I read this book some months ago, courtesy of a Public Library, and found it to be extremely well written, and extremely saddening. Take heed of this caution, if you are faltering in your will to believe in human kindness. This is not a work, however well written it may be, that you ought to be reading. It may well end what little belief you have in the goodness of mankind. In reading it, I was reminded that there are some people, many do not trouble themselves to call such people human beings, for whom even the worst and most reprehensible of actions are not beyond taking. I knew, of course, from past personal experience, especially during my childhood, that there are many bad actors among the members of the human race, but this book brought that memory back home with an impact that was stunning. I think I was unable to eat for three days. Some of the action in the book was in fact predictable before the very end, but the final twist did indeed come as a horrifying surprise.
This day, 24 of the Omer, 
emphasizes all kinds of health care, which one may well need to think of after reading this book, especially for public mental health care, and public transportation, which clearly ties in with public health in various ways, but after reading this book, and I do hope that it is not available in English, even if it is well written, you may well need to take public transportation. Being so impacted by a book that it is not safe to drive is one more good reason for us to have good and accessible mass transit!
Oh, yes, and remember that this terrifying book is called The Snow Man, not to be confused with Alexandre Dumas’ book The Snow Ball, 
which was a wonderful read!
Shira
for the reward that Charles Price must have on her, far more effectively if it had smelled my blood on those scissors.
emphasizes public transportation, which Willow could not use in her escape, at least not up from the Federal City and through Maryland, but we shall see if that changes later, up North, and housing of course is crucial for everyone at all times, back in 1855, and in our time, today.
. Today is all about how empathy and public transportation combine with each other, which is a difficult one for me, because I so often have been moved to tears on the approach to a metro station seeing all of the people lining the sidewalks at the entrances, suffering from want. Yet public transportation, when it is clean, efficient, and accessible, fills a vital public need, and can also in itself help build empathy if riders try. It also takes and in turn builds empathy to support improvements in the mass transit system. What do you think, Thoughtful Readers?
nested idea set is Health care and Free legal debt-related education, which both require good healthy support for kids from families and friends, both in a mental health regard, and also in a physical health regard, of course. Kids also need to be taught how to keep themselves safe from financial predators, and how to keep themselves up to date on changing laws related to debt and consumer finance. I think that this show does model that, as we shall see in upcoming episodes. (Later update: too bad I didn’t think of this updated review title until after it posted…)
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ideas:
probably hopping over a stumbling block, I did not have time to go into any details, then. The idea of not doing to your neighbor what is hateful to you, and also of not standing around allowing others to be harmed, goes together with not putting a stumbling block before the blind: they are things that anyone with empathy does not do to other human beings. We’ll get to the smoking and suicide after mentioning the second important thing going on this week.
I will admit that this particular word did not stick until a Greek friend used it in a sentence while speaking with me, and then reprimanded me for forgetting the word, since it is such a basic word, and he knew that our class had already (or ought to have) learned it by that time. That worked. I was so embarrassed that I never forgot the word after that, when I heard it spoken! Nevertheless, this is not a tactic (embarrassing a person in order to teach vocabulary) that I would recommend using for language learning. Stories give enough exposure to words in context that reading or watching videos really helps. Like watching Sihirli Annem on Turkish Tuesdays (sorry, some of my older Greek friends, I do love that show, and no, Greek friends, you will *not* catch fire and burn if you watch an episode of this show, even in Turkish!!!) helped make Turkish language learning a lovely experience for me.
in the original written Ancient Greek of the Septuagint ( and this Historical Fiction Writing posts page also links to my series of articles on novel writing, and also links to one of my novels still in progress, including my prequel series in honor of
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