![]() ![]() They remind me of my childhood and are so delicious and addicting. I always have these crackers in my bag when I’m on the go. ![]() ![]() They’re also soothing for digestion while traveling. Of course, its worth noting that De Laurentiis comes from a family that has a history of building success stories. These candies have a lovely ginger spice to them paired with refreshing lemon and honey. Over her career as a chef, a Food Network personality, a restaurateur, and a businesswoman who has created a successful cooking-themed empire, she has come a long way since her breakout show, Everyday Italian. Right now, I’m loving the glosses by Sisley or Tower 28-they are super hydrating! Ginger lemon candies from Giadzy I wear them like slippers around my hotel room. I always pack a pair of flip flops even when I’m traveling in the winter. These wipes smell so good and are refreshing after a long day of travel. ![]() Most recently, she also founded Giadzy, a new lifestyle and e-commerce platform featuring Italian lifestyle content spanning recipes, travel, entertaining, and Italian Pantry products.ĭe Laurentiis always tries to visit her family back in Italy at least once a year, and after a few years of being at home, she was finally able to get back this June to Puglia with her Aunt Raffy, daughter Jade, and boyfriend Shane.Īmid her summer travels, De Laurentiis recently shared more with Fortune about the must-have items she never leaves home without. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Berger has spent the last 10 years researching key pieces of the accelerated word-of-mouth puzzle. But, still, they’ve found it near impossible to derive a scientifically-validated formula that fuels near-contagious word-of-mouth.Įnter Wharton/University of Pennsylvania professor and author the hot new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger. ![]() To create something so cool, provocative, surprising, and valuable that the world rallies behind it, word of mouth explodes and you, your business, product, service, body of work or movement burst into the public consciousness.įor years, people have been trying to reverse engineer how to make things “go viral.” Large companies and marketing agencies have spent hundreds of millions on the quest. ![]() It’s the Holy Grail for nearly every mission-driven individual. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is quite a bit of stream of consciousness in the writing, which completely fits the characters, especially Brooklyn, but that style might not be for everyone. There is a lot of violence, and the characters are not the most mentally stable. I loved Uncle Niall in Kings of Quarantine, so I had to read his book, The Death Club, and I am so happy I did! You can read more on my disclosures page. Every day is anarchy and that’s my favourite flavour. ![]() Want to know another one? I quite like it here. Don’t ask them or they’ll send me back to that creepy asylum where they gave me the crazy pills. Which is a freaking insult by the way as I’m already the best killer in town. I can’t decide which I want most.Īnyways, my hot, tattooed, muscular insane Irish captor thinks I might make a good hit woman once he trains me up. He either wants to kiss me or choke me out. I call him Dead Man on account of his soulless eyes. ![]() Oh and there’s another dude down here who lives in a cage and doesn’t talk. I was kidnapped, sold, sold again, stuck in a death game, sold AGAIN and now I’m living in a serial killer’s basement. I wished for my life to improve, but it didn’t. I know killing technically doesn’t start with a C – but wouldn’t life be better if it did? Just like it would be better if the Devil was my boyfriend, Santa wasn’t a d*ck and I didn’t live under a bridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His response to the author’s claim that he needs inspiration is “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” After which he refers the author to Piscine Patel in Toronto, who immediately begins to tell his own story, starting in chapter one.Īs a teenager in Pondicherry, India, Pi Patel describes his family – himself, his parents, and his brother Ravi. ![]() The novel begins with the author describing in an author’s note his travels to India, where he meets a man named Francis Adirubasamy in a coffeehouse in Pondicherry. "Infobox Book" name Life of Pi image image caption An American paperback edition of Life of Pi author Yann Martel country Canada language English genre Novel publisher Knopf Canada release date September 2001 media type Paperback, hardback and audiobook pages 336 isbn 0676973760 (first edition, hardcover), 0156027321 (US paperback edition) 1565117808 (audiobook, Penguin Highbridge) preceded by Self followed by We Ate the Children Last ![]() ![]() ![]() They live in the Country of the Gillikins, in the North of Oz, which is divided into four kingdoms at the centre of which is the Emerald City. The Marvelous Land of Oz tells the story of Tip, a boy who is at odds with his guardian, the witch Mombi. Nevertheless, The Marvelous Land of Oz started Baum on a series of Oz books that would amount to 14. Baum, who was 44 when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, was experiencing real success for the first time in his career, and he was pragmatic in his work, clearly writing the sequel for an eventual stage adaptation featuring the vaudevillian duo. The musical was aimed more at adults than children, and featured two popular vaudevillian comedians who played the Scarecrow & the Tin Woodman. