![]() ![]() In 1997, she came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on. She has appeared in several films, including as the voice of 'Dory' in Finding Nemo, as well as the sitcom Ellen. ![]() Thousands of observations on everyday life-from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem. Ellen DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer, and currently the Emmy Awardwinning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs. Part 4 ForLifeIsTooShort3 3.78K subscribers Subscribe 22K views 12. ![]() ![]() contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche and offers innovative features including: Part 4 - YouTube 0:00 / 7:13 Ellen DeGeneres - The Funny Thing Is. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is. That book is this book.Īfter years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a work that is both easy to use and very funny. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche and offers innovative features including: -More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs. is sure to make you laugh.Įllen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point.And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is. An indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read-or wants to fool people into thinking they do- The Funny Thing Is. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Lincoln by Russell Freedman![]() ![]() While the photographs contribute much, it is Freedman's talent for putting the right details in uncomplicated prose that provides a very sharp focus for this Lincoln portrait. The 90 black-and-white photographs are highlighted by fine book design and by Freedman's comments about the nature of photography in the mid-1800's. Freedman also offers a concise but excellent picture of Lincoln's struggle with the ethics and the politics of slavery, as well as his frustrating search for the right general to lead the Union troops. Lincoln comes alive as a conscientious lawyer who put clients at ease with stories but was a hopeless slob with files and papers. The well-loved tales of Abe (a nickname he hated) courting Anne Rutledge, splitting rails in New Salem, or walking miles to obtain books are put into perspective with a few sentences. ![]() Relying on the recent scholarly biographies that have argued that many famous Abraham Lincoln stories are myths, Freedman carefully introduces a more realistic portrait than is usually found in juvenile biographies. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Max einstein 1![]() ![]() ![]() “Maxine-we’re sleeping, uninvited, above a horse stable. “You needed to improvise those bedroom slippers because the floor’s cold every morning. “Need to put on my bedroom slippers here…” He slid his bare feet into shoes he had fashioned out of cardboard and old newspapers. The tall and sturdy black man, his hair flecked with patches of white, creaked out of bed and rubbed some of the sleep out of his eyes. Lately, she’d been sleeping in the sweater under a scratchy horse blanket because her so-called bedroom was, just like Mr. Max was wearing a floppy trench coat over her shabby sweater. But you never know when a brainstorm will strike, do you?” “Is it? Sorry about the inconvenient hour. Albert Einstein would’ve called an ‘aha’ moment.” In fact, I’m better than fine! I’ve got something great here! At least I think it’s something great. She practically burst through his wonky door. Max took that question as permission to enter Mr. Max rapped her knuckles on a lopsided door hanging off rusty hinges. ![]() It was always a bouncing tangle of wild curls. Her red hair, of course, was a bouncing tangle of wild curls. The floorboards-bare planks laid across rough beams-creaked and wobbled with every step. More like a lumpy, water-stained mattress with frayed seams. ![]() The stench of horse manure woke Max Einstein with a jolt.Įven though she was shivering, she threw off her blanket and hopped out of bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiffany Solow is fierce and ruthless when it comes to slaying the monsters that destroyed her family-and she works solo. But he isn't the only hunter in town gunning for vamp blood. Vampire hunter Damon Brock's first assignment with the Execution Underground is Rochester, New York, a city crawling with the undead. He may try to evade her attempts, but even the most iron-willed demon assassin can resist for only so long. Spawned from the bloodline of his enemy, the beautiful but deadly Harpy is determined to lead the untouched Lysander into temptation. Winged warrior Lysander has been alive for centuries, and yet he's never known desire-until he meets Bianka. ![]() A timeless seduction A unique temptation And a whole world of dark desires.įrom New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Throne of glass![]() ![]() ![]() I believe this was her turning point, the true crossroad in her life, making her see, accept and embrace all that pain, regret and self-loathing she carefully kept hidden inside her soul, etched into her dire and gruesome memories. She takes down her every shield, leaving nothing behind to shed her emptiness threatening to shatter her from the inside out. In this book we see her more than broken, relentlessly blaming herself for the fates and deaths of her beloved ones. You think you know Celaena from reading the first two books, right? Oh, but you're so so wrong. ![]() It is gloriously long and kept me occupied for an entire day (night hours included) making me crave to find out more, but also stop reading so that the book won't end just yet. It certainly will be my favorite book of the year. Heir of Fire is undoubtedly one of the best books I've ever read. ![]() ![]() The plot in brief: the slave Uncle Tom is sold away from his cabin and family on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky he serves the St. