![]() ![]() Friends for life that you can play with, gnaw at your fingers, sleep and eat with. He always felt like a young Daniel Boone and his first and only love was that to share his time with a ‘puppy’ just not any puppy, but two hounds. Why does the author call puppy love a terrible disease?.Seeing the warm gray eyes brought many memories of his past and his feelings, like an old familiar face he sat in front of his fire and started thinking of them. He earlier stated when he saw the dog-fight and looked at the “old hound fight against such odds”, “he remembered an old hound that gave his life so that he may live”. The narrator had fond memories of his past, wonderful memories. ![]() What memories are stirred in the narrator’s mind when he sees the warm gray eyes of the friendly old hound?. ![]()
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6/9/2023 0 Comments Scandalous shen![]() ![]() Trent’s only weakness lies in his love for his daughter Luna, whose refusal to articulate and give voice to her thoughts drives him to desperation. Days later, she finds herself forced to work for her father (whom she hates and for good reason), who is in a partnership with Trent and his friends. ![]() The story begins with the most unlikely of scenes, where Edie snatches a purse off a woman on the street, only to find that it is from Trent’s mother. ![]() Scandalous tells the story of how 33 year old Trent Rexroth meets his match in 18 year old Edie Van Der Zee, the last woman on earth whom he would have chosen for the role, if he had a choice in the matter. The one thing that I can say is that Scandalous can be read as a standalone for the most part, I did not feel as if I had lost out on anything by starting straightaway with the 3rd book in the series. Having not read the two books prior to this one in the series, I just jumped right in because a lot of reviews seemed to hint that the hero was the kind that I love the best ruthless, a tad cruel at times, and nevertheless endearing in a way that is hard to explain. Shen is the 3rd book in the Sinners of Saint series. ![]() ![]() ![]() So let's talk a little bit about how you did it. ![]() So I think it's just probably the most unfiltered sort of real take on what it is to go through the Silicon Valley roller coaster as I think one can write and not, you know, get sued for libel. some of the negative reviews, clearly it's not that they don't like my book, they just like Silicon Valley. ![]() I mean, the book isn't nice because Silicon Valley isn't a nice place.Īnd I feel that I accurately portrayed this world. Talk a little bit about why you did this. I wouldn't put it that way.īut people here are as thin-skinned as it gets. But in general, not many people tend to crap on Silicon Valley and so … Talk a little bit about why you did it and then we'll talk about being a startup and some of the things that people have issues with in the book. we had Dan Lyons on for "Disrupted," which I thought was a hysterical book. ![]() Kara Swisher: Okay, you have written what I would say is probably a not a nice book. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on iTunes, Google Play Music, TuneIn and Stitcher. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. You can read some of the highlights from the interview at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above. On a recent episode of Recode Decode, "Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García-Martinez spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher about why his new tell-all book isn’t nice: Because " Silicon Valley isn't a nice place." ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Swimming in the dark tomasz![]() ![]() The two young men develop a friendship and swim together at a nearby river. Ludwik meets Janusz at a work education camp shortly after they graduate from university. ![]() Most of this novel consists of flashbacks to events of the previous year. Radio reports of unrest rekindle memories of his homeland, specifically of the young man with whom he fell in love. When the government crackdown begins in ’81, Ludwik is living in New York. These were the early years of Solidarity (the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country), which led to communist Poland’s declaration of martial law. ![]() That’s the situation in which Polish university student Ludwik Glowacki finds himself in Swimming in the Dark, a moving work set in 19. Most people experience this sensation at some point, but imagine how intense it would be if you were a gay man coming of age under a government that expected allegiance you weren’t prepared to offer. It’s tough to feel like you don’t belong. ![]() ![]() It is about the journey in an out of life's most deceptive traps. ![]() Reclaim Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. Many of us have no idea why this happens. Many of us live our lives, entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment. And then returning to the better, truer, and freer version of yourself. Reclaim Your Heart is about finding that moment when everything stops and suddenly looks different. Every heart can heal, and each moment is created to bring us closer to that transformative return. It is a book about redemption, about hope, about renewal. It is a book about how to keep your heart from sinking to the depths of that ocean, and what to do when it does. ![]() It is a manual about the journey of the heart in and out of the ocean of this life. Reclaim Your Heart is not just a self-help book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The very fact that many of them are becoming obscure and misunderstood emphasizes the urgency of the task. The