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December 04,2012RUDOLPH, Ohio Volunteers in the northwest Ohio village of Rudolph have come together to save the most famous postmark of all. Thousands of letters flood the village post office every December so they can be stamped with a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer postmark. But the tradition was in danger of ending when the post office staff was cut down to one and the work became too much to handle. Thats when volunteers in the community decided to take over the job. When word spread, pleadings from local politicians and townsfolk persuaded the U.S. Postal Service to allow volunteers to stamp the special Reindeer Station postmark on the 80,000 letters and cards that come in from across the country. Close to 75 people, including a few retired postal workers, have signed up to work daily shifts.
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Debra has been a collector of vintage Christmas lights before her pieces were considered "vintage." Learn about the History of Christmas lights and discover where lights are going today with the advancement of LED bulbs. Have fun seeing how to incorporate burned out bulbs, vintage boxes, vintage strands of lights and the new LED lights Read More »
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When it comes to allergy sufferers, American cities in the Deep South seem to suffer the worst. Unusually wet winters typically lead to high amounts of pollen and mold in the spring, meaning many will be grabbing tissues for watery eyes and runny noses. Jackson, Mississippi is ranked the "allergy capital" of the U.S. due to high pollen and a large percentage of residents relying on medications to ease their suffering.
Jackson, Mississippi rose to top spot on the list due to the fact that it has a small amount of board certified allergists per patient.
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Keywords: Allergies, southern towns, allergists, Jackson, Mississippi, Tennessee
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In fact, 2013 could be an all-time nightmare for allergies due to an unusually wet winter that could mean high levels of pollen and outdoor mold. Those are the predictions from a new report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) released this week.
While it ranks high in the number of allergy suffers in its population, Jackson, Mississippi posts a shockingly low number of allergy specialists to attend to patients in need of allergy care.
The annual research project identified the 100 most challenging places to live with allergies when the flowers come out to bloom in the spring, based on an analysis of three factors for the 100 largest metro areas.
The data measured and compared for the ranking include: pollen scores (airborne grass/tree/weed pollen and mold spores, the number of allergy medications used per patient and the number of allergy specialists per patient.
Jackson, Mississippi rose to top spot on the list due to the fact that it has a small amount of board certified allergists per patient. Jackson also has a very high pollen count and its residents largely relied on taking medications for symptoms.
Close behind was Knoxville, Tennessee. In third place was the state's city of Chattanooga. McAllen, Texas was in fourth place and Louisville came in fifth. Fifteen of the top 25 cities were in the South and many believe that the early onset of spring is to blame.
"Severe weather patterns can bring higher temperatures, higher pollen levels and increased exposure to outdoor mold, resulting in spring allergies that can peak stronger and last longer," Dr. Bill Berger from the Allergy and Asthma Associates of Southern California said in a statement.
"Too often, people with seasonal allergies suffer silently while their symptoms worsen year after year. Allergy sufferers need to learn more about allergies and visit an allergy specialist for a proper diagnosis and treatment. Often more can be done to relieve allergy symptoms that interfere with daily life."
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Updated: 12/24/2015 - One of the best presents you can give yourself and your loved ones this Christmas is a flu shot!
Updated: 12/24/2015 - One of the best presents you can give yourself and your loved ones this Christmas is a flu shot!
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Posted: 12/23/2015 - U.S. transportation officials say they have confirmed an eighth U.S. death due to an explosive air bag made by auto parts maker Takata.
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As the name suggests, seafood, in Shady Side,�refers to any plant or animal grown in seawater and is consumed by humans. Seafood includes sea-water animals like fish and shellfish as well as edible sea-weeds. In some parts of America, all edible aquatic animals are often collectively known as seafood.
There are thousands of species of creatures available in the sea, however, only a small number are considered as food. Some popular varieties of sea-fish are Haddock, Salmon, and Tuna to name a few. Though sea food is consumed all over the world it is largely grown in some parts, which makes transportation of such products a viable market in those areas.� For example, live food fish trade form a major market in Hong Kong.
There are also a lot of heath benefits from consuming sea fish as they are rich in nutrients, minerals and Omega-3. Research has also suggested that adding a portion of fish to our diet can cut the chances of suffering a heart attack by half, improve brain functionality, and has also shown to help the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
One alarming trend, however, is the global collapse of sea-food. Such a collapse could be a reason of over-fishing and pollution. A study has confirmed that if the current trends continue ,all fish-stocks worldwide will collapse within 50 years.
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When reading the request for greatest opening shots, the first film that popped into my head was immediate and almost too easy — "Kiss Me Deadly.��?
And then I reflected more.
There are so many masterful opening shots, some I find works of genius or some I simply love. But the more I thought about it, the more I drifted back to where my mind always manages to drift back to — stark, hard-boiled cruelty, paranoia, insanity and psycho sexual angst — so there it was again, "Kiss Me Deadly.��?
