I've enjoyed everything I picked up by Stephen crane his short stories his books and his poetry this is a book review on the Bride Comes to Yellow sky this is about Newly Weds on a train going from one end of Texas to the other .... A Thousand Mile Journey he went and now they're on their way back together from San Antonio to Yellow sky Texas now yellow sky is a fictional town on one end of Texas where this Marshall the town Marshall's name is Jack Potter went clear across the state and eloped and now they're on this train coming back to Yellow sky this bride he picked up is a little bit older she eloped in a blue cashmere dresss steel buttons but anyway marriage was important to the people in yellow sky and they were on a train that was a beautiful Pullman they had a parlor car with Fresco's on the ceiling and then there was a dining car with a Negroes and dazzling white suits he was bringing his bride to this Society she came from San Antonio and they're heading towards yellow sky... Was like a snobs on board this train and the embarrassed her as under class. Pullman train and it had to stop for water and so they got out and they were in a bar and they was like the drunk man looking to scrap he wanted a gunfight you know three pieces and then turn around but this groom was not armed the other guy back down the armed Guy Back Down

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  The saddest day of the year in Judaism is Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a solemn fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, as well as numerous other tragedies and exiles throughout Jewish history, including the Holocaust. Observances include a 25-hour fast from food and drink, refraining from bathing, wearing leather shoes, and engaging in joyful activities, focusing instead on mourning, study, and reflection on loss and resilience.
  
  Key Aspects of Tisha B'Av:
  Date:
  The 9th of Av (usually in July or August).
  
  Commemorates:
  Destruction of both Temples, Crusades, Inquisition, expulsions, and the Holocaust.
  
  Practices: 

  A full fast (no food or water), avoiding luxuries like music, bathing, and leather shoes; reading Lamentations (Eichah) and dirges. 
• Significance: 

  A day to remember historical pain, reaffirm Jewish identity, and commit to rebuilding and learning from the past. 

Why It's So Sad:

• Destruction of the Temples: 

  The loss of the First Temple (Babylonians, 586 BCE) and Second Temple (Romans, 70 CE) were catastrophic events, leading to massive loss of life and exile. 
• Historical Tragedies: 

  Many other calamities, from expulsions to the Shoah (Holocaust), are linked to this date, making it a focal point for collective Jewish grief. 
• Spiritual Loss: 

  The Temples represented the heart of Jewish spiritual and national life, and their destruction marked a profound spiritual void. 

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Today is Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. A day when tragedy after tragedy struck our people. The First Temple. The Second Temple. The Crusades. The Inquisition. Expulsions from England and Spain. Deportations to death camps. All of it, again and again, on this day. Tisha B’Av is a day shaped by grief, a date when generation after generation faced destruction, exile and loss. But the Jews don’t let tragedies define us. We use them as a catalyst not just survive, but to thrive. We remember these events to help us preserve what others try to erase, to reconnect to our identity, to remember the pain and to powerfully commit to learning, to growing and to rebuilding with love.

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Great love poems which is an anthology or rather a collection of poems put together by Shane Weller

Winter Dreams F Scott Fitzgerald Bernice Bobs her hair F Scott Fitzgerald the offshore pirate F Scott Fitzgerald HG Wells the Apple the magic shop

2026 books read

 2026 books 

 babbit by Sinclair Lewis

Thomas Bracken hurrah for New Zealand not understood and how Von tempski died

Fahrenheit 451 ray bradbury

old New Zealand frederick manning (maori life/Polynesian)

Rudyard Kipling poems....the thousandth man (FAVORITE)

.........tommy....the law of the jungle....gunga din....power of the dog....

Rikki tikki tavi

Oscar Wilde Ballad of reading gaol

bram stoker squaw

Olive Shriner story of an African Farm

the lake gun James Fenimore Cooper

 ts Eliot wasteland

the false gem guy de Maupassant 

crazy night Tennessee Williams

Bloomsbury girls Natalia jenner

roughing it in the bush Susan Moodyu

Bartleby the scrivener story of Wall Street Herman Melville

Agatha Christie Hercules Pro Christmas

The lightning rod man Herman Melville

 Barnaby rudge Charles Dickens 

 the scandal in Bohemia sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Erehwon Samuel butler

Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

summer Edith Wharton 

trumpet Major Thomas Hardy

 Edgar Allan Poe Annabelle Lee

 ghost Patrol Sinclair Lewis 

war is kind Stephen crane

 truth said a traveler's Steven crane 

Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway

 The Octopus Frank Norris

 Malachi's Cove Anthony trollope 

Edwin Abbott Flatland

 Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 

willa cather o pioneers 

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

 House of pomegranates Oscar Wilde ( fisherman and his soul)

christabel Samuel Coleridge Taylor

the Amalfi curse Sarah Penner

Narrative of Gordon PYM... Edgar Allan Poe

h g Wells the magic shop

Barnaby rudge tale of the Riots of 1780 Charles Dickens

 Barnaby rudge by Charles Dickens A Tale of the Riots of 1780 starts out with a preface about London and a raven becoming extinct and this takes place IN an inn called the maypole, was a place of public entertainment ...it was a gabled old building..... talks about the constitution of mermaids and that mermaids are not women...

this place of entertainment called the Maypole was  a hostel .....an inn.....was called  a human man trap a Decoy for husband......

the Gordon riots  were anti-catholic riots. AI confirms they were real and were the result of a piece of legislation called the Catholic Relief act 1778

no popery riots...no kings.... These people did not want to Pope set up next to their King there was a riot

the leader of the riots was Lord George Gordon 

locksmith a landlord treason by King George II 

chapter one ends in a crime ...MURDER a gardener 

the Protestants did not want Mary Catholics 

 talks about a ghost Freemason 

 House of pomegranate by Oscar Wilde is three different stories  the first one is called the Young King it starts out he's meeting the professor of etiquette a lesson and then there was also a dead woman and a child abduction .Swift Italian poison slew the mom the princess was lowered into a grave on top of another body tied up...... this young king .......on the day before his coronation that he's meeting with the etiquette professor... he's 16 acknowledge heir... talks about King's Raiment