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Kate’s 2¢: “About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times” by Garland and Catapano
“About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times” by Garland and Catapano
One of the contributors to this anthology was the featured speaker on the Behind Our Eyes, Org telephone conference call on Sunday, April 2, 2023.
From Alice J-M Massa:
In the nine-hour-and-forty-minute book, you will find the recommended essay at the eight-hour-and-forty-three-minute mark; the reading time for the one recommended piece is only approximately eight minutes. After I downloaded the BARD version DB 96492 of the above anthology, I was quickly taken in by the introduction of the book and found many of the essays highly emotional and touching. The collection includes two pieces by Dan, as well as two essays by his wife Ona Gritz. “Space Travel: A Vision” carries an artistic thread of space travel from Dan’s young childhood to his adult life. The essay is expertly crafted with superb organization, poetic descriptions, and relatable tales. I believe Dan’s memoir piece is one of the most well-written pieces in a collection of very well-written essays. Reading this short memoir is certainly worth your time—even if you do not read the other nine hours of the recorded book.
from Daniel Simpson:
Poetry Collections
School for the Blind. Poets Wear Prada, 2014. Available from poetswearprada.com, bookshop.org, and amazon.com.
NLS: DBC12210 and BR21106.
Also available from bookshare.org
Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems (with Ona Gritz). Finishing Line Press, 2017. Available from finishinglinepress.com and amazon.com.
Inside the Invisible. Nine Mile Books, 2022. Available from ninemile.org, bookshop.org, and amazon.com.
Anthology Edited by Daniel Simpson (with Ona Gritz)
More Challenges for the Delusional: Peter Murphy’s Prompts and the Writing They Inspired. Diode Editions, 2018. Available from diodeeditions.com and amazon.com.
Anthologies Including Daniel Simpson’s Work:
Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Jennifer Bartlet, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen, editors. Cinquo Puntos Press. 2011. Available on Kindle.
NLS: DB74050 and BR24267.
Learning Ally: KK453.
Also available from Bookshare.org.
Schuylkill Valley Journal, Volume 45, Fall 2017. Available from amazon.com.
Includes an interview with the poet and a generous selection of his poems.
About Us: Essays from The New York Times Disability Series. Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, editors. Liveright, 2019. Available from store.nytimes.com, amazon.com and audible.com.
NLS: DB96492 and BR22839
Also available from bookshare.org.
Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest. Ona Gritz and Taylor Carmen Savath, editors. South Jersey Cultural & History Center at Stockton University, 2021. Available from amazon.com.
** April 2, 2023, Sunday, at 8:00 p.m., Eastern Time
Poet Daniel Simpson will be the keynote speaker for the Behind Our Eyes celebration of National Poetry Month.
BIO OF DAN SIMPSON
Dan Simpson is the winner of the inaugural Propel Poetry Prize for his latest poetry collection, Inside the Invisible, published by Nine Mile Books in November, 2022 and nominated for the . American Academy of Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. In 2017, he and his wife, Ona Gritz, collaborated on two books, as co-authors of Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and as co-editors of More Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of prose, poetry, and writing prompts. School for the Blind, his first collection of poems, came out in 2014. His work has been anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, and many other journals. “Let’s Walk Together,” a composition for bass soloist and choir, based on a text written by Daniel Simpson, received its premiere performance by Voces8 in London in December 2020. Voces8 and four other choirs also performed “A Song Everyone Can Sing, for which he served as lyricist in March, 2019. The recipient of a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he tends a blog, Inside the Invisible, which can be found at insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com.
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SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: Poems by Daniel Simpson—DBC 12210, copyright 2014, reading time of 50 minutes (narrated by the author).
BEAUTY IS A VERB: THE NEW POETRY OF DISABILITY—DB 74050, copyright 2011, reading time of 13 hours and 15 minutes.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
About us: essays from the disability series of the New York Times DB96492
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie; Catapano, Peter Reading time: 9 hours, 40 minutes.
