Cassie is competent, physically fit, and knowledgeable, but the parting words of her former captain are never far from her mind “Go above and beyond at every chance. But when a very public altercation with a public official lands her on the chopping block, it was either apologize (NEVER), be terminated (a formerly believed impossibility), or leave everything behind in Texas to move to a Boston firehouse and help train up a rookie. “What if I transferred? To another department?” (35-37)Ĭareer focused firefighter Cassie Hanwell never dreamed she’d be moving across country to care for the mother who abandoned her and her father on her sixteenth birthday. “What if there’s another option?” I asked. “If you don’t apologize, I have to terminate your contract,” she said. Was I really going to go there? Was I really going to dig in and not budge? “That’s his deal: Apologize, and we all move on.”
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Hearing the story from a wolf's angle of it is very unique, and Paver uses some really cool language when it comes to speaking Wolf. I particularly enjoyed the dual points-of-view in the book. The plot itself is gripping and suspenseful, especially with the constant cat-and-mouse chase the protagonists experience with a massive, demonic bear. Wolf has a deep love for Torak, and their mutual respect for each other is shown through the gestures and communication Paver describes. The character development of Renn and Torak is thorough, and Torak's relationship with Wolf is noticeably deep and very spiritually significant. I think Paver could not have woven together a better story. The incorporation of nature, tribal power, and, of course, a hint of dark magic really mixes nicely to create a phenomenal piece of fiction literature. I read this book in one night, need I say more? I absolutely love this kind of novel. If it eventuates the move would cause a major shake up of the grid and could see Ricciardo potentially partner up with George Russell at Mercedes.īut the Perth native has been dealt a brutal blow by Red Bull development boss Helmut Marko who said the Aussie’s pace doesn’t match the two current drivers for the team.Īfter returning to Red Bull ahead of the 2023 season rumours swirled Ricciardo could replace Sergio Perez as fractures emerged between him and Max Verstappen. The seven-time world champion was linked with a shock move to join Ferrari on an eye-watering $75m deal. The noise surrounding a potential Ricciardo return to a front of the grid team grew when a Lewis Hamilton bombshell hit the paddock. Watch the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix 2023 Live and ad-break free in racing on Kayo Sports Sunday May 28th 11:00PM AEST. Ricciardo is eyeing off a potential return to the grid in 2024 after taking a year off following his nightmare end to his time at McLaren. Daniel Ricciardo has been brought back down to Earth with a brutal reality check from a Red Bull head honcho. Also, seven additional highly intriguing plates throughout. Granada Ct., Ontario, California, Yukon 68887". Attractive vintage owner detail inside cover: "Kenneth P. Black full cloth boards, crisp silver impressed cover, spine titles, moderate shelf, edge wear. Includes a new preface from Jung in 1958 for the English edition. Stated at copyright: First American Edition, 1959. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, a modern myth. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. In Flying Saucers, Jung's primary concern is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Green cloth-binding with slight denting at top and bottom of spine. Very good condition dust jacket has some shelf-wear with creasing around the edges and some tearing at the top of the page, and bottom of the spine. Their adventure begins with a 1990s band called Neutral Milk Hotel, fake IDs, and the cold air of Chicago.īut before we go any further with Will Grayson, let me introduce will grayson, David Levithan’s will grayson (I didn’t forget to capitalize his name this is how it is written in the book). Now Will has Tiny, a boy who is writing a musical about himself and who falls in love with someone new every five seconds and Jane, a girl who may or may not be gay but has a fantastic taste in music, a taste that Will shares himself. Will loses touch with his “Group of Friends” because of the letter, and his life is turned upside down. The first two pages of this book draw you in with the type of comedy one would expect from a John Green book, as Will Grayson describes his old friend Tiny Cooper as “the world’s largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.” Blacks in America really need to study the Jews in Germany. What’s wrong with that picture? Then you’ve got blacks in police uniforms out there arresting other innocent blacks. Meanwhile, back home, one out of every half-dozen blacks is locked up for committing the same drug crimes as white dudes who walk around free. military, our masters, and go to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else Uncle Sam tells us to go, and fight and kill yellow-skinned folks and brown-skinned