With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered. Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. 262 likes, 19 comments - Sashika Fernando () on Instagram: ' Book Review Seven days in June by Tia Williams tiawilliamswrites Thank you for the.' Sashika Fernando on Instagram: ' Book Review Seven days in June by Tia Williams tiawilliamswrites Thank you for the review copy grandcentralpub gifted. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides.
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The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “Often, when we came to see him, we found him reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud.” Baffled by such peculiar behavior, Augustine wondered whether Ambrose “needed to spare his voice, which quite easily became hoarse.”” “When he read, his eyes scanned the page and his heart explored the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still,” wrote Augustine. In a famous passage in his Confessions, Saint Augustine described the surprise he felt when, around the year AD 380, he saw Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, reading silently to himself. The new codices, like the tablets and scrolls that preceded them, were almost always read aloud, whether the reader was in a group or alone. Silent reading was largely unknown in the ancient world. “Even as the technology of the book sped ahead, the legacy of the oral world continued to shape the way words on pages were written and read. “Should the Egyptians learn to write, Thamus goes on, “it will implant forgetfulness in their souls: they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.”” We become, neurologically, what we think.” “Descartes may have been wrong about dualism, but he appears to have been correct in believing that our thoughts can exert a physical influence on, or at least cause a physical reaction in, our brains. |