![]() ![]() On the surface this was about a group of parents whose children were starting kindergarten. I was thoroughly captivated, found this to be brilliant in plot, structure and tone. This book is a fine template for how to write a massive bestseller, if you want to do that sort of thing. Everything resolves very tidily and satisfyingly. ![]() There is lots of relatable mommy content but I am not a mother so I rolled my eyes at all the gilded mother suffering (not the abuse/sexual violence obviously, just the harried mom stuff). You can absolutely see the structure and how the plot was assembled and what each character is supposed to do. Also, this book is brutally well written. I wish I could just turn it off and enjoy froth for froth’s sake. Again, every book doesn’t need to be everything buuuuut, I guess only white people go to the elementary school at the center of this narrative which, given Sydney’s reasonably diverse population speaks to how segregated the world is. Also, it just needs to be said, this is a very white book. But at the same time, some of what this book deals with is serious and so it makes the frothiness aggravating at times. Not every book needs to carry the weight of the world. ![]() Yes, it deals with domestic violence and sexual assault and the pressures and pettiness of white middle class and upper class womanhood when it comes to their social lives and their children and so on, but everything here is easy, frothy. It’s certainly readable and hard to put down. ![]()
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Stark gives other examples of how high-commitment religions will grow and low-commitment religions stagnate or decline. They proselytized for their faith and demonstrated mercy in good works-helping victims of fires and earthquakes, where pagans often would flee. One key to early Christian success was personal commitment to "witness" in the world. He notes this is similar to figures for such contemporary religions as the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons. Using the sociologist's toolkit, he argues, with an estimated 1,000 adherents in the year 40, Christianity grew at a rate of 3.4% through 350 A.D., a growth curve that fits Christian epigraph analyses in Rome and Egypt. Stark's research, however, shows more complex growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() He made Christianity legal and personally converted. The question that brought me to The Triumph of Christianity by Rodney Stark was, How did Christianity go from being an obscure Jewish sect led by a preacher with an apocalyptic message to majority religion and backbone of Western civilization? One reason often given is Constantine I. 10:29:17 The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movementīecame the World's Largest Religion, a book review ![]() ![]() ![]() Shanea Goldizen of Library Point describes Pinkalicious as "a colorful, scrumptious feast for the eyes and will keep your kids reading and re-reading." A Publishers Weekly review said that 'the artwork creates visual interest to keep pink-loving gals involved in this tale of wonderful-to-wretched excess.' Adaptations Musical Pinkalicious and the Pinkamazing Little Library One of the books adapted into an episode in Pinkalicious & Peterrific.#1 New York Times bestselling author-artist. ![]() Pinkalicious: The Princess of Pink Slumber Party Pinkalicious and the Pinkerrific Playdate Penny, who first appeared in Pinkalicious and the New Teacher, replaces Mr. One of the books adapted into an episode in Pinkalicious & Peterrific Ms. One of the books adapted into an episode in Pinkalicious & Peterrific They are also about her younger brother, Peter, who likes riding his scooter and playing with blocks. The stories center on Pinkalicious Pinkerton, an imaginative young girl who loves the color pink, and are told in first-person narrative. ![]() The books are aimed at ages 4-8, and are based on Victoria's two daughters and their love for the color pink. The first two books, Pinkalicious and Purplicious, were co-written with her sister, Elizabeth Kann. Pinkalicious is a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by Victoria Kann. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most difficult thing to follow is the flow of the story, as it constantly jumps around in time and place, with no real rhyme or reason. ![]() The dialogue is contrived and forced at times. The descriptions of people, places, and things are never enough to leave a lasting impression. Her character is poorly fleshed out, and Ariel is almost completely nonexistent in the story. Ursula really only makes cameo appearances throughout the book, and often she isn't even directly in the scene, but being observed from an enchanted mirror. At first I didn't find this to be a problem, but the more I realized this story is not actually about Ursula, and instead about the three witches and Tulip, the more frustrated I became. To be fair, I had not read the first two books in the series, so I came in at the end of the story for the three odd sisters. ![]() When I try and think about anything redeemable this book offered, I come up blank. I don't think I have ever given a 1 star review on here before, but this book was so disappointing and poorly written, that I had no other choice. ![]() ![]() She never has a weekend off, and her social life is nonexistent. Samantha’s grayish existence as a law drone is well drawn – she is truly on the treadmill to nowhere. The most interesting bits of The Undomestic Goddess are the parts involving both of Samantha’s careers. ![]() ![]() And with a little help from the handsome gardener and his mother, she might have a chance – a chance to make her life something different and possibly even worth living. Still, going back to Carter Spink suddenly seems impossible, so Samantha decides to give housekeeping a try. She can’t cook, iron, sew, and even the more basic cleaning tasks like vacuuming are a little above her level. The only problem is, Samantha knows nothing about domestic work. Before she can even shake her head, Samantha is her new employee. She wanders up to a house to ask for a glass of water and an aspirin, and the woman who lives there mistakes her for her housekeeping interviewee. She comes out of that spin miles from London getting off of a train in a little picturesque village. As failure is an utterly foreign concept to workaholic Samantha, this huge mistake sends her into a tailspin. She’s just on the cusp of that achievement, too, when she makes an enormous error which costs her firm’s client 50 million pounds. Samantha Sweeting is a brilliant top City lawyer, one of the finest legal minds of her generation, and she’s been sweating away at Carter Spink for seven years trying to make partner. ![]() ![]() What a harsh awakening lies in store for her, when she becomes the victim of Satya's power strategies, which even include taking custody of Roop's young children. Roop at age 16 doesn't care about being married to an older man who already has a wife in the household she's only interested in being rich and having pretty clothes and servants, and has grown up believing it's always important to obey. She takes this out on Roop but as cruel as she can be, her misery to us is clear, as well as her shining intellect. Satya, Sarjdarji's first wife, is bitter after the embarrassment of many years of marriage to him without a child. The fact Shauna Singh Baldwin has created very real, and flawed, characters. They face sexism from their fathers and husbands, always encouraged to say Yes, even when the result is hurtful. Through the lives of these women, the story of the desperate struggle of Sikhs to remain in their homeland of Punjab, is beautifully illustrated. For about a week and a half, I was utterly swept up in the world of Roop and Satya, the two wives of Sardarji Singh, a wealthy Sikh landowner who also works as an engineer for the British Indian government in 1940s Punjab. ![]() Wow! This may be the best Indian historical novel I've read to date. ![]() ![]() Both her comfort and her curse, acting will give her the key to a open a new chapter in her life, where she will find love, companionship, and the meaning she has been searching for. Addicted to celebrity and to variety of illicit substances, she is searching for meaning in world where the only apparent thing of any value is money. After much sadness she will find a method for uncovering the roots of her malaise in a new cure developed by a Viennese doctor by the name of Sigmund Freud. She is a young noblewoman, dissatisfied with bourgeois conventions, who undertakes a journey of self-discovery. Hanna lives in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century. Her serenity and the loose tongues of those who secretly envy her result in her being branded a heretic, with tragic consequences. It is the age of the counterreformation and the Inquisition. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. ![]() She's a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Anne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century. ![]() Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect-a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. ![]() |