Coleen Marlo
Disability
Sixty-one essays originally published as part of the New York Times Disability column. The essays are organized into the topics of justice, belonging, working, navigating, coping, love, family, and joy. Essayists have physical, motor, sensory, and cognitive differences. Commercial audiobook. 2019.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham
“The boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham
It was obvious from the beginning that childhood friends, Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco, were going to end up on opposite sides of the struggle. The story is, non-the-less, intriguing and well worth the 17 hours, 25 minutes. Michael Beck did a good job of narrating this story for the National Library Service.
From the web: Wikipedia:
Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham.[6] His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker.[9] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee.[6]
As a child, he wanted to be a baseball player.[8] As noted in the foreword to Calico Joe, Grisham gave up playing baseball at the age of 18, after a game in which a pitcher aimed a beanball at him, and narrowly missed, doing the young Grisham grave harm.
Although Grisham’s parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college.[1] He drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House.[6] Grisham started working for a plant nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for $1.00 an hour. He was soon promoted to a fence crew for $1.50 an hour. He wrote about the job: “there was no future in it”. At 16, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he “never drew inspiration from that miserable work”.[10]
Through one of his father’s contacts, he managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 17. It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him “serious” about college. A fight with gunfire broke out among the crew, causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators. He hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store men’s underwear section, which he described as “humiliating”. By this time, Grisham was halfway through college. Planning to become a tax lawyer, he was soon overcome by “the complexity and lunacy” of it, deciding instead to return to his hometown as a trial lawyer.[11]
He attended the Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and later attended Delta State University in Cleveland.[6] Grisham changed colleges three times before completing a degree.[1] He eventually graduated from Mississippi State University in 1977, receiving a B.S. degree in accounting. He later enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law to become a tax lawyer, but his interest shifted to general civil litigation. He graduated in 1981 with a J.D. degree.[6]
After leaving law school, he participated in some missionary work in Brazil, under the First Baptist Church of Oxford.[12]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The boys from Biloxi DB110627
Grisham, John; Beck, Michael. Reading time: 17 hours, 25 minutes.
Read by Michael Beck.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Legal Fiction
“For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to “clean up the Coast.” Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom. Life itself hangs in the balance in The Boys from Biloxi, a sweeping saga rich
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Family Across The Street” by Nicole Trope
“The Family Across The Street” by Nicole Trope
I liked this thriller; although, I couldn’t find much background information on the author. She is, apparently, a prolific author.
By alternating the pov, each character was developed as the narrative progressed. Yes, the ending was a surprise and took a bit to parse who was who, but it worked.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The family across the street DB110758
Trope, Nicole. Reading time: 7 hours, 47 minutes.
Read by Laura Hatch.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
“Sometimes, the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets. How well do you know the people next door? Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don’t they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather than inviting you in? Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.” — Provided by publisher. Violence and strong language.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Shadows of Men: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee
“The Shadows of Men: A Novel by Abir Mukherjee
I really enjoyed this story with its wonderful descriptions of the various neighborhoods, the people, and the language. I’d not known of the series prior to this book. I liked the ending, because it closed out this episode, yet left the door open for future episodes.
Here are a few take-aways:
–Sometimes a man must open his eyes and realize the truth about himself and the masters he serves. And sometimes, he must sacrifice himself for the greater good.
–There is in the Bengalli psyche that is predisposed toward self-destruction. How else can one explain the actions of a people of reaching the pinnacle of art and poetry, and philosophy; and yet, be so quick to fall back into barbarity and the butchering of their own in the name of religion.
–Our fates, as they say, are written the moment we are born. Our destiny sealed by a combination of celestial chronology and terrestrial geography.
–That was the thing about religion. It was an open question as to what was divine inspiration and how much was just bureaucratic packaging.
–We must continue to rule India, if only to save the natives from themselves.
–A plot by Section H to funnel money to extremists, both Hindu and Muslim, in an attempt to destabilize the consensus that Gandhi had built.
