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![]() But in between, with the writer’s (and indeed the poet’s) gift of slowing down and paying the best kind of attention, Tish Harrison Warren connects the moments of an ordinary day with the extraordinary pattern of classical Christian worship. It encompasses one day, from our very first moments of waking in the morning on the first page to our drifting off into sleep on the last. ![]() The structure of this book is simple, with a touch of genius. My love, my friend-how was your day? contentsġ Waking - Baptism and Learning to Be BelovedĢ Making the Bed - Liturgy, Ritual, and What Forms a Lifeģ Brushing Teeth - Standing, Kneeling, Bowing, and Living in a BodyĤ Losing Keys - Confession and the Truth About Ourselvesĥ Eating Leftovers - Word, Sacrament, and Overlooked NourishmentĦ Fighting with My Husband - Passing the Peace and the Everyday Work of ShalomĨ Sitting in Traffic - Liturgical Time and an Unhurried Godĩ Calling a Friend - Congregation and Communityġ1 Sleeping - Sabbath, Rest, and the Work of God ![]() ![]() The telling is from the perspective of the Igbos, an ethnic group from eastern Nigeria who was most severely affected by the war. With its title derived from the emblem of Biafra - the secessionist state from eastern Nigeria that survived only three harsh years, Adichie’s second novel attempts to tell the truth of the three-year Nigerian civil war, the Biafran War. It was this impression of Adichie that cushioned the 2006 release of her second book, “ Half of a Yellow Sun”. Adichie’s storytelling prowess garnered her a respectable following as the book won her a Commonwealth writers’ prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s undeniable talent first came to light in 2004 with the release of her first novel titled “Purple Hibiscus”, a book about young Kambili’s childhood and the devastating effects of growing up with a bigoted patriarch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You want to know why I was crying at recess? That cat Camille is why. ![]() More than I have tears to cry, I miss her. I’d been scamming food, she’d been shooting up. You want a cinquain poem about a most embarrassing moment that actually happened to me? Okay, here you go: Like I can even remember ever being in a real restaurant. “Put your most embarrassing experience in the form of a cinquain poem.” What did you expect me to do? Write the truth? I knew you’d read them out loud and you did! How do you spell idiot? I spell it L-E-O-N-E.ĭid you like my little poem about spilling my milk in a restaurant? Stupid, I know, so give me an F, see if I care. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat. You think writing will get me out of here? You think words will make me forget about the past? Get real, Ms. Well, I’m trying it, see? And is it making me feel better? NO! Giving me this journal was a totally lame thing to do. You think you know what I’m going through, you think you know how I can “cope,” but you’re just like everybody else: clueless. I’m trapped in here, trying to sleep under this sorry excuse for a blanket, and I’ve just got to tell you-you don’t know squat. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been publically debating with detractors, including the infamous former (subsequently) atheist, Anthony Flew, and defending a Christian worldview against all comers for more than twenty years. William Lane Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology (La Mirada, California) and founder of Reasonable Faith (a web-based apologetics ministry. It is the signature book of a very prolific scholar and writer. ![]() In a word, it still packs quite an intellectual punch. The author insists it has only expansions of content and minor updates rather than any retractions of arguments that didn’t stand up to the test of time. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, third edition (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), 416 pages, ISBN 9781433501159.Ī third edition of what has become something a classic work in the field of Christian apologetics since its original (1984) and second (1994) versions is well worth the reading (or re-reading). ![]() ![]() Daniel is aggravated by the headstrong and much too observant new detective he's paired with, and Janeta is intrigued by the broken but honorable man she is tasked with betraying. Under duress and blaming herself for the arrest, Janeta agrees to infiltrate a group called the Loyal League as a double agent-and finds a cause truly worth the sacrifice. When the Union Army occupies the Florida home of Cuban Janeta Sanchez, daughter of an enslaved woman and the plantation owner who married her, her family's wealth does not protect her father from being imprisoned. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of Black spies who helped free him, he seizes the opportunity for vengeance against the Confederacy and those who support it. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. ![]() Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people-dreams that died the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And deep in the woods behind her new home lies a secret garden within a secret garden, one full of medicinal plants and the other filled with the most poisonous plants in the world. Her dead aunt leads Bri on a scavenger hunt guided by obscure clues and mysterious keys. Bri befriends a boy named Karter with too many secrets and a girl named Marie with even more. Once in Rhinebeck, the plot kicks into high gear. The sister of Bri’s biological mother left the niece she never met a grand mansion and 40 sprawling acres in the rural town of Rhinebeck, a few hours north of New York City. A reprieve arrives in the form of an unexpected inheritance. ![]() Bri’s fairweather friends have found other people to occupy their time while her moms are struggling to pay rent on their cramped apartment and their flower shop in their rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Life in Brooklyn isn’t easy for the Greenes. They encourage her to be cautious about letting others know what she can do without shaming her for something she has no control over. Her adoptive mothers, Thandie and Angie, don’t quite know what to do with her. Plants react to her emotions and often bend toward her as if she were a walking, talking ray of sunshine. Ever since she was little, Bri has had the inexplicable ability to make plants grow. This Poison Heart, Kalynn Bayron ( Bloomsbury 978-1547603909, 384pp, $18.99, hc) June 2021.īriseis Greene has a thing for plants. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Richard Strauss conducted his opera Salome on May 16, 1906, in the Austrian city of Graz, several crowned heads of European music gathered to witness the event. trying to swerve out of the way of a cat." Richards, the author of the ASPCA Complete Guide to Cats, who, he explained, "died in a motorcycle accident. When Mstislav Rostropovich died in early 2007, for instance, Ross described the conductor and musician as "an overwhelming life force in the form of a cellist." The day before, he saluted Dr. His blog,, shows him to be democratic in his tastes and human in his approach, with an ear for the odd bit of irony. Ross, an award-winning critic, is known for the accessibility and sense of humor he brings to his subject, both at The New Yorker, where he has been since 1996, and before that at the New York Times, where he was a music critic for four years. And it began all over again numerous times as the century went on, as composers were constantly reinventing the language of music." "It was beginning again in a new key - or a lack of key. "No, classical music did not glide to a halt sometime around 1900," he says. New Yorker critic Alex Ross sets out "to assault" that notion in his ambitious first book, The Rest is Noise. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.įor decades, classical music has been pronounced dead - or at least dying. Music News Classical Music: 2005 and Beyondīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there are now several biographies of Rokeya and scores of books and articles on her. This means a certain misappropriation and depoliticisation of her work as well. ![]() Indeed, Rokeya has by now been institutionalised, iconised, and, for that matter, even reified. ![]() The Rokeya Day in Bangladesh also falls on December 9. What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?ĭecember 9 marks both the birth and death anniversaries of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). I repeat the same truth, and, if required, I will repeat it a hundred times. Her books talked of women, climate and issues related to patriarchy. In this tribute, Azfar Hussain takes us on a journey into the world of Madam Rokeya who wrote more than a century ago in English, Urdu and Bengali. ![]() ![]() When Jack's mom gets sick, he comes home to the family's Texas ranch to help out. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. Jack Stapleton's a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. ![]() |