6/10/2023 0 Comments The Lie by Helen Dunmore![]() ![]() I see bodies picked up, torn to pieces, flung on to the ground." I see a jagged edge protrude through a thigh or an elbow. I see how their bones would split and separate. "Their skin is a veil to hide the intestines and the raw, slimy flesh within. "In Turk Street it seems to me that every creature is in disguise," Daniel relates. Men like Daniel lived it, and Dunmore conveys why many of them teetered on the edge, forever after. That image of cracked time speaks to our own experience of how World War I changed everything, but we've had 100 years to grow used to it. Once you fall into it, you can't get out again. ![]() It opened up a crack in time, a crater maybe. "They say the war's over," Daniel muses during the false spring of 1920, as he readies the land for a new crop of life in his native Cornwall. Late in Helen Dunmore's "The Lie," 21-year-old narrator Daniel Branwell tries to explain what Dunmore's entire novel makes clear: Although Daniel may have survived World War I, it will never entirely leave him. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The argumentative indian![]() ![]() Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy. ![]() The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. 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Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic, police/noir thriller, set around the mid-21st Century, dealing with the reality of corporate power structures, and cyber terrorism, against a backdrop of technological advancement, and transhumanist cyberisation, in a Neo-Japanese state. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Max brooks devolution review![]() ![]() ![]() However, even as they come together and begin to formulate a plan to endure the harsh conditions, something else comes to Greenloop that is primal and destructive and determined to survive.īased upon the vivid and detailed journals of Kate Holland that were recovered from the bloody wreckage of Greenloop, this book examines a terrible tale of bloodshed, death and destruction, as ancient creatures of stories and folklore invade. While Greenloop appears to have avoided much of the damage and confusion that the eruption inflected on the rest of America, the inhabitants of the community need to find a way to adapt and survive without any food and resources as winter approaches. ![]() However, their dreams of a fresh start are shattered when the nearby Mount Rainier erupts, isolating the town from the rest of America and stranding its residents in the middle of woods. Greenloop is home to a small community of artists and intellectuals, and seems like an ideal place for newcomers Kate Holland and her husband Dan. Welcome to Greenloop, a sustainable, high-tech town built in the wilds of America. Get ready for a deeply addictive and exceedingly clever new horror novel based around a classic American legend from highly acclaimed author Max Brooks, Devolution. 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Since I can't come into your kitchens and show you how few steps it takes to make something that tastes fifteen times better than takeout and is so much better for you and costs half as much, I'll point you to Mark Bittman, who wrote the Minimalist column for the New York Times. If I could teach all the people I know and love how easy it is to have real, good, actual food, I'd be a very happy woman. I know so many people who tell me they can't cook, they don't know how, it's too hard, and it's not. ![]() Okay, so, October is National Book Month, and there's a meme going around: what book do you want everyone to read, fiction and non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() He worked for the British Colonial Office in Africa where he befriended the locals, started a tree planting campaign called Men of the Trees, offended his bosses and was fired. 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