![]() ![]() Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Published on August 6th, 2016 If Cats Disappeared from the World Suggests It’s a Wonderful Life If You Want It to Be Fantasia Film Festival 2016 I know what you’re thinking.Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Genki Kawamura Narrator Brian Nishii Audible release date MaLanguage English Publisher Macmillan Audio ASIN B07HFCPK18 Version Unabridged Program Type Audiobook See all details Read & Listen Switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to Audible audiobook. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live.īut before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. I love books that have cats in them especially if they show the relationship between the cat and their owner. ![]() A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What I learned from this book (in no particular order):ġ. Fragments of Homer account for nearly half of all identifiable Greek literary papyrus finds. Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. The formative influence of the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece. Most modern researchers place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BCE. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BCE, while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BCE. ![]() ![]() These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. In the Western classical tradition, Homer (Greek: Ὅμηρος) is considered the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. ![]() ![]() The Bride Test is a touching novel full of laughter, family, steamy romance, and (quite likely) love. Struggling with emotions due to his high-functioning autism and grief, Khai believes that he cannot love– not even Esme, but who defines what love is anyway…? Clicking with Khai and becoming a part of his life is not the hard part, but helping him explain his complicated emotions and let her into his heart is a different matter. Although skeptical, Esme agrees to travel to America for the summer in the hopes of gaining the attention of Khai and providing a new life for her family. ![]() Worried for her son’s lack of relationship ability, Cô Nga brings Esme to California from Vietnam to try and win the heart of her son, Khai. At the same time, it didn’t feel like enough.Įsme cleans bathrooms for a living to support her family in Vietnam, and she never expected to find a chance for a new life while working one day. ![]() ![]() ![]() "And then the earthquake in Japan happened, followed by the tsunami and followed by the meltdown at Fukushima. ![]() Nao tells readers right up front that her diary will be a log of her last few days on Earth: She plans to take her own life, and as the story goes on, readers learn why.Īuthor Ruth Ozeki tells NPR's Rachel Martin that, two years ago, she had finished a draft of this novel and was ready to turn it in to her editor when events in Japan forced her to reconsider the story. Nao spent her formative years in California, but her family has returned to Japan, and when the book begins, she's living in Tokyo. How?Ī Tale for the Time Being presents the diary of a friendly, funny and strong-willed 16-year-old girl named Nao. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Tale for the Time Being Author Ruth Ozeki ![]() ![]() Widely reposted, Zambreno’s blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist “wives and mistresses.” In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers’ muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order–pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.” I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. A manifesto for “toxic girls” that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism. ![]() ![]() ![]() These notes suggest the powerful interest that the delegates had in protecting their future descendants. Detailed notes from the Philadelphia convention show a number of references to delegates’ children or general posterity. While there were many different motivations that influenced behavior and voting in the Convention, family life was an important factor. ![]() “Gender effects change over time, but they play a much bigger role in politics than we think they do.” “Gender is important wherever you are in history,” Pope said. The study found that fathers who had more sons were more likely to vote for a stronger national government than fathers of daughters, who wanted a weaker national government with greater state authority. Applying that knowledge to historical politics, BYU professor of political science Jeremy Pope studied the delegates of the Constitutional Convention and how the gender of their children influenced their voting. Several studies have suggested that child gender affects parental behavior in the realm of modern law and policy. New BYU research published in the American Journal of Political Science suggests that when it came to drafting the Constitution, these family dynamics played a larger role than many people have realized. Many of America’s Founding Fathers were fathers of more than just a new nation: they were also literal fathers of sons and daughters. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say.' - Elizabeth Day, Observer Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780007356348 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 350 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm MEDIA REVIEWS But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?įearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today's globalized world. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. ![]() Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. ![]() As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. ![]() ![]() Bea was beautiful and accomplished: the founder of a popular Southern lifestyle company whose products all the women in her social circle own. She should feel secure, but there’s an incident from her past that she fears will catch up to her - and even as she ever so slowly starts to make herself fit in with the women in the neighborhood, Jane feels she can’t quite escape the shadow of Eddie’s late wife, Bea. They fall for each other, and she moves into his house, where he provides her with all the things she’s never had. ![]() ![]() One day on a walk, she meets Eddie Rochester, a handsome but fairly new resident of Thornfield Estates, whose wife drowned in a boating incident with her best friend months before. So she takes little things from the houses of the people for whom she works, things they’ll never miss, and bides her time. ![]() The sheer waste of money on all the accoutrements of the wealthy lifestyle boggles her mind and makes her a bit angry, since she has almost nothing to her name. After a life in foster care in various places, the last in Arizona, Jane has started afresh in Birmingham, Alabama, where she ends up walking dogs in the most expensive and exclusive suburb of the city (indeed, the state). ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Fuller’s prize-winning first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, Unsettled Ground, which has been longlisted for the Women’s prize, takes marginal lives as its theme. Within days, Jeanie and Julius find themselves facing eviction and a fabric of secrets constructed over a lifetime begins to unravel. And now their home – rent-free, on a mysterious understanding with the local landowner – their livelihoods, their family history and habits, are all under threat without Dot. ![]() Without internet, television or bank accounts, their pleasures have been simple: a dog for company the garden for food and beauty the music they make themselves. Dot has kept her children from the world, living a hand-to-mouth existence. C laire Fuller’s impressive new novel opens by documenting, in fine and gravely moving detail, the last moments of an elderly woman, Dot, early one snowy morning in the isolated, run-down cottage she has shared with her children, the middle-aged twins Jeanie and Julius, since the violent death of their father in an accident almost 40 years earlier.Īs after every death, the world to which the twins awake looks colder, emptier and stranger, but theirs is a situation complicated by a lifetime spent in seclusion. ![]() ![]() You can even fashion a DIY witch costume or a kids' witch costume to honor your favorite character. Some of these tales have been turned into the best witch movies or TV shows starring A-list actors like Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, and Jack Nicholson, to name a few. To add to to fun, we've rounded up our best DIY book character costumes for our book lovers. Whether you're looking for a bone-chilling historical read to curl up with, a page-turning young adult witch story with Mother Nature at its heart, or even a fascinating glimpse into the natural magic of herbs and essential oils, this roundup of the best witch books is sure to hit its mark. From witch trials and the accompanying hysteria to Harry Potter and the Sanderson sisters of Hocus Pocus, witches have charmed (and frightened) their ways into our cultural vernacular, including into our literature. ![]() ![]() Witches have long captivated our imaginations. ![]() |