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Long Walks Home is a collection of more or less true stories from the life of the author. The stories are of family and friends and growing up. They are stories of a simple life full of fun, excitement, and a little bit of mischief. Some have made their way into the author's series Autobiography of a Sixth Grader.

A Chronicle of Jails is Darrell Figgis's account of his arrest in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising and subsequent internment in Ireland and Britain. He was among a minority of internees identified as leadership material and held at Reading Gaol rather than at Frongoch Camp. This memoir was first published by the Talbot Press in 1917 and is fascinating in its propagandistic intent. It reveals much about political imprisonment in that era and much about Darrell Figgis. The introduction by William Murphy gives a contemporary analysis of this original text.

Budding new author Kim Mattingly Cloer introduces her self to the world in this raw, beautiful anthology. A compilation of poems and short stories written over the course of her life provide insight into her thoughts and feelings from the time she could first write to present day.

In To You, Brian takes you back through the stories of his childhood. From the inner city of Philadelphia to the rural fields of Florida, his life was shaped by the people he encountered. Spending a few years in the foster care system, he shares his perspective from the inside of a constantly changing world and brings you on a journey of faces, places, and names that brought him to where he is today.Every person has the opportunity to make an impact. Through first-hand experiences, To You brings that impact to life and not only opens up new perspectives, but also demonstrates how one action, no matter how small, can change another person's world forever.

How do you rise above the most tragic of circumstances and gamely go on? Many of us feel compelled to rally to the tragedy, putting on the cheeriest face possible. Actually, however, it is okay to admit that you're really not okay. Such was the hard-won revelation of Kimberly Julian, wife of PGA golf pro Jeff Julian, who was forced to face the most unfathomable of circumstances when her new husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness just eight months after they wed. Golf Widow, her tender, disarmingly honest, and, frequently wry memoir, shares her overwhelming years as primary caregiver to her ailing husband, and how she worked through the relentless strain to start caring for herself again. As the number of in-home caregivers continues to escalate in this country, this timely work explores a topic that affects millions of Americans every day.Compassionate and candid, this journey of health and healing is certain to appeal to anyone who relishes an insider's take on the professional golf arena, as well as anyone confronting conditions that seem at best unfair, and at worst, hopelessly insurmountable. By the time Julian reached her thirtieth birthday, the pieces of her life were weaving together beautifully. She reveled in her role as a devoted mother to her son Tyler. Her role on a Branson, Missouri stage was equally delightful, dancing as Lady Liberty with celebrated entertainer Yakov Smirnoff while also juggling her responsibilities as the theater PR and Marketing Ambassador. And, she had at last found the love of her life when she met Jeff Julian, a towering PGA tour player with a slapstick wit, a gentle heart, and a son Keegan, who got along famously with her own son. Soon, her days were spent caddying for Jeff, and becoming an integral part of the PGA world. However, when the two exchanged vows, she felt an eerie note of doom with the words "in sickness and in health" that she quickly brushed aside.What Julian did not know was that their fortune as a family was about to become brutally upended by an illness so devastating and physically taxing that all of their lives would be consumed by it. While she battled conflicting feelings of immense guilt, frustration, anger, profound grief, and betrayal, Julian had to face the limitations of her own inner strength. In doing so, she was also compelled to address an expectation of smiling self-sacrifice that society has inadvertently imposed on in-home caregivers. The book lifts the veil on the stresses endured by individuals during this undertaking, who must also fill the roles such as mother, friend, lover, and more. With poignant, astute insight on how one family navigated the darkest days, Golf Widow reveals how Julian and her loved ones learned to come together to take care of each other when her husband Jeff no longer could. Through it all, flashes of joy and humor keep this moving story buoyant and hopeful, while offering firsthand comfort from a caregiver's perspective that is certain to resonate with anyone struggling with this confusing role, providing the wisdom and empathy to make it through the most challenging times.

