His biographer, Anet Bleich is a well-known Dutch Jewish journalist, and her book attracted significant attention in the Netherlands. From 1973 to 1977, he served as prime minister of the most left-wing coalition government the Netherlands has ever known. To follow all my readings go to my thread in the 75 Books Challenge for 2020 group. Joop den Uyl was a leader of the Dutch Labor Party. The majority of the books I buy have been on my wishlist for a long time, or are awarded and I buy them to keep my collection complete, or are part of a series I am already reading and not available at the library. Personal ROOT rules: every book I own, no matter how recently purchased, is a ROOT. In 2019 I have read 413 books, 192 ROOTs, of those 126 were from my childrens/YA collection and I culled 79 of them.īecause my childrens/YA books project is done, I have lowered my goal for 2020 to 24 ROOTs. In 2018 I have read 534 books, 365 ROOTs, of those 250 were from my childrens/YA collection and I culled 159 of them. In 2017 I have read 453 books, 238 ROOTs, of those 172 were from my childrens/YA collection and I culled 61 of them. In November 2016 I started to read through my childrens/YA books alphabeticly, to decide what I would keep and what to cull. Het boek geeft goed de tijdgeest weer en de ontwikkeling van Den Uyl en zijn karakter. The first time I joined was in 2013, my worst reading year ever. Joop Den Uyl 1919-1987 Dromer en Doordouwer geschreven door Anet Bleich geeft een goede kijk in het Politieke en Persoonlijke leven van dhr den Uyl. This is going to be my 4th year ROOTing in a row. I am Anita Meulstee from Lelystad, the Netherlands.
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Once a cynical, well-connected photojournalist with a voracious, illicit sex life and a well-concealed streak of idealism, he is now a ghost caught in the “In Between”. This second book, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, seems to have faced a similar struggle before seeing publication, and several publishers were doubtless left blushing at their misjudgment after learning of its inclusion on the Booker Prize longlist, let alone when it won the overall prize. The book was as much a study of Sri Lanka’s recent political history as of its cricket team, perennial underdogs whose influence on the modern game is easily as profound as that of the legendary West Indies led by Clive Lloyd. Readers unmoved by the charms of cricket should not be fazed by the praise it received from Wisden (it was runner-up in its list of greatest cricket books ever written). That book, following the rise and mysterious vanishing of an improbably talented Sri Lankan bowler, was first self-published, but has since come to be firmly established as a classic of modern South Asian fiction. Admirers of his cracking debut, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010), have been wondering what became of Shehan Karunatilaka. Inter Milan travel to Istanbul ahead of the Champions League Final on SaturdayĪ 'CONDENSED' INVERTING THE PYRAMID: The History of Football Tactics West Ham win the Europa Conference League, defeating Fiorentina 2-1īarcelona Femení celebrate their second Champions League title in 3 years, having come from 2-0 down to beat Wolfsburg VfB Stuttgart players and fans celebrate top flight survival after beating Hamburger SV 6-1 on aggregate in the Bundesliga promotion/relegation playoff Toby Alderweireld wins the Belgian Pro League for Royal Antwerp with his 94th minute wonderstrike - the club's first league title since 1957 Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces his retirement from football Karim Benzema is set to leave Real Madrid after 14 years at the club Bundesliga Relegation Playoffīari players celebrate going to Serie B playoff finals Sevilla win the Europa League, defeating Roma 4-1 on penaltiesĪrminia Bielefeld captain Fabian Klos pleads with his team's fans to stop throwing pyrotechnics onto the pitch, as they lost 4-0 against Wehen Wiesbaden in the first leg of the 2. News, results and discussion about the beautiful game. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Abercrombie shattered sea(Abercrombie himself has some interesting thoughts on the matter here.) It’s still stark, still brutal, still cynical about human nature and what we do to each other, still darkly humorous and understanding of every character while never flinching from what they do – in other words, it’s an absolute treat for someone like me who was disappointed at almost being done with everything else the man had written. Well, rest assured, there’s little taming down of Abercrombie in the Shattered Sea trilogy, to the point where I’m not quite sure exactly what makes the series any different from the rest of his works. Abercrombie’s gift was that he made it all palatable and rich somehow, giving everything a dark sense of humor and an empathy for his characters that made the books readable without ever turning them into “misery porn.” But still, young adult fiction? Over the course of the First Law trilogy, Abercrombie made it clear that he was an author who embraced the darkest aspects of human nature, giving us heroes as memorable for the brutality and viciousness they could display as for anything else they could ever accomplish. The idea of Joe Abercrombie writing young adult fiction is odd, for anyone who’s read Abercrombie at all. Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman is a biography about a young woman breaking through deep cultural norms and. Remarkable and fascinating, this sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won't be able to put down. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah's desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path-for herself and her son-to happiness and freedom. