Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir

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And being a married woman, that is, a person with her destiny all mapped out. From then on all you do is wait to die. I thought not even the freedom to be unhappy is preserved because you are dragging another person around with you. There is someone who is always observing you, who scrutinizes you, who sees your every move. And even the weariness of living has a certain beauty when it is born alone and desperate - I thought. But as a couple, eating the same bland bread every day, watching your own defeat in the other person’s defeat … All this without considering the weight of your habits reflected in the other person’s habits, the weight of the common bed, the common table, the common life, preparing and threatening the common death. I always said; never.” Me: Recently, Ginger, CJ and Ritch were rehearsing songs for an album that I believe will be recorded later in the year to be released in early 2019. When will you be joining them? Overall...it's a great book about love, family, heartbreak and figuring out what you want your future to hold. Esordio fulminante, primo libro pubblicato quando la bella ucraina cresciuta in Brasile sin da piccola, Greta Garbo che incontra Marlene Dietrich, quando Clarice aveva solo ventitre anni e studiava legge. It amazed me how a person born in 1838 took it to his life's sole purpose of not only traveling around the world but connecting with nature, falling in deep love with it and making hell bent effort in actualising the initiatives against environmental protection.

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I won’t want to spoil anything for those who haven’t read Cement Heart so just a warning that this review is going to be purposely vague. Oh Viper... what am I gonna do with my boy Viper? LOL! In all seriousness, I really thought since the first book, Cement Heart, was so emotional and heavy that this book would be more light and fluffy. More like the Cranberry series. I couldn't have been more wrong. This conclusion of Viper's story was full of emotions, angst, and heartache. There was a moment or two that had me in tears, but I loved the way it ended! I met Clarice Lispector at the exact moment that she published Near to the Wild Heart. The meeting took place in a restaurant in Cinelândia. We had lunch and our conversation strayed from literary matters. … The least I can say is that she was stunning. It was autumn, the leaves in the square were falling, and the grayness of the day helped underscore the beauty and luminosity of Clarice Lispector. Alongside the foreign climate was that strange voice, the guttural diction which rings in my ears to this day. I don’t feel madness in my wish to bite stars, but the earth still exists. And because the first truth is in the earth and the body. If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me. Danny tells a story when, at their peak, the Wildhearts were presented with a cheque for half a million pounds for merchandise rights. The Wildhearts were an explosive band on and off the stage, so it is more than possible that the true version has been lost in the fog of time.This book was written in the 50s (I think) and set in a time earlier than that, so there are a few problematic phrases that maybe haven't aged very well. Also, I know I read this for the first time when I was relatively young, maybe 7ish, but potentially wouldn't give this to every 7 year old to read (I don't have kids so not sure) as there are some quite brutal/violent things going on throughout. This novel was really beautiful and at times so honest you feel your heart breaking sentence after sentence. I'm incredibly thankful for the opportunity to catch up with Brody and Kacie and the kids some more. Although Helen Griffiths retired from writing junior fiction some 30 years ago, her books are still being read by fans and new readers in various parts of the world, perhaps because the themes are timeless and therefore don't date.

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Having been introduced to Clarice with her gem of a debut, I take delight in my sudden acquiescence in knowing for what awaits me in the rest of her novels. I don’t know a thing, I am able to give birth to a child and I don’t know a thing. God will receive my humility and will say: I was able to give birth to a world and I don’t know a thing.” Her thoughts were, once erected, garden statues and she looked at them as she followed her path through the garden.This is such a gorgeous story. Cement Heart showed us Viper getting his girl, this is the story of him keeping her. It was definitely heartbreaking at times, but the emotion was beautifully written and I felt every moment. And it was worth every bit of pain for the swoony happy ending, and double epilogue that finished off Viper’s story perfectly. No reproach, no demands, no rules, no dogma. Just a goddess giving birth to a first child feeling vulnerable and inexperienced, and destined to make mistakes and lose control when the child grows up and claims an independent life. I like that notion of a deity - the first one I have come across which doesn’t fill me with anger, guilt and nauseating frustration at the injustice of it all. Unfortunately, the beauty of the idea doesn’t make it any more true than other, less pretty cosmic conceptions! And Joana knows that, instinctively, rejecting the idea of one truth, one path to a happiness that symbolises a stasis she can’t embrace.

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This is a great child's book about animals that is actually based on a realistic animal portrayal. By this I mean there are no talking animals and the horse that we're following, La Bruja, isn't anthropomorphised in any way; her feelings are based off her limited memories and instinct. Though spunky Savannah Ensworth was born into wealth and privilege, she longs for the freedom allotted to men. Marriage is the very last thing on her to-do list. As the sole heir to her father’s fortune, she’s in no hurry to turn the freedom that comes with wealth over to a husband. The more we read about Joana, the more we realize that like day and night, and brightness and darkness, she is full of contradictions and oppositions: She was sadly a happy woman....Happiness was erasing her, erasing her...And that's what Viper does after an unpleasant and unfortunate event threats to forever change life as he knows it. The prose is fluent, hallucinogenic at times, alight with figurative images and sometimes resistant to linear logic and analysis: this is writing that has to be felt rather than merely understood and so has an appeal to somewhere more visceral than just the brain. Tudo envolvido num tom de mistério e estranheza de comportamentos e pensamentos que deixa de lado os acontecimentos exteriores para privilegiar sensações e impressões. Aproape de inima vijelioasă a lumii (titlul i-a fost propus de editor și este un citat din Potret al artistului la tinerețe de Joyce), există un narator (sfios și foarte puțin vorbăreț) care povestește, uneori, rar, despre Joana, despre tatăl ei și, în a doua parte a cărții, despre soțul ei, un anume Otávio, dar mai ales avem monologul interior al Joanei care ajunge să acopere nu numai discursul naratorului, ci și monologul interior al lui Otávio și orice alt discurs în general. Eternity wasn't just time, but something like a deeply rooted certainty that she couldn't contain it in her body because of death; the impossibility of going beyond eternity was eternity; and a feeling in absolute, almost abstract purity was also eternal. What really gave her a sense of eternity was the impossibility of knowing how many human beings would succeed her body, which would one day be far from the present with the speed of a shooting star.'

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Koks gėris! Skaityti sunkoka - labai tirštas tekstas, bet sykiu - kaip banga perlieja. Galvoj nesutelpa, kad jį parašė 23 m. (!!!) debiutuojanti (!!!) autorė - išvis. Kaip sakė ją labai mylinti kolegė, "dar nenutolusi nuo savo laukinės širdies". A tribute to the many accomplishments of naturalist John Muir. A reminder of the many reasons to marvel at nature, and protect it, as individuals and as society (policy, anyone?).I am the light wave that has no other field but the sea, I thrash about, slide, fly, laughing, giving, sleeping, but woe is me, always in me, always in me. Michelle is destroyed by his actions and while she loves him she will not be a doormat. When a sexy new single dad moves across the street she gets butterflies. Will Viper get his head out of his ass or will he lose it all....his woman, her kids....his kid? Sometimes she rebelled distantly: life is long ... She feared the days, one after another, without surprises, of pure devotion to a man. To a man who would freely use all of his wife's forces for his own bonfire, in a serene, unconscious sacrifice of everything that wasn't his own personality.