–The world changes. The Englishman remains constant…like a dinosaur.
–The Bible says: A kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and a house divided will surely fall.
–It was a system I would no longer work for. I would go home, but not just yet.
From the web:
Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017 and was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar for best novel. His second novel, A Necessary Evil, won the Wilbur Smith Award.
Abir Mukherjee (born circa 1974)[1] is a British-Indian[2] author best known his Wyndham and Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India.
Personal life[edit]
Mukherjee’s parents moved from Calcutta, India to the United Kingdom before he was born.[1][non-primary source needed] He grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey, England with his wife (Sonal) and two sons.[3][4]
Career[edit]
Before beginning his writing career, Mukherjee was an accountant for 20 years.[1][5]
In 2013, at age 39, Mukherjee learned that Lee Child didn’t begin writing until age 40 and was inspired to begin writing himself.[1][5] He began writing A Rising Man in September of that year, partly inspired by the Telegraph Harvill Secker Crime Writing Competition,[1][5][non-primary source needed] which he won the following year.[6][7] The novel was ultimately published in 2016.
Mukherjee’s Wyndham series is based in Raj-era India. He has stated that this era of colonization in India intrigues him because he didn’t learn about it in British schooling, and the stories his parents shared about India differed significantly from what he learned in the classroom.[8]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The shadows of men: a novel DB106820
Mukherjee, Abir. Reading time: 9 hours, 28 minutes.
Read by David Hartley-Margolin.
Historical Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
When a Hindu theologian is found murdered, war threatens Calcutta. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee are tasked with tracking those responsible before the city turns into a bloodbath. The case also threatens their relationship and partnership. Violence and some strong language. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Away From Home” by Carrie Hooper
“Away From Home” by Carrie Hooper
Behind Our Eyes Writers with Disabilities had invited Carrie Hooper to a Zoom meeting on Sunday, March 19, 2023 to present her books of original poems and discuss her translations of other languages into English. Her books are available from Lulu.com, and many other sources.
BIO of CARRIE HOOPER
Carrie Hooper, blind since birth, was born and raised in Elmira, New York. She received a B.A. in vocal performance, an M.A. in vocal performance, and an M.A. in German. As a Fulbright scholar, Carrie spent a year at the Royal University College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden.
Carrie currently lives in Elmira, New York, where she teaches voice, piano, and foreign language lessons. Her other activities include performing in solo concerts, playing the piano and organ at a church, and singing in a community chorus. She has translated texts from Albanian and Romanian to English.
* Book Blurb for MY LIFE IN MY WORDS
MY LIFE IN MY WORDS is a collection of poems which explores various aspects of the author’s life. The book includes poems about faith, interactions with nature, and holiday memories. Other poems were inspired by the author’s visits with her friends, Tim and Debbie who live in Huntsville, Alabama. Miss Hooper also reflects on life experiences as diverse as riding a children’s train at a local ice cream store and attending Evensong at Kings College Chapel in Cambridge, England. Finally, Miss Hooper offers her views on a variety of topics, such as making peace, celebrity worship, and the use of words.
* Synopsis of AWAY FROM HOME
AWAY FROM HOME is a collection of poems inspired by the author’s travels. Part 1, “A Week at Sea,” includes poems inspired by a cruise the author took with her family in 2019. Part 2, “Other Adventures,” contains poems about other travel experiences. Topics include overcoming the fear of escalators during an American Council of the Blind convention in Des Moines, Iowa; driving to Florida; enjoying outings with a friend from Holley, New York; visiting the New York State School for the Blind in Batavia, New York; experiencing an old country church in Pennsylvania; and more.
