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Five Minutes' Peace by Jill Murphy6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Because as we all know, unless you are some kind of natural earth mother type or lying, your children are not endless fascinating. What ensues is a wonderfully well-observed exchange between mother and offspring that is just so true to life and honest, yet completely delightful at the same time.Īs Mrs Large attempts to luxuriate in half a bottle of bubble bath, each member of her herd bounds in, demanding of her time.Īnd she doesn’t even try to disguise her weary disinterest at hearing Lester’s recorder rehearsal or Laura reading aloud. throwing around) their breakfast, the frazzled mum retreats to the bath tub with tray containing the paper and a pot of tea. So while Lester, Laura and the Little One are busy eating (ie. Or even just the chance to go for a wee with the door closed and no one trying to press the flush, unravel the loo roll, eat the toilet brush and throw things in the bath. Sometimes the poor woman just NEEDS.A.BIT.OF.SPACE. She loves her three kids with all her heart but they are of the heavy-footed, boisterous variety (understandable, given that they are elephants). Long before Hurrah For Gin, there was Mrs Large. ![]()
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Colson whitehead zombie book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "In Zone One, I'm describing New York a couple years in the future, and it looks pretty much the same but the ruined city is superimposed on the city that's still standing. "Mark Spitz is trying to reconcile moving to the city and becoming a real New Yorker with this empty landscape that confronts him," Whitehead tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. ![]() But he keeps having flashbacks to the worst days of the zombie apocalypse, when everything - and everyone - in his life was destroyed. Team leader Mark Spitz must stay calm to avoid the zombies lurking around every corner. The book tracks a team of human "sweepers" as they make their way through a walled-off area of New York City over the course of three days. That's the setup of Colson Whitehead's post-apocalyptic zombie novel Zone One. Camps of survivors band together in pockets across the country, waiting for small squadrons of human "sweepers" to inch their way across major cities, destroying the remaining zombie-like creatures hiding out in office buildings and shopping malls.īut now the human sweepers have to tackle their biggest challenge yet: clearing the undead from Lower Manhattan. How?Ī zombie plague has wiped out 95 percent of America. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. 9:48 am Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead (Photo credit: / Simone Padovani) There is no shortage of zombie fiction. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Zone One Author Colson Whitehead ![]()
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An Enchanted Garden by Mrs. Molesworth6/30/2023 ![]() So it is enough to say that as things really were, they were very happy children. But there is not much use in thinking over about might-have-beens, or would-have-beens, unless to make us more thankful for what is. This was a convenient arrangement, for they were a good deal younger than the other brothers and sisters of the family, and what Rafe would have been without Alix, or Alix without Rafe, it would be difficult to imagine. They were a nice little pair, and they were constantly together, at lessons, at play, at everything. But she generally took the lead not always, as I daresay you will see when you hear more about them, but generally. Rafe looked and felt very snubbed indeed. ![]() If you’ve no better ideas than that, Rafe, we needn’t talk about it any more.” ![]() “No,” said Alix, “that’s not a good plan at all. ![]() |