5/23/2023 0 Comments Bait by jade west![]() ![]() That’s what really matters.Įvery night without fail the monster would chase me through the undergrowth.Įvery night I’d feel his hot breath on my neck as I ran for my life.Įvery night the beast got a little bit closer. ![]() They arrived without invitation and took up residence. No significant event that led a happy five-year-old girl to wake up sweating and wailing in the darkness No defining moment that marked the beginning of the screams at night. There was no traumatic childhood experience that set them off. "I can’t tell you the exact moment the night terrors started. In fact, chapter one is a rather long poetic introspection from Abigail, our female protagonist, during which she rambles about nightmares, darkness, and men who do bad things. ![]() ![]() One of the notable aspects of the book was the poetic "purple" prose, written almost in stanza format, making allusions at something which one would imagine was a thrilling suspenseful plot. Much like post-2010 Kanye West songs *I Am a God? Really, Kanye?* this book was pretentious not to mention melodramatic. Imagine then my surprise at finding that I'm part of only 1 percent of reviewers who hated disliked this story.Įxcept I can't in good conscience say that. I wish I didn't have to be the bearer of such sad news, but honestly, this was a clusterfuck of good plot done badly. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments American queen book![]() ![]() Jackie's privileged upbringing instilled rigid self-control while her expedient marriage into the overwhelming Kennedy clan consolidated her determination. Using remarkable new sources-including in-depth interviews with Jackie's sister Lee Radziwell, lavish illustrations, and previously unseen photographs from family sources-Sarah Bradford has written a timely celebration of a life that was more private than commonly supposed. In America's Queen, the acclaimed biographer of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Grace reveals the real Jackie in a sympathetic but frank portrait of an amazing woman who has dazzled us since her teenage years. ![]() From her introduction to the world as "debutante of the year"in 1947 to her untimely death in 1994, she has truly remained America's answer to royalty. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has captivated the American public for more than five decades. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Pride by ibi zoboi![]() ![]() ![]() Zoboi (American Street) skillfully depicts the vicissitudes of teenage relationships, and Zuri’s outsize pride and poetic sensibility make her a sympathetic teenager in a contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love. An ambitious poet with dreams of Howard University, Zuri (the family’s “hard candy shell, the protector”) fights her attraction to the younger Darius as her older sister, Janae, is swept up in Ainsley’s attentions. She’s less excited about the prospect of the neighborhood gentrifying, but the arrival of the handsome, wealthy black Darcy brothers, who move into a newly renovated mini-mansion on her block, catalyzes a plot studded with detailed nuances of culture clash. In the role of sharp-tongued Lizzie Bennett is Zuri Benitez, who loves her family, her Haitian-Dominican heritage, and her ethnically diverse neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Bushwick. the first thing they want to do is clean it up,” begins this Pride and Prejudice retelling that stands solidly on its own while cleverly paralleling Austen’s classic about five economically challenged sisters. “It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when rich people move into the hood. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Claire dewitt![]() Kelly’s into an adulthood devoted to her friend’s disappearance. Tracy’s until the night she vanished without a trace. Claire, Tracy and Kelly’s relationships to each other and to Détection would shape their whole lives. But some, particularly a young Brooklynite named Claire DeWitt and her best friends Tracy and Kelly, found enlightenment in his words and a calling in his craft. Many of those who still knew of Silette dismissed him as a pretentious buffoon whose life’s work amounted to an incompressible compendium of nonsense. ![]() ![]() In death, he and Détection faded into obscurity. ![]() When his young daughter Belle was abducted and he failed to rescue her, Silette shattered. In their world, Silette was a brilliant investigator whose methodology and philosophy – laid out in Détection – often baffled his peers. The above is an excerpt from the only book ever published by Jacques Silette, the long-dead French detective whose life and legacy shape the world of Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt novels. But for now, each detective, alone in the woods, must take her clues, and solve her mysteries for herself. ![]() All knowledge will be free for the taking, including the biggest mystery of all – who we really are. I believe that someday, perhaps many lifetimes from now, all will be explained, and all mysteries will be solved. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, she is genuinely receptive to learning from her fifth graders, asking for help with the pronunciation of a Spanish word from one youngster and enlarging her understandings of the text from the observations of others.