5/30/2023 0 Comments James joyce short stories![]() Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road. That was a good thirty years ago if it was a day. Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor. For years and years it had gone off in splendid style, as long as anyone could remember ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark, gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr. Everybody who knew them came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia's choir, any of Kate's pupils that were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane's pupils too. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan's annual dance. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies' dressing-room. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. ![]() Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. ![]() LILY, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The light between oceans author![]() ![]() After all, leaves are few and life on the island, a lonely affair. An ethical, strong and taciturn man, he is only too aware of at first the age disparity between him and Isabel and the fact that his posting as a lighthouse keeper on Janus rock, means she will have to forego all comforts, material and of familial support, if the two decide to get married. Meet Tom Sherbourne, an honourably discharged soldier, quelling ghosts of his past and meeting the love of his life, Isabel Graysmark. How can this debut novel by the Australian author M.L Stedman, focusing on a WW I veteran and his feisty wife, not pull at the deepest chords of anyone who has ever loved children, is what I leave the readers of my review to decide! ![]() The Light Between Oceans, a poignant book about the choices we make courtesy the archetypal instincts driving the human race since the beginning of time. And sometimes, just when you think it’s done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.” Sometimes it just bites right through you. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Legal Briefs by N.M. Silber![]() “Not if that other chick was any indication. “He probably pictures every woman that way,” I said dismissively, while my less-empowered, inner-girlie girl secretly beamed. “I’ll give you ten to one that he’s picturing you na**d underneath him moving like that.” ![]() “What do you mean, seriously? Not that it matters!” “Since you’re so liberated, I guess you don’t care that he’s seriously checking you out now!” Bruce the muppet yelled, while executing a move that looked kind of like those double axels that ice skaters did. At the moment, I was doing things with my h*ps that would have made Shakira jealous. Jason, who had put himself through college as a Chippendale’s dancer, had been teaching me all kinds of sexy moves, and I could seriously shake my pom-poms when I wanted to. The truth was that while Adam might be laughing at Bruce, he probably wasn’t laughing at me. ![]() I’m empowered.” You keep telling yourself that, Lily, I thought. “I’m not adorable,” I said, feeling unreasonably irritated. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Undisputed truth book![]() Yet he fought his way back the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” regained his success, his dignity, and the love of his family. Years of hard partying, violent fights, and criminal proceedings took their toll: by 2003, Tyson had hit rock bottom, a convicted felon, completely broke, the punch line to a thousand bad late-night jokes. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most thrilling and ferocious boxers of all time-and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. ![]() Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon-Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. ![]() A bare-knuckled, tell-all memoir from Mike Tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the world-and a legend both in and out of the ring. ![]() ![]() Some of the awards she has won include: B. Hooper has also written some stand alone novels and some novellas. She has written “The Once Upon a Time” series, “The Men of Mysteries Past” series, the “Quinn” series, “The Hagen” series, and “Special Crimes Unit/The Bishop” series. Kay Hooper is a prolific author, having written over sixty novels, mainly novels that are part of a series. Hooper lives with some dogs and her cats. ![]() Her house keeps her close to her brother, sister, and father. ![]() She still lives in the state of North Carolina and fosters kittens and cats for the local pet rescue center that she also serves on the board for. Her mother was her first personal assistant until she died in the year 2002, and her sister works for her as regional publicist, events coordinator, and business manager. ![]() That Christmas she got a typewriter and began work on her first novel (that was later published as “Lady Thief”, a Regency romance novel) that she was able to sell to a publisher in 1980. It was here that she concentrated on her writing (which she had been interested in doing for a long time). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Supernatural by joe dispenza![]() I found Dispenza through a fitness influencer I follow-ostensibly for her workouts but, if we’re being honest, mainly for her abs. Or it could be something much more troubling: the fact that he markets his meditations as cures for deadly diseases. It could be his paternal countenance it could be his professed scientific credentials. But something about him has a chokehold on the kind of young, millennial influencer class that craves spiritual guidance and Insta-ready mantras. Joe,” as he calls himself, preaches a fairly standard combination of mindfulness mixed with manifestation mixed with something he claims is quantum physics but definitely is not. ![]() His book, You Are the Placebo, is a New York Times bestseller. ![]() His meditations have been translated into eight languages, his $2,299 retreats sell out in days. The 61-year-old New Jersey-born chiropractor with a striking resemblance to Wallace Shawn and a voice like your Italian uncle after inhaling helium has in recent months become the dominant spiritual leader of impressionable young women everywhere. ![]() ![]() In a world in which “self-care” is sacrosanct, in which coffee shops sell crystals and tech bros microdose mushrooms and self-help-author-slash-spiritual-leader Marianne Williamson ran for president, it can be hard for a single New-Age guru to rise above the rest. