5/13/2023 0 Comments The doa of pooh![]() The names "Winnie" and "Pooh" were soon brought together, and Winnie the Pooh was born. ![]() Milne indeed knew what he was doing by using such a word. He told how Christopher Robin had given the swan the name "Pooh," explaining that “this is a very fine name for a swan, because if you call him and he doesn’t come (which is a thing swans are good at), then you can pretend that you were just saying ‘Pooh!’ to show him how little you wanted him." In the book When We Were Very Young (the same book that introduced Edward Bear), Milne wrote a poem, telling how Christopher Robin would feed the swan in the mornings. The "Winnie" part of the name came from a visit to the London Zoo, where Milne saw a black bear who had been named after the city of Winnipeg, Canada.Īs for Pooh? Well, originally Pooh was a swan, a different character entirely. Initially, he went by the name of Edward Bear, before changing to Winnie in time for that aforementioned official 1926 debut. In fact, when first introduced by Milne, Winnie wasn’t even Winnie. ![]() ![]() Milne’s writing clearly struck a chord, and the character’s many subsequent TV and film adaptations have endeared him to an even wider audience.īut why is Winnie called a Pooh rather than a bear? Given that most children (and grown-ups, for that matter) have a different idea of what a Pooh is, how has the name stuck? Milne published the first official Winnie the Pooh story in 1926, the character has become beloved by children across many generations. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Author william least heat moon![]() ![]() The Trogdon family name comes from his Euro-American lineage, and the Heat-Moon name reflects his unproven claims to Osage lineage. William Trogdon was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through the United States, including cross-country trips by boat ( River-Horse, 1999) and, in his best known work (1982's Blue Highways), about his journey in a 1975 Ford Econoline van. ![]() William Least Heat-Moon (born William Lewis Trogdon August 27, 1939) is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and alleged Osage ancestry. Least Heat-Moon at the Seattle Public Library (2008) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Screwed by K.M. Neuhold![]() ![]() I mean, why the hell would I have a silver band around my left ring finger? Running my thumb over the band, it feels very much real, the metal smooth and warm from my skin. I lift my left hand closer to my face, sure I’m having some kind of hangover induced hallucination. There are no bear shifters in this series, only the OTHER kind of bears. ***Screwed is a woke up married, faking it to their friends but also totally hooking up, sweet, STEAMY love story that happens to be the fourth book in the Four Bears Construction series. Does he feel it too, or am I totally screwed? The only problem is the longer he stays, the more the lines blur between what’s real and what’s for show. ![]() I’ve never managed to make a real relationship last nearly a year, there’s no way Daniel will stick around long enough to win this bet. My feisty new husband, determined to make our friends pay up? Double check. A hefty bet about how long it will last? Check. ![]() I’ve had my fair share of less than proud relationship moments, but waking up married to my brother-in-law’s best friend is a new low.Ī drunken wedding to a man who already rejected me once? Check. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Josie silver new book 2021![]() ![]() I now am sure I don’t want to ever miss a piece of work written by this incredible author! I want to support her as long as my eyes can see, as long as my brain can recognize the sentences… ![]() ![]() She wrote two novels, and they both were stunningly written with emotional, heart shaking but beautiful plots, and characters one can’t help but get attached to. If nothing (but it’s not nothing, it’s everything) this book showed just how amazing Josie Silver of a writer is. If I’m not mistaken, it was back in 2018 when I read One Day in December, that was one of my favourite reads that year. I honestly can’t even remember when was the last time I fell in love with the book so hard… This novel has stolen my heart with it’s beautiful storyline, with the intensity of emotions it awoke in me. That is the one word I would use to describe The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Pretend soup mollie katzen![]() ![]() This cookbook is for anyone–vegetarian, vegan, omnivore, carnivore, likatarian (you just eat what you like)-who wants to enjoy eating more grains, nuts and vegetables. But Mollie Katzen doesn’t want to be put in a box when it comes to labeling her food. She offers a new approach to vegetarian eating via building a meal in modules, and keeping components separate, like in a bento box. The recipes are appetizing to the eye and to the palate, thanks to her vibrant watercolor drawings and photographs that accompany the light and playful, recipes. Now comes Mollie Katzen’s 12 th book, Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation(Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). I often lend out her books to families I see in therapy who want to get their kids cooking. ![]() When my children were young, Honest Pretzels and Pretend Soup, with her beguiling illustrations and accessible recipes, inspired them to cook on their own. Her Moosewood Cookbook, published in 1977, transformed vegetarian cooking forever, won a James Beard Hall of Fame Cookbook award, and was the very first cookbook I ever purchased. Like millions of other home cooks, I have relied on Mollie Katzen as a muse and guide my whole adult life. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Under gemini by rosamunde pilcher![]() ![]() In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. ![]() Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Kellan and kiera thoughtless![]() ![]() In this instalment, Keira is about to go on tour with Kellan and the D-Bags, but before their tour begins a high profile pop princess along with the D-Bags Label show a big interest in Kellan. I know I have said it before and I will say it again, S.C Stephens has delivered! This time in the fantastic finale to her Thoughtless Series, Reckless, by finally portraying the challenges a relationship can withhold, and that if you have “trust” in a relationship, as a team you are untouchable! Fame comes with a price – but will it cost Keira and Kellan everything? ![]() A greedy executive hell-bent on success, a declining pop star looking for an edge, and a media circus that twists lies into truths are just some of the obstacles the lovers will have to overcome if they are going to remain together. When the band hits it big, Keira and Kellan must ask themselves: Can their love for each other withstand the constant pressures of superstardom? The friendships they’ve formed, the new family they’ve found, and the history they’ve forged will all play a part in helping them navigate the turbulent waters of the band’s exploding popularity. Title: RECKLESS (Volume 3 of the Thoughtless Series) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Book sweet bean paste![]() ![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of friendship. To order a copy for £7.64 (RRP £8.99) go to or call 03. ![]() Sweet Bean Paste is published by Oneworld. Depending on your inclinations, you may find this simply delicious or cloyingly sweet – like Tokue’s bean paste. He, in turn, faces his demons and embraces a very Japanese doctrine of restorative hard work. Tokue braves widespread prejudice to leave her community and teach struggling dorayaki pancake-maker Sentaro how to cook sweet bean paste. But what purpose is to be found for those individuals, such as leprosy-sufferer Tokue, who are deprived of an opportunity to contribute to society by being shut away in prison-like hospitals most of their lives? Leaning heavily on a sentimental philosophy of cosmic interconnectedness, Sukegawa makes Tokue his mouthpiece to promote a belief that humans exist to verify the existence of the universe. ![]() A common answer to this, in Japan, is that one must be “a useful member of society”. In an endnote, Sukegawa writes that he wanted to explore what “life is all about”. U ntil 1996, leprosy patients in Japan were forcibly isolated in sanatoriums, despite growing awareness that the disease was treatable and not very contagious: the disfigurement the disease could cause contributed to the prolonged policy of quarantine, even for the cured. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Skunks Dance by St. John Karp![]() These high schoolers initially seem to dislike each other, with Amanda sending a rock through Jet’s house and Jet managing to blow up her car. The story then shifts to modern-day Skunks Dance, introducing teen protagonists Jettison “Jet” Allan-Ashwood, son of circus acrobats, and Amanda Spillane, part of the still-fortune-seeking Spillane tribe. ![]() Spillane first met this elusive trickster when he showed up to swipe the Bible with a treasure map that was found on a Spaniard who had arrived, then died, at the Spillane family farm in Tennessee. Spivey Spillane, age 20, arrives in the California Gold Rush town of Skunks Dance on the trail of Alabama Sam. ![]() Two California teenagers search for an ancestor’s treasure in this comic novel that crosscuts between contemporary and Gold Rush eras. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Lindsay mattick![]() ![]() My great-grandfather Harry Colebourn was a veterinarian. I'm the vice president of strategy and creative at a Toronto shop called Narrative, and I'm also the author of a book that’s coming out this fall called Finding Winnie, which is about my family’s connection to Winnie-the-Pooh. Lindsay Mattick: My name is Lindsay Mattick, and my day job is in public relations. ![]() There, her good nature captivated the imagination of many visitors, including author A.A. But when his services with the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps were needed on the front, Colebourn brought Winnie to the London Zoo for safekeeping. ![]() He named her Winnie for his hometown ( Winnipeg), and cared for her in Valcartier, Québec, where the Canadian army organized its infantry brigades, before bringing her to Salisbury Plain, England, where Canadian soldiers trained for combat. Mattick is a great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Harry Colebourn.Īs he shipped off to the First World War in 1914, Colebourn purchased a female black bear cub from a hunter in White River, Ontario. In the summer of 2015, special projects editor Eli Yarhi interviewed Lindsay Mattick, a public-relations professional and the author behind the children’s book Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (2015), for The Canadian Encyclopedia. ![]() |