University and held a BA from the University of Michigan. She was also predeceased by her brothers, Morris Triplett and Ropp Triplett, and her sister Barbara Jean Triplett Van Dyke. Margaret was born in Bluffton, Ohio to Ray L. She was predeceased by her beloved husband of 69 years, Roland M. Bixler, age 101, passed away peacefully at home in Woodbridge, CT on November 24, 2018. Jake is mainly trying to protect the young, impulsive cop. Well, at least Con is trying to solve his case. But…he does…Īttraction sparks as the two men are thrown together to figure out who wants to keep Con quiet and why. And he definitely wasn’t prepared to fall for the grumpy ex-Marine. Con didn’t expect Jake to offer help when he needs it most. One minute he’s working a case, and the next, his cover is blown and he barely escapes with his life. Murder and mayhem follow Detective Miguel Conway. He definitely shouldn’t offer him a place to stay. The last thing Jake needs is to get involved with the sexy and secretive stranger. And the man who stumbles through the backdoor of Jake’s bar-beaten to hell-he is trouble with a capital T. His quiet, peaceful life is a hard-fought dream. Jake Devlin knows trouble when he sees it and he wants no part of it. And, like most troubled young people, the reason for all his problems is his parents–however, the scope of Cal’s parental issues dwarf those of the typical sullen adolescent. Plus, with male UF heroes a clear minority in the genre, I felt obligated to give this book a try.Ĭaliban Leandros is a troubled young man. Why did I read this book: I’m always on the lookout for a new urban fantasy series, and this one’s rave reviews on Amazon hooked me. The fate of the human world will be decided in the fight of Cal’s life… And Cal is about to learn why they want him, why they’ve always wanted him…for he is the key to unleashing their hell on earth. He and his half-brother Niko have managed to stay a step ahead for three years, but now Cal’s dad has found them again. His father’s dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares-and he and his entire otherworldly race are after Cal. Of course, most humans are oblivious to this, but Cal Leandros is only half-human. In New York, there’s a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side. Stand alone or series: First book of the Cal Leandros series These people has had different experiences and lived in a different environment unlike hers. First of all, she wasn’t really like them. I think her method of studying the people may have some flaws, some biases. As a journalist, she also had to restrain herself from pointing out her political views to her colleagues. To be able to do this properly, though, she had to fake her qualifications and disguise her motives from her fellow workers. Through this, the readers were able to have a glimpse into the lives of people she had worked with as a waitress at Florida, a healthcare aide at Maine and a salesperson of Wal-Mart at Minnesota. Those people whose wages were below the minimum wage and were so busy with work they were not able to pursue their own interests and who were also supporting dependents.Īs a whole, the author was able to document her experiences as she wrote in her journal her everyday experiences. The book was originally a compilation of her researches as she went undercover to write about people who had to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet. Barbara Ehrenreich’s book, Nickel and Dimed, was certainly a wonderful read and is verily able to open the reader’s eyes to a reality that is usually set aside by many. |