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Murderbot 35/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Wells: I really enjoy writing the character, and for the past few years, working on the novellas and the novels have been a big comfort to me. : What keeps you inspired and engaged as a writer with this cyborg series? And I've always loved murder mysteries, so that seemed a fun way to do it. So I wanted to go back in the timeline a little and show how Murderbot's relationship with those characters developed, the rocky start when Murderbot was still getting acclimated to the station, and how the people on the station got acclimated to Murderbot. In the clip, Murderbot has a good working relationship with the Station Security people. Mensah, with the help of Preservation Station Security. Wells: There's a scene in "Network Effect" where Murderbot shows Thiago a video clip of an incident when it stopped an assassination attempt on Dr. ![]() : Can you take us on a speed run of "Fugitive Telemetry" and how it fits within the "Murderbot Diaries" saga? ![]()
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My bondage and freedom5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Slaves, generally, will fight each other, and die at each other's hands but there are few who are not held in awe by a white man. Despite of Covey, too, the report got abroad, that I was hard to whip that I was guilty of kicking back that though generally a good tempered Negro, I sometimes "got the devil in me." These sayings were rife in Talbot county, and they distinguished me among my servile brethren. ![]() I cared very little into whose hands I fell-I meant to fight my way. ![]() There is always more or less excitement about the matter of changing hands, but I had become somewhat reckless. ![]() My home for the year 1835 was already secured-my next master was already selected. I gladly left the snakish Covey, although he was now as gentle as a lamb. Edward Covey ended on Christmas day, 1834. New Relations and Duties CHANGE OF MASTERS-BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE-FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY-RECKLESS UNCONCERN-MY ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY-ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE-THE HOLIDAYS-HOW SPENT-SHARP HIT AT SLAVERY-EFFECTS OF HOLIDAYS-A DEVICE OF SLAVERY-DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COVEY AND FREELAND-AN IRRELIGIOUS MASTER PREFERRED TO A RELIGIOUS ONE-CATALOGUE OF FLOGGABLE OFFENSES-HARD LIFE AT COVEY'S USEFUL-IMPROVED CONDITION NOT FOLLOWED BY CONTENTMENT-CONGENIAL SOCIETY AT FREELAND'S-SABBATH SCHOOL INSTITUTED-SECRECY NECESSARY-AFFECTIONATE RELATIONS OF TUTOR AND PUPILS-CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG SLAVES-I DECLINE PUBLISHING PARTICULARS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FRIENDS-SLAVERY THE INVITER OF VENGEANCE. ![]()
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Hex Appeal by P.N. Elrod5/30/2023 ![]() And sometimes, even the best spun spells can lead to complete and utter mayhem. But as our conjurers are about to discover, it’s all fun and games until someone gets hexed. ![]() Spellbinding stories featuring bigfoot, albino vampires, professional wizards, resurrected boyfriends and even a sex droid from the twenty-third century named Silicon Lily. ![]() In this bewitching collection, nine of today’s hottest paranormal authors tell all-new, otherworldly tales. But what if you’re the unlucky soul who falls victim to a conjurer’s curse? And if you had the power to cast a magic spell of your own, would you use it? And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss-or raise him back again. And they're not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them. ![]() They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kissor raise him back again. In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal.In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. ![]() Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal… ![]()
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The city of brass novel5/30/2023 ![]() These are two characters who try to do their best, but who are only human, so to speak, in their naivete. ![]() While the fierce, stubborn Nahri serves as the outsider perspective as we explore Daevabad and djinn culture, self-serious scholar Ali is the insider, humanizing the hierarchy while never apologizing for its injustice. Ali is endlessly struggling to understand his own privilege and to balance exercising his own power with the love he has for his powerful family.īoth characters are young (this book walks the line between young adult and adult), which makes the mistakes they make and the eventual lessons they learn all the more believable. While this book is mostly being marketing as one with a single, female narrator, the dual narrator set-up ended up being one of my favorite aspects of the storytelling. Past that, Chakraborty subverts the patterns of a love triangle to tell a refreshingly realistic story of love, desire, and the dangers of under-communication. ![]() Of particular interest to this reader was the familial relationships between Ali, his father, and his two older siblings. ![]() However, even at its most confusing setting-wise, the character-driven storytelling of the book is easy to follow and engaging. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Remedios was an avid reader of the Middle Ages Literature where the mythic, the sacred, the magical and the supernatural existed as everyday happenings. ![]() Varo was the pioneer of feminist surrealism, even if she did not consider herself a surrealist her work not only involved the altered states of the oniric, but also a quest into an imaginary and concious condition. The strange mystic Mexican syncretism between the profane and the sacred, the inhabitants' surrealist way of living and the unique ironic and ritualistic manifestations of dual identities and meanings, certainly captured her in the same way Andre Bretón was captured during his visit years before. A Spanish exile of the civil war, Varo came to Mexico during the early forties and lived there for the remainder of her life. ![]()
