5/23/2023 0 Comments Ice breaker book hannah graceThe found family trope in here was the cutest shit I’ve read in ages. It had depth and was plain amazing till the freaking end. It was riddled with ups and downs but you can’t help but feel everything with these characters. This wasn’t the typical third-act conflict type of book. I drank every damn page like it was my only source of water. The diversity in this book was amazing to see! The writing was □□□□□□□□□□. I can go on and on about how beautifully written this masterpiece was. I read this so slowly because I knew when it would be over I’d be a wreck. You know when you read a book and you feel like if you don’t read it in one sitting then you’ll enjoy it less because the rush of the newness leaves and its appeal dies down? Yeah, this was □□□ that. Update: I just read the bonus chapters and ugh I’m in dire need of my very own Nate, please and thank you <3
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Prank Day by Kel MitchellIt’s the most sober area at Ncredible Productions, where the chalkboard walls are covered in scribbles and employees have access to a candy bar, game room and a pingpong table. We watch the baby bounce in her jumper, cooing at her when she presses buttons or shakes a rattle.Īt 6:45 p.m., Cannon arrives, cuddles Onyx and then leads me into his office. So Onyx is alone in the play space with her nanny, who notices me waiting and invites me to take off my shoes and join them. He has yet to return to his Burbank headquarters after dropping off his 6-year-old son, Golden, at Mandarin class. Today, his 6-month-old daughter, Onyx, is the only one of his children using the space. That’s how he ended up with a nursery in his office building - a neon-lit room with tumbling mats, a ball pit and toy instruments. “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. “A lot of them are in the same age group,” he says. So during the pandemic, when a number of his lovers began to express anxiety about their biological clocks, he obliged. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Brown emergent strategyThe author herself says several times throughout the novel that she's not the analytical research type but a feeling/perceiving sort. I felt as though I understood the aspects of emergent strategy far better through these examples than the bloated descriptions in the book's beginning, and that makes me sad. The book shines in the final section, likely because it's the part of the book that illustrates examples of how to actually practice emergent strategy. The introduction was an excessive ~40 pages and encapsulated the book's overall issue: not enough organization and trimming to communicate a vitally important concept to anyone who's not on the same wavelength as the author. Countless quotes bog down the overall message and create a murkiness that I as a reader could never recover from. I never felt as though I had enough forewarning when the book would suddenly divert into a blog post or speech. As it stands, Emergent Strategy is a rather disjointed sea of thoughts, quotes (so. I say this with the utmost love and respect for both emergent strategy as concept and the author: this desperately needed an editor. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Setiya midlife“There’s a sense of constraint and limitation and regret. “There are many midlife crises,” Setiya acknowledges. Then again, existential doubt in midlife can have other sources. You can be aiming to get things done and have an absence of satisfaction.” The thing that gripped me first was a sense of hollowness in pursuit of projects. “I wasn’t wrong to think that teaching and writing and thinking about philosophy was worth doing, but nevertheless, something was amiss. “I was doing the things I had always wanted,” explains MIT philosophy professor Kieran Setiya, the fellow suffering through the midlife malaise. Instead, he went to his office and pondered matters. Could he grind away at the same job indefinitely? Would he have to abandon his older hopes and dreams? And wasn’t it disheartening to think his life might be halfway over?įortunately, this person didn’t quit his job, blow his life’s savings on sports cars, or sabotage his personal relationships. He was professionally successful and had a rewarding family life, but still had a “hollow” feeling. A few years ago, a man experienced a midlife crisis. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Shaman by Sandra MieselAs Hard a Task as Human Beings Ever Undertook" ( 1971) Letter (Riverside Quarterly, July 1971) ( 1971).Letter (Riverside Quarterly, March 1971) ( 1971).Letter (Science Fiction Review, June 1970) ( 1970). Letter (Riverside Quarterly, June 1970) ( 1970).Opinion 33: "Symbolism of the Most Obnoxious Sort" ( 1970).Variant: Challenge and Response ( 1970).Challenge and Response: Poul Anderson's View of Man ( 1970).Letter (Riverside Quarterly, August 1969) ( 1969).Some Religious Aspects of 'Lord of the Rings' ( 1968).Letter (Riverside Quarterly, August 1968) ( 1968).Some Moties and Sources for Lord of the Rings ( 1968).Letter (Worlds of If, January 1967) ( 1967).With Poul Anderson and Pat Coyle and Kenneth W. Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson ( 1978).Myth, Symbol, and Religion in The Lord of the Rings ( 1973).A Separate Star: A Science Fiction Tribute to Rudyard Kipling ( 1989).Never display translations Registered users can choose which translations are shown. