7/6/2023 0 Comments You are a badass![]() ![]() There are twists and turns in life and they are never wrong because they are meant to happen like that. Never think that you lack something within you or else you will be wasting your time and would be considered a fool. ![]() After doing certain things, never make yourself responsible when people start freaking about it. When you say things or do certain things, then you should not blame others for it because it is you who took the decision. There is always a way by which you can change your life but to find the way you need to be serious in life. ![]() Here Are Some Important Quotes From “You Are A Badass” The book will teach you many things about life and self-realization. Jen Sincero in her book “You Are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life” explains the things that act as a speed breaker in your life and distracts you from getting things that you wanted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She loses both parents before her senior year and pushes everyone away in pursuit of her goals. She’s a three-time Congressperson and two-time Senator (and only 37), a single mother and aiming for the White House. I had to give myself a day or two to really think about how I felt about the book before writing about it.Ĭleo isn’t all that likeable at the beginning (well, if I’m being honest, throughout most of the book) “The truth was that even outside of high school, even well beyond the MaryAnne Newman situation and the “dumping her perfectly nice boyfriend” situation, Cleo McDougal really hadn’t ever been such a good person.”. So reading a contemporary fiction book is a little bit out of my wheelhouse. I read history books and biographies and children’s books and the occasional historical fiction book. ![]() “A heartfelt tale of hypocrisy, ambition, love and more.” -Ĭ leo McDougal Regrets Nothing is not the sort of book that I normally read. The author’s fans will devour this, and it will win her new readers as well.” - Publishers Weekly “Scotch’s trademark humor and heart are on full display in this expertly plotted and characterized outing. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The pale blue dot![]() ![]() “We Earthlings enjoy the balance between land areas and oceans on our home planet. Barely one percent of the outcomes had an Earth-like distribution of land and water. ![]() Results from their models suggest that planets have approximately an 80 percent probability of being mostly covered by land, with 20 percent likely to be mainly oceanic worlds. Tilman Spohn and Dennis Höning studied how the evolution and cycles of continents and water could shape the development of terrestrial exoplanets. The near balance of land-to-water that has helped life flourish on Earth could be highly unusual, according to a Swiss-German study presented at the Europlanet Science Congress 2022 in Granada. ![]() When searching for Earth-like worlds around other stars, instead of looking for the ‘pale blue dot’ described by Carl Sagan, new research suggests that a hunt for dry, cold ‘pale yellow dots’ might have a better chance of success. Earth-like exoplanets unlikely to be another ‘pale blue dot’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Detroit Noir, 2007 (part of the Akashik Noir books).Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, 2006.Harold Middleton Series in Order of Publication Louis Kincaid Series In Order of Publication Parrish Books Edgar & Shamus Go Golden, 2022 Parrish books in order for their popular series of crime fiction mystery thriller novels, and their standalone books. ![]() The author duo is most popular for their Louis Kincaid crime mystery series, featuring the biracial Michican-based police detective, who eventually becomes a private detective. Parrish is a pseudonym that two sisters Kristy Montee and Kelly Nichols use as an alias for their books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The March 5 Visions and Voices event began with Ondaatje reading from Warlight, a story of 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister who are seemingly abandoned by their parents after World War II. Born in Sri Lanka and educated in Canada, his honors include the 1992 Golden Man Booker Prize, which recognizes the best novel published in the United Kingdom, and the title of Sri Lanka Ratna, the South Asian country’s highest honor given to foreign nationals. Perhaps most commonly recognized for his acclaimed book The English Patient, Ondaatje is also an accomplished poet, editor and essayist. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instituteīovard Auditorium buzzed with excitement as devotees of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje waited restlessly to hear him read from his latest novel. Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Gore vidal abraham lincoln![]() ![]() Two years later the author became Gore Vidal, choosing to discard his other names because he believed an author needed something sharp and succinct for a name if people were to remember him. It wasn’t until he was baptized at the age of 13 at Albans that he got the name ‘Gore’. At birth, Gore was christened Eugene Louis Vidal. Gore Vidal was born to Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina Gore at West Point in New York. Born in 1925, Vidal rarely had any kind words for his nation, often referring to the United States as a decadent empire ruled by a militaristic dictatorship. Gore Vidal was an American author who was best known for his political commentary and television appearances. Paths of Resistance (With: Isabel Allende,Charles McCarry)īuckley vs. The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 The Decline and Fall of the American Empire ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments John szwed billie holiday![]() ![]() ![]() Szwed goes on to quote the composer and jazz historian Gunther Schuller: “We can, of course, describe and analyze the surface mechanics of her art: her style, her technique, her personal vocal attributes, and I suppose a poet could express the essence of her art or at least give us, by poetic analogy, his particular insight into it. In her early years, some called it sad, olive-toned, whisky-hued, lazy, feline, smoky, unsentimental, weird.” In Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, a book that is less standard biography and more an extended commentary on Holiday’s art, the shrewd and generous author John Szwed writes, “Billie Holiday’s voice is odd, indelibly odd, and so easy to recognize, but so difficult to describe. The idea here is to come up with someone you have heard as a means of introducing you to someone you’re unfamiliar with.Īnd then there’s Billie Holiday, who sounds like no one else. Most commonly even the best writers fall back on analogies. Words become pitiful tools when we use them to describe music. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Sabriel novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Without warning, an evil spirit enters the dorms and Sabriel instinctively confronts it. It’s the final semester of the school year, and she’s in the dorms, studying for exams. When the book opens, Sabriel is a young teenager. ![]() Terciel brings Sabriel back to life and sends her to a non-magic school, where she should be safe. His wife gives birth to a girl called Sabriel, but both Sabriel and her mother die during childbirth. They use these resurrected dead things as servants. In the Old Kingdom, people called necromancers raise creatures from the dead. Although there’s a strong border between both territories, magic occasionally creeps into Ancelstierre-even if their government denies it. However, in the neighboring Old Kingdom, dangerous magical creatures and witches roam wild. In Ancelstierre, there’s no such thing as magic. The protagonist, Sabriel, lives in a kingdom called Ancelstierre. He uses his knowledge of combat in his books. He also served in the Australian Army Reserve for four years. Before writing Sabriel, Nix worked as an editor and a book publicist. Nix is an international bestselling author. The book won the 1995 Aurealis Award, and it received various other nominations. First published in 1995, it is the first book in the Old Kingdom series, and it centers around a young girl who must find her necromancer father after he disappears from a magical boarding school. Sabriel is a young adult epic fantasy novel by Garth Nix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reason Read: August 2022 botm, Reading 1001. This was his debut novel (made into a well-regarded movie starring Albert Finley), and we are made to see the disillusionment and lack of opportunities facing the young working class, even if, like Arthur, they don't recognize it themselves. Of course, the good times can't last forever.Īnd despite Arthur's perception of "good times," Silitoe does a masterful job of showing us the limitations of the dead end lives of the working class in Great Britain after the war. As I was reading this, I was struck by how much Arthur reminded me of Michael Caine's Alfie. ![]() He chooses married women because he knows they will make no demands on him. He spends his evenings at the pub, and is having sex with Brenda, the wife of one of his friends at the factory who works the night shift. ![]() It's shortly after the end of World War II Arthur is a worker at a Nottingham factory, still living at home, biding his time until the weekends. "I'm me and nobody else and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they can't know a bloody thing about me." ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The mist king book 2![]() ![]() The concept is simple, a family’s lake house is destroyed by a storm. It contains some of the usual King characters and it’s important to remember that these weren’t cliches before King invented them. It’s a quick read that is highly entertaining the whole time. The Mist is a much shorter novel of his and has been adapted into a film like nearly every one of his books. I suppose there is a reason he’s so popular. ![]() Since then, I’ve quite enjoyed the few that I’ve read and will continue to read more. At the insistence of, well everyone, I picked up a random book of his and gave it another try. I decided then that I didn’t care much for King and didn’t try again for a very long time. When I was way too young to appreciate it I attempted to read The Shining. I’ve been slowly attempting to see what Stephen King is all about. ![]() |