![]() ![]() ![]() Also included in this volume is the story “One Last Night at Grogan’s” which was written especially for this collection. My thanks to the publishers and authors for the following review copies received, and be sure to click the links to their Goodreads pages for more details and full descriptions!įrom the awesome team at Subterranean Press, this week I received The Night and the Music by Lawrence Block, a collection of the author’s Matthew Scudder short stories. Mostly it also serves as a recap post, so sometimes I’ll throw in stuff like reading challenge progress reports, book lists, and other random bookish thoughts or announcements. Bookshelf Roundup: 05/22/21: Stacking the Shelves & Recent Readsīookshelf Roundup is a feature I do every weekend which fills the role of several blog memes, like Stacking the Shelves where I talk about the new books I’ve added to my library or received for review, as well as It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? where I summarize what I’ve finished reading in the last week and what I’m planning to read soon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after Gallus was beheaded, Constantius summoned Julian. He claims that the time studying was the best of his life, though he later indicates a true love of his political power. ![]() He'd allowed Constantius and others in power to believe he would become a monk in an effort to prove he had no political aspirations and was not a threat to the throne. Julian himself had agreed to become a monk at an early age, but not through any dedication to the brotherhood. However, Constantius had Gallus beheaded soon after naming him Caesar. ![]() Julian's brother, Gallus, was made Caesar long before Julian even realized he craved the power of the political offices of the day. Julian says he was certain he would be next and spent most of his younger years worrying for his life. His father was then killed by Julian's own cousin, Constantius. As a youngster, Julian was ripped from his home and those he loved - including his father and a beloved teacher. Julian's early childhood was fraught with danger and intrigue. He does, however, add notes throughout the story, sometimes correcting Julian's take on situations and sometimes adding details not included by Julian. Though Priscus agrees to send a copy of the manuscript to Libanius, he declines to be part of the published project. The story begins as two old friends, Libanius and Priscus, correspond regarding a manuscript written by Julian. ![]() ![]() When he was six, he moved with his parents and younger brother, to Limerick in Ireland, where he has lived ever since. ![]() At the age of three, he started school at English Martyrs' near the Elephant and Castle where he lived. O'Shaughnessy was born in St Thomas’ Hospital in London, opposite the Houses of Parliament. In the past, O'Shaughnessy has also published novels for adults under the Darren Shan pseudonym, but since 2014 he has released his work for older readers under the name of Darren Dash. O'Shaughnessy has published other children's books as Darren Shan, including Koyasan, and The Thin Executioner, and his newest series is called Archibald Lox. The former was adapted into a manga series from 2006 to 2009 as well as a live-action film in 2009, with a prequel series, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, being released from 2010 to 2012. He is best known for his young adult fiction series The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata, and Zom-B, published under the pseudonym Darren Shan. Darren O'Shaughnessy ( / oʊ ˈ ʃ ɔː n ə s i/ born 2 July 1972), is an Irish writer and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading about history was akin to time travel as it allowed her to travel to distant places, which she would then draw on her books. She remembers the first time she learnt how to read and asserts that it was one of the most exciting periods of her life. Her father was renowned publisher that often brought home blank books that Angie would spend hours filling with stories and pictures. ![]() Angie was raised in Kent, London, and the Thames Valley. Besides authoring the Septimus Heap novels she is also a writer and illustrator of children’s novels. ![]() Besides the “Septimus Heap” novels, Sage is also the author of the Araminta Spookie, and the Todhunter Moon Trilogy that are a sequel to the Septimus Heap novels. “Septimus Heap” is a series of novels by popular fantasy author Angie Sage. ![]() ![]() He has made several new albums that have been published with large intervals by Glénat since then. ![]() ![]() Yslaire took over the scriptwriting from Yann while working on the second episode in 1987. This critically acclaimed and darkly romantic saga about the impossible love between Bernard Sambre and a young farmer girl during the French Revolution was drawn in a far more realistic style than Hislaire's previous work and contained several literary references. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Yslaire. 