![]() I don’t know how many breaths I can take to keep from exploding on his nonchalant, arrogant ass. “Can you just enjoy the fucking ride?” he says as if he is annoyed with me. ![]() “And I’m supposed to pretend that the past two years haven’t happened? That I don’t know the truth?” “We just go back to being how we were before? Let’s remember, things weren’t exactly peachy.” “So what’s the plan?” I try to keep bitter sarcasm out my voice but I’m sure it’s not working. I used to think of it is as only my weakness but now I know it’s his weakness too and I fully intend to use it to try to fix this mess-if we can be fixed. We’re both at odds, but we still love each other. He's still angry but he’s still here with me and that means all hope isn’t completely lost. ![]() I feel like I’m slipping back into my old life. I walk out of the hotel and see him sitting in the Audi. I feel powerless, more than I ever have before. ![]() I try to gather my thoughts as I make my way downstairs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken Upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and We do the things we do because we were taught how to do them, even if we don’t Learn from new experiences, but we are still human, and there are centuries of Would continue, even after the world ended. Passed down their traditions and mannerisms, and I think that those things Those are the ones that lived and loved in a bright and shiny world, and they What they were taught by those who came before them. I find it fascinating to think about how people wouldĪttempt to go on with business as usual, even if they don’t necessarily They still cling to what they’d been taught by those who came before them? We Their lives? Would they act completely different than we do today? Or would The idea that I couldn’t shake while writing this ![]() The reader is told at the beginning that a hundred years have ![]() ![]() The ravine can also be a place of danger, for it represents the unknown, and Lavinia Nebbs finally loses her cool when she crosses the ravine alone the night that the Lonely One is prowling about. ![]() It can be a place of wonder, the gateway to the unknown wilderness where Douglas and his friends run each day. ![]() Therefore the ravine is suggestive of several different places. So the ravine is not really a part of the town, or at least it is not under the control of the town. Early on in the book, Douglas thinks about the continual war that is waged between the town and nature, and he considers the ravine to be the middle ground. The ravine is an area that holds tremendous power in Dandelion Wine. ![]() What can be said about the interaction between these two forces throughout the book? Does Bradbury seem to favor one over the other? Why? Bradbury writes several times in Dandelion Wine about the ravine, the middle ground between civilization and untamed nature, with roads leading to both. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is now working on three collaborative novella projects and the first full-length novel featuring his hardboiled private eye Angela Hardwicke.Īs a matter of full disclosure, readers should not be surprised if Russ spontaneously teleports in a blast of white light followed by screaming fluorescent color and the feeling of being sucked through a tornado. ![]() Russ has also contributed to several other anthologies, including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, Altered States of the Union, Camelot 13, TV Gods 2, and Brave New Girls. Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife, two children, and crazy dog, Simon, who may in fact be an alien himself. Russ Colchamiro is the author of the rollicking space adventure, Crossline, the hilarious SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, and is editor of the new SF anthology Love, Murder & Mayhem, all with Crazy 8 Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. Chanel-a woman made of sparkling granite-will do anything to survive. While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule. ![]() Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs- lys es, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich's High Command in the Hotel Ritz. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII.Ĭoco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. ![]() Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style-the iconic little black dress-and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is true and well-documented that Gandhi wrote letters to Hitler: one was written on July 23, 1939, and the other on December 24, 1940.īut the letters in no way suggest that Gandhi and Hitler were friends. ![]() Letters written by Gandhi to Hitler, addressing him as "Dear Friend" and ending with "Your sincere friend," are referenced as proof of the friendship. Was Gandhi friends with Adolf Hitler?Ĭlaim: There's a myth circulating on the internet that Mahatma Gandhi and German dictator Adolf Hitler were friends. But his attitudes toward some issues like sexuality and race have come under scrutiny. Gandhi is still deeply revered worldwide, especially for his philosophy of nonviolence. Almost six months after India gained its independence in August 1947, Gandhi, 78 years old at the time, was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. Gandhi - better known as "Mahatma" ("great soul" in English) - was one of the leaders of India's struggle for freedom from British colonial rule. January 30 marks the 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() America may be going through a rough patch, he acknowledges, but he is optimistic that Americans can overcome the hard times and make their country-or the federal government, at least-great again.