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Native son 1940![]() ![]() ![]() Before the jury found Nixon guilty in the that case, per the Chicago Tribune, cops claimed that Nixon had confessed to murdering five people in the past, though his defense argued that he was coerced and threatened into doing so. The New York Times' obituary for Wright even mentions the real events that inspired Native Son, which was the story of Robert Nixon, an 18 year-old Black man in Chicago who received the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of killing a white woman in 1938. While Native Son is not based on a true story, exactly, Wright spoke out in numerous instances in his lifetime - the author died in France in 1960 - about how true life events had inspired the tale of Bigger Thomas (Sanders). The film adaptation of Richard Wright's groundbreaking 1940 novel stars Moonlight's Ashton Sanders, Sanaa Lathan, and If Beale Street Could Talk's KiKi Layne. ![]() On April 6 Native Son will be released on HBO following the film's premiere at Sundance earlier this year. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer![]() As they grow older, many become confused and afraid of the real world. They don’t see a difference between a cartoon character and a living person. At their age, they believe everything they see is real. Sesame Street teaches children very little of value and impedes their ability to properly learn what they need to know in order to succeed in the school system and in real life.Ĭhildren, while watching Sesame Street or cartoons, become very confused. In England, Sesame Street would have to be broadcast on an independent station. ![]() The BBC in England refused to air Sesame Street when it was offered to them the show's educational methods conflicted with the UK's long history of quality educational television programmes for young children. Most of our intelligence comes from our environment, what we are exposed to, especially in our childhood. Our genes play a minor role in our intelligence. Parents often pay more than $400 per hour for a tutor to help their child achieve a higher grade on one of these tests so they may be accepted by the university of their choice. There are numerous companies which are in the business of raising people’s score on an IQ, SAT, ACT, or some other test. A person’s intelligence is often taken into consideration when they apply for jobs or admission to universities. ![]() Billions of people believe they are born with a certain amount of intelligence and there is nothing they can do to improve it. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Edward II by Christopher Marlowe![]() ![]() Marlowe is not interested in much of this. The most notable battle of his reign was the humiliating defeat at Bannockburn where 6,000 Scots, led by Robert Bruce, crushed an army of 15,000 English infantry supported by 2,500 heavy cavalry. Not as awful as king John, but nonetheless he ruled unwisely, alienated the population, most of his nobles, struggled against rebellion and insurrection. In between came the second Edward who is traditionally seen as one of the Middle Ages’ ‘bad’ kings. Once he had thrown off their tutelage, he also became a mighty king, launching what became the Hundred Years War against France, during which his son, Edward the Black Prince, won famous victories at Crecy and Poitiers. Review of A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc MorrisĮdward III came to the throne as a boy (hence the unusual length of his reign, 50 years) and for the first decade England was ruled by his mother and her lover. ![]() England had three king Edwards in a row, over a century of Edwards – Edward I (1272 to 1307), Edward II (1307 to 1327), Edward III (1327 to 1377).Įd the first was a hard man who devoted himself to conquering Wales and Scotland, acquiring the nicknames Edward Longshanks (he was, apparently, over 6 foot 6 in height) and ‘the Hammer of the Scots’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The moment broken, he pressed on the gas, deliberately driving slower than necessary to aggravate the person behind him. Graham glanced in the rearview mirror, frowning. Biting her lower lip, Zoey stared back, wondering just what she was doing.Ī car blared its horn right behind them, jerking her back to reality. The light switched to green, but his eyes swept her features. “I’m working up the courage to ask why you’re not furious with me.”Īs they stopped at a red light, Graham gazed down at her, his tone softening. “I carve sculptures in my free time, what little of that I have these days. “I know, but it’s fun making you say it again.” Chuckling, he turned onto the next street over. Sometimes I go home and-” Clearing his throat, Graham glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. “What do you do when you’re not working?” ![]() “The cool customer in the sock hat on my screen saver.” Like a proud parent, he tilted his phone her way, showing a black-and-white snout on the cutest border collie in existence. Besides, I need to call Jake and make sure he hasn’t abandoned me for my friend and her far more exciting lifestyle. A few hours away from the insanity helps me keep my calm. “We’re past lunch, and I close between lunch and dinner. When he started up the engine, Zoey noticed the time flashing on the Dodge’s dashboard. ![]() |
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