![]() ![]() Lauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness-not the illness incarnate. Today, however, she calls herself a "former schizophrenic," has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist. When she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasized that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. ![]() She paints a surreal world-sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty-in which "the Captain" rules her by the rod and the school's corridors are filled with wolves. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng's own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. In this tender and joyous memoir, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his. ![]() A powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them. ![]()
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I broke my trunk by mo willems7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The best success I have seen with this series is actually ages 5-7, with an occasional eight year old still loving the series as well. You might see on Amazon or Scholastic that the age range for the series is 3-8 years old, but in my professional opinion as a children’s librarian, I disagree. I Am Invited to a Party! and There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems.The best age, grade and reading level for Elephant and Piggie As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. *This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links. There are twenty-five books in the series and they can be read in any order.īut there is more to know about this beloved children’s series- read on to find out more! ![]() The reading levels are Guided Reading Levels G-I, have an AR Score of 0.5-1.4 and a Lexile Level ranging from 140L to 210L. The Elephant and Piggie series is best for children ages 5-7, or in grades Pre-K to Second Grade. Parents wondering if the Elephant and Piggie book series by Mo Willems will be age, content and reading level appropriate for their child is something I come across all the time in the library. ![]() Betrayed kristin cast7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In this book, a month has passed since Zoey was first Marked and moved to House of Night. A really great follow up novel to the first book, Marked. From the beginning to the end, there was so much going on that I zipped right through this book. It did it’s job which was to keep me interested and at the edge of my seat. ![]() This is the second book in the House of Night series by P.C. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night, and Zoey must find the courage to face a betrayal that could break her heart, her soul, and jeopardize the very fabric of her world. ![]() While danger stalks the humans from Zoey’s old life, she begins to realize that the very powers that make her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of Night. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs–like she really fits in. ![]() She’s come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. and Kristin Cast.įledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. ![]() Allure by Melissa Andrea7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() A well-written sex scene can explore pleasure, consent, emotional intimacy, and the dynamics of attraction. "TikTok, in particular, really brought the genre to the mainstream and allowed non-romance readers to realize that there is a lot more to the genre than bare-chested men on the covers," she says.īeyond carnal pleasure, there's more power in the sex scenes depicted in these books. Kennedy acknowledges the app's power when it comes to attracting new readers. Caroline now shares weekly "coffee chat" videos, in which she reviews her week in reading by analyzing each book's themes or literary elements. Caroline Green of turned to TikTok because "none of friends were really big readers" and #BookTok and #BookTok gave her a chance to discover new-to-her romance reads like Sarah MacLean's historical romance series Love by Numbers. Now, her content includes romance book reviews and academic discussions about sex and intimacy in literature, and she says TikTok has given her "a really great place to find community" among fellow romance readers. Like many creators, Sanjana Basker's BookTok following "started out as an accident." At one point, Basker devoured 500 romance novels in the span of four months. Readers are more vocal than ever about reading - and enjoying - sexually explicit novels. Gill isn't the only one: Social media creators are leading the spicy romance renaissance right now. ![]() The ringworld engineers7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() To endure he should find the control focal point of the amazing designers who constructed the planet. However, when they showed up “Louis” finds out that the “Ringworld” is not at this point stable and will annihilate itself in practically no time. ![]() With “Louis” assistance the “Hindmost” expected to recapture his status by bringing back such exceptional fortunes from the “Ringworld” that his kindred acrobat should be intrigued. Currently, he is returning, prisoners of the Hindmost, a dismissed puppeteer pioneer. It has been a long time since the unrealistic and worlds-weary “Louis Wu” found the “Ringworld”. This “The Ringworld Engineers” documentation is also worth going through for the readers. ![]() Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer