![]() ![]() ![]() “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? The American experiment rests on three ideas-“these truths,” Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ![]() Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” ( New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself-a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence-at the center of the nation’s history. In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. “Nothing short of a masterpiece.”-NPR BooksĪ New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you are looking exclusively for the rules of Project 333, her website ( ) is definitely the resource for you. There were moments as I was reading I was going back and forth on if I enjoyed the style or not. I can also imagine her tone of her writing wouldn't be everyone's favorite (you can tell she was a blogger first). I don't know if it will be everyone's cup of tea, since it's a rather repetitive. ![]() Although she made no comments about losing weight, and she was pro renting. The standard package of a minimalism book. Lots talk about mediation, the joys of quiet moments, not having to clean as much, downsizing. But she has way less that 132 items, since most of her closet carries over.Īfter the chapter with the rules and looking at her closet, the clothing declutting process, the book goes a bit more ' woo woo' or metaphysical about the larger knock on effects of having a small closet. That’s why the project is three months, to match the seasons. She has more that 33 items, as some items are seasonal. ![]() ![]() He goes for the 80s inspired movie gesture and plays their song on a boom box on her lawn. Kyler (aka Tom) is a rollercoaster designer who, after 8 years decides it’s time to get his old college girlfriend back. So when I sat down to review it, I realized I had no memory of what it was about! Sometimes I am not all there when I listen and I thought maybe that was the case, so I listened again and it all came back to me within minutes, but I listened again anyway because it was just as good the second time around. I listened to Unzipped on a road trip, and two weeks after reading it I still hadn’t caught up with reviews. Unzipped is the latest of Lauren’s romantic comedies and it was released on audio first The Kindle and paperback will be live December 11. I love her audiobooks so much and I’ve yet to be disappointed. If I had to pick one author’s audiobooks to be stranded on a desert island with, it would be Lauren Blakey’s. ![]() Unzipped by Lauren Blakely Narrated by Joe Arden and Andi Arndt Standalone RomCom. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this is the second book in a trilogy, and although I was able to pick up what had happened in the first one, it did detract from my enjoyment because I only got brief references to the previous story in this book. ![]() I have read various Sherlock Holmes books that have been written, other than the originals by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and have enjoyed them all, and this was no exception. I can't bring myself to recommend the series, but I don't regret reading it, and it's even kind of fun at times. In fact, the book would work better with Conan Doyle’s own Professor Challenger as the protagonist, but I'll concede that he's not as well known.Īt heart, this is basically fan fiction, but it's not a bad example of such. In these novels, Holmes is more of an adventurer than a detective. As with volume one, Gresh’s Lovecraftian elements feel truer to their source material than her Sherlockian elements. I think I like this book slightly better than the first one. And a possibly significant weapon is discovered. Most of the book is about further developing characters and having people travel to where they need to be for the third book. Since this is a middle book, not a whole lot gets resolved. You could probably get away with starting here if you were so inclined, but there will be semi-cryptic references to events in the first book, and there will definitely be spoilers as far as who survives. Okay, well for starters, this is the middle volume of a projected trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Salman Rushdie chose Penkov's story "Buying Lenin" (which appears in this collection) for that year's Best American Short Stories, citing its heart and humour. But even as the characters wrestle with the weight of history, the debt to family, and the pangs of exile, the stories themselves are light and deft, animated by Penkov's unmatched eye for the absurd. In East of the West Penkov writes with great empathy about 800 years of tumult in troubled Eastern Europe his characters mourn the way things were and long for things that will never be. These are some of the strange, unexpectedly moving events in talented newcomer Miroslav Penkov's vision of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his extraordinary debut collection. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the waters of the river that divides their village into East and West. ![]() A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from an orthodox church. A brilliant debut from a rising talent praised by Salman Rushdie, among others.Ī grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bear is an honorary Colonel to the Royal Marines Commandos, and the youngest-ever Chief Scout, an inspiration to forty million Scouts worldwide. He also writes and performs the live-action stadium show Endeavour. Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. He is also a family man and a number-one bestselling author, with over twenty books to his name, including his autobiography, Mud, Sweat and Tears, and the popular Mission Survival series for children. Author(s): Bear Grylls Biography & Autobiography. Wild for Discovery Channel, Running Wild with Bear Grylls for NBC and Survivor Games for Chinese TV. ![]() Since then he has gone on to host more extreme-adventure TV shows across more global networks than anyone else in the world, including The Island with Bear Grylls for Channel 4, Bear Grylls' Survival School for ITV, Man vs. Trained from an early age in martial arts and taught to climb and sail by his father, Bear went on to spend three years as a soldier in the British Special Forces, serving with 21 SAS, before becoming one of the youngest-ever climbers of Mount Everest. Bear Grylls has become known around the world as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Years and years ago she gave the world Fly By Night, a marvelous girl/goose/con man tale of misfits who unwittingly influence huge events. There are only a few children’s writers in this world that I will drop everything to read. There are some authors, however, that write such magnificent books that when their sequels do appear you are helpless to resist. Usually when I do I simply get more of the same old, same old. Heck, I don’t even like to even read sequels half the time. This is my convoluted way of saying that I don’t like reviewing them. And in the rare case where the sequel is better than its predecessor, one’s positive review is sort of moot if it seems as though it’s recommending the first book in any way. One can hardly review a book without suggesting to the reader that they read the previous novel as well. As I see it, reviewing a sequel is a peculiar enterprise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doc has just had a lovers quarrel with Rocky, the man he is love since years, and sincerely he sees this mission as a way out to avoid having to face his feelings and being hurt. Elisa_rolle With this second book in the Dark Court series Stormy Glenn continues in her saga about the special elf people whose royal male member can give birth it’s a series all centred around the male pregnancy theme, and plays a lot with all the stereotype of this type of stories: big and sturdy men who fall in love for little pretty boy and have to face the unthinkable, the possibility to become father unthinkable not only since their partner is a man, and so it was pretty much impossible to have an unplanned pregnancy but also since this strong men don’t have any idea how to treat little baby and even less how they have to deal with the fathers of those baby, ethereal beautiful men, fragile like porcelain both in body than in will.ĭoc, one of the Marines that in the previous book helped Zack and his elf lover Eljin, is sent on a special mission, retrieve Monte, who is not only Eljin’s cousin, but also the son of one of his best friend, Gunny. ![]() ![]() Small, isolated acts of moving kindness and ethical integrity are drowned out by a suffocating deluge of acts of petty envy, cowardly betrayal, pointless tribalism, cold-blooded murder and indiscriminate mass slaughter of women and children. With even a cursory reading, such a naive view is quickly laid to rest. Quite the sobering read though, especially if popular culture has somehow instilled in you romantic notions of the “way of the samurai”. As such, it is an ideal stepping stone to more detailed - perhaps more engrossing – works operating in a smaller timeframe or touching on one specific aspect, which the author thoughtfully makes ample reference to. Within these boundaries, the author executes his gargantuan task exceedingly well, as he covers the major events of the island’s tumultuous history, yet without losing sight of the personal lives affected by them. Jonathan Clement’s entry in the “Brief History.” series delivers precisely what it says on the tin: a concise, for the layman not overly elaborate survey of the 700 (!) year-long de facto reign of the samurai, Japan’s illustrious elite warrior class. Print picturing a battle during the Boshin War (1868-1869) ![]() In telling the story of Japan, one is in fact telling the story of its samurai. ![]() ![]() ![]() He gave himself an inward shake when he realized that if she were his, he'd go into hock making her happy. While Anna was with him, it was his due to provide her with things she needed. How many times could she drop that she was fifteenth from the throne? The idea of Anna asking for anything from that snob made his hackles rise - and his pride suffer. He'd read some letters from that one, too. "Then I could go to my English friend's home and borrow from her." "The hell you will." Did she think he fought her on this because of money? Did she believe she needed to sell her irreplaceable jewelry because he was unable to clothe her? "I'm no' letting you sell your things." I could finally sell a piece of jewelry." "Surely the assassins who want to murder me haven't caught up with us yet. ![]() ![]() He also knew she wasn't leaving this house. He stared at her skirts swishing too high above her ankles and knew she was right. "I just bought you clothing in the village." ![]() "I need to go shopping," she informed him as she passed his chair. Court sank back in a chair, knowing this wasn't a good sign. She'd eaten, she'd bathed, and now that she'd met him downstairs in the parlor, she was pacing, trudging back and forth across the plush carpets. ![]() |