![]() ![]() ![]() I really want to tell you more but there isn’t much to say that doesn’t spoil the book, so I’ll just leave you with the suspense. I loved the dynamic between Hawke and Poppy, I don’t think that I’ll ever get tired of it. ![]() I just wanted to tell you in this review that things got more intense in this book, there was also a lot of blood and fighting. Without giving too much away, Poppy realized that there was nothing she could do to fight her undeniable feelings for him. All you need to know is that besides everything that went down between Hawke and Poppy in the first book, they manage to find each other and be real for once in their lives. ![]() There’s too much going on in this book if I’m being honest, too much for me to care to explain. One thing is for sure, the people of Atlantia were scared and I’m not sure if I like that. I have so many questions, as one normally does after one is left with a cliffhanger that big. But this the second book in the Blood and Ash series by the wonderful Jennifer L. I’ll try not to spoil the first book too much just in case you haven’t read it. How can she decide to end the book like that?! I hate to say it but I need to read the third one right now. That ending! What does that ending mean!!!! I’m so astounded right now, I don’t even know what to do. Oh my gods, (see what I did there), this book is going to be the death of me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it probably works so well in the film because it’s a classic and thoughtful science fiction premise. In the end, the justification for why everything happens in Arrival hinges on this notion. In fact, the Heptapods basically see through time, since they don’t believe the concept of linear time exists. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) realizes that one of the biggest stumbling blocks to communicating with the many-tentacled Heptapod aliens is the fact that they think about the “passage” of time completely differently than she does. ![]() But it also sneaks in another sci-fi premise too: the kind of time travel that takes place in your mind. The rare serious science fiction film, Arrival explores the near impossible task of presenting a feasible depiction of first contact with true aliens from another planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Barnum’s brilliant, almost genius-level aperçus, was that you could create news through advertising, and the advertising itself becomes newsworthy. In a world in which every truth is fungible, advertising begins to substitute for the news. ![]() But the process requires faith, “to teach you that after many days it shall surely return, bringing a hundred- or a thousandfold to him who appreciates the advantages of ‘printer’s ink’ properly applied.” The making of money in this formulation of the new gospel is a sign of blessedness, and instead of prayer to effect a particular outcome, we have advertising. How is this miracle achieved? First, through false superlatives and inflated rhetoric, e.g., “The world-famous _ is the greatest one ever seen.” Then, through repetition: if one asserts a claim often enough, the claim (true or untrue) achieves, as we say now, traction. “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.” And what follows then? Profit. From Lapham’s Quarterly, lessons on fame and advertising from The Life of P. ![]() ![]() ![]() " On Bullshit" by Harry Frankfurt, 1986 (2005)." The Decay of Lying" by Oscar Wilde, 1891.The essay, Twain notes, was "offered for the thirty-dollar prize," but it "did not take the prize." ![]() "the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously to lie with a good object, and not an evil one to lie for others' advantage, and not our own to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling." On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford. In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. ![]() Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. " On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wrote three books called The Boy Who Biked the World which are basically my stories about cycling round the world, with as much teaching as I could sneak into them. ![]() Where will you go? Who will join you? What will you need? And how will you get there? Practical, educational and inspiring to the last.Īs Humphreys, aged 42, explains, “I have written kids books before, and that came about because I originally trained to be a teacher, but thought, before I settle down, I’ll just go and cycle round the world! Cycling round the globe, aged 24, led me to doing literally hundreds of talks in schools about my adventures and I realized kids love hearing these stories, and it was a great way to secretly teach them lots of stuff without them thinking they were in a boring lesson. The book ends with a little questionnaire for children to fill out. There’s no mention of passing your GCSE’s, but you should be able to do the dishes, mend your own clothes and read a map. Her list of 24 things to do before you are 16 is a life lesson for all parents preparing their children to enter the world. ![]() It includes people like Audrey Southerland, a lady we’re told was not a tall or strong, but after her children were grown up and she had more time, spent every summer exploring the rugged coastlines of Alaska in her small inflatable kayak. ![]() ![]() ![]() Remini is widely known for her work in the comedy TV series The King of Queens. ![]() Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology chronicles