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That Woman by Anne Sebba5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Sell my sourdough bread which (like thousands of others) I have learned how to make in lockdown. What would you do if you only had $50 left in the bank? Sending increasing numbers of young people to prison is such a futile exercise if there is no proper plan to help them when they come out. If you had $10,000 where would you invest it? ![]() I cannot do that quite yet but I have lots planned - including a trip to Australia in September 2022 What is your favourite thing to splurge on? I eventually removed it because it made me so cross that every letter was addressed to my husband with me in copy. To allow a firm of investors to look after my small pension after I left Reuters and to discuss what to do with it with my husband. What's the worst investment decision you've made? I adore the one I took away that day, now worth thousands, although it is not really an investment as I will never sell it! I wish I had taken more but that seemed greedy. After I published an interview about him, he invited me to go and visit his studio in Edinburgh and while there he offered me to buy anything I liked for just a few hundred pounds. ![]()
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Thoreau essay on civil disobedience5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Thoreau, in order to justify the rightness of Civil Disobedience and the need for the rule of supreme individualism or transcendentalism, explains the inherent problems with the government.Īccording to Thoreau, the American Government “has not the vitality and force of a single man can bend it to his will.” Further, he says, “Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on even impose on themselves, for their own advantages.” ![]() Summary Inherent Problems With Government ![]() This is why, he begins his speech as, and “I heartily accept the motto-‘That government is best which governs least’.”īut he considers the motto to be lacking something and goes on to the extent saying- “That government is best which governs not at all.” Thus Thoreau is highly critical of the extent to which a government interferes in the life of commoners. Thoreau examining the consequences of the rule of the state was satisfied with the fact that too much intervention and interference of laws of a government and silence of its subjects can be very dangerous as it will make the people follow even those rules of the government, which its makers have made for their own sake and profit. ![]()
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Beautifully Unexpected by Lily Morton5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s everything that Magnus has spent a lifetime avoiding. He’s messy and creative and nosy and mysterious. Laurie Gentry is nearly the same age as Magnus, but that’s where the similarity ends. However, when one of these sunny young men shows an inclination for dramatic scenes, Magnus meets his new neighbour. Why date someone his own age to discuss back pain, retirement-planning, and corns, when he can date men who don’t care to discuss anything at all? ![]() He fills his nights with a parade of handsome young men who want to make him happy. ![]() A successful trial lawyer, he spends his days lecturing jurors, exasperating judges, and striding arrogantly around courtrooms. He’s divided his life into happy compartments. Men, sofas, books-everything gets jettisoned, eventually. At fifty-two, he doesn’t believe in keeping anything. Magnus Carlsen is determined to grow old disgracefully. Sometimes love comes when you least expect or want it. ![]()
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A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes5/12/2023 ![]() Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. This was never the story of one woman, or two. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. 'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe ![]() Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 ![]()
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The never king and the dark one5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Give her all the anti-heroes, villains, and monsters. When she loves a villain, she wants him to get the girl in the end. She spends her days penning books where the villains end up getting the happily ever after with the women that drive them the most wild. Nikki has been obsessed with the morally gray characters, the monsters and anti-heroes in fiction, ever since she was a child. Nikki can typically be found at her desk with a cup of coffee and the sort of music that her daughter refers to as ‘gothic fairy tale’. She spends much of her days daydreaming and writing about the bad boys of paranormal romance. She has since ditched the treasure hunts in favor of something better: sexy, steamy romance with all of the villains. Nikki’s first book was about a magical mansion filled with jewels and gold. She has been writing since grade school when the pages of her stories were filled up with treasure hunting and adventure. ![]() Crowe writes paranormal romance where the villain gets the girl. ![]()
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The wonder book by emma donoghue5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief" (Newsday)Īvailable Novemfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown & Company. Donoghue keeps us riveted" (Chicago Tribune) The novel received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for the 2016 Giller Prize. Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months. "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body. A Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and 1 bestseller, The Wonder is the latest masterpiece from Man Booker Prizeshortlisted author Emma Donoghue. The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue. "Heartbreaking and transcendent"(New York Times) Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep" (USA Today, 3/4 stars) Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels - a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. ![]() Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this “old-school page turner” (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Outside of their trysts, Marcus bullies Henry like everyone else. Because of this, he has earned the nickname “space boy.” Space Boy hooks up with Marcus, who is everything that Henry isn’t–popular, athletic, and deeply closeted. He is, predictably, not well liked or popular because unfortunately when the sluggers return him to Earth, he is often found wandering naked on the outskirts of town. ![]() No sweat, right? Except…why on Earth (pun totally intended) would Henry save a planet on which he and everyone he loves is suffering so greatly from such a wide range of various tortures?Īt school, things are also pretty crappy. So, you can imagine the strain it puts on him when the aliens (who Henry affectionally nicknames “the sluggers”) who have been occasionally abducting him give him the option of saving the world or letting it be destroyed. His interactions with his family are strained by his mother’s exhaustion from working two jobs and his brother’s impending teen fatherhood. He’s grieving for his boyfriend, who committed suicide last year. ‘We are the Ants’ by Shaun David Hutchinson ![]()
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Drowning ruth5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. ![]() But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge-she has carried her troubles with her. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. ![]()
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