thesaurus = a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.comA thesaurus helps us pinpoint the precise meaning we want to convey. It also usually gives sample sentences to show how words are used in context. Don't you love the thesaurus rex illustrating happiness?
"Cuddling pets has the same effect as cuddling another person ― we feel loved, warm, and safe, which are three key words in the concept of hygge."
LIBRARY BOOKSThese poems — written between 1980 and 2009 — show the poet's anger, disappointment, happiness, and love of life. Some of them also explore his belief system and what it means to him. Melvin, who is currently head of the resident council, lives here at the Crown Center where I moved last summer. I see him nearly every day.
History, mystery, and murder are the traveling companions of Nellie Bly, the world's first female investigative reporter. Nellie defies the wrath of her editor and vengeful ancient gods while setting out to prove a woman has what it takes to be a foreign correspondent in dangerous Victorian times. Pyramids, dark magic, and dead bodies are what the intrepid Nellie encounters when she takes off for Mexico after her editor refuses to let her work as a foreign correspondent because "it's no job for a lady." It's 1886 and Mexico has not cast off all its bloodthirsty Aztec past. Nellie is stalked by ruthless killers seeking Montezuma's legendary treasure and an ancient cult that resorts to the murderous Way of the Aztec to protect it. And there's the mysterious Roger Watkins, who romantically and physically challenges Nellie's determination to be an independent woman in a man's world.
When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms as each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other. They both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris: a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.
Lonely Clementine is the rightful heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard that has been in the family for generations. She has spent her whole life caring for the vines, not to mention her sour brute of a father. But now the Peine patriarch is dead, and to Clementine’s distress his will stipulates that she must share the vineyard with a half-sister she hasn’t seen in twenty years and another she didn’t even know existed. Secrets tumble out as the three sisters struggle to rescue the family heritage while overcoming their own differences. (Originally published in New Zealand as The House of Peine by Random House New Zealand.)FAKE HOMEWORK
Monday: Veggie Burger on Pretzel RollAfter checking my calendar and deciding what appealed to my taste buds, I posted a comment, saying, "Looks like Tuesday and Thursday for me." Then I invited friends to join me, some on Facebook, some around the dinner table last night. I have friends lined up to eat with me today and Thursday. In the meantime, here's a painting by Susan Dorothea White of a bunch of other women enjoying a meal together.
Tuesday: Pasta Fagioli with Cheese Garlic Bread
Wednesday: Baked Salmon Wrap
Thursday: Artichoke Quiche
Friday: Battered Fish and Mac and Cheese
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| Image Source: http://www.susandwhite.com.au/ |
Donna, Sandy M., and Melvin were already in the Café when I arrived with Marie, having talked her into joining us for a few minutes. Ezra sat and talked while waiting for his order to go, and Katie spoke to us while getting her drink. Barbara arrived after most had finished eating, but we had a great chat anyway.
The thirty spokes unite in one wheel, but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends.Clay is fashioned into vessels, but it is on their hollow emptiness that their use depends.The door and windows are cut from the walls to form a room, but it is on the empty space within that its use depends.Therefore, what has positive existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not, for actual usefulness.
Dyson and Favreau shine a light on the fight for democratic representation, an ongoing and epic quest to build the democracy promised in the Constitution. Each chapter takes on a new battle between champions of freedom and those who stand in the way of their right to vote — from the American Revolution straight up to the present day as we approach the 2024 presidential election. This book will help readers understand our past, present, and future.
"Don't be cynical," Charlie said.Book I'm reading now
"I'm a New Yorker," said Nora. "Cynicism is my religion" (p. 209).
"So how are you, really?" Rachel said. "And that's not a rhetorical question."
"I take a lot of pleasure in having children who know what a rhetorical question is," Nora said, carrying coffee mugs to the dining table as her daughter followed (p. 267).
"People go through life thinking they're making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all" (p. 280).
Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Considering and celebrating everything from marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, parenting, faith, and loss, to all the stuff in our closets, Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved New York Times columns and in A Short Guide to a Happy Life (2000), Quindlen uses her own past, present, and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages.Book I plan to read next
This novel confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the Cabinet. Even the President himself becomes a suspect, and then he disappears from public view. Set over the course of three days, The President Is Missing sheds a stunning light upon the inner workings and vulnerabilities of our nation. Filled with information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know, this is the most authentic, terrifying novel to come along in many years.At 513 pages, this one is a chunkster! Melvin donated it to our little Crown Center library, after he finished reading it, but our shelves are full. So I brought it home to read before shelving it.
It was winter.Cold, cold winter.Old Turtle satby the warm wood stove.
While gathered around the wood stove in winter, Old Turtle tells his friends unbelievable baseball stories of Cleo Octopus, Melvin Moose, Clara Kangaroo, and Randy Squirrel.
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