![]() It's not that Strauss has conservative beliefs. Ordinarily, of course, Strauss's splendid ideological agnosticism tilts him to the right, not the left. Not that he doesn't think this-he surely does-but why would he say it? Sure enough, the next day's paper carried an "Editor's Note" explaining that the quotation from Strauss "omitted the context" and should have added, "I think she is one of the very credible and sensible political voices in this town and country." It's a testament to Strauss's clout that he got the Times to print such a ridiculous correction, and a hint of how he got that clout that he wanted one. ![]() I was astonished to read him quoted in the Times a few months ago saying that Ann Lewis, a far-left Democratic activist, was unfit to be party chairman. Strauss is not the sort to maintain a principled disagreement with anyone. This is best translated as: "Goddammit, I want Bob Strauss's name in the paper tomorrow." There is nothing to prevent a good, sound bill from being worked out. There is no time like the present to get the job done, and the key players all know it. ![]() Writing on trade recently in the Post, Strauss opined "The American people want something done about it. For depth and passion, they make his pal Bob Dole (with whom he shares a Florida winter retreat) seem like Henry Kissinger. Strauss's rare public remarks on public issues are embarrassingly banal. Why? Wherein, exactly, lies the greatness of Robert Strauss? Is it his devotion to liberal values? His deep insight into the issues facing our nation? Hardly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s a book that will reward either sustained attention or aimless browsing. Whatever these next two weeks hold for you, Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them would make a good companion. Or don’t muddle through them at all, but rather drift happily and lazily through them. How did the writing go this week? Are you beset by distractions, like back-to-school to-do lists and new schedules? Or recovering from or embarking on a summer vacation? The clarity and renewed vigor I always associate with September is right around the corner, so muddle through these last hazy weeks of summer as best you can. ![]() ![]() ![]() The neighborhood is near the site of the 1939 World's Fair and the Belmont Park racetrack, an important venue for horse racing. Most of the novel takes place in New York City, albeit one of its less developed areas: Flushing, in the borough of Queens. ![]() He finished it and had it published in 1941 while still an undergraduate at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. Farley began to write The Black Stallion while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. His uncle was a professional horseman and taught him various methods of horse training and about the advantages or disadvantages of each method. His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), the success of which led to many sequels over decades the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven.įarley was the son of Walter Patrick Farley and Isabelle "Belle" L. Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 – 16 October 1989) was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is still published as a single volume, titled Magician, in the UK. Magician was separated into two volumes for the United States market and published as: Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master. Originally reduced in size by his editors, it was re-published in 1992 (after the author's fame had grown) in an edition titled "The Author's Preferred Edition" (or "revised edition" in some markets) with much of the deleted text restored. It led to many books written by Feist in the world of Midkemia, which was the setting for this book. ![]() It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and was published in 1982. At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician - and the destinies of two. Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to begin again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. ![]() To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. ![]() ![]() Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained forand learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates. I was expecting a continuation from the first Wayfarers book but this can almost be. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced listeners to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. She's never felt so alone.īut she's not alone, not really. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, 2) by Becky Chambers Book review. ![]() When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. ![]() The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. **Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger** ![]() ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com ![]() ![]() ![]() If you like this video and want to learn more, buy the book on Amazon or at your local bookstore, and then grab our full 12 minute version by signing up for a free account at www.readitfor. We bring you the best ideas from the world’s most-read business books & bloggers. If your idea is good, it’s never been easier to spread it by creating a blog, podcast, or compelling social media presence.