7/8/2023 0 Comments Oudolf piet![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I thought: This is the center of horticulture, and aquaculture, and music," Oudolf said. The Oudolf Garden on Belle Isle opens today. The garden, designed by renowned Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, is in bloom and ready to wander through on a site Oudolf selected: in front of the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon, in view of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory to the east and the Remick Bandshell to the west.ĭialing into a press call from the Netherlands on Friday, Oudolf, who was not able to travel to Detroit for the opening due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, said he was drawn to the site for its somewhat central location on Belle Isle (he did not want the garden to be "lost" in the sprawling 1.5-square-mile park) that already draws crowds to the conservatory and the Belle Isle Aquarium. ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments The trial of apollo book 1![]() ![]() Well, for one thing, hes been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. Readers who loved Riordan’s previous series, The Lightning Thief and The Heroes of Olympus, will love the new characters and the references to favorite characters. The former God Apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. ![]() Of course it won’t be an easy quest, but Apollo has his new friend, Meg, several of his children, and Camp Half-Blood campers to help him out. In the midst of a deadly game, Apollo learns the whereabouts of the missing Oracle, the Grove of Dodona, which could help resolve some of the communication problems, and who is behind the trouble. There, Apollo learns that the Oracles, and, in fact, most forms of communication, are not working. Though his small human brain holds little, Apollo remembers how to find Percy, who knows the way to Camp Half-Blood, where they will both be safe. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. He’s just an innocent bystander, who’s about to be beat up for the little change in his wallet. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. ![]() ![]() Zeus blames Apollo for the awakening of Gaea, so strips Apollo of his immortality and shoots him off to Earth. Riordan, please give us more Percy Jackson! And the author obliged. ![]() ![]() Gena is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of young adult, paranormal, and contemporary romance novels. It is the third book in the Lords of the Underworld series. , featuring the fierce warrior Baden who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with the power to soothe the beast inside him. The Darkest Pleasure is a paranormal romance fiction penned by American author Gena Showalter. ![]() ![]() Kane is a Lord of the Underworld and carries within him the demon. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear.Īnd be sure to check out the latest book in the irresistibly seductive Lords of the Underworld series, The Darkest Craving features two people who couldnt be more opposite.Kane and Josephina. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. ![]() For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her-even defy the gods.ĭanika is on the run. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The way he sees it, Tag is guilty as hell and it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes spilling out of him. But could she? Detective Steiner doesn’t think so. He breathes a sigh of relief - until the next day when Marcie turns up dead.Ĭould sweet, dainty, couldn’t-hurt-a-fly Lori be a… be a… Tag can’t even bring himself to think it. When his obsession with Marcie gets to the point that he finally breaks down and confesses his struggles to Lori, Tag is touched by her compassionate and understanding response. ![]() Her name is Marcie and despite the fact that Tag likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy, he just can’t shake his desire to do some… well, some not so decent things with her. Everything about their relationship is perfect and they’re both deliriously happy - except for one tiny little, earth-shattering problem. ![]() Tag and Lori are the couple on the top of the wedding cake. (I’m originally from Kentucky, and lived in Georgia for a few years before I moved to Washington, so the south holds a special place in my heart.) Check out his site, it offers a taste of his work! So without further ado, I give to you, Jules Cassard!Īll Tag wants to know is whether or not his beloved wife Lori is a deranged killer – is that too much to ask? I think also our first southern interview in the series. The first playwright to be featured on the blog. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The tiny habits![]() Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you’ll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Based on twenty years of research and Fogg’s experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. ![]() “There are many great books on the topic : The Power of Habit, Atomic Habits, but this offers the most comprehensive, practical, simple, and compassionate method I've ever come across.” -John Stepper, Goodreads userīJ FOGG is here to change your life-and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Fogg’s new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off. With Tiny Habits you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. ![]() New York Times Bestseller | A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The aurelia curse![]() ![]() Zumindest verwendet niemand, im Gegensatz zu den Reckless-Büchern, das I-Wort. Soweit ich es einschätzen kann (und das ist aus meiner weißen) Perspektive nicht sehr