Ever wonder how someone becomes a homeless addict? Loren McWilliams was born disabled with a rare muscular disease and became hopelessly addicted to narcotics. After being bullied as a child, he was a late-stage alcoholic by adolescence. At 46, he was addicted to heroin and living in his car. None of his family would even talk to him. At his darkest moment of despair, he cried out and was saved. Loren candidly describes his road through hell to redemption and recovery. He chronicles his journey as a road-map to those who have not yet been able to find the way out and to share hope with suffering family and friends This is one man's story of addiction, recovery, redemption, and faith.

COURAGE, HIGH ADVENTURE, AND A DEEP FAITH in God's goodness are all part of this story of an Iraqi Christian family's harrowing escape from death and destruction in their native country. Victimized by a conflict they didn't create, they risk everything for the possibility of peace and freedom. On foot with little food and water, they fight their way through the rugged mountains separating Northern Iraq from Turkey before being abandoned with thousands of others on the Turkish border. Never giving up, they use every means possible, including human traffickers, in an attempt to satisfy their thirst for freedom. A tribute to the enduring strength of the human spirit. In addition, Hope to the Last Breath offers an inside look at Iraqi family life rarely seen in the Western world.An Introduction in the author's own words: WE DIDN'T CHOOSE OR CAUSE the troubles that came to Northern Iraq. Our family wasn't involved in politics. We had no part in the dispute over autonomy that bred such animosity between the regime in Baghdad and the ethnic group that dominated our region. As is so often the case for refugees, we were caught up in a conflict between others. Our life had been simple and beautiful. But one morning that peaceful existence came to an end, and we were forced along with many others to take flight in order to save our lives.In 1991 the war between Iraq and Iran had been over for several years but we continued to suffer the consequences. We had not known peace for almost a decade and when the fighting ended the people were celebrating in the streets. But just when we believed that peace and tranquility were back, the conflict re-erupted, this time within Iraq as the central government sought to reestablish its control over the North.We live in a world where the plight of refugees is seen on a daily basis. But so often all we know is the end of the story. We see the refugees arrive at their destination, desperate for help, all their resources gone, hoping-even begging-for a chance to find freedom and peace. What we don't see as clearly is what went before-the conditions which drove them to take such chances with their lives. Are they escaping from oppression, the threat of death, grinding poverty, or all these things? Every story is different. Sometimes the stories are told in a short time span, other times they unfold over many years and require many attempts before a land promising freedom can be reached. Some refugees die trying to escape the intolerable, while others are so frightened by the bitterness of being strangers in a new land that they decide to stay put despite all they are suffering.My family's story has many chapters. We tried again and again to escape the brutality of our home country and secure for ourselves a life of peace and contentment. Our story is one of endurance, of physical bravery, of danger and death, of great suffering, and survival. Sometimes we had to be reckless with our health and safety. I hope none of you will ever face the trials we did, but if such times ever come to you, I want you to know that in the end it was all worth it. May God always be with you. Jwan Al Brwe.JWAN AL BRWE was born into a large Chaldean Christian family in Duhok, Northern Iraq. The Chaldeans are an ancient people of Iraq, dating back to Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian Empire in Old Testament times. To this day, their native language is Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ, who still gives hope to her and her family.

Dance McBride is halfway through his final semester at Holy Cross. He glances to the future while staring at the past, nursing deep regrets that have been visited upon him. He carries on with plans to enter Naval OCS at Newport with secret hope there is some mysterious magic that that might cause painful years to vanish to make the future possible. How could he know of the avalanche now studying his movements and preparing an explosion in which Dance himself would vanish. Dance's recollections are presented with humor and affection for all persons included in the telling. "I had a dream last night...oh, it was such a dream...that one day... the world will stop, watch, and listen...that one halcyon day a mad lapsed Catholic Jewboy with absurd lineage will take his proper place in an exquisite predestined scheme hatched by Gawd Awmighty, I said...and all the lonely, the lost, and the unloved shall rise up as all are healed and transfigured through the currency of love...And No! God is not love! I had such a dream last night...that love is God! Worship shorn of vanity---love is the only forever...." This is my personal experience of bipolar mania 50 years ago, and I never told a soul a word about it. I bring to it an essentially "photographic" memory with a blend of features to enhance readability, and I sincerely apologize in advance for any details which might seem offensive. I retained such details because they are true.

