![]() ![]() “ The Berry Pickers is an intimately written tale of the destruction wreaked on a family when their youngest child is stolen. A lyrical and propulsive reimagined historical rendering that will strike a deep cord with today’s readers. “Gorgeous and brutal, striking and wise, The Glutton is, at its core, a rich story of the lengths we will go to find belonging. Now she has outdone herself with an exquisitely conceived and executed novel that explores her signature topic, moral obligation, against the backdrop of the fraught time preceding the Vietnam War….This transporting, piercing, profound novel is McDermott’s masterpiece.” “For more than forty years, McDermott’s deep understanding of human nature and wizardry in creating characters has been the seedbed of one bestselling, award-winning novel after another. I hope you’ll close out October with one or more of these intriguing new offerings how better to enter a new month, after all, than with the promise of new and wonderful things to read? Whatever you end up doing, one thing is for certain: it’s better with a book by your side, and what better than a new one? Below, you’ll find twenty-two exciting new books out today, including masterful novels, a definitive new translation of Tomas Tranströmer’s poems, anthologies exploring Blackness in the punk scene and in design, and lots of powerful nonfiction, exploring the history of science and abortion access, astronomy, anarchy, and the lives of celebrities living and dead, including Nicholas Cage, Charlie Chaplin, and Willie Nelson. And, of course, some of us will be celebrating in costumes with bellies full of remarkably sugary candy others may mark today with rituals of remembrance others still may spurn all the associations of the day. It can as easily be charming as depressing, a shift that pulls some of us outside to enjoy the pyrotechnic colors of the trees and that makes others of us want to hide away inside from the dark and cold. Whatever you might make of such sepulchral possibilities, it’s undeniable that October’s end often suggests a shift, be it in the colors of leaves or the briskness of the air or how quickly the sun will set. Still, I think it was a good purchase because I was tired of having only one 3-D image to look at! And this is fun and sort of relaxes my eyes.It’s the 31st of October, that most iconically bewitching day of the month when, we are told, the borders between the worlds of the living and the dead are thinner than ever. The designers of the book were just too clever for their own good. ![]() When you see the 3-D image, the 2-D image is out-of-focus which make it hard to hold onto the 3-D image especially around the edges of the 2-D image, and I think makes it particularly bad for beginners. Well, it's not smooth, I can see layers/edges, like several hearts increasing in size were cut from carton and put one on top of the other with a bit of space in between.Īnother thing that I didn't like was that there is a two-dimensional image surrounding the 3-D image on many of these, which is very distracting. Case in point, there's a picture of a 3-D heart. The 3D images were for the most part rather simplistic, not nearly as nice as the first 3D picture that I've learned to see (which was an image of a young king, dressed in medieval sort of clothes, with a cape and a sword, and a crown of course which is why I say "a king"). ![]()
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