weit) wird mit den Menschen und der Kultur der Chumash, die im Roman vorkommen, respektvoll umgegangen. weil sich einige seiner Handlungsstränge aus vorigen Bänden wiederholen. Von Fliegenbein (und seinem nervigen Bruder Freddy) hätte ich hingegen weniger in Kauf nehmen können, v. Es ist schön, dass Guinever und ihre Mutter endlich etwas mehr Spielraum bekommen. Am besten fand ich aber die Kapitel unter Wasser (nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Hörbuchproduktion mit ihrem grandiosen Klangteppich), die interessante neue Figuren mit ihrer eigenen stimmlosen Signalsprache mit sich bringen (das Verhältnis zwischen weiblichen und männlichen Charakteren ist allerdings nach wie vor zu Gunsten der Männer unausgeglichen). Er ist etwas länger, nimmt sich mehr Zeit für seine Figuren (außer vielleicht Schwefelfell) und es gibt wieder Kapitel aus der Sicht des Antagonisten. Band 3 hat mir wieder besser gefallen als sein Vorgänger. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Ariana franklin books![]() ![]() The characters, in particular the leads and their friends are very well presented. But as they become accepted into the Cambridge community, it seems that the killer, the hideous Rakshasa, has not finished his deadly business… and it seems that he has set his sights beyond mere children… Enter, from Salerno, Adelia Aguilar, Mansur and Simon, a team of investigators – Simon being the sleuth, Adelia the pathologist and Mansur the muscle, and also the shield that Adelia has to hide her talents behind. Fearing a massive loss of taxation, King Henry II sends for help. So much so that two are executed and the rest isolated in the castle. Hurrah for ‘Nother Chance November.Ĭhildren are being murdered in horrific ways in the vicinity of Cambridge and the local villagers are blaming the Jews. So, in my typical timely manner, nineteen months and a bit late, I get round to Mistress of the Art of Death, the book that introduces the character and her band of merry followers. That was how I described The Death Maze, the second book in the series by the late Ariana Franklin concerning Adelia Aguilar, the first female anatomist. ![]() “The first decent historical mystery of the blog so far.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the reason I started blogging because I realized I was too crazy about books to keep all that excitement and madness in anymore. The Origin series was the very beginning of everything. Sometimes it’s hard to talk about a series that means as much as this one does for me, but I’m going to try anyway. My Review: Be wary for possible spoilers for the previous books in the series! “There is humour in everything.” His gaze caught mine. ![]() The thrills, drama, and intrigue continue in the third installment of the Origin series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. She’s caught in the eye of the storm.Īnd together, you will bring about the brightest night. And she’s learned truths about herself that she never saw coming–things she once knew, and was made to forget. She’s been betrayed by those who were closest to her. Now, she’s on the run, under the protection of the beautiful, deadly inhuman Luc. Less than a year ago, Evelyn Dasher was a normal girl, living an unremarkable life. The Brightest Night (Origin, #3) by Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() The principles of “waste equals food,” “respect diversity,” and “use only current solar income” have been McDonough hallmarks for quite some time. If you have heard William McDonough and Michael Braungart speak at a design conference, you will already be familiar with many of the ideas inĬradle to Cradle. Even the book itself is an experiment in a new way of making books-by printing it on a plastic sheet that looks and feels like paper but is more durable and recyclable. Although they have their critics, no one can ever accuse them of being too modest in their goals. ![]() And chemist Michael Braungart, coming from Europe, brings a similar perspective to the world of chemicals and manufacturing. over the past two decades with an uncompromising vision of an industrial world that supports, rather than degrades, the natural world. Plasticback, 194 pages, $24.95.Brilliant and charismatic, William McDonough has helped define ecological design in the U.S. ![]() By William McDonough and Michael Braungart. ![]() ![]() After 9/11, a day which he names “the worst day”, Oskar developed a great deal of phobias related to the terrorist attack. To explain this, I will cite an example from the text. Oskar is a very smart kid, with a great drive to educate himself on just about everything, but the things that he learns are simply facts, void of emotional attachment or understanding in that sense, he thinks in very black and white terms. ![]() And of course, it is also quite natural for a child so young to process death and the event of 9/11 in very simplified terms. For instance, the protagonist, Oskar Schell, would quite often get on my nerves, but I also tend to forget that he is an eight year old boy who recently lost his father. That being said, it does not necessarily mean that I enjoyed all of the characters or choices that were made in the novel. I’ve already recommended it to a few of my friends it was that good! This was quite a shocking revelation because generally I find it really difficult to get through course assigned readings. ![]() I just want to start off by saying that I actually really enjoyed this book. It was very nice to take a break from school and go home for the first time since August, but we are right back on that work grind and the novel that is kicking off our second term of ASTU is Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. ![]() |