![]() ![]() ![]() and Canada in Blaine, at the top left corner of Washington State. ![]() ![]() He is incapable of “posing.” His dad runs a failing dairy farm, his mom has early Alzheimer’s, and they live on the ill-defined border between the U.S. In fact, he has much in common with the boy in Francisco Stork’s Marcelo in the Real World, who has Asperger’s.īrandon is 6’8” tall, socially and physically awkward, and he rocks back and forth and gets his words backwards when he is nervous (which is basically most of the time when he is not alone). Although the main character, Brandon Vanderkool, is twenty-three, I would also consider this another coming of age book: Brandon is dyslexic and it is likely he has Asperger’s Syndrome his development has been slower than other people’s. In Border Songs, Lynch again tackles similar themes with a boy who pays attention, a girl he loves, and the incredible diversity of Mother Nature’s progeny. And if so, what do you think it’s saying?” Miles hesitated and replied, “It’s probably saying, ‘ Pay attention.’” There is a passage in The Highest Tide in which a reporter asks the young protagonist Miles why it is that he’s always finding things no one else does: “Because I’m always looking … and there are so many things to see.” The reporter continues: “So, maybe… when you found that squid, maybe the earth is trying to tell us something. I loved Jim Lynch’s first novel, a coming of age story about a boy, a girl, and the creatures of the sea, called The Highest Tide. ![]()
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![]() I can’t really say too much more than that because it’s going to give to much away. ![]() You watch Sam and Sadie grow and develop and try to help each other through life’s challenges. But I’m so glad I stuck with it because it is just wonderful – even if there was some crying involved, thankfully not on a train though. You all know that I’ve been reading mostly stuff with happy endings or resolutions for the last *checks calendar* two years or so and this took me a little while to read because I wasn’t sure I was going to like how it all worked it. You follow Sam and Sadie over thirty years – as they play games, design games and grow up, always linked together but sometimes pulling in different directions. This chance meeting starts them on the road to success as video game designers. Then they didn’t see each other for years – until one day Sam sees Sadie on the subway platform. Sam and Sadie first met when they were children. ![]() ![]() Making a change from the run of BotW picks recently, this week I’ve gone for something (pretty much) new and also that’s not a romance or a mystery. ![]() ![]() They would follow Vimes to the end of the Earth, and sometimes they very well do. Crossbow, and Nobby Nobbs, who is well, Nobby Nobbs. ![]() We have Angua, a werewolf lieutenant that stays far away from silver, Detritus the troll who hasn’t quite mastered Mr. The Watch, of course, has more leaders than Vimes and Carrot. They learn to work together Carrot reminds Vimes why he became a policeman in the first place, and Vimes grounds Carrot to adjust to the city’s morally grey area. Vimes decides to take charge before Carrot gets in trouble arresting the Thieves Guild, and when a dragon attempts to usurp Patrician Vetinari, the leader of the city. He planned for Carrot Ironfoundersson, a human foundling raised by dwarves, to enter the city, rescue the citizens from the dragon, and take over the story. Terry Pratchett didn’t expect Sam Vimes to rise to the occasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroine of When You Reach Me is Miranda, a 12-year-old self-proclaimed “latchkey kid” who leads a relatively uncomplicated life with her divorced mother in a rundown apartment on the Upper West Side. It’s a story that takes on big ideas about the nature of time, friendship, compassion, and sacrifice, while still - at its heart - giving kids access to the wonder, doubts, and worries of someone their age. Like A Wrinkle in Time before it, When You Reach Me never condescends to its audience. She “tessers” to the 1970s Manhattan of her youth, tapping into her childhood emotions and experiences to create a page-turning blend of mystery and science fiction. ![]() And in When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead proves herself to be a virtuoso time traveler. It’s also a description of what takes place whenever we read and write. Stead unlocked the secret to L’Engle’s advice: “tessering” - taking shortcuts through time and space - isn’t just a fantastical concept that exists between the pages of A Wrinkle in Time. ![]() “For Rebecca,” the Newbery award-winning author wrote, “Tesser Well.” In 2010, that same ardent fan - author Rebecca Stead - would find herself standing at a podium in a Washington, DC, ballroom accepting her own Newbery for When You Reach Me, her elegantly crafted, evocative middle-grade novel that doubles as a tribute to A Wrinkle in Time. ![]() IN 1979, A SHY 11-YEAR-OLD brought her well-worn copy of A Wrinkle in Time to a Manhattan bookstore for Madeline L’Engle to sign. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Why you’ve never been able to lose weight, and how that can change nowĮverything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. The book’s very provocative excerpt reads: Fung doesn’t start the book with his featured diet, instead his book starts with research. Fung is crazy, and this is probably another fad diet” … But I kept reading… Particularly because Dr. To me, fasting meant to abstain from food and drink for days on end. Up to this point, the only fasting I was familiar with was the biblical fast. He’s a leading specialist on the management of diabetes through intermittent fasting. But what’s a nephrologist know about losing weight? Jason Fung, a nephrologist out of Canada. I was in that black hole when a friend recommended a book by a Dr. Of all the evils that have plagued me in this life, obesity has proven by far the most difficult to rid myself of. The feeling of despair that gaining weight, regardless of efforts to keep it off brings. A place I had dwelled in for over 10 years of obesity. ![]() Check it out here: Īt this point on my weight loss journey, I was in a familiar place. In a previous post, I go into detail about how I lost those 6 pounds through restricting calories, increasing protein intake, and daily exercise. I was happy until the weight came back within weeks of the loss. ![]() I was very excited a while ago when I was up 10 pounds from my lowest weight and lost 6 of those pounds after winter vacation. All links can be found at the end of the article. ![]() |