![]() Restrained Eating + Emotional Eatingīacon’s primary thesis about eating patterns seems to be that people fall mostly into one of two camps about how they eat: See my posts about my weight struggles and resolution struggles. Note: I know I raise/frame several points in this summary in a negative light, I overall think this is a good, but challenging book. Society’s problem about weight is the problem.” Or as Bacon says on page 190: “y weight is not a problem. I agree that as a society, we should be more accepting that health is the most important thing, not a particular weight, BMI number, etc. (This is the first ~160 pages of the book.) For me, the material was repetitive. I am going to skip a discussion of the nutrition, diet, and exercise-related advice in the book. ![]() These are all good thoughts and generally aligned with other reading on nutrition and health that I have done. The basic premise of the book is that dieting does not work (not a shock) and that instead, one should focus on finding health at your current weight. ![]() ![]() My review is of the 2010 “revised and updated” (aka second edition) as read on the Kindle. This is a review of the book “ Health at Every Size” (HAES) by Linda Bacon. ![]()
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The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal species new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. ![]() Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. Clockwise from top left: female golden stag beetle ( Lamprima aurata), rhinoceros beetle ( Megasoma sp.), long nose weevil ( Rhinotia hemistictus), cowboy beetle ( Chondropyga dorsalis), and a species of Amblytelusīeetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera ( / k oʊ l iː ˈ ɒ p t ər ə/), in the superorder Endopterygota. ![]() ![]() ![]() Severian in The Book of the New Sun (1980-83) sets out as a messiah to save the Earth, and in the process reinvigorates the sun, but causes a great flood on the planet that cleanses everything. ![]() The three book series that comprise Wolfe’s Solar Cycle have a religious theme running all the way through them about messiahs, promised lands and deliverance. Or, more precisely, I understand that Gene Wolfe set out to do a couple of things with them.įirst of all, it is the continuation and conclusion of his Solar Cycle of course. Only now, halfway through the final book, I sort of start to understand what Gene Wolfe has set out to do with these series. I’ve been trying forever to wrap my head around these books. ![]() Some thoughts about the Books of the Long and Short Sun. As Patera Remora would say: “Saints, eh? Visions, rockets. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Roman training, Ben-Hur distinguishes himself in the arena and the palistrae and appears to be on the way to high military command. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. Download cover art Download CD case insert Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christīen-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() He attempts his work sedulously, with great precision and sense of responsibility, despite his suffering from vertigo caused by a fear of height when he climbs the ladder to access files on ceiling-to-floor shelves. In his early fifties, José has a laudable modesty of those who do not go around complaining about the voluminous workload befallen him. Senhor José’s life is nothing but ordinary: in an unnamed city he works as a lowly clerk for the Central Registry of Births, Marriages and Death where the living and dead permanently share the same shelf in a single archive. To Kill a Mockingbir… on To Kill A Mockingbird…ĭeanna Friel on The Price of Salt (Carol… The HKIA brings Hong… on Island and Peninsula 島與半… The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrellĭiana Thoughts on… on The Luminaries – E… The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguroġ8. Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramagoġ5. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevskyħ. ![]() The Master and Margarita, Mikhail BulgakovĤ. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, the brother has always resented Angelique because he hated her mother, who actually died at her birth. The 18 year old daughter of a Duke, Angelique, is left at the mercy of her half brother upon her father's death. ![]() We are told repeatedly of this extraordinary beauty and near genius like intelligence on a regular basis. Of course, the heroine, as is the case with every Steel heroine, possesses beauty and intelligence that defies human expectations. ![]() I don't even know where to start with my complaints. But once I started reading, much like watching a train wreck, I finished the whole book. I should have just went with my first inclination and just stayed away. If I were to buy the book on Amazon it would be $14.99 so why not take the opportunity to borrow. I figure what the heck, perhaps I should give Steel another chance. However, I see this historical (almost always my first choice) highly rated (GR: 4.21 and Amazon over 4 stars) novel available to borrow as an e-book from Overdrive library. The last time I read a Danielle Steel book has to be at least 25 years ago. OMG.I am half embarrassed to even admit I read this book but here goes. