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Kim rudyard kipling book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() So Kim represents the meeting of east and west, one of Kipling's obsessions, whose ethnic duality will be exploited in the covert war between Britain and Russia that provides the backdrop to this novel. Kipling's Kim is so untamed and sunburned that very few see him as white, or even know that his father was a sergeant in the Mavericks and that his mother was a poor Irish girl carried off by cholera. Some passages of the novel, indeed, could almost have been written last year. The " Great Game" (Anglo-Russian rivalry in central Asia, including the territory now known as AfPak), is afoot, with memories of the second Anglo-Afghan war (1878-81) still vivid. "He" is Kimball O'Hara ("Kim"), an imperial orphan scavenging a hand-to-mouth existence in the India of the British Raj at the end of the 19th century. ![]() Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot." Kim, Kipling's extraordinarily topical masterpiece, has one of the most brilliant openings in this series: "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Ghar – the Wonder Horse, as the natives call the Lahore museum. ![]()
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Dust book hugh howey5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The stories are set in underground silos after our world has been destroyed. If you have not read any of these, then this review won’t make sense. The final book (thinking of Wool Omnibus as book 1, Shift Omnibus as book 2 and Dust as book 3) provides a satisfying conclusion. (Collected they are almost 700 pages, but really are one book in three parts.) Then in 20 Howey wrote three segments that provided back story to the Wool series. ![]() Originally just conceived of as a 50 pages short story, Howey quickly wrote four more short stories that rounded out the original story into a full length book. Hugh Howey broke into internet fame just three years ago when he published his short story Wool. ![]() Links to my reviews of the earlier books are at the bottom of the page. Reposting this 2014 review because this book, and the two earlier collections that made up the trilogy are all on sale for $2.99 each on kindle ( Wool Omnibus and Shift). ![]()
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![]() ![]() In a rare moment of lucidity, Hikari asks Rachel for a book in her sewing room, and Rachel enlists her sister’s help in the search. When their deferential Japanese mother, Hikari, is diagnosed with dementia and gives Rachel power of attorney, Rachel’s domineering father, Killian becomes enraged. ![]() ![]() Both sisters recall how close they were, but the distance between them seems more than they can bridge. Drew, her younger sister, followed her passion for music but takes side jobs to make ends meet and longs for the stability that has always eluded her. Married to a wonderful man and a mother to two strong-minded teens, Rachel hasn’t returned to her childhood home since being kicked out by her strict father after an act of careless teenage rebellion. Rachel and Drew Snow may be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths. ![]() The award-winning author of How to Be an American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who soon learn that sisterhood knows no limits. ![]()
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Berger john ways of seeing5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972, film still. ![]() Here, curators Mariama Attah and Anna Frances Douglas, alongside tutor, artist and curator Jeremy Millar, return to Berger’s text and series to revisit its influence on photography. Though Berger continued to produce aeons of fascinating material throughout his career, it’s Ways of Seeing to which people routinely return as a blueprint for interpreting how images old and new structure our understanding of ourselves and how we want to be seen. ![]() His accessible reinterpretation of Walter Benjamin’s ideas, notably in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935), which appeared 50 years ago this year, unlocked a means through which everyday people, not just academics or scholars, could access ideas of artistic representation, reproduction and image construction. Since its release, John Berger’s landmark television series and book, Ways of Seeing (1972), has been a consistent favourite of students, curators and artists alike. ![]()
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Domination by Chris Owen5/30/2023 ![]() Jurassic World: Dominion filming location: the raid on the 'Saw Ridge Cattle Co, Nevada' : RAF Marsworth, Gubblecote, Buckinghamshire | Photograph: Wikimedia / Rob Farrow This was filmed on Hawley Common / Minley Woods, west of Camberley in Hampshire – where the ‘Lockwood mansion’ façade had been built for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.Ĭlaire ( Bryce Dallas Howard) is introduced, along with Zia ( Daniella Pineda) and Franklin ( Justice Smith) from the previous film, carrying out a clandestine raid on the 'Saw Ridge Cattle Co, Nevada', an illegal breeding facility, from which she liberates a sick baby Nasutoceratops. Several scenes were cut from the Theatrical Release (you can see them on the DVD / Blu-ray) and one is the 'copter chase following the T-Rex as it tramples through the very American-looking 'Skyline Drive-in Theatre'. Most obviously in England is the illegal dino dealing business, from which caged pterosaurs are being removed during a raid, which is Hire-It, 4 Station Parade, Ealing Road in Northolt, West London. So among all the globetrotting locations, there’s a little more of the UK than you probably realised. Jurassic World: Dominion filming location: caged pterosaurs are retrieved in the raid on the dinosaur breeder: Station Parade, Northolt, West London ![]()