the events in the life of actress Leah Remini, before, during and after her experience with the Church of Scientology. This book, a supplement to Leah Remini's Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, covers the key points and analysis, controversial revelations and shocking details of Leah Remini's experience with the Church of Scientology. Get the whole book, in a 30-minute short read! ".sums up my problem with Scientology-despite its claims to the contrary, the practice doesn't help you better the world or even yourself it only helps you be a better Scientologist." -Leah Remini ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the three were photoed together, Gabrielle had been found shot dead on the beach, Hester had run away from Malibu and married Wall in Toronto, while Lance had started working for the gangster Carl Stern. ![]() In his office is an old photograph of three divers in action who are identified as Hester Campbell, as she was then known, Gabrielle Torres (Tony's daughter) and her cousin Manuel (who now calls himself Lance). His wife Hester had once been an exhibition diver at the club and the middle-aged Bassett has taken a fatherly interest in her welfare. Once inside, Archer discovers from Clarence Bassett, the club manager, that the job being offered is to protect him from Wall's threats. Just then a hot-headed Canadian named George Wall tries to barge into the private grounds with the plea that he is looking for his wife, but is turned away. Lew Archer is summoned to the Channel Club on Malibu Beach and stops to talk to the gateman, Tony Torres. The novel takes an acid view of Southern California society that foreshadows Macdonald's later treatment of cross-generational deterministic themes. The plot follows Archer's attempt to locate a missing young woman who is associated with an upscale country club. ![]() Knopf in hardcover, and by Bantam Books as a paperback. ![]() The Barbarous Coast is a 1956 detective novel by Canadian-American author Ross Macdonald, the sixth to feature private investigator Lew Archer and his eleventh novel overall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() EcoClean Pro’s manager Patrick (Peter Van den Begin) decided to give his latest intern (Laetitia Mampaka’s Melody) a stack of papers to shred on her first day, so it’s not much of a leap to assume the books have been cooked to allow for such extravagant perks to be passed around. Why not? It worked for someone else in the past. ![]() Nico (Alex Vizorek) jokes about asking for an SUV and money. It’s review day and everyone is laughing about what raises and bonuses they’re going to request this year. At some point those basketball instincts and his penchant to go for broke will align and finally pay off. You get the sense this has become his beleaguered ritual. But Sonny is also a gambler, and on the tail end of his trips he jets over to Las Vegas to lock in a couple parlays, betting on NBA money lines and spreads before throwing all his winnings away at the craps table a minute later. As played with reliable conviction by Matt Damon, the head scout in Nike’s dwindling hoops division has a keen eye for the next great players, attending high school all-star tournaments around the country and scanning for potential endorsements. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Volkswagen then compounded the fraud by spending millions marketing 'clean diesel,' only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, resulting in a guilty plea to criminal charges in a landmark Department of Justice case. Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards in the United States honestly, engineers were left with no choice but to cheat. He describes VW's rise from 'the people's car' during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being 'green.' He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piëch and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that the corporate culture they fostered drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the conspiracy. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. "A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her first book, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed, Doyle reminds us that people are messy. It’s crazy to long for what doesn’t even exist.”īut, the “fenceless, wide-open savannas” do exist, Doyle tells readers, and maybe we can learn to reject our taming and “sleep under an ink-black, silent sky filled with stars” where we can create our own realties and break out of our cages.ĭoyle knows about feeling caged, as her “childhood bulimia morphed into alcoholism and drug use, and numb for sixteen years.” ![]() Many of us feel locked into our roles and say to ourselves, “I should be grateful. You are a goddamn cheetah,” to Tabitha, the cheetah at the zoo-but also at everyone else. Have we as women forgotten our wildness? She wants to yell, “You are not crazy. ![]() The book begins at the zoo thinking about being restless and frustrated like a caged animal. We collectively grow stronger as we are more willing to ask hard questions.ĭoyle wants to know, “Where did my spark go at ten? How had I lost myself?” She ponders and worries about her own daughters and how to help them never lose themselves. Reading Glennon Doyle’s memoir, Untamed, is diving into an adventure of what we can become. Let it burn.” In her new memoir, “Untamed,” Glennon Doyle breaks down the true meaning of bravery. “Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. ![]() |