6/29/2023 0 Comments The war lovers by evan thomas![]() Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, THE WAR LOVERS is the story of six men at the center of a transforming event in U.S. ![]() These hawks would transform American foreign policy and, when Teddy ascended to the presidency, commence with a devastating war without reason, concocted within the White House-a bloody conflict that would come at tremendous cost. ![]() Depressed by the "closing" of the Western frontier and embracing theories of social Darwinism, a group of warmongers that included a young Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge agitated loudly and incessantly that the United States exert its influence across the seas. Soon after, the blandly handsome and easily influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops not only to Cuba but also to the Philippines, Spain's sprawling colony on the other side of the world.Īs Evan Thomas reveals in his rip-roaring history of those times, the hunger for war had begun years earlier. ![]() Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by claiming that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship. ![]() On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Murakami books norwegian wood![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercurial Naoko, who clearly perceives the seeds of her own encroaching madness (“It’s like I’m split in two and playing tag with myself”), continues to tug away at Toru’s emotions even after she enters a sanatorium. ![]() A first US appearance of a novel originally published in 1987, this crisp portrayal of “flaming youth” in the late 1960s proves one of Murakami’s most appealing-if uncharacteristic-books.īest known to us as the comic surrealist-symbolist author of such rousing postmodernist fare as A Wild Sheep Chase (1989), Murakami is also a highly intelligent romantic who feels the pangs of his protagonist Toru Watanabe’s insistent sexual and intellectual hungers and renders them with unsparing clarity (the matter-of-fact sexual frankness here seems unusual for a Japanese novel, even a 1987 one).Toru’s narrative of his student years, lived out against a backdrop of ongoing “campus riots,” focuses on the lessons he learns from relationships with several highly individual characters, two of them women he simultaneously loves (or thinks he loves). ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Caste matters review![]() ![]() We get easily perturbed if one’s caste if lodged in the barrels of injustice. If strictures are well-defined then why a necessity to create a fence of wires to electrocute the so called ‘undeserving’?Īll this arises from the dominion of the strait-laced ‘caste’ and it matters.Ĭaste matters to all of us no matter how preferential we may sound.Whats propels power to stiffen and be paraded on the ground of morality and meanness?. ![]() ![]() Fissapariously inclined, the human mind eclipses the misbegotten giving it a name of ‘atavistic aspirations’ and then pompously siphons to create power by subjugation. ![]() The firmaments may play their own accord but the grotesque revelation of unprincipled bonhomie is a stark fact between the denounced and denigrates, right here on the land of survival. It has a peculiarity to offer, an intrigue succeeded by fear-what if the unanointed aberration proffers a reality-an identity lost, mistaken as a camoflouge-a subterfuge by the powerful eclipsing the unmighty forever. The eclipse is always shady a farrago of an unsettlement in the Universe. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Pretty little liars book series![]() ![]() Four girls from privileged backgrounds are united at the funeral of Ali, a former friend who disappeared a few years ago and has now shown up dead. Summary: Several years after something happened to change all their lives, four girls who swore they'd never tell have to come to terms with the fact that someone knows what happened, and that someone is about to talk.įlawless is book two in a going-to-be-at-least-a-trilogy of books in the Pretty Little Liars series. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Emma chase royally series![]() ![]() Plus, once they get together their interactions are filled with wonderfully well written sizzle. ![]() You root for them because you like them and you want them to be happy. Logan and Ellie definitely fit into this category. Unlike some authors in the romance genre Chase always writes wonderfully fully formed characters that feel real and who the reader just likes. Logan was all sorts of dreamy and brooding just like all good male leads in romance should be and Ellie is bubbly and genuine just as she should be. This book was just fun which makes the perfect summer read. Ellie is being encouraged to follow her sister Olivia into a privileged happily-ever-after but can she let go of Logan? And will Logan finally go after the woman he loves when he is faced with the possibility of losing her? However, Logan has stayed away from Ellie trying to protect her innocence and youth. ![]() James since her older sister married Prince Nicholas and brought the rough-and-tumble bodyguard into their lives. ![]() I was a big fan of the other two books in this series so I had high hopes for the third installment.