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life among the Lowly is at heart a typical nineteenth-century melodrama of cruelty, suffering, religious devotion, broken homes, and improbable reunions. So why has it been called “a verbal earthquake, an ink-and-paper tidal wave”? How and why has it been so influential? Leo Tolstoy is one of the few critics who praise it unabashedly, calling Uncle Tom’s Cabin a model of the “highest type” of art because it flowed from love of God and man. George Orwell famously called it “the best bad book of the age.” Uncle Tom’s Cabin is arguably no Pride and Prejudice or Scarlet Letter. One hundred years after Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, the poet Langston Hughes called the novel, “the most cussed and discussed book of its time.” Hughes’s observation is particularly apt in that it avoids any mention of the novel’s literary merit. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The war that ended peace![]() ![]() ![]() But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. ![]() In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYįrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. ![]() ![]() ![]() What results is a coming-of-age story that is at once tear-jerking and funny, thought-provoking and real, as Mara's preconceived notions about gender, sports, sexuality, and friendship are turned upside down. Complicating matters is the fact that Valentina, Mara's crush, is one of the new players, as is Carly, Mara's nemesis?the girl Mara fought with when she was kicked off the basketball team. ![]() Now Mara's lumped in as one of the girls?one of the girls who can't throw, can't kick, and doesn't know a fullback from a linebacker. Inspired by what they see as Mara's political statement, four other girls join the team. But joining the team sets off a chain of events in her small Oregon town?and within her family?that she never could have predicted. A lifelong football fan, Mara decides to hit the gridiron with her brother, Noah, and best friend, Quinn?and she turns out to be a natural. After getting kicked off the basketball team for a fight that was absolutely totally not her fault (okay maybe a little her fault), Mara is dying to find a new sport to play to prove to her coach that she can be a team player. But when I do stuff like this, I worry it gets harder for us all to ignore what's right in front of us. We don't talk about how Mara is gay but no one says so. We don't talk about how Mara is different from other girls. Even suggesting it feels like I've overstepped some kind of invisible line we've all agreed not to discuss. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I feel stupid. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The dutch house book summary![]() Danny and Maeve occasionally park outside the Dutch House and spy on Andrea voyeuristically. Maeve still works as a bookkeeper at a grocery store in a nearby town. Instead, Maeve pushes Danny to pursue an expensive education (medical school), in order to drain the trust and prevent money from reverting to Andrea. ![]() This disrupts Maeve's plans for grad school. The only thing Cyril provided for is an educational trust for Danny, but not Maeve. When Cyril dies from a heart attack, Andrea bans both Maeve and Danny from the house, which is now hers along with Cyril's entire business. Cyril is also more interested in nurturing Danny than Maeve, since Danny is male and will take over his real estate business someday. Maeve has an adversarial relationship with Andrea. The household help, Sandy (housekeeper) and Jocelyn (cook), help to raise them as well. Instead, Maeve helps to take care of the girls and Danny. ![]() Cyril and Andrea are indifferent parents. ![]() One day, Cyril brings home Andrea, a young, pretty woman with two young girls, Norma and Bright. ![]() They grow up in a grand house, known as the Dutch House. Their mother Elna left when they were younger. In Part I, Danny and Maeve are raised by their father Cyril. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was trying to be a good father, even if he wasn’t always succeeding. But he was trying, which is more than can be said for most crappy people in the world. ![]() ![]() I know he was still making mistakes, even in this book. I know he’d done terrible things in his past. ? Ok, I know why-themes of “violence begets violence” and all that-but that doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it. And I feel like I’m going to judged and shunned for being more sad about this death. Listen, I know that probably 99% of the people currently sobbing over this volume are doing so for a different character. I highly recommend you not read these if you haven’t read this volume yet but are planning to. Now I’m going to share some spoiler-filled thoughts. I’m not serious when I tell you not to read this one. You could at least leave your readers with some hope and good feelings! But I digress. And it was a pretty terrible way to end things before a hiatus, if I’m being honest. There wasn’t anything wrong with this volume. Alana, Marko, Hazel, Sir Robot IV, Squire, Petrichor, Ghus, Upsher, Doff-everyone was together and friendly and it was so much fun to see the dynamics among them. Honestly, this was one of the best volumes of the series, in my opinion, in terms of emotion and characters and relationships. ![]() JUST GO ON BEING HAPPY AND PRETENDING EVERYTHING IS OK IN THE SAGA WORLD. ![]() |