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![]() ![]() ![]() Comments about the book have highlighted the vertices of a unitary weave in the stories that make up Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego. In the end, this multiplicity is somewhat misleading following a reading that goes beyond plots, which almost always trap the reader. In her latest book of short stories, Mariana Enríquez presents an amplitude of characters and spaces, subjects and situation: a mother and her son, drug addicts and slums in the neighborhood of Constitución, which are challenged by an unsettled narrator youths who grow up among drugs, alcohol, and rock music in Menem’s Argentina of the 1990s protagonists “haunted” by mysterious places like houses, inns, and courtyards the ghost of a famous serial killer - el Petiso Orejudo - a less-than affectionate triangle sketched on the “Gothic Mesopotamian,” as the author calls this geographic area of Argentine, adjacent to Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay a school inhabited by a Chinese dwarf and a woman obsessed with a skull she names Vera a husband consumed in an apartment, inhabiting the deep web and swarms of passionate women throughout all of Argentina. ![]()
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Stolen focus paperback6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing - a flaw in each one of us. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. Everyone should read it ' PHILIPPA PERRY _ Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons behind our shortening attention spans. ![]() Worth your time and certainly worth your focus' OPRAH WINFREY ' A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention ' STEPHEN FRY ' A really important book. * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one' TELEGRAPH 'This book is exactly what the world needs right now. ![]()
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The pickwick papers review6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() One story is spooky, another a suspenseful tale of revenge, another full of pathos involving a prodigal son.Īnd the men get themselves into various fixes. ![]() The men meet many good folks in their travels, and some of those people provide stories that make up some of the chapters. Tupman thinks himself something of a lady’s man, yet gets into all kinds of trouble in his romantic endeavors. Snodgrass is poet but never produces any verse. Winkle is supposed to be a sportsman, yet botches any sportsman-like endeavors. Part of the humor comes from the men’s circumstances not lining up with their reputations. The other Pickwickians are Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman. He decides he and three fellow club members will travel and report their findings and activities back to the club. Samuel Pickwick is a kindly older gentleman and the head of the club bearing his name. Thus The Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ first novel, was born. Before long the stories surpassed the illustrations in the public interest, and Dickens began asking the artists to come up with sketches for his own work. He didn’t know much about hunting and fishing, but he took up the idea of a men’s club. Charles Dickens was 24 when he was asked to contribute brief anecdotes to go along with some serial illustrations about a club of men falling into comic misadventures hunting and fishing. ![]()
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Guns germs and steel pbs6/24/2023 ![]() Guns, Germs, and Steel: Book OverviewĪfter completing his doctorate at Cambridge University, Diamond did research among the remote tribes of New Guinea. ![]() Keep reading for an overview of Diamond’s award-winning book. ![]() It was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, and turned into a PBS documentary released in 2005. Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond’s attempt to determine why societies historically took different paths. What is Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond about? What are the key takeaways from the book? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. ![]() This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. ![]()
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Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can’t decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her. Mercy’s loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Now it’s up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. But Mercy’s barkand biteare not so harmless. ![]() Being a lowly walker in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. A series of murders has rocked a fae reservation, and Zee needs her unique gifts, namely her coyote sense of smell, to sniff out the killer.īut when Zee is accused of murdering the suspect Mercy outed, he’s left to rot behind bars by his own kind. 4.7 857 Ratings 8.99 8.99 Publisher Description Expect to be spellbound by Patricia Briggs’s 1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. So when her former boss and mentor, Zee, asks for her help, she’s there for him. Though Mercy can shift her shape into that of a coyote, her loyalty never wavers. When she decided to write a book of her own, a fantasy book seemed a natural choice. Patricia grew up reading fairy tales and books about horses, and later developed an interest in folklore and history. ![]() Being a lowly walker in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. Patricia Briggs was born in Butte, Montana, to a children’s librarian who passed on to her kids a love of reading and books. But Mercy’s bark-and bite-are not so harmless any more… About Iron Kissed Expect to be spellbound by Patricia Briggs’s 1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. ![]() Being a lowly “walker” in a world of vampires, werewolves, and fae once kept her safe. “Expect to be spellbound”* by Patricia Briggs’s #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Mercy Thompson. ![]()
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![]() Keefe explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the 'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary journalism. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker.Īs Keefe observes in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.' ![]() Patrick Radden Keefe's work has been recognised by prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford in the UK, for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time. ![]()
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Layne fargo they never learn6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The alternating story lines ramp up quickly as Carly and Allison fight their fellow peer while Scarlett evades authorities and gets closer to the lead investigator on the crimes.Įven as an adult, I still feel like September is back-to-school season, so I find myself reaching for books set at colleges and boarding schools. But after Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly feels like it’s her job to seek justice for her roommate. Her roommate, however, wants them to be social. She’s finally escaped her emotionally abuse father, and she wants to live a quiet life in the background at school. When authorities begin noticing an extremely high body count for one university, they start digging, and it threatens Scarlett’s whole operation.Ĭarly is trying to simply survive her freshman year at college. Picking out the worst men at the university she teaches at, she makes sure they pay for what they’ve done.īy day, Scarlett is an esteemed English professor, and she always keeps her victims close. She’s chosen her victim carefully she always does. ![]() ![]() Scarlett Clark is a murderer, and a damn good one. This book starts off with a bang-literally. ![]()
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Leave the world behind rumaan6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple-and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another? Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. But in this rural area-with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service-it’s hard to know what to believe. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. are an older black couple-it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. You can read this before Leave the World Behind PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Leave the World Behind written by Rumaan Alam which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam ![]()
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![]() Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Virginia Henley is the author of thirty historical novels, including The New York Times bestsellers Seduced and Desired, as well as three novellas. Woodiwiss, Bertrice Small, Heather Graham Pozzessere, Kat Martin, Christina Skye, Marsha Canham and Susan Johnson. ![]() She became a friend of other prominent writers such as Kathleen E. ![]() She sold her first novel The Irish Gypsy in 1982 to Avon Books. Woodiwiss, and decided to start to write. The marriage took place in Grimsby, Ontario, where she was a housewife, who read The Wolf and the Dove by Kathleen E. They had two sons, Sean and Adam four grandchildren, Daryl, Michael, Tara and Ryan and three great grandchildren, Aireanna, Elizabeth & Faelynn. Virginia married Arthur Henley in 1956 and they remained together until his death in 2013. Her mother, Lillian Syddall, taught her to love history. Virginia Syddall was born on 5 December 1935 in Bolton, England. ![]() ![]() She is well known for her Medieval, Renaissance and other period piece romance novels. Virginia Henley (née Virginia Syddall born 5 December 1935 in Bolton, England), is a British-Canadian writer of historical- romance novels. ![]()
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Wink harrell6/22/2023 ![]() He ends up in a band, alongside his other best friend, Abi, and a misunderstood bully. Ross is inspired, finding a release and freedom through music that he struggles to find anywhere else. One of the technicians managing his treatments introduces him to some new genres of music and then teaches him how to play the guitar. One way Ross finds to cope with his turbulent emotions is through music. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. ![]() He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. ![]() It looks at the difficulties all children face at school, not just those specific to Ross, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Summary: A dark subject, but sensitively told with some lovely, humourous moments. ![]() |