and these two The Mote in God’s Eye and Lucifer’s Hammers are exceptional writings by Larry Niven. This series is the continuation of the “Known Space” 13 th volume and “Ringworld” second volume. Praise for Ringworld Engineers For new readers, there’s fascinating adventure in plenitude. ![]() This remarkable memoir “The Ringworld Engineers” is written by Larry Niven and narrated by Richards Powers. ![]() ![]() One June day a typhoon arose at sea that blew the rain practically perpendicular to our house. I have hair the color of carrots in an apricot glaze (recipe to follow), skin fair and clear where it isn’t freckled, and eyes like summer storms. Primrose cuts straight to the point in the novel’s opening sentences: “I live in Coal Harbour, British Columbia. But her terrific new novel has made me an instant fan, and it deserves to win her thousands more. ![]() ![]() Horvath, author of five previous books for children, including The Trolls (published in 1999 and shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award) lives in Metchosin, B.C., and I am mortified to admit that I had never heard of her before now. And what a vibrant, funny, frank, and irrepressible narrator she is. Splice the literary DNA of Pippi Longstocking with Anne Shirley and you pretty much have Primrose Squarp, the 11-year-old narrator of Polly Horvath’s new novel, Everything on a Waffle. ![]() Star Realms by Jon Del Arroz7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Fans of the Star Realms deckbuilding game will appreciate this look into the Star Realms universe, with its fast-paced story and intriguing characters. I think Jon’s entry into this realm is an excellent and compelling read. “I’ve long been a big fan of epic science fiction and space opera. Star Realms: Rescue Run is the first novelization of the critically acclaimed Star Realms spaceship combat deckbuilding game. With no one else to help, Dario must take it upon himself to rescue the workers of Mars.Ĭan two heroes from warring factions come together to make a difference in the galaxy? ![]() The megacorporations of the Trade Federation have kept the population in horrible working conditions, violating their human rights. On the opposite side of the galaxy, Regency BioTech manager Dario Anazao sees an unsustainable situation brewing that promises a full-scale revolution. ![]() Recruited to perform the heist of a lifetime, the fate of the Star Empire rests in her hands. When a new client’s mission goes sideways, Joan finds herself caught in the middle of dueling gambits between the Star Empire and the Trade Federation. Since being court-martialed by the Star Empire, smuggler and thief Joan Shengtu has done what she needed to do in order to survive-gaining a reputation along the way. ![]() Infinite jest chapters7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s twenty years old now, so perhaps it’s bound to remind me of a lot of other American writing. Like Thomas Pynchon, surely the grand-daddy of this follow-me-if-you-can style, you just can’t pin Wallace down.īut am I liking it? Mostly, yes. Wallace takes a swipe at a culture that is completely certain of its own entitlement while demonstrating the swaggering confidence it satirises. That’s nothing-in the near future of the novel we don’t even know the order of different years, given brand-names owned by their sponsors. ![]() Its chronology never goes in a straight line, and Wallace keeps introducing new characters, some of whose names we don’t even know yet. Inevitably, it has been labelled post-modernist. It’s in-your-face clever, look-at-me highbrow-and deliberately confusing. ![]() Plain speaking by merle miller7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Berenson - On evangelists - An attempted assassination - The dean resigns - On J. The happiest childhood - Some ancestors - John Anderson Truman - Independence and the war between the states - Banking days and farming - On Battery D - Harry Truman, Madge Gates Wallace, and the haberdashery - The haberdashery - Early politics - The only defeat-and then victory - The first race for the Senate - The 1940 campaign - The Truman Committee - The convention and the campaign of 1944 - The end and the beginning - Israel - On Herbert Hoover - Los niños heroes - My biggest mistake - The bomb - General Marshall and the Marshall Plan - The 1948 victory - The Korean decision - Firing the general - God bless America - On generals in general - A few further observations on "Ike" - Five weak presidents - What ruins a man - Of painting and B. Based on a series of interviews with the former President during the early sixties recounting his views of the historic times he lived in as well as his own life ![]() Come Undone by Jessica Hawkins7/7/2023 ![]() Because even though I saw Manning first, my older sister saw him next.īook one in a USA TODAY bestselling series of forbidden love. But I'd learn that no matter what you achieve in life, it means nothing if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, his struggle to keep me innocent, and infinitely-starry nights-I would wait. I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. Yet we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn't be broken.no matter how hard we tried. ![]() I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. ![]() Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. "The best slow-burn romance I have ever read."-New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Ward ![]() |