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6/10/2023 0 Comments The two towers paperback![]() ![]() The beginning picks up right where the previous book ended, so the reader is pretty much thrown into action from the get-go. This volume did in fact bring in a nice change of pace to the story. Without further ado, this is my review of The Two Towers, being the second part of my review of The Lord of the Rings. As a small indicator of how that hope turned out: I finished this volume a lot faster. ![]() All the same, I was hopeful that the follow-up would gain much needed forward momentum. Before I started I was mentally exhausted from The Fellowship of the Ring’s meandering nature, despite my enjoyment of many parts of it. Tolkien continues, having reached another milestone by concluding the second volume The Two Towers. My reading journey toward completing a singular edition of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin – alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. ![]() While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. ![]() Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides the Pulitzer, the book received an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and a National Book Critics Circle award. Are we - we the secure, the insured, the housed, the college educated, the lucky - somehow responsible for all this suffering?"ĭesmond's “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" was published in 2016 and focused on eight families in an impoverished area of Milwaukee. To understand the causes of poverty, we must hold a mirror up to ourselves. “But they cannot answer the most fundamental question, which is: Why all this poverty in this land of abundance? I’ve learned that that question requires a different approach. “Books about poverty, including ‘Evicted,’ tend to be books about the poor, tend to bear witness,” Desmond said in a statement issued Wednesday by Crown. ![]() According to Crown, Desmond will document how the wealthy harm the poor, knowingly and unknowingly. ![]() It also asks why.Ĭrown will publish “Poverty, by America” on March 21, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) - Matthew Desmond's first book since his Pulitzer Prize winning “Evicted” is not just a study of who is poor in the world's richest country. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments 99 mine book![]() ![]() Darcy plans to leave as soon as the renovations start, but before she can cut and run - her usual MO - she finds a familiar face on her porch: Tom's arrived bearing power tools, and he's single for the first time in almost a decade. When the twins inherit their grandmother's tumble-down cottage, they're left with strict instructions to bring it back to its former glory. Having conducted a global survey of men, she can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that he's her twin brother Jamie's best friend - oh, and that ninety-nine of the time, he hasn't seemed interested in her. ĭarcy Barrett found her dream man at age eight - ever since, she's had to settle for good enough. She is THAT good' GOODREADSĬrush (n.): a strong infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach. 'I would read Sally Thorne's grocery list. 'A brilliant, biting, hilarious new voice' KRISTAN HIGGINS ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The worst witch book 1![]() ![]() They were also made into a major ITV series. ![]() The Worst Witch stories have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 3 million copies. ![]() However, Jill continued working as a nanny until the publication of The Worst Witch Strikes Again prompted her to devote herself to full-time writing. The book was published when Jill turned 24 and proved an instant success. Mildred Hubble is very much a self-portrait! She put the book on hold as she attended both Chelsea and Croydon Art Schools, but continued to write it whilst living in a village in Togo, West Africa for a year and then whilst working as a nanny back at home. Jill Murphy was born in London and attended the Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon which, together with the boarding school stories she enjoyed reading, provided much of the material and inspiration Miss Cackle's Academy in the The Worst Witch, which she started when she was 15. She has been described as "one of the most engaging writers and illustrators for children in the land." Jill Murphy is a London-born English children's author, best known for The Worst Witch series and the Large Family picture books. ![]() ![]() Zevin layers the narrative with her characters’ wrenching emotional wounds as their relationships wax and wane, including Sadie’s resentment about sexism in gaming, Sam’s loss of his mother, and his foot amputation. In 2004, their virtual world-builder Mapletown allows for same-sex marriages, drawing ire from conservatives, and a violent turn upends everything for Sam and Sadie. He proposes they design a game together, and relying on help from his charming, wealthy Japanese Korean roommate, Marx, and Sadie’s instructor cum abusive lover, Dov, they score a massive hit with Ichigo, inspired by The Tempest. ![]() In it, a player who doesn’t ask questions will unknowingly build a widget for the Third Reich, thus forcing the player to reflect on the impact of their moral choices. Sam is wowed by a game Sadie developed, called Solution. Years later, they reconnect while attending college in Boston. ![]() Their friendship ruptures, however, after Sam discovers Sadie’s been tallying the visits to fulfill her bat mitzvah service. ![]() There, she befriends another patient, a 12-year-old Korean Jewish boy named Sam Masur, who has a badly injured foot, and the two bond over their love for video games. ![]() In 1986, Sadie Green, 11, visits a children’s hospital where her sister is recovering from cancer. Zevin ( Young Jane Young) returns with an exhilarating epic of friendship, grief, and computer game development. