5/20/2023 0 Comments Remains of the day author![]() At the end of the previous chapter, Stevens led a man into believing that he had never worked for Lord Darlington, even though we know that he had. ![]() In this post, I will be talking about “Day Three – Morning” until the end of the book. ![]() I guess you really don’t grow out of being a procrastinator…Īnyway, as I noted in Part Two, the following wrap-up will contain spoilers as this is a discussion post! Please tread carefully if you haven’t read the book □ Hi everyone! How’s your #RemainsReread going? If you’ve been following Random House Canada’s schedule, you have probably noticed that I should be wrapping up the book today and you would be right! Just as writing my Part One reflections on September 1st reminded me of school, my missing a post last week and having to cram part three and four into this one post also brings me back to my student days. ![]()
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5/20/2023 0 Comments Review transcendent kingdom![]() ![]() Their relationship grows through both of their commitments to their work – science. ![]() A moment of skepticism could have been a moment of understanding.Īs she spends more time in the lab with her mice, she also spends more time with Han, her lab mate. Which, if he’d known about Nana’s addiction and her mother’s abuse of Ambien, would have been an awkward moment avoided. Raymond mentions her being prescribed “the good stuff” and questions her skepticism with doctors and medicine. Her romantic relationships also allow the reader to understand her reluctancy to share personal history with others. This week Gifty provides more details surrounding their relationship-showing that she’s closer to accepting her apparent queerness. ![]() While Gifty has introduced Raymod as a former lover, she has only mentioned Anne as a classmate. During the third week of reading, Gifty shares more details of her romantic relationship. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Walter kaufmann nietzsche![]() ![]() To do this we’ll analyze what is perhaps Nietzsche’s most famous and controversial statement: “god is dead”. In this lecture we will investigate why Nietzsche thought these ‘old truths’ were approaching their end. In the last lecture, we investigated true world theories, which were examples of some of the old ‘truths’ Nietzsche thought were on the decline. Twilight of the Idols – that is: the old truth is approaching its end.” (Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche) “What is called idol on the title page is simply what has been called truth so far. In his book Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche announces: The following is a transcript of this video. 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In sportscar mode, the Bumblebee figure features a fun, button-activated spinning saw, inspired by the one featured in the animated series. ![]() Legendary Autobot Bumblebee helps the recruits train to be Rescue Bots and encourages them to be brave! ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments A lovely war book![]() ![]() Author Julie Berry has been called "a modern master of historical fiction" by Bookpage and "a celestially inspired storyteller" by the New York Times, and Lovely War is truly her masterwork. Hailed by critics, Lovely War has received seven starred reviews and is an indie bestseller. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. ![]() A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Its a fallacy, I think, to judge a film on the basis of how faithful it is to the book, or to the play, or to anything other than itself. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates-and the hearts-of four mortals in their hands. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments A psalm for the wild built reviews![]() On the verdant moon of Panga, generations ago, humanity’s robotic workforce suddenly and inexplicably awakened to consciousness. I love the high-fantasy world of A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Their time as a tea monk traveling Panga in a world post-departure of its robots to the wilderness forever is not enough to quench an endless desire to fulfill something greater. Sibling Dex grew up in comfortable privilege, but they long to hear the sound of crickets beyond their city walls. A Psalm for the Wild-Built is an immaculate novella by Becky Chambers with audiobook narration by Emmett Grosland published by Tordotcom. ![]() ![]() I can’t remember exactly how I got turned on to Isaac Asimov’s Robots series, but it absolutely enthralled me for both its science fiction setting and social science-fiction and philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Įmma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. ![]() In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of Maybe in Another Life-named a People Magazine pick and a “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour and USA Today-comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. Published by Washington Square Press on June 7th 2016 Also by this author: Daisy Jones & The Six, Carrie Soto Is Back ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments One of us is lying sequel![]() ![]() We also get to see snippets of the characters from book one and what has happened to them since the story finished. She was one of the characters I was intrigued by in book one so it was nice to read a story from her perspective. The characters were well fleshed out and I really liked Maeve as a main character. The story follows some new characters as well as Bronwyn’s younger sister Maeve who we meet in book one. I really enjoyed One Of Us Is Lying when I read it last year so I was really interested in the sequel. The students must work out who the mysterious person behind the game is and why they’re so determined to get vengeance on Bayview students. A game of Truth or Dare has started among the high school students, but with a lethal twist. ![]() One Of Us Is Next is the sequel to YA thriller smash hit One Of Us Is Lying and returns to Bayview High a year after the events of the first book. The teenagers of Bayview must work together once again to find the culprit, before it’s too late. Choosing the truth may reveal your darkest secrets, accepting the dare could be dangerous, even deadly. It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of Truth or Dare.īut this is no ordinary Truth or Dare. Source: I picked up a copy of this in my local bookshop ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The saxon tales![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Guthred, the audience sees the more extreme side of 9th century Christianity with Christian relics and saints that the young king believes will make him a great king like Alfred.įate is inevitable and has a path that Uhtred cannot escape, filled with betrayal and heartache. Uhtred is made Guthred’s right-hand man, and Uhtred falls in love with the king’s sister Gisela. ![]() Fate throws Uhted another curveball as when he is on an escort mission he encounters a young, enslaved man named Guthred, the man who holy men believed would be king of Northumbria because of a message from Saint Cuthbert. We are reunited with Uhtred in 878, a few months after the great battle from “The Pale Horseman.” Alfred has given Uhtred freedom from his oath, and he travels north to his home with the former nun Hild. Bernard Cornwell takes his readers on another whirlwind adventure into 9th century England with Uhtred of Bebbanburg in the third novel of the Saxon Stories series, “Lords of the North.” This chance meeting sends Uhtred on a journey across the seas against his will and to finally face off against Kjartan the Cruel, who captured his stepsister Thyra. He encounters an enslaved person who claims to be the King of Northumbria named Guthred. Now, Uhtred travels north to his home, yet fate throws this hero another curveball. King Alfred and Uhtred have achieved a massive victory over the Danes, and as a reward, Alfred has allowed Uhtred to be free of his allegiance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some-including “Throwing Like a Girl,” “Pregnant Embodiment,” “Women Recovering Our Clothes,” and “Breasted Experience”-were sometimes difficult to obtain since the book in which they were initially collected was out-of-print for some time. They have been read, criticized and applauded, commented on and taught in multiple venues and to different audiences over the years. This worthwhile collection includes some now famous works, in particular the essay mentioned in the subtitle of the book, “Throwing Like a Girl.” Many of the essays in this collection have stood the test of time. ![]() All but the introduction and one of the essays, “Menstrual Meditations,” have been published elsewhere. On Female Body Experience collects eight essays by Iris Marion Young that span twenty-seven years of feminist theorizing of embodiment. ![]() |