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Farmers' suicides in India
Farmer suicide in India is the intentional ending of one's life by a person dependent on farming as their primary source of livelihood. In 2012, the National Crime Records Bureau of India reported 13,754 farmer suicides.[1] The farmers suicide rate in India has been in 1.4 to 1.8 per 100,000 range over a 10-year period through 2005.[2]
India is an agrarian country with around 60% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India.[1] Activists and scholars have offered a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as monsoon failure, high debt burdens, genetically modified crops, government policies, public mental health, personal issues and family problems.[3][4][5]
- 1 Statistics
- 2 History
- 3 Reasons
- 4 Responses to farmers' suicides
- 5 International comparison
- 6 In popular culture
- 7 See also
- 8 References
The National Crime Records Bureau of India reported in its 2012 annual report that 135,445 people committed suicide in India, of which 13,754 were farmers (11.2%).[6] Of these, 5 out of 29 states accounted for 10,486 farmers suicides (76%) – Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala.[1]
In 2011, a total of 135,585 people committed suicide, of which 14,207 were farmers.[7] In 2010, 15,963 farmers in India committed suicide, while total suicides were 134,599.[8]
In 2012, the state of Maharashtra, with 3,786 farmers' suicides accounted for about a quarter of the all-India total.[1]
Farmer suicides rates in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – two large states of India by size and population – have been about 10 times lower than Maharashtra, Kerala and Pondicherry.[9][10] In 2012, there were 745 farmer suicides in Uttar Pradesh, a state with an estimated population of 205.43 million.[11]
According to IFFRI study number of suicides during 2005–2009 in Gujarat 387, Kerala 905, Punjab 75 and Tamil Nadu 26.[12] While 1802 farmers committed suicide in Chhattisgarh in 2009 and 1126 in 2010, its farmers suicide dropped to zero in 2011, leading to accusations of data manipulation.[13]
According to the latest statistics from the National Crime Records Bureau (2012), the farmer suicides statistics are as follows (Note: The NCRB lists suicides in the different employment categories, but it is not necessary that farming or crop-failure is the cause of the suicides listed in the "farmer" category):[14]
|Total farmer suicides (Not normalised for different populations of different states)
|Andhra Pradesh
|Madhya Pradesh
|Uttar Pradesh
|Tamil Nadu
|Himachal Pradesh
|Arunachal Pradesh
|Jammu & Kashmir
|Farmer suicides rate per 100,000 (Top 25 states)
|Andhra Pradesh
|West Bengal
|Madhya Pradesh
|Arunachal Pradesh
|Tamil Nadu
|Himachal Pradesh
|Uttar Pradesh
|Jammu & Kashmir
|Farmer suicides as a % of total suicides
|Andhra Pradesh
|Uttar Pradesh
|Madhya Pradesh
|Arunachal Pradesh
|Himachal Pradesh
|Tamil Nadu
|Jammu & Kashmir
Farmers versus other professions[edit]
Patel et al., using a representative survey sample based statistical study from 2001 and 2003, extrapolated likely suicide patterns in 2010 for India. They claim suicide deaths in India among unemployed individuals and individuals in professions other than agricultural work were, collectively, about three times more frequent than they were in agricultural labourers and landowning cultivators.[16] Even across professions in rural areas, Patel et al. find suicide among agricultural workers (including farmers) in India is not more frequent than any other profession.[17]
Significant reporting on suicides among farmers in India began in the 1990s, particularly by the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, P. Sainath. The first state where suicides were reported was Maharashtra. Soon newspapers began to report similar occurrences from Andhra Pradesh.[18] In 2012, that total dropped to 13,754 farmer suicides in India.[1]
Farmers suicides is a matter of significant concern and controversy in India. Some allege the beginning of the increase in farmer suicides to the early 1990s.[19][20] It was also claimed, that while a comprehensive all-India study is still awaited, that most farmers suicides occurred in states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Punjab.[21][22] The situation was grim enough to force at least the Maharashtra government to set up a dedicated office to deal with farmers distress.[23]
In the beginning it was believed that most of the suicides were happening among the cotton growers, especially those from Vidarbha.[24] A look at the figures given out by the State Crime Records Bureau, however, was sufficient to indicate that it was not just the cotton farmer but farmers as a professional category were suffering, irrespective of their holding size.[25] Moreover, it was not just the farmers from Vidarbha but all over Maharashtra who showed a significantly high suicide rate.[26][27]
Various reasons have been conjectured as the causes behind farmers suicide in India ranging from droughts to debt to genetically modified crops to public health; but there is no consensus.[28][29][30]