National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation, was created in order to revive those original American concepts in all of their initial brilliance and vitality. It is one of the most thorough compilations of statements by the Framers relating to constitutional interpretation, and addresses the Constitution clause by clause - providing resources on the Founder's intent of each clause. The Making of America provides a wealth of material on the Founding Father's intentions when drafting the American Constitution. Therefore, there has been a need to review the history and development of the making of America in order to recapture the brilliant precepts which made Americans the first free people in modern times. This has resulted in some of their most unique contributions for a free and prosperous society becoming lost or misunderstood. ![]() For many years in the United States, there has been a gradual drifting away from the Founding Fathers' original success formula. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Ysrael junot diaz![]() Rafa is a rebellious teenager who wants to cause trouble and provocation. "Ysrael," the first story, chronicles Yunior and his brother Rafa's early childhood living in Santo Domingo over summer vacation. Readers have to figure out how Ysrael relates to other stories of self-expression and economic entrapment while also navigating Diaz's political agenda(s) in the collection. ![]() Diaz seems to make this character the heart of the book because he opens with Ysrael and returns to him before closing. ![]() Further, these narratives focus not on Yunior or members of his family, but on Ysrael, a deformed Dominican teenager. These two stories describe a different type of poverty and life than in other parts of the book. ![]() However, the collection has two somewhat anomalous pieces: "Ysrael" and its companion "No Face," which are set in the Dominican Republic. The majority of the text focuses on life in New York City and its suburbs. In his collection Drown Junot Diaz writes about the experiences of immigrants from the Dominican Republic-especially as observed by Yunior, the narrator of several of the book's stories. ![]() ![]() This one is highly recommended if you have an Alaskan cruise booked. I can put the book down, grab my binoculars and scan the horizon for calving glaciers and wildlife without feeling like I must get back to my book. This slow-burn, easy reading cozy mystery is a perfect choice to sit and read while we are cruising the glaciers. I found myself searching for the locked cabinet to see if there were any clues inside! It’s so cool to visit places mentioned in the book Glacier Bay, Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, and Misty Fjord. Dolly’s house is now a museum with a minimal entrance fee and easy to walk to from the ship. I loved reading about the history of Creek Street and Dolly Arthur/ Thelma Copeland, so I made it a priority to take a guided walking tour when we arrived in Ketchikan. ![]() This is the first time I’ve picked up a spin off book and it was a journey back in time and a good reminder why I loved the show. ![]() ![]() A copy of this cozy mystery should be in every cabin on an Alaskan cruise! We are on a similar cruise that Jessica Fletcher sailed on in the Inside Passage to Alaska and I’m finding myself thinking about the characters and the ports of call as we wander around the ship and ashore.Īs a teenager, I used to love watching Murder, She Wrote while I was babysitting on Sunday nights. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Ducks memoir![]() The birds certainly garner more attention from the public: the New York Times covers the story, and by the end of that year, more than a thousand ducks perish at the nearby pond. The staff are more preoccupied with a group of ducks that got stuck in nearby tailings ponds-the toxic sludge that results from the oil-extraction process-and the steps they need to take to avoid it happening at their facility. ![]() But the death feels like a footnote at the gathering, and despite a few murmurs, it is shrugged off by those present. The worker suffered a heart attack and threw himself out of a crane to avoid accidentally landing on the controls and hurting those around it. ![]() Then, the staff learn that one of their peers has died. He rattles off a warning about appropriate PPE. “Okay boys-couple notices here,” the man leading the meeting says. She is far from home, as are most of her co-workers people have come to the mines from across Canada and beyond its borders. It’s April 2008, and Beaton has been working in the Alberta oil sands for over a year. ![]() O ne of the most memorable scenes from Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir happens at a routine safety meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What are the two characters supposed to do when each needs the sandals? They come up with a plan and stick to it to the end.Īs the story unfolds, you notice how it builds up around these sandals. The other sandal? Meet Feroza, another 10-year-old girl. The first line captures with authenticity the humiliation refugees face as depicted in the way the relief workers (even if well meaning) throw used items at the crowd around the truck. She and her mother fled the war in Afghanistan where she had lost her father. This is achieved with language describing how a young girl “raced barefoot to the camp entrance where relief workers threw used clothing off the back of a truck.” We meet Lina who is in a refugee camp in Pakistan. With concise language, the opening line puts readers in an unfamiliar territory and engages them viscerally. By Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed / Illustrated by Doug Chayka ![]() |