Īdditional core components of Ms. Bomer is “in charge” and directing instruction. The interactions between teacher and students reflect an interesting balance as well. She encourages her students’ learning by explicitly celebrating what she observes them doing well, and, in so doing, gives them the confidence to continue to grow as envisionment-building readers. Additionally, her use of informal response writing to prepare for meetings between Conversation Partners encourages rich, thoughtful talk. She has taught students to use some explicit methods for effective conversation such as naming the person they are responding to and explaining what they are thinking in response. Bomer models, encourages, and supports genuine conversation. As you watch, pay particular attention to the ways in which Ms. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch![]() taxpayers will have to foot the bill if JPMorgan ‘stumbles’ after First Republic buyout by Chloe TaylorĭeepMind cofounder’s new A.I. ![]() Fortune AROUND THE WATERCOOLERĮlizabeth Warren says U.S. But a new survey suggests that such fake productivity is worse in the office than at home, as workers feel they have to show off for coworkers or managers. Remote work introduced the term “productivity theater”-employees doing meaningless tasks to convince a boss they are truly working from home -into our workplace lexicon. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and daughter. He has a Masters Degree in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon and worked for twelve years at the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. firms in China complain the lack of flights constrains their ability to do business and attract international talent. Tom Sweterlitsch is the author of The Gone World and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. The number is still far from the 150 flights permitted by each side before the pandemic. (Beijing also allows a dozen weekly round-trip flights by American carriers). Department of Transportation will allow Chinese airlines to fly 12 weekly round-trip flights to the U.S., up from eight. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments She-Hulk, Volume 1 by Dan Slott![]() She-Hulk has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful female heroes. As a highly skilled lawyer who became a superhero by accident, she frequently leverages her legal and personal experience to serve as legal counsel to various superheroes and other metahumans. ![]() She-Hulk has been a member of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Heroes for Hire, the Defenders, Fantastic Force and S.H.I.E.L.D. In later series, her transformation is permanent, and she often breaks the fourth wall for humorous effect and running gags. Like Hulk, she is still susceptible to outbursts of anger and becomes much stronger when enraged. Unlike Banner she largely retains her personality, in particular the majority of her intelligence and emotional control. As such, Walters becomes a large, powerful, green-hued version of herself. Walters is a lawyer who, after an injury, received an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner, and acquired a milder version of his Hulk condition. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Buscema, the character first appeared in The Savage She-Hulk #1 (November 1979). ![]() She-Hulk ( Jennifer Susan Walters) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
![]() ![]() He was criticized for both restating familiar arguments that had been levelled by infidels against Christianity since late antiquity and manipulating the historical record. According to David Womersley, editor of Penguin History, Gibbon had managed "to displease all stripes of religious opinions from High Church dogmatists to dissenters" (xix). Future editions came later in June of 1776, 1777, and 1781. In February of 1776, the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published it was received well. 9th century to 1453: the fall of Constantinople.527-565) to Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne (r. 98-117 CE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire Gibbon's multi-volume history consisted of three separate sections: During a meeting with the Scottish philosopher David Hume, he was encouraged to write his history but to write it in English, not French. In 1768, he left Continental Europe and returned to England, where he continued to serve in the militia as well as the House of Commons. ![]() The tour had a significant impact on the young author and he wrote to his father that he became an enemy of empires as a political form but a friend to the freedom of nations. It was during this time that he first considered writing on the fall of the Roman Empire. Then, he travelled to Italy, visiting Florence, Rome, Naples, and Venice. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Without remorse movie![]() Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six detailed the Rainbow team uncovering a global terrorist plot to wipe out humanity, and the attached shooter video game - released by developer Red Storm Entertainment in 1998 - gave players control of Rainbow team members on painstakingly planned, highly tactical missions. John Kelly - known originally as John Clark in Clancy’s novel series and in the early Rainbow Six games - is literally “Rainbow Six,” the ex-Navy SEAL and commander of the secret international counterterrorist organization named Rainbow. Jordan as John Kelly, reprising his role as the character from the 2021 movie Without Remorse, also based on a Clancy book. Paramount’s Rainbow Six movie will reportedly star Michael B. ![]() John Wick director Chad Stahelski has been recruited to direct Rainbow Six, a live-action adaptation of Tom Clancy’s 1998 thriller novel that spawned the video game franchise of the same name, reports The Hollywood Reporter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere.Īrt Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. ![]() ![]() The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity ( The New York Times). ![]() |