6/10/2023 0 Comments The memory police by yoko ogawa![]() ![]() Written in deceptively simple yet hypnotic prose, there’s a dream-like quality to the text, yet the subject matter is quite nightmarish. There are echoes of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and it also shares similar themes with Richard Flanagan’s latest novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, too.Īnd yet for all that, this is a wholly original dystopian novel like no other.Īs Madeleine Thein writes in her review, published in the Guardian in 2019, it is a “rare work of patient and courageous vision” and one that “can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination”. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a brilliant mix of The Diary of Anne Frank meets George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. ![]() Fiction – paperback Vintage 274 pages 2020. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Embry Moore served with Maxen who was being groomed for the presidency during the time that Embry and Maxen fell in love. ![]() ![]() There are a lot of flash backs to when all three knew each other earlier in life. But it is that good and there is so much more. I say it is a threesome between the first lady, the VP and President. When I try to explain this book, I don’t think I do it justice. Oh, what can I say about this book except for holy hell-I can’t wait until the American King! This is a refreshing MMF book and different from so many I have read in the past and I love my MMF books. Simone, don’t make us wait to long for the American King! ![]() There is so much intrigue, darkness, suspense and love packed in this book! Please, Ms. This trio is in so much love with one another and they are desperate to be together, until a foriegn terrorist sets his sights on the future first lady. It was a one night stand, or so Greer always believed. When he sends the VP, who was once the President’s lover, to the see Greer, she remembers the night she spent with the VP years before. Now, he is in the white house and is a widow. Greer met Maxen years ago and became infatuated by him yet when she meets him years later, he is engaged. It is deep and thought provoking, loving and kind. I love this book-what can I say I love a good MMF and this book delivers. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The blessing wanda brunstetter![]() ![]() Do I even need to say that Heidi and her six students will have meaningful experiences that bring them closer to each other and to their faith? The formula holds there are six more students, including a caterer and a food critic, a wife who feels neglected, and a teenage girl whose mother took off. Heidi is understandably disappointed, but decides not to dwell on her grief. At the beginning of this book, Kendra has changed her mind. ![]() When the first book ended, Heidi was expecting to adopt the child of one of her students. You can book your own return trip (or your first) to Walnut Creek by purchasing the novel from your local indie, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon. Brunstetter was kind enough to chronicle what happened in her new book, Amish Cooking Class: The Blessing. Well, ladies and gentlemen, Heidi is teaching more of her famous cooking classes. They want to nourish their bodies, hearts, and minds. ![]() People are focused on growing in love for others. Yes, things sometimes go wrong for the Troyers and the people around them, but there are no politics. ![]() Their farm is a calm and peaceful place: plenty of sunshine, plenty of nature. Several months ago, I was briefly a guest at the fictional Troyer farm, where Heidi and Lyle offer you their hospitality and their love of humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() He decided to become a poet shortly before 1950. Whitman spent his young adulthood working mainly as a teacher and journalist, founding two newspapers (including a “free soil” paper in Brooklyn, opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories). His formal education ended at age eleven so he could supplement the family income, but his five years working in a printer’s shop exposed him to literature, including Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Whitman was the second of nine children and his family endured great economic hardship during his childhood. ![]() The work as a whole was an attempt to reach the common person through an American epic, venerating the body as well as the soul, and finding beauty and reassurance even in death. He remains one of the most influential American poets, and is often referred to as the “father of free verse.” Song of Myself is a poem included in Whitman’s collection Leaves of Grass, and was the first and longest poem in the original version. He worked as an essayist, poet, and journalist, and volunteered as a nurse in the American Civil War (1861-1865). ![]() ![]() Walter Whitman (1819-1892) was born in Long Island, NY. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Author lynne truss![]() ![]() The story also offers encouragement: No matter how boring you find your department's next seminar, at least you aren't clinging to an ice floe in the Weddell Sea while being attacked by a sea leopard. Much like grad school, Endurance is a tale of optimists embarking blithely on a mission of discovery for discovery's sake, then becoming hopelessly entrenched in a situation that overwhelms them. ![]() When their ship becomes stuck in pack ice, they decide to camp until the spring thaw, only to watch the boat get crushed rather than released. In 1914, a party of 28 men led by Sir Ernest Shackleton (including Perce Blackborow, who should be celebrated as history's unluckiest stowaway) sails for Vahsel Bay, planning to make the first overland crossing of Antarctica. In Endurance, Alfred Lansing tells the true story of one such group. The Constable Twitten series won the Last Laugh award at CrimeFest and was longlisted for the CWA Daggers. She has written extensively for radio, and is the author of seven previous novels. It has sold over three million copies worldwide and won the British. Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves was a New York Times bestseller. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic By Alfred Lansing, paperback 282 pages, Carroll & Graf, list price: $14.95ĭuring your multi-year slog toward an advanced degree, you'll need the reassurance that others have undertaken far riskier missions and somehow survived. Lynne Truss is one of Britains top comic writers and is the author of the number one bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ![]() ![]() it's an interesting theme, but i'm glad the book didn't include any ACTUAL human vore. ![]() or to consume someone because you know it's what's best for them. My friend and i both read this in one sitting tonight, and somehow she predicted the vore from the very beginning! to love someone enough to want to consume them. much of the visceral nastiness seems to be there for shock value. there's no character development, and very little emotional resonance. i also enjoy the themes of loneliness and misguided devotion.īut the ending is abrupt, and the book doesn't feel as meaningful as i'd hoped. ![]() i was extremely intrigued, and interested to watch their relationship quickly evolve from respectful friendship to demanding sugar mommy situation. I love the premise: a short novella in epistolary format, chronicling the odd relationship between two women over emails and IMs in the year 2000. ![]() The book's acknowledgements describe it as a "bizarre fantasy of manipulation and depravity" and a "macabre tale of online lust and perversion" and a "nasty little nugget of terror." but i mostly just thought it was gross. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Working backwards book![]() Working Backwards is a practical guidebook and a corporate narrative, filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how it has affected their personal and professional lives. Bryar and Carr explain the set of ground-level practices that ensure these are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business. ![]() With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company-no matter the size-the authors illuminate how Amazon’s fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels and reveal how the company’s culture has been defined by four characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts-a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life-Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.Ĭolin started at Amazon in 1998 Bill joined in 1999. ![]() ![]() ![]() There will be more!Charley’s Ghost includes: The Ex Who Wouldn't Die, The Ex Who Glowed in the Dark, The Ex Who Conned a Psychic, and The Ex Who Saw a Ghost. The others are Murder, Lies and Chocolate The Great Chocolate Scam Chocolate Mousse Attack Fatal Chocolate Obsession Deadly Chocolate Addiction and Wives, Guns and Chocolate. The first book in each series is a USA Today Bestseller.Death by Chocolate is the first of seven books in that series. ![]() ![]() It's hard to make listeners sit still for the length of a book! Like my family's tales, my stories are funny, scary, dramatic, romantic, paranormal, magic.I have two ongoing cozy mystery series: Death by Chocolate and Charley’s Ghost. Thank goodness for computers so I can write down my stories. That could be due to the fact that everybody in my family has a singing voice like a bullfrog with laryngitis, but they sure could tell stories-ghost stories, funny stories, happy stories, scary stories.For as long as I can remember I've been a storyteller. When I went to bed at night, instead of a lullaby, I got a story. I grew up in a small rural town in southeastern Oklahoma where our favorite entertainment on summer evenings was to sit outside under the stars and tell stories. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The pickup artist neil strauss![]() ![]() ![]() In his book The Game, published in 2005, author Neil Strauss describes his experience shadowing Jeffries during Strauss' investigation of the seduction community. ![]() In 2000, Jeffries sued John White (also known as Don Steele) alleging invasion of privacy, business interference, slander and libel. In 2000, Jeffries was featured on Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. Phil Show, The Montel Williams Show, The Jane Whitney Show and The Daily Show, and is a self-described "speed seduction expert". Jeffries has also been featured on The Dr. In 1992, he was on a segment of NBC's Faith Daniels Show, appearing with men's rights activist Mel Feit and feminist and ethicist Bruce Weinstein. He taught workshops and promoted a collection of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques called "speed seduction". In 1988, Jeffries started to study seduction. Neil Strauss, in his 2005 book The Game, describes Jeffries as the "godfather" of the modern pick-up artist community. Paul Jeffrey Ross, known by the pseudonym Ross Jeffries, is an American author and pick-up artist. Writer, author, life coach, seduction guru ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Until the leaves fall in paris![]() ![]() With a good waterproof coat, you will be ready to explore the quaint cobblestones streets, grand avenues, and legendary gardens that make Paris' reputation.Ī classic waterproof trench coat in tan, gray, navy, or black is an excellent choice for traveling to Paris in the fall. The solution? The right type of outerwear. Sure, there are plenty of places you can explore during a rainy day in Paris, but it would be a shame to miss out on everything else that the city has to offer. Here are some of the things to keep in mind when traveling to Paris in the fall.įall temperatures are generally pretty pleasant to explore Paris. Maybe I can save you some of the discomforts I have experienced by sharing exactly what to bring in your bags during your next autumn excursion to Paris! Let's just say this packing list is the result of several years of trial and error. But packing for fall requires even more thought if you don't want to spend your trip regretting all the clothes you left at home and staring at your suitcase in disgust every morning. There are some things that you should pack when visiting the City of Light no matter the season. ![]() |