Studies dated 2004 through 2006 identified several causes for farmers suicide, such as insufficient or risky credit systems, the difficulty of farming semi-arid regions, poor agricultural income, absence of alternative income opportunities, a downturn in the urban economy which forced non-farmers into farming, and the absence of suitable counselling services.[31][32][33] In 2004, in response to a request from the All India Biodynamic and Organic Farming Association, the Mumbai High Court required the Tata Institute to produce a report on farmer suicides in Maharashtra, and the institute submitted its report in March 2005.[34][35] The survey cited "government apathy, the absence of a safety net for farmers, and lack of access to information related to agriculture as the chief causes for the desperate condition of farmers in the state."[34]
A 2012 study did a regional survey on farmers suicide in rural Vidarbha (Maharashtra) and applied a Smith's Saliency method to qualitatively rank the expressed causes among farming families who had lost someone to suicide.[36] The expressed reasons in order of importance behind farmer suicides were – debt, alcohol addiction, environment, low produce prices, stress and family responsibilities, apathy, poor irrigation, increased cost of cultivation, private money lenders, use of chemical fertilizers and crop failure.[36] In other words debt to stress and family responsibilities were rated as significantly higher than fertilizers and crop failure. In a different study in the same region in 2006, indebtedness (87%) and deterioration in the economic status (74%) were found to be major risk factors for suicide.[37]
As much as 80% of India's farmland relies on flooding during monsoon season, so inadequate rainfall can cause droughts, making crop failure more common.[38][39] In regions that have experienced droughts, crop yields have declined, and food for cattle has become scarcer.[40] Agricultural regions that have been affected by droughts have subsequently seen their suicide rates increase.[41]
New Economic Policy[edit]
Left leaning economists like Utsa Patnaik, Jayati Ghosh and Prabhat Patnaik suggest[42][43] that structural changes in the macro-economic policy of Indian Government that favoured privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation is the root cause of farmer suicides. Others[44][45] dispute such views.
GM crops[edit]
A number of social activist groups and studies proposed a link between GM crops and farmer suicides.[31] Bt cotton (Bacillus thuringiensis cotton) was claimed to be responsible for farmer suicides.[46] The Bt cotton seeds cost nearly twice as much as ordinary ones. The higher costs forced many farmers into taking ever larger loans, often from private moneylenders charging exorbitant interest rates (60% a year). The moneylender was claimed to collect his dues at harvest time, by compelling farmers to sell their cotton to him at a price lower than it fetches on the market. According to activists, this created a source of debt and economic stress, ultimately suicides, among farmers. Scholars claim that this Bt cotton theory made certain assumptions and ignored field reality.[47]
The Bt cotton theory was challenged. In 2008, a report published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, an agriculture policy think tank based in Washington DC, stated that there was no evidence for an increased suicide rate following the 2002 introduction of Bt cotton.[48] The report stated that farmer suicides predate the official commercial introduction of Bt cotton by Monsanto Mahyco in 2002 (and its unofficial introduction by Navbharat Seeds in 2001) and that such suicides were a fairly constant portion of the overall national suicide rate since 1997.[31][48] The report concluded that while Bt cotton may have been a factor in specific suicides, the contribution was likely marginal compared to socio-economic factors.[31][48] Stone[47] suggests that the arrival and expansion of GM cotton led to a campaign of misinformation, by all sides, exacerbating the farmer's situation; activists have fuelled the persistence of a legend of failure and rejection of Bt cotton with sensational claims of livestock death and farmer suicide, while the other side has been incorrectly pronouncing Bt cotton a major success based on literature that is actually inconclusive. The cotton cash crop farmer's situation is complex and continues to evolve, suggests Stone.[47]
In 2011, a review of the evidence regarding the relationship between Bt cotton and farmers' suicides in India was published in the Journal of Development Studies, also by researchers from IFPRI, which found that "Available data show no evidence of a 'resurgence' of farmer suicides. Moreover, Bt cotton technology has been very effective overall in India."[49] Matin Qaim finds that Bt cotton is controversial in India, irrespective of the scholarly evidence. Anti-biotech activist groups in India repeat their claim that there is evidence of link between Bt cotton and farmers suicides, a claim that is perpetuated by mass media. This linking of farmers suicide and biotech industry has led to negative opinions in public policy making process.[50]
Suicide ideation[edit]
Patel et al. find[17] that southern Indian states have ten times higher rates of suicides than some northern states. This difference, they claim, is not because of misclassification of a person's death, for example as homicide, but because of regional causes. The most common cause for suicide in India's south are a combination of social issues, such as interpersonal and family problems, financial difficulties, and pre-existing mental illness. Suicidal ideation is as culturally accepted in south India as in some high-income countries. The high suicide rates in southern states of India may be, suggest Patel el al.,[17] in part because of social acceptance of suicide as a method to deal with difficulties.