ON FRIENDSHIP is a book about the origins of consciousness and the place that friendship possesses in that process. As early human beings advanced out of Africa and slowly populated our earth they did so in terms of walking. Friendship, more than any other emotional experience-rather than kinship-was central in that development of incipient awareness. The practice of walking was a condition that was profoundly inherent in the early composition of psyche and this book presents four Walks-in Greece, the Windward Isles, western India, and New England-as representative of such apprehension. Walking is here portrayed as a transcendental and philosophical activity and as a constitutive source-through the work of apperception-of human understanding. It is the development of friendship that transformed the experience of the pedestrian from one of the most intrinsic sources of the human psyche into a situation of moral sentience.

Woman is the Right Hand of man and the Right School for Children and Good Home Keeper United.God Bless All WomanAmen

On Thanksgiving Day in 2016, Vernon Benjamin, aged 70, loaded his pickup with supplies for the protesters at Standing Rock opposed to a new oil pipeline and left his home in upstate New York for a journey across America unlike anything he'd ever done. He cared deeply about Native American causes. But Trump had won the election. The country was falling apart. Benjamin had always been a journalist, a historian, a poet. Now could he be an activist who put his heart and soul on the line? What he found at Standing Rock and in himself changed his life.Vernon Benjamin was the author of The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War and The History of the Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times.

Aspettare l'inaspettato!Ho una missione nell'Insegnare e nel dare prova della Presenza dello Spirito con Noi... Voglio anche che tu capisca questa mia vita pazza.Ha i suoi alti e bassi... Tutti abbiamo le nostre sfide ed esperienze quotidiane e le affrontiamo.Ora aggiungo che non sei solo ma in senso positivo, in modo comprensivo. Messaggio dopo messaggio, lacrime e sorrisi che scorrono, tutto per te, perché sei benedetto in tanti modi.Aspettare l'inaspettato! Non siamo mai soli!

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND iNEWS 'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG'Quietly profound, beautifully written, Hare is now lodged in my heart' - TRACY CHEVALIER__Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me.When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival.Raising Hare chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild. We witness an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. This improbable bond of trust serves to remind us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them.

What does it take for us to put our lives on hold and begin to heal? In the midst of a sequence of traumatic events-recovering from crystal-meth addiction, facing infertility, battling chronic fatigue, surviving breast cancer, rebuilding a relationship with her narcissistic mother only for it to fall apart again before her mother's suicide-Clea realises she has to take a break from men.There had been too many disasters beginning with the Adonis-like Old Etonian, Luke, who can't stop cheating. What unites her with darkly handsome Tarquin, who follows Clea to the USA, only to rob her? Jordan, a dumpster-diving tweaker who deserts her for a porn star; Saint Peter who persuades her into rehab; sexually confused Brent; violent Conrad and self-obsessed Alfie? Why does she turn down decent Nate who is just too nice?As Clea digs through the evidence, she exposes learned behaviours that keep her dependent. Denial is a powerful drug and the endorphin rush of apologies, promises and make-up sex fix things over and over... until they don't.Rich, powerful and authentic, Some Boys I Knew takes us on a raw, insightful journey to becoming the person Clea most needs: Herself. A vivid memoir from the writer of Tweaking the Dream.

