5/13/2023 0 Comments Norwegian wood book![]() ![]() ![]() Even Midori, with her spunky feminism, is complicated in her own way. Funnily enough, she isn’t the only complicated character the reader comes across the span of the story. Naoko, Toru’s dead best friend’s girlfriend who then gets involved with Toru, is a lot more complicated character, and even at the end of the story, I do not think anyone completely understood her, including Toru. ![]() And maybe I’m being too sensitive, but this guy slept around a lot throughout this whole novel! This got very frustrating to me at times and I felt like whacking him multiple times throughout the story honestly. He gave me Nick Carraway vibes from The Great Gatsby (which is his favourite book, so coincidence?) because he spends the majority of his life being a passive observer of his friends’ lives. Though he is the main character, Toru was not my favourite character in Norwegian Wood. As the story really delves into Toru’s memories, the reader ends up really face-to-face with his inner workings and emotions, so it is really interesting how I felt like I was hijacking Toru’s body. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He promised Brooklyn he would never love again, and he is keeping to his word. Matthew “Will-he-ever-see-an-ending-to-his-story” Caldwell is still a man in pain, hiding his bruised heart behind one-night stands and a fake million-dollar smile. Matchmaker is set 16 years in the future from Brooklyn’s untimely and rather abrupt passing. If one thing can be said about Smoak’s books, they demand to be discussed. ![]() And I still ain’t built for rock climbing.Īnyway, since I read Matchmaker what else am I going to do than get my two cents and a nickel out. I wasn’t a fan of Betrayal (Empire High #3) yet I had a sneaky feeling you’d find me back for book 4, simply because – closure, people! I need some closure but every time I feel the soothing edges of the final chapter in my reach… Poof. This series just keeps on going like Engine Everlasting on Snowpiercer. This is that, except high school actually ended. ![]() It’s like when you’re a teenager in high school and it feels like high school will never end. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Candyfreak by steve almond![]() ![]() ![]() Candyfreak is like a good candy bar: a piece of delicious, ephemeral fun." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Picture a magical, sugar-fueled road trip with Willy Wonka behind the wheel and David Sedaris riding shotgun, complete with chocolate-stained roadmaps and the colorful confetti of spent candy wrappers flying in your cocoa powder dust. A story as all-American as the aroma of peanut butter and milk chocolate wafting from its pages."-THE BOSTON GLOBE "This is gonzo food writing at its best. A delicious read."-PEOPLE "Combines the patter of a stand-up comic with the soul of a 10-year-old whose allowance is burning a hole in his pocket. PRAISE FOR CANDYFREAK "Hysterically funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were twists and turns in the plot that had me shocked. Although it's not detailed,(which I love) it cuts straight to the point while offering the reader perfect imagery on what's going on and flows effortlessly. Still a little similar to the first book, but still very intricate in how she portrayed other aspects. ![]() The way the story was set up created a very well balanced atmosphere. That's how I consider teenagers these days,(including myself.) The development in the characters was at the same level as the first book, but they had much more backstory in this installment. Many of the characters felt like real teenagers. Once again, Sarah Shepard does not fail to deliver a light but gripping book that will keep teens on the edges of their seats while relating to how real the characters seem. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Men without women hemingway![]() ![]() If you're looking for where to start in the Hemingway canon, know that you can't really go wrong. (For a man who wrote that he gets over writer's block by sitting down and writing the truest sentence that you know," this isn't altogether surprising.) ![]() The opening line of the book that helped him win the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, " The Old Man and the Sea," reads as a status report: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." Nicknamed the "iceberg theory" by Hemingway, much of his novels' meatiness (their nuances, their themes) lies looming beneath the surface. ![]() When you think of Ernest Hemingway - journalist, novelist, bullfighting aficionado - you probably think of the lean, understated prose that defines many American classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Lord Xavier’s invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A large country estate an ancient and powerful aristocratic family a dangerous hidden secret a mysterious anatomist a feisty amateur female detective and the brutal murder of a stranger. ![]() 'A charmingly intriguing murder mystery set in 18th century England.Robertson breathes life into her chosen period as authentically as did Georgette Heyer' * Daily Mail * Imogen Robertson is an exquisite writer, and this is an extraordinary novel' * Tess Gerritsen * 'Poetic, enchanting, and chillingly memorable. Robertson's greatest achievement is the creation of characters who are vivid and believable and so engaging that one hopes Crowther and Westerman find more murders to solve in the future' * Guardian * ' extremely impressive debut.told by Robertson with great panache' * The Times * ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Leonardo da vinci walter![]() ![]() He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. ![]() He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” ( The New Yorker).īased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” ( San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let me begin with a story that brought me to this point about how I learned to anticipate the future by studying the past. HOW I LEARNED TO ANTICIPATE THE FUTURE BY STUDYING THE PAST You can find the comprehensive version in my book “Principles for Dealing With The Changing World Order”. This study taught me valuable lessons that I’m going to pass along to you here in a distilled form. And every time they did, it was a sign of the changing world order. These painful surprises led me to study the last 500 years of history for similar situations where I saw that they had indeed happened many times before, with the ups and the downs of the Dutch, British and U.S. ![]() Over my roughly 50 years of global macroeconomic investing, I’ve learned the hard way that the most important events that surprised me did so, because they never happened in my lifetime. ![]() ![]() How do I know that? Because they always have been. The changing world order - the times ahead will be radically different from those that we’ve experienced in our lifetimes, though similar to many times before. Full text of author Ray Dalio’s talk titled ‘Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order’. ![]() |