Įllie Hammond’s been in love with Logan St. Now, anyone who reads this blog knows that while YA books are where my heart lays every so often I enjoy a good adult romance. Hi Everyone! It’s Becky and I am here to tell you about the newest (and hopefully not last) installments from Emma Chase’s Royally Series. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Silence by becca fitzpatrick![]() ![]() “Seats, team!” Coach considered teaching tenth-grade biology a side assignment to his job as varsity basketball coach, and we all knew it. “Not so loud.” She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.Ĭoach McConaughy grabbed the whistle swinging from a chain around his neck and blew it. “This class isn’t going to teach me anything I don’t already know.” Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. “Why, Vee,” I said, “I could’ve sworn you’ve been looking forward to this unit all semester.” ![]() And then we’d have this hour to do something productive-like receive one-on-one tutoring from cute upperclass guys.” Pictures of this in the eZine would be all the evidence I’d need to get the board of education to ax biology. Scribbled above their heads in thick pink chalk was the invitation:Īt my side Vee Sky said, “This is exactly why the school outlaws camera phones. They’d been forced to link arms and were naked except for artificial leaves placed in a few choice locations. Mysteriously adhered to the chalkboard was a Barbie doll, with Ken at her side. ![]() I WALKED INTO BIOLOGY AND MY JAW FELL OPEN. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments All the birds singing review![]() ![]() But Jake is troubled as well as strong, running from the many tragedies in her past, including one experience that left a nasty scar on her back. Wyld's writing is as muscular as Jake, who, when spooked, drops to the floor to do push-ups. Jake's current fears include a man in a suit who shows up on her property, and a shadowy beast that she heard going berserk in her cottage one night. Her traumatic past includes a stint as a prostitute and a relationship with the creepy Otto, who ostensibly "rescues" Jake from the streets, only to turn her into a sex slave of sorts. In the present, something, or someone, is gruesomely killing Jake's sheep. Jake Whyte, a young Englishwoman, is a sheep farmer on a desolate scrap of island very like the Isle of Wight, where the author, who was named one of the best young British novelists of 2013 by Granta, spent much of her childhood. In the searing second novel from Wyld (After the Fire, a Still Small Voice), the past takes real and imagined forms, all terrifying, in its protagonist's life. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Teddy roosevelt brene brown![]() ![]() If your team isn’t willing to create a culture that’s vulnerable, it will become a team unable to create. Initially this may not seem relevant to good leadership, but according to Brown: If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion because you were being brave, I am not interested in or open to your feedback about my work. It’s having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome. Brown’s documentary brings home why for those trying to pursue a rich, honest and brave life, this just won’t cut it.Īfter stumbling across an inspiring quote from Theodore Roosevelt, three things became clear to Brown. So many of us go through life holding back, playing small and staying quiet, too afraid of falling down, making mistakes, losing face and being exposed. The fact that this was such a significant choice for an expert on vulnerability says a lot about how hard this process truly is. Fully committing to falling down this toxic rabbit hole, she began reading the hateful comments directed at her - ranging from quips about her appearance to death wishes - which served to only solidify this regret. In the aftermath, Brown had what she describes as the worst ‘vulnerability hangover’ imaginable. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Hearts in atlantis book cover![]() ![]() ![]() OL81624W Page_number_confidence 96.12 Pages 646 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200824225856 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 656 Scandate 20200821122843 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780340738917 Tts_version 4. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:07:08 Boxid IA1914716 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King Pocket Paperback 688 pages August 2000 In Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King gets in a few more pokes and jabs at his detractors, the ones who consider him a schlock-meister. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Tuesdays with morrie online book![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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