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![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Shankman, Mandy Moore, and a great performance by Shane West deliver an excellent movie for this generation of youth. Remember Mandy? She played the shameless cheerleader in “ The Princess Diaries”. My skepticism was furthered by the fact that Sparks’ novel had been moved from the 50’s to modern day and that popular MTV artist and talk show host, Mandy Moore, had been given the lead. I was initially skeptical when I read early on that Director Adam Shankman (“ Scream 2”) was going to direct the popular Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. “A Walk to Remember” is an excellent start for the film release year of 2002. Just when you think that Hollywood has forgotten how to make a decent teen flic-they go out and surprise you. ![]() ![]() At nights, Dahl's books are basically all we read, and I know you've heard me gush enough on the subject, but if your child is interesting and interested at all, you owe it to them to introduce Dahl to their imagination. Not hard really, since my son (not to mention his parents) is currently obsessed with all things Dahl. Since I've reviewed the first book, I figured it was about time I got around to the other. But hey, I'm the mother who played Edgar Allen Poe spoken word for her son today and then found herself having to explain why PERSON A killing PERSON B and hiding him under the floor doesn't constitute as "the circle of life." But I digress. Will be taking my four-year-old son to both no matter what the mommy-critics say. Really, you could cut the anticipation with a knife around here. whether it be Wes Anderson's directing controversy or the discussion on whether or not Dave Eggers ruined a Spike Jonze masterpiece with his angst ridden writing. So much excitement with the Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. ![]() Roald Dahl ~ illustrations by Donald Chaffin ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know what motivated Noah Andre Trudeau to write a nearly 700-page book on the prelude, the battle and its aftermath. ![]() Lee and the men who fought there thought was most decisive, and perhaps their thinking so made it so. press (and thus the worldwide press), Gettysburg was the battle that Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. As the bloodiest battle of the war and the one followed most closely by the Eastern U.S. Whichever engagement deserves the honor of being called most important, though, Gettysburg wins hands-down as a symbol. Grant cut off and captured the Mississippi River port city of Vicksburg. ![]() Most historians would accord that honor to a fight that was going on at the same time more than 1,000 miles away in which Union Gen. The battle of Gettysburg was probably not the most important of the American Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.I am the Father and the Father is in me" (Jn 14:8, 11). According to tradition, he was crucified at Hierapolis in Phyrgia, where he had preached the Gospel. ![]() Today is the Feast of the Apostles Philip and James. » Enjoy our Liturgical Seasons series of e-books! Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Philip and James: O God, who gladden us each year with the feast day of the Apostles Philip and James, grant us, through their prayers, a share in the Passion and Resurrection of your Only Begotten Son, so that we may merit to behold you for eternity. Whoever has seen me, Philip, has seen the Father also, alleluia.įeast of Sts. ![]() Jn 14:8-9: Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us. ![]() Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God.įor you, eternal Shepherd, do not desert your flock,Īnd with all the hosts and Powers of heaven,Ĭommunion Antiphon, Cf. Preface I of Apostles: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,Īlways and everywhere to give you thanks, Mass Propers for the Feast of Saints Philip and James:Įntrance Antiphon: These are the holy men whom the Lord chose in his own perfect love to them he gave eternal glory, alleluia.Īlleluia Verse, Jn 14:6b, 9c: I am the way, the truth, and the life, says the Lord Philip, whoever has seen me has seen the Father. ![]() ![]() Success has little to do with where you were educated and everything to do with your level of practical/emotional intelligence and willingness to put in the 10,000 hours of practice required to reach mastery of your field.Īll in all, it's an interesting read that isn't too heady and goes by pretty quickly, as the interesting anecdotes are what you would expect from Gladwell. ![]() At this level of mastery IQ is no longer a factor. Gladwell uses the example of Nobel laureates coming from unknown schools as often as ivy league schools. Rather, success is substantially a product of cultivating a high degree of what Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence" or what most refer to as "emotional intelligence." Two chapters are dedicated to the "revelation" that IQ is only a baseline quality and success has little to nothing to do with having a high IQ or a low IQ. He says that upbringing, culture and even random luck have something to with success, but there is another important quality that anyone can control. ![]() ![]() That is, what makes people at the top of their respective fields get there? As we've come to expect from Gladwell's previous books, the answer to the question is a bit complicated. In this wide-ranging third installment of Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how people and social phenomena work, the New Yorker journalist takes a close look at what constitutes high levels of success. The success of the book, which began as an article in the New Yorker, the magazine for which he works as a staff writer, propelled Gladwell into the realm of super-consultancy. ![]() ![]() They are undoubtedly well written but also often highly annoying (this may be intended, if it was, then it was done superbly well). There is something about the characters that stopped me from getting completely behind them. I did enjoy the trilogy but not to the same degree as The Farseer Trilogy. ![]() The Farseer Trilogy established this status – does the Liveship Traders keep the high standard? The answer is yes, the quality of the writing is once again excellent and the characters are full and lifelike. ![]() Robin Hobb is rightly classed as one of the finest authors the genre has ever been fortunate enough to have. And all the while the waters around the Vivacia are seething with giant serpents, following the liveship as it sails to its destiny. Below her, Reyn and Seldon have been left to drown while Malta and the Satrap attempt to navigate the acid flow of the river in a decomposing boat.Īlthea and Brashen are finally at sea together, sailing the liveship Paragon into pirate waters to rescue the Vestrit family Liveship, Vivacia, stolen by the pirate king, Kennit but there is mutiny brewing in their ragtag crew and in the mind of the mad ship itself. The dragon Tintaglia, released from her wizardwood coffin, flies high over the Rain Wild River. The story is written in third-person narrative and consists of 903 pages. ![]() ![]() First published in Great Britain by Voyager in 2000. Ship of Destiny is the final book of Robin Hobb’s epic fantasy trilogy The Liveship Traders. ![]() ![]() Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own skins, their own souls, but sometimes. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which. Here there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day, and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the world. ![]() But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply. It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. ![]() ![]() There’s Alec, Markus’ sickly brother, unloved and abused by their father then there’s Dianna, an orphan whose identity proves to be quite a surprise Lydra, the dragon who breathes ice instead of fire Madhea, the Ice Goddess, a witch who controls the dragon and hates Markus’ family and the Ice People who also live inside a glacier under the threat of the mean witch. You’ve got everything you need to keep young readers glued to its pages. For Markus, the 15-year-old main character, has been gifted with the ability to master the use of a bow and arrow and be able to hunt and feed his people but with this came a curse: the Mighty Hunter, as he is known among his folks, bears the scar of the hunter that will eventually bring his own downfall and destroy his family. ![]() It is thus with no surprise that her first fantasy book for Young Adults has a moralizing tone and quite a few lessons it wishes to teach its young and adolescent readers.Ĭurse of the Ice Dragon (Shifting Sands Publishing, 2012) has got a great premise, an exciting setting and a score of characters that not only fight against evil witches and mean dragons but also the evil within themselves. ![]() Tara West is a former high school teacher from Texas, USA, who now works from home as a novelist and part-time graphic designer. ![]() ![]() Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. ![]() Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. ![]() Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. ![]() Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.įorty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. ![]() |