ĭespite this book’s grandiose title, its contents are mostly less than fanciful. or around the world thought that the American government was getting a lot right at any level. Yglesias wrote his “maximum America” prescriptions during the Covid pandemic, at a time when few in the U.S. What precedes this curtain-call hat tip is a somewhat haphazard menu of policy items that Yglesias would like to see implemented in and by the United States. “In tweet form,” Yglesias says, “this whole book is simply ‘ Maximum Canada, but for America’” (p. At the end of One Billion Americans (on the very last page, buried in the Acknowledgements), Vox co-founder and Beltway pundit Matthew Yglesias writes that his book “owes a vast inspirational debt” to Saunders and Maximum Canada. (New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2020, 288 pages, hardcover, $24)Ĭanadian journalist Doug Saunders’ 2017 book Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough is about growing Canada’s population in order to amplify the nation’s presence on the world stage. ONE BILLION AMERICANS: THE CASE FOR THINKING BIGGER ![]() ![]() ![]() Today I have the lovely Laura Bickle on the blog for an interview to talk about her book The Hallowed Ones, which is a vampire/post apocalyptic novel based in an Amish setting. She refuses to submit to the Elder’s rule and secretly brings the stranger into her community-but what else is she bringing in with him? But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man lying just outside the boundary of their land, she can’t leave him to die. Unsure why they haven’t yet been attacked, the Amish Elders make a decree: No one goes outside their community, and no one is allowed in. ![]() Something is out there…and it is making a killing. It begins with a fiery helicopter crash in the cornfields, followed by rumors of massive unrest and the disappearance of huge numbers of people all over the world. But before Rumspringa arrives, Katie’s safe world starts to crumble. Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers are free to experience non-Amish culture before officially joining the church. In this captivating thriller, an Amish settlement is the last safe haven in a world plagued by an unspeakable horror… If your home was the last safe place on earth, would you let a stranger in? The Hallowed Ones Laura Bickle Publication date: September 25th 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ![]() ![]() The solution isn't as easy as solving the case, which is treacherous enough as it is. Aaron tries desperately to place a firewall around his heart and fight his developing feelings, knowing one misstep on his part could ultimately destroy him. ![]() His attraction to the inked up, dark-haired man provides another kind of threat altogether. Aaron gets more than he bargained for when the FBI partners him with a handsome and tempting deputy US marshal. Aaron's biggest hazard at his job is cramped fingers, but all that changes when he is drawn into the middle of a dangerous federal investigation. Young and full of idealism, his highly sought after computer skills land him a position with the National Security Agency. Hell-bent on closing the ongoing case for his longtime friend, he pushes past his own limits and uncovers more than he expects.Īaron Stuart strives for one thing: justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never one to mix business with pleasure, his boundaries blur and his convictions are put to the test when he finally comes face-to-face with the hot computer geek he's been partnered with. A former SEAL now employed by the Special Operations Group of the US Marshal Service, Kreed spent most of his life working covert operations and avoiding relationships. Honor, integrity, and loyalty are how Deputy US Marshal Kreed Sinacola lives his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book appears to open up into individual pages just fine. Even though JBE Books claims that this book is a “sculptural object” that “cannot be read or displayed in bookstores”, there’s literally nothing stopping you from plopping it down on a sturdy desk and opening it up for a good long read. You can probably use the slipcase as a monitor stand, really.Īnd true to its word, you can even use this book to read 102 volumes of the One Piece manga all in one sitting. ![]() While being just over 2.5 times the weight of one of those monitors to boot. For comparison: those dimensions would make this book about the same length as the average computer monitor. That would certainly explain why the whole book weighs a hefty 17 kg (36 lb). That would be 4.5 x 7 x 31.5 in for us Americans. ONEPIECE is now actually the longest book in the world, with dimensions measuring a grand total of 12 x 18.5 x 80 cm. ![]() Not just in collecting all those volumes of One Piece in a single paperback either. So that’s what 102 volumes of a manga looks like when condensed. Given that this book contains a grand total of 21,540 pages, I’d say they succeeded. This whoppingly huge book apparently intends to collect volumes 1 through 102 of the One Piece manga by Eiichiro Oda into a single enormous paperback volume. JBE Books is proud to announce ONEPIECE by Ilan Manouach. All the Pieces in a Single Book That’s not a doorstopper. ![]() |