![]() “This book about a financial crime that is also a ghost story about container shipping,” she says. ![]() The Glass Hotel, which blends the story of an investor whose Ponzi scheme falls apart in 2008 with that of a woman who disappears from a ship in 2018, is no exception. But Mandel, the 41-year-old author of four previous novels including the acclaimed Station Eleven, specializes in fiction that weaves together seemingly unrelated people, places and things. The story of Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme and the devastation it created looms over Mandel’s latest book, The Glass Hotel, out March 24. “And how much more intense our camaraderie would be if we all showed up at work on Monday morning to perpetuate a massive crime.” ![]() ![]() “It got me thinking about how much I liked my coworkers,” the novelist says, peering down at the wet sidewalks of Manhattan’s financial district from a restaurant lounge. John Mandel was working a day job at a cancer-research lab in New York when she learned of Bernie Madoff’s investment scandal. ![]()
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The Woods ( Polish: W głębi lasu) is a Polish mystery thriller television miniseries, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Harlan Coben. ![]() ![]() Most people assume that whatever they can currently perceive is all that exists, but that’s a far cry from the truth. Why do humans sabotage themselves like that? Because they’re operating under the false but hypnotic belief that WE are not powerful-that life just happens TO us, and that scarcity (of good jobs, wonderful mates, or anything else) is actually real. Most people embark on The Hunt without first clarifying what they're after, so they end up disappointed and feel they must settle for less than what they really want. The problematic thing about job-hunting is the same as with hunting for a mate: you’re primarily hunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was exactly what I wanted, to the letter! But it wasn’t due to luck, chance, brownie points, or good karma saved up like so many S&H Green Stamps from other lifetimes. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Ink exchange by melissa marr![]() ![]() The tattoo does bring changes-not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. The second installment in Melissa Marr's #1 New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series brings readers back to the land of faerie and delivers another stunning, high-stakes romance. ![]() ![]() Toss into the mix the gang from Rock Chick and Rock Chick Rescue and Roxie finds herself totally outnumbered.Ĭlimb in for another Rock Chick wild ride through Rock Chick Redemption. The problem is no one agrees with her, especially her crazy hippie best friend Annette or her parents the even crazier small-Indiana-town Herb and Trish. Roxie’s trouble catches up with her and Hank wants to help but Roxie knows in her heart that she’s no good for a white hat guy. Roxie tries to hold Hank at arms length but Hank wants to be a closer (as in, a lot closer). She’s in no mood for love at first sight, but when her eyes fall on Hank, it’s trouble from the get-go. ![]() Roxie’s on the run from a bad boyfriend who will not catch the hint that it is o-v-e-r. ![]() ![]() ![]() Life moves on and you learn from it.īecause of the novel’s content it has been the frequent target of censorship and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven. And, sometimes, you can just end up with a couple broken hearts and hurt friendships. Although Katherine doesn’t have any STDs or pregnancy, others in the book do. I’m sure people have said that there aren’t any consequences to sex in the book, but it’s not true. ![]() It tries to educate teens about sex without being preachy. Nowadays, sex permeates our culture to the point where we barely notice it. And sure, there are consequences to sex, but sometimes they’re just matters of the heart. (And of course, the girl suffered the consequences and didn’t even want sex in the first place.) Forever essentially stems from the idea that you can be responsible and educated with your sex life, and both males and females have hormones. Until 1975, when Forever was published, sexually active teens in stories ended up pregnant, disease-ridden, married to miscreant (of course unhappily), some have grisly, illegal abortions, and in extreme cases, dead from a bad delivery or disease. I shall never be able to look anyone called Ralph in the eye again. ![]() ![]() ![]() The study of comparative religion is beneficial in that it allows us to observe how religious beliefs are "coincidentally" related to who holds power in a society. I do not believe it is appropriate to label "god" as either a male or a female. If there is any sort of transcendent being, I believe that it is beyond gender, race, ethnicity, or any other label humans choose to categorize themselves by. Personally, (and this does bear mentioning before I'm accused of wanting to take down The Man and institute a Goddess religion because I read this book), I do not believe that there is a Supreme Deity. Accordingly, the rise of the Judeo-Christian religion, she argues, coincided with the decline of the the status of women in society. ![]() Using archaeological evidence, Stone argues that when much of humanity practiced the religion of the Goddess, the status of women was much higher that in male-deity worshiping Judeo-Christian societies. ![]() When God Was a Woman sets out to explore this question, as well as to explore what Goddess-worshiping societies looked like. might we expect in a society that for centuries has taught young children, both female and male, that a MALE deity created the universe and all that is in it, produced MAN in his own divine image- and then, as an afterthought, created woman, to obediently help man in his endeavors?" ![]() I will begin this book review with a question Merlin Stone asks in the Preface to her book When God Was a Woman: ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Something borrowed book![]() ![]() The dates that Rachel went on with Marcus were just left out. They wrote out a lot of other events that should have been kept in the book. ![]() He actually seems to replace the friend Hillary that they have seemingly written out of the movie altogether. ![]() Something BorrowedA hard-working attorney at a. In the book, he is in London from the get-go. Two of Emily Giffins most beloved novels tell one story of love and betrayal, friendship and forgiveness. When I started the movie the first thing that really popped out at me was the fact that Ethan was actually in the movie at the beginning. I was really hoping that the movie would be better than the book. To top it all of the subject matter, the cheating with the fiance who is marrying your best friend, was something that slightly rubbed me the wrong way. She also blames everyone else for things that she herself should be responsible for. The main characters are either spineless and whoa is me all the time or a complete and utter bitch who is only focused on herself and no one else around her. It took me forever to read it, or rather longer than it would normally take for me to do it. So when I stumbled across this book and was intrigued to read it.įirst off this book was a massive struggle bus for me. When I was looking for a book to movie book to do for the month of Jan I looked for books that had been on my shelf for a bit as well as books that I was able to find in kindle unlimited for free. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments David dosa oscar![]() ![]() Dr Dosa's job is to respond to people's medical needs, treat them for their ailments and communicate with their families. So what's so unusual about Oscar? He knows when the hospice patients are going to die. But in the summer of 2007 Oscar made headlines around the world. Like most cats, he's partial to treats and catnip. At first glance Oscar doesn't seem special. Oscar the cat lives on the third floor of a nursing home in Rhode Island, USA. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Can a cat really predict death? Is he smelling something or responding to behavioural clues? Is he helping guide souls to heaven? Oscar's warm and profound story - of his uncanny ability to see death coming, of his steadfast and non-judgmental commitment to sit with patients as they die, of his quiet compassion - is a metaphor for what is important at the end of life. And, because of him, they don't die alone. He is a steady companion as patients descend into death. ![]() ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Misquoting jesus book![]() ![]() ![]() Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. ![]() In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. ![]() |