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I am brian wilson book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, there’s a case to be made for the Beach Boys having created art pop. ![]() On the other hand, they were capable of realising a unique take on art pop (“In My Room”, “God Only Knows” etc) that was, and still is, simply unassailable. They looked like squares and they never had the hip cachet of the band they considered their real competition, the Beatles. They were all family, managed by their tyrannical dad Murry, apart from Mike Love, Brian’s close boyhood friend and cousin. In the left corner, the drug-fucked genius, the Bach of modern pop: BRIAN WILSON! In the right corner, the craven villain that everyone loves to hate, the man who stole the Beach Boys: Brian’s cousin, MIKE LOVE!įirst, let’s hear it for the Beach Boys. Were they the first proper boy band? When they first broke big, they were all teens, and Brian Wilson’s brother Carl (the one with the really great voice) was a mere 15 years old. Gary Steel surveys two new biographies by two old foes from the Beach Boys – Brian Wilson (genius) and Mike Love (asshole), and finds the asshole’s book is better. ![]()
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Mean myriam gurba pdf5/30/2023 ![]() Her skin’s beauty reminds me of good, soft things-peaches, magic hour sunlight, babies that never cry. She rubs her fingers down her creamy arms. In a scene where she’s so beautifully lit she looks like a painting, Venus cries, “You wanna talk about reading? Let’s talk about reading!” She embodies her femininity with cruel genius and shakes her peroxided mane. Venus Xtravaganza, a trans woman who’s murdered partway through the documentary, inspires me to be a better mean. To observe the queer art of being mean, watch Paris Is Burning. These virtuosos live closer to the divine. It’s best practiced by those who understand it as an art form. ![]()
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The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() by John Cournos (page images at HathiTrust) Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919: A Dilemma: A Story of Mental Perplexity (Philadelphia: Brown Bros., 1910), trans.Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919: The Dear Departing: A Frivolous Performance in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1916), trans.page images at HathiTrust US access only.Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919: The Dark (Richmond, England: Hogarth Press, 1922), trans. ![]()
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Trans by Helen Joyce5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Later, she would spend three years as the Economist’s foreign correspondent to Brazil, living in São Paulo. ![]() She has held many roles as a journalist, working for PLUS Magazine and Significance Magazine, both of which have an emphasis on communicating complex math and statistics to the everyday reader. ![]() She then acquired a PHD in geometric measure theory at the University College London. Before this, she trained as a mathematician, graduating from the Trinity College in Dublin, before attending Cambridge. Helen Joyce is an Irish novelist and journalist, acting as the executive editor for events and business at the Economist in London. Helen Joyce and Dr Jordan B Peterson discuss the depths of this truly cultural battle, the dangers of a quickly growing transhumanist ideology, and the unbridled narcissism lurking at the heart of the conflict. ![]() The Trans movement surges across western civilization, necessitating the ego-centric fantasies of gender-dysphoric youths over what once was known commonly as indisputable reality. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality | Helen Joyce ![]()
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![]() ![]() Until a very violent act, dangerous perpetrators and the truth catch up with Ursa and her newly adopted friends. But slowly Gabe and Jo begin to realize what a special child Ursa is, brilliant in fact, and the three begin to live happily together after a few weeks… neglecting the missing child websites. Jo can’t shake the little girl, who comes back each day, and so she begins to research missing children, calls the sheriff and enlists the help of her reclusive and mysterious neighbor Gabe. The peaceful, idyllic life, combined with hard work, is just the therapy Jo needs, until a tiny pajama clad and barefoot little girl shows up claiming to be from another planet. Determined to get back on track to what she loves after such a heart wrenching couple of years, JoAnna moves to a cabin in the woods to study nesting birds in rural Illinois. Jo Teale is an ornithologist trying to finish her Phd after taking two years off to deal with both the death of her mother and her own breast cancer. Here is my book review Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah. But her characters and their difficulties will pull the reader into this story, even when it sometimes feels raw and violent and a bit unbelievable. ![]() In her debut novel, Vanderah creates a story of life’s most difficult trials, many unimaginable to most of us. ![]() |