State government field surveys[edit]
The Government of Maharashtra, concerned about the highest total number of farmer suicides among its rural populations, commissioned its own study into reasons. At its behest, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai[51] did field research and found the top causes of farmers suicides to be: debt, low income and crop failure, family issues such as illness and inability to pay celebration expenses for daughter's marriage, lack of secondary income occupations and lack of value-added opportunities.[52]
Responses to farmers' suicides[edit]
The government appointed a number of inquiries to look into the causes of farmers suicide and farm related distress in general. Krishak Ayog (National Farmer Commission) visited all suicide prone farming regions of India, then in 2006 published three reports with its recommendations.[53] Subsequently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Vidarbha in 2006 and promised a package of ₹110 billion (about $2.4 billion). The families of farmers who had committed suicide were also offered an ex gratia grant of ₹100,000 (about $2,000) by the government, though this amount was changed several times.[54] The government set up a dedicated group to deal with farm distress in 2006 known as the Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavlamban Mission, based in Amravati[23] A group to study the Farmers Suicides was also constituted by the Government of Karnataka under the Chairmanship of Dr Veeresh, Former Vice-Chancellor of Agricultural University and Prof Deshpande as member.[55]
2006 relief package[edit]
In 2006, the Government of India identified 31 districts in the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala with high relative incidence of farmers suicides.[56] A special rehabilitation package was launched to mitigate the distress of these farmers. The package provided debt relief to farmers, improved supply of institutional credit, improved irrigation facilities, employed experts and social service personnel to provide farming support services, and introduced subsidiary income opportunities through horticulture, livestock, dairying and fisheries. The Government of India also announced an ex-gratia cash assistance from Prime Ministers National Relief Fund to the farmers. Additionally, among other things, the Government of India announced:[56]
- In the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, that had received considerable mass media news coverage on farmer suicides, all farmer families of Vidarbha in six affected districts of Maharashtra were given a cash sum of 05 million (US$81,000) each, to help pay off the debt principal.
- 7.12 billion (US$120 million) in interest owed, as of 30 June 2006, was waived. The burden of payment was shared equally between the Central and the State government.
- The Government created a special credit vehicle for Vidarbha farmer, to the tune of 12.75 billion (US$210 million). Special teams comprising NABARD and banks were deputed to ensure fresh credit starts flowing to all farmers of the region.
- An allocation of 21.77 billion (US$350 million) was made to improve the irrigation infrastructure so that the farmers of Vidarbha region had assured irrigation facilities in the future.