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is Frances (Fanny) Burney's second novel, the first, Evelina, was written in secret but recognised as worth publishing once she dared to show it to her family and friends. in spite of often meeting the hero in the wrong place at the wrong time, when she really needs to find him, he has frustratingly just left the place she's arrived at, and not once but again and againĪs you can guess, ridiculous hindrances and interferences abound, and they become more and more farcical as the pages turn.īut having said all that, I have to admit that this novel from the 1780s has a lot more going for it than your average soap opera. each time she has an opportunity to explain herself, something happens to prevent her ![]() on each occasion that the main character goes somewhere she shouldn't go, she invariably crosses paths with someone who draws the wrong conclusions about her activities ![]() there are a set number of characters, some of whom turn up again and again serving new and unlikely plot purposes every time Yes, the more I think about it, the more parallels between this book and a soap opera occur to me: One of my first reactions on finishing this long and melodramatic 18th century saga was relief that such unlikely plots and histrionic characters are no longer in vogue in literature-though we still have plenty of melodrama in the form of soap opera. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The imagery associated with Zeena is bleak and cold also. For example, in the beginning of the novel, Wharton gives readers the feeling of the bitterness and hardness of the winter by setting the constellation, Orion, in a "sky of iron." When Ethan and Mattie enter the Frome household after walking home, the kitchen has "the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night." This image is appropriate to the living death that Ethan and Mattie experience in the years after their accident. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison (such as like or as). The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language - language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finding the robot culprit only creates more questions, however, and when the unlikely mastermind behind the robot is uncovered, a new story begins to unfold-one of lost love, family bonds, and some seriously weird science. So, aided a crew of unusually determined pets, Molly sets off on Pink Lightning-her tricked-out bicycle-on a chase through the hills of southern Ohio. Buy a discounted Hardcover of Molly and the Machine online from Australias. ![]() If Molly wants to protect the family she has left, Wally's rescue is going to be up to her. Booktopia has Molly and the Machine, Far Flung Falls by Erik Jon Slangerup. Perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and James Ponti, this hilarious and poignant middle grade sci-fi adventure set in 1980s Ohio follows a young girl who makes incredible discoveries about family and belonging while chasing a kidnapping robot.It’s the summer of 1983, and one by one, the kids of Far Flung Falls are disappearing. Sure, Wally tends to ruin everything, and his finger practically lives up his nose, but she isn't about to let him be abducted by some unknown enemy, especially since their mom ran off to Florida two years ago and their dad, who's slowly morphing into a couch potato, won't be any help. But when Molly's little brother is snatched up before her eyes, she has no choice but to follow. With sheer drop-offs at every turn, the woods behind Molly McQuirter's house have always been a dangerous place-even before something big and metal started lurking in them. It's the summer of 1983, and one by one, the kids of Far Flung Falls are disappearing. ![]() Perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and James Ponti, this "absolute blast" (Jarrett Lerner, author of the EngiNerds series) of a middle grade sci-fi adventure set in 1980s Ohio follows a young girl who makes incredible discoveries about family and belonging while chasing a kidnapping robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() She comes from a harsh background and the guarantee of having food for seven straight years while serving someone of royal blood? It seems like the gods have smiled upon her. Lady Saren takes Dashti who oddly doesn't mind this arrangement. ![]() The premise is that Lady Saren will be locked up in a tower for seven years because she will not marry Lord Khashar. This story is loosely based on an obscure Grimm fairy tale (Hale mentions which one it is at the end of the book). Let's see if I'll be able to give a concise review without confusing people. It deserves more than the five star rating. ![]() It's why as readers we come back and back again and hope this will be the book that gives us that exhilaration. Do you guys know that feeling when you just have finished an astonishingly excellent book? You feel full of life and understanding. ![]() |