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The wild one terri farley5/30/2023 ![]() She’s been separated from her family, her ranch and the wild mustangs she loves. It’s been two years since Blackie, the horse Sam raised from a foal, threw her in a near-fatal accident. I am now in the middle of the series two and I am enjoying the book as well. ![]() I got it out three times because I enjoyed the book so much. I enjoyed this book because it is attachable and an amazing story. But after 3 years she is driving back home from San Francisco with her Aunt Sue but while she is driving home she sees a white horse is it Blackie or not? ![]() This is a great book for the ones that love horses, it is the first in the series and I recommend the whole series to anyone that loves horses! The Phantom Stallion is the first series and it’s about Sam who has an accident and looses her horse Blackie into the wild. ![]()
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Holiday at the Inn by Andrea Boeshaar5/29/2023 ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Lena Nelson Dooley, Award-winning Author They always go to the top of my to-be-read pile." ![]() "Andrea Boeshaar writes the kind of books I love. What was his name? His rank? Why couldn't he recall? And who was the stern-looking female standing over him with a hypodermic needle in her hand? Why did his body hurt so badly? His leg, his back.his head. USA Colonel Peyton Collier awakens to intense pain and utter confusion. But he does his best to focus on the ultimatum that General Ulysses S. With Peyton near death, Eli finds it difficult to completely forget her and their plans for the future. However, now that Peyton is alive, he promises Carrie he will not continue to pursue her. CSS Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Kent has loved Carrie Ann since he met her a year ago. Doctors had given up on Peyton, so Carrie hires the woman and makes plans for all of them to return home as soon as Peyton regains his strength. While at City Point, as her husband lay dying, Carrie meets a nurse who claims to be able to work miracles. ![]() Except, Peyton wasn't dead, and now Carrie will do anything to keep him alive. ![]() And then she fell in love with his best friend, Eli Kent. ![]() Instead of trusting her intuition, she allowed herself to believe Peyton was dead. To onlookers, Carrie Ann Bell Collier might appear to be the dutiful wife, sitting at her unconscious husband's bedside. ![]()
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Hitty doll book5/29/2023 ![]() It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful personality. If you don’t want any spoilers, I encourage you to read it first then come back to our reviews.įirst, a short summary from Goodreads, “ Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. Excited to talk more about Hitty! As with our previous buddy read, we include several plot spoilers in our reviews so we can discuss the full novel. I loved our first buddy read because it helped me think more deeply about a great novel with a good friend. After we both finish the novel, we each come up with 5 questions (total of 10) to answer in our reviews. You might remember our first Newbery buddy read of When You Reach Meby Rebecca Stead (go read that novel now! It’s fantastic!). ![]() I was lucky to buddy read this novel with my friend Jackie Death By Tsundoku. It took me a bit to really get invested in Hitty’s story, but soon I really enjoyed it. Hitty won the 1930 Newbery Medal and I was excited to read this early winner. I am so excited to share my review of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field today. ![]()
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Wil wheaton still just a geek signed5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is an incredibly raw and honest memoir, in which Wil opens up about his life, about falling in love, about coming to grips with his past work, choices, and family, and finding fulfillment in the new phases of his career. In Still Just a Geek, Wil revisits his 2004 collection of blog posts, Just a Geek, filled with insightful and often laugh-out-loud annotated comments, additional later writings, and all new material written for this publication. He still blogs, and now has an enormous following on social media with well over 3 million followers. ![]() Yet, much to his surprise, people were reading. Believing himself to have fallen victim to the curse of the child actor, Wil felt relegated to the convention circuit, and didn’t expect many would want to read about his random experiences and personal philosophies. From starring in Stand by Me to playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation to playing himself, in his second (third?) iconic role of Evil Wil Wheaton in The Big Bang Theory, to becoming a social media supernova, Wil Wheaton has charted a career course unlike anyone else, and has emerged as one of the most popular and well respected names in science fiction, fantasy and pop culture.īack in 2001, Wil began blogging on. ![]()
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The Voice of the Delta by Robert Sacré5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It originally had a very limited print run but created considerable interest. Robert Sacré, a specialist in African American music, assembled a group of blues scholars in 1984 to consider Charlie Patton’s life and music, and this book contains the output from that conference. Robert Palmer in his Deep Blues, said that Patton was a musician who “still informs, entertains and moves listeners all over the world.” ![]() Patton’s recordings powerfully influenced subsequent generations of musicians and today, even nearly 90 years after his death, his music remains important. Charlie Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta, Robert Sacré (ed.), University Press of Mississippi.Īlong with Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton was arguably the most important and formative voice of the early sound of the blues in the Mississippi Delta. ![]() |