Agricultural debt waiver and debt relief scheme, 2008[edit]
The Government of India next implemented the Agricultural debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme, 2008 to benefit over 36 million farmers at a cost of 653 billion (US$11 billion). This spending was aimed at writing of part of loan principal as well as the interest owed by the farmers. Direct agricultural loan by stressed farmers under so-called Kisan Credit Card were also be covered under this Scheme.[57]
Maharashtra Bill to regulate farmer loan terms, 2008[edit]
The State government of Maharashtra, one of the most farmer suicide affected states, passed the Money Lending (Regulation) Act, 2008 to regulate all private money lending to farmers. The bill set maximum legally allowed interest rates on any loans to farmers, setting it to be slightly above the money lending rate by Reserve Bank of India, and it also covered pending loans.[58]
Maharashtra relief package, 2010[edit]
The State Government of Maharashtra made it illegal, in 2010, for non-licensed moneylenders from seeking loan repayment. The State Government also announced[52] that it will from Village Farmer Self Help Groups, that will disburse government financed loans, a low rate Crop Insurance program whose premium will be paid 50% by farmer and 50% by government, launch of alternate income opportunities such as poultry, dairy and sericulture for farmers in high suicide prone districts. The government further announced that it will finance a marriage fund under its Samudaik Lagna with 10 million (US$160,000) per year per district, for community marriage celebrations, where many couples get married at the same time to help minimise the cost of marriage celebrations – a cause of suicides among farmers as identified by its own study.[52]
Kerala Farmers' Debt Relief Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2012[edit]
Kerala, in 2012, amended the Kerala Farmers' Debt Relief Commission Act, 2006 to extend benefits to all distressed farmers with loans through 2011. It cited continuing farmer suicides as a motivation.[59]
2013 diversify income sources package[edit]
In 2013, the Government of India launched a Special Livestock Sector and Fisheries Package for farmers suicide-prone regions of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. The package was aimed to diversify income sources of farmers. The total welfare package consisted of 912 million (US$15 million).[60]
International comparison[edit]
Farmers suicide is a global phenomenon. Outside India, studies in Sri Lanka, USA, Canada, England and Australia have identified farming as a high stress profession that is associated with a high suicide rate than in general population. This is particularly true among small scale farmers and after periods of economic distress.[37] Fraser et al., similarly after a review of 52 scholarly publications, conclude that farming populations in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States have the highest rates of suicide of any industry and there is growing evidence that those involved in farming are at higher risk of developing mental health problems. Their review claims a wide range of reasons behind farmers suicide globally including mental health issues, physical environment, family problems, economic stress and uncertainties.[61] Significantly higher suicide rate among farmers than general population have been reported in the developed countries such as UK and USA.[62][63][64]
In popular culture[edit]
Summer 2007 by producer Atul Pandey, focused on the issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, as did the 2009 Bollywood film Kissan.[65] Prior to this The Dying Fields, a documentary directed by Fred de Sam Lazaro was aired in August 2007 on Wide Angle (TV series). The 2010 award-winning film Jhing Chik Jhing is based around the emotive issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra. It looks at how the farmer has very little in his control and looks at the impact of indebtedness on his family.[66] Additionally, Peepli Live is a dark comic satire from 2010 depicting the state of farmers' suicides in the fictional Indian state of Mukhya Pradesh, and the political and media frenzy surrounding them.
In 2006, a documentary by Indian film maker Sumit Khanna titled Mere Desh Ki Dharti, did a comprehensive review of the way we grow our food. A well researched and in-depth understanding of the agrarian crisis, it won the national award for the best Investigative film.[relevant? ]
In 2009, the International Museum of Women included an examination of the impact of farmers' suicides on the lives of the farmers' wives and children in their exhibition Economica: Women and the Global Economy. Their slideshow "Growing Debt" and accompanying essay by curator Masum Momaya entitled "Money of Her Own" showed how many widows were left with the burden of their husbands' debts, and were forced to work as indentured servants to repay the debt. The widows were also unlikely to remarry, because other men in the community were unwilling to take on the widows' debts for themselves.[67]
- Peepli Live (2010 film)
- Battle in Seattle, (a 2007 film that quotes the Indian suicide statistic in the end credits)
See also[edit]
- Farmers Suicide in Western Orissa
- P. Sainath, a journalist who covered the Covering farmers' suicides in India, later won the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award
- ^ a b c d e National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2012 Government of India, Page 242, Table 2.11
- ^ a b c Gruère, G. & Sengupta, D. (2011), Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment, The Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), pp 316–337
- ^ Gruère, G. & Sengupta, D. (2011), Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment, The Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), 316–337
- ^ Schurman, R. (2013), Shadow space: suicides and the predicament of rural India, Journal of Peasant Studies, 40(3), 597–601
- ^ Das, A. (2011), Farmers' suicide in India: implications for public mental health, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 57(1), 21–29
- ^ National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2012 Government of India, page xx and 242
- ^ National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2011 Government of India
- ^ National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2010 Government of India
- ^ Nagaraj (2008), Farmers' Suicides in India: Magnitudes, Trends and Spatial Patterns, ISBN 978-81-89909-57-4, pages 16–25
- ^ Mudit Kapoor and Shamika Ravi (2007), Farmer Suicide Contagion, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Shamika Ravi, Suicides through the glass darkly The Indian Express (4 December 2007)
- ^ National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2012 Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (June 2013)
- ^ "Farmers' suicides in India not due to Bt cotton: IFFRI". Mint. 11 November 2008.
- ^ "Chhattisgarh eliminates farmer suicides by fudging death data". Mumbai: The Times of India. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ "Farmer suicides: What do the Gujarat numbers really mean". Firstpost. 27 March 2014.