folks on behalf of the United States, our masters-just like slaves fighting other slaves. While you’re busy shaking your head thinking they were stupid, ask yourself this: are we any better today? Black people put on the uniform of the U.S. When you think about it, it’s a wonder more black folks didn’t fight with one another instead of fighting against the white man the way Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, David Walker, and a whole lot of others did. Like Douglass wrote, slaves are like other people. What they were like was evil! They were called “masters” because they owned human beings! And we slaves were ready to fight each other over which of the lowdown filthy dogs who owned us was the best! But it wasn’t the slaves’ fault. “But what’s worse than that is the slaves who identified with their masters, as if the slaves’ value as human beings depended on what the masters were like. The book is filled with long passages of speculative science. That's Etidorhpa! This may be the very source of the 'adepts living in hollow earth who abduct humans' meme, later developed by Ray Palmer, and many others. Top it off with a wild magic mushroom trip. Add a tale of a soul condemned by the Illuminati to a perilous underground quest to find the Goddess of Love (spoiler alert: spell Aphrodite backwards). "Take a Victorian sci-fi premise, say, a trip to the center of the earth, and by the way, it's hollow. Lloyd seeks out a supernormal being with extrasensory powers who guides him on his enlightening inner earth adventure. Augustus Knapp Knapp is famous for illustrating Manly Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages." Legendary author John Uri Lloyd claimed to be an Alchemist and a member of several Secret Societies. Original illustrations on plates throughout by J. Classic cover design in gold and black of what appears to be an Egyptian figure or god-type w/flame at forehead and six lilies springing from beneath on either side of face spine w/single gilt lily. Dark red full cloth boards, gilt and black cover design, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Profusely illustrated throughout with uniquely enchanting, rather eerie, and simultaneously informative imagery, maps, etc. Rare revised and enlarged eleventh edition. The elves, for being the supposed perfect race, are riddled with flaws that aren’t meant to be there, I have no idea what Paolini wants me to take as the religion of the world, the dwarves exist for the sake of existing, and the overall message seems to be something along the lines of “evil is evil and good is good, just because Paolini says so.” I feel the same way about her as I do most politicians: pretty speech giver, but completely full of shit. Nasuada is shoved up on a pedestal she doesn’t deserve to be on, because she sucks as a leader. I loathe Eragon, Arya, and Saphira I think they’re pretentious assholes. Like, you could find essays and various blog posts all over the internet on why The Inheritance Cycle is trite, and despite the fact that I agree with just about every possible reason people have to hate the books, I still love them. And this just makes me so confused, because every time I read anything in the books it pisses me right the hell off. I would go so far as to say that it’s one of my favorite series ever. No series has ever left me so ambivalent. Spoilers and a trigger warning for rape after the jump. So now that it’s out, I might as well get started. The last book of the series recently came out this month-and about time too, as we’ve only been waiting three years for the damn thing-and I have been planning to do a review of the series for a while now. Yeah, I’ve recently come to conclusion that Inheritance Cycle sucks about as much as the title of this post. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.ġ828. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” - Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brassįrom award-winning author R. Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War An attractive, laconic heroine in an upbeat presentation of a most difficult subject. Meg's natural candor and muffled humor are encouraged by the neighbors-a seventy-ish gent who shares his camera and vitality, and an oddball, loving couple whose baby's birth (with Meg as house photographer) acids more than a pat "new life" contrast to Molly's approaching death. Individual personalities are established, integrated, and then tested when a worrisome development surfaces Molly requires hospitalization and extensive treatment, and Meg realizes she is losing more than a sparring partner. Recently relocated to an old country house so Dad can finish his book, she suffers familiar resentments-a shared room with sister Molly, fifteen and pretty-but enjoys photography and a rare trio of neighbors, all older and understanding. Meg Chalmers is a plucky thirteen-year-old, tongue-in-cheek and heart-on-sleeve, exploring her feelings with a careful balance of insight and insecurity. An appealing first novel-brisk, witty, affecting-involving a teenager's experience with an older sister's death from leukemia. |