What happens when a little brown boy, born in the crime-ridden Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa, grows up and dares to achieve the impossible? How might his life be different from those of his peers as he sets out to achieve one seemingly insurmountable goal after the other?Believe in the Possible, a stirring and inspirational memoir. It is first-time author Ricardo Collison's real-life story of a young brown boy who believed he was destined for greatness and dared to dream even bigger.Ricardo shares his life stories and reminisces about how he overcame hardships, how he triumphed over a scarcity mindset, and created a life beyond what those around him could imagine. Determined to help others break free from the limiting beliefs instilled in them since childhood, Ricardo provides us with the necessary resources, toolkit and inspiration by retelling his own incredible story.This book is for those who believe they are destined for more, who desire a more fulfilling life, and who stand on the brink of manifesting an abundance of health, happiness, and wealth.All it takes is the ability to believe in the possible.

A tour guide is often an unassuming and integral part of any tourist attraction who, until now, has rarely been afforded a second thought. Within this unique and insightful guide, I very much wish to change that perception and provide a behind the scenes and humorous bird's eye view of the daily trials and tribulations encountered to provide you with such an enjoyable day out. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿The enclosed ordeals and personal experiences of working as a tour guide will hopefully allow you on your next visit to acknowledge your host with either an informed and sympathetic nod or appreciative smile.

The funny and poignant story of one woman's wonderfully codependent relationship with her dog - and what he taught her about chosen family and the reward of motherhood.Birdie & Harlow is the story of a baby and a dog. But motherhood is never quite that simple. In Taylor Wolfe's case, it's a long, zigzagging and winding road.Meant to be a last-minute anniversary gift for her then boyfriend (and now husband), the highly-energetic and loud-mouthed Vizla puppy named Harlow turns out to be the best snap decision twenty-year-old Taylor ever makes--and the beginning of the most epic friendship she ever has. As Wolfe's resistance to 9-5's and traditional adulthood grows, Harlow becomes the perfect companion for her eccentricities in a world that thrives on conformity. Wolfe's twenties--full of pitfalls and surprises, sad days and silver linings--led her to the realization that life is too short to spend your days in a crate (or a cubicle), that parks are meant to be enjoyed, and most importantly, she wants to be a mom. But really, isn't she one already? A charming and touching memoir, Birdie & Harlow is a tribute to the many expressions of modern motherhood, to both human and fur babies alike. Taylor's story reminds all of us that life will surprise you and that families should come in every shape and size.

Anabasis (an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It narrates the expedition of a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Though as an Ancient Greek vocabulary word, ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐς means "embarkation", "ascent" or "mounting up", the title Anabasis is rendered in translation as The March Up Country or as The March of the Ten Thousand. The narration of the army's journey across Asia Minor and Mesopotamia is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history". Xenophon, in his Hellenica, did not cover the retreat of Cyrus but instead referred the reader to the Anabasis by "Themistogenes of Syracuse"-the tenth-century Suda also describes Anabasis as being the work of Themistogenes, "preserved among the works of Xenophon", in the entry Θεμιστογένεης. (Θεμιστογένης, Συρακούσιος, ἱστορικός. Κύρου ἀνάβασιν, ἥτις ἐν τοῖς Ξενοφῶντος φέρεται καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδος. J.S. Watson in his Remarks on the Authorship of Anabasis refers to the various interpretations of the word "φέρεται", which give rise to different interpretations and different problems.) Aside from these two references, there is no authority for there being a contemporary Anabasis written by "Themistogenes of Syracuse", and indeed no mention of such a person in any other context. The Greek term anabasis referred to an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. While the journey of Cyrus is an anabasis from Ionia on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea, to the interior of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, most of Xenophon's narrative is taken up with the return march of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, from the interior of Babylon to the coast of the Black Sea. Socrates makes a cameo appearance, when Xenophon asks whether he ought to accompany the expedition. The short episode demonstrates the reverence of Socrates for the Oracle of Delphi. Xenophon's account of the exploit resounded through Greece, where, two generations later, some surmise, it may have inspired Philip of Macedon to believe that a lean and disciplined Hellene army might be relied upon to defeat a Persian army many times its size. Besides military history, the Anabasis has found use as a tool for the teaching of classical philosophy; the principles of statesmanship and politics exhibited by the army can be seen as exemplifying Socratic philosophy. (wikipedia.org)

Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together the lyric storytelling, cultural exploration, and thoughtful analysis of The Argonauts, The Woman Warrior, What the Bones Know, and Minor Feelings.The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma not just body by body, but through the body politic and ecosystems at large.Beginning with a shocking timeline juxtaposing Soriano's medical history with the history of hysteria and witch hunts, Nervous navigates the human body?centering neurodiverse, disabled, and genderqueer bodies of color?within larger systems that have harmed and silenced Filipinos for generations. Soriano's wide-ranging essays contemplate the Spanish-American War that ushered in United States colonization in the Philippines; the healing power of an inherited legacy of music; a chosen family of activists from the Bay Area to the Philippines; and how the fluidity of our nervous systems can teach us how to shape a trauma-wise future.With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a watershed journey toward healing, understanding, and communion.

The Hero to Sero is a memoir about an Asian American woman and her immigrant journey of finding and being at home within herself. It is about finding joy in wondering and wandering, seeing God's love letter, a story written in and through our ordinary days. It is about seeing God's humor and the gentle love of the Good Shepherd that He is. Through Sero Ku's story, dare to see God's love story in and through all of us, and, in turn, see the active verb of His love, which liberates our voices.

This is a memoir of being a young girl (in the early 1970s) with a profound need for independence, in a male (very dominated) environment. Looking around, the motorbike seemed to have it all, NOW. Just buy your bike, tax and insure it, get provisional licence and hey presto - hit the go button. At first life is at your fingertips - in the way of a throttle, but like life, it is ready to throw curveballs at you, all the time.

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural ?whitemalegod? and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence.For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been implicitly taught to worship?a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America's collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.

I was a single middle-aged man living alone with his dog in the middle of COVID. Finding romance was tough. Heck, just getting a date was nearly impossible. I couldn't blame COVID, however. Finding romance had been tough for years. I was too old to attract sexual interest from any woman I was drawn to, and any woman I did attract interest from was invariably too old to interest me.Yet as the world stumbled through its first summer of COVID, I groped my way through forbidden realms of the internet where my age had morphed into a kind of asset. Too old to pursue conventional relationships, I had attained the ideal age to seek unconventional arrangements.Be warned. This memoir is sexually explicit. It has to be. How else to describe my miraculous sexual resurrection? Or the miraculously beautiful-not to mention scandalously young-women who saved me from the tarpit of sexual extinction? This memoir, in short, chronicles the opportunities and perils, the triumphs and contradictions, of our inappropriate age.

So one weary evening you meet a contemporary Urban Taoist playing bamboo flute in a stairwell. He looks something like a lumberjack; wearing worn out boots, faded jeans, a flannel shirt, sporting a goatee and wire-frame spectacles. His name is August Threadbare. He is a swordsman, a scientist, a physician, a musician, and sometimes a clown. This is the story of a student and his teacher, walking the journey together through the ancient life syllabus of what it means to be a True Warrior. As the reader (student) learns through his apprenticeship - Warriorship is not about combat or being a soldier. It is about acquiring the skills and knowledge needed to be a healer, a creative positive force for change, and a guardian of the earth and the sacred.Regardless of anyone's profession; Doctor, carpenter, cook, cosmetologist, business professional, artist, mechanic, gas station clerk or garbage man; the principles of Warriorship can be applied for a more meaningful life and legacy.