- ^ National Crime Reports Bureau, ADSI Report Annual – 2012 Government of India
- ^ Patel et al. (2012), Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey, The Lancet, 379: 2343–2351, 23 June 2012
- ^ a b c Patel et al. (2012), Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey, The Lancet, volume 379, page 2349, 23 June 2012
- ^ Rediff News
- ^ Meeta and Rajivlochan (2006), Farmers suicide: facts and possible policy interventions, Yashada, Pune.
- ^ Glocal Hyperreal and the Sad Demise of the Corporeal: An Obituary
- ^ Waldman, Amy (6 June 2004). "Debts and Drought Drive India's Farmers to Despair". New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ Huggler, Justin (2 July 2004). "India acts over suicide crisis on farms". London: The Independent. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ a b VNSS Mission
- ^ Planning Commission report
- ^ 1. Meeta and Rajivlochan (2006) Farmers suicide: facts and possible policy interventions, Yashada, Pune, pp. 11–13.
- ^ Macroscan reports
- ^ Nagraj, K. (2008) Farmers suicide in India: magnitudes, trends and spatial patterns
- ^ Mishra, Srijit (2007). "Risks, Farmers' Suicides and Agrarian Crisis in India: Is There A Way Out?". Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR).
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Summary: Want to get the most out of Linux Mint, one of the most popular of the Linux desktops? Then read on!
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Say hello to Linux Mint
Linux desktop distributions can vary wildly in their look and feel. Unlike Windows 8 before the recent Windows 8.1 update, where a one-size-fits-all interface was the order of the day, Linux gives you an almost endless number of primary desktops such as GNOME, KDE, and Enlightenment. Then you your choice of variations based on them. In GNOME's case, for example, there's Ubuntu's Unity and MATE, and the interface I'll be talking about today: Cinnamon.
To be precise, I'm going to show you some handy tips you can use to get the most from Linux Mint 16 with Cinnamon 2.0.
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You don't need to know how to use a Linux shell, but it can be darn handy.
People will tell you even today you must know Linux shell commands to do anything with desktop Linux. That's complete nonsense. Most users will never need to learn how to use Linux shell commands.
That said, if you do want to learn how to use shell commands, you'll gain far more power over your operating system than any GUI can ever give you.
In this example, I'm pretending I'm having trouble with my e-mail program, Evolution, and since it won't shut down by ordinary means, I've decided to kill it.
To do that, I first open a terminal, which will give me access to the shell. From here I enter the commands
ps -ef | grep evolution
The first command ps and its flags -ef tell the shell to display all currently running programs. Now, since that would give me a list as long as my arm, I "pipe" the results with | to another program grep. Grep is the Swiss army knife of Linux/Unix text searching tools, and I'm telling it to look at everything ps -ef sends for the string evolution, my locked-up program's name.
This now gives me another list of programs and I know that the last one, evolution is the master misbehaving program. So I enter my next command:
kill -9 20287
Kill does just what you think it does. It kills off programs. The -9 means "kill the process with extreme prejudice!" Don't let that program run for one more microsecond! For the program I want to kill in this example, I give the kill command the process identifier (PID) number. In this case it's 20287. I hit Enter, and, bang, Evolution is as dead as a doornail.
Now, if this hasn't frightened you off — better still if you like the idea of having this kind of fine control over what's going on in your computer — you can start learning a lot more about the shell and its associated programs at the Linux Command site.
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The Life List is a charming novel recommended to me by a friend.
With a little bit of chick lit tone, but sincere and lovable characters, it broke out of the mold with a fresh story.
Brett appears to be the young career woman who has it all. The book opens with her grieving her mother's death. She expects to be named CEO of her mother's cosmetic corporation. But the will has an unusual
stipulation. Brett's mother had saved her seventh grade list of dreams – the life list – and instructs Brett to complete all the unfinished tasks.
The adolescent dreams – like owning a horse – seem ridiculous to Brett. And others, like having a good relationship with her late father, seem impossible. As she achieves each one, her mom's lawyer reads a note that her mother had written before her death. In the process, Brett discovers not only that her mom knew her better than she knew herself, but that her seventh-grade self also had some wonderful dreams.
The Life List had terrific character development and the plot unfolded nice and slowly, but with enough unpredictable developments to keep me guessing.
