5/31/2023 0 Comments Stephen king book duma keyFreemantle's artwork has the power both to destroy life and to cure ailments, but soon the Lovecraftian menace that haunts Duma Key begins to assert itself and torment those dear to him. To his astonishment, he becomes consumed with making art first pencil sketches, then paintings that soon earns him a devoted following. On his psychiatrist's advice, Freemantle decides to start anew on a remote island in the Florida Keys. Personality changes that include uncontrollable rages, however, hasten the end of his 20-year-plus marriage. While Freemantle suffers the loss of an arm and a fractured skull, among other serious injuries, he makes impressive gains in rehabilitation. In bestseller King's well-crafted tale of possession and redemption, Edgar Freemantle, a successful Minnesota contractor, barely survives after the Dodge Ram he's driving collides with a 12-story crane on a job site.
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Ivy McClellan, owner of Weaver’s Cat, was one of the best fiber artists in Tennessee. The author has a great sense of humor, as evidenced primarily through Kath and Geneva, and a complex mystery that is a challenge to solve. The characters are an eclectic blend of women that cover the age spectrum from young adult to octogenarian, making something for every age to appreciate. This cozy mystery is such a treat, I wish I had started reading the series a long time ago! The author grabbed my attention with another series, so I had to start The Haunted Yarn Shop series. So, with a little help from the members of TGIF-and a stubborn spirit from beyond-she sets out to unravel the clues and hook the real killer.…(from Goodreads) It turns out the specter has just as much interest in solving the murder as Kath. Before she can begin to clear Ivy’s name, Kath encounters a looming presence in the form of a gloomy ghost. There’s been a murder, and it turns out her grandmother was the prime suspect. But that’s only the first in a series of surprises when Kath returns to the small town of Blue Plum, Tennessee, to settle her grandmother’s affairs. Though Ivy has recently passed on, the members still meet regularly at her fiber and fabric shop, The Weaver’s Cat, which Kath has now inherited. That’s the name of the spunky group of fiber and needlework artists founded by Ivy McClellan, Kath’s beloved grandmother. Kath Rutledge is about to learn the true meaning of TGIF-Thank Goodness It’s Fiber.… 5/31/2023 0 Comments The guest catLife suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife ― the days have more light and color. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo they work at home, freelance copy-editing they no longer have very much to say to one another. A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. 5/31/2023 0 Comments The hill we climb meaningWe are striving to forge our union with purpose. We, the successors of a country and the time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one.Īnd yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that it isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.Īnd the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.Īnd yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never ending shade? She also published her first book in 2015, titled “The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough.” In 2017, Gorman, who was 19 at the time, became the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate. This lovely 22-year-old is the youngest person to deliver a poem at a U.S. I am so excited to share this beautiful poem by the talented Amanda Gorman, titled “The Hill We Climb” that she performed at the swearing in ceremony of the new US President. |