5/30/2023 0 Comments Book of night holly black summary![]() Bring on the sequel! That ending, y’all!!!!!Īs always with Holly Black’s books, characters are fully-developed, particularly the characters of Jude, Taryn, and Prince Cardan. There were at least three moments (all in the last 25%) where I actually gasped out loud at something that happened. I loved this book and after a certain point, I truly could NOT put it down. Kudos to Holly Black, who has once again prevented me from getting a good night’s sleep on a school night. Raised in the royal Faerie court, the girls struggle to find their place among the fae, most of whom–particularly faerie classmate Prince Cardan–hate humans and show them only cruelty. Their older sister Vivienne, who is Madoc’s half-human daughter, was also taken to Faerie. ![]() Ten years ago, Jude and her twin sister Taryn were stolen away from their human parents by Madoc, a formidable faerie general. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Siddhartha hesse![]() ![]() ![]() This is what I have thought and realized, when I have heard the teachings. ![]() But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands. ![]() It has not come to you by means of teachings! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! You will not be able to convey and say to anybody, oh venerable one, in words and through teachings what has happened to you in the hour of enlightenment! The teachings of the enlightened Buddha contain much, it teaches many to live righteously, to avoid evil. It has come to you in the course of your own search, on your own path, through thoughts, through meditation, through realizations, through enlightenment. I have not doubted for a single moment that you are Buddha, that you have reached the goal, the highest goal towards which so many thousands of Brahmans and sons of Brahmans are on their way. But let me say this one more thing: I have not doubted in you for a single moment. You are truly right, there is little to opinions. “I have not spoken to you like this to argue with you, to argue about words. “I wish that you, oh exalted one, would not be angry with me,” said the young man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russia, 1725: Peter and Elena, two humanlike mechanical beings, are brought to life under the watchful guise of Peter the Great. Ingeniously hidden inside the ancient doll is a lost message addressed to the court of Peter the Great, czar of Russia. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. ![]() ![]() In the rugged landscape of Eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact - a 300-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. An epic, ingenious new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of Robopocalypse, The Clockwork Dynasty weaves a riveting path through history and a race of humanlike machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Illumicrate the book eaters![]() ![]() ![]() Dean is a brilliant world-builder, farming out just enough bits of information along the way to help fill in the gaps of Devon’s early years while helping the reader understand her motivation and goals in the present timeline. The narrative structure of the book divides its time between Devon’s past, alternating chapters with present day Devon and Cai on the run. ![]() It’s a patriarchal society full of empty promises and it’s horrifying. Eater women are used as little more than birthing cows before being forcibly separated from their children and moved onto the next marriage. This process is more vampiric than zombie: the feedings imprint the victims’ personalities upon Cai, so this five-year-old must contend with multiple identities constantly fighting for control of his mind.įemale book eaters are rare, so Devon’s Family-and the other Families of book eaters across modern day United Kingdom-arrange temporary marriages between Houses for procreative purposes. Devon is raising her five-year-old son Cai, who is not a book eater, but a mind-eater: he must sustain himself by feeding on the brains of others. Devon is a book eater, part of a race of supernatural entities that consumes tomes while absorbing the knowledge they contain. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Tales of horror hp lovecraft![]() ![]() He ate expired canned food and wrote to a friend, “I was never closer to the bread-line.” He never saw his stories collectively published in book form, and, before succumbing to intestinal cancer, he wrote, “I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales, and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.” Among the last words the author uttered were, “Sometimes the pain is unbearable.” His obituary in the Providence Evening Bulletin was “full of errors large and small,” according to his biographer. The circumstances of Lovecraft’s final years were as bleak as anyone’s. Brooksīut no tale of posthumous success is quite as spectacular as that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the “cosmic horror” writer who died in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1937 at the age of 46. What Introverts and Extroverts Can Learn From Each Other Arthur C. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Secret ceremonies by deborah laake![]() Laake, now executive managing editor of the New Times magazine chain, writes that she has emerged from her experiences as an independent woman, no longer in thrall to religious dogma. 1 1994 by deborah-laake (Author) 77 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.28 8 Used from 11.53 Paperback 17.27 7 Used from 16. Torn between her loyalty to herself and to her church's teachings, she plunged into a second Mormon marriage it, too, failed, and led to a mental breakdown. Deborah Laake Secret Ceremonies: Mormon Womans Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond Hardcover Jan. After her divorce, for example, Laake found that although her ex-husband retained his religious privileges, she was banned from the temple and condemned by Mormon elders. Laake's heartfelt record of this disastrous first marriage and the years of struggle that followed is at once autobiography and an expose of the repressive patriarchalism of the Mormon church. A pioneer in the Mormon expos, Deborah Laake recounts her strict Mormon upbringing and two disastrous Mormon marriages that left her a pariah in the. As a 19-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young University, she became a Mormon wife. Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Womans Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond is a 1993 autobiographical book written by American journalist and columnist Deborah Laake. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Laake, raised as a strict Mormon, was taught from childhood that Mormon men were ``priesthood holders'' anointed with the authority to act for God on earth, and that her entrance into heaven could be assured only if she married a Mormon man who would be her master. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The probability of miracles![]() ![]() This misperception leads us to grossly underestimate the probability of an event: we think something is incredibly unlikely, when it's actually very likely, perhaps almost certain. ![]() Sometimes, though, when there are really many opportunities, it can look as if there are only relatively few. This law says that given enough opportunities, we should expect a specified event to happen, no matter how unlikely it may be at each opportunity. One of the key strands of the principle is the law of truly large numbers. In fact, we should expect coincidences to happen. Hand.Ī set of mathematical laws that I call the Improbability Principle tells us that we should not be surprised by coincidences. Beck (Germany), Companhia das Letras (Brazil), Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal (Poland), Locus Publishing Co. Hand, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (North America), Transworld (UK), Ambo|Anthos (Holland), C.H. ![]() Adapted from The Improbabilty Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, by David J. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Moonglow book review![]() ![]() It's not horrible, but it's just not good, either. I've gone back and forth with my rating for this - from a 1.5 to a 2.75 to a 2.5 and then finally settli9ng a "2". ![]() I must admit that I really struggled to finish this, through the predictable plotlines, the meandering plot, the boring sections when nothing happens, though my ARC was only 300 pages. A lot of the charm, the fun, the inventiveness that made the first so memorable and easy to read is missing here. all added up to a lot of pressure and excitement on my part.which never really panned out here in Moonglow. First seeing this up on NetGalley, the anticipation of a good book when I was approved. Upon randomly stumbling across and loving the first in the Darkest London series earlier this year, I was eager to see where Callihan would take her version of London run amok with the supernatural. Sequel Syndrome strikes again! I had been looking forward to reading this direct follow-up to Callihan's engaging and fun first novel, Firelight, for months now. ![]() ![]() Years later, Leah Rosenberg, mother of Richler, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter (1981), which discusses birth and upbringing of Mordecai and the sometime difficult relationship. Richler enrolled in Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) to study English but dropped before completing his degree. He learned Yiddish and English and graduated from Baron Byng High School. He was also well known for the Jacob Two-two stories of children.Ī scrap yard dealer reared this son on street in the mile end area of Montréal. People best know Barney's Version (1997) among works of this author, screenwriter, and essayist people shortlisted his novel Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) for the Man Booker Prize in 1990. ![]() ![]() Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971), of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Plutarch greek lives![]()
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