"being frank" is my second memoir. Whereas my first contains motorcycle-centric stories, this one is a collection of other tales and philosophies that contribute to me "being frank. I've been blessed as I have loved my life, my family, my friends and my country. Having been so fortunate, I wanted to capture some of the countless ways in which those blessings have impacted my life. And yet another of those blessings is that YOU have decided to take a peek into the world of "being frank". I hope that you enjoy my stories while tolerating my advice. The purpose of this book is two-fold. I want to entertain you with tales from my childhood, hopefully providing examples of how wonderful and simple life used to be in America. Secondly, with my deep love for my family, I hope that my children, my grandchildren and family lineage beyond might read this book so that they, and perhaps even you, might utilize some advice on how to maximize your own lives. I can think of no better legacy or service than to prompt a joyful smile, heartfelt tear, or provide a helpful tip as you read my stories. I know that the latter chapters of my book will elicit consternation from my liberal brothers and sisters, so y'all may choose to avoid those chapters. If you decide to read those parts as well, I thank you for your consideration and tolerance. May we encourage open discourse even as we RESPECTFULLY disagree with each other. Different perspectives and opinions are invaluable and should always be fostered. We learn very little from listening to ourselves and others just like us. We should always be prepared to welcome disparate views as they will either shore-up our own, or cause a spark of change within us.

Desde aquel tiempo, cuando arribó el Mayflower a América hasta nuestros días, no ha habido tema más interesante que el de la migración. Cuántos cuentos, leyendas, poemas y canciones creadas con tan sublime belleza de las voces elocuentes de sus actores que nos han deleitado durante nuestra niñez y juventud. Ahora todo esto son recuerdos que invaden nuestra mente vieja plagada de fuertes impresiones plasmadas en corazones, mentes y manos resilientes de situaciones jamás imaginadas, contadas por sus originales autores perspicaces que adornan los sucesos: unos con belleza y otros con monstruosidad, porque así han sucedido y así lo han contado. Hoy, ante nosotros y de mano de una noble y sutil princesa, en un cuento -no de hadas- se presenta con destreza en este mundo intrincado de las letras, Luz Camila, con su texto Metamorfosis de las ninfas. Una vivencia real de migración y una doble visión, contada por una joven, en su proceso del paso de niña a adolescente. Un viaje psíquico de contradicciones, encuentros y desencuentros. Ella y su mundo tan íntimo, a la vez tan grande, desolado, difícil de describir, hace de este texto un especial choque con las vivencias de los niños y su percepción del mundo que los rodea y los permea; un desenterramiento de sucesos, ¡sí!, vividos por muchos, pero narrado por pocos. La importancia de leer un texto tan sensible, relatado de primera mano, que arranca las lágrimas y gimoteos de las entrañas. Hace recordar a trazos el Diario de Ana Frank por su candidez y asertividad; a El Viaje de Ana, sin intenciones intelectuales o posturas metódicas, por ser un sencillo e íntimo relato que devela la vivencia de un ser que cree que el mundo que le rodea está haciendo estragos telúricamente en su propio mundo, y lo expone para que otros seres en su posición, de desventaja, y puedan atravesar este mar de situaciones extrañas y misteriosas con aquiescencia, y, por otro lado, de forma divertida, muy a la usanza de los jóvenes y niños. También, y sin mucho presumir, la historia de Luz Camila me recuerda a Svetlana Alexiévich en Muchachos de Zinc. Perder la oportunidad de leer este regalo literario es perderse una parte de la vida de quien tenga hijos. Es dejar de darse un gusto al husmear por las recónditas laderas de la mente humana en transformación; dejar a un lado un mundo de impúberes gritando desde sus trincheras, con sus visiones, llamamientos, ostracismos y complejidades. Al leer Metamorfosis de las ninfas viajas por esa rebelde sin causa que encauza su rebeldía en un escrito que espera cambie el mundo y la posesione como la escritora bestseller, el libro viral; llevándola, a pesar de su poca experiencia, a liderar el mundo, No obstante, si la leemos con profusión, se consigue una delectación que evoca recuerdos añejos muy escondidos; lo mismo que provocara en Antón Ego la degustación del ratatouille en la película del mismo nombre; y esto es significativo, muy especial en el lector adulto. Se avizora en el discurso un nivel epistémico poco usual en las jóvenes de su edad, lo que permite advertir que la madera es de calidad para arder en un brasero pululante de oportunidades dentro del mundo literario. Así, también se logra en la lectura una catarsis muy terapéutica en las jóvenes en este trance de vida, sobre todos aquellas que están tras sus padres, irremediablemente, en busca de mejoras para vivir, en parajes no nativos. Luz Camila, por seguro, no ha develado a plenitud su pretensión. Sin embargo, entendemos que el ejercicio de la escritura le ha recreado, y por ello desea como cualquier joven que su proyecto.