The book was on sale this summer and is now back up to full price at $9.02. Audiobook: $3.99.
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DragonKin ($2.99) , the sequel to Dragons of Wendal ($2.99) by Maria E. Schneider, a light fantasy with some romantic elements. Think, cozy mystery with dragons and you'll be closer to the mark. This is the story of Drissa who happens to be in hiding and has the bad luck to stumble upon some nefarious goings-on while she is trying to be as inconspicuous as possible.
So, Drissa is on the run and hiding but finds someone who needs her help to help someone else…and against her will she gets snared into someone else's struggle and, well, I can't give you more or I'll spoil it. Just know that the story keeps on moving and is full of fun and interesting characters (many of which I'd definitely like to read more about-hint, hint) and has a fast-moving plot that keeps you turning those pages until it the very end.
If you liked Dragons of Wendal you will definitely like this. If you haven't tried the first book, what the heck are you waiting for? This one is on my five star reads list for 2014.
April is an avid reader. In an alternate reality she is a young dragon just learning to fly. You can find her on Goodreads here.
It has to be a dog. No offense to cat lovers, but if a pet is going to tell Denny Swift's story, only a dog could do it. The Art of Racing in the Rain ($5.99 Audiobook $6.99) by Garth Stein is a novel told in the dog's voice.
Enzo starts the story with "Gestures are all I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature." Throughout the book I visualized his expressions and actions as he tells us about the interloper Eve, Baby Zoe, watching television, the Evil Twins and the ride of his life in the Aston Martin DB5.
Enzo became my personal friend with all the latest on the Swift family. He told their story, not as a gossip, but with his own unique insight. He loved them for who they were, not for what they should have been.
At the beginning Enzo explains that he is old and ready to go on. Much of the story was predictable. I knew what was going to happen to Eve and the situation with Annika was telegraphed from the get-go. But that didn't diminish the book for me as I wanted to know how Enzo would tell it.
Mr. Stien's style drew me into the story, almost making me feel as a member of the extended family. I knew enough to form attachments and to dislike the evil people. It was well-paced but there were parts I didn't understand, such as the zebra incident. Enzo's explanation late in the story was helpful, but it was still odd.
If you have a dog who is considered a member of the family, this book may scare you if you give much thought to the story your dog could write. My husband and I are pet-free and feel safe – unless the walls start talking.
What are your overall thoughts about the book? Did the dog telling the story work for you? Was the book depressing? Did you like the car racing theme running throughout the book?
In a week or two, we'll spend time discussing Enzo's philosophies of life.
I'm not smarter than fifth-grader August Pullman. I certainly have not experienced Auggie's pain and rejection.
R.J. Palacio's touching novel Wonder is Auggie's story, a fifth-grader born with a "facial difference." As Auggie says:
I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
Wanting their son to move toward a more normal life, his parents make the difficult decision to move him from home-schooling to a private school when he begins the fifth grade.
The book is Auggie's story of the school year – his hurts, disappointments and even a few good experiences. His young voice acutely shares his fears and pain as he tries hard to be normal when he looks abnormal.
Via, Auggie's older sister, tells her story too. Having lived in the shadow of Auggie's needs for many years she is spreading her wings and wants to be known as for herself and not just Auggie's sister.
Told through six voices, this amazing novel vividly portrays tender emotions, the insensitivity of children and adults and the angst of parents who must make tough decisions out of love. I purchased and listened to the well-presented audiobook version. I highly recommend this book and audiobook for all ages.
Bring out the tissues and learn from a fifth-grader when you read this book selling for $7.99. The audiobook is $3.99.
Ms. Palachio has written a short story that is a follow-up to Wonder, The Julian Chapter ($1.99) The boy who bullied Auggie tells his story for treating Auggie like he had the plague. This is a must-read for anyone who has read Wonder.
So many secrets and so much whispering! Odette doesn't understand why her father had to leave nor why her mother brings strangers into their apartment late at night.
In Odette's Secrets war has come to France and her family must hide their Jewish faith. Odette must keep secret many things about her family. Her mother insists that Odette tell no one. Conflicted by the new identity that she must take on to protect her life, Odette is saddened by the way her life has changed.
Maryann MacDonald has written a moving historical novel from Odette Meyers' true childhood in war-torn France. Written in lyrical, free verse, the story reads quickly and clearly tells how war changed the lives of innocent children.
Readers ages 10 and older will learn the tragedies of World War II when they read this historical novel, selling today for only $1.99.