įinally, you could create a community around your idea, where you are the central hub.Īt, we spark conversations that lead to your greatest work. Networking is one way, and building an audience is another. Next, you need to build a following around your Big Idea. Rachel Ray has made a career out of cooking simple and delicious 30 minute meals that anybody can make at home.Īnother way is to provide new research in an area that your marketplace would find valuable, and then codifying it into a memorable framework, like Robert Cialdini did with his best-selling book, Influence. One way to do this is to develop expertise in a niche that others would find valuable, but has been overlooked. ![]() ![]() The first thing you need to do is to develop your Big Idea. She wrote the book Stand Out to teach us how. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the 1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. Dorie Clark knows that one of the ways to success in today’s marketplace is to become a recognized expert in your field. ![]() ![]() ![]() You have no idea how hard I am for you right now.” I want to know that I drive you as crazy as you drive me.” ![]() “We’re going slow…not stopping.” I pulled away and gave him a serious look. He caught it as I passed along his hip bone. I sighed contently and started sliding my hand around his hip. He laughed a little and grabbed me in kind, over my jeans. As the intensity of our kiss increased, I ran my hands under his jeans and boxers and grabbed his backside. Lying together on Kellan’s bed, I nimbly took off his shirt and ran my fingers down the lines of his chest while we kissed. * *Timeline: At the end of Thoughtless, when Kellan and Kiera are dating but not yet having sex** SEE KELLAN & KIERA AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE!!!! READ ON !!! – CAUTION: TEMPERATURE COULD GET HOT!!!!!!ĬHECK OUT THIS HOTTER THAN HOT NEVER BEFORE SEEN DELETED SCENE FROM THOUGHTLESS ![]() ![]() Josephine has a son, which Vianne didn’t know about and Roux never mentioned despite living in Lansquenet for four years before finding Vianne in Paris. Father Francis Raynaud has been replaced by another priest because he’s under suspicion of arson. Vianne and her daughters pack up and travel back the village they have not visited in so long, only to find that much has changed. Vianne wants to return Roux refuses to go. The letter states that Vianne is to return to Lansquenet, take care of Armande’s peach tree so the fruit doesn’t go to waste, and to help someone in the village who will need it. ![]() It’s been eight years since Armande’s death, yet Luc has been instructed to give Vianne a letter from his grandma upon his twenty-first birthday. But then a letter arrives from Luc Clairmont, the grandson of Vianne’s friend Armande (played by Judi Dench in the film). Rosette, still speechless but fluent in sign language, stays with Roux all day instead of attending school. Though space is tight, Roux’s new boat has a small area for Vianne to make and sell chocolates, while Anouk continues to go to school. ![]() Vianne, Roux, Anouk, and Rosette are living on a boat moored along the Seine. ![]() Originally published as Peaches for Monsieur le Curé and later released as Peaches for Father Francis, Joanne Harris takes readers back to Lansquenet, the quaint French village they were first introduced to in Chocolat. ![]() ![]() ![]() But don’t think Cook would ever stoop to cloyingly sweet salutations and soothing platitudes of “happily ever after”. There are almost none of the old guard left, and whoever lives still, bruised and battered and exhausted by the constant struggle, has not much time left.Īs we have lived with them through thick and thin, through their bitter defeats and elating victories, their slow demise feels somehow deeply personal. And the crucial change is, obviously, its people. It still goes on, united by a common dream, but in nearly forty years of its history told by Cook over the course of nine books it has changed so profoundly it’s hardly recognizable for what it once was. What remains – a wound, a bruise, a slowly healing scratch – whatever the case, it’s a sign that reality won despite our best efforts of will □Īnd so it is for the Black Company. ![]() Over time this book came to resemble a tender spot one only gingerly agrees to touch, for it is a reminder of a past encounter with unyielding reality. Mostly, I think, because Soldiers Live is an elegy to Black Company so heartfelt and bittersweet and true – to its own history, sentiments, internal logic and the author’s worldview – that I found the necessary return to it surprisingly tasking. I’ve read it over a year ago, but somehow couldn’t force myself to write down a review. ![]() Soldiers Live is the final installment in Glen Cook’s Black Company series. ![]() Series: The Chronicles of the Black Company ![]() ![]() Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord, and women who rebuff at carrying the title. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. ![]() A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in Black feminism ![]() |