![]() ![]() ![]() But it is Miss Murdoch's special gift that makes her people real and sympathetic as well as bulls-eye targets for a most Jively wit. Naturally these and other less sensational but very amusing characters and the hothouse atmosphere of a whacky English Brooks Farm provide ample opportunity for satire. The naive college boy eager to partake of the good and pure life seduces a visitor's willing wife, takes part in a hoax concerning the convent's new bell that ruins the community and becomes involved with the director in a fashion that forever demolishes his hope of being a priest. ![]() The very beautiful girl whose bitions to enter the convent make her the pride of the community turns out to be a schizophrenic in love with the director (who had seduced her brother). The community's director, a devout and intelligent young man, keeps trying to convince himself that his lapses into homosexuality are not really sufficient moral cause to prevent his becoming a priest. Not since the early Huxley novels have such a varied, neurotic and strange group of characters enacted their amorous and philosophical adventures against the mellow background of a stately English home. An Anglican lay community on an estate attached to a convent of Anglican nuns provides the setting for some quite melodramatic happenings-suicide, a wrecked marriage, an antiquarian cause celebre- among the small and eccentric band of idealists. ![]()
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![]() According to Roberts, the sobriquet ‘the Great’ is given to ‘huge figures who decisively influenced the history of their times’. Napoleon the Great: there is no arguing with that.Įxcept there is, on almost every conceivable ground. Enthusiasts will have to read the first two for themselves to decide whether their authors fall into the camp of Napoleon’s admirers or detractors, but the last proclaims its allegiance on its dust jacket. Notable among these are Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny, the first volume of a two-part biography by Michael Broers, Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799–1815, Philip Dwyer’s sequel to his Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799, and now Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon the Great. ![]() ![]() I have spent virtually the whole summer wading through a series of new works on the French emperor. The bicentenary of the fall of Napoleon was simply too tempting a subject for authors and editors alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Awakening is the first title in our SUPERNATURAL SUMMER book feature from Harper Teen. Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends-a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch-and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. What does that mean? For starters, I’m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control I raise the dead without even trying. A living science experiment-not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. ![]() ![]() If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl-someone normal. Why did I read this book: I loved The Summoning, book 1 in the series, so naturally I had to have book 2. Stand alone or series: Book 2 in the Darkest Powers trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() more was just a small obstacle she had to overcome, not something that ever kept her from moving forward and I loved that.Hartley (Adam Hartley) also started the school year with something unexpected, a badly broken leg that kept him from playing hockey as well. Corey! I loved her determination, the fact that she wouldn’t let anything slow her down and her tenacity.As I read this book, Corey’s attitude turned what could have been a story about a girl with a disability, into a tale about a girl who wanted to live her life to the fullest. Let me stop here and point out the first thing I loved about this book. Unfortunately, an accident has left her in a wheelchair. Lucky for us, they also find love!!Corey is a hockey player who was hoping to start college as the fantastic athlete she is. ![]() A story about two people who meet each other unexpectedly and under difficult conditions and find solace, friendship and safety in each other. Review 1: 4.5 stars! This was a really great friends-to-more story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prosus, one of the largest technology investment companies in the world, has recently made a significant acquisition in the tech industry.The company has acquired Stack Overflow, a popular platform for programmers and developers to collaborate and exchange knowledge.With this acquisition, Prosus has set its sights on expanding and investing in the Stack Overflow community.This blog post will examine the implications of the acquisition and explore Prosus's plans for Stack Overflow.Īs a programmer or developer, you might be wondering how this acquisition could affect you, and we'll dive into that too.Prosus Acquires Stack OverflowOn June 2, 2021, it was announced that Prosus has acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion.For those who are not familiar, Prosus is a global consumer internet company that invests in several tech companies across different sectors. ![]() ![]() Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for 18 billion ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. Vestul i Restul (Paperback) Published 2011 by Polirom Paperback, 336 pages Author(s): Niall Ferguson. ![]() The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress. ![]() Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. ![]() ![]() Dobbs’ deputy, Nick Hayslip, grabs the wingnut and roughly evicts him. Dobbs feels slighted by the dead bird on his desk. For the wingnut, the seagull portends something ominous and otherworldly coming to destroy this small coastal Oregon town. A religious wingnut drops a mutilated seagull onto Sheriff Dave Dobbs desk. The Mercy of the Tide opens in a sheriff’s office. I’m talking, of course, about the alternate 1983 in Keith Rosson’s new novel The Mercy of the Tide. People far from DC and national politics struggle to live lives without feeling overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness. The doomsday clock ticks ever closer to midnight. Moscow and the KGB threaten the American way of life. You can read the review in its original form here. That said, here’s my review of Keith Rosson’s book Mercy of the Tide. ![]() Whether I know you or not, I say only what I genuinely believe in my reviews. It’s not nepotistic in the sense that I won’t review a book anything but honestly. ![]() It is somewhat nepotistic in the sense that I choose my friends’ books as the subject of my reviews instead of books by strangers. I’ll admit that sometimes I review books by friends and acquaintances of mine. ![]() ![]() The duo have teamed up again, but this time to produce a remake that they claim is aiming to be more like what they had in mind back in 1981. ![]() 30 years later and Raimi has made some of the highest grossing movies of all time (Spiderman Trilogy) while Campbell has developed a massive cult following from fans who love his “good” bad movies. Eventually two sequels would be made (Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness), but both of the movies moved away from the angle of horror and into the realm of cheesball comedy that the original had developed a name for. The irony of the movie is that the creative team was trying to make a truly great movie and failed miserably, but because it was fun enough it garnered a following. ![]() In 1981 aspiring film maker Sam Raimi and no name actor Bruce Campbell teamed up to make what is considered one of the best B-movies ever made, Evil Dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, thanks to the mercy of a wealthy widow and the attention of her stable hand, Ned, Bill Furlong had a good life, even after his young mother died.īut Bill is feeling unrest. He knows all he cares for could be lost at any moment, knows that as the son of an unwed servant, he could have ended up in a very bad place. Bill Furlong, almost forty, a hard working coal merchant with a wife and five daughters, knows how good he has it. This novella takes place in cold and wintery 1986 Ireland. This book is a short read but will stay with you for so much longer. Like so many small towns, people are struggling to get by, and people are being driven from their homes, heart wrenched, into the cities to find decent jobs. ![]() It is set in Ireland where times are hard, economic depression is settling in. ![]() If you enjoy It’s A Wonderful Life or the story of The Good Samaritan, you will love this book. One day, near Christmas, he makes a delivery at convent when he discovers something that doesn’t sit quite right with him. Furlong is making ends meet though, delivering fuel in the form of coals and logs to the townspeople. The town has known hard times, factories are closing up, and people are being laid off. They have enough to eat and aren’t living on credit. He has a happy life with his wife and five daughters. ![]() Bill Furlong is living a quiet, unglamorous life in Ireland. ![]() |