Carrie Hooper:
hoot751@stny.rr.com
Carrie Hooper – wordgathering.syr.edu
“Disastrous September” by Skifter Kellici, translated by Carrie Hooper
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Kate’s 2¢: “At the edge of the Haight: by Katherine Seligman
“At the edge of the Haight: by Katherine Seligman
I think, although this does have some rough descriptions of life in the park, it is a sanitized version of what really happens. I do like the ending, because it gives you the hope that, at least these two young people, have started to stop blaming their parents for everything and are getting their heads screwed on straight.
Btw: She didn’t actually see the boy killed, as the NLS annotation states.
From the web:
Katherine Seligman is a journalist and author in San Francisco. As a reporter, she’s focused on social issues, from homelessness, mental health and end of life issues to the city’s boom and bust cycles. But she’s also written about everything else, from self-appointed graffiti curators, urban coyotes and embryonic sex selection to what her kids learned growing up in Haight Ashbury.
She has been a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and USA Today. Her stories have appeared in Redbook, Life, Time, California Magazine, PBS Next Avenue, CALmatters, Al Jazeera America, and the anthology “Fresh Takes.”
She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and loves working in clay. (Check out some of her ceramic work, made and sold at Sharon Arts Studio).
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
At the edge of the Haight DB110657
Seligman, Katherine. Reading time: 7 hours, 2 minutes.
Read by Gabra Zackman.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She thinks she knows how to survive and whom to trust until she accidentally witnesses the murder of a young man. Her world is upended as she has to face not only the killer but also the police and then the victim’s parents, who desperately want Maddy to tell them about the life their son led after he left home. And in a desire to save her since they could not save their own son, they are determined to have Maddy reunite with her own lost family. But what makes a family? Is it the people who raised you if they don’t have the skills to look after you? Is it the foster parents whose generosity only lasts until things become more difficult? Or is it the family that Maddy has met in the park, young people who also have nowhere else to go?” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Fortunate Pilgrim” by Mario Puzo
“The Fortunate Pilgrim” by Mario Puzo
NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
Roy Avers did an excellent job of narrating this story for the National Library Service (NLS). His slight voice inflections gave you a heads-up about who was talking, but not so much as to distract from the story and stop the flow.
Puzo wielded his craft to perfection to bring to us the flavor of the times and the people in this family who lived through it in New York City. There appears to be a lot of autobiography in this story.
From Wikipedia:
Personal life[edit]
Puzo was born in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York City to Italian immigrants from Pietradefusi, Province of Avellino, Campania.[2] When Puzo was 12, his father, who worked as a trackman for the New York Central Railroad, was committed to the Pilgrim State Hospital insane asylum for schizophrenia,[3] and his wife, Maria, was left to raise their seven children.[4] He served in the US Army Air Forces in Germany in World War II, and later graduated from the City College of New York.[4] Puzo married a German woman, Erika, with whom he had five children.[5] When Erika died of breast cancer at the age of 58 in 1978, her nurse, Carol Gino, became Puzo’s companion.[4][5]
Career[edit]
In 1950, his first short story, “The Last Christmas,” was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.[4]
In 1960, Bruce Jay Friedman hired Puzo as an assistant editor of a group of men’s pulp magazines with titles such as Male, Men. Under the pen name Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for magazine True Action.[6][7]
In 1969, Puzo’s best-known work, The Godfather, was published. Puzo stated that this story came from research into organized crime, not from personal experience, and that he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses.[4][8] The novel remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 67 weeks and sold over nine million copies in two years.[9] The book was later developed into the film The Godfather (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Paramount Pictures originally found out about Puzo’s novel in 1967 when a literary scout for the company contacted then Paramount Vice President of Production Peter Bart about Puzo’s unfinished sixty-page manuscript.[10] Bart believed the work was “much beyond a Mafia story” and offered Puzo a $12,500 option for the work, with an option for $80,000 if the finished work were made into a film.[10][11] Despite Puzo’s agent telling him to turn down the offer, Puzo was desperate for money and accepted the deal.[10][11] Paramount’s Robert Evans relates that, when they met in early 1968, he offered Puzo the $12,500 deal for the 60-page manuscript titled Mafia after the author confided in him that he urgently needed $10,000 to pay off gambling debts.[12] The film received three awards of the 11 Oscar category nominations, including Puzo’s Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Coppola and Puzo then collaborated on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). Coppola and Puzo preferred the title The Death of Michael Corleone for the third film, but Paramount Pictures found that unacceptable.[13] In September 2020, for the film’s 30th anniversary, it was announced that a new cut of the film titled Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone would have a limited theatrical release in December 2020 followed by digital and Blu-ray.[14] Coppola said the film is the version he and Puzo had originally envisioned, and it “vindicates” its status among the trilogy.[15]