4 2 cases Originales Planche 38 Glnat, 1996 by Yslaire on artnet. He assumed the pseudonym Yslaire and began 'Sambre' with scriptwriter Balac (a pseudonym of Yann) in publisher Glénat's Circus magazine. View Yslaire Sambre, Faut-il que nous mourions ensemble. Hislaire himself had radically changed his drawing style in 1986. The series continued to appear in Spirou until 1986, when Bidouille and Violette's young love ended tragically in a car accident. It called in a new wave of more personal comic stories, which was also represented in Spirou by Geerts' 'Jojo' and Wasterlain's 'Docteur Poche'. ![]() Hislaire's series about the love between two adolescents was unique for its time, especially in magazines like Spirou. com/livres/Yslaire-Sambre-Tome-4-Faut-il-que-nous-mourions-ensemble/12464. In 1978 he started his breakthrough series, the poetic and romantic 'Bidouille et Violette'. Wilhelm-Nietzsche-Ecce-Homo-Comment-on-devient-ce-que-lon-est/1775. Bernard Hislaire is a Belgian artist, who is known for his poetic and litterary comics oeuvre, which he has mostly published under the name Yslaire. Je vous invite dcouvrir ce catalogue mis en scne par Vincent Odin et. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. ![]() But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress-that just may cost her life. Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel ![]() ![]() ![]() The progression is terribly recognisable. The motor of the debate is the difference between a pioneering activist (Ben Daniels), who advocates public confrontation with authorities, and those who, temperamentally more circumspect or fearing for their futures at a time when to be gay was to be worse than marginalised, favour more cautious, conciliatory approaches. Lack of support for stricken groups without a power base. Varied theories – mosquitoes? Pigs? – about the origin of illness. Startling symptoms: those sudden dark blotches on the skin were once as inexplicable as Covid’s deadened tastebuds. “There is always a plague of one kind or another,’’ one character declares. The obvious hook of the piece – like that of Jack Holden’s small-scale Cruise, which played in London during the spring – is the effect of pandemic. Elaboration is in the argument, more sinuous than it might appear from some inflated speeches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their ideas are straightforward and easy to comprehend, yet what they showed about our biased thinking is profound and has widespread implications. Tversky and Kahneman are without doubt two of my favorite scientists, all categories. In the process they may well have changed for good mankind's view of its own mind. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield - both had important careers in the Israeli military - and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis' own work possible. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.įorty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Clever and seductive… the ‘weather’ of our days both real and metaphorical is perfectly captured in Offil’s brief, elegant paragraphs, filled with insight and humor. ![]() Offill offers an acerbic observer with a wide-ranging mind in this marvelous novel.” - Publisher’s Weekly ![]() “Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill’s third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis, including liberals fearing climate apocalypse and conservatives fearing the demise of ‘American values.’ As she attempts to save every’one, our protagonist is driven to her limits, making for a canny, comic story about the power of human need.” - Esquire As Lizzie obsessively researches disaster psychology and survivalist strategies, her answers grow increasingly apocalyptic and unhinged. Soon Lizzie is fielding questions from left wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of Western civilization. She wants Lizzie to answer the mail for her famous doom-laden podcast, Hell and High Water. But one day her old mentor, Sylvia, asks for a favor. She dropped out years ago in an attempt to rescue her younger brother from the throes of addiction. Lizzie is a Librarian at the university where she was once a promising graduate student. ![]() ![]() ![]() The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. I.'s best mathematical logicians then they drop with their own teams. Since there are never enough officers, the team commanders in his flag transport double as his planning staff and are picked from the M. ![]() He needs a big planning staff and a small combat staff. But a general must have staff the job is too big to carry in his hat. In fact a good many platoons are commanded by sergeants and many officers "wear more than one hat" in order to fill some utterly necessary staff jobs.Įven a platoon leader should have "staff"-his platoon sergeant.īut he can get by without one and his sergeant can get by without him. does have, but arranged somewhat differently. Officers total 3 per cent-which is what the M.I. There are no blank files and every officer commands a team. You wind up with 317 officers out of a total, all ranks, of 11,117.īut this doesn't reflect necessity or reality, as he explains: Six regiments with six colonels can form two or three brigades, each with a short general, plus a medium-tall general as top boss. Three platoons to a company calls for 72 captains four companies to a battalion calls for 18 majors or lieutenant colonels. This imaginary division has 10,800 men in 216 platoons, each with a lieutenant. Rico describes a hypothetical M.I.-only division (one not having non-M.I. ![]() |