![]() I had developed a method based on my background, having studied English and having studied literature. It spelled CIA and was an easy way to help women remember those three steps. I ended up coming up with my own formula of comprehension, interpretation, and application, which appealed to my Baptist feelings about acronyms. I did not even know that the observation, interpretation, application method existed. “I was trying to apply basic interpretation tools that you would use with any book to the most precious of books.” The book just captures the method I had come to identify as being helpful for women over the years. I was just head down, teaching the Bible in the local church. When I set out to write Women of the Word, I never thought I would become an author. Jen, besides clear-cutting an entire forest, what did you set out to do with that book? Where Do I Start? A whole forest has died, and for a good cause. The book turned four years old this summer, and it’s already sold 200,000 print copies alone. ![]() ![]() Today we’re joined by our friend Jen Wilkin - wife, mom, Bible teacher, and author of the fabulous book Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prestige television likes its glimpses of the future and those futures usually skew dark: “Westworld,” “Black Mirror,” “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But “Brave New World,” which most viewers will remember - vaguely if at all - from some high school or college syllabus, presents a more ambivalent prospect and particular challenges. “But yeah, a couple of days there?” she added. “But the minute you scratch the surface, you start to discover stuff.” ![]() “It seems perfect,” said Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays the geneticist Lenina Crowne. Based on Aldous Huxley’s alarmingly prescient 1932 novel of free love and social control, it’s a dystopia dressed up as a utopia. All nine episodes are available on Wednesday. Pop quiz: Is this a paradise? Or a prison?Īnswer: It’s the social science backdrop for “Brave New World,” the flagship drama from Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Everyone has useful work, perfect skin, total emotional equilibrium. Science has conquered disease and disability. Crime is a nonissue, as are homelessness and hunger. Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Being a one of course means you’re living the good life and in the case of The Selection series you’re basically royalty. The higher the number you are the poorer you live eight being the lowest and as America describes it those who are eights are basically homeless. In this dystopian society the U.S, now renamed the country of llléa, is basically governed by a caste system. The Selection Series for those who were blissfully unaware like yours truly, are a series of books that follow a young woman named American who lives in a future dystopian version of the United States. That knocked me out into the next galaxy was The Selection series by Keira Cass. I am know just starting to catch up with the great stories that have been I have been out of touch with the YA community for a long time and ![]() ![]() ![]() * "The book strikes a lovely, understated tone of wonder and family pride. * "A perfect melding of beautiful art with soulful, imaginative writing, this lovely story, penned by Colebourn's great-great granddaughter, is ideal for sharing aloud or poring over individually."- School Library Journal, starred review * "Little ones who love Milne's classic stories will be enchanted by this heartening account of the bear's real-life origins."- Booklist, starred review * "The sum total is as captivating as it is informative, transforming a personal family story into something universally resonant."- Horn Book, starred review A New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year Horn Book Fanfare NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Booklinks Lasting Connections Bookpage Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() Provocative, propulsive, and repeatedly surprising, Hernan Diaz's TRUST puts the story of these characters into conversation with the "the truth"-and in tension with the life and perspective of an outsider immersed in the mystery of a competing account. ![]() This is the story at the center of Harold Vanner's novel Bonds, which everyone in 1938 New York seems to have read. ![]() Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites gossip and allows a continued ascent - all at a moment when the country is undergoing a great transformation. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. ![]() About the Book "An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of cowering before the aliens, the knights fight and win. The High Crusade does the EXACT OPPOSITE. Human science is shown to be nothing compared to what the aliens could bring, and even in victory, humanity is humbled by the experience. Then I read the book, and I fast realized why I thought it wouldn’t be any good: The typical alien invasion tale centers on a victimized humanity struggling to survive against the superior foe, culminating in a last-ditch effort to reclaim their freedom. super-advanced aliens? It sounded like nonsense on stilts since there was no way to make such a fight even remotely interesting. But the Englishmen remain undeterred, and they steel themselves for a battle unlike any they had ever faced.Īt first, I was skeptical of the premise. They loaded up the entire population of the town of Ansby and thought they would fly to France and then to the Holy Land, but the alien deceives them, and the people of Ansby are taken to a planet in the alien empire. Led by Sir Roger de Tourneville, the knights forced the alien to operate the ship for them. Instead, brave English knights stormed the ship with sword, bow, and axe, and they slew all but one of the blue-skinned fiends. They have come to conquer, and England - no, all Earth - would lay prostrate before them, their lands surrendered and their people devastated. ![]() Men watch transfixed as a blue creature steps out, bearing weapons that incinerate men with casual ease. 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