But for good reason. Robert Aldrich's masterful noir hits you with a hysterical bang that sets its frenzied tone with such balls-out experimental élan; you can't believe the film was released in 1955:
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Rogue Island (Liam Mulligan Series #1)by Bruce DeSilva, Jeff Woodman
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Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians—who are pretty much one and the same.
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Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians—who are pretty much one and the same.
Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.
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"A tense, terrific thriller and a remarkably assured debut from Bruce DeSilva, an author to watch." Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Shutter Island
"In this vivid landscape peopled by colorful mobsters, brutal cops, and sleazy politicians, a droll hero named Mulligan fights long odds to find a measure of justice. Rogue Island is a stunning debut in the noir tradition." Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Long Lost
"Writing with genuine authority, a dose of cynical humor, and a squinting eye on the world, Bruce DeSilva delivers a newspaper story that ranks with the best of them." Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of the Harry Bosch novels
"With Rogue Island, Bruce DeSilva accomplishes something remarkable: He takes everything we love about the classic hard-boiled detective novel and turns it into a story that's fresh, contemporary, yet timeless. By turns gripping, funny, and touching, it's a tale filled with characters so vivid they jump off the page." Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Paranoia
"Not since Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War have I read a first novel as compelling and sure-handed as Rogue Island. Investigative reporter Liam Mulligan has the gritty, tough-talking charm, the old-school street smarts, and sexy chivalry of a Marlowe or Spade." James W. Hall, Edgar Award–winning author of Hell's Bay
"The tight description, deft pacing, and coming-alive-off-the-page characters will have me standing in line for the next one." Tim Dorsey, New York Times bestselling author of the Serge Storms mysteries
"Imagine Don Winslow peppered with Peter Dexter and you'd have the flavor and pace of this novel. The writing has a balanced poise that is perfectly suited to the narrative. There are no tidy solutions, and the ending leaves a fierce chill lingering. A terrific slow-motion burn of a novel." Ken Bruen, critically acclaimed Irish master of noir
"When it comes to fresh noir-on-wry, readers could not ask for more--except for the author to hurry up with Mulligan's next adventure in detection." Otto Penzler, dean of America's crime novel editors and owner of New York City's famous The Mysterious Bookshop
"A stunning debut. Authentic, hilarious, and compelling. I've read hundreds of crime books, but this one bleeds the truth." Ace Atkins, critically acclaimed author of Devil's Garden and Infamous
"A debut novel as witty as it is intelligent, smoothly written, and wryly told, a gem." Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award–winning author of Red Leaves
"Rogue Island is a stunning debut, and DeSilva is a writer to watch." Alafair Burke, author of 212
A tense, terrific thriller and a remarkably assured debut from Bruce DeSilva, an author to watch.
Writing with genuine authority, a dose of cynical humor, and a squinting eye on the world, Bruce DeSilva delivers a newspaper story that ranks with the best of them.
The tight description, deft pacing, and coming-alive-off-the-page characters will have me standing in line for the next one.
When it comes to fresh noir-on-wry, readers could not ask for more--except for the author to hurry up with Mulligan's next adventure in detection.
A stunning debut. Authentic, hilarious, and compelling. I've read hundreds of crime books, but this one bleeds the truth.
The smallest state bursts with crime, corruption, wisecracks and neo-noir atmosphere in DeSilva's blistering debut.
Someone's set seven fires in the Mount Hope section of Providence. Arson for profit is all too common in the city's history, but these buildings were owned by different people and insured by different companies. So Ernie Polecki, indolent Chief Arson Investigator, and his incompetent assistant Roselli, the mayor's cousin, assume that they're the work of a firebug. So do the DiMaggios, the vigilante crew who patrol the nighttime streets with baseball bats. But not seen-it-all reporter Liam Mulligan. His festering ulcer, estrangement from his harpy wife Dorcas and romance with his young Princeton-trained colleague Veronica Tang, who won't have sex with him till he gets tested for HIV, haven't absorbed all his energy. Shrugging off the insistence of city editor Ed Lomax that he file a story on a dog who ran across the country from Oregon to rejoin his relocated owners (a hilarious episode that shows just how desperate his professional situation is), Mulligan homes in on the developing story. His interest is fueled by the number of interested parties he just happens to be close to—from his prom date Rosella Morelli, now Battalion Chief of the fire department, to his burned-out bookie, Dominic "Whoosh" Zerilli—and by the arsonist's apparent determination to torch every structure in Rhode Island's capital. At length the mounting toll includes homes, storefronts, people and Mulligan's questionable peace of mind. When the lead he's supplied investigators goes sour and his own life is threatened, he has no choice but to trust the cub reporter he's been saddled with—the publisher's son, whom he calls Thanks-Dad—and the mobsters who'd be perfectly willing to set fires themselves, but who draw the line at killing women and children.