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Redemption by Danny DufourAfter the seven rob the bank, Red betrays Guerrero, as he had acquired the deed to the mine and wants to take over the town. Guerrero agrees to steal it, so long as they avoid unnecessary deaths. The next morning, Red tells them about Edendale, Colorado, where gold ore is being stored in a bank until a mineral dispute can be settled. After slaughtering everyone and freeing Red, they retreat. Moments later, the Blackwater gang – Baptiste, Darko, Ramos, Snake, and Washington – arrive led by Red's half-brother Guerrero de la Cruz. Calmly, he says that every man at the gallows will be dead before sunrise. In the frontier of the Wild West, Red Cavanaugh is to be hanged for his crimes. The film is based on the concept of the deal with the Devil. The film was released in home media on October 22, 2013, and was followed by a sequel, Dead Again in Tombstone (2017). Striking a pact with the Devil after entering Hell, he resurfaces to the earthly world to avenge his own death by killing the men who murdered him. The film stars Danny Trejo as Guerrero, a gang leader who gets double-crossed by his fellow gang members. It was directed by Roel Reiné and written by Shane Kuhn and Brendan Cowles. Dead in Tombstone is a 2013 American direct-to-video horror Western film produced by Universal 1440 Entertainment. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Integrity dr henry cloudThen he examines exactly what behaviors constitute character and how they are expressed in real life situations.Īssessing and building the six essential qualities of character is the goal of this book. He shows that successful leaders have competencies, alliances and, most important, character. Cloud shows how the ability to address adversity, to learn lessons from it, and adjust one’s behavior is a greater determinant of success than brains or talent or charm. Henry Cloud shows what integrity is, how it is lived in everyday experience and what one must do to determine whether you are perceived as someone with character and integrity.Ĭentral to question of integrity is whether a person has the courage to face up to reality. Henry Cloud is ready to break out to a whole new audience with this book that explains the central importance of character and integrity in success-and how you can develop yours. A noted Clinical Psychologist, speaker and radio host, Dr. The law, the Church of England and literary pursuits were important early influences. His was an upper middle class, provincial family, which had some slight connections with the landed aristocracy. He was born on 7 September 1807 at Newport, Isle of Wight, England, the fifth child of Thomas Sewell, a solicitor, and his wife, Jane Edwards. Although Sewell regarded himself as an expatriate Englishman and hated New Zealand at first, by 1866 he was able to write from England: 'I find that my affections are more Colonial than English'. He was a member of eight ministries and held numerous senior posts in government. He sat in the General Assembly for 11 years – 4 years as MHR for Christchurch, 8 months as MHR for New Plymouth and 7 years as MLC. He became one of the leaders among the first generation of colonial politicians and was the first premier of New Zealand. Henry Sewell came to New Zealand in 1853 at the age of 45 as an official of the Canterbury Association and spent about 17½ years in the colony in three periods: 1853–56, 1859––76. He was a notable campaigner for New Zealand self-government, and is generally regarded as having been the country's first Premier, having led the Sewell Ministry in 1856. Henry Sewell (7 September 1807 – ) was a prominent 19th-century New Zealand politician. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Mandibles by Lionel ShriverWhen that too becomes untenable, the family is forced to turn to Florence’s younger brother Jarred, whose once ridiculous farm in upstate New York (“he’s taken a survivalist turn,” his sister Avery says) suddenly looks pretty good.Īnd why do things work - until they don’t? Florence’s brother-in-law Lowell, an economics professor at Georgetown (but not for long!), explains, “Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it’s worth. But at least she owns her home in Flatbush, and when all the others lose theirs, she takes them in. Willing’s mother Florence, for instance, is a single mother living with a “Lat” (2029 slang for Latino, now the dominant population) and working at a shelter. … What was astonishing was anything that worked as intended, for any duration whatsoever.” It is 2029, and Willing is of the latest generation of Mandibles, a family of inherited wealth whose least successful members prove the most resourceful when disaster strikes. At the first hint of the coming economic apocalypse, 13-year-old Willing reflects that “there was nothing astonishing about things not working, about things falling apart. and his fiery erstwhile girlfriend, Nora Kelly of the New York (read American, where Preston used to work) Museum of Natural History (both characters from Thunderhead There's FBI Special Agent Pendergast (from Relic), pale, refined and possessed of a Holmes-like brain dogged New York Times Preston and Child revive characters and settings from earlier novels, often a red flag that authorial imagination is tiring but in this case, all comes together with zing. Their eighth outing is another richly entertaining tale, about the hunt for a seemingly immortal serial killer at work in New York City. To The Ice Limit), Preston and Child have delivered a body of science-based thrillers that for high excitement and robust scientific imaginings rival those of Michael Crichton. |