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![]() “Cien años de soledad” (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
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Hope is the thing with wings6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. ![]() ![]() They are evolved creatures, programmed by their DNA, adapted to a particular place or trajectory, which fulfil the destiny written in their genes through behaviour that bewitches poets and scientists alike…’- Ruth Padel In biological reality, birds are even more extraordinary. ‘But all this is just our imagination, as we plunder nature for symbols. “Hope,” Emily Dickinson writes, “is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul” – and when I hear a wren singing in the freezing cold of the early morning (how can something so small fill the backstreets of Kentish Town?), my heart does something that approximates to lifting. Children in ancient Greece welcomed the swallow as a messenger of spring. “Oh, for the wings of a dove,” says King David, so he could fly to the wilderness and be at rest. Across history, across cultures, birds are also an image of escape. ![]() The canary down the mine whose death warns miners of gas and the dove with a green twig that tells Noah the flood is receding feed into a feeling that birds are sign-bearers, omens, the gods’ messengers. It asked a crumb of me.'- Emily Dickinson Those dinosaurs with feathers and songsmiths with wings.’ ‘How diminished our world would be without birds, ![]()
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![]() ![]() As readable as Freakonomics, as provocative as Thinking, Fast and Slow, Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles one that will have readers retooling their grocery lists and retirement strategies, and lead managers to rethink every aspect of their business. ![]() With relatable examples from everyday life investments, household spending to television game show dilemmas and the NFL draft, Misbehaving offers a present-at-the-creation account of Thaler s battle to upend traditional economic thinking. In recent years, a new paradigm of economics has emerged which challenges the traditional economic theories that have prevailed for over half a century. Misbehaving spans Thaler s decades as a leader in this transformation and reveals how the insights of behavioral economics can help everyone think more intelligently about their time and their money. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. Once dismissed by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments. Thaler has spent his career investigating the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans error-prone but predictable individuals. A founding father of behavioral economics (Chicago Tribune), Richard H. ![]()
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The foundling stacey halls review6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, I’d lie awake as the wind and rain battered down from the moor, thinking of the guns my friend’s father kept hanging in the hallway. At sleepovers we did Ouija boards and whispered “light as a feather, stiff as a board” as one of us lay corpse-like on laced hands, her arms crossed over her chest. Growing up in a rainy mill town in Lancashire, with little in the way of diversion, our cultural diet consisted of Heathers, The Craft and other moody 90s films. ![]() The only shift has been packaging witchcraft as a more grown-up take on women attempting to take control of their own destinies.Īs a teenager, my friends and I were self-subscribed members of Wicca, the “white witch” religion. In recent weeks it’s been Netflix’s reboot of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Sky One’s A Discovery of Witches, as well as an episode of Doctor Who focusing on the Pendle witch trials. They are a cultural obsession, it seems, that is always with us in one guise or another. O ur fascination with witches has long surpassed witchcraft being a crime punishable by death. ![]()
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Upper fourth at malory towers6/12/2023 ![]() Expect more drama at Malory Towers! Between 19, Enid Blyton wrote six novels set at Malory Towers. Meanwhile, Darrell's sister Felicity joins Malory Towers and becomes best friends with none other than June - obnoxious, brash and Alicia's cousin. Will Zerelda and Darrell become friends, and will Thunder survive? Upper Fourth Darrell is very pleased to be head girl, but Alicia and Betty are determined to ruin her good work. This year, not only the girls face challenges - Bill's poor horse, Thunder, suffers from collic. Third Year There are lots of new students, including sophisticated Zerelda from America. For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at Malory Towers in Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding school series. ![]()
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Warlock starlin6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He connected Adam to that story by making him the keeper of the Soul Gem, which was embedded in his forehead. Starlin revitalized Adam in the mid-1970s as part of his ongoing cosmic saga involving Captain Marvel, Thanos, and the Infinity Gems (their name in the comics). Adam may have had his beginnings in the pages of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four book in 1967, but the character only really came into his own under the stewardship of Jim Starlin. When it became clear that the MCU’s first three Phases were going to revolve around the Infinity Stones, many comic fans naturally assumed that Adam Warlock was going to play a part in that story. ![]() But even with that arc, Adam rarely feels like a critical part of what’s going on, leaving us wondering why the MCU bothered adapting the character at all. 3 as an antagonist who ends up being part of the new lineup of Guardians by the end-credits scene. The cosmic hero made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Vol. Yet amidst all these personal journeys coming to a close, one new character was introduced, who also winds up having the most perplexing role of all: Will Poulter’s Adam Warlock. ![]()
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And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander6/11/2023 ![]() She learns that her husband was involved in procuring original Greek antiquities, what is unclear are his motives.Īccording to Philip’s best friend, Colin Hargreaves, Philip was always an honorable man who would never deal in stolen artifacts. Not only did Philip love to hunt on the “Dark Continent”, he was a romantic at heart with a love for Emily she has no idea existed he also was a lover and collector of ancient antiquities and Greek literature.Īfter discovering his journals and interests, Emily begins to study Homer and ancient Greek herself. She soon discovers that Philip was in fact wildly interesting and very much in love with her. Now that she is a widow, she finds she has even more freedom than she did as a wife.Īll of London society can’t stop singing the praises of Lord Ashford to Emily which makes her uncomfortable, but in an effort to at least try and morn the stranger she married, Emily listens to their stories. So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.Įmily married Philip to escape the constraints of her family and hoped that marriage would provide that. Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. ![]()
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Artemis fowl by eoin colfer6/11/2023 ![]() I'll still give the next Artemis Fowl book a try, I just hope it reaches it's potential. And the supporting characters are more developed, there is more humor, the plot is more complex, in short, a better book. Now an original movie on Disney+ Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous-and extremely. If you want a good example of a power-hungry, ambitious, greedy, self-absorbed child genius in a fantasy world, try "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" - while Nathaniel is not so much a genius, he is definitely a more believable child than Artemis. The adaptation of Eoin Colfer's hit YA novel which launched an eight-book series. I can believe that a child genius is planning this big plot, but I have a hard time believing that this genius is a child. Artemis Fowl (2019 film) It's taken 20 years, but an Artemis Fowl movie is finally seeing the light of day. Artemis, for example, is supposed to be 12 years old, but you wouldn't know it except that the author throws in lines here and there like "I shouldn't be drinking this because I'm a minor". Very simple, one-note characters that never felt alive to me. books, The Wish List, Benny and Omar and Benny and Babe. ![]() The plot was straightforward and not too complex, but the real lack was in character development. Eoin Colfer is the New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Airman, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfers Legend of. I like a good fantasy book, but ever since I read Harry Potter, I've started expecting a lot out of young adult fiction, and this one just didn't hit the mark. ![]()
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![]() A great book is one whose advice you follow. “A good book is one whose advice you believe. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment. ![]() People with a fixed mindset-those who believe that abilities are fixed-are far less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset-those who believe that abilities can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and mentorship. In this brilliant book, Dweck shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we approach our goals. World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “ 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() |