In mid-1972, Puzo wrote the first draft of the script for the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, but he was unable to continue work because of his prior commitment to The Godfather Part II. Work continued on the script without his involvement, with writer George Fox (working on his first, and only, motion picture screenplay) and producer / director Mark Robson, who remained uncredited as a writer. Puzo retained screen credit in the completed film as a result of a quickly-settled lawsuit over story credit (most elements from his first draft made it into the final film), and Puzo’s name subsequently featured heavily in the advertising. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Richard Donner’s Superman, which then also included the plot for Superman II, as they were originally written as one film. He also collaborated on the stories for the 1982 film A Time to Die and the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club.
In 1991, Puzo’s speculative fiction The Fourth K was published; it centres on a fictional member of the Kennedy family dynasty who becomes President of the United States early in the 2000s.[16]
Puzo never saw the publication of his penultimate book, Omertà, but the manuscript was finished before his death, as was the manuscript for The Family. However, in a review originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jules Siegel, who had worked closely with Puzo at Magazine Management Company, speculated that Omertà may have been completed by “some talentless hack”. Siegel also acknowledged the temptation to “rationalize avoiding what is probably the correct analysis — that [Puzo] wrote it and it is terrible”.[17]
Death[edit]
Puzo died of heart failure on July 2, 1999, at his home in Bay Shore, New York, at the age of 78.[4]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The fortunate pilgrim DB27612
Puzo, Mario Reading time: 9 hours, 15 minutes.
Roy Avers A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Family
A chronicle of Italian immigrant life set in New York from the late twenties through World War II. Portrays the lives of the Angeluzzi-Corbo family, especially the luminous matriarch, Lucia Santa, twice-widowed and determined to preserve the family. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Science and the modern world” by Alfred North Whitehead
“Science and the modern world” by Alfred North Whitehead
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
A bit over my head and interest level, but it was intregging anyway.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947)
was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,[21] which today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.
In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. His most notable work in these fields is the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), which he wrote with former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century’s most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.[22]
Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another.[23] Today Whitehead’s philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy.
Whitehead’s process philosophy argues that “there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us.”[23] For this reason, one of the most promising applications of Whitehead’s thought in recent years has been in the area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics pioneered by John B. Cobb.[24][25]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Science and the modern world DB104024
Whitehead, Alfred North Reading time: 8 hours, 54 minutes.
Barry Bernson
Science and Technology
Collection of essays presented by mathematician and philosopher examining the influence of science on the thought of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, with material on relativity, the quantum theory, and the relation of religion to science. 1925.
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Kate’s 2¢: “To tell you the truth” by Gilly Macmillan
“To tell you the truth” by Gilly Macmillan
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
An interesting story.
From: https://www.gillymacmillan.com
Lucy Harper has a talent for invention…
She was nine years old when her brother vanished in the woods near home. As the only witness, Lucy’s story of that night became crucial to the police investigation. Thirty years on, her brother’s whereabouts are still unknown.
Now Lucy is a bestselling thriller writer. Her talent for invention has given her fame, fortune, and an army of adoring fans. But her husband, Dan, has started keeping secrets of his own, and a sudden change of scene forces Lucy to confront some dark, unwelcome memories. Then Dan goes missing and Lucy’s past and present begin to collide. Did she kill her husband? Would she remember if she did?