Mulligan is the perfect guide to a town in which the only ways to get things done are to be connected to the right people or to grease the right palms.
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A plow had buried the hydrant under five feet of snow, and it took the crew of Engine Company No. 6 nearly fifteen minutes to find it and dig it out. The first fireman up the ladder to the second-floor bedroom window laid a hand on the aluminum siding and singed his palm through his glove.
The five-year-old twins had tried to hide from the flames by crawling under a bed. The fireman who carried the little boy down the ladder wept. The body was black and smoking. The fireman who descended with the little girl had already wrapped her in a sheet. The EMTs slid the children into the back of an ambulance and fishtailed down the rutted street with lights flashing, as if there were still a reason to hurry. The sixteen-year-old babysitter looked catatonic as she watched the taillights disappear in the dark.
Battalion Chief Rosella Morelli knocked the icicles off the brim of her fire hat. Then she whacked her gloved fist against the side of the gleaming red pumper.
"You counting?" I asked.
"Makes nine major house fires in Mount Hope in three months," she said. "And five dead."
The neighborhood of Mount Hope, wedged between an old barge canal and the swanky East Side, had been nailed together before the First World War to house the city's swelling class of immigrant mill workers. Even then, decades before the mills closed and the jobs moved to South Carolina on their way to Mexico and Indonesia, it hadn't been much to look at. Now lead paint flaked from the sagging porches of tinderbox triple-deckers. Flimsy cottages, many built without garages or driveways in an age of streetcars and shoe leather, smelled of dry rot in summer and wet rot in winter. Corroding Kenmores and Frigidaires crouched in the weeds that sprouted after the city dynamited the old Nelson Aldrich Junior High, where Mr. McCready first introduced me to Ray Bradbury and John Steinbeck.
The neighborhood's straight, narrow streets, many named for varieties of trees that refused to grow there anymore, crisscrossed a gentle slope that offered occasional glimpses of downtown office towers and the marble dome of the statehouse. Real estate agents, fingers crossed behind their backs, called them "vistas."
Mount Hope may not have been Providence's best neighborhood, but it wasn't its worst, either. A quarter of the twenty-six hundred families proudly owned their own homes. A community crime watch had cut down on the burglaries. Only 16 percent of the toddlers had lead poisoning from all that peeling paint, darn right healthy compared to the predominantly black and Asian neighborhood of South Providence, where the figure topped 40 percent. And five dead meant business was picking up at Lugo's Mortuary, the neighborhood's biggest legal business now that Deegan's Auto Body had morphed into a chop shop and Marfeo's Used Cars had given way to a heroin dealership.
The battalion chief watched her crew aim a jet of water through the twins' bedroom window. "I'm getting real tired of notifying next of kin," she said.
"Thank God you haven't lost any of your men."
She turned from the smoldering building and hit me with a withering glare, the same one she used to shame me when she caught me cheating at Chutes and Ladders when we were both six years old.
"You're saying I should count my blessings?" she said.
"Just stay safe, Rosie."
The glare softened a little. "Yeah, you too," she said, although in my job the worst that was likely to happen was a paper cut.
Two hours later, I sat at the counter in my favorite Providence diner, sipping coffee from a heavy ceramic mug. The coffee was so good that I hated cutting it with so much milk. My ulcer growled that the milk wasn't helping anyway.
The mug was smeared with ink from a fresh copy of the city edition. A pit bull, Rhode Island's unofficial state dog, had mauled three toddlers on Atwells Avenue. The latest federal crime statistics had Providence edging out Boston and Los Angeles as the per-capita stolen-car capital of the world. Ruggerio "the Blind Pig" Bruccola, the local mob boss who pretended he was in the vending machine business, was suing the newspaper for printing that he was a mob boss pretending to be in the vending machine business. The state police were investigating game rigging at the state lottery commission. There was so much bad news that a perfectly good bad-news story, the fatal Mount Hope fire, had been forced below the fold on page one. I didn't read that one because I'd written it. I didn't read the others because they made my gut churn.
Charlie wiped beef-bloody hands on an apron that might have been white once and topped off my cup. "The hell you been, Mulligan? You smell like a fuckin' ashtray."
He didn't expect an answer, and I didn't offer one. He turned back to his work, tearing open two packs of buns. He balanced a dozen of them from wrist to shoulder along his sweat-slicked left arm, slapped in twelve Ball Park franks, and added mustard and sauerkraut. A snack for the overnighters at Narragansett Electric.
I took a sip and flipped to the sports page for the spring training news from Fort Myers.
Meet the Author
Paul Boehmer is a seasoned actor who has appeared on Broadway, film, and television, including The Thomas Crown Affair and All My Children. Coinciding with another of his passions, sci-fi, Paul has been cast in various roles in many episodes of Star Trek.
