![]() ![]() What's unnatural is THE POWER YOU HAVE TO TAKE THREE PEOPLE, terrorists, and take their lives in an instant." Open heart from people who daily kept ordering killings because they thought that was their duty in "war against terror"! Yet, you still say, 'There's something unnatural about it. ![]() They were definitely about to launch a big attack. "You say, 'Okay, I made a decision and X number of people were killed. ![]() It is amazing to hear words from the head of the security of the country like the ones in this film. It is understandable that the film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. The outstanding in-depth interviews were excellently combined with archival footage and computer animation to recount the role that the group played in Israel's security from the Six-Day War to the present. This documentary directed by Dror Moreh tells us the story of the Israeli Shin Bet - Israel's secretive internal security service - from the perspective of six former heads of this organization - or the "Gatekeepers". ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’m excited to, but the book makes you want to go experience the real thing rather than recreate it at home. The one thing I can’t evaluate is whether her recipes are despite their being the thing I was most excited for and the reason I bought the book, I haven’t tried any yet. It’s almost a biography in snapshot, frames by meals, which is pretty much how life should be enjoyed in my opinion. Your mileage may vary.)Įllerbee tells her tales of travel with wit, insight, and not a little self-deprecation. (For instance, the story about the creation of Nachos is one I happened to know, so the way it was presented like a little known secret was a bit irritating to me. Despite the title, the chapters are probably best read with space in between Ellerbee didn’t get through her journalism career without knowing how to write, but some of the stylistic flourishes are a bit much when read back to back. A producer for the Nickelodeon network's award-winning Nick News series presents a culinary and travel memoir in which the author remembers the people she met in numerous other cultures, describes the foods she ate, and shares several recipes. This book may have been written for me.Īppropriately enough, I read it over several lunch breaks at work, and this is probably the ideal way to read it. I love reading about food, I love reading about travel, and I REALLY love when books include recipes (Hey there Ruth Reichl your carbonara recipe from Garlic and Sapphires – I think- is a household favorite and my future cardiologist thanks you). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both stories are so perfectly entwined I can’t help but wonder which one started first in Cassandra Clare’s mind. The book is not only the final piece to its own series but also what The Mortal Instruments was lacking it is all the missing details that made me almost pull my own hair with curiosity, but also a whole new story on its own that leads to The Mortal Instruments plot. The only thing I know is that I wasn’t expecting to finish it sobbing my lungs out for an hour or two. I don’t really know what I was expecting from The Infernal Devices ending. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.ĭanger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.įrom Goodreads Clockwork Princess published by Simon & Schuster (2013) ![]() Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.Ī net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. The words seem too reluctant to leave my mind and the characters… those will always stay. In fact, I feel like I will be forever reading it. I’ve finished this book months ago but it’s like I haven’t. ![]() ![]() The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era.
![]() ![]() ![]() And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'tsit's falling in love with God. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong.ĭoes something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. ![]() And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. The God of the universethe Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minorloves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? Revised & Updatedand now available in Hardcover! God is love. ![]() ![]() ![]() I fucking love his books, y’all, but you won’t find him listed here because I want to give other, less well known authors a chance to play in the sandbox. Also, there are a shit ton of authors of medieval fiction who aren’t, like, Bernard Cornwell. There was a whole globe that existed at the same time, experiencing its own stories and pain and joy, not all of which had a thing to do with knights and damsels and the rest. ![]() It is also mainly Western ethnocentrism that makes us automatically assume the knights and castles in the first place. But the Middle Ages are so much richer and more complex than that. The Middle Ages are awesome.īut first, a question: When you think about the Middle Ages, what do you picture? Knights in shining armor? Castles and kings and queens and serfs? I’d be lying if I said that isn’t the very first thing I think of, myself. ![]() But the next best thing to me is to read lots and lots of medieval historical fiction. So we’ll try to avoid medieval Star Trek historical fiction. ![]() Historical fiction that is somehow also Star Trek would be the best, but that would involve time travel and might fuck with the space/time continuum and then you’d get the Department of Temporal Investigation involved, and those guys are cranky. So, my favorite thing to read is probably medieval historical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() We are all… standing in solidarity with the WGA that is fighting very hard for fair wages. Paying tribute to the writers, Pascal said: "Craig and Neil can't be here. The hit show, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, won best show, while Pascal took best hero and best duo, for his performance alongside his British co-star Bella Ramsey. Pascal, who stars in the video-game adaptation The Last Of Us, acknowledged those "fighting very hard" for fair wages, as he accepted one of his trio of MTV awards on the night. ![]() "As a proud member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I stand here before you tonight, side by side with my sisters and brothers from the WGA (Writers Guild of America), that are fighting right now, fighting for the rights of artists everywhere." She went on: "You know, almost all great comedy starts with great writers. Speaking on the pre-recorded MTV show as she accepted the comedic genius award, White Lotus star Coolidge said she stood "side by side" with those on strike, saying they were "fighting for the rights of artists everywhere". Image: Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he explains it in his punctuation-optional style, “Thank God John Cole was my first friend in America and so in the army too and the last friend for that matter.” The book starts in the early 1850s, as Thomas, just 17, has stumbled into what will become the most important relationship of his life. Later, during the Civil War, he re-enlists and takes the fight to secessionist troops. Armed with a musket and a bayonet, he’s part of a unit that slaughters American Indians. At its heart is Thomas McNulty, an Irishman who has fled his famine-stricken country and joined up with the U.S. ![]() ![]() “Days Without End” is a story with some tremendously brutal scenes. In turn, the young soldier inflicts his own set of terrors on the world. These and other miseries befall the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s new historical novel. Hunger and heat waves, fever and floods, frostbite and freezing rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() PAPERBACK CRUSH dives in deep to this golden age with affection, history, and a little bit of snark. They were cheap, short, and utterly beloved. Spurred by the commercial success of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, these were not the serious-issue YA novels of the 1970s, nor were they the blockbuster books of the Harry Potter and Twilight ilk. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. ![]() Goodreads Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss Book ReviewĮvery twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Lynley is a big fan of Quentin Blake 'because of his humour and very clever art work. It comes as no surprise that, as a child, she adored Dr Seuss because of his 'crazy sounds and the fact that he took such liberties with the English language.' Other favourite authors included A A Milne and the fairy tales of The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. When Slinky Malinki and Stickybeak Sid are left in the house on their own, they cause absolute mayhem by opening all the carefully shut doors in the house - and leave a trail of destruction from bathroom to bedroom to kitchen. As well as being a visual delight, these are some of the most rewarding books for children and adults to read out loud. Slinky Malinki, Open the Door is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. Exuberant artwork and bouncy rhymes come together perfectly in books like Slinky Malinki and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy. There was no looking back as Lynley went on to write and illustrate her own books for children. ![]() She began to work as a freelance illustrator and collaborated with author Eve Sutton on My Cat Likes To Hide in Boxes. She went on to teach art before taking a break to start a family. Lynley Dodd graduated from the Elam School of Art in Auckland with a diploma in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. ![]() |