The movie - which stars everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy to Elliot Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine - is the ultimate heist flick, following a group of thieves who must repurpose dream-sharing technology to plant an idea into the mind of a young CEO. Most of the culprits are out-of-touch elites – to the nth degree – with stars like Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, and Edward Norton playing supermodels, Twitch streamers, politicians, and tech moguls who are as ridiculous as they are corrupt.Ĭast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Joseph Gordon-LevittĬhristopher Nolan’s imaginative sci-fi adventure will most likely be remembered as one of the best genre films in cinematic history, and for good reason. This time around, Blanc, equipped with a colorful new wardrobe and his same slow, Southern drawl, heads to Greece to investigate a murder amongst a group of friends reuniting for an island holiday. Writer/directior Rian Johnson delivers a deliriously fun follow-up to his breakout 2019 murder-mystery with Daniel Craig returning to play famed detective Benoit Blanc. Cast: Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn
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Gornick is a year away from being my mother’s age and, as such, you’d think there was merely a weak connection for me and her childhood in a working-class Bronx, and yet. My notes and mark-ups and solitary-reading-couch chuckles resonated through my solitary apartment. At a mere 200 or so pages, I persisted and ended up, in the final third, devouring it in one sitting and loving every page. I read Fierce Attachments‘s first two-thirds desultorily, wanting so much to like, but hating every moment of it. It is neither celebration, nor fulfillment, nor acceptance, but there are glimmers of what will come to mean most to her. Primarily, Gornick’s memoir recounts the antagonistically loving relationship she had with her mother and another woman in their shared building, Nettie, who served as her mother’s alternative “voice”, to Gornick reaching her true calling, the life of the solitary. But Gornick disappointed me: there she is, growing up in a Jewish-American working-class Bronx, one generation ahead of me, writing about the “making of” a feral spinster and certainly no celebration of it. Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments, I hoped, when I picked it up, would be a “fierce” rallying cry for the feral spinster. Purpose In “Reinventing Entrepreneurial History,” Wadhwani and Lubinski (2017) encourage the stud. Still, their actions impacted Atlanta positively for m. How do we consider their actions in the context of CSR and woke-washing? The businesses sought mainly to protect their economic future rather than truly uplifting society or improving racial relations. They were determined to protect the reputation of Atlanta as progressive and a place of relative racial harmony. At that time, Atlanta’s business elite effectively usurped municipal and state authority to manage the aftermath of the horrific events. In this paper, the author examines the reaction of the Atlanta business community to the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. But are these actions really concerned with social uplift? Or a form of woke-washing? This was not the first time corporate America reacted to racial upheaval and violence. more After the murder of George Floyd, businesses across the United States stepped up with pledges and commitments to lessen systematic racism, reflecting a commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR). After the murder of George Floyd, businesses across the United States stepped up with pledges and. At the palace, she and N'Rah attempt to gain the trust of the royals and train the army in Dug's lessons. Injured in the battle, Uncle Dug makes her promise to bring his attack plan and weapons to the capital. No one knows how to fight the fearsome chimerae except Kie's uncle. Their bond is critical when one day, monsters from long ago reemerge to ravage a nearby village. She, like every other person with a skysteed, can communicate with N'Rah through her mind. Thirteen-year-old Kiesandra's best friend isn't human, but that doesn't stop her from sharing jokes and secrets with her winged horse, N'Rah. When monsters emerge to attack the empire, it's up to Kiesandra and her beloved winged horse N'Rah to prove to herself and the imperial army that she has what it takes to lead them to victory. Wings of Fire meets Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in this epic fantasy adventure set in a world where human and skysteed share a deep bond of friendship and love. Craving a story, a new story, one powerful enough to carry us away, make us laugh again, and open our hearts.ĭaniel Kehlmann’s narrative gift is so prodigious as to be almost aggravating. Exhausted from having ventured to work in the danger-fields of meatpacking or frontline nursing. Confined in small apartments, bored to hell and terrified of the invisible threat lurking without. In this time of Covid we are suddenly, eerily thrown back to that original moment. Or Hamilton, or Stephen King… or the German novelist Daniel Kehlmann. Had our ancestors stuck to hunting and sleeping, had there been no wild storms and and slavering predators or enemy tribes to enforce idleness around the fire, we wouldn’t have Shakespeare. Easy to picture our anxious and cave-bound forebears prodding an elder or shaman for a narrative, a ballad, a fable: that magic stream of words that makes the walls dissolve. The art of storytelling began with sheltering-in-place. Don’t worry, said the fool, that night the wolves would find enough to eat. Ulenspiegel … was a good story teller, better than the abbot and better than the fat count too, and his stories distracted the fat count from the throbbing pain in his hand. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin. Daniel Kehlmann’s narrative gift is so prodigious as to be almost aggravating. This is a gripping account of a nation's violent lurch from one kind of tyranny to another, and also a delicately insightful portrait of how ordinary people react when their worlds suddenly collapse. “Repression and revolution provide the background for a deeply felt love story that gives outsiders a rare look inside modern Iran. "Refreshingly filled with love rather than sex, this coming-of-age novel examines the human cost of political repression." "Seraji’s wonderful coming-of-age story is at times funny and sweet as well as thought-provoking and heart-wrenching." Seraji captures the thoughts and emotions of a young boy and creates a moving portrait of the history and customs of the Persians and life in Iran." In clear, vivid details, Mahbod Seraji opens the door to the fascinating world of Iran and provides a revealing glimpse into the life and customs of a country on the verge of a revolution. ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN is a richly rendered first novel about courage, sacrifice, and the bonds of friendship and love. Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. His nephew has been kidnapped by the fugitive pyromaniac, and Nevada is his best chance at finding them both. To bring him to justice, she'll have to join forces with someone who wields an even more dangerous power.Ĭonnor "Mad" Rogan is a former combat mage, a telekinetic singularly responsible for mass destruction in war-torn countries, and a member of one of the most powerful magic families in the world. But when she's forced into accepting a case to find a radical pyrotechnic who can conjure heat and fire at will, Nevada knows she's out of her league. She's very good at her job-helped by a magical ability to sense when someone tells the truth or lies. ?Nevada Baylor runs a small-time detective agency in Houston, Texas, busting scammers, exposing cheaters, and dealing with petty criminals. In this spellbinding first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews's urban fantasy Hidden Legacy series, private detective Nevada Baylor navigates her way through an alternate world where dynasties, built on inherited wealth and magic, guide the course of humanity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. It’s a great story to tell because it exemplifies the best of our nation. That love bleeds through the pages and you can’t help but notice how excited and proud he is to share the story of the the Lewis & Clark expedition with his reader. Moreover, the late Stephen Ambrose was a man with a real love of country. History as it should be written - well paced, informative and captivating. I don’t think I’ve even been in the history section of a Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million and not seen it (along with Jared Diamond’s, Guns, Germs & Steeland everything David McCullough ever wrote).ĭespite the book’s ubiquity, I’d never read it until last month. If you can sympathize, surely you’ve noticed that every bookstore in America seems to have a copy of Stephen Ambrose’s, Undaunted Courage nestled somewhere amongst the stacks. I don’t know how many of you can relate, but there’s nothing I enjoy more than absently browsing around a bookstore. |