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This man ellen malpas5/28/2023 ![]() But hey, she ignores it so the reader must too, it seems. Lasting and meaningful relationships are about balance and compromise, not one person having power over the other. Then he says stuff like, “who has the power?”, and she just lets it ride as though that’s okay. (My apologies, I don’t usually use such language, but if you read this book you may agree it’s justified.) I want her to really make him grovel, to see that he can’t have her the way he wants, namely, next to him allthe time. She behaves a bit like a teenager: she likes to run and hide from the problem, she says she needs time to think, then moans when he stays away.Īva allows him to make her feel like it’s her fault he behaves like a twat. At first I thought Ava’s going to be assertive with him, and not let him walk all over her, but she’s the opposite. ![]() I recommended this book in a book group and it inspired me to re-read it. It’s a shame this sex god, Jesse Ward, will not take no for an answer. He wants her and begins a relentless pursuit. She gets the shock of her life when the lord of “The Manor” is actually a specimen of unadulterated, hot male who turns her brain to mush. ![]() She expects the owner to be some balding, tweed-wearing, bumpkin. ![]() I’ve also written this after reading three books in the series so I know the full story, but I’ve tried not to give too much away.Īva O’Shea is an interior designer who takes on a project at a country house. ![]()
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The boyfriend project book5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() What are the chances? When it comes to love, there's no such thing as a coincidence. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy, honey-eyed Daniel Collins at work. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status.įor once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she's always dreamed of creating. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. ![]() Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other 'girlfriends', London and Taylor - have gone viral online. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Samiah Brooks never thought she would be 'that' girl. What happens when three women discover, thanks to the live tweeting of a disastrous date, that they've all been duped by the same man? They become friends of course! If you love Jasmine Guillory, Abby Jimenez and Talia Hibbert, you'll LOVE Farrah Rochon! ![]()
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Wool by hugh howey5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When they agree to offer her vacation time to fix the silo's machinery, she agrees to take the job as sheriff for them. They have their eye set on Juliette, a mechanic. The mayor and deputy of the silo work together to recruit a new sheriff. He goes to the surface and realizes it is paradise, so he removes his helmet and learns suddenly that the helmet was specially designed to make the earth look better than it was, so when he removes the helmet, he chokes on the poisoned air and falls dead, right next to his wife. She never comes back, so three years later, Holston signs up to be a cleaner. Holston is a sheriff in the silo, but after his wife discovers forbidden documents that suggest that the world is actual still a lush paradise, she leaves him to be a cleaner. ![]() Without fail, the cleaners die, one by one, but even though the cleaners all say they won't go up to the surface to do their job, when the time comes, they always follow through and clean until the air kills them. They have cameras to the outside world, and men in rubber suits clean them. The silo was the last resort of the humans when their air became unbreathable. There is a 144-floor silo underground that where the humans live in the post-apocalypse. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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Data and goliath by bruce schneier5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They track every person you search for, every profile you viewed, every image you viewed, every letter you type, every letter you backspace, where your mouse hovers on the page, and more. One thing that stood out was just how much information the social media networks keep and share. The book covers some information about NSA mass surveilance but talks about many other stories as well. It gives you perspective when you hear the large collection of stories about how our information is being used. The book is full of real anecdotes, news stories, and leaks. The data being stored is incredibly private and personal. In many cases, the data is stored forever. He demonstrates through real stories how much data is actually being recorded and stored. ![]() The main topics of the book are data, privacy, and crime. These are my thoughts about the book and some of the interesting points that I found. If you don't know who he is already, you can read more about him on his Wikipedia entry and his personal website. I recently finished reading (well, listening) to Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. ![]()
