![]() ![]() ![]() Each and every person he finds to chat with "sounds" exactly the same. William Least Heat-Moon supposedly speaks with many of the people that inhabit these small towns, and yet he might as well have just spoken with one of them. He starts the journey angry and bitter and those emotions never change. To find himself? To look for "America?" To get a better perspective on his lot in life? I don't know, and he never quite says. He decides to drive all around the country in his van (named Ghost Dancer), just taking the back roads, which used to be labeled blue on maps. The author takes his trek around the forgotten parts of America after the failure of his marriage and the loss of his teaching job. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys.and I can safely say that Blue Highways is the worst of them. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. ![]() ![]() I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. ![]()
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. ![]() From actress, producer, and writer Krysten Ritter, a gripping, tightly wound suspense novel about a woman forced to confront her past in the wake of small-town corruption ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a script of a rare quality, of a beautiful humanity. “ Demolition is such a powerful and touching story, written with a strong and sincere desire to try to understand the human psyche, what makes us so unique, so special, what makes us love. 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The Wrap reports that Efron is negotiating to star in the Untitled DJ Project, a coming-of-age tale written by Joseph and Meaghan Oppenheimer. ![]() ![]() And in fact for all her slightly tongue-in-cheek militancy, she takes a non-pedantic line where there are areas of doubt or where punctuation becomes a matter of taste and style. She likens punctuation to good manners – something which should be almost invisible, but which eases the way for readers. There are no stuffy grammar lessons here, just accounts of bad punctuation, explanations of why they are wrong, and exhortations to keep up standards. She teaches via anecdote, which is probably why the book is so popular. She wants you to become angry at the misuse of apostrophes and indignant at misplaced commas. Lynn Truss’s attitude to punctuation is enthusiastic, robust, and uncompromising, as her subtitle makes clear. The panda had read an encyclopedia entry on itself which contained the unnecessary comma in Eats, Shoots and Leaves. ![]() The title refers to joke about a panda who goes into a cafe, orders a sandwich, then pulls out a gun and fires it. Who would have thought it! A book on punctuation at the top of the best-seller lists. A radical defense of traditional punctuation rules ![]() ![]() Rainbow Rowell’s writing is something readers admire. So what happens to Lincoln? Does he get a chance to be happy in his life? Read Attachments to find out. However, neither of them are aware of the other’s attraction or for that matter, have even met. He slowly starts to develop feelings for Beth, who reciprocates by showing a major attraction towards him. ![]() Though the emails are very evidently against the company’s rules, Lincoln doesn’t send them any warning and starts reading all their emails sent to each other. That is, until he stumbles upon Beth and Jennifer’s emails. Socially awkward, weird, shy, Lincoln is trying hard to live the life he wants and just be happy, anyhow, but somehow his life is a never-ending chain between emails, sleeping at the wrong time and living his mother’s life. Lincoln is the ‘computer guy’ – whose job is to read flagged emails of his company and send those email-ers a warning to stop breaking the company rules. ![]() I was expecting something cherishable like Eleanor and Park or maybe something cuddly like Fangirl. ![]() The debut novel of the oh-so-famous contemporary author, what less could I expect? This book, however, doesn’t live up to the standards set by the titles I mentioned previously. Having read and immensely enjoyed both Fangirl and Eleanor and park by Rainbow Rowell, expectations were at a peak when I picked up this book. ![]() ![]() Vizka's brother Codj locks the two old badgers in the house and sets it on fire. 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Eulalia! is the 19th book in the Redwall children's fantasy novel series by author Brian Jacques and illustrated by David Elliot. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Trish Ackerly crosses paths with Ian Rafferty, who used to be her childhood bully she decides to tell him exactly what she always had wanted to and finally get her revenge. Feldman, the author of this lovely short story. Oh my gosh! This was the cutest and heartwarming story ever and so christmassy! I’m really glad I got a chance to read it. Trouble is, Ian doesn’t know who she really is, and explaining it to him is going to be a little difficult now-which is bad news, because Trish is starting to realize that all she really wants for Christmas this year…is Ian. 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