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His uneasy relationship with the National Socialist Party resulted in his removal from prominence in 1944, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. ![]() Twice filmed, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late. It's excellently written and fearsomely gripping." The Times A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences "One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end." A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. ![]() but the Viennese setting gives it an extra, stylish twist. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The secret of all ages![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Augustus Knapp illuminate this vast and indispensable encyclopedia of the occult. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages is not only a good read: It is an eye-opening experience. The Secret Teachings for All Ages 32.73 Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Sixteen pages of color plates and 100 black-and-white images by the celebrated illustrator J. The Secret Teaching of All Ages contains many other theories that cause its readers to rethink human history as a whole. Fascinating surveys cover topics as diverse as Kabbalah, alchemy, cryptology, and Tarot, along with Masonry, gemology, and the identity of William Shakespeare. Hall examines the secrets of Isis along with arcane aspects of mystic Christianity and other religions. Hall has successfully distilled the essence of more arcane subjects than one would think possible. The sheer scope and ambition of this book are stunning. The Secret Teachings of All Ages is perhaps the most comprehensive and complete esoteric encyclopedia ever written. Compelling themes range from the riddle of the Sphinx and the tenets of Pythagorean astronomy to the symbolism of the pentagram, the significance of the Ark of the Covenant, and the design of the American flag.Īcclaimed by Publishers Weekly as "a classic reference, dizzying in its breadth," this remarkable resource was compiled by the founder of the Philosophical Research Society. 16.19 7 Used from 15.69 5 New from 12.19. Unrivaled in its beauty and completeness, it distills ancient and modern teachings of nearly 600 experts. This key to the world's esoteric traditions unlocks some of the most fascinating and closely held secrets of myth, religion, and philosophy. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Book review klara and the sun![]() ![]() Never Let me Go explored what validated being human was, The Remains of the Day on a human’s emotional capacity, in this novel it is what separates us from machines – asking the question of what about each one of us can’t be learnt? More akin to the former, this book also explores human emotion and the complexities of hope.Īt the beginning of the novel, we find Klara stood in the window of a shop, I imagine a little like seeing a mannequin in a clothes store, where she is soon noticed and chosen by 14-year-old Josie. It is, at its core, a novel exploring the lengths to which artificial intelligence could go, steering away from the brutality and totality of Terminator and instead choosing to approach the subject with a nuance and gentleness that Ishiguro is known for. Indeed, it can be so at times, as the mother navigates her grief and Klara seeks for reasons to hope as her ‘friend’ Josie navigates a mysterious illness. Ishiguro said in an interview with Waterstones that this was originally meant to be a book for children but his daughter, author Natalie Ishiguro, warned him against it because it was too ‘terrifying’. ![]() Like his other work, Ishiguro explores what it means to be human but in a new sci-fi genre using a world of advanced artificial intelligence in the form of ‘AFs’ and a childlike format. ![]() Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro’s most recent anticipated novel and his first novel since 2015. This is the Independent bookshop edition from Portobello Books in Edinburgh ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Drop of doubt by cl stone![]() ![]() Imagine the stalkery devotion of Twilight's Edward Cullen, and now multiply it by nine, and you have this book, except without glittery vampires or werewolves (at least not yet, god only knows what this author is going to do next.) I was literally laughing out loud to myself like a crazy person by the end of this book. THE WHOLE PREMISE IS DISGUSTING AND ABSURD. She's an idiot (I'm sure her defenders would say she is just naive and innocent,) and they are all in love with her and want to share her. It is full-on teenage polygamy involving nine, NINE, boys/men and one girl. ![]() Granted, yes, I read them all and couldn't put them down, but it was more akin to being captivated a very slow car crash that happened on a thruway that resulted in a 200 car pile up. I am so baffled by the high ratings of this book, and frankly of this series in general. ![]() |