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Investigative journalist Mulligan drags us through the graft of the corruption that is Providence, Rhode Island, his beat; one that includes both crooked and inept cops, the mobsters they are chasing and the politicians who fund them all. Definitely an eye-opener for me, who always had thought of our smallest State as being full of Portuguese fishermen thanks to Rudyard Kipling. He would be surprised at the change! Mulligan is one of us, the common people. He has a wife he's trying to divorce, a boss who is never satisfied, long-standing friends and an ulcer he is trying to nurse. He also has a couple of informants on the wrong side of the street, a bookie with ties to the local mobsters he is investigating and a girlfriend who is holding out again. He is also totally believable; the fl awed protagonist we can all relate to. When a fire-bug starts burning down the neighborhood he grew up in, house by house, he takes to the streets with his newspaper colleagues in an effort to find out who is behind the fires. When he discovers the truth of who is really behind the tragedy, death and destruction, Mulligan is forced to take matters in his own hands. Bruised, battered and scarred we are given an open-eyed tour of Mount Hope. What you find there may surprise you. With charisma, grit and the knowledge that all will be right in the world as long as the Red Sox win the pendant, DeSilva leads us through the world of the local newspaper reporter. In this tough, barred-knuckles fight the good guy is triumphant this time. until the next big story, and boy I'll be waiting to read that one too.
In Providence, Rhode Island, a serial arsonist is torching the Mount Hope section over the last three months with nine fires and five corpses. Reporter Liam Mulligan wants to catch the murderer who has killed friends and acquaintances from his old neighborhood. The city residents are in a panic as the police and fire department seem helpless. Mulligan's inquiry is enabled by a horde of collaborators stonewalled by a stunning coalition of cops, fire inspectors, politicians and landlords who make up the seamier underbelly of the city. Lawyers are thrown at him and the newspaper with threats to bankrupt the paper. The case turns even nastier when the police probe Mulligan insisting they have probable cause to name him a person of interest. The key element to this strong arson investigative noir is the support cast of hookers, runners, bookies and hoods who make the atmosphere come darkly alive and mouthy Mulligan fit as one of them. The whodunit is cleverly devised to keep readers' attention with a strong spin that will stun the audience. However, it is the denizen of the streets of the Mount Hope neighborhood especially in contrast to the "Suits" who make this an exhilarating mystery. Harriet Klausner
As a native Rhode Islander reading this book was akin to reading accounts of daily happenings as reported in the Providence Journal. It presents a truer depiction of life in Rhode Island than some would want to reveal. The incorporation of the names of real people like Buddy Cinaci (former mayor of Providence who personified Rhode Island political life), Manny Ramirez of the beloved Red Sox and the Providence College basketball players added to the realism of the story.
written in such a wonderful old time style, that I "saw" the characters in black and white! Thank you!
well written characters and top story!
The author gradually drew me into the plot and by the end was really into it.
Good story. Great characters. Snappy dialogue. As a former NYC cop who worked in the South Bronx during the 1970s when the entire 41st precinct was burning, I really related to this book. I purchased the Kindle edition last night, finished it today. Enough said. TF
This novel reminds me of the style in which Dashiell Hammett wrote a mystery. There is a lot of [dry] humor injected throughout this novel, which I quite enjoy. Having been married to a newspaperman myself, I can certainly relate to the quirks of the main character and his obsession about having a police scanner in the bedroom. Unfortunately, I waited too long after completing the book to write a better review to Mr. DeSilva's novel - it deserves a much better plug than just "it's great". However, this book is great - the main character narration provides such minute detail to even the most basic of scenes, the story follows a logical sequence and there is enough action that keeps the reader engaged right through to the end. This is a great first novel and I look forward to more in the future.
Someone has been setting fires in the Mount Hope section of Providence. People are dying and the police and arson investigators aren't making any progress in catching the firebug. Investigative reporter Liam Mulligan is devastated by the senseless death and destruction in his childhood neighborhood. It starts to become personal when people he cares about are seriously injured. Despite threats to his own safety, Mulligan is spending his time following the paper trail of just who benefits from the fires, a long and arduous road that takes him through the underbelly of Providence's mobsters and crooked politicians. Mulligan (as he prefers to be called) is a busy man. His ulcer is acting up. He's been assigned the task of taking the publisher's son Mason under his wing, and he's not thrilled. He's also cultivating a romantic relationship with fellow reporter Veronica Tang, while still dealing with his crazy, soon to be ex-wife. Mr. DeSilva has created a likable character in Mulligan and I hope we'll be seeing more books featuring this ace reporter. The grittiness of Rhode Island's long history of political corruption serves as the perfect backdrop for this terrific debut mystery. Lynn Kimmerle
I won't rehash the plot here, but will say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book and felt some of the pain of the main character. And the Providence setting was dead on - I have no patience for authors who use real cities as setting for their books, but then make up things that anyone who's been there knows are fake. I'm looking forward to this author's next book, and I hope it stars the same main character.
a page turner, hard to put down
A delightful series, very readable. The old police/crime/detective novel with a twist: the protagonist is a cynical journalist rather than a cop.
