![]() ![]() ![]() Still following Smith, it is also wise to attend to the “vile maxim” to which the “masters of mankind” are dedicated: “All for ourselves and nothing for other people”-a doctrine known otherwise as bitter and incessant class war, often one-sided, much to the detriment of the people of the home country and the world. We cannot gain a realistic understanding of who rules the world while ignoring the “masters of mankind,” as Adam Smith called them: in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England in ours, multinational conglomerates, huge financial institutions, retail empires, and the like. That is true even for the more democratic societies, and obviously for others. ![]() States of course have complex internal structures, and the choices and decisions of the political leadership are heavily influenced by internal concentrations of power, while the general population is often marginalized. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This atmospheric page-turner is occasionally disrupted by forced lyricism that will pull the reader from the narrative. ![]() And in mysterious flashes forward to one year after the initial flooding, Thea, now separated from Doris, discovers a frightened child aboard an abandoned boat. With the flood comes an invasion of sea monsters (termed “posies” after Poseidon) that overrun Earth. Before the flooding, their relationship had become outright antagonistic, due in part to Thea’s heroin addiction, but the catastrophe draws them back together. Meuret braids multiple timelines and juxtaposes the sisters’ childhood memories with the initial horror of the rising waters and their subsequent fight for survival. ![]() Meuret’s bewitching debut follows the evolving relationship between sisters Doris and Thea before and after an apocalyptic flood sweeps Earth in 2025. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just hints and guesses as to their natures and backgrounds.Ĭharles Redbourn, 8th Earl of Crofton, is a man of many passions. And of course a title, a love of men, and Crofton Hall.Ī neat narrative element in the Modern books has been to explore, via the “recently discovered” vast collection of Crofton books and papers that have been found in the caverns underneath Crofton Hall, some of the Earls of the past. Slowly, Cohen is filling in the gaps between the two eras, giving us the histories and romances of the Earls of Crofton of the time periods that bridge these men who share so many similarities of features and personality traits. It’s a been a delight to be able to follow the members of the Redbourn family throughout the centuries, from the first Earl of Crofton, Anthony Redbourn and his lover, the actor Sebastian Hewel, all the way to the Modern Crofton series and present, Ben Redbourn, the 16th Earl of Crofton, and his husband, Ashley Niven. Rebecca Cohen’s Earls of Crofton series, past and present, are among my favorite romances to read. ![]() ![]() It has been a joy to breathe some life into it. The novel, and the rest of the series is a love letter to her Arab heritage and to the stories that she grew up on. ![]() ![]() The minute that these two characters popped into her head, she just knew that she had to write this story in order to figure out their entire history. Behind her was her bodyguard, whom Chelsea new was a jinn. In her mind she saw a merchant in these star-dusted robes sitting on this ship, a coin dancing across her knuckles. She mused on the idea about writing an Arab-inspired fantasy for years until this one day, where the opening scene of the novel simultaneously came to her. When she left the country to attend university in the states and began missing home, these stories were the very first thing that she latched onto as a writer. She grew up on stories “1001 Nights” and with oral stories from around the region. The central driving force behind “The Stardust” was nostalgia. When Chelsea’s not immersed in her own fictional worlds, she spends her free time doodling characters, playing video games, and hoarding all these books that she does not have the shelf space for. Consumed by wanderlust, she has set down roots in various states.Īfter she earned her MA in English at Duquesne University, she moved to New York, where she lives. ![]() Chelsea Abdullah is an American-Kuwati author born and raised in Kuwait, where she grew up hearing these stories about some mysterious desert creatures and some wily (yet only sometimes likable) heroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Translated from the German manuscript by Theodore P. His books include A Radical History of the World (Pluto, 2018), A People’s History of the Russian Revolution (Pluto, 2017), Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it (Public Reading Rooms, 2017), System Crash: an activist guide to making revolution (Resistance Books, 2021) and Alienation, Spectacle and Revolution (Resistance Books, 2021). The Mass Psychology of Fascism By Wilhelm Reich Third Edition. Neil Faulkner is a writer, political theorist, revolutionary activist, and leading member of Anti*Capitalist Resistance.