Finally, Lucy Harper is going to tell us the truth.
Cross her heart.
And hope to die.
Gilly Macmillan is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels including WHAT SHE KNEW, THE PERFECT GIRL, ODD CHILD OUT, I KNOW YOU KNOW and THE NANNY, and TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. THE LONG WEEKEND is coming in Spring 2022.
A former art historian and photographer, Gilly studied at Bristol University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She lives in Bristol, UK, with her husband and three children.
Her first novel, WHAT SHE KNEW, was a Target pick, a LibraryReads pick, an Indie Next pick, an Edgar award nominee, and an International Thriller Writers award finalist. THE NANNY was a Spring 2020 Richard & Judy WHSmith Book Club pick and TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH was named one of the best thrillers of 2020 by the New York Times.
Gilly’s novels have appeared on the New York Times, Sunday Times, Globe & Mail and Der Spiegel bestseller lists and have been translated into over 20 languages. She’s been described as ‘one heck of a good writer’ (Wall Street Journal) and her novels have been praised as ‘nuanced, completely addictive’ (People), ‘riveting’ (Publishers Weekly), and ‘visceral, emotionally charged…heart-wrenchingly well told’ (The Daily Mail).
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
To tell you the truth DB101102
Macmillan, Gilly. Reading time: 8 hours, 51 minutes.
Read by Emma Fryer.
Suspense Fiction
Three decades ago, Lucy Harper’s little brother Teddy went missing. Lucy–the only witness–spun fantasy after fantasy about Teddy’s disappearance, to the detectives’ fury and her parents’ despair. That was the start of her ability to tell a story–a talent she has profited from greatly. Now Lucy’s jealous needy husband has disappeared. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Lies Come Easy” by Steven Havill
“Lies Come Easy” by Steven Havill
It is quite a contrast from her home and the homes of the people she serves, as well as, her children’s professions, her profession and the people she serves.
I enjoyed listening to this story.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven F. Havill is an American author of mysteries and westerns.
Havill lives in Datil, New Mexico, with his wife Kathleen, a writer and artist. A high school teacher of biology and English by day, Havill earned both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico. He has written two series of police procedurals set in the fictional Posadas County, New Mexico; along with other works.
The Posadas County mystery series[edit]
This series focuses on Undersheriff Estella Reyes-Guzman, after Bill Gastner’s retirement.
• Red, Green, or Murder (2009) Although this book was written in 2009, it happens before the first book in this series so it is the prequel to The Posadas County mystery series
• Scavengers (2002)
• A Discount for Death (2003)
• Convenient Disposal (2004)
• Statute of Limitations (2006)
• Final Payment (2007)
• The Fourth Time is Murder (2008)
• Double Prey (2011)
• Nightzone (2013)
• Blood Sweep (2015)
• Come Dark (2016)
• Lies Come Easy (2018)
• Less Than A Moment (2020)
• No Accident (March 2022)
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Lies come easy: a Posadas County mystery DB109415
Havill, Steven Reading time: 8 hours, 48 minutes.
Carolyn Kashner
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Western Stories
“One blizzardy New Mexico night, Posadas County Deputy Pasquale picks up a toddler scooting his Scamper along the shoulder of State 56. Yes, it’s horrifying—a child apparently dumped out of a truck by his father. Nearly as horrifying is what unrolls while Christmas approaches after dad Darrell Fisher’s arrest: a request arrives from the US Forest Service to locate a missing range tech and his unit last reported headed for nearby Stinkin’ Springs, and the brutal murder of Constance Suarez in the border town of Regál, population 37. The Sheriff’s Department is stretched to its limits as its dedicated personnel juggle working cases and caring for citizens with their own relationships and family celebrations. The irony of so much wickedness at the holidays is not lost on anyone. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, heading out her door to a crime scene, reflects: “It would be a glorious holiday evening for somebody.” As their mother joins her colleagues in dealing with the Fisher family…
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