![]() Make the minimum payments to stay current on the other debts on the list.Īfter the smallest debt is paid, apply the payment you had been making on it, plus any additional money you have, toward paying off the next smallest debt. Exclude only your mortgage, which will be addressed in another step.Ģ) Each month, apply every extra dollar you have after basic expenses toward paying the smallest debt until it’s paid off. ![]() There are two steps:ġ) List your debts in order, from the one with the smallest balance to largest. The debt snowball method is the way to pay off debt. ![]() You need to get rid of debt to get control of your income and put it to work for you. When you get $1,000, stash it where it’s accessible in an emergency but not so easy to grab that you’ll be tempted to spend it for non-emergencies (for instance, by keeping it in your sock drawer). Most people can find the money in less than a month, but if you can’t, sell more or take on an extra job. ![]() Do whatever you can to round up $1,000: cut your spending, work extra hours, or sell something (by having a yard sale, for example). ![]()
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Reading Challenges: Holly's 2020 Goodreads Challenge, Holly's 2020 Historical Challenge, Holly's 2020 Reading ChallengeĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Booksįleeing violent tyranny, Prudence Merridew escapes with her beautiful younger sisters to London. Cliffhanger: View Spoiler » No « Hide SpoilerĬontent Warning: View Spoiler » Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Kidnapping, « Hide Spoiler ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moving between Rauli's childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba's utopian dreams. ![]() And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. His older brother is violent his philandering father doesn't understand him his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "P olitics and literature," Salman Rushdie wrote in 1984, in what now seems an innocent time, "do mix, are inextricably mixed, and that … mixture has consequences." Criticising George Orwell for having advocated political quietism to writers, Rushdie asserted that "we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics" and that, "in this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."įive years later, his novel The Satanic Verses would be abruptly inserted into a series of ongoing domestic and international confrontations in the west and Muslim countries. ![]() ![]() In a section entitled Belle of the Ball, the author shares beauty and makeup tips: “Wear makeup every day, even on weekends. (A budding style icon in her own right, d’Urso was recently chosen as the international face of Bottega Veneta’s inaugural fragrance, which will debut in September.) The book is also illustrated with Fressange’s wonderfully wacky drawings. The beauty who’s photographed wearing these basics is not the author, but her lovely 17-year-old daughter, Nine d’Urso. She also suggests affordable shopping alternatives-including Monoprix and Gap-for those of us whose budgets don’t run to a Burberry trench or YSL tuxedo jacket. In the book’s first section, Dress Like a Parisian, she lists her “Magnificent Seven” wardrobe basics: a man’s blazer, trench coat, navy sweater, tank top, little black dress, jeans and leather jacket. ![]() And in Parisian Chic, she shares many of the secrets she’s accumulated throughout her decades spent in the Paris fashion world. She published the autobiographical Profession Mannequin in 2002, and now she’s come out with a lively new style guide just launched in the US in April- Parisian Chic.įressange is uniquely qualified to write this book-with her unconventional beauty and strong sense of personal style, she’s the quintessential Parisienne, still gorgeous at 53. Ines de la Fressange has been a model, muse, designer, fashion consultant and even the face of France, chosen in 1989 as the model for Marianne, the country’s feminine symbol. ![]() ![]() His new graphic memoir, THEY CALLED US ENEMY (Top Shelf, 204 pp., paper, $19.99), gives a detailed, wrenching account of what happened to thousands of Japanese-Americans in the wake of Pearl Harbor. And George will grow up to be none other than the “Star Trek” actor George Takei, now 82. George’s family, of course, is Japanese-American - his mother born here, his father unable to apply for citizenship despite living in the country for a quarter-century. “I thought everyone took vacations on a train with armed sentries at both ends of each car,” George remembers later. ![]() 8, America enters World War II.īy the following autumn, as a result of Executive Order 9066 the family will be on a real train, tagged “like cattle” and bound for Fort Rohwer, Ark., the easternmost of the 10 internment camps established by order of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt immediately declares that all Japanese in the United States must register as “alien enemies.” The next day, Dec. Before “Silent Night” ends, though, the program comes to a jarring halt, with news of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ![]() Mother nurses a baby, while another tot plays with a train set. ![]() It’s a peaceful domestic scene on a Sunday in Los Angeles, 1941: 4-year-old George helps his father trim the tree, as carols curl out of the radio. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. ![]() He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercer has been touring Canada since April as the host of the Comedy Night in Canada tour, a Just For Laughs showcase for some of the country’s top stand-up comics. That’s what I’ve been focused on in the last couple of years.” It is the purest form of comedy, but it meant me going into clubs and doing open mic nights, all that stuff, to get me ready. “I was on television for 25 years, but I was never a stand-up comic,” he said. ![]() John’s, Newfoundland a Gemini Award-winning star.įor his next move, Mercer set a goal for himself to tour as a stand-up comic. A series of shows led to Rick Mercer Report in 2004, which ran for 15 seasons and made the product of St. Mercer, 52, wrapped his very successful run on television in 2018, having been introduced to Canadian audiences a quarter-century earlier on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Rick Mercer is at the shifting-gears stage of his career, with new adventures taking precedence over time-tested projects. taxes and fees) through rmts.bc.ca or from 25 ON STAGE: Just For Laughs Comedy Night in Canada Tour ![]() ![]() ![]() With the book being somewhat autobiographical with what happened between Hopkins and her own daughter, this is a series rooted firmly in reality. ![]() Set over three books this is a series that looks at the many issues of drug dependency at a young age, as she attempts to cope with what’s happening. ![]() Looking at her through the lens of the world around her, he deals with her character, as well as the other people dealing with her addiction as well. Making sure not to shy from any of the more unsavoury details, this is a series that really deals with the serious issues facing addicts in contemporary society. One such series is that of her hard-hitting ‘Crank’ collection of novels, as they follow the story of one Kristina Snow and her ongoing battle with her meth dependency. This has also lead to her creating a variety of much loved series too, building franchises that are loyally followed from the outset. With a whole range of novels behind her, she has also achieved best-selling status with her novels on numerous occasion. Writing for a teenage audience of largely younger readers for the Young Adult demographic, the American author Ellen Hopkins has been writing for quite some time now. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had his forearms on his knees and was watching her. There wasn’t supposed to be a chair in that corner. Most of the Bakers’ guests were British expatriates like them, but there were a few Indians, one of whom was sitting in a chair at her elbow, away from the rest. As the children were walking toward her, Geeta glanced around. ![]() The girls’ mother gave them one last squeeze and then stood, looking wistful. “We’ll try to be quiet, but if we disturb you-” But when she spoke it was a plaintive whisper. Emma giggled and said, “G’night.” Sally stared at the lounging figures, something imperious in her expression. “All right, little misses, say good night to this debauched lot,” Mrs. Baker, either, because in matters of child rearing, as in most others, he deferred to his wife. She was drunk, but Geeta knew that those gray-green eyes could snap to attention at any moment. Baker was crouching between her daughters, arms around their shoulders. ![]() Laughter dribbled its way across the room. “Just don’t steal ours, because you’ll have to fight us to the bloody death.” Get an au pair.” Now she could see him, one elbow on the bar’s burnished surface. Don’t try to go it alone in this country. ![]() Baker’s voice from over by the bar, “Geeta has saved our lives, ladies and gentlemen. Two small hands left Geeta’s, and then the girls were in their mother’s arms. Tall and thin, she wore her yellow hair in a plumb-line ponytail down her black turtleneck sweater. ![]() |