![]() ![]() Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Christian Robinson But boy is he! Wait until you find out why! It will surprise you.ģ. Norman is funny and friendly, but when he doesn’t understand his name, and when he can’t learn simple commands, his adoptive family thinks he’s just not smart. Norman, Speak! by Caroline Addison, illustrated by Qin LengĪnother adoption tale that will melt your heart. ![]() Seuss’s Max.įavorite illustration: The soft graphite illustrations with little pops of yellow and red are cute and funny.Īnd my all-time favorite is a spoiler, so peek at your own risk.Ĥ. ![]() The shoe-wearing canine character of this dog adoption tale so reminds me of another favorite canine, Dr. How can you resist this cover? I certainly couldn’t! To celebrate the release of my latest picture book, Officer Katz & Houndini: A Tale of Two Tails, illustrated by Danny Chatzikonstantinou, Mia invited me to share my TOP 5 funny dog and cat picture books!ĭog my cats! It was virtually impossible to limit myself to 5 books each, but here goes! It’s raining cats and dog picture books!! 10 Hilarious Cat and Dog Picture Books starting with … Top 5 FUNNY Dog Picture Books 5. ![]()
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![]() She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father's estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. ![]() ![]() This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction. The seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller, The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women.Ĭharting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m enamored by the descriptivist and prescriptivist divide. But I hadn’t read Eats, Shoots and Leaves, published by Lynne Truss in 2006. (Most recently this conversation.)Īlong this exploration, I was familiar with several of the most-cited grammar classics ( King’s English and Elements of Style among them). I also consumed podcasts, articles and other interviews with experts on the matter. I read a host of pop linguistics books this year, challenging my prescriptivist publishing origins with a small library of descriptivist perspective. Many grammarians follow a more prescriptivist view: if we don’t prescribe, language will falter. ![]() ![]() Modern linguistics is based largely on a descriptivist view of language, describing common usage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Has been a professional member of APLD (OR & WA) She is APLD-certified and NCIDQ (National Councilįor Interior Design Qualification)-certified. Portland Community College (Rock Creek Campus). Vanessa taught design as anĪdjunct faculty member at Marylhurst University and ![]() Landscape Design Competition for her ouroboros Vanessa has won numerous awards for her designs, includingĪ 2004 Award of Excellence from Sunset Magazine’s Support outdoor living and people’s connection to Nature. 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The most affecting and harrowing subplot involves Sonja’s sister Natasha, who is missing as the story begins we quickly learn the various indignities she suffered in the years before, forced into prostitution and addicted to heroin but later recovered enough to help deliver babies alongside her sister. Akhmed is quickly put to work learning to saw off shrapnel-flayed legs, and as the novel shifts back and forth in time, each of their stories deepens. ![]() At the core of the story is Sonja, a longtime doctor with a flinty, seen-it-all demeanor who, as the story starts in 2004, has taken in an unlikely pair: Akhmed, a barely competent but well-intentioned doctor who is protecting Havaa, whose father has been abducted. The characters Marra brings to this landscape, though, are thankfully lacking in pieties about the indomitability of the human spirit. Marra’s vision of Chechnya in the years following the fall of the Soviet Union is inevitably mordant: religious and separatist battles have left the roadways studded with land mines, the buildings pockmarked with bullets and many residents disappeared and tortured. A decade of war in Chechnya informs this multivalent, heartfelt debut, filled with broken families, lost limbs and valiant efforts to find scraps of hope and dignity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I am delighted that Guerney's translation of Dead Souls available again. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Deal Souls. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() A living embodiment of the power and terror in our environment, the Swamp Thing protects both humanity and the environment-usually from each other. All of them owe a debt to Theodore Sturgeon’s short story “It!”, published in the August 1940 issue of Unknown.Ī muck-encrusted mockery of a man, the monstrous Swamp Thing can control all plant life, from fungus on stale bread to forests of towering oaks. However, it’s but one of several “muck monster” characters that have populated comic books over the years-a list which also includes The Heap, Solomon Grundy, Man-Thing, and more. ![]() ![]() Created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, DC Comics’ Swamp Thing made its first appearance in House of Secrets #92 in 1971. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a great option if you have issues around time, especially quiet time to read at home. They sent over the audio CD’s as well which we’re listening to in the car daily. The man behind this insightful knowledge and understanding that the biggest battles we face are on the inside, is behind a number of other books as well.īTW, we are including Way of the Peaceful Warrior here as well because we feel it is a must Dan Millman read regardless of what path you’re on. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior was so successful that Dan Millman has a website dedicated to it and launched a series of events, seminars and other activities surrounding the philosophies behind the book. At the very least, you’re probably aware of it. If you’re not new to the world of new age books, personal development and spirituality, you’ve likely come across the work of Dan Millman, and may have even read his most renowned book, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a barbarism which blinds him to the The barbarism within his own self-construct, within each of hisĪssumptions and presumptions. ![]() Nicholas Urfe takes part in the godgame of self-discovery which obviates Very walls of our own individual consciousnesses. 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