![]() ![]() She could lose her soul in the process-or she might open the gateway to a love that’s deeper than the oceans. The tides turn as Yara fights to save herself, hundreds of sea creatures, and the merman who has her heart. Treygan, the stormy-eyed merman who turned Yara mer, will stop at nothing and sacrifice everything to protect his people-until he falls for Yara. The merfolk want something far more precious. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Yara Jones doesn’t believe in sea monsters-until she becomes one. I haven't finished it yet, because I'm very busy, but I have read the first few chapters, and so far it's awesome! ![]() Now I want to give Karen a chance to tell you guys about her book. ![]() So I'm sure you can see why I selected Gorgons, Medusa aside. They are wicked smart, fast, and powerful. Fun fact: Just like Medusa, the gorgons can turn any living thing to stone, but they aren't the heartless evil monsters that are portrayed in most legends. No one knows that yet but you guys!)), can control the sea creatures (the original 3 are like the gods of their world). ![]() GORGONS: of the moon, need cold, seductive dancers (though that doesn't get revealed til book 2 ((SHHHH. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not even a good novel by conventional standards. “ Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, is not an entirely successful novel. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. Here’s a look back at one of the very first reviews of Catch-22, published ahead of the novel’s release in 1961, in which New York Times book critic Orville Prescott declares it to be “a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.” Oh, and it’s also sold somewhere in the region of 10 million copies. This week marks the 60th publication anniversary of Joseph Heller’s seminal satirical war novel, Catch-22.Ī madcap, tragicomic tale of “malingering bombardier” antihero Captain John Yossarian and his compatriots in the fictional 256th US Army Air Squadron, Heller’s controversial (and oft-banned) debut novel became a publishing sensation in the early 1960s and has, in the decades since, spawned a feature film, a miniseries, a 50-character stage play, and, of course, a titular paradoxical concept. ![]() ![]() Town people may think she is the Grinch steals Christmas and spirits with her condo project but she is stubborn enough not to lose a fight. This time Graham and Zoey are supporting characters! But don’t worry, Zoey’s bestie Lana Montgomery is definitely lovable heroine in her trendy, posh designer clothes, her contagious optimism and determination. If you already read Touristic Attraction, you may have been already introduced the most of the amazing characters. ![]() It brightens our dark moods, heals our exhausted hearts and melts our hearts. This is truly vivid, enjoyable, sweet and soul healing recipe! We need this book to get through our stressful days and keep smile without thinking any further. When you’re in the middle of never ending, nerve bending, incessantly hearing nails on chalkboard sound in your head kind of Pandemic, reading something make you feel Christmas spirit could be your only life west not to drown at the pessimism sea! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this book is, more or less, a poor man’s Jane Eyre. Her writing style is still quite effective and can create a strong sense of unease, even for the most jaded modern reader. Holt’s books may be true the era of time in which she sets her stories, the women of the day having little opportunity and often at the mercy of men, but her heroines are rarely ‘too stupid to live’, or present themselves as the proverbial ‘damsel in distress’. They are often a representation of a simpler time, in the days when the suspense was more reliant on atmosphere and dialogue, and the romance was about as chaste as it comes. So, it’s fun to pull one of these off the shelf and lose myself in a different time, despite the datedness of some of these stories. Victoria Holt’s name is nearly synonymous with this genre and she was quite prolific.Īs such, I’m still hunting down some of her harder to find books and haven’t come close to reading all of her novels. The Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt is a 1960 publication.Įveryone knows I am a huge fan of these old Gothic suspense novels and love to collect the old paperbacks.Those covers are just fantastic!! ![]() ![]() The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.Īnd then the information age arrives. ![]() From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality-the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. ![]() |