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been adapted into a stage musical in 1902 with great success. ![]() ![]() Or, at least, that is what he writes in the preface. Frank Baum, author of the children’s book of 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, wrote a sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, to answer all the questions about the future of the Scarecrow & the Tin Woodman put to him by his many young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was a woman and he unmade her face. He was the last to get his powers and his elder God siblings (I believe they were siblings but maybe they weren't) would joke with him about him being powerless but he came into his powers and he felt bullied and kind of an outsider to all the other Gods. The God of good and creation was one you really liked (Osiris) and the God of evil (Seth) was so evil he was to be feared. I love the love, the deceit, and the good and evil. ![]() I thought the story of the Gods and the different powers they all had was really interesting. I did only rate it a 3 star because it is only a novella and it wasn't like I couldn't put it down and I thought of nothing but this book. I ended up liking the book and if I would have DNF'd it I wouldn't have known how good it would end up being. This one was a novella and I tried to talk myself into skipping it and couldn't do it and I'm so glad I decided to keep going. I'm way to OCD to DNF a book and also I have to read the novellas in order or it bugs me so badly. This was my 4th attempt to read this book and I really thought I would hate it and it was a chore to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. ![]() She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. ![]() Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age-one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth.Īnd Lucifer said, 'Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…' His extraordinary debut, Those across the River, was hailed as 'genre-bending Southern horror' (California Literary Review) and 'graceful horrific' (Patricia Briggs). ![]() ![]() ![]() Their adventures are engrossing and heart-warming and, fortunately for us, the first of a nine-part series. Soon they find themselves on the front lines protecting their homeland from Napoleon and his dragons. Laurence and Temeraire begin their training with the secretive Aerial Corps. Laurence’s tenderness with Temeraire is all the more impactful given how reserved and composed he is with others. Their relationship is a warm, engaging mix of the love one feels for a cherished pet crossed with the responsibility one feels for a wise, precocious child (assuming that child was larger than a school bus and could fly with 30 men onboard). ![]() ![]() He quickly becomes besotted with Temeraire. One of the most beautiful parts of this book is that, to Laurence’s surprise, devotion is a two-way street. All future plans of naval promotions and marriage must abruptly be set aside. When the egg hatches and the infant dragon chooses him, Laurence suddenly finds himself bound to the dragon, whom he names Temeraire. For Laurence, who is perfectly content with his life at sea, this poses an unexpected conundrum. The dragon’s chosen person will have to forgo any semblance of normal life: The dragon will always come first. Dragons are also exceptionally long-lived (and high-maintenance). In this reality, dragons form a deep emotional attachment to their human partner, the person the dragon chooses when they are first hatched. ![]() ![]() ![]() We all agreed that she’s obviously very important, but the most intriguing theory thrown out there (first by Shannon It Starts at Midnight, I believe) was that the queens were actually quadruplets. There were lots of other theories about Jules as well, of course. I wasn’t sure if that meant Katherine and Jules were switched at birth, though? Other commenter’s theories: ![]() ![]() I based this on her strong naturalist powers and on the fact that she was a Beltane baby who supposedly looks nothing like her family. My theory was that Jules was going to turn out to be the true Naturalist queen. I’m going to go through some of the predictions that we all had after reading the first book and see how many of them were correct, and I’ll also add in some of my predictions about what will happen in books three and four! Jules My original theory: And there was a lot of excitement! So, let’s dive right in… I just finished book two of this series, and it was just as good as I was hoping it would be! We may not have gotten all of our questions answered (of course-there are still two more books!), but we did learn a lot in this installment. NOTE: In case you missed the title of this post, BE WARNED NOW THAT IT WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS! If you want my non-spoilery thoughts on this book, check out my review instead! Or, if you’ve only read the first book, then feel free to check out my Spoiler-Filled Discussion of Three Dark Crowns! (And then immediately read One Dark Throne and come back here!) ![]() ![]() ![]() After winning a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1974, he published his first book of poetry, “Sadness and Happiness,” in 1975. His first published work, in 1968, was a collection of essays. ![]()
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