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The Trailer Park Has Old Timey Visitors
I’ve collected trailers for three different books, all featuring stories set in the long, long ago, when ladies wore corsets, men wore dickeys, and everyone bathed once a month. Damn those were good times.
First up, Gilded by Catherine Karp. This is the story of old timey Emma and her desperate desire to bust out of the restrictions society has placed on her.
Next we have Alanna Coca’s Wyoming Solace, an historical romance with a strong emphasis on the erotic. Melikes those odds, especially when it involves cowboys.
Lastly, we have something a little different. La Bestia Feroce by Andrea Ventura is in Italian. I don’t speak Italian, but I’ve always wanted to learn, and watching this trailer was all sorts of titillating. I have no idea what’s happening, but I can’t take my eyes off it!
Today in the Trailer Park: Alaska, Alacrity, and Abs!
I have a wonderfully bizarro mix of literary trailers for you today.
In the first, Norman Wilkins tells the story of his move, in the 1970s, from Minnesota to the furthest reaches of Alaska. With his wife at his side, Wilkins etched out a life in the cold, hard frontier of the far north, recounted in 10,000 Days in Alaska.
Secondly, we have The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First by Dr. Mark Hyman (great name). In this book, Hyman details his revolutionary plan to reverse autism, ADD, depression, Alzheimer’s and more.
Finally, ABS! In The AbSmart Fitness Plan, chiropractor Adam Weiss tells us how to get the belly of our dreams. Sounds ABSolutely smashing (yuk-yuk-yuk).
Trailer Park: Transformations
The subject of this week’s Trailer Park is transformation. All books, to some extent, contain stories of a character or characters’ transformation; this creates good drama and keeps us reading. However these three books chronicle major human transformations and provide inspiration that yes, people can change.
In the first trailer, we have the true story of La Wanda Merrero, who was brutally abused by those who were supposed to love and protect her. But La Wanda transcended the trauma of her past in a testament to the strength and fortitude of the human spirit. Oh, and it also has a fan-freaking-tastic title: Alice N Crackland.
Next up, a novel, Time is a River, by Mary Alice Monroe. In this tale, a woman survives cancer and retreats to the mountains, where she begins to rebuild her life.
Finally, the ultimate act of momentous transformation: change in the White House. In Change Has Come: An Artist Celebrates Our American Spirit, President-elect Obama’s words are recounted with warm illustrations by Kadir Nelson.
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WHAT IS A SNARK?
The Snark is a creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem "The Hunting of the Snark". To give a proper description of Snarks, one must look no further than Carroll himself, who summed them up in one word: Unimaginable.
But this much we do know: some have feathers, some have whiskers. Snarks sleep a lot, yet they are an ambitious lot -- with very little sense of humor. They love bathing-machines and tend to bring them wherever they go; they are also handy for striking a light. Snarks live on a far-off island, a place filled with chasms and crags, and are constantly on the lookout for Snark-hunters. Their mortal enemies are hope, care, thimbles and forks.
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