The central theme of this novel is the question of who or what is behind the numerous arsons that are being set in a decaying part of Providence, Rhode Island. A number of these fires have already taken lives. L. A. S. Mulligan is an ace reporter for the local newspaper and he is taking these blazes very seriously. This is the neighborhood where he grew up and he knows the victims personally. His best friend since they were six years old is Rosie, the first female firechief in the city's storied history. Reporter and chief set out to discover the who and what that lies behind these tragedies. Along the journey, we meet a strong supporting cast of amusing characters, most of whom provide some really enjoyable lines and moments. This is an enjoyable and fast read and I give it a hearty recommendation to enjoy this new author's first published effort. J M Lydon
Having read an inspiring review of a later book in this series I decided to start at the beginning of this series. I was not disappointed.. Liam Mulligan is a newspaper reporter in a decaying section of Providence, RI. His life usually consists of the Red Sox, smoking cigars and getting screamed at by his ex-wife on the telephone. His newspaper is on its last leg as other new outlets have been making the printed page obsolete. Andy drives a decrepit Ford Bronco that he calls "Secretariat and lives in a messy small apartment. Suddenly a series of "suspicious" fires start happening and Liam keeps his ears peeled to the police scanner for any alert of a new fire. Places that Liam knew his whole life are being wiped out in the blazes and there are a lot of victims that Liam knew. Everyone in power seems to be either corrupt or incompetent and nothing is being done to find the culprit. Since it is personal, Liam realizes it is up to him to do something before everything is gone. The author does an amazing job of introducing interesting supporting characters. There is a bookie who works out of a supermarket office in his underwear who organizes a group of vigilantes to protect the town. There is Rosie, the fire captain who has been Liam's lifelong friend and Veronica his girlfriend who will not commit to Liam until he takes and AIDS test. The story is not what you expect from a thriller, making it difficult for the reader to guess what will happen next. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to finding the next two books in the series.
As a native Rhode Islander who grew up in Providence, I had to read Bruce DeSilva's first effort at detective fiction set in the old hometown. While Dashiell Hammett and Ross Macdonald have nothing to fear, DeSilva does put together an engaging story that captures much of the state's legendary culture of corruption. (And it was nice to learn that places like Caserta's and Camille's are still thriving on Federal Hill.) DeSilva could have spared us his Howard Zinn view of Rhode Island's (and America's) dreadful history, and focused a bit more on the success of the thousands of immigrant families who worked to make better lives for themselves and their children in the Ocean State. Rather, his own political views are pretty evident in his story telling. For example, while he points out the corruption of a 19th-century Republican political machine, he fails to mention the central fact of Rhode Island life today: the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is a one-party state, with the entrenched Democratic legislature and the powerful public-sector unions conjoined to put a stranglehold of high taxes on a struggling economy. The fact that largely blue-collar Rhode Islanders put up with this situation probably explains in part why "beating the system" is a necessity and business as usual. A decent read, but DeSilva's next effort could do without the politics.


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"Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you."
Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyber-bullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary she hopes will find a reader and friend who finally understands her.
Weaving across continents and decades, and exploring the relationship between reader and writer, fact and fiction, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.
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"Bewitching, intelligent, and heartbreaking... Nao is an inspired narrator and her quest to tell her great grandmother's story, to connect with her past and with the larger world, is both aching and true. Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists and here she is at her absolute best." (Junot Diaz)
"A Tale for the Time Being is a timeless story. Ruth Ozeki beautifully renders not only the devastation of the collision between man and the natural world, but also the often miraculous results of it. She is a deeply intelligent and humane writer who offers her insights with a grace that beguiles. I truly love this novel." (Alice Sebold)
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Once I started listening, I didn't want to stop.
Ruth a novelist living on a small Island in Canada finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox on the beach. Inside the box she finds some old letters, a watch and a diary, disguised as a copy of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" which is the first book in his "In Search of Lost Time" series.
Very quickly it becomes apparent that the diary belonged to a 16 year old girl called Nao, who tells her reader about her life, which hasn't been easy since she moved to Tokyo with her parents a few years earlier. Nao has been severly bullied at school and her parents are unable to help her as they drown in there own problems. Ruth becomes obsessed with Nao's story and tries to find the girl to safe her. The only person who supports Nao is her great-grandmother Jikko, a Buddhist nun of the incredible age of 104 years. She was my fave character in this story and I just thought she was incredible amazing. Her voice is full of love, tenderness, wisdom and an almost timeless perspective.
"She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.
That's what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again.
