Mr. and Mrs. Horse want a colt. Finally a baby comes but it is a ladybug. They have no idea how to care for a ladybug so they go to the doctor who explains the difference between horses and ladybugs. The horses are sad but their little ladybug tells them it is okay. When they realize he is right, they enjoy life with him.

This is adorable. The drawings are perfect for the story. I liked the horses and how they took care to learn about the ladybug. They shed tears when they realized what they expected was not what they got but then they saw the bright side and turned their tears to smiles and living.

At the end of the book is the story that was the inspiration for this book. It is beautiful and is shown through the story.

@GoddessFish, @Archaeolibrary, #Sports, #Romance, 3 out of 5 (good)

La beauté est-elle un concept subjectif ? Peut-être. Selon un chirurgien plasticien basé à Londres, il y a des équations mathématiques et irréfutables qu’on peut utiliser pour déterminer si un visage est beau. Et le plus beau visage dans le monde est, en fonction des résultats de ces équations est celui d’Amber Heard. L'ancienne Mme Depp est classée la première dans un classement de beauté basé sur un principe ancien que l'histoire de l'art, celui de la section d'or.

Aussi appelé Constant de Phidias, ou divine proportion, le nombre d'or est le rapport entre une partie et le tout. Appliqué à de nombreuses disciplines, y compris les arts pour trouver les proportions exactes des chiffres, il a été utilisé par le Dr Julian De Silva, chirurgien esthétique du visage à Londres, pour analyser les visages des célébrités. Grâce à une cartographie numérique basée sur la section d'or, un calcul des distances, des proportions, des tailles et des symétries sur les visages, il a pu formuler une sorte de «régime de perfection». Grâce à des algorithmes et des logiciels créés spécifiquement, le chirurgien voulait révéler le «secret» de la beauté selon la science.

Le classement selon le nombre d’or

Il en ressort que le visage le plus proche de la perfection parmi ceux analysés est celui d’Amber Heard. Son visage répond aux critères établis à 91,85%. Parmi les diverses caractéristiques physiques, son nez serait la perfection absolue. Excellent rapport du front haut, la taille de la lèvre, la distance et la forme des yeux, et la géométrie de tous ces traits. Dans la deuxième place dans le classement de Dr De Silva, on trouve Kim Kardashian, suivie par Kate Moss, Emily Ratajkowski à la quatrième place, Kendall Jenner à la cinquième. Après, dans l'ordre : Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Selena Gomez, Marilyn Monroe, Jennifer Lawrence.

Photo kim kardashian

Amber Heard a récemment joué dans les nouvelles en raison de sa séparation orageuse de Johnny Depp, a le plus beau visage dans le monde, et le nez parfait. La beauté du nez est calculée par la mesure de sa longueur, le point le plus large, la distance entre les sourcils. Celle des yeux est plutôt une question de distance entre eux, l'ouverture, la taille et la position par rapport au reste du visage. Pour répondre à ces exigences, il est tout d'abord Scarlett Johansson. 

Au lieu de cela, il calcule le centre, la distance entre le nez et la largeur de l'embouchure pour définir les plus belles lèvres. Alors, qui, selon les calculs de M. De Silva ? Non, pas Angelina Jolie, car la distance entre la bouche et les mâchoires ne sont pas harmonieux, selon la section d'or.

We’re all responsible for our actions, and that includes me. In retrospect, I did everything wrong, almost from the moment I arrived in Edinburgh. I was weak, thoughtless and self-centred. I believed I was helping them, or at least I persuaded myself that I was. But the undeniable truth is that if I had made even the slightest effort to look outwards at these children, instead of inwards, I could have changed everything that happened. No-one was destined to die at this point.

Wow. Now, this book was not perfect and there are some aspects that made no sense, such as why an inexperienced teacher would be allowed to teach drama to teenagers with a history of violence without being given either their case files/histories or any training whatsoever on how to deal with certain behaviours or ensure security, is clearly beyond me. Or that the class never actually read any texts in class, which was really weird.

HOWEVER, this book made up for this in many other aspects. 

The plot was fresh to me. I could not predict how this was going to go. The characters were fully fleshed out, and the characters' inner conflicts were really well portrayed. 

What I loved best, tho, was that this story was not a re-telling of a Greek classic as the books blurb may have suggested. Instead, Haynes used the plot of Alex, a theatre director, teaching juvenile delinquents about Greek drama as a way to ask whether certain themes and issues addressed in Greek drama are still relevant today and how they would be assessed today. 

I thought this book was, despite its light tone of voice, really quite complex and really though-provoking, and all the while Haynes built up a plot that would climax in something that we, as the reader, know is going to happen, but we don't know what this is and when it will occur.

The Amber Fury was smart and thrilling and I loved it. I certainly also want to read Haynes' other books.

Even if you have no control over your life, you should live like you have a choice.

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