The SEC. The Masters. The Olympics. March Madness. The Dallas Cowboys. Yes sir, Uncle Verne has seen it all.Over the last fifty years, few voices have epitomized the sound of sports television quite like that of Verne Lundquist's. A fixture on air since the 1960s?first broadcasting University of Texas baseball and Dallas Cowboys football games on radio before eventually joining the legendary CBS Sports team?Verne has covered just about every sport there is, and in the process he's made some of the most enduring calls in the history of golf, football, figure skating?and everything in between.In Play by Play, Verne goes inside those calls and his remarkable career, telling the behind-the-scenes story of how he ended up with the best seats in the house, giving voice to history time and time again. From Christian Laettner's buzzer-beater in the 1992 NCAA tournament, to the saga of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding at the 1994 Olympics, to the shocking finish of the Iron Bowl in 2013, to Jack Nicklaus's and Tiger Woods's unforgettable victories at the Masters, Verne's five decades as a sportscaster routinely put him in the midst of greatness. With his trademark humility and his goal to make the athlete the legend, instead of the call itself, Verne details his view of the plays that have captured our collective imagination for two generations, featuring an incredible cast of characters that includes names like Terry Bradshaw, Pat Summerall, John Madden, Scott Hamilton, and Tom Landry.What emerges is an invigorating portrait of the games that matter most, in life and on the field. A moving recollection of the moments that make sports worth watching, Play by Play reminds us all that sports are about more than games played?they're about the history that we share together and the voices that we remember long after the final whistle has blown.

O MELHOR É RIR DE TUDO (CRÔNICAS) Este livro é uma coletânea de crônicas que têm o humor, o riso, mesmo que seja contido, como traço comum. Resolvi reunir as crônicas que apresentam este espírito escritas desde 2009, com a publicação de "Páginas Recolhidas", passando por "Casos e Percepções de um Professor" (de 2016), "Outros Casos e Percepções" (de 2018), "Um Pouco da Minha Vida: Novos Casos e Percepções" (de 2018), "Mais Casos e Percepções de 2018" (de 2018), "Crônicas do Limiar de um Novo Ano" (de 2019), até chegar ao que está no prelo e com lançamento próximo, cujo título é "E Agora? (Crônicas)".Desse modo, reuni 136 textos (em 115 páginas) com situações engraçadas que vivi, ou circunstâncias que me levaram ou me levam ao riso, mesmo que não vá à gargalhada e fique só no esboço de sorriso contido como o de Mona Lisa. A ideia também é rir dos próprios erros, e dos dos outros. Por isso, o título do livro é "O Melhor é Rir de Tudo". Há melhor remédio como forma de encarar a vida, de enfrentar seus percalços?Reproduzo aspado abaixo o que escrevi em livros anteriores para explicar como as crônicas são redigidas. "Procuro exercitar a concisão nos textos. É idiossincrasia do nosso tempo que as coisas sejam breves. Sigo este lema. Por isso, os casos são contados sem palavras desnecessárias. Eu até poderia prolongar aqui e ali o texto, antes do desenlace. Mas não me concedo esta liberdade para cumprir o propósito da brevidade. Na escrita, fujo dos clichês, tento (não sei se consigo) pôr umas pitadas de literatura, buscando construções pouco usuais"."Em grande parte das vezes eu apenas proponho uma situação, sem extrair conclusões. Para que o leitor perscrute o sentido da nota, e daí tire suas conclusões"."Espero que haja algum proveito, algum deleite". Algum riso, algum sorriso, alguma gargalhada, quem sabe? Se houver, "terei minha paga. Maior que qualquer outra".