![]() ![]() Ending up young and with six children the story evolves. The story starts out with teenagers, Butch and Micki, eloping and their quickly growing family. Loved how the author wove their past into the story.Īn excellent story line the enthralls the reader. ![]() ![]() Through reading this book, I felt like I knew this family, like I grew up with th.Ī wonderfully written heart wrenching story of loss. The Peluso family is far from perfect (just like every other family) and Micki represented them in all their faults and failures, which made them all the more relatable and lovable. The thing that struck me most about this book was that is was a true-life tale that didn't hold back from raw honesty. Peluso's personal diary, in which she shared glimpses of her life from the time of her marriage through an awful loss for their family. It's a book that I believe showcases more than any other book I have read on the f. She keeps her promise to her daughter that her name will not be forgotten and that others will know her more as she lived than how she died. She does this while also describing her heartbreak facing a position no parent wants to ever be in with the coming loss of one of her children whose youth is torn away due to a strangers selfish decision. The author did a masterful job taking me on a journey through the history of her family interweaving the hard times with the light times. ![]() And The Whippoorwill Sang by Micki Peluso ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I first met Lesléa Newman as a sophomore at Brandeis University. Over the next few months we will offer profiles from the Jewish Women’s Archive coupled with reflections from community members. Keshet’s blog spotlights this work, as well as the voices of LGBTQ Jews, our families, and allies.Īs part of Keshet’s partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive, we are raising up the profiles and voices of queer identified Jewish women. The organization equips Jewish leaders with tools to build LGBTQ-affirming communities, creates spaces for queer Jewish teens to feel valued and develop their own leadership skills, and mobilizes the Jewish community to fight for LGBTQ justice. Keshet is a national organization that works for LGBTQ equality in Jewish life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as Jane and Eddie fall for each other, Jane is increasingly haunted by the legend of Bea, an ambitious beauty with a rags-to-riches origin story, who launched a wildly successful southern lifestyle brand. Jane can’t help but see an opportunity in Eddie––not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she’s always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. ![]() Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His ability to combine art and science, made iconic by his drawing of what may be himself inside a circle and a square, remains the enduring recipe for innovation. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile on the Mona Lisa. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from standing at the intersection of the humanities and technology. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. What secrets can he teach us? The brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Summary: "He was history's most creative genius. ![]() ![]() ![]() In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge ideas about memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness. They forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. After eleven years in prison, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-but Jennifer’s positive identification was the evidence that compelled a jury to put him behind bars. She was able to escape, and because she had studied his face intently during the attack, she later identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. In 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. “The story of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, as told in first-person voices in this gripping, well-written book, is exceptional.” Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo ![]() ![]() Her career and persona reveal a great deal about the ‘mentality’ of her times, especially of the troubled decade that followed the end of the Great War. Nearly a century after her heyday, Glyn continues to be an intriguing figure. As a film and media personality, Glyn was, in today’s terms, clearly a celebrity, and was famous for more than simply being the author of the notorious Three Weeks. ![]() She exerted creative influence on the screen adaptations of many of her stories, and was highly successful in building and publicizing a distinctive branding for her own image as well as for her other creations. ![]() As a woman film pioneer, Elinor Glyn is perhaps best remembered for her distinctive role within popular cinema culture, a role extending far beyond her official film credits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. “Only the Third Reich and other tyrannies decided policies by plebiscites and generally no good came from them,” the narrator reminds the inhabitants of post-referendum Britain. The counterfactual 1982 of the novel plays variations on our historical record and contains clear allusions to the present. This political and social upheaval feels like both reminiscence and prophecy. The humiliation of defeat forces Margaret Thatcher from office, brings a very different politician to power, and triggers the country’s unexpected departure from Europe. A devastating Argentinian attack ends the war abruptly and the Falklands become Las Malvinas. In the 1982 of the novel, the British navy sails from Portsmouth with calamitous results. Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan’s new novel, also turns in part on the Falklands conflict, eternalising a version of that year’s events, though in the book’s fictional world things have turned out rather differently. ![]() Outside Port Stanley, on treeless uplands whose names ring distant bells – Goose Green, Mount Harriet, Tumbledown – the conflict is still unofficially memorialised by chunks of crashed war planes and the wires of field telephones from a pre-digital age. B y a strange twist of fate, I read this book while on a visit to the Falkland Islands, where the British victory over Argentina in the 1982 war feels as though it might have happened last week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. ![]() Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. ![]() The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). ![]() ![]() ![]() You can find her art, writings and podcast at venniekocsis. Vennie Kocsis (1969-Present) was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and grew up in a fundamentalist, end-times cult in America from 1973-1984. I admire all the work she does in bringing awareness about cults and supporting those who have survived cults and abuse. She's quite courageous to speak so candidly about these difficult issues. ![]() Also note that she briefly discusses animal sacrifice that occurred within the cult. ![]() If these topics are a trigger for you, or if this is a particularly difficult subject, please take note before deciding to listen. *Please be aware that in this episode we discuss mental, physical & sexual abuse. Although she doesn't go into a lot of detail, she does discuss the abuse. She survived mental, physical and sexual abuse in the cult. Through her podcast "Survivor Voices" and her other work, Vennie stands beside fellow cult and abuse survivors, encouraging them that they're not alone.īeing raised in a cult, Vennie endured some of the most difficult experiences a child could go through. Vennie lives in the Pacific Northwest, in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() He studied at the National College and also attended the Polytechnic Institute of Montevideo for technical training. Quiroga finished school in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. Quiroga was baptized three months later in the parish church of his native town. Before Quiroga was two and a half months old, on 14 March 1879, his father accidentally fired a gun he was carrying in his hands and died as a result. ![]() At the time of his birth, his father had been working for 18 years as head of the Argentine Vice-Consulate. Horacio Quiroga was born in the city of Salto in 1878 as the sixth child and second son of Prudencio Quiroga and Pastora Forteza, a middle-class family. His influence can be seen in the Latin American magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. ![]() He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states, a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. ![]() |