![]() In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. I hope you enjoy reading it more than I enjoyed reading the book. Because this was titled ‘Book Lovers’, I had some hope, but alas! Here is the review. ![]() Predictable story, bland characters, pretentious & dull dialogues & the complete absence of romance or heat or sexual tension. I despise romance genre as a whole, but with these books, it’s a whole other level of suffering when I read them. ![]() Hi Readers! My complete loathing for Emily Henry books continues with her latest novel Book Lovers. ![]()
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Terri Libenson has brought Brianna back for her own (mostly) solo story. But as a mom (and former middle school student in the dark ages), she knows these things happen. Becoming Brianna is a fun story about becoming yourself and learning about your own beliefs, and what you want to do vs what you want to do for others. ![]() As a Type A perfectionist, Terri Libenson hates to admit that she has any ex-friends. Brianna Grier suffered brain trauma that led to her being in a coma after she fell out of the unsecured Hancock County sheriff’s vehicle on July 15, 2022. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, the story that unfolds about Toru and Kumiko is secondary to the lessons I felt that author was trying to convey. ![]() ![]() But this simple narrative is really a vehicle to deliver many introspective quandaries into subjects like true love, financial stability, social conventions, Japanese history, the concept of reality and ultimately, the meaning of life.Įach of these vignettes gets tied into the larger quest narrative but the tangents are so detailed and rife with symbolism that the reader must carefully reflect upon Murakami's intentions. Murakami's story is actually dead simple: the main character's (Toru Okada) wife (Kumiko) leaves him and he spends the remainder of the book trying to get her back. Still, I really want to try and capture my feelings for this text (now six weeks past). The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is just too much, and I mean that in the best way. ![]() I wanted to review this book just after I finished it, but I could not. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Harry achieves the task, the real estate magnate will award him a bonus enough to cover Lucille’s debt. Harry declines, but that’s before the drug cartel takes Lucille hostage. The real-estate magnate under suspicion on the other hand wants to hire Harry as a private investigator to clear his name from the case. Katrine Bratt wants to bring in the country’s foremost serial killings expert, but the idea of collaborating with Harry Hole is out of the question for the chiefs of police. In Oslo, two girls have disappeared and been found murdered and one of the suspects is a well-known real estate magnate. He’s nearly managed to, but Harry has been helping an older film actress, Lucille, to get away from the grips of a drug cartel to which she owes one million dollars, and in return she’s given him shelter, company and a tailored suit. Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces. In the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A native of the island of Lesbos, she resided in its largest city, Mytilene. Little of certainty is known about her life. Sappho was born sometime between 630 and 617 BCE and died around 570. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This is a new translation of her surviving poetry.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetry-among them poems of invocation, desire, spite, celebration, resignation and remembrance-that nevertheless enables us to hear the living voice of the poet Plato called the tenth Muse. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. ![]() More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. ![]() ![]() Her eyes are sweet violet with streaks of gray. ![]() ![]() “There are places you can go,” Ariana tells him, “and a guy as smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.”Ĭonnor isn’t so sure, but looking into Ariana’s eyes makes his doubts go away, if only for a moment. But do they stand a chance of escaping their fate or proving their lives are worth saving? Excerpt As their paths intersect, they start to fight for their own destinies. And Lev, his parents’ tenth child, has been destined for unwinding since birth as a religious tithe. Rita, a ward of the state, has been slated for unwinding due to cost cutting. According to society’s leaders, unwinding leads to a healthier and safer community, as troublesome and unwanted teens are used for the greater good.Ĭurtis is a rebel whose unwinding was ordered by his parents. But between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, the child may be gotten rid of by their parent through a process called “unwinding.”īy repurposing a teen’s organs and other body parts in living recipients, the unwound child’s life doesn’t technically end. ![]() According to their Bill of Life, human life may not be terminated from the moment of conception until the age of thirteen. Three teens fight for their lives and each other in this breathtakingly suspenseful first book in the twisted, New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.Īfter America’s Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you know and follow me on social media, you will know I am not that kind of author. And this is the first time I am ever soliciting reviews from anyone. I have never met a single person who has read my book. However, when I reached out to Amazon about the missing reviews, I was told that I needed to contact Community Guidelines and that these reviews were not legitimate, and that is why they were erased. So, for a book that had a decent but not stellar reception in science fiction after three years, it would seem plausible that I would have a couple of thousand reviews. On average, this book has an overall ranking of 6k in the Amazon US store and 2k in the Amazon UK store. Yesterday, Amazon, unbeknownst to me, removed thousands of my reviews on my book, “My Human Pet.” I know these reviews are legitimate and have been accumulating since the book was released in March 2020. Then to add insult to injury, I’ve had to prove copyright on my own book twice now. Already twice, my book has been pirated and published (with the pirate using my own copyright) on their platform. I’ve trusted them to manage my book and its reviews. I am in Kindle Unlimited and have been loyal to Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Copernican Revolution" is named for Nicolaus Copernicus, whose Commentariolus, written before 1514, was the first explicit presentation of the heliocentric model in Renaissance scholarship. Beginning with the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, contributions to the “revolution” continued until finally ending with Isaac Newton’s work over a century later. This revolution consisted of two phases the first being extremely mathematical in nature and the second phase starting in 1610 with the publication of a pamphlet by Galileo. ![]() The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. At right, traditional geocentric motion, including the retrograde motion of Mars.įor simplicity, Mars' period of revolution is depicted as 2 years instead of 1.88, and orbits are depicted as perfectly circular or epitrochoid. At left, Copernicus' heliocentric motion. Motion of Sun (yellow), Earth (blue), and Mars (red). ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘So if you read only one, please read this one!’ Personally, I would read both: while Capital in the Twenty-First Century has a positive thesis that with our current laws, the rate of return to capital exceeds the rate of growth (r > g), Capital and Ideology builds a normative thesis, driven by this data, that we should adopt democratic or ‘participatory socialism’. ![]() ‘I think this is a much better book than the previous one,’ said Piketty, referring to Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014). ![]() Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideologyis an encyclopaedic, rewarding work that merits thoughtful engagement. Thomas Piketty (translated by Arthur Goldhammer). This encyclopaedic, rewarding work merits thoughtful engagement and is essential reading, writes Ewan McGaughey. In Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty proposes a vision for a fairer economic system grounded in ‘participatory’ socialism. ![]() ![]() ![]() „Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?“ said they. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. ![]() The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept, and was always pious and good. ![]() There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, „Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you.“ And then she closed her eyes and expired. ![]() |