Word: enjoyability
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...clones' struggle to squeeze an entire life span into a couple of decades makes the book at once exhausting and moving. "The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading," Kathy muses at 31, a year after most clones have already been harvested. The struggle to enjoy life as the time bomb of mortality ticks is a challenge we all face. So when Kathy talks about "just how lucky" she and the other clones have been to live as long as they have, Ishiguro seems to be reminding us - and reminding himself - to seize...
...dear reader, enjoy romance novels but prefer bodice lacers to bodice rippers, Karen Kingsbury appreciates your restraint. In the author's latest book, Beyond Tuesday Morning (Zondervan; 316 pages), 9/11 widow Jamie Bryan resists a potential suitor because he fails to share her faith in God. When Jamie later dates a fellow believer, the courtship is passionate but chaste. As in all of Kingsbury's novels, there is no gratuitous violence or swearing, and sex, while never explicitly depicted, comes only after marriage...
...happy families in which Mum and Dad share the reading of bedtime stories and both enjoy spontaneous moments of connection with their children - a shared chuckle in the hallway, a wink at the dinner table - the tribulations of separated parents can seem remote. But if it's not your own family that's breaking apart, then it's probably your neighbor's, or your sibling's or your colleague's. Australia's divorce rate of 42% equates to about 70,000 couples - most with children - splitting each year...
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...power of the word but also love service and connecting with others…The workshops help serve as spaces to relax and to inspire people to write in any form (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, rap), and the open mics bring out peoples of all types. I really enjoy the way that we have tied the word to teaching and involvement with middle schools and high schools...