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The public loves a scandal and when members of Congress are involved, the appeal increases. Compromising Positions takes us to the halls of the Capitol for romance and the age-old struggle for power.
Author Mary Whitney brings together two freshman members of the House of Representatives with opposing political ideologies. Jessica Clark from Arizona, an outspoken liberal with moxie, and Michael Grath, a rising star from a political dynasty in Chicago, are attracted to one another.
It's a battle of wills as their political views, the sins of the past and even well-meaning chiefs of staff play out in their budding relationship.
The story is told in alternating voices and develops the characters more fully. Occurring over the course of a year, contemporary oft-debated topics are integral to the plot. The press even has a part in the story, giving the book a real Washington feel.
It's spicy in few places, but anyone who loves a political scandal or a good romance will want to buy Compromising Positions while it is only 99 cents! Highly recommended.
I downloaded this book for free, but that did not influence my evaluation of this book.
I think I have a new favorite humorous mystery series! I thoroughly enjoyed Louisiana Longshot (Free) by Jana DeLeon, the first book in the series. I laughed more than once and was quite intrigued by a heroine who is involved in undercover work and who views her high heels as a weapon.
The second in the series, Lethal Bayou Beauty , is a six dollar book so I hesitated before buying it. But I can tell you, it is worth it! I enjoyed it even more than the first in the series.
Yes, these are silly cozy fun, but they are exactly the type of cozy I like: All the great characters are back, including the Geritol Mafia. They take center stage, but we also get to know a bit more about Walter and his nephew, the possible romantic interest. Fun, witty and dare I admit that I laughed out loud in more than one spot? There's this scene with a fish where I had to put the book down, laugh and then read the entire section all over again! I think the mystery was a bit stronger in the second installment, but they were both just wonderful. I love it when a series gets better as they go. Zany, crazy fun. Buy Lethal Bayou Beauty for $5.99 today.
I have gone out and purchased book three already, Swamp Sniper ($5.99). These are like chocolate cake.
Maria Schneider is an avid reader, gardener and the author of Soul of the Desert ($4.99), a story about an adopted kid on the run.
Nanna, nanna, nanna!
When Scrabble Kindle Table Edition was offered for only 99 cents last week (now $4.99) I downloaded it in anticipation of a bit of friendly competition between my husband and me.
Tiger was a champion speller in his younger days and he has only gotten better as an adult. On second thought, I probably understated the atmosphere when I said "friendly competition."
I chose the Pass 'N' Play option for the game where 2 – 4 players use the same device, passing it among the participants.
We spelled, strategized and scored the choice squares on the Scrabble board. We bemoaned the letters we were given and still posted words during every turn.
Tiger won three out of the four games. He would have gone undefeated expect for my lucky game with the words TUX, WIZ, and QUARTS – all on triple words scores.
In addition to Pass 'n' Play, options include playing with friends via social media, playing a random opponent or playing the computer (I call that Scrabble suicide). You can activate the Teacher – an annoying screen that tells you what word you could have played from your tiles to have scored more points. I disabled it. Who needs that kind of helpful advice?
I strongly recommend that you download the game today and have great fun with a classic.
BTW – NANNA is an acceptable word and used three of the four Ns in my tile pile.
He's a geek – socially inept, funny when he doesn't mean to be, and a literal guy. He's also charming and endearing. He's the unlikely hero in The Rosie Project.
Professor Don Tillman knows his academic subject (Asperger's syndrome), schedules his life down to the minute (ninety-four minutes to clean the bathroom which he had to reschedule resulting in an 8-day period of compromised bathroom hygiene), and is totally clueless about women (the apricot ice cream experiment). In an inspired moment he decides to find a wife through questionnaires and interviews.
Rosie is a student who tends bar on the side. She not a wife applicant, but when Rosie visits Professor Tillman's office, his life lessons begin. The process is hilarious, frustrating and heartwarming.
Told in first person by Professor Tillman, the story is a bit ribald in places. Written by Austrailian Graeme Simsion, the humor is droll and the characters are quirky. This romantic comedy from the man's point of view is highly recommended. Buy it today for only $1.99.
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Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train reminds us that a family is a wonderful thing to have.
Molly is a sullen, lonely teen, angry with the misfortunes that have befallen her. She makes bad choices, perhaps to gain attention. She desperately wants acceptance but builds a wall to keep people out.