And just like that, you die."
The whole story is written in a kind of epistolary style and changes back between time. There are some elements of magical realism, which gave the story an even greater charme.
"It was OK"
This books starts off very well but then it sags. And it sags some more, until you start looking at the time and wondering how long you have left. It's not unpleasant and the author/narrator certainly does a superb job with the delivery, but you have to be a pretty patient reader to appreciate it. Still, all the details about the Japanese culture were interesting to discover and those alone could keep you motivated to carry on. There are also some nice musings on time and life, war and death.
"Amazing! It's now one of my favourite books"
It's a book I go back to time and again. Although I'm a Polish immigrant living in England, there are so many parts of the story that I can relate to.
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. The storyline, events and structure are absolutely different, but it resonates with reader in a similar way. Characters are easy to relate to and deeply human.
I love the end of Nao's journal. It's so satisfying and calming after a long build up.
It brought me close to tears and made me smile often. I love innocent humour of Nao's writing.
Read it and listen to it! I have first bought it as an audiobook, and than bought a paper copy as well. It's one of the books that are worth it.
Wow! Just finished this wonderful book. Recommended to me after enjoying titles by Haruki Murikami. I know feel inspired to read up on quantum mechanics; French literature; Japanese history & sociology, and modern maritime anomalies. Thank you Ruth for a most enjoyable journey; thank you for the time being.
"a bit too much?"
RO is very talented but the scope of this book is vast and I don't think that she quite pulls it off. Having said that I enjoyed the listen: in parts it is desperately sad and very inventive.
She also narrates pretty well.
This is beautiful with an amazing and interesting take on time. Never have I come across a writer that could describe and embody time in such a way m.
"Startlingly original. Emotionally challenging"
It's normal to review a novel after you've finished reading it. Then you hold the whole book in your mind and decide what it meant to you: what you liked about it, what you didn't like about it, how it made you feel, what it made you think about and whether it was worth your time. It's a tried and trusted method that I'm going to abandon here because "A Tale For The Time Being" is not that kind of novel.
"A Tale For The Time Being" is as much about what you think with every page that you read as it is about what you will think when you've finished reading all the pages. Both views are not only valid and valuable but necessary. They reach into the heart of what this novel is about, how we are beings in time. This is simpler and more complex than it sounds. When I read a book, including this book of course, time is always on my mind. I pay attention not only to what I am being told by the page I'm reading but how that links to the pages that went before and what I think/hope/fear will happen next. I construct the narrative afresh with every page I read in a flicker of thought that I am no more conscious of than the refresh rate on my computer screen.
So I want to capture my reaction to "A Tale For The Time Being" as I go along. I'm about a third of the way through now and I already have a lot to think about.
The novel starts for the first time, with the fresh, unedited, first person, voice of Noa, a Japanese schoolgirl, capturing her thoughts in her diary. Except that, from the beginning we know two things that show the voice is disingenuous: she is writing the diary for her reader, not herself and she declares that these are the last days of her life but doesn't explain why.
The girl's voice took a while to get used to. I'd bought a novel. I was getting something else. I wasn't sure I liked it. The young girl wasn't sure I'd like it either but she'd decided that if I didn't like it, I wasn't the one for whom the novel was written and recommended that I give it to someone else..
That was the first idea to hit me between the eyes. I liked it a lot. I think that that is the perfect relationship for books and readers to have with one another.
The novel starts for the second time when Ruth (who seems to the be a version of Ruth Ozeki) finds Noa's diary in a Hello Kitty Lunch Box, washed up on the shore of the island she lives on in Canada. Ruth is written in the subjective third person as a linear narrative that interacts directly with her reading of the diary. Ruth seems a little lost, distant from her present, unable to write about her past, despite having spent ten years working on a memoir and slowly allowing herself to realize that her future may have to be very different from her now.
Nao and Ruth have a kind of Yin Yang feel to them. Nao was raised in California and feels that in her heart she is American. Ruth is an American of Japanese descent who has lived and worked in Japan and now finds herself on a Canadian island, carried there from Manhattan in the wake of her husband's need to return home. Noa's first person account and Ruth's reaction to it become a kind of dialogue across time.
About a quarter of the way through the novel, Noa explains that her 104 year old great-grandmother, once wrote an "I Novel". I wasn't sure what that was, except that I suspected that I was currently reading one, so I asked the great god Wikipedia for enlightenment. HERE'S what I was told.
Of course, Noa is writing an I Novel. It is autobiographical and it shows some things about her, like when she tortures a classmate for information, holding a knife against his throat, that are dark and damaging but it is struggling to be a truthful account of who she is. It's too early in the book for me to tell yet, but I think the whole thing, including the Ruth parts, are a form of I Novel. If this is the case, then having Ruth Ozeki read her own novel version to me in the audiobook is a master stroke.