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. Beyond the Sky and the Earth stands out as both an informative introduction to the people and culture of Bhutan and as a beautiful piece of travel literature set against the backdrop of one of the most remote and unspoiled places on earth. There aren't many books on Bhutan, and even fewer first-hand accounts of life there. Visitors to Bhutan, an increasingly hot tourist destination, are still few and far between, largely because of tight government restrictions on entry, visa requirements, and a law requiring tourists to spend at least $200 a day there. It is as much a book about Zeppa's day-to-day life in Bhutan as it is about the personal awakenings and realizations that she had while living there. At age 24 Jamie Zeppa, a Canadian who had never been outside of North America, said goodbye to her fiancé and her plans for graduate school and moved to Bhutan, a remote Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.īeyond the Sky and the Earth is an autobiographical work that details her experiences and transformations after spending three years in Bhutan. No one could hear the boy, causing Jack to be lonely and desire to be seen by children. When he landed on a branch, Jack saw a village nearby and entered, trying to catch the attention of a boy who ran straight past him. During his new discoveries, Jack briefly lost control while flying. Jack used the staff and was excited for his newfound powers. The moon provided Jack with a staff and only his name. During this time, Jack's memories were gone, and he had no idea who he was in his former life. Jack saw a staff when gazing at his appearance. Sometime after being resurrected, Jack's first thing he saw was darkness and was scared until he rose out from the lake and saw the Moon and wasn't scared anymore. During this time, the Man in the Moon watched and decided to resurrect Jack Frost as a guardian. However, Jack slipped through the ice, much to his sister's horror. In a stroke of luck, Jack was able to save his baby sister by throwing her to safety. However Jack told her instead they were going to have a little fun like they do everyday. However, during this incident, Jack's sister began crying to her brother that she was scared. During a cold winter, Jack and his younger sister went to play outside and skate outside. He used to have to much fun and never wanted to grow up. Jack Frost lived in the 1700s and had a mother and a sister. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Foundation series appleA Second Seldon Crisis should also make up the bulk of the series’ second season. Seldon set up two Foundations at two ends of the galaxy - one which the Empire knows about and one that it doesn't. The First Foundation is the focus of season one. Season two should explore the Second Foundation, too. Decades before, an anti-Empire resistance group tampered with the DNA of Cleon I's body, so none of the Empire's current rulers are identical clones of Cleon I. One can assume Lee Pace's Brother Day will face off with Harris' Hari Seldon - or at least the AI representation of his consciousness, given Seldon died.Īnother big reveal in season one is that Brothers Dawn, Day, and Dusk - portrayed by Cassian Bilton, Lee Pace, and Terrence Mann - respectively, are not identical clones of Cleon I. Although it has released a first-look image for season two and a trailer, it hasn't divulged too many details about what to expect. The first season of Foundation premiered in September 2021, and Apple renewed it for a second season a month later. The story spans hundreds of years, with multiple groups warring to control the destiny of humankind. To preserve knowledge, Hari helps build the Foundation, a group of rebels that defy the Empire. Apple Foundation season 2: What to expectįoundation follows the psychohistorian Hari Seldon (played by Jared Harris), as he comes up with a formula that predicts the end of the Galactic Empire and the destruction of humanity. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Shonda rhimes say yesRight? And if that’s not bad enough, Shonda wakes up one night after going to the Kennedy Center Honors (an event she wasn’t asked to go to, she was told she was going) sitting next to Michelle and Barack Obama, with the distinct and clear thought: Shonda finds out she’s shrinking away from life when her sister, one night at home, tosses a grenade Shonda’s way after she had to listen again to all the amazing things Shonda gets asked to do, and she declines. So when I heard she wrote a book, I got around to reading it. But I have a love for (good) television and gifted writers, and Shonda is both. Whereas I have watched Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder with great fervour, I have never watched Grey’s because I know myself and the emotional depth of that show will destroy me before I even get halfway. I have never watched Grey’s Anatomy, one of the (arguably perhaps the?) best Shonda Rhimes television shows. What better time to talk about Shonda’s Rimes book Year Of Yes than the start of a brand new beautiful year? 6/23/2023 0 Comments Ireland book frank delaneyThis workshop is part of our Hay Festival Planet Assembly, a daily, inclusive conversation over ten days involving lay people, scientists, commentators and experts. How can we mobilise joined up, local-to-global action by business, society and governments on biodiversity, at a speed and scale fast enough to matter? The COP15 summit in Montreal last December was a remarkable and unexpected success but most businesses have little knowledge of nature risks and no plan to restore biodiversity. We’ve lost 69% of wildlife over the past 50 years, and at last we’re realising the consequences. We’ll discuss the scale of the issue and a range of solutions, how to action them, how they might impact on their lives and how to manage the change.īiodiversity is the collective term for the full variety of life on Earth. Facilitated by sustainability entrepreneur Andy Middleton, Chief Exploration Officer at the TYF Group, and joined by Anna Swaithes, Head of Sustainability, Crown Estate, we’ll look at the key issue of biodiversity. Bring your best ideas to this solutions-focused workshop session. |