Vivian is an elderly woman who has accepted the misfortunes life has given her and the decisions she has made. She's from a very different generation than Molly, but longs for a familial connection.
The two meet when Molly must complete community service and her not-quite-boyfriend convinces his mom to let Molly help Vivian sort through the boxes in the attic. The mementos and memories in the boxes demonstrate the similarities in their lives and through shared stories, Molly becomes the catalyst to change Vivian's world even at the age of 91.
The book alternates between the life story of Vivian and current day reality for Molly.
Vivian's dysfunctional family immigrated to America from Ireland. When a fire took the lives of her parents, brothers and sister, Niamh (later named Vivian) was placed on an orphan train and sent to Minnesota to be placed with a family there.
Money was scarce to provide for them and those who ran the Aid organization were employees, not loving relatives. The horrors and abuses to the children as described in the book are probably based on true stories from children who actually rode the trains. Ms. Kline's writing of the atrocities is gripping.
The homes and families throughout Molly's life prove that today's foster parents can still be motivated by greed and free labor more than a concern for the child.
We can view the events that happen in our lives as coincidence or providence, a coming together for a reason. Novels demonstrate these instances more clearly than real life. If Molly had not stolen the book from the library, she would never have known Vivian and her story. Vivian, living an isolated life, would not have known a teen with tenacity who searched the internet to find information of the ones that Vivian knew and loved.
The novel is well-written and kept my attention. At times I wanted to keep reading Vivian's story and not be interrupted by Molly and her teenage angst. With the exception of Vivian and Molly, I didn't like the women in this story. Several of the men were weak, milquetoast characters.
What are your overall thoughts about the book? We will discuss particular aspects later, but how did you feel about the alternating voices? Do you feel this book should have been classified as a young adult/teen novel?


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November 28, 2014
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Las Vegas newspaper plans to launch a lifestyle magazine for black locals and tourists in January.
Co-publisher Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud says the monthly magazine will feature stories about entertainment, shopping, restaurants, local celebrities and businesses of interest.
Publishers say future issues of the magazine will include stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and basketball player Marcus Banks.
The magazine will be inserted within the Las Vegas Review-Journal for subscribers who request it, and some news racks will also carry it.
Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick says Bailey-Tureaud and her husband were ideal partners for the magazine because of their Las Vegas ties.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Doesn't taste like whole wheat!
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This is a really great whole wheat pasta. I saw that Dr Greger used this pasta so I tried to track it down and was thrilled to see they stocked it at iherb. It cooks up really nicely and does not taste like usual whole wheat pasta, Ill be buying this in the future!
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Best TRULY whole wheat flour I have tasted. Worth the price.
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Ah, yes, we've reached the end of another glorious week in the Rockies, which can only mean another dope weekend of music in the Mile High City. Lenny Kravitz kicks things off tonight with a show at the Buell Theatre, Widespread Panic pulls into the Fillmore for a three-night stand, TaunTaun returns ... More >>
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Adirondack Bank In Downtown Utica Robbed
Utica Police are investigating a robbery at the Adirondack Bank on Genesee Street.
Utica Police are investigating a robbery at the Adirondack Bank on Genesee Street.
Beginning on Thursday August 21, 2014, Utica Police will join with state and county officers on a Stop DWI Crackdown.
Utica Police say the remains recovered from the Mohawk River earlier this month are those of missing baby Levon Wameling.
Although several news agencies are reporting that Baby Levon has been found, authorities say a positive identification of the body discovered in the Mohawk River has not yet been made.
A man being searched for in connection with a possible abduction attempt in Utica has been found, and police say he is guilty of...trying to protect a neighborhood apple tree.
It has been two months and two days since missing Utica child Levon Wameling was last seen.
A Utica man was gunned down at around 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday night outside of Mahanna's Market on Whitesboro Street, according to Utica Police.
The victim, John Spratt, was shot several times, and was later found inside of a hallway next to the store, police said.
Utica Police are releasing surveillance camera video of a shooting incident at the corner of Arthur and West Streets.
This is not the first time that questions have been raised about the welfare of a child associated with Jevon Wameling.
Nine month-old Levon Wameling is still missing. Utica Police are now asking for your help finding him.
A nine-month old child is missing and Utica Police are asking for the public's help in finding him.
Six Utica Firefighters and one Utica Police officer are receiving honors from the city for their heroic work during a fire at Adrean Terrace.


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