So, the main things that have struck me so far.
This novel does something new and original with form, not in order to show how clever the author is, but to help the reader see things with fresh eyes. The blend of North American and Japanese thinking and story-telling produces a narrative alloy that is stronger than either. I want to find out what will happen next but I also want to go back, as new information and ideas emerge, and rethink my impressions of the things that have already happened in the novel.
OK. Time to read some more. Then I'll come back to this.
It's two days later and I've now read to the end of Part Two of the book and I want to take a pause to think about what I've read.
For much of Part Two, Ruth is in the background. She is working with others to understand the meaning of the artefacts she found, getting texts in Japanese and French translated but finding that it is as much the connections and the perspectives that the translators bring that surprise her than the words they produce. I wonder if this is reflection on the process of writing. The work that produces the words is solitary but the things that gives the words their meaning, being read by others who make connections that my not have been in the writer's mind but are none the less valid for that, is, if not collaborative than perhaps communal. Everyone on the island knows about the artefacts that Ruth has. They are public in the way that published text is public and their meaning emerges in a similar way.
Ruth's husband is a artist/botanist/science-geek who makes almost mystical connections between obscure climate data and day-to-day life. He speaks of gyres in the world's oceans, the migration of crows, and the physical movement of Japan towards Canada as a result of the Fukishima earthquake as if they were all things that shaped his day-to-day life. On his lips, science becomes just one of many competing and overlapping stories that try to give meaning to what is going on.
Ruth becomes more and more worried about holding on to herself : concerned that she may fall prey to Alzheimer's like her mother, wondering if how her life became so unreal to her, regretting that she cannot write. She funnels these concerns into a desire not just to understand Noa's story as a story, as you might expect a novelist to, but to confirm its reality, as if, by doing so, Ruth will confirm her own existence.
Most of Part Two is dominated by Noa's summer-long stay at her great grandmother's temple. Oddly, while I can easily and willing suspend my disbelief in other novels to accept the existence of vampires and witches and werewolves, I struggled to let myself accept the reality of Noa's encounters with the spirits of the dead in this novel. I WANT there to be an alternative explanation yet it is clear that Noa believes in her encounters.
Noa's time at the temple, the love she receives there and the strength she builds are evoked with an emotional clarity that tugged at me. This is how all children deserve to be treated. The insight's from Noa's great-grandmother are profound and kind, sometimes tinged with sadness and often lit with humour. The letter's from Noa's great-uncle, a philosophy student forced to become a soldier and then choosing to became a Kamikaze pilot to "regain agency over my life" a beautiful and sad and gave me a view of the Japanese side of this war that I've never seen before.
I'm going into Part Three of the book in a more sombre mood. I've started to share some of Ruth's anxieties to prove Noa's existence and understand how her diaries and the other contents of the Hello Kitty Lunch Box, left her possession.
I have stopped reading because I need time to recover before I continue.
The sections of the book that describe the final attack on Noa at her school and her reaction to it and the other things that happened on that day where tough to listen to but, somehow, the quieter, less dramatic account of how she spends her time at the French Maid Café were worse. The pressure of bullying, driven by contempt and hatred, the depravity that comes from treating people as things and not beings, the courage that it takes to live a life that has so little love and so much evil in it are hard to bear.
Then Ruth, a writer, a novelist, for whom fiction is a dream she can live in for months at a time, lives in fear that she has lost her grip on time and memory becoming lost and confused, something I find it very easy to imagine.
And then, finally the secret diary of the Sky Soldier, so full of cruelty and evil and yet told with such humanity that tears are the only possible response.
What started as a light book, written by a cheery schoolgirl with a precocious grasp of philosophy, has deepened into something serious and challenging, something that reminds me that we must choose how we will act in order to shape who we will become.
Writing like this leaves me in awe. What must it feel like to be able to see the world this way, to hold it in your mind for the months it takes to write a novel, to pass on your thoughts in a kind of hologram, where every fragment of narrative leads to the whole world view, and to wrap those thoughts in emotions so vivid that they feel lived, not just imagined?
So now I have finished reading the book (or rather, having it read to me by the author, which seems like a very privileged position to be in) but I have not finished thinking about it. That is a process that will run on for some time.
In the last part of the book, Ruth Ozeki makes a leap that will either make or spoil the book for many readers. She moves away from the "normal" narrative conventions of a novel, embracing the three unities of time, place and action, albeit with two different timelines, and allow her novel to embrace ideas that combines Zen mysticism with the quantum physics "multiverse" view of the world. She explores the boundaries of dream and memory and science and magic. She challenges us to think of ourselves as Time Beings with multiple concepts of time and complex and indirect means of exerting agency and taking choices.
Personally, I found the twist appealing. At the beginning of the novel, I saw Noa as problematic while I took Ruth for granted. Noa was a construct, first-person story that may or may not be real or true whereas Ruth, the reader is grounded in an unquestioned reality. Yet writing and reading brings together the imagination of two people and who is to say which one is more real.