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The threepenny opera by bertolt brecht5/28/2023 ![]() He analyzed every facet of the art form, from the behavior of actors to the expectations of the audience, from the way in which lights, music, text, and imagery are used, to the nature of theatrical storytelling. In addition to writing and rewriting classic plays from a Marxist perspective, Brecht reinterpreted the practice of theatre itself. During this time, he wrote many seminal works that are performed to this day, including Life of Galileo (1939), Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), The Good Person of Szechuan (in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau, 1941) and the Caucasian Chalk Circle (1943). In 1933, Brecht was forced into exile by the Nazis and settled in the United States. His earliest plays included Baal (1922), Drums in the Night (1923), and Man Equals Man (1926). He returned to his medical studies after the war but eventually transitioned into the world of literature. His experiences in a military hospital crystalized what would become a life-long adherence to Marxism. The playwright of over 50 plays, Brecht’s theories on acting, direction, play-production and dramaturgy have inspired and galvanized artists across disciplines around the world.īorn in Augsburg, Germany, Brecht studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Munich before serving as a medical orderly during the First World War. ![]() ![]() Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956) is one of the towering figures of 20th-century theatre. ![]()
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Hicksville dylan horrocks pdf5/28/2023 ![]() In 2010 the graphic novel was republished by New Zealand publisher Victoria University Press. ![]() Hicksville was republished by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly in 2001 and again in 2010. The collected edition, which featured much redrawn art, was released by Black Eye in 1998, shortly before the company went out of business. Much of Hicksville was serialized in Horrocks' ten-issue solo series Pickle, published by Black Eye from 1993 to 1996. The novel explores the machinations of the comic book industry, and contains a slightly fictionalized account of the history of mainstream American comics, with particular attention paid to the era of Image Comics. Hicksville is a graphic novel by Dylan Horrocks originally published by Black Eye Comics in 1998. Cover of the Drawn & Quarterly collected edition. ![]()
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The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() No one else in the family knows the secret named Ahmed, (s)he is dressed as a boy, treated as a boy, and speedily inducted into the ways of the patriarchy. This bewildering, hallucinatory book begins with the fairytale-like story of an eighth daughter who is raised by her father as the male heir he never had. ![]() A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. ![]() As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. ![]()
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Jubilee african american cooking5/28/2023 ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Photo by Clarkson Potter BRAISED CELERYġ tbsp (15 mL) reserved meat drippings or olive oil 2 small bunches celery (about 2 lb/900 g) trimmed and cut into 3-inch (8-cm) pieces 1/2 cup (125 mL) coarsely chopped onion 2 cups (500 mL) chicken stock Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes 1 tsp (5 mL) salt, plus more to taste Pinch of ground or freshly grated nutmeg (optional) 1 tbsp (15 mL) butter, cut into small dice 1 tbsp (15 mL) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup (50 mL) heavy whipping cream Black pepper ![]() “This is a great example of the understanding of African American caterers, their understanding and integrating popular dishes into their menus.” Jubilee is a companion to Toni Tipton-Martin’s James Beard Award-winning 2015 bibliography The Jemima Code. “It was really lovely to discover the coincidence of it appearing on the menus of caterers whose guests and customers would have been exposed to celery like this in restaurants,” says Tipton-Martin. The method, she adds, while akin to the practice of smothering vegetables in a roux-based gravy - which is well-represented in African American cookbooks - results in a lighter dish. ![]() Here, she uses the French technique beurre manié (equal parts butter and flour rubbed together) to thicken the dish just prior to serving. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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![]() Jude also plans to use the kidnapping to implicate a substitute teacher, Mikal Zallman, whom she has grown to loathe. ![]() This isn't some authentic Native American ritual, but a deranged recreation thought up by Jude after a school field trip. Marissa is to become the central figure in a corn maiden sacrifice. Leah Bantry's daughter Marissa is abducted by fellow student Jude Trahern and her "disciples". It is a tale of teens gone bad, taking a sometimes intimate, sometimes eagle-eye view of a student kidnapping. The novella "The Corn Maiden" is the centrepiece. ![]() In her new collection, Oates may be interested in renovations more than innovations, but readers will find plenty of ambiguity and strangeness to celebrate. ![]() She often appears to exist in several places at once, fantastic acts of genre-shifting accomplished without smoke or mirrors. E ven within the wild and tangled menagerie that comprises our literary landscape, Joyce Carol Oates is a startling creature, possessed of a speed and talent that hints at the uncanny. ![]()
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![]() These were the basketball epics of the 1980s - Celtics vs Lakers, East vs West, physical vs finesse, Old School vs Showtime, even white vs black. And he burned with an inextinguishable desire to win. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold. ![]() Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the right moves. ![]() In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone and whose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. ![]() The New York Times bestseller from Hall of Fame basketball legends Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson.įrom the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() |