5/13/2023 0 Comments Sorrow and bliss book review![]() It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. He said he didn’t mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it.īy the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn’t really matter anymore. ![]() Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn’t want to have children. ![]() He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn’t know what it is. This novel is about a woman called Martha. ![]() For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hot shot television producer Robert Cannon has a reputation for womanizing, drinking, and partying to excess. Unfortunately, she's not the only girl who finds him so intriguing. She might even have a bit of a crush on him. Most fascinating of all is the man she saves from almost drowning in the blue waters of the island lagoon. The wedding is set on the billionaire groom's private island and Marjorie is fascinated by all the new people she's meeting. But when she's asked to be a bridesmaid in her friend Bronte's destination wedding, she finds herself venturing into new and exciting territory. Raised by her grandmother, she'd rather go to bingo than go dancing. Waitress Marjorie Ivarsson is the picture of naiveté. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Billionaire Boys Club novels comes a sizzling series that pairs rich men looking for romances with some very lucky ladies in waiting. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The rainbow 1915![]() ![]() A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence's finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Pronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. ![]() "No work, I think, has presented this perception as an imaginatively realized truth more compellingly than "The Rainbow."Ĭlick for more in this series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels "Lives are separate, but life is continuous-it continues in the fresh start by the separate life in each generation," wrote F. (Author), Cushman, Keith (Introduction by)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Pronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915," The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The interior chinatown![]() ![]() Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Willis Wu doesnt perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: hes merely Generic Asian Man. A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire (The Washington Post). ![]() ![]() About the Book From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.- Book Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes one of the funniest books of the year. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Illusions 2 richard bach![]() I found the reading very interesting and thought it might be worthwhile to investigate the book. In one of the readings, The Creatures at the Bottom of the River, the book Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach was mentioned. ![]() While the blog has gone a bit stale (no new posts since May 2013), there are many great readings and stories there. ![]() As part of my search, I landed on a blog started by Chiao Kee Lim called the The Dirty 30’s Club. Last year, I chose to search out inspirational readings and motivational stories on the web. I prefer to take the latter approach to the internet rather than the former. But it’s also amazing because put to the right uses, it is a fountain of knowledge. ![]() Scary because it can be an echo chamber where one’s views, no matter how extreme and radical, can be validated and amplified. It can be both scary and amazing at the same time. ![]() ![]() Beaufort scores with this satisfying mystery nestled securely in a well-detailed historical context. She neatly captures the particulars of everyday life, from the clothes the Crusaders wore to the food they ate. Beaufort's novel depicts the twisted alleys and markets of Jerusalem-and the equally twisted motives that brought the Crusaders there-with clarity and force. From 2007 to 2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News. The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. ![]() Charged by both Tancred and the Advocate (the Catholic religious leader in Jerusalem) to solve the murders and discover their meaning, Geoffrey ferrets out treason and treachery, finding himself in constant danger. Peter May with the 2013 Barry Award for Novel, for his book, 'The Blackhouse'. ![]() The murder isn't unique: three monks and two knights have been similarly dispatched with carved daggers in locations throughout the city. ![]() Sir Geoffrey de Mappstone, a knight allied to the Norman leader Tancred, returning to the city from a desert patrol, discovers the corpse of a recently murdered knight in a baker's bedchamber. Victorious Crusaders battle heat, grit, Saracens, Greeks, Jews and one another to retain sway over the captured city. In this first volume of a projected series, the setting is 12th-century Jerusalem, as conflicted then as it is now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cantor makes their scholarship an intensely personal and passionate exercise, full of color and controversy, displaying the strong personalities and creative minds that brought new insights about the past.Ī revolution in academic method, this book is a breakthrough to a new way of teaching the humanities and historiography, to be enjoyed by student and general public alike. Norman Cantor focuses on the lives and works of twenty of the great medievalists of this century, demonstrating how the events of their lives, and their spiritual and emotional outlooks, influenced their interpretations of the Middle Ages. It had to be conceptually created: It had to be invented, and this is the story of that invention. The medieval world was not simply excavated through systematic research. In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. ![]() The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bell hooks the will to change![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it's so deeply ingrained in our society that it's hard for men to not comply-but hooks wants to help change that. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are-whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Bell Hooks € 24.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 3 weeks.Įveryone needs to love and be loved-even men. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Laszlo bock![]() Writing “Work Rules!” in a 16-week blitz during the final quarter of 2013, Bock drew on his nine years at Google and previous executive roles at General Electric and McKinsey & Company. The 42-year-old Los Altos resident also had research data, experience and the intangible touch - artistic sensibilities that transform algorithms, charts, metrics, black-and-white photos and personal workplace stories into an engaging mosaic with solid business leadership underpinnings. “This is my day job, so I had a lot of theory in my head,” Bock says. It’s Google, separated into irregularly shaped but perfectly interlocking pieces. The head of “people operations” at Google (what most companies call human resources) departs from the company’s usual “we speak” to craft a first-person narrative that promises to “transform how you live and lead.” Offering 10 “work rules” in a 14-chapter management manifesto aimed at defining meaningful work, the handbook reads like a puzzle in reverse. MOUNTAIN VIEW - Unrolling the geist of Google - the inner spirit of the 50,000-employee, high-tech global company - Laszlo Bock tells all in a list-centric book, “Work Rules!” (Twelve, $30, 416 pages). ![]() ![]() ![]() And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.įollow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions.and not to die in the process.īut one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. ![]() Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. "History is just one damned thing after another" - Arnold ToynbeeĪ madcap new slant on history that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.īehind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. ![]() |