I was also pleased that, having had her "Sliding Doors" moment, Ruth Ozeki took us back to Noa's narrative in a way that satisfied my need to know and left just enough unknown to keep me hungry.
When I first started to write this review, my draft headline, based on the first twenty percent of the book, read:
"A Tale For The Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki - Startlingly original, deeply engaging and yet easy to read this novel about - well - life and what it means to live one.
Now that I've completed the novel, I can't let that stand. "Startlingly original, deeply engaging" certainly. "Easy to read" not so much. It is at points painful, even repulsive to read. The content is uncompromising and the presentation is vivid. At other points, the author asks the reader to do some work, to think rather than just read, to add meaning, not just extract it.
It is a novel about life ad how to live it but dualism is fundamental to this novel. As our Buddhist nun explains: "Up. Down. Same. Note Same". So life cannot be described without death and both become a choice. Suicide is central to this novel but it is meant to be suicide as agency, not suicide as surrender.
So what should the headline be?
Startlingly original, deeply engaging, emotionally challenging, conceptually complex but fundamentally human novel about our power to choose the life we lead.
"Incredibly thought-provoking read"
I bought this book when it was on offer as I hadn't heard of it before. I thought it sounded an interesting concept and by the end of the first chapter I was hooked. I found the characters engaging, and the interwoven stories fascinating. I couldn't wait to delve back into the book whenever I put it down!
The Japanese history and culture thrown in were very interesting with musings on WWII, kamikaze pilots, Zen Buddhism and cyber bullying. The themes in the book are incredibly thought-provoking, but delivered in a very easy 'read'. I loved the interplay between spirituality, religion, and quantum physics as well as the idea that the relationship between the writer and the reader can be a two-way as well as a one-way process. If you are playing with the boundaries of time and space then many things become possible!
I enjoyed listening to the author's voice and hearing the characters' voices as she intended. I was truly drawn into this beautiful and inspirational book and would thoroughly recommend it.
"A true masterpiece"
This story stirs a spectrum of emotions, makes you think and change for the better.
"Bit quirky, great fun"
It's narrated by the author
This is an unusual book - a very creative and interesting idea. It is rather quirky, so not for everyone, and it does have a few weird bits in, but overall I really liked it.
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E-mail privacy laws a quarter-century old may get a refresh designed to put all e-mail communications on the same legal footing. The Senate Judiciary Committee on April 25 unanimously reported out a bill updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act for consideration by the full Senate.
The bill would change the tangled morass of rules governing access to e-mail by law enforcement that were instituted in 1986, when e-mail was still something of a novelty. At present, e-mails downloaded from a server and stored on a hard drive enjoy more protection than e-mails stored in a cloud service. E-mails that are more than six months old can be obtained via a subpoena, while more recent communications require a warrant. Adding to the confusion, a federal appeals court has ruled that a key provision in ECPA is unconstitutional, creating an uneven application of the law across federal jurisdictions.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a cosponsor of the bill, said in Thursday's hearing that, "Updating ECPA in the manner we've proposed is essential to protecting the Fourth Amendment Rights of American citizens."
A modified ECPA likely wouldn't have much of a direct impact on agency networks. Users of U.S. government information systems don't have an expectation of privacy, and are subject to real-time monitoring -- conditions that are spelled out on banners users see when logging on.
The changes would, if passed into law, provide new clarity for operators of cloud services as varied as social networks, data storage providers, and e-mail services. A broad coalition of privacy activists, trade groups and technology companies from Adobe to Yahoo indicated their strong support for the measure in an April 22 letter to the Judiciary committee, seeking "stronger protection to sensitive personal and proprietary communications stored in 'the cloud'."
Some members still have concerns about the bill. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is looking to strengthen provisions that would allow law enforcement to get around the warrant requirement in the event of an emergency. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is looking to make sure that the warrant requirement does not give alleged offenders the chance to delete an online trail of evidence. And an amendment proposed by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) would charge the Government Accountability Office with reviewing the impact of the new requirements on law enforcement in a report to Congress.
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Come on out to Lake Pleasant and enjoy the evening paddling the southern coves. We will meet at the end of Desert Tortoise Road, follow the "Full Moon Paddle" signs, from the main Lake Pleasant contact station. YOU MUST WEAR YOUR PFD LIFE VEST to paddle with the group. Bring a flashlight, water, and tape a few light sticks on your kayak. More info at www.maricopa.gov/parks/lake_plesant.
Fun night everyone, thanks for coming out, a big group of around 70, wow! That was a fantastic reverse sunset, actually in the east sky instead of the west, cool shaped pink clouds with lightning in the distance. If you missed this one, we will be launching at the same area on August 17th.
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